The Greatest American Hero (Season 2)

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.

  • Poster for The Two-Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Fastball

    The Two-Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Fastball 6.3

    Air date: 1981-11-04

    Runtime: 60 min

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

  • Poster for Operation Spoilsport

    Operation Spoilsport 8.3

    Air date: 1981-11-11

    Runtime: 60 min

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

  • Poster for Don't Mess Around with Jim

    Don't Mess Around with Jim 7.0

    Air date: 1981-11-18

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Hog Wild

    Hog Wild 6.3

    Air date: 1981-11-25

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Classical Gas

    Classical Gas 6.3

    Air date: 1981-12-02

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for The Beast in the Black

    The Beast in the Black 7.0

    Air date: 1981-12-09

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for The Lost Diablo

    The Lost Diablo 5.0

    Air date: 1981-12-16

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Plague

    Plague 7.0

    Air date: 1982-01-06

    Runtime: 60 min

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

  • Poster for A Train of Thought

    A Train of Thought 7.0

    Air date: 1982-01-13

    Runtime: 60 min

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

  • Poster for Now You See It...

    Now You See It... 6.0

    Air date: 1982-01-20

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for The Handpainted Thai

    The Handpainted Thai 0.0

    Air date: 1982-01-27

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Just Another Three Ring Circus

    Just Another Three Ring Circus 7.0

    Air date: 1982-02-03

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for The Shock Will Kill You

    The Shock Will Kill You 0.0

    Air date: 1982-02-10

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for A Chicken in Every Plot

    A Chicken in Every Plot 0.0

    Air date: 1982-02-17

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

    The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 0.0

    Air date: 1982-02-24

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for It's All Downhill from Here

    It's All Downhill from Here 0.0

    Air date: 1982-03-03

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Dreams

    Dreams 0.0

    Air date: 1982-03-17

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for There's Just No Accounting...

    There's Just No Accounting... 0.0

    Air date: 1982-03-24

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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?

  • Poster for The Good Samaritan

    The Good Samaritan 0.0

    Air date: 1982-03-31

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

  • Poster for Captain Bellybuster and the Speed Factory

    Captain Bellybuster and the Speed Factory 0.0

    Air date: 1982-04-07

    Runtime: 60 min

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

  • Poster for Who's Woo in America

    Who's Woo in America 0.0

    Air date: 1982-04-14

    Runtime: 60 min

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

  • Poster for Lilacs, Mr. Maxwell

    Lilacs, Mr. Maxwell 0.0

    Air date: 1982-04-28

    Runtime: 60 min

    Overview: 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.

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