 There were also the "Spidey Super Stories" segments on the PBS educational series "The Electric Company", which featured a Spider-Man (played by Danny Seagren) who did not speak out loud but instead used only word balloons.Nicholas Hammond portrayed Peter Parker / Spider-Man on-screen in the 1970s "The Amazing Spider-Man TV series", and in three films which were released theatrically in Europe.On February 9, 2015, Sony, Marvel Studios and the Walt Disney Company, announced a deal for Spider-Man to appear in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) with a new film to be released on July 7, 2017.