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The Best Desk Scenario

S1 : E9

TV-14 | 50 min | Aired: 05.13.81

Ralph revs up his unpredictable super powers, racing to Pam's rescue when her promotion to junior law partner becomes a death sentence.

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A teacher is asked to be a superhero using a special alien suit with powers he can barely understand or control.

CAST

William Katt, Connie Sellecca, Robert Culp

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

Stephen J. Cannell

full-episodes (8)

The Greatest American Hero, Pt. 1 & 2

S1 : E1 | TV-14 | 96 min | Aired: 03.18.81

In this extended pilot, Ralph, a high school teacher and Bill, an FBI agent, have an encounter in the desert with aliens who give them a mission and a red suit with amazing powers.
The Hit Car

S1 : E3 | TV-14 | 50 min | Aired: 03.25.81

Ralph works with Bill to dodge professional killers while transporting a beautiful and flirtatious FBI informant to testify against her drug-dealing mobster boyfriend.
Here's Looking at You, Kid

S1 : E4 | TV-14 | 50 min | Aired: 04.01.81

A call to defend his country’s national security thwarts Ralph Hinkley’s plans to spend time with his girlfriend’s parents, who are visiting from Minnesota.
Saturday Night on Sunset Boulevard

S1 : E5 | TV-14 | 50 min | Aired: 04.08.81

Maxwell and Hinkley are in the midst of international affairs that could gravely affect the world.
Reseda Rose

S1 : E6 | TV-14 | 50 min | Aired: 04.15.81

Ralph and Bill try to unravel a case involving secret military plans, a Russian submarine and the kidnapping of Rhonda's mother.
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys

S1 : E7 | TV-14 | 50 min | Aired: 04.29.81

Ralph retires the suit after his super-heroics result in a near-tragedy. But Maxwell enlists his help to prevent a wartime buddy — now a jaded cop — from turning crooked.
Fire Man

S1 : E8 | TV-14 | 50 min | Aired: 05.06.81

When one of his students is suspected of arson, Ralph enlists the help of Pam and Maxwell to prove the boy's innocence.
The Best Desk Scenario

S1 : E9 | TV-14 | 50 min | Aired: 05.13.81

Ralph revs up his unpredictable super powers, racing to Pam's rescue when her promotion to junior law partner becomes a death sentence.
The Two-Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Fast Ball

S2 : E1 | TV-14 | 50 min | Aired: 11.04.81

When America's national pastime and national security are endangered, Maxwell sends Hinkley to the major leagues to become baseball's hottest overnight sensation.
Operation Spoilsport

S2 : E2 | TV-14 | 50 min | Aired: 11.11.81

When an automatic missile system goes haywire at the hands of a general, Ralph and Bill are summoned by the aliens to halt the explosive start of World War III.
Don't Mess Around with Jim

S2 : E3 | TV-14 | 50 min | Aired: 11.18.81

Ralph and Bill are kidnapped by a tycoon who fakes his own death and seems to know more about the suit than they do.
Hog Wild

S2 : E4 | TV-14 | 50 min | Aired: 11.25.81

Ralph tries to save himself and a town from a rampaging motorcycle gang.
Classical Gas

S2 : E5 | TV-14 | 50 min | Aired: 12.02.81

Ralph and Pam help his students rehearse their rock band for a show, not realizing the promoter plans to release nerve gas into the audience.
The Beast in the Black

S2 : E6 | TV-14 | 50 min | Aired: 12.09.81

Will Ralph's suit protect Bill from a real estate agent — or his ghost?
The Lost Diablo

S2 : E7 | TV-14 | 50 min | Aired: 12.16.81

A class field trip turns into a nightmare for Ralph and Bill when they are trapped in more ways than one while searching for a lost gold mine.
Plague

S2 : E8 | TV-14 | 50 min | Aired: 01.06.82

Ralph and Bill must save mankind from a deadly plague virus that a fanatical right-wing military group hopes to unleash on an unsuspecting world.
Train of Thought

S2 : E9 | TV-14 | 50 min | Aired: 01.13.82

Ralph suffers amnesia after being knocked out while trying to stop a hijacked train.
Now You See It

S2 : E10 | TV-14 | 50 min | Aired: 01.20.82

Ralph is able to see two hours into the future — at which time Pam's plane will crash.
The Hand-Painted Thai

S2 : E11 | TV-14 | 50 min | Aired: 01.27.82

Bill and Ralph uncover a plot to destroy the Western world when a band of hypnotized ex-war prisoners are drawn into service by the sinister General Vin Chow.
Just Another Three-Ring Circus

S2 : E12 | TV-14 | 50 min | Aired: 02.03.82

Ralph becomes a human cannonball to investigate the disappearance of a Polish clown.
The Shock Will Kill You

