The Greatest American Hero

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Season 2

Episodes

1. The Two-Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Fastball
Nov 4, 1981
Episode 1

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

6.3 60 min
2. Operation Spoilsport
Nov 11, 1981
Episode 2

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

8.3 60 min
3. Don't Mess Around with Jim
Nov 18, 1981
Episode 3

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.

7.0 60 min
4. Hog Wild
Nov 25, 1981
Episode 4

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.

6.3 60 min
5. Classical Gas
Dec 2, 1981
Episode 5

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.

6.3 60 min
6. The Beast in the Black
Dec 9, 1981
Episode 6

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.

7.0 60 min
7. The Lost Diablo
Dec 16, 1981
Episode 7

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.

5.0 60 min
8. Plague
Jan 6, 1982
Episode 8

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

7.0 60 min
9. A Train of Thought
Jan 13, 1982
Episode 9

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

7.0 60 min
10. Now You See It...
Jan 20, 1982
Episode 10

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.

6.0 60 min
11. The Handpainted Thai
Jan 27, 1982
Episode 11

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.

0.0 60 min
12. Just Another Three Ring Circus
Feb 3, 1982
Episode 12

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.

7.0 60 min
13. The Shock Will Kill You
Feb 10, 1982
Episode 13

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.

0.0 60 min
14. A Chicken in Every Plot
Feb 17, 1982
Episode 14

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.

0.0 60 min
15. The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Feb 24, 1982
Episode 15

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.

0.0 60 min
16. It's All Downhill from Here
Mar 3, 1982
Episode 16

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.

0.0 60 min
17. Dreams
Mar 17, 1982
Episode 17

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.

0.0 60 min
18. There's Just No Accounting...
Mar 24, 1982
Episode 18

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?

0.0 60 min
19. The Good Samaritan
Mar 31, 1982
Episode 19

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.

0.0 60 min
20. Captain Bellybuster and the Speed Factory
Apr 7, 1982
Episode 20

Bill recieves hot tips on a speed factory working out of a fast food chain, and a newspaper reporter publishes pictures of Ralph flying.

0.0 60 min
21. Who's Woo in America
Apr 14, 1982
Episode 21

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

0.0 60 min
22. Lilacs, Mr. Maxwell
Apr 28, 1982
Episode 22

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.

0.0 60 min
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