his superpower is the ability to remain somewhat memorable after a relatively short run on TV.

Believe it or not, this was one of the best shows in the early 80's. Very inspirational too.

RIP MR. Cannell!!! This will always be among my favorite TV Shows of all time! :) Classic take on comic-book heroism!

Honestly. Why is this not a film franchise? There's a huge audience for it. The fact 21 Jump Street gets a movie while this continues to be ignored is a tragedy.

@SentryUSMG

9 жыл бұрын

At the very least bring it back to tv with a new series. Continuing with Hinkley passing the suit on to a new hero. I'd watch it.

@wheeledjustice7381

9 жыл бұрын

SentryUSMG With the recent Superhero TV Craze, a semi-serious superhero show like this would fit right in! I say bring it to CBS this fall!

@fireriffs

8 жыл бұрын

+rofyle I think there have been attempts at a film and it's never been able to get off the ground (no pun intended). Hopefully if they ever do make a movie of it they won't be making fun of it like they did with 21 Jump Street.

@tonoslim

8 жыл бұрын

yo that is so true!!!!

@killjoydklown

5 жыл бұрын

I've heard about it being turned into a film on two occasions over the past 20 years... Once in the late 90s with Adam Sandler attached to play him, and within the last few years, I heard Nathan Fillion was trying to get it off the ground.

Robert Culp's performance as Bill Maxwell was priceless. One of my fav actors.

@jamestaylor4480

8 ай бұрын

He looks like Sheriff John Bunnell

Back when shows had theme songs.

@disposable_hero1725

6 жыл бұрын

Surprising one of the major 80's action shows with a monologue intro but yet again it did a great theme music.

@IanGorton

4 жыл бұрын

And not unusual for them to make the pop charts. When was the last time that happened?

0:27 "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."

@PrincessofPower84

8 жыл бұрын

EPIC! Happy 35th Anniversary, Greatest American Hero!

@3642130

7 жыл бұрын

call Allison you Putz

@ianjames3144

7 жыл бұрын

I also remember this song off a Ep of My Name is Earl, when Randy and Him was stuck in a Water Tower.

@HigherPlanes

6 жыл бұрын

LOLOLOL Costanza

@kennyp1477

4 жыл бұрын

RIGHT!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I wanted to be him more than Superman.....I had a cape and I pretended to fly crazy because I ( even as a kid) knew I wasn't perfect....

@annoyedandroid

8 жыл бұрын

This is probably the best comment I have ever read on KZread.

@johnlogan6562

7 жыл бұрын

me too!

@don312000

7 жыл бұрын

Based on your profile picture, you're wearing a REAL superhero uniform now!! Thank you for your service. Semper Fi!!!

@AA-ji8uf

5 жыл бұрын

I thought it was just me 😄

@f0rmaggi0

5 жыл бұрын

Very well said!

This has got to be one of the best theme songs for a tv show ever. I love it!

I have fond memories of tying a towel around my neck and jumping off my moms couch and crashing into things because of Ralph Hinkley and Bill Maxwell! 😀

@thedon9670

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly the same for me :)

Loved this show, and I loved the theme song, too. I qas a kid when this show was on, but still, it was a cool little show:)

This brought back some MAJOR memories!! I miss when TV was like this! Full of fresh, entertaining ideas!

Stephen J Cannell was the best thing to happen in the 80's

The 80's ... lotta great memories

R.I.P Robert Culp. You were very talented and you will be surely missed by all of your fans.

@jamestaylor4480

8 ай бұрын

He favored Sheriff John Bunnell

AMERICA NEEDS YOU ❤️ !!!!!!!!! GREAT SHOW!!!!!! BELIEVE IT OR NOT I MISS THE GOOD OLE 80s!!!!!!!!!!😊😊😊😊

Robert Culp was a tremendous actor! The show was very well cast! I love to watch the reruns today!

@jamestaylor4480

8 ай бұрын

He favored Sheriff John Bunnell

One of my favorite shows as a kid. Good times.

I love this theme song! It is so beautiful! Tv shows these days hardly have theme songs anymore...and when they do, they don't come close to this. 80s theme songs were the most amazing ever...and still are!

There was ALWAYS something to watch on TV in the 80s. Seven days a week. Without cable.

Thanks for this, remember watching old shows of this as a kid

@campdry

8 жыл бұрын

+campdry Yeah I loved this show even though the episodes were older than me

Believe it or not George isn't at home...

