Episode
The Greatest American Hero: Don't Mess Around with Jim
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- The Greatest American Hero
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 1981-11-18
- Runtime
- 60 min
Episode context
Don't Mess Around with Jim is Episode 3 in Season 2 of The Greatest American Hero. It aired on 1981-11-18. The runtime is 60 min.
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Episode 2: Operation Spoilsport
Ralph and Bill must stop World War III by defusing a corrupt military leader's plans to launch a suprise missile attack against Russia.
Episode 4: Hog Wild
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.
More episodes from this season
Episode 1: The Two-Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Fastball
Ralph dons a baseball suit to trap Latino revolutionaries who plan to finance a coup by fixing ball games.
Episode 5: Classical Gas
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.
Episode 6: The Beast in the Black
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.
Episode 7: The Lost Diablo
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.
Episode 8: Plague
A psycho military cult leader tries to spread the small-pox virus.
Episode 9: A Train of Thought
Ralph crashes head first into a train, and gets amnesia. Pam and Bill have to convince him that the suit really works.
Episode 10: Now You See It...
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.
Episode 11: The Handpainted Thai
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.
Episode 12: Just Another Three Ring Circus
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.
Episode 13: The Shock Will Kill You
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.