WTF Happened to The Greatest American Hero (1981-1983)?

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  • Опубликовано: 2 фев 2025

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  • @JoBloOriginals
    @JoBloOriginals  Год назад +10

    Hey guys!
    This episode of GBNF was made from suggestions from fans who emailed us demanding this show be covered on this series. If you want to make suggestions for future episodes of GBNF then e-mail GBNFSeries@gmail.com and maybe we’ll cover your show!

    • @mikeysuzefour
      @mikeysuzefour 10 месяцев назад +1

      Please add that FilmRise Television Productions (RUclips channel) has ALL 3 seasons of The Greatest American Hero free to view and thanks Travis for this retrospective episode!

  • @SovereignKnight74
    @SovereignKnight74 2 года назад +275

    Such a classic. There will never be a time like the 1980's again. Glad to be a Generation X'er.

    • @jamesfrench7299
      @jamesfrench7299 2 года назад +11

      I hated the 1990s when they rolled around as it was not the same as the 80s. It didn't have the feeling of wonder.

    • @pdxoneway
      @pdxoneway 2 года назад +19

      I'm so glad that our generation got to be normal kids . Playing outside , riding our bikes , hide and seek games with the whole block playing till it was dark. Not having a phone to be called inside but rather knowing when the street lights came on it was time to head home. Oh and being a kid without worrying about getting shot by another kid. The last generation before it all went to sh**. 76'

    • @palikariena7292
      @palikariena7292 2 года назад +12

      we had the best of everything. we were still a free nation too

    • @retired4365
      @retired4365 2 года назад +7

      Word! 🤣

    • @jamesfrench7299
      @jamesfrench7299 2 года назад +3

      Maybe it was because I never wanted to grow up, that I felt differently, but no, everything became blander and less adventurous to my mind.

  • @christopherwaldrop5293
    @christopherwaldrop5293 2 года назад +173

    Even watching this as a kid I realized that, by having Ralph lose the instruction book, the writers could pretty much give him any power he needed for any situation. I thought it was really clever.

    • @DeusExAstra
      @DeusExAstra 2 года назад +10

      In a sense, this makes it fit even more with the Green Lantern parallel. GL can do pretty much anything he/she can think of... at least over the years that was the case. Now they are much more limited, but in the old days GLs could do pretty much anything.

    • @brianerickson6775
      @brianerickson6775 2 года назад +11

      Also, added a sense of discovery.
      "You mean I can do that"-sense of wonder.
      Remember, 70's Superman was god-like.
      While Ralph was an everyman, an underdog.
      Losing the instruction book was pure genius.

    • @HariSeldon913
      @HariSeldon913 2 года назад +11

      And he lost it twice. "I just set it on that boulder right there..."

    • @sambas9257
      @sambas9257 2 года назад +5

      Yes...and they used it in different times during the 3 seasons. There were the superman flight, super strength, invulnerability, x-ray vision then he discovered also he could be invisible...then..telekinesis, pyrokinesis and in the first episode of the third season he shrinked like ant-man because aliens gave him the second manual that he loses again.

    • @John-ct9zs
      @John-ct9zs 2 года назад +8

      Yeah losing the instruction book was a genius move, as Ralph could discover new powers/abilities of the suit. Plus, since he didn't have the instruction book, and didn't have mastery of his powers and it also limited his powers, so he never became all powerful like Superman and too "boring".

  • @tkskagen
    @tkskagen 2 года назад +150

    Next to the "A-Team", this show had by far the absolute best "Theme Song".
    As I was only in 3rd Grade, we where taught this song, and I will never forget the lyrics!

    • @matthewdaley746
      @matthewdaley746 2 года назад +7

      Yeah, to the point where people have completely forgotten about the show, how, bizarre.

    • @KenAdams426
      @KenAdams426 2 года назад +6

      Street Hawk was another cool show with the motorcycle. And because i'm in IT i gave away a picture with the A-Team in cuz they are a team and they work as a team. Team team team.

    • @dexterriley
      @dexterriley 2 года назад +5

      Hardcastle and MccCormick is in the mix with "Drive"

    • @jamesellis701
      @jamesellis701 2 года назад +7

      WKRP in Cincinnati

    • @tomchien7692
      @tomchien7692 2 года назад

      "A-Team"?!? wwwwAT?!? U've been SMOKIN'?! PFFFFT! BLEH! 1. Not a lyrical theme, so not in the same league, but nevertheless, I would name TGAH theme "Best in (TV) Show" period, lyrical or not. 2. Even for instrumentals, A-Team theme is a nonstarter. It can't even *imagine* the league that Hill Street Blues theme is in or even, just for military-style tv instrumental themes, the JAG theme!

  • @mrmc9278
    @mrmc9278 2 года назад +19

    In 1982 my mom sewed me a Greatest American Hero costume. It looked just like the one in the show. She bought me a blonde, curly wig and that year for Halloween it was my costume. I was in second grade. Not only did I win 1st place in the costume contest at school, but she actually sent a picture of me in costume to ABC in care of William Katt. Fast forward 2 months, and I got a picture of Katt in the mail autographed by him. He actually took the time to write a brief inscription on the picture saying how he loved the picture and how we looked just alike.

  • @ricofikri
    @ricofikri 4 месяца назад +8

    14:50 my tears almost dropped upon hearing the opening of this song...brought back my early teenage years!

