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The Greatest American Hero

  • 20-09-2009 12:11pm
    #1
    branie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭


    Anyone here remermber this show that used be on RTE 1 on saturdays in the early 80s?


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  • #2
    lord lucan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,577 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    Yep,was a big fan of the show. I bought season 1 on DVD a couple of years ago and tbh it hasn't held up as well as The A-Team/Knightrider etc. I think most people remember it fondly because of it's theme tune.



  • #3
    Fuzzy Clam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,293 ✭✭✭Fuzzy Clam


    Never saw the program but Joey Scarburys - Believe it or Not, got heaps of play on the wireless back then.

    Didn't know Connie Sellecca was in it. Ooooo, I used to love her..


  • #4
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    Just read about this on wikipedia.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6hN_Zv0tBo


    Also this
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greatest_American_Hero#The_Greatest_American_Heroine
    The Greatest American Heroine

    In 1986, the original cast reunited for a pilot film for a new NBC series to be called The Greatest American Heroine. The pilot reveals that several years after the final episode, Ralph's secret identity was finally revealed to the public, resulting in his becoming a celebrity. This upsets the aliens who gave him the suit, and they charge him with finding a new hero to wear the costume and use its powers for fighting evil. He finds a young woman named Holly Hathaway (Mary Ellen Stuart) who spends her time looking for lost kittens and teaching young children, and most of the episode deals with her learning how to use the suit under Bill Maxwell's guidance.

    The Greatest American Heroine did not result in a new series, and the pilot was never broadcast by NBC. Ultimately, the pilot was reedited as an episode of the original series (complete with original opening credits and theme), and added to syndication packages of the original series, where it airs as the final episode.


  • #5
    120_Minutes
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    It was my very first favourite programme.


  • #6
    jupiterjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 660 ✭✭✭jupiterjack


    great memories everytime i here theme tune..


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  • #7
    Skid
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    jupiterjack wrote: »
    great memories everytime i here theme tune..

    Yeah, I loved the theme tune. Although I can't remember a whole lot about the show.


  • #8
    tippspur
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    I remember it well,we're all old now ;)


  • #9
    darkdubh
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    Like most people what I remember mainly about it was the theme tune.Can't remember an awful lot about the programme itself apart from the main characters bubble perm hairdo.


  • #10
    Skid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,873 ✭✭✭Skid


    George Costanza was another fan of the theme tune :)



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