The Greatest American Hero

1The Two-Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Fastball

60 minNov 4, 1981

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

2Operation Spoilsport

60 minNov 11, 1981

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

3Don't Mess Around with Jim

60 minNov 18, 1981

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.

4Hog Wild

60 minNov 25, 1981

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.

5Classical Gas

60 minDec 2, 1981

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.

6The Beast in the Black

60 minDec 9, 1981

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.

7The Lost Diablo

60 minDec 16, 1981

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.

8Plague

60 minJan 6, 1982

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

9A Train of Thought

60 minJan 13, 1982

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

10Now You See It...

60 minJan 20, 1982

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.

11The Handpainted Thai

60 minJan 27, 1982

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.

12Just Another Three Ring Circus

60 minFeb 3, 1982

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.

13The Shock Will Kill You

60 minFeb 10, 1982

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.

14A Chicken in Every Plot

60 minFeb 17, 1982

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.

15The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

60 minFeb 24, 1982

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.

16It's All Downhill from Here

60 minMar 3, 1982

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.

17Dreams

60 minMar 17, 1982

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.

18There's Just No Accounting...

60 minMar 24, 1982

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?

19The Good Samaritan

60 minMar 31, 1982

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.

20Captain Bellybuster and the Speed Factory

60 minApr 7, 1982

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

21Who's Woo in America

60 minApr 14, 1982

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

22Lilacs, Mr. Maxwell

60 minApr 28, 1982

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.