  • @Pre10tious
    @Pre10tious 2 года назад +86

    I actually have the DVD box set. It is in a metal case and came with a cape, alien instruction manual, and a book about the show.

    • @DarthJ1977
      @DarthJ1977 2 года назад +22

      I hope you didn't lose the book! 😆

    • @SumDumGy
      @SumDumGy 2 года назад +5

      I think that’s the only set that ever had the finale included.

    • @markuhler2664
      @markuhler2664 2 года назад +8

      That's a boxed set I would buy.

    • @kevinramsey417
      @kevinramsey417 2 года назад +3

      Do you still have the instruction manual?

    • @garicrewsen1128
      @garicrewsen1128 2 года назад +2

      You've got quite the relic there. Never let it go!

  • @Deathtank75
    @Deathtank75 2 года назад +17

    William Katt, what a legend, not only this show, the horror movie "House" is by far one of my favorites too!

    • @hackman669
      @hackman669 2 года назад +2

      Meow🤗😻😸😺😿🦧

    • @mikeysuzefour
      @mikeysuzefour 10 месяцев назад +3

      We own House & House II:The Second Story films--Katt was great as well as in the OG Carrie playing Tommy Ross! 🎥

    • @jesushchrist285
      @jesushchrist285 9 месяцев назад +2

      oh there's an actual movie named "House", I thought they were calling out that one time he appeared on House MD as the teen preacher's dad.

    • @g.p.ryecroft
      @g.p.ryecroft 6 месяцев назад +1

      Katt is also excellent as Paul Drake Jr in all those PERRY MASON movies. Katt's mother was Barbara Hale, the iconic Della Street. Katt aged well and looks rugged and distinguished. I envy him!

  • @jamesprovosthemingway4285
    @jamesprovosthemingway4285 2 года назад +74

    Always loved this show! Especially the song 🎵 every time I hear the song it takes me back to growing up as a child in the 80's

    • @matthewdaley746
      @matthewdaley746 2 года назад +1

      Yeah, too bad that series, was, Too Good To Last, miserably nasty.

    • @jnnx
      @jnnx Год назад +1

      @@matthewdaley746to. To last. (Said in disapproving southern accent)
      “I SAY, Now I say son, Did none of ya’ll get taught proper grammar?”

    • @raymondcanessa7208
      @raymondcanessa7208 Год назад +1

      Believe it or not, George isn't at home
      Please leave a message at the beep
      I must be out, or I'd pick up the phone
      Where could I be? Believe it or not, I'm not home

    • @matthewdaley746
      @matthewdaley746 Год назад

      ​​​@@jnnxFixed, disgust are over.

    • @matthewdaley746
      @matthewdaley746 Год назад

      ​​​@@raymondcanessa7208Soundtrack to a generation.

  • @briwanderz
    @briwanderz 2 года назад +51

    one of the most underrated tv shows out there.. this and misfits of science. they both deserved so much more, and especially for misfits a longer series.

    • @daniellogan-scott5968
      @daniellogan-scott5968 2 года назад +7

      OOh. Misfits of Science with little Courtney Cox.

    • @brianerickson6775
      @brianerickson6775 2 года назад +3

      Yes. And the misfits kept the iceman's truck.😁
      Loved Johnny's special effects.
      Great show.

    • @jaymillymills
      @jaymillymills 2 года назад +4

      Ohhh you made my morning. I didn't think anyone remembered the Misfits of Science

    • @jimperry1501
      @jimperry1501 2 года назад +3

      I have a VHS of the first episode or two.
      #GoodnightBunnies
      #ClassDismissed!
      #KevinPeterHall

    • @briwanderz
      @briwanderz 2 года назад +1

      most of the episodes of misfits are actually on youtube.. 14 episodes. for some reason looks like no episode 4 or 5, but they do have the unaired episode 16. channel name is "series" they are unfortunately only in 360p

  • @hunterprice3320
    @hunterprice3320 2 года назад +44

    I love this show. I was born in the early 2000s and me and my mom were at a rummage sale when I was a kid and they had the first 2 seasons on dvd and they literally just gave them to us because no one else bought them. My mom remembered the show and thought I would like it. Needless to say I'm a huge fan and have been since I was in like 2nd grade lol. After watching this show I decided to create my own superhero as a kid and I still plan to write stories with the character I made.

    • @garicrewsen1128
      @garicrewsen1128 2 года назад +5

      Nurture and love that dream. All the best in your endeavors.

    • @davidlafleche1142
      @davidlafleche1142 4 месяца назад

      I tried that myself, but decided to go with realism.

  • @robert_bbiii
    @robert_bbiii 2 года назад +40

    Culp was so good. He added so much.
    There were two things I heard I loved. He always made sure to check the gun he had. In one scene even one Bill knew wasn't loaded. So it was just instinct to check it to be safe.
    The other was that he had written some notes about what Bill's apartment should look like and noted Bill would have a murphy bed. Set designers saw the notes and replicated it exactly.

  • @elizabethhurlbut1475
    @elizabethhurlbut1475 2 года назад +43

    That theme song touched everyone. In an episode of My Name is Earl, Earl and his brother Randy fall through the roof of an empty water tower were they trapped inside suspended by ropes. After waking up to find themselves still hanging in the air, with seemingly all hope lost, the two brother's start to sing, "Believe it or Not". 😂

    • @ianashby1449
      @ianashby1449 2 года назад +5

      Loved my name is earl

    • @Rashomon69
      @Rashomon69 2 года назад +3

      Yes. That was another great show.

