All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 The Greatest American Hero

    • March 18, 1981
    • ABC (US)

    Ralph Hinkley, an average school teacher, is given a suit with amazing powers by aliens. Now, Ralph must decide if he'll use his new powers to fight crime, even though he already lost the suit's instruction manual.

  • S01E02 The Hit Car

    • March 25, 1981
    • ABC (US)

    Bill, who has been trying to bust open a drug ring for over 20 years, must drive a witness to Los Angeles for the trial of the gang leader and asks Ralph for help.

  • S01E03 Here's Looking at You, Kid

    • April 1, 1981
    • ABC (US)

    When a secret gunsight is stolen, Bill asks Ralph for help in solving the case. However, Ralph runs into problems when he keeps turning invisible unexpectedly, and must deal with the pressure of meeting Pam's parents.

  • S01E04 Saturday on Sunset Boulevard

    • April 8, 1981
    • ABC (US)

    Russians are trying to find an heiress and her Russian husband in order to force them to establish a missile cache hold on their private island. Bill needs Ralph's help when he is suspected of failing a lie-detector test at FBI headquarters.

  • S01E05 Reseda Rose

    • April 15, 1981
    • ABC (US)

    Ralph uses his suit to help Rhonda, one of his students, after her mother is kidnapped by the Russians.

  • S01E06 My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

    • April 29, 1981
    • ABC (US)

    Ralph reconsiders his suit of powers after a flying mistake almost takes out a bus full of tourists. Bill also reconsiders his job path when one of his heroes is suspected of plotting out the theft of a precious diamond.

  • S01E07 Fire Man

    • May 6, 1981
    • ABC (US)

    Ralph lends Tony a hand by finding him a job as a car repossesser. When Tony is arrested for arson, Ralph and Bill team up to find the real criminal.

  • S01E08 The Best Desk Scenario

    • May 13, 1981
    • ABC (US)

    At FBI headquarters, promotions are being handed out. However, Bill considers retiring from his job. Meanwhile, Ralph must use his suit to save Pam when she discovers her boss is the head of an underground operation.

Season 2

  • S02E01 The Two-Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Fast Ball

    • November 4, 1981
    • ABC (US)

    Ralph dons a baseball suit to trap Latino revolutionaries who plan to finance a coup by fixing ball games.

  • S02E02 Operation: Spoilsport

    • November 11, 1981
    • ABC (US)

    Ralph and Bill must stop World War III by defusing a corrupt military leader's plans to launch a suprise missile attack against Russia.

  • S02E03 Don't Mess Around with Jim

    • November 18, 1981
    • ABC (US)

    Ralph 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.

  • S02E04 Hog Wild

    • November 25, 1981
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S02E05 Classical Gas

    • December 2, 1981
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S02E06 The Beast in Black

    • December 9, 1981
    • ABC (US)

    Ralph 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.

  • S02E07 The Lost Diablo

    • December 16, 1981
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S02E08 Plague

    • January 6, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    A psycho military cult leader tries to spread the small-pox virus.

  • S02E09 A Train of Thought

    • January 13, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    Ralph crashes head first into a train, and gets amnesia. Pam and Bill have to convince him that the suit really works.

  • S02E10 Now You See It

    • January 20, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S02E11 The Hand-Painted Thai

    • January 27, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S02E12 Just Another Three-Ring Circus

    • February 3, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S02E13 The Shock Will Kill You

    • February 10, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S02E14 A Chicken in Every Plot

    • February 17, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    Ron 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.

  • S02E15 The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

    • February 24, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S02E16 It's All Downhill from Here

    • March 3, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S02E17 Dreams

    • March 17, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S02E18 There's Just No Accounting...

    • March 24, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    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?

  • S02E19 The Good Samaritan

    • March 31, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S02E20 Captain Bellybuster and the Speed Factory

    • April 7, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    Bill recieves hot tips on a speed factory working out of a fast food chain, and a newspaper reporter publishes pictures of Ralph flying.

  • S02E21 Who's Woo in America

    • April 14, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    Ralph's mother is re-marrying to a man who planted a much wanted micro-chip in her engagement ring.

  • S02E22 Lilacs, Mr. Maxwell

    • April 28, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    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.

Season 3

  • S03E01 Divorce, Venusian Style

    • October 29, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    Bill and Ralph can't agree on anything, and keep fighting. Ralph decides to quit the partnership, and gives to suit to Bill. Ralph takes a bullet meant for Bill, and the aliens drive them to Palmdale for a meeting. The American Nazi Party gets their hands on the suit, and after the aliens give Ralph and Bill a tour around their old condemned planet; the pair is told to try harder of suffer the same fate as their old planet did. They also give them another instruction book and, now they have to get the suit back.

