Greatest American Hero Episode Guide

Episode Guide

Greatest American Hero: Season 3 (1982 - 1986)

• Season 3 Episode 14: The Greatest American Heroine

  Once the secret is out, aliens ask Ralph to give away his superpowered suit.

• Season 3 Episode 13: Vanity, Says the Preacher

  Bill goes to South America to accept an award and meets a colleague's widow who wants him to help in a political struggle.

• Season 3 Episode 12: Desperado

  Ralph and Pam fight to stop a rancher from killing a wild stallion he blames for an injury.

• Season 3 Episode 11: It's Only Rock 'n' Roll

  Ralph saves rock musicians from a bomb and other threats on their lives.

• Season 3 Episode 10: Wizards and Warlocks

  Ralph and Bill learn a role-playing game to help them protect a missing Arab prince from a mad revolutionary.

• Season 3 Episode 9: Thirty Seconds Over Little Tokyo

  An Asian syndicate will trade a scientist's (Soon-Teck Oh) uncle for a particle-beam gun.

• Season 3 Episode 8: Space Ranger

  A genius student, mistakenly put in Ralph's class, builds a satellite tracking system that attracts both the CIA and KGB.

• Season 3 Episode 7: Live at Eleven

  A TV newsman (William Windom) plans a terrorist takeover of a nuclear plant to get publicity for a political career.

• Season 3 Episode 6: Heaven Is in Your Genes

  A vision convinces Ralph that Bill didn't die in a car crash but is being held prisoner by a fanatical genetics expert.

• Season 3 Episode 5: The Newlywed Game

  Ralph and Pam's wedding day is interrupted when the president needs Ralph to photograph Soviet missile silos.

• Season 3 Episode 4: Resurrection of Carlini

  Ralph plays magician to probe murder attempts on three magicians planning to do a dead illusionist's greatest tricks.

• Season 3 Episode 3: This Is the One the Suit Was Meant For

  Bill's engagement gift to Ralph and Pam of an island holiday turns into a mission to recover a stolen military plane.

• Season 3 Episode 2: The Price Is Right

  Ralph's friend, a pro-football quarterback, is ordered to lose a game by his wife's kidnappers.

• Season 3 Episode 1: Divorce Venusian Style

  Ralph meets his alien mentors when they heal a critical wound he suffers while saving Bill from neo-Nazis.

Greatest American Hero: Season 2 (1981 - 1982)

• Season 2 Episode 22: Lilacs, Mr. Maxwell

  Bill falls for a deceptively sweet FBI efficiency expert (Dixie Carter) after he and Ralph bust a Soviet gunrunning ring.

• Season 2 Episode 21: Who's Woo in America

  Ralph fears for his mother (Barbara Hale) when her secretive fiance attracts unsavory attention.

• Season 2 Episode 20: Captain Bellybuster and the Speed Factory

  Ralph winds up on a tabloid's front page when a burger spokesman (Chuck McCann) decides to reveal his boss's drug dealing.

• Season 2 Episode 19: The Good Samaritan

  Ralph is detoured from the trail of two escaped convicts when he decides the suit should be used to save ordinary people.

• Season 2 Episode 18: There's Just No Accounting ...

  Ralph rescues a kidnapped girl and the ransom then lands in trouble with the abductors and the IRS.

• Season 2 Episode 17: Dreams

  A gangster pursues Ralph as he tries to prevent his colleagues from tossing their lives away on dreams.

• Season 2 Episode 16: It's All Downhill From Here

  On a skiing vacation, Ralph has a vision of a Soviet spy murdering a Czech agent's American contact.

• Season 2 Episode 15: The Devil in the Deep Blue Sea

  Ralph suspects a gigantic ocean creature is sinking yachts in the Devil's Triangle.

• Season 2 Episode 14: A Chicken in Every Plot

  Ralph pits the suit against voodoo when Bill takes him, Pam and his students to the Caribbean to help an old FBI buddy.

• Season 2 Episode 13: The Shock Will Kill You

  Ralph becomes magnetized while preventing a space-shuttle crash then contends with an alien stowaway.

• Season 2 Episode 12: Just Another Three-Ring Circus

  Ralph poses as a human cannonball to investigate the disappearance of a Polish clown from a traveling circus.

• Season 2 Episode 11: The Hand-Painted Thai

  A Cambodian general plans to use Bill and other brainwashed ex-POWs to murder Western scientists by blowing up a dam.

• Season 2 Episode 10: Now You See It

  Ralph witnesses Pam's death in a plane crash which hasn't happened yet.

• Season 2 Episode 9: Train of Thought

  Bill and Pam help Ralph overcome amnesia so he can stop a hijacked train carrying radioactive waste from reaching a city.

• Season 2 Episode 8: The Plague

  Bill depends on Ralph's suit to ward off a deadly virus that mercenaries plan to use for germ warfare.

• Season 2 Episode 7: The Lost Diablo

  Bill convinces Ralph to take his students on a field trip to the mountains, where he hopes to find a legendary gold mine.

• Season 2 Episode 6: The Beast in the Black

  Ralph uses his powers to rescue injured -- and possessed -- Bill from a haunted mansion set to be razed.

• Season 2 Episode 5: Classical Gas

  Pam arranges an audition for the students with a record promoter, unware he is involved with an international assassin.

• Season 2 Episode 4: Hog Wild

  Motorcycle-gang toughs accompanied by a kidnapped girl decide Ralph's suit would help their plans to wreck a border town.

• Season 2 Episode 3: Don't Mess Around With Jim

  A supposed-dead billionaire knows about the suit and asks Ralph to ensure his last charity bequest be honored.

• Season 2 Episode 2: Operation: Spoilsport

  The aliens who gave Ralph the suit ask him to stop a computerized missile launch which could start World War III.

• Season 2 Episode 1: The 200-Mile-an-Hour Fastball

  Bill sends in baseball-fan Ralph to infiltrate a playoff-bound team whose members are being felled.

Greatest American Hero: Season 1 (1981)

• Season 1 Episode 9: The Best Desk Scenario

  New junior law-partner Pam learns her boss is involved in a mob bribery scheme.

• Season 1 Episode 8: Fire Man

  Ralph, Bill and Pam fend off the CIA, IRS, Treasury Department and police when Tony is suspected of arson.

• Season 1 Episode 7: My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

  Bill calls on disillusioned Ralph when he learns his Korean War idol plans to finance retirement with a gem heist.

• Season 1 Episode 6: Reseda Rose

  Rhonda turns to Ralph when her too-curious mother is abducted by a Soviet spy stealing a weapons manufacturer's secrets.

• Season 1 Episode 5: Saturday Night on Sunset Boulevard

  Bill, in trouble with the FBI, asks Ralph to help him look good by finding an Italian heiress pursued by Soviet spies.

• Season 1 Episode 4: Here's Looking at You, Kid

  Ralph's plans to spend time with in-laws are thwarted when he must retrieve a secret gunsight stolen by mercenaries.

• Season 1 Episode 3: The Hit Car

  Bill enlists Ralph's help to protect a chorus girl as he transports her to testify against her drug-dealing ex-boyfriend.

• Season 1 Episode 2: The Greatest American Hero
• Season 1 Episode 1: The Greatest American Hero