The Greatest American Hero (1981)
The chronicles of teacher Ralph Hinkley's adventures after a group of aliens gives him a red suit that gives him superhuman abilities. Unfortunately, Ralph, who hates wearing the suit, immediately loses its instruction booklet, and thus has to learn how to use its powers by trial and error, often with comical results.
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Episode 1 - The Two-Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Fastball
Release Date: 1981-11-04Ralph dons a baseball suit to trap Latino revolutionaries who plan to finance a coup by fixing ball games.
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Episode 2 - Operation Spoilsport
Release Date: 1981-11-11Ralph and Bill must stop World War III by defusing a corrupt military leader's plans to launch a suprise missile attack against Russia.
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Episode 3 - Don't Mess Around with Jim
Release Date: 1981-11-18Ralph and Bill are kidnapped by a tycoon that actually had his own suit given to him years ago by the aliens. The suit corrupted this man to use it for personal fortune, and he did not lose the instruction book. The aliens did not like the way he was using the suit, and they took it away from him.
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Episode 4 - Hog Wild
Release Date: 1981-11-25A 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.
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Episode 5 - Classical Gas
Release Date: 1981-12-02Ralph'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.
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Episode 6 - The Beast in the Black
Release Date: 1981-12-09Ralph finds a window into the 4th dimension while scouting an old house. Bill gets possesed by a woman's spirit, and Ralph must return her through that window.
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Episode 7 - The Lost Diablo
Release Date: 1981-12-16Bill 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.
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Episode 8 - Plague
Release Date: 1982-01-06A psycho military cult leader tries to spread the small-pox virus.
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Episode 9 - A Train of Thought
Release Date: 1982-01-13Ralph crashes head first into a train, and gets amnesia. Pam and Bill have to convince him that the suit really works.
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Episode 10 - Now You See It...
Release Date: 1982-01-20While 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.
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Episode 11 - The Handpainted Thai
Release Date: 1982-01-27Years 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.
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Episode 12 - Just Another Three Ring Circus
Release Date: 1982-02-03Ralph 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.
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Episode 13 - The Shock Will Kill You
Release Date: 1982-02-10A 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.
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Episode 14 - A Chicken in Every Plot
Release Date: 1982-02-17Ron O'Neill, John Hancock, Thalmus Rasulala, Lincoln Kilpatrick 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.
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Episode 15 - The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Release Date: 1982-02-24Ralph 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.
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Episode 16 - It's All Downhill from Here
Release Date: 1982-03-03Ralph 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.
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Episode 17 - Dreams
Release Date: 1982-03-17An 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.
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Episode 18 - There's Just No Accounting...
Release Date: 1982-03-24Bill 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?
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Episode 19 - The Good Samaritan
Release Date: 1982-03-31Tired 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.
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Episode 20 - Captain Bellybuster and the Speed Factory
Release Date: 1982-04-07Bill recieves hot tips on a speed factory working out of a fast food chain, and a newspaper reporter publishes pictures of Ralph flying.
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Episode 21 - Who's Woo in America
Release Date: 1982-04-14Ralph's mother is re-marrying to a man who planted a much wanted micro-chip in her engagement ring.
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Episode 22 - Lilacs, Mr. Maxwell
Release Date: 1982-04-28Bill 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.