  • S03E02 The Price is Right

    • November 5, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    It's football season again, and time for Ralph's high school reunion. Ralph's old friend and star pro quarterback named Price Cobb is the focus of the party, but is being forced to throw a game for the return of his wife who was kidnapped. Our heros find her, but Price is injured during the game. Ralph must go out and win the game with the suit on to prevent the villans from winning the bets placed against Price's team.

  • S03E03 This is the One the Suit Was Meant For

    • November 12, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    Pam has had enough and is convinced that as long as Ralph has the suit, there can be no relationship between them. Ralph promises her a week away from all the problems and the suit, and from Bill Maxwell. Ralph and Pam's vacation plans fall through so Bill sends them to a beautiful resort to get away from it all. Bill, of course, has alternate reasons to send them there than just being Mr. nice guy. Bill secretly tags along with the suit and convinces a very hesitant Ralph to hologram into a criminal ring that has stolen some very special government equipment, a spyplane to be exact, citing "This is the one the suit was meant for!" Ralph actually succeeds in foiling the plans of the criminals, leaves Bill to tidy up the mess, and gets back to Pam in time so as she doesn't even notice he's gone. All is well? Not so. With the suit still on, Ralph is hit on by a friends wife. Pam, of course, walks in on them. So not only does Pam catch Ralph in the arms of another woman, he is wearing the suit

  • S03E04 The Resurrection of Carlini

    • November 19, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S03E05 The Newlywed Game

    • January 6, 1983
    • ABC (US)

    Ralph and Pam's wedding is almost ruined when Ralph receives special orders from the President to fly a mission over the North Pole. Bill discovers the orders were faked, and that Ralph has accidentally given the Russians valuable military secrets.

  • S03E06 Heaven is in Your Genes

    • January 13, 1983
    • ABC (US)

    A former Nazi genetic engineer fakes Bill's death to use him in an experiment, but Ralph realizes his friend is still alive. He flies off to rescue Bill and the evil doctor's other victims, but a genetic horror created in an earlier experiment waits to battle him.

  • S03E07 Live at Eleven

    • January 20, 1983
    • ABC (US)

    An Aging TV anchorman plans to retire in grand style. He hires a band of mercenaries to sabotage a nuclear plant, hoping that his coverage of the event can launch a Presidential campaign. Ralph must stop the plant from exploding, but the saboteurs, now dying of radiation poisoning, are determined to succeed.

  • S03E08 Space Ranger

    • January 27, 1983
    • ABC (US)

    One of Ralph's students invents a radio telescope capable of decoding Russian satellite messages. The KGB tries to steal his system. When that maneuver fails, they decide to kill him before he can share his discovery with the CIA.

  • S03E09 Thirty Seconds Over Little Tokyo

    • February 3, 1983
    • ABC (US)

    A young Chinese scientist has invented a deadly particle "ray gun" weapon. A local gang kidnaps his uncle, hoping to obtain the gun. Bill's plan to save the Uncle backfires, and Ralph must test his suit against the deadly ray.

  • S03E10 Wizards and Warlocks

    • February 10, 1983
    • ABC (US)

    King Abu Al-Fahad asks Ralph and Bill to help find his son, Prince Aha, who was kidnapped by Middle Eastern terrorists while playing a Dungeons and Dragonsesque game, Wizards and Warlocks. Their search leads them from Aha's college campus -- where they meet Aha's Keeper of the Clock, Joey Margolis -- to the game's author himself, Norman Fackler.

  • S03E11 It's Only Rock and Roll

    • February 17, 1983
    • ABC (US)

    Bill is called by the manager of a rock group that is aboard a plane threatened by a bomber, who has hidden a device set to explode if the plane descends below 1000 feet. Ralph flies into action, but matters escalate when Pam is kidnapped and a band of bikers threaten Bill's life.

  • S03E12 Desperado

    • February 24, 1983
    • ABC (US)

    A weekend in the country leads Ralph, Pam and Bill into a race to save a wild stallion from a cruel rancher. The man blames the horse for a crippling injury. His men are also selling horses for use as dog food.

  • S03E13 Vanity, Says the Preacher

    • March 3, 1983
    • ABC (US)

    It seems that 30 years ago Bill helped some revolutionaries overthrow a corrupt regime in an unnamed Central American country, where he is now regarded as a hero. But now Bill's old revolutionary compadres have turned up, and they soon kidnap him and try to get him to help lead another revolution.

Additional Specials

  • Pilots

    SPECIAL 0x1 The Greatest American Heroine

    • February 13, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    The aliens tell Ralph to find a suitable replacement for himself when his secret identity is revealed to the world. Much to Bill's disgust he selects a woman to be his successor.