  • @davidjames1389
    @davidjames1389 2 года назад +24

    Absolutely love this show. I recently did a rewatch and it actually holds up far better than most 80s shows. The effects are obviously dated, but the dialogue and banter between the characters is still just as sharp and funny as ever.

    • @hackman669
      @hackman669 2 года назад

      Remakes!!!✌

    • @Supreme-Emperor-Mittens
      @Supreme-Emperor-Mittens 2 года назад +3

      @@hackman669 The show does not need a remake,
      it needs to be preserved.
      A remake today will just turn it into trash.

    • @hackman669
      @hackman669 2 года назад

      What abut a continuation with the original theme. Leave out politics and focus on character issues instead.

    • @garicrewsen1128
      @garicrewsen1128 2 года назад +1

      It was effortless to suspend disbelief when watching this show. I think the loss of the Instruction Book multiplied this effect for many of us.

    • @amystreasuresdesign
      @amystreasuresdesign 2 года назад

      Agreed. I caught a few episodes one day when MeTV was running a marathon. It was fun watching it again for the first time since it originally aired.

  • @cyrusq5999
    @cyrusq5999 2 года назад +5

    Loved the "horror" episodes best:
    The alien that stowed aboard a shuttle returning to earth, only to escape underground and feed on electricity. The evil ghost, haunting a soon-to-be-demolished house, and desperate to escape from her dimension to live again, and finally, the sea monster (a plesiosaur-like beast) terrorising vacationers (and pirates) on the high seas in the Caribbean. A shame more episodes in this style weren't produced.
    The series was repeated in the morning weekdays, back in the '90s. Unfortunately, the episodes were edited for commercial breaks, sometimes losing whole scenes. Discovered this for myself when I bought the complete show on DVD.
    Great show (and theme)!

    • @davidmaestas5680
      @davidmaestas5680 9 дней назад +1

      Don't forget the episode where Andre The Giant played a genetic experiment created in a lab by a crazy scientist wanting to produce an army of them !

  • @Trilaan
    @Trilaan 2 года назад +21

    Robert Culp was one of the greatest television actors of his day, and a personal favorite of mine. I'm glad he didn't live to see what was revealed about his friend and I Spy co-star Bill Cosby.
    The Beast in the Black actually had some really good, creepy moments in it and is one of my favorite episodes.

    • @Ashas.Garden
      @Ashas.Garden 2 года назад +3

      Revealed? Imma say he knew well before we did.

    • @robzilla730
      @robzilla730 2 года назад +2

      @learnercass yup. Code of silence I'm sure...

    • @jnnx
      @jnnx Год назад

      Cosby’s dalliances were a well kept industry secret. . .

    • @g.p.ryecroft
      @g.p.ryecroft 6 месяцев назад

      Trilaan, I was also glad Culp wasn't around when Cosby's star fell. And I do NOT think he knew about it. Does anyone think Cosby would brag about drugging girls? Kinda like bragging about having to pay for it. No guy does that.

  • @Krullmatic
    @Krullmatic 2 года назад +12

    This was one of my favorite shows of all time, as a young teenager! I even had the theme song on 45. I wore the crap out of that record.

  • @mathieuaustin7190
    @mathieuaustin7190 2 года назад +12

    So much to love!
    As a Robert Culp fan, I, too, loved Bill the most. And, like most, crushed hard on Connie Selleca.
    Finally, 1 year, 1 of my students was the granddaughter of the theme’s writer. No shock, her classmates didn’t care, but I was blown away! 😅

    • @billkeithchannel
      @billkeithchannel 2 года назад

      While Hero was airing new episodes, reruns of I Spy was being shown on retro cable channels.

  • @09NXN06
    @09NXN06 2 года назад +11

    The theme song blend perfectly with the show along genuine nostalgia I wish I could experience those moments again.

  • @gelfie2208
    @gelfie2208 2 года назад +21

    I have four favourite shows from the 80s. Magnum P.I, Hardcastle and McCormick, Quantum Leap, and Greatest American Hero. And the thing that drew me to them then, and continues to make them rewatchable, is the great and very genuine feeling buddy teamups between the principle characters.

    • @valentinrobert1192
      @valentinrobert1192 2 года назад +1

      Knight rider is not on your list that was good and hunter and fallguy that was great show

    • @gelfie2208
      @gelfie2208 2 года назад +1

      @@valentinrobert1192 Watched Knight Rider as a kid, and loved it of course. I've not seen it as an adult, but I'm not sure it would hold up. I have some very faint memories of The Fall Guy, but not enough to make any comments on it.

    • @davidconner-shover51
      @davidconner-shover51 2 года назад

      @@gelfie2208 To think David Hasselhof did better in Baywatch, then as a singer in Germany for many, many years afterwards is interesting to me, he didn't do too bad after the show cancellation

  • @NottyGurlStyle
    @NottyGurlStyle 2 года назад +5

    I remember watching Greatest American Hero as a child and just loved it! I would laugh at all the crashes lol it was just a great show that will always be in my heart. I still remember the theme and sing it all the time.
    The best was went George used it as his voice message. Loved it!!! It was a wonderful surprise.
    I will have to try and put it on for my son to see if he would like it but we will see.
    I recently bought a magnet of the show for my fridge. I just smile when I look at it.
    This show will never be forgotten ❤

  • @bjw4859
    @bjw4859 2 года назад +6

    I remember this show from the 80's, as kids we had some really amazing shows that I look back fondly from today & I bet if you dressed up as this hero & went to any comic based convention, you'd be recoginised at once.

