The Greatest American Hero
Seasons 1-3
All 44 Episodes
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The Greatest American Hero follows the life of Ralph Hinkley a high-school teacher who happened to received a suit that has a power and a manual to teach him how to use the red superhero suit. Unfortunately he loses the instructional manual that led him to discover the suit's power on his own which he finds very difficult to do. Helping him to battle criminals are FBI agent Bill Maxwell and his girlfriend lawyer, Pam.
. Season 1, Ep 1: The Greatest American Hero (1)
9.51 Review
Odd couple Ralph Hinkley (a liberal school teacher) and Bill Maxwell (a conservative FBI agent) are approached by aliens who give them a suit that grants superpowers to the wearer, with the caveat that it must be used for the common good.
Aired: 3/18/1981
2. Season 1, Ep 2: The Greatest American Hero (2)
9.5 Reviews
Bill has Ralph use his new supersuit to thwart a Presidential assassination plot.
Aired: 3/18/1981
3. Season 1, Ep 3: The Hit Car
8.5 Reviews
A mobster that Ralph and Bill put in jail is out on parole, and is seeking revenge (he knows about the suit, but everyone thinks he's crazy). He has his girlfriend pretend to be willing to be an informant against him, but only if Bill takes her in to court. The problem is that they must drive her there because she refuses to get on a plane. Several attacks occur on the way, but the "superguy" (as johnny the mobster calls Ralph) thwarts every one. A battered and bruised (from the attacks) Bill is successful, and brings the woman into court. She clams up, and takes the 5th! Our boys figure out the scenario, and catch the mobster in the end.
Aired: 3/25/1981
4. Season 1, Ep 4: Here's Looking at You Kid
8.3 Reviews
Someone has stolen a secret gunsight. Bill again hopes to use the super suit to help solve the case. This time, however, Ralph has his own problems, he's unexpectedly turning invisible. To add to his worries, he's also scheduled to meet Pam's parents (Lockhart,Hastings) for the first time.
Aired: 4/1/1981
5. Season 1, Ep 5: Saturday on Sunset Boulevard
8.31 Review
Bill reluctantly recruits Ralph's students to help him track down a Russian defector.
Aired: 4/8/1981
6. Season 1, Ep 6: Reseda Rose
8.0 Reviews
Ralph and Bill try to unravel a case involving secret military plans, a Russian submarine, and the kidnapping of Rhonda's mother.
Aired: 4/15/1981
7. Season 1, Ep 7: My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
9.42 Reviews
Ralph takes advice from his childhood hero The Lone Ranger after he almost kills a busload of people by accident while busting some crooks.
Aired: 4/29/1981
8. Season 1, Ep 8: Fire Man
7.9 Reviews
Tony is hired to repossess cars, and unknowingly takes a car filled with arson equipment. He gets pulled over, and blamed for setting fires. The real arsonist must be found in order to clear his name, and free him from jail.
Aired: 5/6/1981
9. Season 1, Ep 9: The Best Desk Scenario
8.5 Reviews
Ralph becomes vice-principal of Whitney High, Pam becomes a partner at her law firm, and Bill - well, he gets the shaft. In the middle of a mid-life crisis, Bill is so depressed after being passed over for promotion that he decides to quit the FBI but not before one last adventure with Ralph. Mission: rescue Pam from the mob connections of the law partner who just promoted her.
Aired: 5/13/1981
10. Season 2, Ep 1: The Two-Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Fastball
7.61 Review
The California Stars pitchers are all getting beaten-up by thugs, so it's up to Ralph and Bill to figure out why.
Aired: 11/4/1981
11. Season 2, Ep 2: Operation Spoil Sport
9.6 Reviews
Ralph and Bill must stop World War III by defusing a corrupt military leader's plans to launch a suprise missile attack against Russia.
Aired: 11/11/1981
12. Season 2, Ep 3: Don't Mess Around With Jim
8.91 Review
Ralph and Bill are kidnapped by a tycoon.
Aired: 11/18/1981
13. Season 2, Ep 4: Hog Wild
6.91 Review
A motorcycle gang steals the super-suit, and tries to use it to take over a town. It only works on Ralph, so they must force HIM to do their dirty work while holding Bill captive.
