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'''''Spider!''''' is a 13-episode musical children's TV series made for [[The BBC]] in 1991. It follows the adventures of a spider and a small boy, the stories being told through song. Usually, it's a simple acoustic number, but the series ventured into rock 'n' roll and haunting melody once or twice. No actual dialogue ever appears, other than when sung by the crocodile or hamster in a couple of episodes, but there are sound effects and laughter.
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After it ended, the series was released on VHS and subsequently DVD, on which it has become something of a cult classic among adults who fondly remember the show. In 2005, there was talk of a new series being made, with the episodes extended in length from five to 11 minutes and Andrew Sachs to narrate. Since then, there has been no further news, so it can be assumed that the plans never came to anything.
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* [[Cats Are Mean]]: It tries very hard to kill poor Hamster, failing largely because of Spider's intervention.
* [[Determinator]]: Spider in almost every episode. Lampshaded in the episode "Spider's Song", which is specifically about how Spider never gives up.
* [[Evil Laugh]]: Spider has one, though it's
* [[Excited Show Title!]]
* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: Spider, with the boy primarily, but also his other pets, siblings, stuffed toys, classmates and assorted woodland creatures in other episodes.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: The boy goes through a sort of one when repeatedly failing to create a house of cards. Reminding himself of other failures each time, he eventually pulls through thanks to watching Spider successfully make a web despite the best efforts of a fly.
* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]]: Some of Spider's possessions could conceivably be stored in the hole in the wall in which he's seen hiding in the earlier episodes, but this trope is the only explanation for things like the
* [[Made of Iron]]: Spider is capable of going through a full dishwasher cycle and emerging a bit soggy but otherwise unharmed. Grown men can also pick him up by one of his legs, dangle him in the air and even throw him against a wall, and he'll be completely all right. In "Spider's Song", he breaks a couple of his legs, but the injuries don't seem to last long.
* [[Musical Episode]]: Every episode is told in song, but the trope applies to "C-Rocker", which is a song in-story, as performed by the animals to the boy and his siblings.
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