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18 March 1981 (USA)
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Plot:
A teacher is asked to be a superhero using a special alien suit with powers he can barely understand or control. full summary
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Nominated for 4 Primetime Emmys.
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4 nominations
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Nathan Fillion Wants To Be The Greatest American Hero
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Good idea...series not pretentious......some spoilage.....don't cry.
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Cast
(Series Cast Summary - 5 of 71) | William Katt | ... | Ralph Hinkley / ... (44 episodes, 1981-1986) |
| Robert Culp | ... | Bill Maxwell (44 episodes, 1981-1986) |
| Connie Sellecca | ... | Pam Davidson / ... (40 episodes, 1981-1986) |
| Don Cervantes | ... | Paco Rodriguez (23 episodes, 1981-1983) |
| Faye Grant | ... | Rhonda Blake (22 episodes, 1981-1982) |
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60 min | USA:30 min (43 episodes)
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Connie Sellecca was rarely seen during the second season due to her real-life pregnancy.
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Bill Maxwell:
She may be your girlfriend but she's my counselor and nobody messes with her. That's it.
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Referenced in Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
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Believe It or Not
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THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO is the story of a average guy who gets handed the responsibility of being a superhero when his life is falling apart; he's getting a divorce, he doesn't have enough time to spend with his son, he's having girlfriend problems, he has problems on the job, and he has a FBI agent who wants to use his new found powers to fight commies. This is a great premise and actually, the pilot was not that bad. ROBERT CULP is Bill Maxwell, a tough as nails, "so patriotic he can't see straight" FBI agent who sets out to avenge his partners death. WILLIAM KATT is a school teacher who takes a wrong turn in the desert and both he and Maxwell stumble onto these aliens and Maxwell's dead partner who give him a alien supersuit to fight crime. The problem is the teacher looses the instruction book in the desert and can't figure out the suit's basic functions. (ie. he keeps slamming into buildings as he trys to fly.) The series was a semi spoof on SUPERMAN, with a down to earth twist. The show never took itself too seriously and was for the most part well done up until the last season.....things lagged on that one. The series was the brainchild of STEPHEN J. CANNELL...a LA tv tychoon who suffers from dyslexia, yet, has managed to be a force to be reckoned with in hollywood. I hear his pitch sessions are incredible.