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Greatest American Hero on ABC

1981, TV Show

Episode Detail: Greatest American Hero - Greatest American Hero

Debut: Hinkley and Maxwell (William Katt, Robert Culp) become an inept crime-fighting team after receiving a superhero suit and promptly losing the instruction booklet. Connie Sellecca, Michael Pare.

Episodes: Greatest American Hero - Greatest American Hero - 46 total Episodes

Operation Spoilsport
The Good Samaritan
Pilot Episode
Divorce Venusian Style
The Newlywed Game
The Best Desk Scenario
Space Ranger
A Chicken in Every Plot
The Handpainted Thai
Wizards and Warlocks
Now You See It
Live at Eleven
The Beast in Black
Desperado
Greatest American Hero
The 200 MPH Fastball
The Lost Diablo
Who's Woo in America
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
Dreams
It's All Downhill from Here
Plague
Fireman
Lilacs, Mr. Maxwell
A Train of Thought
Reseda Rose
There's Just No Accounting...
Here's Lookin' at You Kid
The Greatest American Heroine
The Price Is Right
Vanity, Says the Preacher
The Resurrection of Carlini
Heaven Is in Your Genes
The Hit Car
30 Seconds over Little Tokyo
Hog Wild
Saturday on Sunset Boulevard
Don't Mess Around with Jim
It's Only Rock and Roll
Just Another Three Ring Circus
Captain Bellybuster and the Speed Factory
Classical Gas
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
This Is the One the Suit Was Meant For
The Shock Will Kill You
Greatest American Hero

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Premiered: March 18, 1981, on ABC

Rating: None

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Premise: Superhero spoof about an inept crimefighter with superpowers given to him by aliens. Trouble is, he lost the instruction manual. The show wasn't a hit, but the theme song, `The Greatest American Hero (Believe It or Not),' was. Stephen J. Cannell (`The A-Team') produced.

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