The Greatest American Hero - Season 1, Episode 6 - My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys - Full Episode
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- 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.
There's a much bigger message here than entertainment and very good acting. The Lone Ranger, and others, were the benchmark for a generation. They taught us right from wrong. that honor and right were the guideposts for our lives. We believed them then, and I believe them now.
there's much more here than meets the eye. 40 years ago, this production team really captured something - and the ending was so well done. To those of us of a 'certain age', these were our heroes who taught us right from wrong and "... I grew up on this guy ..." reverberates throughout the years.
@@martydixon647 YES!!!!
There was something else to the show in general. Teachers like "Ralph" weren't well respected at the time, but they were heroes too.
Looking back on this series, I’m finding it very wholesome. Both the storylines and the interactions between the main characters.
Well said
"I grew up on this guy" many of us did and our lives were better because of him and what he taught us all. Greatest episode ever.
As a child I never fully appreciated the depth of the story. These are so well written compared to the way things have been written from the 1990s onward.
Some of the same writers from Rockford Files! Legends in the business.
Robert Culp was a writer
I agree with you. I'm watching the show now at age 52 and the storylines seem much deeper than when I originally watch the show was on its original run in the 80s. I've also discovered how much I like the the barbs between Bill and Pam and the fact that she demands respect from him and how much he's stuck in the "old way of thinking" (sexist).
Bill Maxwell was the character that really made this show. Robert Culp played him brilliantly. So cool. The perfect fed and Ralph's pushy, but likeable buddy.
now the FBI is a total joke.
He was the most talented actor on set. That really says something Because all of them are better than what I see today.
Yeah your right nobody can replace robert culp and william and also connie selleca they are the best.
I got to meet William Katt a few years ago at Wondercon in San Francisco. I was selling there and he came to my booth. He talked to my business partner and I for 20 minutes to a half hour. It was Easter Sunday and all three of us were in a little bit of trouble with our wives for working on Easter. We just talked about life and had a few laughs, not sure we even talked much about this show. Ralph H. was one of my Lone Rangers when I was a kid. He is such a great guy. Sometimes it works out when you meet your heroes.
I used to love this show and I even still sing the theme song to my grandkids when they can't sleep... Its just as good as "Soft Kitty" to them...and it makes me happy!
Every time he screams, I can't stop 🤣😂🤣😂.
😂 yup
"Ahhhhhhhhh!"
"What? I'm not reading that'
"AAHHHHHH!:
🤣
I can't stop cursing, because he's ruining the enjoyment of some great music from the era.
"Darn."
I think Ralphs' landings are the best!
There is always the human factor to consider - it's great to see a super hero who doesn't fly all that well.
Yes, he doesn't do anything all that well; & yet, he does it, nonetheless.
This episode was special to me as the shopping center The class was brought to see the lone ranger was the Sears parking lot in Riverside California.I lived two blocks from the place. TV production was often shot there as it had a huge empty parking lot due to a strip mall project that fell though. The large empty space near a fairly new store with auto center, and a block wall on the other side to prevent on lookers from being in the scene became a favorite for location scouts.
Great show, good humour and doesn't take itself too serious while still trying to deliver social messages.
The star is of course Robert Culp.
Actually he's the co-star
@@user-cs6up8eq7sthat's not the way he meant it asswipe.
Yeah, except for certain older co-stars, Culp was the most accomplished actor. He is definitely missed. Killedby a damn fall while walking. It's a shame. When I was REAL young, before this show, he was often in weird science fiction TV movies. He had a likeable presence, kinda like James Garner.
Im only 37 and i enjoy watching these classics. Great song as well.
I miss Bob Culp- he used to be everywhere on TV starting with I Spy!
If a man can believe in something bigger then him self then he can do something bigger then him self.
*himself. x 2
I so loved this show back then and love it even more now. You have to give credit to the stunt man who took all the falls for Ralf👍
This is the episode with "The Lone Ranger" and Silver on it!!!!!!! The one i remember the most from the 80's!!!!!!!!
First episode they had Connie's hair and makeup perfect. This episode she was as beautiful as any lady in the 80s
Wasn't she also mrs Gil Gerard's wife at one time.