S2 : E13 | TV-14 | 50 min | Aired: 02.10.82

While rescuing a stricken space shuttle, Ralph becomes hyper-magnetized and sticks to all things metal.
A Chicken in Every Plot

S2 : E14 | TV-14 | 50 min | Aired: 02.17.82

Ralph, Pam and Bill find out how the suit will do against voodoo when they find themselves pitted against the evil president of a small island country in the West Indies.
The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

S2 : E15 | TV-14 | 49 min | Aired: 02.24.82

Ralph and Bill hunt for a sea creature in the Bermuda Triangle, thinking that the monster may be responsible for all of the boats that disappear there.
It's All Downhill from Here

S2 : E16 | TV-14 | 50 min | Aired: 03.03.82

Hinkley and Pam's vacation turns serious when they call Bill to help a Czechoslovakian downhill racer and his girlfriend defect with secret information.
Dreams

S2 : E17 | TV-14 | 50 min | Aired: 03.17.82

When Ralph uses the suit to help his associates realize their dreams, it complicates all of their lives.
There's Just No Accounting...

S2 : E18 | TV-14 | 50 min | Aired: 03.24.82

Ralph's suit proves no match for the IRS when a satchel of money from a kidnapping turns up in Ralph's living room.
The Good Samaritan

S2 : E19 | TV-14 | 49 min | Aired: 03.31.82

Ralph's good deeds are complicated when two convicts escape and Bill thinks he's the target.
Captain Bellybuster and the Speed Factory

S2 : E20 | TV-14 | 50 min | Aired: 04.07.82

When a man who plays a superhero for a hamburger chain discovers that the stores are a front for drug dealers, he calls on Ralph for help.
Who's Woo in America

S2 : E21 | TV-14 | 48 min | Aired: 04.14.82

Ralph's mom is going to marry a con man who is smuggling a micro-chip that corrupt oilmen have killed for.
Lilacs, Mr. Maxwell

S2 : E22 | TV-14 | 50 min | Aired: 04.28.82

Ralph breaks into the FBI archives and helps Bill solve a number of cold cases. As a result, Bill becomes a hero and a target for a beautiful KGB assassin.
Divorce, Venusian Style

S3 : E1 | TV-14 | 49 min | Aired: 10.29.82

Ralph is critically wounded when he rescues Maxwell from a gang of neo-Nazis
The Price is Right

S3 : E2 | TV-14 | 48 min | Aired: 11.05.82

At a high school reunion, Ralph is reunited with an old friend who is now a famous quarterback.
This Is the One the Suit Was Meant For

S3 : E3 | TV-14 | 49 min | Aired: 11.12.82

Pam wants to break up with Ralph because he always puts the suit first. To ease tensions, Bill invites them to an island, but he really has other intentions for the trip.
The Resurrection of Carlini

S3 : E4 | TV-14 | 48 min | Aired: 11.19.82

A magician who was killed performing his greatest trick seems to return from the grave to murder his three rivals.
The Newlywed Game

S3 : E5 | TV-14 | 49 min | Aired: 11.26.82

On the way to Ralph's bachelor party, he and Bill are kidnapped and Ralph is persuaded to fly a mission for the president.
Heaven Is in Your Genes

S3 : E6 | TV-14 | 49 min | Aired: 12.03.82

Ralph must rescue Bill from a crazed scientist who wants to experiment on him and find out what makes him such a successful agent.
Live at Eleven

S3 : E7 | TV-14 | 49 min | Aired: 12.10.82

Ralph and Maxwell become embroiled in a bizarre scheme when a disgruntled news anchorman plots the terrorist takeover of a nuclear power plant to launch his political career.
Space Ranger

S3 : E8 | TV-14 | 48 min | Aired: 12.17.82

Ralph finds that his newest student is wanted by the CIA and KGB after tapping into a Soviet satellite.
Thirty Seconds Over Little Tokyo

S3 : E9 | TV-14 | 47 min | Aired: 01.07.83

Ralph and Bill find themselves trying to protect a Japanese inventor after a terrorist tries to kidnap him and steal his invention: a powerful laser weapon.
Wizards and Warlocks

S3 : E10 | TV-14 | 49 min | Aired: 01.14.83

It turns out a missing Middle Eastern prince is playing Wizards & Warlocks, and Ralph and Bill must unravel the mystery of the game to find him before potential kidnappers do.
It's Only Rock and Roll

S3 : E11 | TV-14 | 47 min | Aired: 01.21.83

Ralph and Bill find themselves protecting a rock star after an attempt has been made on his life.
Desperado

S3 : E12 | TV-14 | 48 min | Aired: 01.23.83

Ralph, Pam and Bill try to save a beautiful stallion from an obsessed rancher.
Vanity, Says the Preacher

S3 : E13 | TV-14 | 49 min | Aired: 02.04.83

Bill receives a prestigious award from a small South American country only to return there to re-live his past and future.

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