@fordprefect4728

4 жыл бұрын

damn, I was just thinking where I heard this before, summer of George.

Great opening and great song.

Ran across this song on the radio one day, now I know where it came from! Not bad at all!

Back when theme tunes were longer than a sentence.

No way! I used to watch this as a kid.

GREATEST AMERICAN HERO!!!!!!!!!💗💯💯 AMERICA NEEDS YOU!!!!!!!!😄🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🌟

Favorite show when I was a child. We need shows like this on tv.

HERES TO THE SNOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why hasnt a movie based on this show been made yet?

@sominus1

9 жыл бұрын

Because (sadly) if they make one, it would be a movie full of pretty girls showing the stuff, lots of blood and people dying all the time.

@Mom_sBasement

5 жыл бұрын

Cause it sucked.

Man....this show takes me back to a time in my life when it was all about fun! I loved this show....and the song is still one of the best! I have yet to come across anyone who doesn't love this song! Man I miss those days! God Bless Everyone!

Look at what's happened to me!!!! Believe it or not I LOVE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO!!!!!!😍😍😍

Look a what has happened to me. I can't believe it myself

I watched this as a little girl!

I LOVE THIS ❤️ SHOW!!!!!!! AND I MISS THE GOOD OLE DAYS!!!!!!😔📺📻📼📺

Damn this takes me back when I was little love the 80's

This was the best tv series

My father love this show when he was young it a great show now I like it

@connormertens

9 жыл бұрын

I know it great

@connormertens

9 жыл бұрын

It about a guy that gets a suit from aliens and must be a hero but the suit he can't control with out the book how it works

@connormertens

9 жыл бұрын

It fun

@connormertens

9 жыл бұрын

U should watch it

@BlightedJosh

9 жыл бұрын

connor mertens Plurals

Why can't we have cool shows like this anymore? I used to love this show when I was a kid, but you can't even find it in syndication anymore.

Best Quote about 80's television....ever! I lived out in the sticks and didn't get cable tv in my house until the 1990's.

EPIC SONG

Cinema Snob brought me here as its his theme tune before the new versions :D

This was my fav! I watched this with my father growing up

loved this show - thanks for posting this...brings back great memories!!!

you could say the show and character was meant to be a polar opposite to SUPERMAN because he's Blonde has a Red suit instead and has no idea how to use his powers[ he doesn't fly so much as he just jumps over very low buildings and collides into whatever happens to stop him!!] but the show was all the more endearing just for that reason Cheers!!

@pvtrichter8816

10 жыл бұрын

RIP ROBERT CULP!!

@RAZORBLACKRX

8 жыл бұрын

+pvtrichter88 Unlike a lot of other silly shows, this one had a heart. You could identify with Ralph... a average guy and his struggles trying to balance his personal life , his work as a teacher and crazy situations he gets drags into by Maxwell.

@alisterfolson

5 жыл бұрын

I think the last season he found the book on how to use his powers, not sure

Believe it or not, George isn't at home.

@SamPendleton

7 жыл бұрын

Where could he be?

Omg...wow I remember watching this as a kid....dam I missed the 80's ..best sit-coms, movies,nd cartoons handz down.!! Thx for the post

Good memories are coming back to me watching this, I loved these series. We are not getting younger, right? R.I.P. Robert.

I always thought this song was too good to be a sitcom theme

@c.jenn01

7 жыл бұрын

So did many other people, it actually made the music charts when this sitcom came out, and stayed there for a bit too.

@Desslar

7 жыл бұрын

Sitcom?

The fact that they lost the manual was the most interesting twist to any superhero story ever! It added a whole other dimension to the show that needed to be there.

OMG! I used to watch this when I was a kid, feel like I stepped onto a time machine, I am being flooded with memories of my youth :)

Some parallels with Welcome Back Kotter...white-guy afro, teacher for "challenging" kids, Connie Seleca type gal. I guess the similarities end there because I don't recall Kotter fighting crime with a suit given to him by aliens (with subsequent loss of instruction manual). Oh well...

We're all old

I used to watch this every Saturday morning as a kid. The memories. This was Lupo and Cannell's last show before THE A-TEAM.

