Series pilot: School teacher Ralph Hinkley meets FBI Special Agent William "Bill" Maxwell on a field trip to the desert, where extraterrestrials team them up for a mission: Ralph is given a functional super suit with amazing powers (flight, holographic vision and super speed), and an instruction book . . . which he quickly loses. Their first assignment is to prevent an assassination attempt on the President.

Note: The pilot was originally shown as a two-hour movie, and was the fourth most-viewed television program of the week.^[1] It was later split into two one-hour episodes for syndication.

Ralph's class prepares to perform Shakespeare, while he works with Bill to dodge professional killers and transport a beautiful and flirtatious FBI informant to testify against her drug-dealing mobster boyfriend.

Someone has stolen a secret gunsight ad Bill hopes to use the super suit to help solve the case. However, Ralph has his own problems: he stumbles onto his power of invisibility and is having difficulty controlling of it. To add to his worries, he is also scheduled to meet Pam's parents (June Lockhart, Bob Hastings) for the first time.

Note: Two days before this episode aired, John Hinckley Jr. attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Consequently, all references to Ralph's last name being Hinkley were overdubbed in this episode, so that his name was now Ralph Hanley. Subsequent first season episodes generally omitted mention of Ralph's last name. The original name, "Hinkley", was restored at the beginning of season 2.

Bill flunks an FBI polygraph test, and may be drummed out of the Bureau, on the basis of one question: "Has anything strange happened to you in the last six months?" Unable to tell the truth about the suit, Bill reluctantly recruits Ralph's students to help him track down a Russian defector, and trade him for a pardon.

Ralph and Bill try to unravel a case involving secret military plans, a Russian submarine, and the kidnapping of Rhonda's mother.

Ralph is despondent after nearly wrecking a tour bus and is seriously considering giving up the suit . . . until he gets a pep talk from his childhood hero The Lone Ranger (John Hart).

Tony is hired to repossess cars, and unknowingly takes a car filled with arson equipment. When he is wrongly accused of setting fires, Ralph must find the real arsonist. Star Danny Glover cameos.

Pam and Ralph get promotions, and Bill begins to worry about his mistakes and mortality. Pam's new boss is mixed up with the mob, and they must rescue her and Bill's career.

Crooks needing cash to swing an arms deal bet heavily on a baseball game and beat up the star of the team they bet against. Ralph joins the underdogs to make sure they win and the gamblers lose their money. Guest Markie Post.

The aliens return and tell Ralph and Bill that World War III is imminent: a fail-safe system, which will launch an attack on the other side if the country's been decimated, has been activated. They have to stop it, but unfortunately, they discover someone on their side is behind the whole thing.

Ralph and Bill are kidnapped by a tycoon who fakes his own death . . . and seems to know more about the suit than they do. He then blackmails them into retrieving his will and prevent it from being misused by the president of his company.

When a motorcycle gang learns about Ralph and the suit, they grab Bill and force Ralph to help them get back at the Sheriff who humiliated them.

Ralph and Pam help his students rehearse their rock band for a show, not realizing the promoter plans to release nerve gas into the audience.

Ralph finds a window into the Fourth Dimension while scouting an old house. Bill gets possessed by a woman's spirit, and Ralph must return her through that window . . . but therein waits a vicious beast, against which the suit is powerless.

Bill learns of a lost gold mine and tricks Ralph and the kids into helping him search for it; they are met with resistance from the local thieves.

Ralph and Bill have to save mankind from a deadly plague virus that a fanatical right-wing military group hopes to unleash on an unsuspecting world.

Ralph is injured after a head-on collision with a train and suffers selective amnesia: he remembers everything BUT Bill, the suit . . . and a terrorist plot to release atomic waste into a small town.

Ralph is able to see two hours into the future, at which time Pam's plane will crash.

During the Vietnam War, four American POW pilots were brainwashed to respond to a code phrase by a Laotian colonel. Now in the present day, someone is using them to commit vengeful acts of sabotage. Bill and Ralph investigate, but Bill inadvertently falls under a hypnotic trance, leaving the heroics up to Ralph.

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.

While rescuing a stricken space shuttle Ralph becomes hyper-magnetized, resulting his being attracted to all things metal. Meanwhile, a strange creature aboard the shuttle heads towards Los Angeles, electrocuting all who get in its way.

Ralph, Pam and the kids fly to a Caribbean island to visit a friend of Bill's. When they arrive, they find Bill's friend murdered and the island racked by a voodoo-driven revolt against the government.

