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The Best Episodes of The Greatest American Hero

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The Best Episodes of The Greatest American Hero

The chronicles of  teacher Ralph Hinkley's adventures after a group of aliens gives him a red suit that gives him superhuman abilities. Unfortunately, Ralph, who...

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  1. 8.7/10(3 votes)

    #1 - My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

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    S1:E6

    Ralph reconsiders his suit of powers after a flying mistake almost takes out a bus full of tourists. Bill also reconsiders his job path when one of his heroes is suspected of plotting out the theft of a precious diamond.

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  2. 8.3/10(3 votes)

    #2 - Operation Spoilsport

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

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    Director:Rod Holcomb
    Writer:Frank Lupo
  3. 8.2/10(6 votes)

    #3 - The Greatest American Hero

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    S1:E1

    Ralph Hinkley, an average school teacher, is given a suit with amazing powers by aliens. Now, Ralph must decide if he'll use his new powers to fight crime, even though he already lost the suit's instruction manual.

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  4. 8.0/10(2 votes)

    #4 - Reseda Rose

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    S1:E5

    Ralph uses his suit to help Rhonda, one of his students, after her mother is kidnapped by the Russians.

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  5. 7.8/10(84 votes)

    #5 - Divorce Venusian Style

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    S3:E1

    After a loud argument with Bill, Ralph quits the hero business and turns in his super-suit. Unknown to both men, a gang of neo-Nazis plans to murder them.

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    Director:Ivan Dixon
    Writer:N/A
  6. 7.7/10(3 votes)

    #6 - The Hit Car

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    S1:E2

    Bill, who has been trying to bust open a drug ring for over 20 years, must drive a witness to Los Angeles for the trial of the gang leader and asks Ralph for help.

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  8. 7.7/10(3 votes)

    #7 - Here's Looking at You Kid

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    S1:E3

    When a secret gunsight is stolen, Bill asks Ralph for help in solving the case. However, Ralph runs into problems when he keeps turning invisible unexpectedly, and must deal with the pressure of meeting Pam's parents.

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    Director:N/A
  9. 7.7/10(3 votes)

    #8 - Fire Man

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    S1:E7

    Ralph lends Tony a hand by finding him a job as a car repossesser. When Tony is arrested for arson, Ralph and Bill team up to find the real criminal.

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  10. 7.7/10(72 votes)

    #9 - The Newlywed Game

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    S3:E5

    Ralph and Pam's wedding is almost ruined when Ralph receives special orders from the President to fly a mission over the North Pole. Bill discovers the orders were faked, and that Ralph has accidentally given the Russians valuable military secrets.

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  11. 7.7/10(81 votes)

    #10 - Heaven is in Your Genes

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    S3:E6

    A former Nazi genetic engineer fakes Bill's death to use him in an experiment, but Ralph realizes his friend is still alive. He flies off to rescue Bill and the evil doctor's other victims, but a genetic horror created in an earlier experiment waits to battle him.

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    Writer:N/A
  12. 7.7/10(76 votes)

    #11 - Live at Eleven

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    S3:E7

    An Aging TV anchorman plans to retire in grand style. He hires a band of mercenaries to sabotage a nuclear plant, hoping that his coverage of the event can launch a Presidential campaign. Ralph must stop the plant from exploding, but the saboteurs, now dying of radiation poisoning, are determined to succeed.

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    Director:N/A
  13. 7.5/10(79 votes)

    #12 - Wizards And Warlocks

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    S3:E10

    King Abu Al-Fahad asks Ralph and Bill to help find his son, Prince Aha, who was kidnapped by Middle Eastern terrorists while playing a Dungeons and Dragonsesque game, Wizards and Warlocks. Their search leads them from Aha's college campus -- where they meet Aha's Keeper of the Clock, Joey Margolis -- to the game's author himself, Norman Fackler.

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    Director:Bruce Kessler
    Writer:N/A
  14. 7.4/10(78 votes)

    #13 - The Price is Right

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    S3:E2

    While attending a high-school reunion, Ralph discovers that the wife of a famous pro football player is held hostage to ensure her husband will throw the big game.

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  15. 7.3/10(73 votes)

    #14 - Vanity, Says the Preacher

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    S3:E13

    It seems that 30 years ago Bill helped some revolutionaries overthrow a corrupt regime in an unnamed Central American country, where he is now regarded as a hero. But now Bill's old revolutionary compadres have turned up, and they soon kidnap him and try to get him to help lead another revolution.

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    Director:Robert Culp
  16. 7.2/10(76 votes)

    #15 - This is the One the Suit Was Meant For

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    S3:E3

    With their relationship in trouble, Ralph convinces Pam to go on a vacation without Bill or his suit. Unfortunately Bill shows up unannounced with his suit and trouble ensues.

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    Director:Ivan Dixon
  17. 7.2/10(73 votes)

    #16 - The Resurrection of Carlini

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    S3:E4

    A magician killed performing his greatest trick seemingly returns from the grave to murder his three rivals. Ralph must use his suit to out trick the would-be killer.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:Frank Lupo
  18. 7.2/10(85 votes)

    #17 - It's Only Rock and Roll

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    S3:E11

    Bill is called by the manager of a rock group that is aboard a plane threatened by a bomber, who has hidden a device set to explode if the plane descends below 1000 feet. Ralph flies into action, but matters escalate when Pam is kidnapped and a band of bikers threaten Bill's life.

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    Director:N/A
  19. 7.1/10(65 votes)

    #18 - Thirty Seconds Over Little Tokyo

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    S3:E9

    A young Chinese scientist has invented a deadly particle "ray gun" weapon. A local gang kidnaps his uncle, hoping to obtain the gun. Bill's plan to save the Uncle backfires, and Ralph must test his suit against the deadly ray.

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  20. 7.1/10(75 votes)

    #19 - Desperado

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    S3:E12

    A weekend in the country leads Ralph, Pam and Bill into a race to save a wild stallion from a cruel rancher. The man blames the horse for a crippling injury. His men are also selling horses for use as dog food.

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    Director:N/A
  21. 7.0/10(3 votes)

    #20 - Saturday on Sunset Boulevard

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    S1:E4

    Russians are trying to find an heiress and her Russian husband in order to force them to establish a missile cache hold on their private island. Bill needs Ralph's help when he is suspected of failing a lie-detector test at FBI headquarters.

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  22. 7.0/10(3 votes)

    #21 - Don't Mess Around with Jim

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    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.

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  23. 7.0/10(3 votes)

    #22 - The Beast in the Black

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    S2:E6

    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.

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    Director:N/A
  24. 7.0/10(2 votes)

    #23 - Plague

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

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
  25. 7.0/10(2 votes)

    #24 - A Train of Thought

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    S2:E9

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

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  26. 7.0/10(2 votes)

    #25 - Just Another Three Ring Circus

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    S2:E12

    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.

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Best Episodes Summary

"My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys" is the best rated episode of "The Greatest American Hero". It scored 8.7/10 based on 3 votes. Directed by Gabrielle Beaumont and written by Stephen J. Cannell, it aired on 4/29/1981. This episode scored 0.4 points higher than the second highest rated, "Operation Spoilsport".