Product Details

• Actors: William Katt, Robert Culp, Connie Sellecca, Michael Pare, Faye Grant
• Directors: Various
• Format: Box set, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 9
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Mill Creek Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: May 18, 2010
• Run Time: 2140 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (99 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B003BGZ61S
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,389 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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BELIEVE IT OR NOT...He's THE GREATEST!

The complete 43 episode collection of THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO!

This 9 DVD collector's set includes all 43 episodes of this quirky, Emmy®-nominated sci-fi/action/comedy series created by legendary writer/producer Stephen J. Cannell. Co-starring Michael Pare and Faye Grant, this hit show also featured a stellar lineup of guest stars including: Joe Mantegna, Markie Post, Bob Saget, Rick Dees, June Lockhart, David Paymer, Barbara Hale, André The Giant, Dixie Carter, Don Drysdale and more. Don't miss out on the small screen's biggest hero!

William Katt stars as Ralph Hinkley, an ordinary school teacher who becomes extraordinary after an encounter with extraterrestrials which leaves him with a red power suit that transforms him into a superhero! But when he loses the suit's instruction manual, Ralph must learn by trial and error to control the capabilities and powers of his magic suit to fight the battle against injustice and crime. With the help of his attorney girlfriend Pam Davidson (Connie Sellecca) and FBI agent Bill Maxwell (Robert Culp), the world's most unlikely flying crime fighter gets tangled in one outrageous adventure after another!

STARRING: WILLIAM KATT, CONNIE SELLECCA, ROBERT CULP, MICHAEL PARE, FAYE GRANT...and many more!

INCLUDES BONUS 20-MINUTE INTERVIEW WITH CREATOR STEPHEN J. CANNELL!

Episodes:

• Pilot
• The Hit Car
• Here's Looking at You, Kid
• Saturday Night on Sunset Boulevard
• Reseda Rose
• My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
• Fire Man
• The Best Desk Scenario
• The Two-Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Fast Ball
• Operation Spoilsport
• Don't Mess Around with Jim
• Hog Wild
• Classical Gas
• The Beast in the Black
• The Lost Diablo
• Plague
• Train of Thought
• Now You See It
• The Hand-Painted Thai
• Just Another Three Ring Circus
• The Shock Will Kill You
• A Chicken in Every Plot
• The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
• It's All Downhill from Here
• Dreams
• There's Just No Accounting...
• Good Samaritan
• Captain Bellybuster and the Speed Factory
• Who's Woo in America
• Liacs, Mr. Maxwell
• Divorce Venusian Style
• The Price is Right
• This is the One the Suit Was Meant For
• The Resurrection of Carlini
• The Newlywed Game
• Heaven is in your Genes
• Live at Eleven
• Space Ranger
• Thirty Seconds Over Little Tokyo
• Wizards and Warlocks
• It's Only Rock and Roll
• Desperado
• Vanity, Says the Preacher
• Bonus items: Interviews with Stephen J. Cannel

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

32 of 37 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Fun show, bad packaging July 30, 2010

By SH

Amazon Verified Purchase

UPDATE Feb 4, 2011 - I've discovered that this set is incomplete. Season 3, Episode 14 - The Greatest American Heroine, is missing from the set. This was a pilot that wasn't picked up but was released as the final episode of the Greatest American Hero Series. So you'll watch this whole set and miss the final episode. So I'm knocking off another star. If I knew it wasn't the complete series, as it claims, I would probably have still bought it for fifteen bucks. I'll get that much entertainment value of of it. But it's frustrating to watch a series and not get the final episode. So know what you're getting, enjoy it, and just realize you'll have to watch the final episode somewhere else.

While this video series is on Hulu (as of today, at least), it doesn't have the final episode either.

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On the plus side, I loved this show as a kid and this set was cheap. On the negative side, the packaging reflects the cheap price. The discs are in black paper sleeves, packed in a single, hokey plastic case. The plastic outer cover on my DVD box is ripped. So I'll need to glue it back down. One of the plastic "clips" that is supposed to hold the paper sleeves was broken when I opened it. No discs were damaged. But now there's only one clip to hold the cheesy sleeves in the cheesy plastic box with broken fastener system.

0 for the packaging, 5 for the show results in 3 stars rating.

I'd have paid $5 more for decent packaging.

It's not possible, from what I can tell, to get a disc out of the paper sleeve without touching the back of the disc.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Mill Creek Entertainment = Horrible Packaging December 31, 2010

By Barfvader

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is for the packaging and not the actual show.

I guess one should always remember that you get what you pay for and with this Mill Creek Entertainment version that couldn't be anymore truthful.

Amazon did a great job in getting this here in one day. Opened up the shipping box and proceeded to open up the box set. First thing a little piece of black plastic pops out. This was part of the plastic box that had broke off. Next I spot the discs sitting in their paper sleeves. That immediately didn't sit well as they are in my opinion horrible for protecting discs and I found that out immediately upon inspecting the discs. Out of the 9 discs, 5 are damaged with scratches. 2 are lightly scratched with them getting progressively worse looking with the final 2 looking like something had been rubbing against them causing fairly severe damage.

Will they play? Well at this point I'm not willing to even try because when I purchase new I expect new. Now I do place some of the blame on myself in that I should have read which company had made this box set and if I had I would know from past experience of purchasing Mill Creek Entertainment sets that they really skimp on the protection/packaging and I would not have purchased this particular set.

Edited to add:

Amazon quickly sent a replacement and surprise, the replacement also is damaged. This time not as bad as the scratches are light (they should play) but never will I purchase Mill Creek Entertainment sets again.

5 Stars for Amazon
2 Stars for Mill Creek Entertainment

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars greatest american hero complete series July 15, 2010

By R. Miller

Amazon Verified Purchase

I bought this DVD set believing it would include bonus interviews with the cast members. Unfortunately they weren't included, just the one with Stephen Cannell. I loved the series but didn't feel the need to get the version with the cape and instruction book as I am only interested in the DVDS. I guess if I wanted to shell out 50.00 more dollars for the "deluxe" version I'd would have gotten the bonus interviews. Too bad..I feel a little ripped off..they shouldn't have included reviews from the 2006 version of this DVD set on the 2010 version as it is a different product and is misleading. I'll keep this as I'm in no mood to go through the hassle of exchanging this for the deluxe version.