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The Greatest American Hero

In this acclaimed spoof, school teacher Ralph Hinkley encounters aliens who leave him with a red power suit, turning him into a superhero. The trouble is that he lost the instruction manual and now has to learn by trial and error to control the powers of his suit. With the help of his girlfriend and an FBI agent, a most unlikely crime fighter gets tangled in one crazy adventure after another.
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Episodes

  1. S2 E1 - The Two-Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Fast Ball
    November 4, 1981
    50min
    16+
    When America's national pastime and national security are endangered, Maxwell sends Hinkley to the major leagues to become baseball's hottest overnight sensation.
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  2. S2 E2 - Operation Spoilsport
    November 11, 1981
    50min
    16+
    When an automatic missile system goes haywire at the hands of an ultra-militant general, Ralph Hinkley and Bill Maxwell are summoned by the aliens and begin a heart-stopping race to halt the explosive start of World War III.
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  3. S2 E3 - Don't Mess Around with Jim
    November 17, 1981
    49min
    16+
    Ralph and Bill are kidnapped by a tycoon who fakes his own death...and seems to know more about the suit than they do.
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  4. S2 E4 - Hog Wild
    November 24, 1981
    49min
    16+
    Ralph tries to save himself and a town from a rampaging motorcycle gang.
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  5. S2 E5 - Classical Gas
    December 2, 1981
    47min
    16+
    Ralph and Pam help his students rehearse their rock band for a show, not realizing the promoter plans to release nerve gas into the audience.
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  6. S2 E6 - The Beast in the Black
    December 8, 1981
    49min
    16+
    Will Ralph's suit protect Bill from a real estate agent - or his ghost?
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  7. S2 E7 - The Lost Diablo
    December 15, 1981
    49min
    16+
    A class field trip turns into a nightmare for Ralph and Bill when they are trapped in more ways than one while searching for a lost gold mine.
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  8. S2 E8 - Plague
    January 6, 1982
    49min
    16+
    Ralph and Bill must save mankind from a deadly plague virus that a fanatical right-wing military group hopes to unleash on an unsuspecting world.
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  9. S2 E9 - Train of Thought
    January 12, 1982
    49min
    16+
    Ralph suffers amnesia after being knocked out while trying to stop a hijacked train.
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  10. S2 E10 - Now You See It
    January 19, 1982
    49min
    16+
    Ralph is able to see two hours into the future - at which time Pam's plane will crash.
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  11. S2 E11 - The Hand-Painted Thai
    January 26, 1982
    49min
    16+
    Bill and Ralph uncover a devious plot to destroy the Western world when a band of hypnotized ex-war prisoners are drawn into service by the sinister General Vin Chow.
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  12. S2 E12 - Just Another Three-Ring Circus
    February 2, 1982
    49min
    16+
    Ralph becomes a human cannonball to investigate the disappearance of a Polish clown.
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  13. S2 E13 - The Shock Will Kill You
    February 10, 1982
    49min
    16+
    While rescuing a stricken space shuttle, Ralph becomes hyper-magnetized and sticks to all things metal. Meanwhile, a strange creature aboard the shuttle heads towards Los Angeles, electrocuting all who get in its way.
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  14. S2 E14 - A Chicken in Every Plot
    February 16, 1982
    49min
    16+
    Ralph, Pam and Bill find out how the suit will do against voodoo when they find themselves pitted against the evil president of a small island country in the West Indies.
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  15. S2 E15 - The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
    February 23, 1982
    49min
    16+
    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.
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  16. S2 E16 - It's All Downhill from Here
    March 3, 1982
    49min
    16+
    Hinkley and Pam's Squaw Valley vacation turns serious when they call Bill to help a Czechoslovakian downhill racer and his girlfriend defect with secret information.
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  17. S2 E17 - Dreams
    March 17, 1982
    49min
    16+
    When Ralph uses the suit to help his associates realize their dreams, it complicates all their lives.
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  18. S2 E18 - There's Just No Accounting
    March 24, 1982
    49min
    16+
    Ralph's suit proves no match for the IRS when a satchel of money from a kidnapping turns up in Ralph's living room.
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  19. S2 E19 - The Good Samaritan
    March 30, 1982
    49min
    16+
    Ralph's good deeds are complicated when two convicts escape and Bill thinks he's the target.
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  20. S2 E20 - Captain Bellybuster and the Speed Factory
    April 6, 1982
    49min
    16+
    When a man who plays a superhero for a hamburger chain discovers that the stores are a front for drug dealers, he calls on Ralph for help.
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  21. S2 E21 - Who's Woo in America
    April 14, 1982
    48min
    16+
    Ralph's Mom is going to marry a con man who is smuggling a micro-chip that corrupt oilmen have killed for.
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  22. S2 E22 - Lilacs, Mr. Maxwell
    April 27, 1982
    49min
    16+
    Ralph breaks into the FBI archives and helps Bill solve a number of cold cases. As a result, Bill becomes a hero and a target for a beautiful KGB assassin.
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Content advisory
Violencesubstance usealcohol usesmokingfoul language
Subtitles
None available
Directors
Arnold LavenIvan Dixon
Producers
Stephen J. Cannell
Starring
William KattRobert CulpConnie Sellecca
Studio
FilmRise
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