Aired: 11/25/1981
14. Season 2, Ep 5: Classical Gas
7.31 Review
Ralph's students start a band, and a promoter lands them a spot on a big ticket concert while trying to get Pam to go out with him.
Aired: 12/2/1981
15. Season 2, Ep 6: The Beast in Black
9.03 Reviews
Ralph finds a window into the Fourth Dimension while scouting an old house. Bill gets possessed by a woman's spirit, and Ralph must return her through that window.
Aired: 12/9/1981
16. Season 2, Ep 7: The Lost Diablo
6.91 Review
Bill has a treasure map, and takes Ralph and his class out to the desert to find the lost Diablo Gold Mine that vanished a long time ago, and are met with resistance from the local thieves.
Aired: 12/16/1981
17. Season 2, Ep 8: Plague
7.92 Reviews
A psycho military cult leader tries to spread the small-pox virus.
Aired: 1/6/1982
18. Season 2, Ep 9: Train of Thought
9.32 Reviews
Ralph crashes head first into a train, and gets amnesia. Pam and Bill have to convince him that the suit really works.
Aired: 1/13/1982
19. Season 2, Ep 10: Now You See It...
8.31 Review
While practicing flying in the desert with Bill, Ralph gets a vision of a plane crash. It's the suit showing it to him, and Bill can only see it when he touches Ralph. They rush to the scene to find no plane, and figure out that it must be something that hasn't happened yet, and they're supposed to prevent it. We come to find out that Pam is on that plane, and it's been hijacked. To make matters worse, the plane has an experimental cloaking device that makes it invisible to radar, and the Air Force would rather shoot it down than have the plane in enemy hands.
Aired: 1/20/1982
20. Season 2, Ep 11: The Hand-Painted Thai
7.71 Review
Years ago, prisoners of war were brainwashed to respond to a code phrase. Now, someone is using them to commit acts of sabotage. Bill and Ralph investigate, but Bill inadvertently falls under a hypnotic trance, leaving the heroics up to Ralph.
Aired: 1/27/1982
21. Season 2, Ep 12: Just Another Three Ring Circus
7.31 Review
Ralph takes a job at the circus as a human cannonball while trying to help Bill bust a crime ring that involves a phony dating service.
Aired: 2/3/1982
22. Season 2, Ep 13: The Shock Will Kill You
8.21 Review
A space shuttle is about to crash, and only Ralph can save it. He does so, but ends up supermagnetized, perhaps permanently. Worst of all, a strange creature aboard the shuttle heads towards Los Angeles, electricuting all who get in its way.
Aired: 2/10/1982
23. Season 2, Ep 14: A Chicken In Every Plot
7.11 Review
Scenario: When an old FBI buddy invites Bill to his Caribbean retreat, Maxwell takes Ralph, Pam and the students along. Unfortunately, they find themselves involved in a voodoo plot to take over the island's government.
Aired: 2/17/1982
24. Season 2, Ep 15: The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
7.7 Reviews
Ralph and Bill hunt for the sea creature "Carrie" in the Bermuda Triangle thinking that the monster may be responsible for all of the boats that disappear there. They undercover a stolen boat ring, and never find the creature.
Aired: 2/24/1982
25. Season 2, Ep 16: It's All Downhill From Here
6.9 Reviews
Ralph skis like a pro with the suit on, and stands in at the Olympics for a Russian skiier so the man can defect to America, and hand over top secret information that he stole.
Aired: 3/3/1982
26. Season 2, Ep 17: Dreams
9.3 Reviews
An act of kindness backfires when Ralph uses the suit to help a coworker with a personal project. This leads his other co-workers to take daring chances for their own shots at success. Soon, he must don the super suit not only to prevent them from ruining their lives, but also to save Bill from a vengeful, recently paroled killer.
Aired: 3/17/1982
27. Season 2, Ep 18: There's Just No Accounting...
8.1 Reviews
Bill convinces the parents of a kidnap victim to pay the ransom, certain that Ralph can recover it when he saves their little girl. Ralph finds himself being audited by an overzealous IRS agent who's convinced he took the ransom money. Meanwhile, Ralph and Bill keep getting shot at in drive-by shootings, but by who?
Aired: 3/24/1982
28. Season 2, Ep 19: The Good Samaritan
8.4 Reviews
Tired of using the suit to fight crime, Ralph decides to branch out. He tries to intervene in a battle between an old man fighting for his home and the city taking it away, but Bill has him on the hunt for bank robbers.