Ralph and Bill hunt for the sea creature "Carrie" in the Bermuda Triangle, thinking that the monster may be responsible for all of the boats that disappear there. Instead, they uncover a stolen boat ring.

While on a ski trip, Ralph witnesses the murder of an American Olympic team member, who had actually been receiving top-secret military information from a Russian defector. He must then protect him and his girlfriend from a KGB hit squad.

An act of kindness backfires badly when Ralph uses the suit to help a co-worker with a personal project. This leads his other co-workers to take daring chances for their own shots at success. Soon, he must hustle to prevent them from ruining their lives, but also to save Bill from a vengeful, recently paroled killer.

Bill convinces the parents of a kidnap victim to pay the ransom, certain that Ralph can recover it when he saves their little girl. Alas, when he does so, Ralph finds himself being audited by an overzealous IRS agent who is convinced that he took the ransom money. Meanwhile, Ralph and Bill keep getting shot at by a mysterious adversary with no connection to the kidnapping.

Ralph, tired of simply pursuing criminals, decides that he wants to help people. He starts by helping a man who is being forced out of his home.

An actor (Chuck McCann) who plays a superhero mascot in commercials for a hamburger joint has just learned that the restaurant is a front for an amphetamines ring. Realizing that could get him killed, he calls on a real superhero for help: Ralph.

Ralph's mother (William Katt's real-life mother, Barbara Hale) comes for a visit, and announces that she is engaged to be married to Philip Kabala, a much younger man. Kabala has a shady background, though, and a bunch of thugs mistake Ralph for the fiancé.

Ralph breaks into the FBI archives and helps Bill solve a number of cold cases. As a result, Bill becomes a hero and a target for a beautiful KGB assassin. This was the first of the two episodes that Robert Culp wrote and directed.

After an argument with Bill, Ralph quits the hero business, leaves Bill with his super-suit and is immediately shot. To save his life, the Green Guys are forced to reveal themselves, bring Bill and Ralph aboard and give them a new Instruction Book, as well as the purpose for having chosen them.

While attending a high-school reunion, Ralph discovers that the wife of a famous pro football player is being held hostage to ensure her husband will throw the big game.

Pam is ready to break up with Ralph because he always puts the suit first. Bill gives them tickets to a tropical island to keep them together. Once there, they discover Bill's true plan: to use the suit to find a missing experimental aircraft.

A magician who was killed performing his greatest trick seemingly returns from the grave to murder his three rivals. Ralph must use his suit to out-trick the would-be killer.

On the way to Ralph's bachelor party, he and Bill are kidnapped and Ralph is persuaded to fly a mission for the president.

Ralph must rescue Bill from kidnapping by a crazed scientist who wants to experiment on him to find out what makes him such a successful agent. Andre the Giant guest stars.

While foiling a plutonium robbery, Ralph gets exposed to radiation and discovers a new ability: he can mentally influence people. He and Bill must discover who is behind the robbery attempt and find the connection to a TV news anchor who plans to run for president.

Ralph finds that his newest student is wanted by the CIA and KGB after tapping into a Soviet satellite.

Ralph and Bill find themselves trying to protect a Japanese inventor after a terrorist tries to kidnap him and steal his invention: a powerful laser weapon.

Bill is called upon to find a missing Middle Eastern prince, but it turns out that the prince is playing Wizards & Warlocks, a game in which someone gives him a task to do. Ralph and Bill try to unravel the mystery of the game and find the prince before the potential kidnappers do.

After receiving a bomb threat, Bill is put in charge of protecting Dak Hampton, the lead singer of a rock and roll group.

Ralph and Pam come across some horse rustlers who steal a herd of wild mustangs, but Ralph stops them from capturing the prize stallion, Desperado.

Bill accepts an invitation to be honored as Man of the Year by a Latin American country where, years before, he was instrumental in helping them establish a democratic government. This time, however, Ralph suspects treachery and refuses to intervene. The Green Guys return and warn Bill that Ralph was right. This was the second of the two episodes that Robert Culp wrote and directed.

The aliens tell Ralph to find a suitable replacement for himself when his secret identity is revealed to the world. Much to Bill's disgust he selects a woman. Although this episode was created as the pilot to start a new series, with Mary Ellen Stuart as Holly Hathaway in the lead role, the spin-off was ultimately scrapped.