Although the series ended on a cliffhanger, an outline for the second season of 13 episodes was created and 6 scripts were produced, but never animated. Further episodes of the series would have taken Spidey on solo adventures after he helped the rebels end the war with the High Evolutionary to restore peace to Counter Earth and returned him to earth.
This is the only portrayal of Spider-Man/Peter Parker that does not feature a speaking role for Aunt May Parker. She is only seen very briefly in the opening credit sequence.
The series premiered on Fox Kids' lineup in October 1999. However, the show was airing in the same timeslot as Kids WB's Pokémon (1997) and was losing in the ratings. As a result, Roland Poindexter, Vice President of Programming for Fox Kids, began altering the programming lineup after realizing Kids WB had become a serious competitor in Saturday Morning Television and began altering the schedule in order to develop shows that could compete with Kids' WB's hit shows like Pokémon and Batman Beyond (1999). As a result, this series was pulled from Fox Kids after the third episode and was replaced with The Avengers: United They Stand (1999). The show came back and re-premiered in December 2000 by re-airing the first three episodes that were aired back in 1999 and then continue the rest of the 13 episodes that Marvel and Saban produced.
On the rare occurrence Spider-Man did appear in his classic costume, his eye lenses were yellow instead of white just as they were on Spider-Woman (1979).
After the original plans for the series had to be altered, the creative team briefly considered doing an adaptation of "Spider-Man 2099" a futuristic version of Spider-Man named Miguel O'Hara created by Peter David and Rick Leonardi, but decided against to go in a different direction since they thought Batman Beyond (1999) covered that territory considerably well. Marvel gave Saban a list of characters they retained the rights to that they felt would translate well in animation which included Venom, Deathlok, The High Evolutionary, and Counter-Earth. The original pitch to Marvel was for Spider-Man to be stranded on Counter-Earth only to discover in this Counter-Earth his Uncle Ben Parker was still alive and that Earth's version of Peter Parker had become evil after discovering the alien symbiote. Marvel executives heard this pitch in February 1999, they like the fresh take on the character, but was hesitant to move forward with the idea of two versions of Spider-Man due to the backlash of the 90's Clone Saga from the comics. As a result Uncle Ben and a second Peter Parker were scrapped in favor of Venom and Carnage arriving on Counter-Earth with Spider-Man following the two to stop them.