EPISODE
SEASON
The Greatest American Hero - Season 1
A teacher is asked to be a superhero using a special alien suit with powers he can barely understand or control.
26 July 1943
25 January 1936, New York City, New York, USA
25 May 1939, McLemoresville, Tennessee, USA
1973, Flushing, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
15 July 1952, Azusa, California, USA
July 17, 2018
The scripts range from clever to mediocre, but Katt has a winning presence and he and Culp make good foils.
July 10, 2018
Given its relatively mild content and the intriguing characters at its heart, this series is a fun escape from today's heavier dramas.
July 18, 2018
The Emmy-nominated two-hour pilot is a fantastic start to the series, focusing tightly on the relationships between the bickering characters and walking a very fine line between the absurd situation and a reasonably realistic world.
July 18, 2018
Hero's greatest asset is Culp. While Katt is energetic and charismatic as hell, and Sellecca proves to be an excellent comic actress and foil for the boys, Culp shines as the gung-ho uberpatriot.
July 31, 2019
You could do worse than the big-hearted, off-the-wall comedy drama of The Greatest American Hero... The feature-length pilot still works fine as a slightly weird standalone movie.
July 10, 2018
One of the more inspired successes from prolific producer Stephen J. Cannell.
July 18, 2018
Spacemen give schoolteacher William Katt a suit that endows him with superhuman powers... Thereafter Katt, girlfriend Connie Sellecca and FBI agent buddy Robert Culp sputter as often as they soar in this late-season replacement series.
July 17, 2018
GAH tweaks the superhero genre with an ironic wink but stops just shy of kitsch; there are actually genuine moments of dramatic tension along with the slapstick humor of Katt inevitably crash-landing into a wall, shrub, or Culp.
April 17, 2020
This William Katt/Robert Culp everyman superhero comedy wasn't the most polished television show of the 1980s, but it had a nice spirit to it.
July 17, 2018
This is not merely a variation on ''Mork & Mindy.'' It has a devilish little mind of its own.