One of the Greatest American shows in 1980s 🇺🇸 America. Always Clean. Great Lessons in being a good human being. Thankyou for all of these shows. My grandchildren are watching them now.
@@Freshbrood After President Trump gets back into His rightful place and we throw out the fool and his socialist communist terrorist , list blm and antifa as terrorist groups , roundup all the drug cartel , child rapist and murders that have flooded our Country , Then we as a Nation can heal ! The sociopaths and sociopaths are in control now !
@@Freshbrood totally agree with your comment!...hopefully we will all remember the good thing's we had in life after the world tear's itself apart!...it's almost here right now
Even someone like me who doesn't know one car from another can appreciate the 80's style cars, even though I couldn't tell you what any of them are haha.
@@cellsdoni5968 don't think it's gonna be that long!....already freak's running around dressed like anything and everything they can think of!...i thought the 80's was weird with the punk style clothe's and hair!...now it's a pandemic, and it's worse every day
Hooray for Filmrise for Sharing This, Awesome 1980s Classic, with The Talented and Funny and Very Beautiful, Connie Selleca, as Pamela Davidson, Attorney At Law
This episode & The Best Desk Scenario are my favorite episodes of season one. Both were written by Stephen J Cannell (the creator) and Cannell & Juanita Bartlett. They also wrote the best Rockford Files episodes, too. I only wish Filmrise paid for the music rights because some of these episodes (not the two I noted) benefit greatly from Mike Post & Stephen Geyer's cover songs (especially the pilot).
You must be the same age as me then, wasn't it a great era to grow up in tv wise? These youtube classic shows reposted are like a time machine for memories for me.
If he would've just stopped flailing his arms (& legs) around & hold them out straight & even, he would be able to fly better. The controls were prob'ly in the cuffs, dependent on his movements. Flailing around is prob'ly what throws him around in all directions.
Had he not lost the instructions manual in first episode discovering the potentials of the suit would not be possible. If all he could do were revealed early in the series it would hamper story line development. As to the superman theory of flight that makes sense since superman is familiar. But how about if the cape were more involved in flight? Like a flying squirrel. This makes practical sense since the three step leap apparently provides the propulsion {unless farts are used for continuous flight).
@@garzhao5924 You know the smart thing to do is go back to the desert and find the instruction manual. He knows it is within a mile of where he took the kids. Should be an easy find especially with the suit.
@@kevinerose there is this thing called plot that seems to suck the common sense right out of characters. Not going back to the desert is one example, another is pulling a group of delinquent kids out of class to help an FBI agent, on administrative leave, find a couple of star crossed Russian defectors with a Soviet hit squad after them.
flying in the suit feels like your trying to balance a plate on top of a pencil its hard to aim even while maintaining the balance and altitude. Ralph is doing the best he can to remain in the air, aiming direction isn't even possible for him after that. the trick isn't in the cuffs or keeping your arms straight, its actually imagining pushing the ground behind you 2 places at a time, just like walking or running keeping 2 points consistently moving. Ralph the entire series has been hopping on one foot so to speak when it came to flying he could get it going and fall in the direction he wanted to go.
I'm just watching these after 30 or so years.... But I definitely remember the shtick that expressly stated that the suit had to be exposed to work. Even if its just a little bit exposed. This even comes into play in a few episodes as a gimmick. I mean.. who knows why. I just left it up to suspension of disbelief and had fun.... in much the same way I did with the entire show and its premise. lol
This is not a good show. But I can't stop watching Robert Culp play Bill Maxwell. He took a lot of not great writing and made it better than it could possibly be. Very entertaining.
When Ralph is flying up to the helicopter, in the longer shot there is a man in a brown jacket in the door, but when he grabs the runner Pam is at the door being held by the Russian agent.
Bill says everyone is polygraphed every 6 months, but polygraphs are administered as part of the hiring process and then every 5 years when their national security background investigation is updated assuming there has been nothing unusual or changing positions.
Ralph breaks into the FBI office to steal the case files. When he flies off and later crash lands, both his hands can be seen and he is not holding the files anywhere (he doesn't stuff them into his suit before taking off).
