The chronicles of teacher Ralph Hinkley's adventures after a group of aliens gives him a red suit that gives him superhuman abilities. Unfortunately, Ralph, who hates wearing the suit, immediately loses its instruction booklet, and thus has to learn how to use its powers by trial and error, often with comical results.
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- Seasons
- 3
- Episodes aired
- 43
- Latest aired
- S03E13
- Total runtime
- 1d 20h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 March 1981 – May 1981 8 episodes
- Season 2 November 1981 – April 1982 22 episodes
- Season 3 October 1982 – March 1983 13 episodes
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S02E01 The Two-Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Fastball
November 4 · 60min find the promo
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Ralph dons a baseball suit to trap Latino revolutionaries who plan to finance a coup by fixing ball games.
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S02E02 Operation Spoilsport
November 11 · 60min find the promo
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Ralph and Bill must stop World War III by defusing a corrupt military leader's plans to launch a suprise missile attack against Russia.
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S02E03 Don't Mess Around with Jim
November 18 · 60min find the promo
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Ralph and Bill are kidnapped by a tycoon that actually had his own suit given to him years ago by the aliens. The suit corrupted this man to use it for personal fortune, and he did not lose the instruction book. The aliens did not like the way he was using the suit, and they took it away from him.
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S02E04 Hog Wild
November 25 · 60min find the promo
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A motorcycle gang steals the super-suit, and tries to use it to take over a town. It only works on Ralph, so they must force HIM to do their dirty work while holding Bill captive.
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S02E05 Classical Gas
December 2 · 60min find the promo
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Ralph's students start a band, and a promoter lands them a spot on a big ticket concert while trying to get Pam to go out with him.
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S02E06 The Beast in the Black
December 9 · 60min find the promo
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Ralph finds a window into the 4th dimension while scouting an old house. Bill gets possesed by a woman's spirit, and Ralph must return her through that window.
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S02E07 The Lost Diablo
December 16 · 60min find the promo
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Bill has a treasure map, and takes Ralph and his class out to the desert to find the lost Diablo Gold Mine that vanished a long time ago, and are met with resistance from the local thieves.
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S02E08 Plague
January 6 · 60min find the promo
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A psycho military cult leader tries to spread the small-pox virus.
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S02E09 A Train of Thought
January 13 · 60min find the promo
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Ralph crashes head first into a train, and gets amnesia. Pam and Bill have to convince him that the suit really works.
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S02E10 Now You See It...
January 20 · 60min find the promo
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While practicing flying in the desert with Bill, Ralph gets a vision of a plane crash. It's the suit showing it to him, and Bill can only see it when he touches Ralph. They rush to the scene to find no plane, and figure out that it must be something that hasn't happened yet, and they're supposed to prevent it. We come to find out that Pam is on that plane, and it's been hijacked. To make matters worse, the plane has an experimental cloaking device that makes it invisible to radar, and the Air Force would rather shoot it down than have the plane in enemy hands.
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S02E11 The Handpainted Thai
January 27 · 60min find the promo
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Years ago, prisoners of war were brainwashed to respond to a code phrase. Now, someone is using them to commit acts of sabotage. Bill and Ralph investigate, but Bill inadvertently falls under a hypnotic trance, leaving the heroics up to Ralph.
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S02E12 Just Another Three Ring Circus
February 3 · 60min find the promo
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Ralph takes a job at the circus as a human cannonball while trying to help Bill bust a crime ring that involves a phony dating service.
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S02E13 The Shock Will Kill You
February 10 · 60min find the promo
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A space shuttle is about to crash, and only Ralph can save it. He does so, but ends up supermagnetized, perhaps permanently. Worst of all, a strange creature aboard the shuttle heads towards Los Angeles, electricuting all who get in its way.
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S02E14 A Chicken in Every Plot
February 17 · 60min find the promo
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Ron O'Neill, John Hancock, Thalmus Rasulala, Lincoln Kilpatrick Scenario: When an old FBI buddy invites Bill to his Caribbean retreat, Maxwell takes Ralph, Pam and the students along. Unfortunately, they find themselves involved in a voodoo plot to take over the island's government.
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S02E15 The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
February 24 · 60min find the promo
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Ralph and Bill hunt for the sea creature ""Carrie"" in the Bermuda Triangle thinking that the monster may be responsible for all of the boats that disappear there. They undercover a stolen boat ring, and never find the creature.
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S02E16 It's All Downhill from Here
March 3 · 60min find the promo
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Ralph skis like a pro with the suit on, and stands in at the Olympics for a Russian skiier so the man can defect to America, and hand over top secret information that he stole.
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S02E17 Dreams
March 17 · 60min find the promo
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An act of kindness backfires when Ralph uses the suit to help a coworker with a personal project. This leads his other co-workers to take daring chances for their own shots at success. Soon, he must don the super suit not only to prevent them from ruining their lives, but also to save Bill from a vengeful, recently paroled killer.
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S02E18 There's Just No Accounting...
March 24 · 60min find the promo
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Bill convinces the parents of a kidnap victim to pay the ransom, certain that Ralph can recover it when he saves their little girl. Ralph finds himself being audited by an overzealous IRS agent who's convinced he took the ransom money. Meanwhile, Ralph and Bill keep getting shot at in drive-by shootings, but by who?
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S02E19 The Good Samaritan
March 31 · 60min find the promo
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Tired of using the suit to fight crime, Ralph decides to branch out. He tries to intervene in a battle between an old man fighting for his home and the city taking it away, but Bill has him on the hunt for bank robbers.
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S02E20 Captain Bellybuster and the Speed Factory
April 7 · 60min find the promo
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Bill recieves hot tips on a speed factory working out of a fast food chain, and a newspaper reporter publishes pictures of Ralph flying.
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S02E21 Who's Woo in America
April 14 · 60min find the promo
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Ralph's mother is re-marrying to a man who planted a much wanted micro-chip in her engagement ring.
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S02E22 Lilacs, Mr. Maxwell
April 28 · 60min find the promo
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Bill falls in love with a female FBI agent, and wants to tell her about the suit. She turns out to be a spy, and is ordered to kill him.