Greatest American hero: Anyone remember this program?

Tazdedub

Does anyone remember a program called the greatest american hero? Basically it was about a guy who get this suit of some aliens that has super powers but the suit wasnt meant for him. Think it use to be on saturday afternoons on ITV or one of the RTE stations. Anyone I ask about the show doesn't remember it.

jasonb

Of course! Ralph was the guy in question, the theme song was 'Belive It Or Not' ( I'm walking on air ) and it was all about him having a close encounter, being given a suit with special powers, but he lost the instructions!

J.

Firewalkwithme

Now that's just wierd!

I've had the theme song for that show going in a loop in my head all day I used to watch it when I were a nipper but don't remember much apart from the theme tune.

From memory:

Believe it or not, I'm walking on air,
I never thought I could feel so free-ee-ee!
Flying away on a wing and a prayer,
Who could it be?
Believe it or not, It's just me

Tazdedub

Yeah I remember the theme tune as well and I think the suit was red, kinda looked like Morks suit when he was making his reports in mork and mindy. Glad to see other people remember the program, I was beginning to think I dreamt it.

Raytown Rocks

http://www.cfhf.net/lyrics/greatest.htm

jasonb

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081871/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_American_Hero

etc. etc.

Firewalkwithme

Ah, this takes me back.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest_American_Hero

EDIT: jasonb just beat me too it!

MarkR

I remember that!

Tar.Aldarion

I've never seen it but Nightwish gave me the tune, I love it.

MooseJam

i remember that, lol at how crap the suit looks now, the show was out the same time as fame if I remember correctly

bullets

Sweet would love to have all of it on DVD.
Theme tune rocked.

From him learning to fly and later on in the series him giving up
his powerd or loosing them it was nerdy fun!

The Love interest female actress was also in a series
call Hotel as far as I can remember it was earlier in her
career.

~B

Irish Wolf

Cartoon_Head wrote:

I've had the theme song for that show going in a loop in my head all day

HA! Me too.. I think I heard it in the background to some ad or something on News Talk while drifting off to sleep last night..

Capt'n Midnight

used to love it
still haven't seen the first episode

kelle

I remember the them tune:
Look at what's happened to me-ee
I can't believe it myself
Suddenly I'm up on top of the world
Can't remember the rest....

I remember the actress Connie Selecca played his love interest. She had a starring role in "Hotel" afterwards (one of those programmes like Dallas and Dynasty I was allowed to stay up late and watch if I was a good girl and helped Mammy with the housework).

Now isn't that a load of useless information.....

My apologies, Bullets beat me to it with that info!

Texas

I've always loved the theme tune, have it on my ipod now and play it all the time.

It was sung by a guy called Joey Scarbury and if anyone wants it, its on the soundtrack to Fahrenheit 9-11.

Damn this thread... just bought it from cdwow as they were the cheapest I could see... and thankfully I have a multi region dvd player

Firewalkwithme

Texas wrote:

Damn this thread... just bought it from cdwow as they were the cheapest I could see... and thankfully I have a multi region dvd player

Can I borrow it when you're done watching it? I want to know what it was like to be 4 or 5 years old again. For the full effect I'll have to watch it on a 14" black and white portable tv with NO REMOTE :eek:

Lirange

The Song and the series Intro are all over YouTube.

The song is so effective at planting itself in the recesses of your brain even if you weren't a big follower of the series back then. It makes me feel nostalgic for something I shouldn't feel nostalgic about! I usually turned the channel but I guess my ears copped on to the song anyway.

Ryaller

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjfIblgeXuU

Texas

Cartoon_Head wrote:

Can I borrow it when you're done watching it? I want to know what it was like to be 4 or 5 years old again. For the full effect I'll have to watch it on a 14" black and white portable tv with NO REMOTE :eek:

Cdwow have just emailed me after almost 2 weeks :mad: to say that they can't supply it :mad: :mad:

aidan_dunne

Yep, I remember 'The Greatest American Hero' well, alright.

Couldn't believe it when I was watching an episode of 'My Name Is Earl' last year and Earl and Randy were stuck dangling inside a water tower and, all of a sudden, the two of them start singing the theme tune. Nearly pissed myself laughing when I heard it. Brilliant!

aidan_dunne

Ryaller wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjfIblgeXuU

Yep, that was another classic sitcom use of "Believe it Or Not" as well.

heyjude

Yea, I loved the show, so much so I got the first two series on DVD. Great memories.

There was talk at one stage that they were going to make a film version of it, like they have done with so many TV shows from the 1970s/80s, but I don't know what will come of that.

I'm a bit surprised that RTE hasn't shown it again recently, given the way they have shown lots of shows from that era on Saturday mornings/early evenings. It was the type of family viewing type show that used to dominate the 7-9pm slots on TV back then, but that type of show doesn't exist now. Probably because the soaps dominate the 7-9pm slot weekday slots now.

Other shows from that same time slot(at least when shown here) would have included Magnum, The A-Team, Hart to Hart, The Incredible Hulk, Columbo, Simon & Simon, The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman.

bullets

Play.com have the Greatest American Hero on DVD if anyone
is interested.

Great and nerdy show. Ralph always reminded me of Condor Man.

~B

aidan_dunne

bullets wrote:

Ralph always reminded me of Condor Man.

Don't you mean Frank Spencer! Oooh, Betty!*

Christ, I must be really showing my age now to remember 'Condor Man'! Last time I saw that film was on telly about 15 years ago, if not more! :eek:









*me wonders if anyone else will get that reference.

A_Fitz

Tazdedub wrote:

Does anyone remember a program called the greatest american hero? Basically it was about a guy who get this suit of some aliens that has super powers but the suit wasnt meant for him. Think it use to be on saturday afternoons on ITV or one of the RTE stations. Anyone I ask about the show doesn't remember it.

****1n hell - by pure coincedence I was just thinkin about that program literally 2 mins ago, lol.

Can vaguely remember it, was pretty young when that used be on - mid 80's maybe, maybe sooner??

Manic Moran

I've often wondered why that show isn't one that's on the retro-channels. It's not too hard to find CHiPs, A-Team or Dukes of Hazzard (Granted, this is on Country MTV) but I've never seen GAM ever since the initial run.

NTM

jupiterjack

now that takes me back, loved the greatest american hero..theme song is just class..

kitakyushu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ria37d9mInY

Little Alex

They played this song on 4FM's CSI this morning. The year was 1981, but am I right in thinking that it wasn't shown here until a few years later?

CSI is a great show if you like your retro. They played the theme from The Fall Guy aswell.

Ryaller

Have I fallen into a time loop? 5 years between posts and the Seinfeld vid I posted is the first reply???