@@johnfic4751 Yes from Buck Rodgers then John Tesh from Entertainment Tonight.
She went on to greater things.....
Shampoo and Zip Lock commercials
I think she looks gorgeous in all the episodes. It's also good to see a beautiful woman who's classy, doesn't think she has to (or wants to) go around half naked or in skin tight clothes, or both. I wish class would come back 'in style'.
@@bailey9r She married Tesh in the '90's and they're still married now...she also still looks beautiful, classy, and hasn't overdone plastic surgery and botox/filler injections like so many others have. The "good old days"!😉
This was a good episode. I'm like Ralph I watched the long ranger and superman and batman in reruns. A different time more idealistic but a simpler time. Now we're more pessimistic.
You mean you too walk into walls and things? ;
Robert Culp drew either drew or made notes as to what Maxwell's apartment would look like, including the murphy bed. Crew saw it and they made it look exactly like he pictured.
Sad Even Back Stabbing Robert CULP Turned his Back on Good Buddy '' BiLL-Cosby '' Damn Shame ... !!! ??? ...
@@PedalToTheMetal61888 Robert Culp died in 2010.
@@robert_bbiii Whaaattttt My Condolences P.S. ''round Same TIME My Dear OLd Dad Passed Away ...he was ( 90 )
I miss this show so much!!, Please show more episodes!!!😁😁😁
The whole series is on UA-cam there's only 43 episodes it only lasted three seasons and the first season only had eight episodes for some reason
I watched this as a kid.. maybe why im a lawyer n special ed teacher but loved it all over again... great tv not gona be like this ever again!
I grew up on THIS guy (Ralph!!!!)
Please don't ruin it for us! your privet lives are your own Biz. LOL
@@bailey9rSPOILER (the instruction book is in the DESERT!)
@@bailey9r, *private
If you're a William Katt fan then you should watch (2007) The Man From Earth. He has a small role but he is in it.
or the 1986 move House. a great horror flick and he is great in it
I grew up with Clayton Moore being the Lone Ranger.
i didn't see the john hart lone ranger episodes until the 1990's - originally they weren't shown in my country i think.
John Hart was the original Lone Ranger on tv.
"This system stinks."
"Yeah, we know."
"Well, I don't want it any more."
--moral of the story. The system needs good people to maintain it even if they lose some money while correcting it.
20 years later the system still stinks.
@@dragnet53 Yup, sitll protecting bad cops.
Sucks that they couldn't play the original ending song "My heroes have always been cowboys".
This show has aged well.
Most of the special efforts are still amazingly good considering it was 45 years ago!
I know I've watched every episode but I only remember just a little. That is why i'm rewatching them. Too bad we never got to see all the powers the suit had.
There was a purpose in losing the instructions. That way we (the audience) couldn't know his powers. This made it easier for the writers to pull out a new power whenever they wanted to.
@@joelellis7035 very clever observation
@@ShaunHensleyqqqqq
For a police captain, this police captain is remarkably skilled at making himself look as suspicious as possible.
I grew up on this guy
11:26 You can see that disheartening reaction in his face. His former captain and his hero is embittered by the process and is not only contemplating quitting, but also going to the other side. Great performance. Very subtle.
I always loved the Lone Ranger... and Roy Rogers
Can someone tell me how this episode ends? I got about halfway through, and my reception messed up and it was over before I got the antenna fixed. :)
Came out putty good
Lone Ranger rides off into the sunset.
Hahaha, I get it XD
😅🤣😂
Bill Maxwell throws in with the diamond thieves, then lives out his days in argentina on mint juleps
Tracey: My cops go down for excessive force, guys walk on technicalities.
Yeah, that means you're running a crappy department
Yea, he acts like his cops getting charged for doing bad things is the problem when it's them doing bad things that is. As much as I'm enjoying this series the hard line pro cop attitude sometimes makes me cringe.
One of the several great episodes of the series...even though here they replaced the title song at the end which diminished it some. This show had some top notch writers.