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot 2 года назад +12

    I most definitely remember watching this show back in the day and then all of us kids talking about his crazy flying style the next day.

  • @cgluck
    @cgluck 2 года назад +4

    I so loved this show as a kid. And still love the theme song (It is on one of my 70's playlists on Spotify). They are always bringing back shows. They could do so on this one too.

  • @Zebrowsky79
    @Zebrowsky79 2 года назад +11

    Child of the 80's I loved this show and the theme song

    • @matthewdaley746
      @matthewdaley746 2 года назад +1

      I, did, too, speaking of which, Bionic Six, Dinosaucers, and, Peter Pan, And, The, Pirates, all, did the worst, possible, thing a cartoon can do, they wasted a great opening.

    • @hackman669
      @hackman669 2 года назад +1

      Greatest Amerucan Heroine haha

    • @matthewdaley746
      @matthewdaley746 Год назад +1

      @@hackman669 Great, joke, just, unquestionably.

  • @aronsmith1635
    @aronsmith1635 2 года назад +5

    This was my all time favorite show. Thank God for the digital age where I can sing along with the theme every chance I get.

  • @maryjoyspohrer256
    @maryjoyspohrer256 2 года назад +2

    The fact that he was a teacher, still makes my heart happy.

  • @creativewritingcorner
    @creativewritingcorner 2 года назад +4

    One of the best TV memories of my childhood was watching this show with my dad, singing along with the theme song.

  • @artboymoy
    @artboymoy 2 года назад +16

    Loved this show as a kid. The theme still holds up as a classic tune full of optimism, which matched the show. I'm glad you brought up Green Lantern because after watching that train wreck, I thought, "Why don't they just use the TGAH feel?", with Hal Jordan not knowing how the suit really worked, what his abilities were, where it actually came from, why it was given to him, etc... At least just for the first movie. Keep the stakes low and his power low as well. Then second movie you take him off planet to fill in the GL Corps and training and back to Earth to fight some bigger dangers. The third movie you could have had him join the Corp in fighting the biggest bad, Parallax (a being not a cloud) and be among many of the other GL that sacrificed their lives to end it. At the end the ring flies off back to Earth... roll credits.

    • @garicrewsen1128
      @garicrewsen1128 2 года назад +1

      Your account icon/thumbnail is a heap of awesomesauce. Live long and prosper.🖖

    • @artboymoy
      @artboymoy 2 года назад

      @@garicrewsen1128 Thank you! When visiting Vasquez Rocks you have to do it right.

    • @spartanx169x
      @spartanx169x 2 года назад +1

      I truly don't know where the hate comes from for the Green Lantern movie. I thought it was pretty good. The only thing I really didn't like was the enemy being so big in relation to the Green Lantern. was it as good as Batman Begins? No. Was it entertaining ? Yes. Did I want to see a sequel when it was over? yes.

    • @artboymoy
      @artboymoy 2 года назад +1

      @@spartanx169x I'm a comic guy so maybe I felt the storytelling could have been a lot better in building it up. Plus, I really didn't care for the suit. It looked like slabs of green muscle was all over him. I just really wish they paced it out better because after beating a galactic threat, where do you go for a sequel?

  • @garicrewsen1128
    @garicrewsen1128 2 года назад +5

    This show's theme song brings tears to my eyes within the first few bars every time I hear it. The nostalgia of a more wholesome and pure existence in my neighborhood, and our communities, cities, states, country and world. Times haven't simply changed since then, they've moved dimensionally to an existence I never expected nor foresaw. It physically and emotionally hurts to remember where we all once were when this show began to shape the ideas and ideals of who many of us then, young and old, aspired to be. Sadly, maybe even inevitably, much of that dream was swept away during the near and distant past, which was, back then, our near and distant future. I think and feel that's why this theme song so easily brings a tear because it equally reminds us what could have been and what was lost. (oops, my feelies fell out!)
    Thanks for covering this JoBlo!! You're my Greatest American Hero❕

    • @jnnx
      @jnnx Год назад

      Time can’t change “dimensionally”, it can only move one direction, Forwards. And you are drunk, take off those nostalgia googles.

    • @raymondcanessa7208
      @raymondcanessa7208 Год назад

      Believe it or not, George isn't at home
      Please leave a message at the beep
      I must be out, or I'd pick up the phone
      Where could I be? Believe it or not, I'm not home

    • @david-spliso1928
      @david-spliso1928 5 месяцев назад

      The 1980s were the pinnacle of western culture in so many ways. We'd peaked. It was downhill from there.

  • @KevinStCroix
    @KevinStCroix 2 года назад +2

    I will always remember the episode shot in Saint Croix. It was at my dads house who was a radio engineer on the island. He called to tell me that they filmed an episode there. It took over a year for that episode to air. I waited and watched every single week for it to come out!
    The most exciting episode ever!
    Well I always love the show and growing up in the 80s!

  • @LatitudeSky
    @LatitudeSky 2 года назад +7

    Cannell had a truly magic typewriter. Hit after hit. Genius casting. The best theme songs.

    • @wyup
      @wyup Год назад

      I was amazed to hear Katt say in an interview that Cannell had a tragic lost during TGAH. Still he carried on to make The A-Team..

