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The Greatest American Hero....

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I remember watching it as a kid everyday, however I don't remember enough about the actual show to remember if it was actually any good, or it was just a case of a young kid being entertained by a guy in an orange suit, acting a'fool. Help me out here........

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Dude, it was a red suit!

 

From what I remember of it, it was campy and fun. I enjoyed it as a kid, and again when FX used to show the replays. I'll probably be picking this up on DVD.

 

FYI, last I heard they are making this into a movie sometime this/next year.

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Season 1 will include the pilot for THE GREATEST AMERICAN HEROINE!

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Guest Dynamite Kido

I used to watch this as a kid as well. Too bad the only thing I remember for it was that William Katt was in this and House....aka a movie I loved as a kid.

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Dude, it was a red suit!

Nova used to wear that suit in ECW in a different color of course.

 

Too bad the only thing I remember for it was that William Katt was in this

He was on Matlock also.

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Guest netslob
Believe it or not, I'm walkin' on air I never thought I could be so free-e-e-

great. now i got that damn song stuck in my head. thanks a shitload. :angry:

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I loved the show as a kid, but haven't seen it in syndication since '90 or so.

 

I'll probably spend the $20 to check it out again.

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I picked it up this last weekend and have watched the first DVD (out of 3). Amazingly, the show holds up well 25 years later... except for the FX, of course, which are funny in their own unintentional way now.

 

I imagine that as a kid I enjoyed the farce humor of Ralph's inability to use the suit, combined with the whole common-man-as-a-superhero thing. Watching it now, I see the real show stealer was Robert Culp as the tough-guy FBI agent.

 

If you have $20 to kill and you remember liking the show, give it a shot.

 

EDIT: One funny thing I noticed in the pilot was there seemed to be some suspicious songs inserted into the pilot that clearly were recorded recently. Turns out that these songs were put in place of "Rocket Man" and "Space Oddity" that were originally in the pilot... guess they didn't want to shell out the money for those.

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