I think 70s kids were really the last generation to see Lone Ranger reruns on Saturday. They went even before the Saturday cartoons were killed off. Everything was perfect for 70s kids! People of all ages were so much happier.
in my country they were still running on network tv in 1989 and i think into 1990.
@@mrgobrien that sounds right. In America, infomercials replaced kids stuff on Saturdays.
"I grew up on this guy." For me that applies to this guy in the funny longjohns lol. It was Ralph, Superman, Batman, and especially Spider-Man that moulded me into the person I am now.
It’s a spin out watching this show now when he going on about a cool show that he grew up on and it’s the same for me watching this show again after growing up watching this show as a kid . Talk about speaking through time .
Inthe first episode Ralph flew with a large search lamp. Some how he was able to fly straight and not crash. He should have kept it. Awkward yes but it stabilized his flight.
Believe it or not they sell t-shirts for this show online.. And I proudly wear mine.... it's definitely a secret superhero because only gen-xers know who this this super hero even is😂😂😂
I'm beginning to think Bruce Campbell is a Robert Culp impersonator.
I love this show it funny and I love theme song. William Katt his a good actor and cute.😍🎥😂
I know the show was billed as a comedy, but it did have its dramatic moments.
Actor Robert culp RIP 1930- 2012🙏🏻
At 46 minutes and somewhere around 10 seconds into this video, the flu shot is mentioned. I thought to myself there was no such thing. But I learned a new thing today. The first flu shot was developed in 1938. Most fascinating.
46:40 it is mentioned.
Mike Post.
We love you'r T.v. music .
The only superhero that doesn't have a name.. Because really, if you can both put on the suit and figure out to operate the suit without instructions then you become the superhero
When Ralph is tying up the bad guys by running around them with a rope, the number of the loops of rope varies between shots.
I have season 1 and 2 on dvd still looking for the 3rd one. I want that suit.
I want the Suit ( with instructions ) with a customized Flux Capacitor infused in the Symbol
@@pyrodiscoflash6115😂😂😂
United States of America was different then. Don’t just watch the show, unless, of course, you’ve never seen it before. But for those that grew up on the show, remember the way it was. Rebuild in your mind. The picture of hope. Visualize that picture. Manifest that picture. It is imperative. It will be needed in the future to come. Never give up. Never yield. Never quit. Never stop. Never give in. Never surrender. Always hope for a better day. That day, where we can all look at each other with love.
Better to rebuild from the ashes. Young men don’t have families to provide for and the young women are unworthy of investment.
It’s coming down
@@ShaunHensley You might not be able to rebuild the same way you were before China and whatever other superpowers that come to be to replace the USA might keep their foot on the USA to hold it down the way the USA has done to other countries.
@@linsqopiring6816 That may very well be the case
Heroes inspire us all!
I came across the theme tune and checked the first episode out now I'm hooked I wished I watched it the first time round x
Greatest American Hero.. hey I grew up on this guy...
I grew up in the 80s UK... never heard of this
It was only on for three years and then they suddenly took it off the air and it was never seen again.... no reruns no excuses no nothing... they did that to a lot of television shows back in the 80s period. The idiots running the television networks we're only in it for profit. And there are a lot of television shows that suddenly disappeared without an ending or an excuse
Here it is, all these years later, with lawmen complaining about crooks being let go, the police have their hands tied. Looks like it's been this way for a long time.
Yes it has, the cops are the worst criminals still.
I Love, Connie Selleca and Faye Grant
"Adios Kemosabe!"
Man.. the guy I grew up on grew up on this guy..
Lone Ranger said hi-ho silver! But now he says hi-yo silver.
Ralph's cape was red but now it's black.
Mandela Effects.
The cape was always black
The school van side doors are already open when Ralph and the students walk back to it after seeing the Lone Ranger. They had been closed when they parked and walked away from it earlier.
I watched this more for the great theme song and the principal actors than for the episode plots. Katt, Culp and Sellecca could make any episode good. We only see Ralph's son in a few early episodes, might've been nice to have some more father and son time.
I forgot that Ralph had a son!
@@ATMyles, so did the writers.