    • @davidlafleche1142
      @davidlafleche1142 4 месяца назад +1

      ​@@wyupCannell's son died when his sandcastle collapsed on him. Katt consoled him by writing a song: "Cody the Cowboy". Cannell was so moved by that, he named his next son Cody

  • @JohnnyBeane
    @JohnnyBeane 2 года назад

    I loved this show in 81 when i was a kid but i guess i missed most of it because when i bought the series on DVD in 2005 i watched every episode and only remembered a few shows. Now i know every episode and can watch them again and again!

  • @Oonagh72
    @Oonagh72 2 года назад +14

    Fun trivia. All of those guest stars that came on the show were not just because is Robert Culp or Stephen J Canell connection. William Katt is the son of actors Barbara Hale and Bill Williams. His mom was Della Street on Perry Mason and his dad was the star of The Adventures of Kit Carson. William Katt later starred with his mother in the Perry Mason movies as her son.

    • @matthewdaley746
      @matthewdaley746 2 года назад +3

      He played the son of William Hopper's character, a, PI.

    • @HariSeldon913
      @HariSeldon913 2 года назад +2

      His mom also made a guest appearance as Ralph's mother in one episode. I do wonder which way it went - did they make an episode showing Ralph's mother so she could be on or did they write the episode then ask Katt to see if his mother would do it.

    • @matthewdaley746
      @matthewdaley746 2 года назад +1

      @@HariSeldon913 An interesting performing circumstance.

    • @Oonagh72
      @Oonagh72 2 года назад +1

      @@matthewdaley746 Paul Drake, Jr. Was William Katy’s character. Paul and Della got married producing Paul Drake, Jr. I should have given the entire character story. Sorry, I didn’t give the entire character backstory.

    • @Oonagh72
      @Oonagh72 2 года назад

      @@HariSeldon913 I bet it was a bit of both. Someone probably said it would be nice to have her on the show. Then they wrote an episode with his mom and asked if she might be willing to do it.

  • @madshad3351
    @madshad3351 2 года назад +1

    This show had me in front of the TV religiously. I always wondered how the FBI guy would get hurt. Every episode!!!! I never knew about the Heroine show. Wow. Ty. This was a trip down memory road for me. 👊

  • @Supreme-Emperor-Mittens
    @Supreme-Emperor-Mittens 2 года назад +2

    Used to watch this show
    back in the 80s.
    The theme song and Ralph's flying
    never leaves your head :)

  • @thestepfordlife2015
    @thestepfordlife2015 2 года назад +1

    Thank you for this. I was seven when this aired. I remember it well and fondly.

  • @joelsteverson
    @joelsteverson 2 года назад +1

    One of my all time favorite shows. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

  • @RandomGreymane
    @RandomGreymane 2 года назад +1

    I loved this show! I have a DVD set that came with an instruction manual and cape. I added a t-shirt to the set.

    • @TheJustUsLeague
      @TheJustUsLeague 3 месяца назад

      I kept batteries in that instruction book 24 hrs a day, lol. Loved seeing it light up.

  • @snackbarqueen
    @snackbarqueen Год назад +1

    One of my FAVORITE shows of all time ! I was 7 yo when this show came out and I watched it every week....I LOVED the fact that Ralph was horrible at the flying and landing, it cracked me up 🤣😆 I've actually went back and watched the series in 2015, it might be time again to have another rewatch ! ❤

  • @zodszoo
    @zodszoo 2 года назад +1

    Met William Kaat at a ComiCon years ago. Super nice fella!

  • @mickesmanymovies
    @mickesmanymovies 2 года назад +1

    Saving this video for later, but before watching it I gotta say that I love you guys for doing this! I was 6 years old when this aired on Swedish television, and in all honesty I think it might have sparked some sort of really early interest in the awesomeness of movies and tv... A spark that the tv-show 'V' would pick up and set absolutely ablaze about four years later!

  • @danielwalker4881
    @danielwalker4881 2 года назад

    My Family LOVED this show! We were All disappointed when it was cancelled! I did not know that there were unaired episodes, so I will be searching, and watching them accordingly! Actually may run through the whole series! Thanks!

  • @captainsensiblejr.
    @captainsensiblejr. 2 года назад +8

    At my high school in New Zealand, at the time, we had a female teacher who looked EXACTLY like Connie Selleca. I swear some guys went insane when she took over the Harriers running club.

  • @Fedge378
    @Fedge378 2 года назад +5

    I absolutely loved that theme song from the series premiere. When they started playing it on the radio, I was elated lol. I still know the lyrics lol.

  • @vader0872
    @vader0872 2 года назад

    Wow! Brings back a lot of memories from what was arguably one of my favorite and “Greatest” TV shows of my generation. Thanks for the throw back!
    Next mission, track down those unaired episodes of the series finale!

  • @DeusExAstra
    @DeusExAstra 2 года назад +8

    I'm still waiting for a good remake of this show. Loved it as a kid and the theme song of course is iconic. I just hope that if we eventually get a remake, that it doesnt suck and that the creators respect the source material.

    • @matthewdaley746
      @matthewdaley746 2 года назад

      Hope is a dangerous thing, everything worked out perfectly, once, we shouldn't expect it to happen again, Ghostbusters, is, The, Poster Child, for, this.

    • @HepCatJack
      @HepCatJack 2 года назад

      With Netflix no longer producing Marvel superheroes may properties like this one will become interesting. They could public domain heroes, and maybe sprinkle in Ralph, Automan maybe characters from the Shadow Hunters for a super team. There was a precursor to Spider-Man that was called the Spider, it was sort of another company's version of "The Shadow".