That's not how that conversation would have gone at 44:40. The chief would have said if you have them I order you to bring them in and if he didn't he'd be the new most wanted guy.
Oh! You are right! I knew he seemed familiar but I never realized that and Robocop is one of my favorite movies and the Greatest American Hero one of my favorite TV shows. Believe it or not I never realized it! :)
@31:20 easy to miss the intended humor of that "listening to the Beatles" remark directed at a teenager. Universal props were soon to come but in 1981 they were yet considered irrelevant has-beens to most youth.
I could sure understand where his kids are coming from... Things are shit at home and life on the outside... most people don't give a flying fuck weather we are dead or alive... Sometimes I feel like I don't count.....
@@annehajdu8654 Sometimes it is hard to do... I have Cerebral Palsy and most people treat me like I am stupid or that I should be dead.... Wish Ralph was real... He sure cared about the kids and their futures....
Believe it or not, George isn't at home Please leave a message at the beep I must be out, or I'd pick up the phone Where could I be? Believe it or not, I'm not home.
As a kid in the Eighties I didn't realize what an incoherent mess of a show this is but I realize it now. I don't even know where to begin. The leads constantly make irrational decisions, bicker, stonewall each other, and generally slide into and out of character for no reason other than the plot needs them too. The Bill Maxwell character in particular shows signs of Dissociative Identity Disorder. Straight-laced fed, but also a blabbering lunatic. Why hasn't Ralph tried to find the manual with his superpowers? Oh, because he's a whiny reluctant hero... Except with his delinquent schoolkids with whom he's a paragon of mentorship. Ralph can use the suit's powers with other clothes over it.... except for when the plot says he can't. It's the parade of stupid contrivances and inconsistencies like this that breaks the immersion and pulls me out of the story. I think a lot of what I'm pointing out was probably intended to convey humor but it comes together so poorly that all it arouses in me is frustration. I could keep going but I need to finish watching.
Not everything needs to be classified. There has been a recent trend in government to over-classify information. That is, to make some information "classified" because the administration doesn't want it to be discussed or released to the press because it may be embarrassing.
Ralph breaks into the FBI office to steal the case files. When he flies off and later crash lands, both his hands can be seen and he is not holding the files anywhere (he doesn't stuff them into his suit before taking off).
One of the Greatest American shows in 1980s 🇺🇸 America. Always Clean. Great Lessons in being a good human being. Thankyou for all of these shows. My grandchildren are watching them now.
If only we were still like this and not the deplorable greedy sociopathic exploitive capitalist nation we are today.
@@Freshbrood After President Trump gets back into His rightful place and we throw out the fool and his socialist communist terrorist , list blm and antifa as terrorist groups , roundup all the drug cartel , child rapist and murders that have flooded our Country , Then we as a Nation can heal !
The sociopaths and sociopaths are in control now !
@@Freshbrood totally agree with your comment!...hopefully we will all remember the good thing's we had in life after the world tear's itself apart!...it's almost here right now
@@Freshbrood Yea it's not like the USA ever did anything bad up to that point like slavery or nuking cities.
@@linsqopiring6816 The US was redeeming itself in the late 70's, then Reaganomics came and it was back to the same old..
Loved this show and I still love it to this day!
I was 8 year old when this first came on! Even my Parents loved it too! Never missed an episode!
Such a cool show .
I love watching all the older cars
Even someone like me who doesn't know one car from another can appreciate the 80's style cars, even though I couldn't tell you what any of them are haha.
Out of 4 episodes this one was the best so far. It was actually much better than all of them
I agree, we all are looking for meaning in our lives and society. Sometimes folks that we look up too are the best teachers.
This episode was written by creator Stephen J. Cannell. Most of the best episodes were written by him. He wrote the best Rockford Files episodes, too!
One of my favorites in the first 🥇 season.
I used to watch every episode of the Greatest American Hero
1980's viewers: "he sure looks silly in that suit"
2020's viewers: "he sure looks silly in that haircut"
The Flying Sequences, Look Great, Extra Stunt Work and Extra Cost, Everytime
2030's viewers: "Anyone who is NOT suited up is a freak!!"