I wasn't alive when this show was on, but my mom loved it, and we only had 1 t.v. at the time, so she watch re-runs. I hated it when I was too young to appreciate it, now I can't get enough! lol

♫ Believe it or not George, isn't at home, please leave a messaaaage at the beep...I must be out, or I'd pick up the phone...WHHEEEREE COULD I BEEE??? Believe it or not, I'm not hoommmee. ♫

@JHsweeeeeeet

9 жыл бұрын

Lol Loved that part in Seinfeld! :-D

George isn't at home

This show has been on my mind a lot lately adn this is where I came. The intro brought tears to my eyes, I just loved this show so much. Thanks.

RIP Stephen J Cannell,never forget the tv shows you've,made The A-Team,Hunter The Greastest American Hero,Silk Stalkings just to name a few,back then tv shows intro themes really told an idea of the program everyone was watching at the time. Thanks for posting it bring back memories.I enjoyed watching this with my Grandfather even now at 39 I'll never forget that song ever.

#castiel

i had forgotten all about this show... omg! this brings back so many memories!

Classic wonderful song.❤❤❤❤

R.I.P. Robert Culp. Thanks for some GREAT memories!

This was, is and will forever be my fave sci-fi show. It was my introduction into the sci-fi realm & I ain't ever left!!! :D

I have my 4-year-old here next to me while watching this...... WOW... I was his age when I watched this on TV. I am almost taken by emotion.

He literally should’ve been the original Superman...💯💪🏾

Loved this show. And the concept is pretty good: Guy is given by aliens a suit with incredible abilities, and he loses the instruction manual. This deserves a "reboot"!

This to me was the most amuzing show of the 80's with an impressive theme song by Joey Scarbury. Very much apart of my generation. I will forever miss the 80's.

Just ordered the complete series.I watched this when I was a kid,hope it is as enjoyable as I remember.

i didn't see much the show but the intro music was magnificent and i always liked it.

Wow..what a show that was and the song is a classic and a class song...good intro...it bring back memories from when i was a kid...loved this show...

Oh the memories! Used to watch this sometimes in my HS days in the 1990s. They were reruns on FX. Love this tune ! 😇

I used to love this show, I watched it all the time. It was very underrated. Robert Culp was a riot and Connie Selecca was young and very cute. A very good show.

loved this show when i was a kid. used to sing this theme song on the top of my lungs biking around my hood, making snow cones and building forts pretending to have super powers!!!!

Thank. I'm so old already. Love it so much . Thank for bring back good memory!

I had never heard of this show before a few weeks ago when Syfy had an all day marathon and my mother put it on. I now love this series so much! Great idea for a series. The superhero doesn't fight super villains, just normal bad guys.

RIP Robert Culp and Stephen J. Cannell. Greatest American Heroes of television forevermore.

Used to love this show! Maybe it stuck in my subconscious until adulthood and is the reason I became a teacher.

I saw this show on the Sci-fi channel. I like it.

I loved this show as a teenager and I still love it.You can really hear Connie selleca's new york accent sometimes!!

now this was a show takes me back i wish i could go back im 34 it seems like a loooooooooong time i miss them days

wonderful tv series, wonderful cast, wonderful soundtrack. RIP robert!

Stephen Cannell made EVERYTHING in the 70's, 80's, and 90's. Guy was a genius.

Great song. It sent me back in time and I liked it there. Thanks!!

Aw man, this show came out in 1981, the year I was born. I'm surprised I still remember the theme song, but how could I forget something so damn catchy?! Such nostalgia :']

1.4 million hits tells me there are a lot more fans of this 80's show than people care to admit :-)

When I really just need to sing and dance and honestly just belt one out ... OMG! Too much JOY.

Classic!! Takes me back far too many years!!

Everyone I watch these classic 80's intros I cry on the inside

I live in the UK where this show was never shown, I have never seen it and yet, somehow, this song has found me and got into my head.

Ahhh one of my many fave TV shows of the 1980's. I remember watching it in 1981 and around there when it first came out. :)

Awesome show. I watched the marathon on Sci-Fi Channel. Brought back a lot of memories. I loved this show when I was a kid. Great chemistry from the cast and sharp dialog.

Loved that show! So nice to hear that theme song again.

I really miss the times this reminds me of, they can never be replaced

So many memories :-) Great show!

awesome song! brings back the memories as a kid. thx for posting.

God, I loved that show back then. What great memories!

IF I could turn back the clock of time i would go back to 1977 and be born all over again and enjoy the best time of my life!

Never cared about the show as much but I watched and loved the song.

Brings back great memories!!!!!