    • @shadowfaxcrx5141
      @shadowfaxcrx5141 2 года назад

      Never happen. It'll be like the Knight Rider reboot. That one went from a fun campy romp that knew it was schlock and leaned into it to a dark show that was so badly written it should have been on MST3k but was completely unaware of how not-epic it was, and where the bad guy of the week was ALWAYS a terrorist. If they bring back GAH, it'll be the same thing as the Batman reboots. Progressively more "edgy" and "gritty" and with none of the fun of the original.

  • @corrosionoc69
    @corrosionoc69 2 года назад +1

    I loved that show growing up. I have shown it to my kids...and they love it as well

  • @skyden24195
    @skyden24195 2 года назад +9

    My dad and I used to love watching this show back when it originally aired. Ralph's haphazard flying/landing was probably our favorite aspect of the show, (it was mine at least.) Also, whenever the theme song came on the radio it always got our full attention, even in the years after the show was cancelled.
    -Just a quick bit of trivia to mention about the Robert Culp show, "I Spy;" the TV-show ("I Spy") was the first (U.S.) nationally broadcast television show to feature a black actor (Bill Cosby) in a leading role, and was executive produced by Sheldon Leonard, a former Hollywood-Golden-Age character (typically gangster) actor turned TV exec-producer who exec-produced such shows as, "I Love Lucy," "The Andy Griffith Show," and the first recognized spin-off show, "Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C."

    • @billkeithchannel
      @billkeithchannel 2 года назад +1

      * correction * (oops)
      -Sheldon Leonard- Sidney Sheldon and I Dream Of Genie must always be said within the same breath.

    • @skyden24195
      @skyden24195 2 года назад

      @@billkeithchannel wow! Really? That was one I did not know about. Thank you for that great bit of info. Also, nice to communicate with someone who as well understands the greatness of, and I believe to be underacknowledged, Sheldon Leonard.

    • @billkeithchannel
      @billkeithchannel 2 года назад +1

      @@skyden24195 Oh crap! I am getting old. Sidney Sheldon was I Dream Of Genie.

    • @skyden24195
      @skyden24195 2 года назад

      @@billkeithchannel lol, okay, that explains why I hadn't heard/known of Sheldon Leanard being a part of I Dream of Genie.

  • @becfinnerty
    @becfinnerty 2 года назад +2

    I used the theme song at my wedding n plan 2 use it at my funeral. Love it

  • @tryllyam
    @tryllyam 2 года назад +1

    I loved this show so much when I was in junior high. And you are right - just mentioning the theme song gets it stuck in my head!

  • @richardryley3660
    @richardryley3660 2 года назад +2

    This has always been one of my favorite shows of all time. Katt may have hated that he never learned to fly well, but the losing the instruction manual gimmick was genius. Not only could they make up powers to fit the plot, but even as a kid I understood the idea of "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely".
    Since Ralph couldn't control his powers he could never rely on them. For example, I thought it was amusing that he was bullet proof, but he always shielded his head. His head was exposed, so he couldn't assume it was protected, and it was too dangerous to shoot himself in the head just to see.

  • @jeanaerowley7150
    @jeanaerowley7150 2 года назад

    I’m a Gen X and man, alive….this video was pure nostalgia! I remember being in kindergarten and singing this song so much! I can’t really find the words to express how amazing 80’s TV was. I honestly feel like our generation had the best evolution of music and television. Seeing the creation of cable tv, tv series with actual theme songs, MTV…RAP and Hip Hop! We had it all 🥲 😍 🙌🏼

  • @craigreid7178
    @craigreid7178 2 года назад +1

    Always loved this feel-good show. The characters were well developed and the story lines were just the right blend of humor and compassion. And, yes, I still hum the theme from time to time.

  • @jediknightjairinaiki560
    @jediknightjairinaiki560 2 года назад +12

    Finally! It's because of this show, that people think teachers are heroes. Now it all makes sense.

    • @billkeithchannel
      @billkeithchannel 2 года назад +1

      Jamie Sommers was a teacher and would keep them in line by tearing an Ojai phone book in half. Oh yeah, and she used her bionics to help out the government too.

    • @jediknightjairinaiki560
      @jediknightjairinaiki560 2 года назад +1

      @@billkeithchannel Hey, Kevin. Try to get a grasp on sarcasm. You'll enjoy the joke and the social commentary more, instead of walking around with a stick up your @$$.

  • @SUPASLY75
    @SUPASLY75 2 года назад +3

    Criminally underrated show!!

  • @shannonalaminski2619
    @shannonalaminski2619 2 года назад +1

    I still hear this song on the radio from time to time and I can still see the guy awkwardly trying, crashing, trying and then flying. Yes, I'm smiling right now.

  • @michaellatta7699
    @michaellatta7699 2 года назад +1

    Greatest American Hero was my first experience with Robert Culp. What a great actor. Loved that show as a kid. And if you missed an episode for some odd reason then tuff luck.

  • @BeatlesFanSonia
    @BeatlesFanSonia 2 года назад +1

    I love that show! I was going through with a divorce and I would sing that song all day! My husband hated it so much he broke my record!

  • @cryptojihadi265
    @cryptojihadi265 2 года назад +16

    Those were the days of Connie Selleca, Linda Carter, Erin Grey. Wow, just WOW!

    • @robertcoggeshall3071
      @robertcoggeshall3071 2 года назад +3

      3 absolutely stunning women. Agree 👍.