@@cellsdoni5968 don't think it's gonna be that long!....already freak's running around dressed like anything and everything they can think of!...i thought the 80's was weird with the punk style clothe's and hair!...now it's a pandemic, and it's worse every day
lol the suit is pretty subdued compared to most lol
It's that hair...those '80's perms. Gotta get those gorgeous tight curls!😉
Hooray for Filmrise for Sharing This, Awesome 1980s Classic, with The Talented and Funny and Very Beautiful, Connie Selleca, as Pamela Davidson, Attorney At Law
silicas mom was played by June Lockhart, mom from Lost in Space, love it
And Lassie!
Loved this show then and love it now!!
Connie Selleca was stunningly gorgeous 😱
The Superman's parody is hilarious!
Do you mean the phone booth changing 🚼?
@@tonyarceneaux286 He gave a nod to superman when he looked at the phonebooth and said "never" lol.
Watching these bring back good memories! Thank you so much!
This episode & The Best Desk Scenario are my favorite episodes of season one. Both were written by Stephen J Cannell (the creator) and Cannell & Juanita Bartlett. They also wrote the best Rockford Files episodes, too. I only wish Filmrise paid for the music rights because some of these episodes (not the two I noted) benefit greatly from Mike Post & Stephen Geyer's cover songs (especially the pilot).
never watched this show when it was new, really liking it now
Good show, miss the 80's
❤love it so much when was a kid ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Only in the last few years I discovered that William Katt is the son of the late Barbara Hale from Perry Mason.
Ms. Hale was actually in a few episodes.
That's where he gets his good looks.
Watching on August 28th 2023
Thank You.
would of been good to have a teacher like Mr H. He was a great mentor to those kids
Brought back memories of my teenage days. Cheers!!
You must be the same age as me then, wasn't it a great era to grow up in tv wise? These youtube classic shows reposted are like a time machine for memories for me.
Still love its..
I remember this serial tv..since 1993
If he would've just stopped flailing his arms (& legs) around & hold them out straight & even, he would be able to fly better. The controls were prob'ly in the cuffs, dependent on his movements. Flailing around is prob'ly what throws him around in all directions.
Had he not lost the instructions manual in first episode discovering the potentials of the suit would not be possible. If all he could do were revealed early in the series it would hamper story line development. As to the superman theory of flight that makes sense since superman is familiar. But how about if the cape were more involved in flight? Like a flying squirrel. This makes practical sense since the three step leap apparently provides the propulsion {unless farts are used for continuous flight).
I mean... that's easy to SAY, but i'd just like you to you TRY it when you're hurtling through the air at mach 1 in a skin tight red onsey!
;)
@@garzhao5924 You know the smart thing to do is go back to the desert and find the instruction manual. He knows it is within a mile of where he took the kids. Should be an easy find especially with the suit.
@@kevinerose there is this thing called plot that seems to suck the common sense right out of characters. Not going back to the desert is one example, another is pulling a group of delinquent kids out of class to help an FBI agent, on administrative leave, find a couple of star crossed Russian defectors with a Soviet hit squad after them.
flying in the suit feels like your trying to balance a plate on top of a pencil its hard to aim even while maintaining the balance and altitude. Ralph is doing the best he can to remain in the air, aiming direction isn't even possible for him after that. the trick isn't in the cuffs or keeping your arms straight, its actually imagining pushing the ground behind you 2 places at a time, just like walking or running keeping 2 points consistently moving. Ralph the entire series has been hopping on one foot so to speak when it came to flying he could get it going and fall in the direction he wanted to go.
Why doesn't he go back to desert road and use his special powers to find the instructions to the suit?
Anyone?
The instruction book self destructed after 14 days.
Funny how they used adults to play late teens, early 20s (if they flunked).
Connie Sellecca is only 2 years older than Faye Grant.
Oh but Faye's blue jeans look better!
TV in the 80's had very very strict laws when it came to children on set so strict that most studios just hired adults to play kids.