@@annehajdu8654 ha!
25:04 i'm going to bet that he lied about them hitting the ignition just to get Ralph more incentive
The Punisher is the modern-day Lone Ranger
They had the first hand cell phone communicator back then.
The first handheld mobile phone was demonstrated by Martin Cooper of Motorola in New York City in 1973
@@johnbernstein7887 Did it have google apps on it?
My favorite episode! 👍
classic gonzo television. season starting to hit its stride now
Watching on August 28th 2023
32:17 best line in the episode. smartass bill
This show is like welcome back kottor meets superman and Ispy.
But far, way & so much BETTER okay.
I always thought Clayton Moore was the better of the two. But John Hart played his part well here.
Pam is a pretty women
THANK YOU FOR SHARING
They never wear seatbelts.
Right, most people didn't wear seatbelts back then. And many cars didn't have seatbelts in the rear seats until the late 80s. You may be surprised but even today, there are no seatbelts in school buses. That is pretty shocking for 2020. I remember even arguing with my wife, almost 20 years ago, to wear the seatbelt so even 20 years ago it was very common not to wear them.
It's before seatbelt laws.
Yep, we never did. Wasn’t until the late 80s early 90s that it started getting pushed
Apparently, Hart replaced Clayton Moore for only one season of The Lone Ranger, because of a salary dispute. I don't remember him at all. 🤔
He ratted his mate out, naughty lol
Today's movie badguys would shoot first and make small talk later.
Does anyone else notice the uncanny resemblance between William Katt and Peter Dinklage ?
28:05 Wow, that was the exact line Ken Stafford told James Garner in Rockford Files ' Hawaiian Headache, 1980.
such a great episode.
This one is one of the best.
Stop your bro's from finin'-up.
All the time. man...
09:30-11:00 You would put your Mother on for a gag... Cannot help but hear this come from Culp more than Bill.
Life becomes hell when you are the only one left and cannot figure out what it was that made the change.
It was a mistake to write Ralph's son Kevin out of the series. He was even mentioned again, or even Ralph saying he was a parent. It would have been interesting if Kevin found out about the suit further, if because he's Ralphs kid, the suit would respond to him because of a genetic connection.
TV antenna massacre’n
My heroes have killed cowboys.
POWERFUL
john hart played the lone ranger in season 3...so you grew up on this guy in sea. 3...maybe he meant the lone ranger in general
42:40 Good old El Camino!
I don't like or understand this modern world ; I choose to live in the past ; the world I knew ; the world I understand - I invite you to join me
song at end of this episode
So Ralph is a complicated hero like Spider-man lol
In so many ways, YES , he was okay @mws755.
The Geezer freezer . Gotta love it
The lone ranger is based the adventures of bass reeves, an African american
Grown up watching American greatest hero and the lone ranger
When Ralph is flying after the brown sedan, the backgrounds don't match up with where he crash lands. While he's flying the background is of a busy multi-laned city street, but then he is shown landing on a quiet residential street. He takes off again and they show the busy street under him, but then the scene cuts to an empty desert landscape where he crashes again.
I know I should just hush... but why don’t you monetize these? You could make a few bucks on them from the ads we poor schmucks have to endure. 😎
You do work for free? Ads are better than subscriptions.
@@hoboonwheels9289 Yup, I don't mind ads for good quality content.
Yeah, this is not just a comedy. The tag that youtube has on it is 'dramedy.' I guess that's right. This is actually deep. Today's shows are garbage compared to this. Everything about this feels real and believable.
Maxwell describes the getaway car in the opening scene as a tan sedan when he radios Ralph., but it is a dark brown color. In the next scene when Ralph crashes into a tree next to a cop, he tells him they need help catching a brown sedan.. He couldn't know the sedan was brown since he never saw it and Maxwell told him it was tan.
Roy Rogers rides tonight.
Does anybody know the name to the closing song at the end of this episode.
Just a replacement song... The original song that was covered was My Heroes have Always Been Cowboys... The song was replaced with a junk filler because of music rights.....
@@keepingitreal71 Thank you for the info. I appreciate it
@41;37 - Really?