    • @slc40
      @slc40 2 года назад +2

      I was absolutely in love with Connie and close friend with Erin.

  • @robertwilliams2762
    @robertwilliams2762 2 года назад +1

    I remember this show always gave me a laugh and a warm feeling. It really cheered me up.

  • @rocky3167
    @rocky3167 4 месяца назад

    Thanks for that, JoBlo... I just rewatched TGAH on Prime and had a hoot! Loved it as much as I did the first time when I was a kid...

  • @michaelwilson8461
    @michaelwilson8461 2 года назад +1

    A few years ago my wife got me the box set of this show. It came with a cape , an iron on patch of his emblem and the best part is it came with the instruction book All packed in a nice black box (that was supposed to be the case his suit came in). Always loved the show as a kid. Never forgot the episode where he went into the 4th dimension.

  • @John-ct9zs
    @John-ct9zs 2 года назад +1

    Thanks for creating this video. I fell in love with this TV show as a kid in the 80s and it always brings warm fuzzies to my heart to see this show and hear the theme song. I think they missed the boat on doing a reboot of this show back in the 2000s when Stephen J. Cannell was around. He understood the show he created, because GAH was always a misunderstood series. You had to hit the tone of the show right in the middle, not be campy, not be too serious. Compare the 1st season and most of the 2nd season of GAH with the goofiness of the 3rd season, you can tell ABC really took over in Season 3. That 1st season and the early 2nd season was how Stephen J. Cannell envisioned the series, serious but also lighthearted fun about a regular guy put in an extraordinary position. The humor came from the situations Ralph found himself in, not slapstick comedy that ABC pushed. Like you said, you had to approach the material with earnest and not do it campy, but you also couldn't be too serious, you had to be willing to have fun. This is a tricky balance, as I think most people including ABC back in the 80s, wanted to go full on silly Adam West 1960s Batman campy mode with GAH. The best bet to reboot this show would be doing a movie like Shazaam! Yes it wouldn’t be the TV show, but it would be close enough to the spirit. They may even have to change a key aspect of the character and give him a public persona, whereas in the TV show he had no public persona as a superhero, all his heroic stuff was done incognito and people who saw him assumed he was a nut. Remember this was way before cosplay, in the 70s and 80s, people were way more cynical to the idea of superheroes then today.

  • @mikeattard3543
    @mikeattard3543 2 года назад +1

    Awesome show. I was in 6th grade band and my Dad bought me the sheet music for the theme song to play on my saxophone.

  • @88happiness
    @88happiness 2 года назад +1

    Loved the theme song!! Thanks for playing abit at the end. I never realized that the symbol on his suit is basically the Chinese/Japanese character for 'middle' 中

  • @jony3775
    @jony3775 2 года назад +1

    Yep, I was obsessed as a 13 year-old in the 80’s watching this unfold weekly on TV. Even made my own silent superhero film (yes- on actual film!) on dad’s Super-8 camera (VHS cameras were still $$$$) -and the theme song was the first complex thing I ever learned on piano. Still have the sheet music in my archive ha ha. Killed me to miss a single episode because you never knew if you’d ever get another chance to see it again. No way to record it yet- it passed through the airwaves and either you caught it on your antenna at the precise moment… or it was gone into space forever (fly Ralph, fly!) Never could have predicted current media tech… but I doubt that waiting another 30 years to catch an episode I’d missed would have been very comforting at the time anyhow ha ha.

  • @jasonvega9942
    @jasonvega9942 2 года назад +1

    I loved this show. Thank you

  • @americanuprising7628
    @americanuprising7628 2 года назад +1

    I showed my eight year old this show he loves it. We got all three seasons, and bugs to watch it every week lol. Such a great show, hokie for sure but, a sweet show for sure.

  • @benjaminwalthall66
    @benjaminwalthall66 2 года назад +1

    I enjoyed watching the Greatest American Hero. I is a fun show to watch. I would not mind seeing a remake of the Greatest American Hero. not a reboot but a remake. new actors, and a fun new adventures of the three coming together to stop the bad guys.

  • @legendofzeida2516
    @legendofzeida2516 2 года назад +1

    Well done! Great memories! 😎👍

  • @officialbrucewayne
    @officialbrucewayne 2 года назад +1

    This is the first show I bumped into culp and was happy he was in it cause it led me to a lot of other stuff and everytime I'd see him I'd be oh Robert culp and he was just one of the best

  • @virgil3241
    @virgil3241 2 года назад +2

    Loved this show. I have the DVD boxed set a few years ago. Just a fun show

    • @SMaamri78
      @SMaamri78 2 года назад

      Me, too. One of my favorite shows of all time.

  • @blackpatflynn
    @blackpatflynn 2 года назад +2

    i grew up in the 80s i watched this show alot...it wasnt until about 10 years ago that i realized he dropped the instruction manual....mind blown

  • @deke76
    @deke76 2 года назад +1

    Loved this show as a kid, and Bill was my favorite character.

  • @Forcemaster2000
    @Forcemaster2000 2 года назад +2

    Probably my all-time favorite show, ever!

  • @efrainsantiago5225
    @efrainsantiago5225 2 года назад +1

    Thank you for the video. It was a great show.

  • @kemarieblack3730
    @kemarieblack3730 2 года назад

    Loved this show. One of my Dad's favorites. I bought all the episodes for him.

