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Janet does not realize that the Irish hypochondriac who's come to see her at the health centre is actually the famed superhero Thermoman, who saved her life while she was vacationing in Arizona.

My Hero

As George and Janet are now an item, things move on for them and it's time to meet Janet's parents. But Janet's mother knows what she wants for her daughter - smooth, oily Dr. Piers, not weird George. Janet is a bag of nerves and even more so that George says and does the oddest things, sometimes at the worst moment imaginable.

Guess Who's Coming to Lunch

Thermoman faces his biggest challenge yet. After Janet washes his superhero outfit in biological detergent which make him itch, an book from his home planet says that he mustn't have sex more than once a month. But worst of all, Piers knows George's secret.

Mission Impossible

George and his dashing alter-ego (Thermoman) are invited to the same charity fundraiser.

Thermoman's Greatest Challenge

Thermoman's father comes to visit and starts interfering with his son's love life.

Old Man Riverdance

George decides to throw a surprise 30th-birthday party for Janet.

The Party's Over

Thermoman reveals his double identity to Janet's parents, in an attempt to gain their favour, but her mother can't keep a secret.

Parents

A curvaceous Ultronian appears, claiming to be George's fiancee. Xil learns to speak English when speaking to Tyler, she realises that she can learn from him. She does so and picks up his (local) accent. Meanwhile, Mrs Raven asks for a better deal for the job she does, Piers decides to let her go instead.

Girlfriend

Piers get a new Mercedes. George works hard to buy Janet a car and Arnie gets his powers back.

An old friend of Thermoman's takes over Piers' body and tries to put Thermoman out of the superhero business.

Nemesis

Our heroic couple find out that they're pregnant in this episode.  As part of the pregnancy George endows Joyce with Ultronian powers, which she the uses to go about saving the day.  The sub plot is Mrs. Raven convincing Piers that he is going to be on ""This is Your Life"", and uses this to milk all sorts of 'goodies' out of smarmy Dr Piers.

Pregnant

Shortly after they wed, janet goes into labor. The baby has super powers and can talk, which is normal for Thermian babies.

Wedding

The arrival of a little bundle of joy with superhuman powers has made life even more stressful for George and Janet. Meanwhile, Dr Piers's TV career appears to be on the up after he appoints a new agent

Baby Talk

George takes the law into his own hands when he joins a neighbourhood watch scheme

Zero Tolerance

George is puzzled by the British love of pets - until his mother-in-law's dog explains it all. However, talking to animals is not normal behaviour, and the conversation lands George in hot water

Pet Rescue

It's George's 327th birthday, Arnie asks George if he told Janet about what happens to Ultronians after their 327th birthday.    Janet soon finds out, George starts to age !   It seems his body is worn out & he needs a new one. George selects 3 replacements (handsome, young,masculine) but Janet doesn't want these, She wants the body she fell in love with & married.    George continues to age & Janet's parents visit. She tells them he's George's Grandfather & when they leave George & Janet kiss but Janet's Mum returns & catches them kissing.!

Janet tells them she's left George & taken up with his Grandfather.    When George is so old he can hardly walk he decides to try the time tunnel of youth that Ultronian woman sometimes use.   However he goes to far & ends up as a baby.! Janet takes him to the bathroom & he goes to find the body in the reject room & surprises Janet with an old model body of his usual self.

The Older Man

George & Janet are loading their groceries into their car when they hear Mrs Raven yelling at the triplets as she's loading her groceries. The trolley man loses control of his trolleys on the ramp of the car park & they head straight for Mrs Raven.!  As she goes over the edge of a Multi-Storey car park It's Thermoman to the rescue.!

Next day George has bad news in the form of a writ from Mrs Raven's solicitor. It seems while saving her life he squeezed her arm & sprained it causing her trauma, distress & potential loss of earnings should she ever want to take up skiing professionaly.

George wants Arnie to talk to Mrs Raven & ask her to drop the charges, Meanwhile Janet's parents have had a row & Mr Dawkins has moved in with Tyler next door.

