The Greatest American Hero
Season 2
198122 episodes
Episode 1
The Two-Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Fastball
Nov 4, 19811h
TMDB rating 6.3TMDB
Ralph dons a baseball suit to trap Latino revolutionaries who plan to finance a coup by fixing ball games.
Episode 2
Operation Spoilsport
Nov 11, 19811h
TMDB rating 8.3TMDB
Ralph and Bill must stop World War III by defusing a corrupt military leader's plans to launch a suprise missile attack against Russia.
Episode 3
Don't Mess Around with Jim
Nov 18, 19811h
TMDB rating 7.0TMDB
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.
Episode 4
Hog Wild
Nov 25, 19811h
TMDB rating 6.3TMDB
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.
Episode 5
Classical Gas
Dec 2, 19811h
TMDB rating 6.3TMDB
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.
Episode 6
The Beast in the Black
Dec 9, 19811h
TMDB rating 7.0TMDB
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.
Episode 7
The Lost Diablo
Dec 16, 19811h
TMDB rating 5.0TMDB
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.
Episode 8
Plague
Jan 6, 19821h
TMDB rating 7.0TMDB
A psycho military cult leader tries to spread the small-pox virus.
Episode 9
A Train of Thought
Jan 13, 19821h
TMDB rating 7.0TMDB
Ralph crashes head first into a train, and gets amnesia. Pam and Bill have to convince him that the suit really works.
Episode 10
Now You See It...
Jan 20, 19821h
TMDB rating 6.0TMDB
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.
Episode 11
The Handpainted Thai
Jan 27, 19821h
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.
Episode 12
Just Another Three Ring Circus
Feb 3, 19821h
TMDB rating 7.0TMDB
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.
Episode 13
The Shock Will Kill You
Feb 10, 19821h
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.
Episode 14
A Chicken in Every Plot
Feb 17, 19821h
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.
Episode 15
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Feb 24, 19821h
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.
Episode 16
It's All Downhill from Here
Mar 3, 19821h
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.
Episode 17
Dreams
Mar 17, 19821h
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.
Episode 18
There's Just No Accounting...
Mar 24, 19821h
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?
Episode 19
The Good Samaritan
Mar 31, 19821h
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.
Episode 20
Captain Bellybuster and the Speed Factory
Apr 7, 19821h
Bill recieves hot tips on a speed factory working out of a fast food chain, and a newspaper reporter publishes pictures of Ralph flying.
Episode 21
Who's Woo in America
Apr 14, 19821h
Ralph's mother is re-marrying to a man who planted a much wanted micro-chip in her engagement ring.
Episode 22
Lilacs, Mr. Maxwell
Apr 28, 19821h
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.