  • @SVSky
    @SVSky 2 года назад +1

    The song hits my headphones on random play while hang gliding occassionally. Describes the moment perfectly!

  • @CitizenKate
    @CitizenKate 2 года назад

    Great story, I finally get to meet Mike Post, and when the (instrumental version of the) theme played at the end, all the lyrics were still fresh in my memory after more than 30 years of never thinking about it, much to my astonishment!

  • @SirKnight1096
    @SirKnight1096 2 года назад +4

    Still my favorite Superhero show

  • @evanm.jacobson1514
    @evanm.jacobson1514 2 года назад

    Fabulous job! Thank you for sharing. We need more didactic shows to inspire creation and positivity in our dynamic universe!👍

  • @wolfchief7952
    @wolfchief7952 2 года назад +1

    I Loved the show as a kid, I try not miss an episode.

  • @saltymisfit6566
    @saltymisfit6566 2 года назад +1

    Being an eighties kid I can tell you for a fact that was definitely a decade of TV yes there are still some good shows out now but back then almost every show was a huge hit with a great cast of characters fantastic writing an amazing story lines that went on week after week

  • @ntvypr4820
    @ntvypr4820 2 года назад +1

    80's were my 20's and I was a 21 yr old radio DJ when 'Theme From The Greatest American Hero (Believe It Or Not)" was released in fall-winter of 1981. I loved it from the start and of course I watched the show at home. This was the era for me before VCR's even. It was a kooky show but a funny one. I also vividly recall the quick name change away from the controversial "Hinkley" after the assassination attempt on Pres. Reagan's life by John Hinkley "trying to impress Jodi Foster" What an idiot. And they just released him last year I believe. Anyway it was a great show one of many of the 1980's. The 80's were great and the height of rock music too to me. TV/Music started going downhill when MTV and VH-1 began to stop playing music videos. BTW, I still have my Not For Sale radio station promo copy of the theme song in my vast 45/33 RPM library. Thanks for the great memories.

  • @JasonMarsdenOfficial
    @JasonMarsdenOfficial 2 года назад +1

    Loved the show, loved the theme song! So much so I would sing it everywhere I went. It got to the point where I would be called upon to perform it at family gatherings. I mean, at 6 years old, I wasn't great...but I was great in a living room. ;-) Plus, I had the 45 and wore - it - out! Very much sad at its sudden discontinuation. Had no idea about the four episode follow up or the "Heroine" pilot. Nor did I truly realize Culps prowess as writer/director of a few eps. Outstanding. I loved this show so much, when my son was just a toddler, he had blonde, curly hair, like Katt. I had my mother make him a GAH suit for Halloween. ;-D

    • @dreadzone518
      @dreadzone518 2 года назад

      Holy crap! You're Jason Marsden! I've been a fan since THE MUNSTERS TODAY! You were great as Burt Ward in BACK TO THE BATCAVE. I had no idea you had a YTchannel. And certainly no idea you were a GAH fan. It's a pleasure to "meet" you.

  • @quistan2
    @quistan2 27 дней назад

    Song has been stuck in my head for 40 years.

  • @sean4339
    @sean4339 2 года назад +1

    Good classic and the song for the show is awesome love it,love the 80s forever ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @fredlandry6170
    @fredlandry6170 2 года назад +3

    I loved this show when I was a kid!

  • @gazbot9000
    @gazbot9000 Год назад

    I just loved that Ralph didn't really know how to fly, and never stopped being utterly terrified of this ability. Any time he took flight, he did so wailing and flailing all the way.

  • @Godless_Guru
    @Godless_Guru 2 года назад

    No way! Literally re watched TGAH a couple of weeks ago on you tube! Perfect timing😅

  • @RobGordon
    @RobGordon 2 года назад

    He's right - after all these years, that song never left my head.

  • @robbyrdog
    @robbyrdog 11 месяцев назад

    House is one of my favorite movies of all time! William Katt is so underrated it’s criminal.

  • @maryjoyspohrer256
    @maryjoyspohrer256 2 года назад

    I love to sing along at work when the theme song plays on the loop!!!

  • @prophez23
    @prophez23 2 года назад

    I grew up watching every episode of this show. Man I miss the 80's so much.

  • @arthouston7361
    @arthouston7361 2 года назад

    I was working in top 40 radio when that theme song was a recurring hit in our playlist, and I truly love the work of Mike Post…especially things like Hill Street Blues….and you have to admire Stephen Cannell for all of that writing for all of those ideas for all of those shows ….that guy was a master at his craft. He would be 79 if he was alive today but he’s another person who left us too soon because of cancer.

  • @graemevincent2149
    @graemevincent2149 Год назад

    The theme was really something else when you compare it to any other series from the 80's. Even all these years later I can still remember it word for word.

  • @danielvandersall6756
    @danielvandersall6756 2 года назад +2

    One of the most memorable themes of all time; right up there with A-Team and Magnum P.I.

    • @matthewdaley746
      @matthewdaley746 2 года назад

      Speaking of which, the reboot is an absolute atrocity, CBS, for, once in their history, didn't keep a program on too long, the reprieve is, indefensible.

  • @marcoadan1
    @marcoadan1 2 года назад

    I never watched this show growing up, but I do watch House(1985) at least once a year. Obviously part of my Halloween Must Watch List. Great film!

  • @1400IntruderVS
    @1400IntruderVS 2 года назад +1

    My favorite show when I was a child.
    Also loved Tales of the Gold Monkey.