7.7/10105 votes#1 - The Two-Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Fastball
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 11/4/1981
Ralph dons a baseball suit to trap Latino revolutionaries who plan to finance a coup by fixing ball games.
Director: Georg Stanford Brown
Writer: N/A
7.7/1098 votes#2 - Operation Spoilsport
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 11/11/1981
Ralph and Bill must stop World War III by defusing a corrupt military leader's plans to launch a suprise missile attack against Russia.
Director: Rod Holcomb
Writer: Frank Lupo
7.7/1093 votes#3 - Don't Mess Around with Jim
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 11/18/1981
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.
Director: Robert C. Thompson
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
6.8/1095 votes#4 - Hog Wild
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 11/25/1981
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.
Director: Ivan Dixon
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
6.5/1082 votes#5 - Classical Gas
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 12/2/1981
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.
Director: Bruce Kessler
Writer: Frank Lupo
7.8/10118 votes#6 - The Beast in the Black
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 12/9/1981
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Juanita Bartlett
6.5/1073 votes#7 - The Lost Diablo
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 12/16/1981
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.
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Writer: Juanita Bartlett
7.3/1076 votes#8 - Plague
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 1/6/1982
A psycho military cult leader tries to spread the small-pox virus.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1083 votes#9 - A Train of Thought
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 1/13/1982
Ralph crashes head first into a train, and gets amnesia. Pam and Bill have to convince him that the suit really works.
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Writer: Frank Lupo
7.2/1080 votes#10 - Now You See It...
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 1/20/1982
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.
Director: Robert C. Thompson
Writer: N/A
7.4/1070 votes#11 - The Handpainted Thai
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/27/1982
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.
Director: Bruce Kessler
Writer: Frank Lupo, Stephen J. Cannell
7.0/1075 votes#12 - Just Another Three Ring Circus
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 2/3/1982
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.
Director: Chuck Bowman
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
7.5/1072 votes#13 - The Shock Will Kill You
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/10/1982
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.
Director: Rod Holcomb
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
6.7/1075 votes#14 - A Chicken in Every Plot
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/17/1982
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.
Director: Rod Holcomb
Writer: N/A
7.1/1076 votes#15 - The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/24/1982
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.
Director: Sidney Hayers
Writer: Frank Lupo
6.7/1073 votes#16 - It's All Downhill from Here
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 3/3/1982
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.
Director: Sidney Hayers
Writer: N/A
7.7/1075 votes#17 - Dreams
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/17/1982
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.
Director: Bruce Kessler
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
7.9/1068 votes#18 - There's Just No Accounting...
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/24/1982
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?
Director: Ivan Dixon
Writer: Frank Lupo
7.3/1066 votes#19 - The Good Samaritan
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/31/1982
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.
Director: Bruce Kessler
Writer: N/A
7.8/1073 votes#20 - Captain Bellybuster and the Speed Factory
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/7/1982
Bill recieves hot tips on a speed factory working out of a fast food chain, and a newspaper reporter publishes pictures of Ralph flying.
Director: N/A
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell, Frank Lupo
7.8/1077 votes#21 - Who's Woo in America
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 4/14/1982
Ralph's mother is re-marrying to a man who planted a much wanted micro-chip in her engagement ring.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1078 votes#22 - Lilacs, Mr. Maxwell
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 4/28/1982
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.
Director: Robert Culp
Writer: Robert Culp
The Best Episodes of The Greatest American Hero Season 2
Every episode of The Greatest American Hero Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Greatest American Hero Season 2!
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...
Genres:Action & AdventureComedyCrime
Network:ABC
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"The Two-Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Fastball" is the best rated episode of "The Greatest American Hero" season 2. It scored 7.7/10 based on 105 votes. Directed by Georg Stanford Brown and written by N/A, it aired on 11/4/1981. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Operation Spoilsport".