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Director Sam Raimi's "Spider-Man" (7 p.m., KASA-Channel 2) is action-movie magic at its finest.

OK, I'll admit, my guilty pleasure is superhero flicks. I just love seeing two sides to a man - the intellectual Clark Kent side and the hunky hero in tights who sweeps damsels in distress off their feet and takes them soaring into the air.

Unfortunately, that's the movies, and any guy in tights who would approach a girl and try to pick her up would get slapped.

Still, who can resist young Peter Parker (Tobey Maguire) transforming into the unlikely superhero Spider-Man? Like all superheroes, Spider-Man is doomed in the eternal love department and has to accept his fate. However, in "Spider-Man 2," there's hope for young Peter.

Willem Dafoe plays the perfect villain, the Green Goblin, a greedy businessman with a deep love for his son. Eventually his greed gets the best of him.

Revisit the world of action and start climbing your bedroom walls. Don't hurt yourself, though.

McBride:

I love Richard Dean Anderson. I love all things "Stargate."

So the 200th episode of "Stargate: SG-1" (7 p.m., SciFi) with an Anderson appearance is almost more than my fanatical heart can bear.

Willie Garson ("Sex & the City") returns as Marty, the alien/movie producer who also showed up in the 100th episode.

This time he wants "SG-1" to read his vacuous movie script about them.

Needless to say, the team thinks it's all a load of Hollywood hooey but that doesn't stop Vala (Claudia Black), Mitchell (Ben Browder), Teal'C (Chris Judge) and the others from sharing their self-involved ideas.

The whole episode is like one big inside joke for sci-fi freaks like myself, with homages to "Firefly," "Star Trek" and "Farscape."

There's even a nod to fans who religiously "ship" for Jack (Anderson) and Sam (Amanda Tapping) to be a couple. Those same people will most likely use the clip to make music videos to a Celine Dion song and write fan fiction like there's no tomorrow.

Not that I would do something obsessive like that.

Long live the "Stargate."