 "The Season That Bit The Dust" | 2009-09-20 |
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This 1982-83 Season was the season when ABC had moved THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO from Wednesday nights to Friday nights as well as the season when the ratings went downhill and this show bit the dust all of the sudden, especially when the premiere of newer more popular shows like KNIGHT RIDER and THE A-TEAM led to THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO's cancellation by the Summer of 1983 when Ralph Hinkley(Bill Katt)ran out of steam.
This season also takes me all the way back to memory lane to when we had all those fiscal budget cuts going on from the recession we had back in 1981-1982 when Ronald Reagan was our president and back to my childhood days to when I was living in the Imperial Valley at the time in my hometown(El Centro,CA) and was 10 years old in the 4th grade at Rockwood Elementry School in Calexico, CA back then. |
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 "Great series" | 2009-09-15 |
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| This series was as good as I remembered it to be .Very entertaining .After viewing we ordered the next 2 seasons . |
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| "This is most anticipated in season one. William Katt, Connie Sellecca, and Robert Culp are wonderful!!!" | 2009-08-28 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3093X1KMWI5MI |
| I like the pilot episode when Ralph Hinkley, the high school special education teacher of Whitney High, has been delivered the red suit by the green guys' spaceship. He loses Instruction Manual Book in the dessert. In the episode 2 of Season One of The Greatest American Hero, Ralph and Pam are setting up the high school play in Whitney High, and Johnny Damani, the car gun, has been chased by his ex-girlfriend, Scarlett Wilde. In the episode 4 of Season One of The Greatest American Hero, Ralph, Pam, and the special education students are helping Bill Maxwell to search for the missing of the Russian Guy, Sergei Bolankov, and his Italian wife, Marissa. In the episode 6 of Season One of The Greatest American Hero, Ralph has been identifying the Cowboy childhood, John Hart. In the episode 7 of Season One of The Greatest American Hero, One of the Ralph's students, Tony Villacana (Michael Pare)has been arrested and he was playing the fire at the Cameron Auto Shop. In the episode 8 of Season One of The Greatest American Hero, Ralph Hinkley (Hanley)has become the vice-principal of Whitney High. Pam Davidson has become the junior law firm partner, and she was being kidnapped by Clarence Carter. This is the most 80s television show. |
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| "This is great. William Katt, Connnie Sellecca, and Robert Culp are doing great" | 2009-08-28 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3093X1KMWI5MI |
| Connie Sellecca missed the four episodes of Season two of The Greatest American Hero due to her pregnancy, but she did the telephone scene of calling Ralph Hinkley in the first two episodes of The Greatest American Hero. Ralph Hinkley was joined the California Stars of the Major League Baseball tryout team, and he was guest appearance on Mike Dougalas Show. In the episode 14 of Season two of The Greatest American Hero, Ralph, Pam, and Bill are saved the Voodoo black people in St. Pierre Islands. Ralph was suffered the space shuttle accident, charging the electricity, and being magnetized in the episode 13 of Season two of The Greatest American Hero. In the episode 6 of The Season two of The Greatest American Hero,"The Beast in Black," Shiela Redman's body has been found into the ghost and Bill Maxwell has been connected to her ghost and turn into the woman's voice, and Ralph has been helped him to protect him. His red suit can't function him. In the episode 20 of The Greatest American Hero, Ralph has teamed up the hamburger helper who owned the fast food restaurant called "Captain Bellybuster." In the episode 21 of Season two of The Greatest American Hero, Ralph has been reunited with his mother, Paula Hinkley (Barbara Hale), who has been married in those years, Phillip Kabala. This Second Season of the Greatest American Hero is the most incredible. I love the love scene at the end of episode 10 of Season two of The Greatest American Hero where Ralph and Pam are falling in love and sitting in the fire place. THIS IS AMAZING!!!! |
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| "This third season of The Greatest American Hero is fun. Bill Katt is a nice guy." | 2009-08-28 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3093X1KMWI5MI |
| He is wearing the red jammies. In the first episode of Season three "Divorce Vensenuim Style," Ralph got wounded and he was rushed to the spaceship. In the second episode, he was wearing the Price Cobb's pink dress, Pam and Bill got yell. In the third episode, Ralph and Pam got engaged, and he was married in the fifth episode for the wedding. Ralph save the magician in the fourth episode. This is incredible. |
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 "GAH - S1" | 2009-07-15 |
| - Reviewed By User: A39EXH9JJAI80R |
Season One:
You get four discs. On the first disk is the original
premiere episode. The fourth disk contains the
premiere of 'The Greatest American Heroine' which
was cancelled.
