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The American sci-fi-comedy television series ''The Greatest American Hero'' aired from March 18, 1981, to February 3, 1983, and starred William Katt, Robert Culp, and Connie Sellecca. It consists of 45 episodes in three seasons. Series overview Episodes Season 1 (1981) Season 2 (1981–82) Season 3 (1982–83) U.S. television ratings Home releases At present, the following DVD sets of this series have been released.The Greatest American Hero'' at TVShowsOnDVD.com References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Greatest American Hero Lists of American comedy-drama television series episodes Lists of American fantasy television series episodes episodes Episodes may refer to: * Episode, a part of a dramatic work * ''Episodes'' (TV series), a British/American television sitcom which premiered in 2011 * ''Episodes'' (journal), a geological science journal * ''Episodes'' (ballet), a ballet by Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Greatest American Hero
''The Greatest American Hero'' is an American comedy-drama superhero television series that aired on ABC. Created by producer Stephen J. Cannell, it premiered as a two-hour pilot movie on March 18, 1981, and ran until February 2, 1983. The series features William Katt as teacher Ralph Hinkley, Robert Culp as FBI agent Bill Maxwell, and Connie Sellecca as lawyer Pam Davidson. The lead character's surname was changed from "Hinkley" to "Hanley" for the latter part of the first season, immediately after President Ronald Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by John Hinckley Jr. on March 30, 1981. The character's name was reverted to "Hinkley" after a few months had passed. The series chronicles Ralph's adventures after a group of aliens gives him a red and black suit that grants him superhuman abilities. Unfortunately for Ralph, who hates wearing the suit, he immediately loses its instruction booklet, and thus has to learn how to use its powers by trial and error, often ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danny Glover
Danny Lebern Glover (; born July 22, 1946) is an American actor, film director, and political activist. He is widely known for his lead role as Roger Murtaugh in the '' Lethal Weapon'' film series. He also had leading roles in his films included '' The Color Purple'', '' To Sleep with Anger'', '' Predator 2'', '' Angels in the Outfield'', and '' Operation Dumbo Drop''. Glover has prominent supporting roles in ''Silverado'', '' Witness'', '' A Rage in Harlem'', '' Dreamgirls'', '' Shooter'', '' Death at a Funeral'', '' Beyond the Lights'', '' Saw'', '' Sorry to Bother You'', '' The Last Black Man in San Francisco'', '' The Dead Don't Die'', '' Lonesome Dove'' and '' Jumanji: The Next Level''. He is also an active supporter of various political causes. In 2022, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored Glover with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Additionally, Glover has received numerous accolades, including the NAACP's President's Award and the Cuban Nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian I
Christian I (February 1426 – 21 May 1481) was a Scandinavian monarch under the Kalmar Union. He was king of Denmark (1448–1481), Norway (1450–1481) and Sweden (1457–1464). From 1460 to 1481, he was also duke of Schleswig (within Denmark) and count (after 1474, duke) of Holstein (within the Holy Roman Empire). He was the first king of the House of Oldenburg. In the power vacuum that arose following the death of King Christopher of Bavaria (1416–1448) without a direct heir, Sweden elected Charles VIII of Sweden (14081470) king with the intent to reestablish the union under a Swedish king. Charles was elected king of Norway in the following year. However the counts of Holstein made the Danish Privy Council appoint Christian as king of Denmark. His subsequent accessions to the thrones of Norway (in 1450) and Sweden (in 1457), restored the unity of the Kalmar Union for a short period. In 1463, Sweden broke away from the union and Christian's attempt at a reconquest r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Hale