Thermoman visits Mrs Raven & apologises for hurting her. He almost has the case dismissed when Mrs Raven asks for a kiss & Thermoman knocks her cold with his helmet.!

Mrs Raven is now asking for more money for the extra pain & suffering.

Mrs Dawkins

Puttin' on the Writs

George has had very little time to rest.(too many rescues.)   Janet urges him to rest. Olly is sick & George keeps flying home to check on him before flying away again.    As George tires, he flies slower & a reporter tracks him to the flat where he takes a picture & splashes it all over the next mornings paper.    With several T.V. crews camped on the footpath outside the flat   George tries to tell the reporter that there is nothing going on between Janet & Thermoman. Kevin Trench (the reporter) sensationalises George's explanation infering Thermoman & George are a couple.!

Janet solves the problem by discrediting the reporter,saying that he is actually an Ultronian & an arch enemy of Thermoman.

Olly gets better & things go back to normal.

Shock, Horror!

Janet feels George is taking her for granted. Pete was fixing the window glass when he cut himself & Janet was looking at the cut when George walks in. Pete leaves & Janet tries to make George jealous but George is calm about it.

Piers is engaged to Carole to try to further his image

Later George tries to be jealous for Janet's sake but isn't to convincing.    When Arnie offers Janet some cake, she takes a piece, George sees this & really gets Jealous. (Ultronian style)He turns green.!

Tyler suggests a marriage counselor who shrinks George to teach him a lesson.

A typhoon in Kyoto needs Thermoman's attention. George apologises to Janet & he regains his normal size.    Carole Tells Piers the wedding is off because she was using him to further her career.    George buys Janet a cake to share with whomever she chooses. Mrs Raven has a slice just as Arnie walks in. He sees this & turns green.

Little Green Man

A double of George named Hilary arrives to take George's place while he's away at an advanced super heroic refresher course.    Hilary is still in training & is replacing George for 72 hours as part of his field training.    Hilary goes into the clinic & starts chatting up Mrs Dawkins.   Arnie wants to put George's shop on the internet. He sets up "" Sunday trading. com ""

Peirs & Hilary have been out all night & Janet tells Hillary to go home.    George drops by the clinic & Hillary is just leaving. Mrs Dawkins sees both George & Hillary in two different places & thinks she's seeing things.    Arnie & Tyler have had 5,000 hits on the website. (3,000 were from Tyler checking to see if the site is still there.!) Arnie wants Thermoman to endorse the site to make it more popular. George says it's against regulations,but Arnie does it anyway.    Janet thinks she's showering with George but it's actually Hillary. Janet's annoyed to think Hillary saw her naked.    George discovers Arnie's usin

Mine's a Double

It's Mr & Mrs Dawkins 40th wedding anniversary. They're planning a party and don't want George to come.! George wants to be more thoughtful & smarter, so he flies to Ultron & asks for a cure for stupidity. They give him a pork flavoured snack.    Now George is smarter & more helpful. Mr and Mrs Dawkins want him to come to their party and to give a speech as well.    Mrs Raven asks Arnie to marry her & she's planning the wedding but Arnie's not that keen.    George becomes addicted to ""pork scratchings"" It's up to Arnie to help him get off them & go 'cold porky' !    Four days later George is cured of his addiction but is back to his old self & still has to give the speech.(Which he does in typical George fashion)   Mrs Raven decides after listening to George's speech,not to marry Arnie & Janet welcomes back 'her' George.

A Little Learning

George doesn't want to change Olly's nappies. He keeps flying off to an emergency. When George has to erase the memory of a man He tells Janet about it when he returns home & demonstrates on himself. George has erased his memory & doesn't know he's Thermoman. Arnie tries to retrain him.    George is shocked that his infant son can talk.! Janet is happy because George is now changing Olly's nappies. George thinks he is an ordinary man with a Wife,a child & a small business.    When a bushfire flares out of control in Queensland Australia, it's Olly to the rescue.    Janet & Arnie tell George he's Thermoman. They need to convince him because a Meteor is heading for Earth & Thermoman has to stop it.    George remembers he is Thermoman & flies off to stop the Meteor, Janet,Arnie & Tyler think he didn't make it until he comes back to the flat.    Janet asks George to change Olly & George pretends he has amnesia again.