@@bailey9r i definitely miss the blue jean's on those girl's back then!...those jean's really fit nice
Don't they still do that now?
would it hurt him to wear a small mask around his eyes or something? I guess it wouldn't matter, that hair could be spotted a mile away.
Not then. It was kinda common.
Clark Kent
That’s why he was chosen. His hair gives him the ability to defy gravity.
I love this show I Am going to be 59 August 24
Gracias por compartir gracias por compartir
Takes me back in time to the 80s
That's good T.V. 👍👍
This was a great episode : welcome back Kotter + the adventures of superman + the Russia house + the baker street irregulars 👍
He's already wearing the suit... why does he have to undress? the suit doesn't work w hen in contact with cotton or wool?
Shawn Hollahan 👈🏻 Great minds think alike!
maybe you can't fly with the cape all smushed. Or maybe the entire suit doesn't work if it's not exposed to air LOL
Shawn Hollahan - unless... say the suit works by sunlight for power, like Superman?
I'm just watching these after 30 or so years.... But I definitely remember the shtick that expressly stated that the suit had to be exposed to work. Even if its just a little bit exposed. This even comes into play in a few episodes as a gimmick. I mean.. who knows why. I just left it up to suspension of disbelief and had fun.... in much the same way I did with the entire show and its premise. lol
Duh, the suit is solar powered... jeez!
;)
Saturday mornings were special
This was an evening show
This is not a good show. But I can't stop watching Robert Culp play Bill Maxwell. He took a lot of not great writing and made it better than it could possibly be. Very entertaining.
I like Stephen Cannell's shows and books. No idea how he wrote so much.
Well if it's not a good show, how could it be entertaining?
@@cellsdoni5968 Read it again. Slowly this time.
I think he's the worst actor on the show! He overdoes every line.
I heard from some people that Robert Culp directed two episodes.
Culp and Sellecca carry the show/series.
And decades later, he is involved in the Black Mesa Incident.
And decades later, he is involved in the Black Mesa Incident.
The special effects was good 👍 too
Culp is brilliant in this, taking a really thankless role and making it the pivot of everything.
William Katt is cute and I like this show The Greatest American hero it funny. Ralph my favourite character in this show.😂
When Ralph is flying up to the helicopter, in the longer shot there is a man in a brown jacket in the door, but when he grabs the runner Pam is at the door being held by the Russian agent.
5:00. That's the Los Angeles Superior Court El Monte. 11234 E. Valley Blvd. Rosemead, CA.
Bill says everyone is polygraphed every 6 months, but polygraphs are administered as part of the hiring process and then every 5 years when their national security background investigation is updated assuming there has been nothing unusual or changing positions.
Que bom voar
Mel Stewart would be one of the two actors who played Tibbs 's father in law on In The Heat Of The Night 🌉.
I think they should do a reboot and Carrot Top, should star in it, only he could pull off that hair look.
The great American villain?
No way, can't stand carrot top!...he used to be funny!...beside's, every time they make a reboot serie's, they turn it into a "wokeism" trash fest!
@@robertjenkins5440 You are absolutely right, it would be pervaded by all the toxic feminism and shaming white people we have these days.
Great idea!
Carrot top is nearly 60
And yet, he still flies better than Pumaman.
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Does Rhonda like Ralph? She is beautiful, by the way.
Ralph breaks into the FBI office to steal the case files. When he flies off and later crash lands, both his hands can be seen and he is not holding the files anywhere (he doesn't stuff them into his suit before taking off).
They all have flexible jobs
34:19 the telephone booth! #😂
That's not how that conversation would have gone at 44:40. The chief would have said if you have them I order you to bring them in and if he didn't he'd be the new most wanted guy.
The banana peel actually helped
LMAO...back when people thought polygraphs were reliable
Why do all the students in a California school have New York/Jersey accents?
Too lazy to learn correct accents.
Is the song at 1:42 available on its own ?
Sadly no...
1:11 ❤
1:01 esp with those glasses makes it even sexier ❤️
The blond Tonys gf is the girl from " V "
the black dude went on to become a cop killer in Robocop.
the black dude always kills the cop first in EVERY movie... sheesh.
