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The Best Episodes of The Greatest American Hero Season 2

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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 hates wearing the suit, immediately loses its instruction booklet, and

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Greatest American Hero Season 2 Episode 1 - The Two-Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Fastball
    7.7/10(119 votes)

    #1 - The Two-Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Fastball

    S2:E1

    Ralph dons a baseball suit to trap Latino revolutionaries who plan to finance a coup by fixing ball games.

    Director:Georg Stanford Brown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. The Greatest American Hero Season 2 Episode 2 - Operation Spoilsport
    7.7/10(110 votes)

    #2 - Operation Spoilsport

    S2:E2

    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

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  3. The Greatest American Hero Season 2 Episode 3 - Don't Mess Around with Jim
    7.7/10(104 votes)

    #3 - Don't Mess Around with Jim

    S2:E3

    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

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  4. The Greatest American Hero Season 2 Episode 4 - Hog Wild
    6.9/10(109 votes)

    #4 - Hog Wild

    S2:E4

    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

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  5. The Greatest American Hero Season 2 Episode 5 - Classical Gas
    6.7/10(93 votes)

    #5 - Classical Gas

    S2:E5

    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

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  6. The Greatest American Hero Season 2 Episode 6 - The Beast in the Black
    7.7/10(129 votes)

    #6 - The Beast in the Black

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Juanita Bartlett

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  7. The Greatest American Hero Season 2 Episode 7 - The Lost Diablo
    6.7/10(84 votes)

    #7 - The Lost Diablo

    S2:E7

    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

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  8. The Greatest American Hero Season 2 Episode 8 - Plague
    7.5/10(86 votes)

    #8 - Plague

    S2:E8

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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Greatest American Hero Season 2 Episode 9 - A Train of Thought
    7.5/10(92 votes)

    #9 - A Train of Thought

    S2:E9

    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

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  10. The Greatest American Hero Season 2 Episode 10 - Now You See It...
    7.3/10(89 votes)

    #10 - Now You See It...

    S2:E10

    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:Unknown

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  11. The Greatest American Hero Season 2 Episode 11 - The Handpainted Thai
    7.5/10(81 votes)

    #11 - The Handpainted Thai

    S2:E11

    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
    Writers:Frank Lupo, Stephen J. Cannell

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  12. The Greatest American Hero Season 2 Episode 12 - Just Another Three Ring Circus
    7.2/10(88 votes)

    #12 - Just Another Three Ring Circus

    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.

    Director:Chuck Bowman
    Writer:Stephen J. Cannell

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  13. The Greatest American Hero Season 2 Episode 13 - The Shock Will Kill You
    7.6/10(86 votes)

    #13 - The Shock Will Kill You

    S2:E13

    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

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  14. The Greatest American Hero Season 2 Episode 14 - A Chicken in Every Plot
    6.9/10(86 votes)

    #14 - A Chicken in Every Plot

    S2:E14

    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:Unknown

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  15. The Greatest American Hero Season 2 Episode 15 - The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
    7.4/10(90 votes)

    #15 - The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

    S2:E15

    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

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  16. The Greatest American Hero Season 2 Episode 16 - It's All Downhill from Here
    6.9/10(84 votes)

    #16 - It's All Downhill from Here

    S2:E16

    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:Unknown

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  17. The Greatest American Hero Season 2 Episode 17 - Dreams
    7.8/10(89 votes)

    #17 - Dreams

    S2:E17

    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

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  18. The Greatest American Hero Season 2 Episode 18 - There's Just No Accounting...
    8.0/10(81 votes)

    #18 - There's Just No Accounting...

    S2:E18

    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

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  19. The Greatest American Hero Season 2 Episode 19 - The Good Samaritan
    7.4/10(77 votes)

    #19 - The Good Samaritan

    S2:E19

    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:Unknown

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  20. The Greatest American Hero Season 2 Episode 20 - Captain Bellybuster and the Speed Factory
    7.9/10(85 votes)

    #20 - Captain Bellybuster and the Speed Factory

    S2:E20

    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:Unknown
    Writers:Frank Lupo, Stephen J. Cannell

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  21. The Greatest American Hero Season 2 Episode 21 - Who's Woo in America
    7.8/10(89 votes)

    #21 - Who's Woo in America

    S2:E21

    Ralph's mother is re-marrying to a man who planted a much wanted micro-chip in her engagement ring.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Greatest American Hero Season 2 Episode 22 - Lilacs, Mr. Maxwell
    7.8/10(90 votes)

    #22 - Lilacs, Mr. Maxwell

    S2:E22

    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

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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 119 votes. Directed by Georg Stanford Brown and written by Unknown, it aired on 11/4/1981. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Operation Spoilsport".