Barbara Hale (April 18, 1922 – January 26, 2017) was an American actress who portrayed legal secretary Della Street in the dramatic television series ''Perry Mason'' (1957–1966), earning her a 1959 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. She reprised the role in 30 Perry Mason made-for-television movies (1985–1995). Early life Barbara Hale was born in DeKalb, Illinois, to Wilma (née Colvin) and Luther Ezra Hale, a landscape gardener. She had one sister, Juanita, for whom Hale's younger daughter was named. The family was of Scotch-Irish ancestry. In 1940, Hale was a member of the final graduating class from Rockford High School in Rockford, Illinois, then attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, planning to be an artist. Her performing career began in Chicago, when she started modeling to pay for her education. Career Film Hale moved to Hollywood in 1943, and under contract to RKO Radio Pictures, made her first screen appearance (uncredite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amphetamines
Substituted amphetamines are a class of compounds based upon the amphetamine structure; it includes all derivative compounds which are formed by replacing, or substituting, one or more hydrogen atoms in the amphetamine core structure with substituents. The compounds in this class span a variety of pharmacological subclasses, including stimulants, empathogens, and hallucinogens, among others. Examples of substituted amphetamines are amphetamine (itself), methamphetamine, ephedrine, cathinone, phentermine, mephentermine, bupropion, methoxyphenamine, selegiline, amfepramone (diethylpropion), pyrovalerone, MDMA (ecstasy), and DOM (STP). Some of amphetamine's substituted derivatives occur in nature, for example in the leaves of '' Ephedra'' and khat plants. Amphetamine was first produced at the end of the 19th century. By the 1930s, amphetamine and some of its derivative compounds found use as decongestants in the symptomatic treatment of colds and also occasionally as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuck McCann
Charles John Thomas McCann (September 2, 1934 – April 8, 2018) was an American actor, comedian, puppeteer, commercial presenter and television host. He was best known for his work in presenting children's television programming and animation, as well as his own program ''The Chuck McCann Show'' and he also recorded comedy parody style albums. Career Early work McCann worked his way up to regional star status by apprenticing on a number of other children's shows, such as '' Captain Kangaroo'' in the 1960s. The best-selling '' The First Family'', an early 1960s LP record album which lampooned the newly elected United States President John F. Kennedy and his family, included McCann among its voices. Until 1975, McCann hosted comedy/variety TV puppet shows in the New York area witPaul Ashley featuring thPaul Ashley Puppets Together, they did ''The Puppet Hotel'' for WNTA-TV, Channel 13; then ''Laurel & Hardy & Chuck'', ''Let's Have Fun'', and ''The Chuck McCann Show'' for WPIX, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Hayers
Sidney Hayers (24 August 1921 – 8 February 2000) was a British film and television director, writer and producer. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Hayers began his career as a film editor. Among the films he directed are ''Circus of Horrors'' (1960), the occult thriller '' Night of the Eagle'' (1962), a musical '' Three Hats for Lisa'' (1965), and the adventure films '' The Southern Star'' (1969) and '' The Trap'' (1966). In British TV, his credits included ''The Persuaders!'' and '' The New Avengers''; he later directed several American TV shows, including episodes of '' Magnum, P.I.'', ''The A-Team'', ''Knight Rider'', '' T. J. Hooker'', ''Baywatch'' and '' The Famous Five''. Hayers died of cancer in 2000 in Altea, Spain. His wife was the actress Erika Remberg. He had two children, Susan and Robert from his first marriage, to Patricia.Obituaries: Sidney Hayers Lentz, Harris M, III. Science Fiction Chronicle; Radford Vol. 21, Iss. 4, (Aug/Sep 2000): 51. Filmography As write ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuck Bowman
Charles W. Bowman (born June 2, 1937) is an American actor, director, producer and writer of film and television. Career Bowman's career has spanned over forty years working in television directing episodes of ''The Incredible Hulk'', '' The Greatest American Hero'', ''The A-Team'', '' T. J. Hooker'', ''MacGyver'', '' In the Heat of the Night'', '' They Came from Outer Space'', ''Murder, She Wrote'', '' Swamp Thing: The Series'', ''Touched by an Angel'', '' Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman'', '' The Pretender'', '' Walker Texas Ranger'' and ''Castle'' as well as number of television and theatrical feature films, including the Stephen J. Cannell production of ''The Tooth Fairy''. As an actor, he appeared numerous times on '' Dragnet'' and ''Adam-12'', playing a different character in each episode as well as appearing in episodes of ''The Rockford Files'', ''Hardcastle and McCormick'' and most recently ''Day Break''. Personal life He is the father of film and television director Rob Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Hasburgh