;)
Oh! You are right! I knew he seemed familiar but I never realized that and Robocop is one of my favorite movies and the Greatest American Hero one of my favorite TV shows. Believe it or not I never realized it! :)
When your a jet you’re a jet….
@31:20 easy to miss the intended humor of that "listening to the Beatles" remark directed at a teenager. Universal props were soon to come but in 1981 they were yet considered irrelevant has-beens to most youth.
So the humor was that Maxwell was so out of touch with youth he used the wrong reference?
15m watchin
6:34 And America got their pants pulled down in Vietnam... 🥴🥴🥴🥴🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
I could sure understand where his kids are coming from... Things are shit at home and life on the outside... most people don't give a flying fuck weather we are dead or alive... Sometimes I feel like I don't count.....
People do care.
Just find the good people.
@@annehajdu8654 Sometimes it is hard to do... I have Cerebral Palsy and most people treat me like I am stupid or that I should be dead.... Wish Ralph was real... He sure cared about the kids and their futures....
Believe it or not, George isn't at home Please leave a message at the beep I must be out, or I'd pick up the phone Where could I be? Believe it or not, I'm not home.
What's the name of the car that Bill drives?
Uhhh Dodge Diplomat, maybe?
@@digitalmagicAR What about that older one under the UFO shown in the opening theme?
@@chuckwalla2967 Sorry. I do not know. They randomly switched cars in the show thinking we wouldn't notice and I'm not familiar with Dodge sedans
That guy does a terrible Sly Stallone impression.
West Side Story …
V
Unfortunately caste systems exist in a lot of places... just not always by the same name.
Like racism
As a kid in the Eighties I didn't realize what an incoherent mess of a show this is but I realize it now. I don't even know where to begin. The leads constantly make irrational decisions, bicker, stonewall each other, and generally slide into and out of character for no reason other than the plot needs them too. The Bill Maxwell character in particular shows signs of Dissociative Identity Disorder. Straight-laced fed, but also a blabbering lunatic.
Why hasn't Ralph tried to find the manual with his superpowers? Oh, because he's a whiny reluctant hero... Except with his delinquent schoolkids with whom he's a paragon of mentorship.
Ralph can use the suit's powers with other clothes over it.... except for when the plot says he can't.
It's the parade of stupid contrivances and inconsistencies like this that breaks the immersion and pulls me out of the story.
I think a lot of what I'm pointing out was probably intended to convey humor but it comes together so poorly that all it arouses in me is frustration.
I could keep going but I need to finish watching.
It’s just a fun, light-hearted show. You don’t have to analyse it death, just enjoy it, or don’t, and go and watch something else. Lighten up dude…
@@aldunlop4622 Lighten up? Me? Never.
Esse é o professor mais irresponsável do mundo. Já colocou os estudantes dele em risco de morte várias vezes.
This time they destroyed the studio system so they placed a Veteran Actor with two new training actor/actress in order to train them OTJ training!!!!
did he ever learn to fly lol
I don't understand why Ralph had to take off his street clothes, given that he was wearing the suit under them. Does it not work if it's covered up? 🤔
Some powerful polyester.
Nice, at 17:48 swiSS GayEdgarHuber´s (FBI) black&white portrait gets hit ...
americanized "Hoover" = swiSS "Huber"
18:20 these guys have less regard for classified information than the Trumps. 😂
Not everything needs to be classified. There has been a recent trend in government to over-classify information. That is, to make some information "classified" because the administration doesn't want it to be discussed or released to the press because it may be embarrassing.
Woa! The Mar-a-Lago raid happened in August of 2022. Your comment is ahead of its time lol.
@@linsqopiring6816 Yikes 😳 I didn’t know anything…I swear 😂
This shit is the same as them pirates of whatever. Or whats STILL goin on
Leave them alone bill
Ralph breaks into the FBI office to steal the case files. When he flies off and later crash lands, both his hands can be seen and he is not holding the files anywhere (he doesn't stuff them into his suit before taking off).