The Best Episodes of The Greatest American Hero Season 3
Every episode of The Greatest American Hero Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Greatest American Hero Season 3!
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 thus has to learn how to use its powers by trial and error, often with comical results.
Season 3 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "The Greatest American Hero" season 3 is "Divorce Venusian Style", rated 7.7/10 from 76 user votes. It was directed by Ivan Dixon and written by N/A. "Divorce Venusian Style" aired on 10/29/1982 and is rated 0.3 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Price is Right".
7.7/10 76 votes#1 - Divorce Venusian Style
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 10/29/1982
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.
Director: Ivan Dixon
Writer: N/A
7.4/10 72 votes#2 - The Price is Right
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 11/5/1982
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.
Director: Ivan Dixon
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
7.3/10 71 votes#3 - This is the One the Suit Was Meant For
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 11/12/1982
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.
Director: Ivan Dixon
Writer: Babs Greyhosky
7.2/10 68 votes#4 - The Resurrection of Carlini
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 11/19/1982
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Frank Lupo
7.7/10 65 votes#5 - The Newlywed Game
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 1/6/1983
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.
Director: Chuck Bowman
Writer: Babs Greyhosky
7.7/10 76 votes#6 - Heaven is in Your Genes
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 1/13/1983
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.
Director: Christian I. Nyby II
Writer: N/A
7.7/10 71 votes#7 - Live at Eleven
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 1/20/1983
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Babs Greyhosky
6.8/10 71 votes#8 - Space Ranger
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 1/27/1983
One of Ralph's students invents a radio telescope capable of decoding Russian satellite messages. The KGB tries to steal his system. When that maneuver fails, they decide to kill him before he can share his discovery with the CIA.
Director: Ivan Dixon
Writer: N/A
7.0/10 59 votes#9 - Thirty Seconds Over Little Tokyo
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 2/3/1983
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/10 73 votes#10 - Wizards And Warlocks
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 2/10/1983
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.
Director: Bruce Kessler
Writer: N/A
7.1/10 79 votes#11 - It's Only Rock and Roll
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 2/17/1983
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Babs Greyhosky
7.1/10 66 votes#12 - Desperado
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 2/24/1983
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: Stephen J. Cannell
7.2/10 65 votes#13 - Vanity, Says the Preacher
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 3/3/1983
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.
Director: Robert Culp
Writer: Robert Culp