Patrick Hasburgh is an American television producer and Television writer, writer. He is best known for his work on the television series ''Hardcastle and McCormick'' and ''21 Jump Street'', two series he co-created with Stephen J. Cannell. His other television credits include ''The Greatest American Hero'', ''The A-Team'', ''SeaQuest DSV, SeaQuest 2032'' and ''L.A. Firefighters''. In 1993, he wrote and directed the feature film ''Aspen Extreme''. In 2004, Thomas Dunne Books published his first novel (mystery), ''Aspen Pulp''. In 2018 Patrick Hasburgh wrote and published PIRATA (). References External links * Directed by Patrick Hasburg21 Jump Street American film directors American male screenwriters American television producers American television writers Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) Barber Pro Series drivers American male television writers {{US-tv-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolph Borchert
Rudolph Borchert (March 27, 1928 – March 29, 2003) was an American screenwriter. He wrote the final episode of ''The Rockford Files'', "Deadlock in Parma" with Donald L. Gold and Lester Wm. Berke. Early life Borchert was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He served in the Korean War as the first lieutenant in a tank battalion. He received an Bronze Star Medal for rescuing one of his troops. Career Borchert started his career in 1970, as co-authoring the children's book ''Bravo, Burro!'' with novelist, John Fante. Borchert started his television career in 1974, as writing a few episodes for the short-lived television series '' Kolchak: The Night Stalker. In 1975-1980s, Borchert wrote for shows, including, ''CHiPs'', ''The Rockford Files'', ''Quincy, M.E.'', ''Police Woman'' and ''Ellery Queen''. He also screenplayed ''The Little Dragons''. In 1980s-1987, Borchert wrote six episodes of '' Scarecrow and Mrs. King''. He retired in 1987. Death Borchert died in March 2003 after a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Doheny
Lawrence Doheny (14 April 1924 - 7 September 1982) was an Irish-born American television and film director who directed more than 100 episodes of television from the 1950s to the 1980s. Born in Limerick, Doheny emigrated to the United States in the 1930s and began directing for television, first on the series '' The Big Story'' and ''Rescue 8''. In 1961 he wrote and directed a feature film, '' Teenage Millionaire''. This would be Doheny's only foray into feature films. For the rest of his career he directed television series, most notably ''Adam-12'' (13 episodes), ''The Rockford Files'' (12 episodes), ''Black Sheep Squadron'' (8 episodes), and ''Magnum, P.I.'' (8 episodes). Doheny also directed television films. In 1974 he directed ''Houston, We've Got a Problem'', the first dramatization of the Apollo 13 Apollo 13 (April 1117, 1970) was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and the third meant to land on the Moon. The craft was launched from Kennedy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Kessler
Bruce Kessler (born March 23, 1936) is an American racing driver and film and television director. Racing career Kessler was born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Beverly Hills, California. He was the son of a clothing designer. In the early 1950s he started racing his mother's Jaguar XK120 in the Sports Car Club of America races at sixteen years old. He raced the road race courses at Paramount Ranch and Willow Springs in California. He was a team driver along with Chuck Daigh for the Scarab race cars built by his good friend Lance Reventlow in the late 1950s. He entered one World Championship Formula One Grand Prix ( Monaco 1958) with a Connaught owned by Bernie Ecclestone, but failed to qualify, although he posted the 21st fastest time of the 28 entrants. Kessler and Reventlow, driving Reventlow's Mercedes-Benz SL aluminum coupe had stopped at Blackwells Corner on CA Rt. 466/133 on September 30, 1955 on their way to the Salinas Road Races when James Dean and his me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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