Aired: 3/31/1982
29. Season 2, Ep 20: Captain Bellybuster and the Speed Factory
7.61 Review
Bill receives hot tips on a speed factory working out of a fast food chain, and a newspaper reporter publishes pictures of Ralph flying.
Aired: 4/7/1982
30. Season 2, Ep 21: Who's Woo in America
6.9 Reviews
Ralph's mother is re-marrying to a man who planted a much wanted micro-chip in her engagement ring.
Aired: 4/14/1982
31. Season 2, Ep 22: Lilacs, Mr. Maxwell
8.61 Review
Bill falls in love with a female FBI agent, and wants to tell her about the suit. She turns out to be a spy, and is ordered to kill him.
Aired: 4/28/1982
32. Season 3, Ep 1: Divorce Venusian Style
9.5 Reviews
Ralph and Bill get into a fight and Ralph quits the partnership and leaves the suit with Bill, but Ralph gets caught in the crossfire with some Neo-Nazi and is seriously wounded and the Nazis get possession of the suit.
Aired: 10/29/1982
33. Season 3, Ep 2: The Price is Right
7.7 Reviews
One of Ralph's high school classmates is now a pro football star, but gamblers kidnap his wife to force him to throw a game. Ralph dons the suit to save his pal, but to do so, Ralph must take his place in a big game.
Aired: 11/5/1982
34. Season 3, Ep 3: This is the One the Suit Was Meant For
8.3 Reviews
Pam is ready to break up with Ralph after he always puts the suit first. Bill gives them tickets to a tropical island to keep them together. Once there, they discover Bill's true plan-to use the suit to find a missing experimental aircraft.
Aired: 11/12/1982
35. Season 3, Ep 4: The Resurrection of Carlini
6.6 Reviews
A magician killed performing his greatest trick seemingly returns from the grave to murder his three rivals. Ralph must use his suit to out trick the would-be killer.
Aired: 11/19/1982
36. Season 3, Ep 5: The Newlywed Game
8.7 Reviews
On the way to Ralph's bachelor party, he and Bill are kidnapped and Ralph is persuaded to fly a mission for the president.
Aired: 1/6/1983
37. Season 3, Ep 6: Heaven is in Your Genes
7.6 Reviews
Ralph must rescue Bill who has been kidnapped by a crazed scientist, who wants to experiment on him to find out what makes him such a successful agent.
Aired: 1/13/1983
38. Season 3, Ep 7: Live at Eleven
8.5 Reviews
Ralph tries to make the connection between terrorists who tried to steal plutonium, and a TV news anchor who plans to run for President.
Aired: 1/20/1983
39. Season 3, Ep 8: Space Ranger
6.6 Reviews
Ralph's finds that his newest student is wanted by the CIA and KGB after tapping into a Soviet satellite.
Aired: 1/27/1983
40. Season 3, Ep 9: Thirty Seconds Over Little Tokyo
5.5 Reviews
Ralph and Bill find themselves trying to protect a Japanese man after a gang tries to kidnap him.
Aired: 2/3/1983
41. Season 3, Ep 10: Wizards And Warlocks
6.0 Reviews
Bill is called upon to find a missing Middle Eastern prince, but it turns out that the prince is involved in a game of Wizards & Warlocks. Ralph and Bill try to unravel the mystery of the game and find the prince before the potential kidnappers do.
42. Season 3, Ep 11: It's Only Rock and Roll
6.4 Reviews
After receiving a bomb threat, Bill is put in charge of protecting Dak Hampton, the lead singer of a rock n. roll group.
43. Season 3, Ep 12: Desperado
7.8 Reviews
Ralph and Pam come across some horse rustlers who steal a herd of wild mustangs, but Ralph stops them from capturing on the prize stallion, Desperado.
44. Season 3, Ep 13: Vanity, Says the Preacher
5.9 Reviews
Bill accepts an invitation to be honored as Man of the Year by a Latin American country where years before he was instrumental in helping them establish a democratic government.
Pilot.Season 4, Ep 14: The Greatest American Heroine
3.61 Review
Ralph is exposed with the suit, and lets all the attention inflate his ego. The greenguys return with the order that he must give up the super-powered costume to make the world forget, and he must also pick someone to carry on.
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