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The Greatest American Hero

Season 3 1982 - 1983
TV-14

  • 1982-10-29T23:00:00Z on ABC
  • 1h
  • 13h (13 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
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.

13 episodes

Season Premiere

1982-10-29T23:00:00Z

3x01 Divorce Venusian Style

Season Premiere

3x01 Divorce Venusian Style

  • 1982-10-29T23:00:00Z1h

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.

1982-11-06T00:00:00Z

3x02 The Price is Right

3x02 The Price is Right

  • 1982-11-06T00:00:00Z1h

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.

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.

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.

1983-01-07T00:00:00Z

3x05 The Newlywed Game

3x05 The Newlywed Game

  • 1983-01-07T00:00:00Z1h

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.

1983-01-14T00:00:00Z

3x06 Heaven is in Your Genes

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.

1983-01-21T00:00:00Z

3x07 Live at Eleven

3x07 Live at Eleven

  • 1983-01-21T00:00:00Z1h

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.

1983-01-28T00:00:00Z

3x08 Space Ranger

3x08 Space Ranger

  • 1983-01-28T00:00:00Z1h

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.

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.

1983-02-11T00:00:00Z

3x10 Wizards And Warlocks

3x10 Wizards And Warlocks

  • 1983-02-11T00:00:00Z1h

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.

1983-02-18T00:00:00Z

3x11 It's Only Rock and Roll

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.

1983-02-25T00:00:00Z

3x12 Desperado

3x12 Desperado

  • 1983-02-25T00:00:00Z1h

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.

Season Finale

1983-03-04T00:00:00Z

3x13 Vanity, Says the Preacher

Season Finale

3x13 Vanity, Says the Preacher

  • 1983-03-04T00:00:00Z1h

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.

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