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The Worst 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 - The Handpainted Thai

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    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.

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    #2 - The Shock Will Kill You

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    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.

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    #3 - A Chicken in Every Plot

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    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.

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    Director:Rod Holcomb
    Writer:N/A
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    #4 - The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

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    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.

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    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writer:Frank Lupo
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    #5 - It's All Downhill from Here

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    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.

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    Director:Sidney Hayers
    Writer:N/A
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    #6 - Dreams

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    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.

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

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    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?

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    Director:Ivan Dixon
    Writer:Frank Lupo
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    #8 - The Good Samaritan

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    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.

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    Director:Bruce Kessler
    Writer:N/A
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    #9 - Captain Bellybuster and the Speed Factory

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    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.

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    Director:N/A
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    #10 - Who's Woo in America

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    S2:E21

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

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    Director:N/A
    Writer:N/A
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    #11 - Lilacs, Mr. Maxwell

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    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.

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    Director:Robert Culp
  13. 5.0/10(2 votes)

    #12 - The Lost Diablo

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    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.

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  14. 6.0/10(2 votes)

    #13 - Now You See It...

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    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.

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    Writer:N/A
  15. 6.3/10(3 votes)

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

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    S2:E1

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

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    Writer:N/A
  16. 6.3/10(3 votes)

    #15 - Hog Wild

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    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.

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  17. 6.3/10(3 votes)

    #16 - Classical Gas

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    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.

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    Director:Bruce Kessler
    Writer:Frank Lupo
  18. 6.8/10(76 votes)

    #17 - Space Ranger

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    S3:E8

    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.

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    Director:Ivan Dixon
    Writer:N/A
  19. 7.0/10(185 votes)

    #18 - 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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  20. 7.0/10(152 votes)

    #19 - 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
  21. 7.0/10(3 votes)

    #20 - Don't Mess Around with Jim

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    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.

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  22. 7.0/10(3 votes)

    #21 - 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
  23. 7.0/10(2 votes)

    #22 - Plague

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    S2:E8

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

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

    #23 - 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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  25. 7.0/10(2 votes)

    #24 - 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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  26. 7.1/10(121 votes)

    #25 - 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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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Handpainted Thai" is the worst rated episode of "The Greatest American Hero". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Bruce Kessler and written by Frank Lupo, Stephen J. Cannell, it aired on 1/27/1982. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Shock Will Kill You".