A Day to Remember

George has some initial trouble getting to grips with the notion of sport when he is asked to join a cricket team, to help Piers out. Mrs. Raven gets intimate with Tyler after becoming convinced that he is her hero Thermoman. Ella belittles Thermoman - when he fixes her house after an incident and other people's houses as well - as not doing a perfect job. But Thermoman gets his revenge.

A Sporting Chance

George gets himself a new life insurance policy and then kills himself to claim the cash. Now he has to figure out how to come back from the dead with Janet's help, or at least, Janet has to help him sort out another mess - yet again! This is easier said than done, as Janet has to fend off colleagues and family trying to get her married off again and with things like Tyler on the loose and George spread out in a coffin in the room, things are not going to be easy to solve, until a plan is hatched for the funeral.

The Living Dead

Its spend, spend, spend, as George finds out about credit cards. Janet to the rescue, as she uses baby Ollie's powers to predict future lottery numbers to pay for George's spending habit,

Taking the Credit

George looks into the mind's of people and discovers what they are really thinking. He is not at all happy about it and Janet gets him out of it once again and none too gently.

It's All in the Mind

Termoman - space virus - George - passing it onto those closest to him. Now he has to fix it.

Space Virus

George is standing for mayor - his policy - to fix Stan and Ella's broken street light. His opponent is Piers. Piers sticks it to George by treating him as a joke in the hope that George can't possibly win. Janet is so incensed by George's attitude of becoming mayor, with him secretly being Thermoman; she leaves home taking Ollie with him. Piers hatches a plan to disgrace George, now that Janet is out of the way, but the broken street light has a way of interfering when Stanley comes to get some much needed sleep and Pier's setup deos not go according to plan.

The Mayor of Northolt

ollies half human half ultron body has unexpected results when he grows from a baby to an 18 year old with a serious girlfreind in just 24 hours

Arnie put the hard word on George, being Thermoman and the consequences of his actions. George therefore retires as Thermoman.

The Consultant

george becomes pregnant with a surrogate baby for a childless couple on ultron

The Family Way

When going to an Ultronian Court Meeting because of Arnie supposedly getting Mrs Raven pregnant, George and Arnie run into a time field and get launched 7 years into the future. Things have changed, so, they go back to the year 2003.

George realises he can use this to his advantage, and can change history to make things better... However, things don't go to plan when he is trying to stop Janet from breaking her arm, and he turns her bald. Turns out, she had cronic scalp problems, so when she broke her arm, the doctors fixed her hair.

Then, George goes back again and fixes the problem. However, when trying to sort it out fully and properly, he messes things up, saving her from breaking her arm and leaving a note for her to go to a doctor about her scalp. However, she and the doctor fall in love, and in 2003, she is married with Piers and they have 10 children! No one knows who Arnie or George are, Mrs Raven is nice, and Tyler actually has a girlfriend!

So, in the end, it turns out Piers

Time and Time Again

George and Janet have a new addition to the family: Cassie. She can see into the future. However, shortly after birth, she has horrible premonitions that everyone on the Northern hemisphere is going to die! Meanwhile, Piers enters for ""I'm A Celebrity: Get Me Out Of Here!""

The Foresight Saga

George and Arnie become the subject of an investigation by the Immigration Department.

Illegal Aliens

When George buys a car and ups the offered price and then takes reponsibility for an accident that was obviously Piers' fault, Janet trys assertiveness training, which promptly fails.

Piers is frustrated by his lack of success with women and, when Mrs. Raven tricks him into thinking that a patient is his next date, he starts up a men's group to combat women.  George is highly impressed by this, and trys it out on Janet, who is having none of it until George controls her mind and she becomes the perfect wife.  He quickly does it to Ella and the other women.

Piers then finds a girl who doesn't slap him and changes his mind about women.  George then puts everyone back to normal.

