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The Greatest American Hero (1981)
7.3 Rating
60 min
A teacher is asked to be a superhero using a special alien suit with powers he can barely understand or control.
A teacher is asked to be a superhero using a special alien suit with powers he can barely understand or control.
Ralph Hinkley is a Los Angeles teacher of remedial education high school students. During a school field trip, Ralph encounters extraterrestrials who give him a suit which endows him with superhuman abilities. During the encounter, he is also instructed by the aliens to thereafter collaborate with FBI Special Agent Bill Maxwell. Their instructions are to use the suit as a means to fight crime and injustice in the world.
Ralph's uniform grants him the powers of flight, super strength, invulnerability, invisibility, precognition, telekinesis, X-ray vision, super speed, pyrokinesis, shrinking, psychometry ("holographic vision") and even the ability to detect the supernatural. As Ralph lost the suit's instruction manual, his discovery of these different powers often come as a surprise even to himself. Notably, while the suit enables Ralph to fly, it does not endow him with any particular skill at landing, so he frequently crashes in an undignified (though uninjured) heap.
3 seasons, 45 episodes
Country: United States
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Adventure
Release: Mar 18, 1981
Creator: Stephen J. Cannell
Production: Stephen J. Cannell Productions
Country: United States
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi, Adventure
Release: Mar 18, 1981
Creator: Stephen J. Cannell
Production: Stephen J. Cannell Productions
Networks: ABC
Cast:
William Katt as Ralph Hinkley/Ralph Hanley
Robert Culp as Bill Maxwell
Connie Sellecca as Pam Davidson
Faye Grant as Rhonda Blake
Michael Paré as Tony Villicana
Jesse D. Goins as Cyler Johnson
Don Cervantes as Paco Rodriguez
William Bogert as Les Carlisle
William Katt as Ralph Hinkley/Ralph Hanley
Robert Culp as Bill Maxwell
Connie Sellecca as Pam Davidson
Faye Grant as Rhonda Blake
Michael Paré as Tony Villicana
Jesse D. Goins as Cyler Johnson
Don Cervantes as Paco Rodriguez
William Bogert as Les Carlisle