Debuting with a two-hour movie pilot in 1981 and running for three seasons on ABC, The Greatest American Hero has become a cult classic of superhero television. The series followed teacher Ralph ...
In the early 1980s, popular television was a hodgepodge of nighttime soaps, moonshining brothers, groundbreaking sitcoms and escapist dramedy … but what it needed was a hero. And not just any hero — ...