The Greatest
American Hero

The Greatest American Hero is an American science fiction TV series that aired for three seasons from 1981 to 1983 on ABC.

It premiered as a two-hour movie pilot and starred William Katt as teacher Ralph Hinkley, Robert Culp as FBI Agent Bill Maxwell, and Connie Sellecca as lawyer Pam Davidson.

The show chronicles Ralph's adventures after he is given a red suit by a group of aliens, which gives him superhuman abilities. The series was created by producer Stephen J. Cannell; Joel Colon helped design the costumes.

In 1986, the original cast reunited for a pilot film for a new NBC series to be called The Greatest American Heroine.

The pilot reveals that several years after the final episode, Ralph's secret identity was finally revealed to the public, resulting in his becoming a celebrity.

This upsets the aliens who gave him the suit, and they charge him with finding a new hero to wear the costume and use its powers for fighting evil.

He finds a young woman named Holly Hathaway who spends her time looking for lost kittens and teaching young children, and most of the episode deals with her learning how to use the suit under Bill Maxwell's guidance.

The Greatest American Heroine did not result in a new series, and the pilot was never broadcast by NBC.

Greatest American Hero Episodelist

Season 1

1. The Greatest American Hero
2. The Hit Car
3. Here's Looking At You, Kid
4. Saturday Night On Sunset Blvd.
5. Reseda Rose
6. My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
7. Fireman
8. The Best Desk Scenario

Season 2

9. The Two-Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Fast Ball
10. Operation: Spoilsport
11. Don't Mess Around With Jim
12. Hog Wild
13. Classical Gas
14. The Beast In The Black
15. The Lost Diablo
16. Plague
17. Train Of Thought
18. Now You See It
19. Hand-Painted Thai
20. Just Another Three-Ring Circus
21. The Shock Will Kill You
22. A Chicken Every Plot
23. The Devil In The Deep Blue Sea
24. It's All Downhill From Here
25. Dreams
26. There's Just No Accounting
27. The Good Samaritan
28. Captain Bellybuster And The Speed Factory
29. Who's Woo In America
30. Lilacs, Mr. Maxwell

Season 3

31. Divorce Venusion Style
32. The Price Is Right
33. This Is The One The Suit Was Meant For
34. Resurrection Of Carlini
35. The Newlywed Game
36. Heaven Is In Your Genes
37. Live At Eleven
38. Space Ranger
39. Thirty Seconds Over Litle Tokyo
40. Wizards And Warlocks
41. It's Only Rock And Roll
42. Desperado
43. Vanity, Says The Preacher

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