Meanwhile, Casey gets a job as directory enquiries and the speaking clock to save up for a doll's house.

The First Husband's Club

Janet's mother Ella becomes a trainee JP.  When visiting Janet and George she comments on the fact that Ollie hasn't spoken a single word yet.  He responds by talking a language that sounds like baby talk (George has been teaching Ollie the language of Jupiter). With Ella's thoughts in mind, George goes out to get some educational stuff for the kids, he ends up getting porn for them and giving Ollie a cigar and alcohol. Ella takes Ollie and Cassie away from Janet and George but without them Cassie reverts to being a normal human.

Cassie Come Home

Thermoman liberates the stolen Mona Lisa from an art thief's clutches, but comes under suspicion from Scotland Yard when he cannot explain its presence in his flat.

Nothing to Hide

George and Arnie discover a way to filter out prejudices in peoples' brains. This sounds like a good idea until the brains get muddled up

Brain Drain

George starts doubting his invincibility, and starts disapperaing.

Fear and Clothing

As an attempt to get Ollie to eat his vegetables, George gets Ultroneon GM vegetables, with unfortunate side-effects.  He then makes the minke whale extinct by using it to plug a volcano!   Piers decides that Thermoman has gone too far, and makes a campaign against Thermoman abusing nature, thus getting him a TV show.  George's attempts to be environmentally friendly backfire until he gets so angry that he has a temper tantrum and moves the Earth away from the sun...

Meanwhile, Mrs. Raven tries to get the Triplets into a Christian School...and has to rely on Ella, who has recently eaten the Ultronean GM fruit!

How Green Was My Ollie?

George's family discover the joys of reality TV.

Big Brother

George wakes up in bed with miss Raven but doesnt understand that it was just a dream

Night Fever

Desperate for money after the health shop is closed, George takes part in a poker game on Ultron, but ends up losing all his body parts, aside from his foot and his soul. When he is placed into a new body, Janet has problems coping with the change.

Footloose

Desperate for Janet's affections, George asks Ella's cat what makes him so endearing. He discovers it's the cat's essence, so he starts extracting it and spraying himself with it.

My Kingdom for a Cat

In effort to lighten his workload, George makes a sidekick out of one of his ribs, a beautiful woman called Lula. But she turns out too well, replacing everyone at the health centre, and she even takes George's job as protector of Earth.

Sidekick

When Ollie's pet spider dies, Thermoman resurrects it, then kills it because it frightens him. Wanting to teach Cassie about Ultronian religion, George tries to organise it on Earth. He winds up resurrecting Piers from a fatal overdose of Mrs Raven's human testing pills, which leads people to believe he is "The Chosen One.

Not for Prophet

When Thermoman attempts to fly faster than the speed of light, he is caught and has to resit his superhero theory test or he will lose his license and be sent back to Ultron. Meanwhile, George's attempts to be attractive to Janet have interesting results, both at the gym and when he tries to reverse the effects.

Dermoman

When the Superhero Assessment of Total Saves League table results are announced, George is so horrified by his standing, and the effect it will have on Janet's affections toward him, that he resolves to take action.

Top of the Table

When George's super-powers begin to malfunction, Thermoman begins to destroy more than he saves. Arnie must perform an MOT to George's self-confidence that have unexpected consequences.

Believe

My Hero is a BBC sitcom created by Paul Mendelson. The programme ran for six series, first broadcast in February 2000, and concluding in September 2006. The series follows the antics of the dim-witted superhero "Thermoman", portrayed by Ardal O'Hanlon in series one to five and by James Dreyfus in the final series. The series was regularly directed by John Stroud. In the UK, the digital channel Gold regularly re-runs the programme, although the last series has yet to appear on the channel. In the United States it was shown on PBS and, briefly, BBC America. In Australia, UKTV offered re-runs of the first three series, while BBC Entertainment provided repeats for Scandinavia.

The Best Seasons of My Hero

The Best Seasons of My Hero

Season 1

Season 3

Season 4

Season 2

Season 5

Season 6