I would have preferred a cross-section of episodes
containing both Pilots, on one disk, because frankly
not all the episodes were that entertaining. But a
child might have a different opinion.
Nevertheless, the very first episode, The Pilot, for
'The Greatest American Hero', is the best of the lot,
I think. And it also won an Emmy, or Golden Globe,
or some other award "they" give TV shows of
outstanding quality. The Pilot is contained on Disc 1,
along with two other episodes, 'The Hit Car', and
'Here's Looking at You Kid', in which he develops
"invisibility" as a power.
This seems strange to me, because I think he only
developed the ability to become invisible halfway
through the entire series, and not in the third episode of
the TV show. Wherefore, I suspect a lot of episodes did
not even make it into the complete collection, or are in
the wrong order.
4 discs with about 3 episodes each: Is that all there is
in a single TV season???
The premiere episode is the best of the entire series.
Missing is the song, Rocket Man, by Elton John which
was used in one of the flight sequences. EJ sounded
different, had a more pleasant voice, during the early
years. Anyway, the song totally fit that flight sequence
as I remember it, since it closed the film, as he tries to
save the President's life. It is difficult now not to think of
this show, everytime that song comes on a radio. Music,
the way it scores (marks) movies, pictures, moments, is
interesting. Not sure if that is always good though, but
that is how the human brain appears to work. You hear
a song, you remember a dance, or an event like a
wedding.
I had forgotten the title of the first episode: The Pilot was
titled, 'Jesus Loves You'.
That would explain why they are met in the desert by the
resurrected body of Bill's ex-partner, who was shot by
neo-nazis. Maybe angels actually look like "little green
guys", and Michaelangelo was "way off target"?
The premier episode of the Greatest American Heroine
(who is like a hippie) was not as good as the Pilot, but
still entertaining. It had promise, but the show was
cancelled. It would have been interesting to see the
chemistry develop between her and Agent Maxwell who
liked to say things like, "A woman is not cut out for field
work. Hormones, I think. That is why they do coffee, and
other important stuff. No offense, but that's just how
omelettes are made". Maxwell-speak was one of the
things that made the show fascinating to watch, and listen
to. He could say things without using curse words, and
still manage to make others around him angry...When she
first meets Maxwell, she lands on top of him. She has
difficulty flying too, it seems.
In the original pilot, he is fighting for custody for his son.
His ex-wife is a super-model. And then those pictures
surface of him in the suit, and his new girlfriend who
greets him at the "loonie bin" is not too hopeful for his
chances at winning custody. She is also his lawyer.
The scene at the gas station where he first decides to fly,
in order to make it to court on time, is one of the most
funniest things I have ever seen on television, ever. It
should not be humorous, but it is, this child approaching
a stranger who is dressed oddly, to help give him
directions on how to fly. "You're doing it wrong...You have
to take three steps, and then jump". I think I was in grade
school when that episode aired. The lesson here was
obvious enough: You should not judge others on the
basis of how they look. A goth, or a prep, but what is
under the surface, who can tell? Of all the episodes, my
favourite moment is maybe still that scene where that
male nurse goes flying by the door, at the psychiatric
hospital, after he realizes he has super strength, and no
longer has to accept being there. Submit, means "be
willing to consider orders", and not "you MUST obey those
in authority over you". |
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