ix21@sdccs6.UUCP (03/27/84)
Moriarty is right; there was an episode in which he meets the aliens
and gets a copy of the instruction manual. One can only read the
manual while wearing the suit. The first thing Ralph tries is
shrinking; while shrunk he is scared by an ant, and he drops the
shrunken ( now microscopic ) manual before enlarging. Ralph is back
to normal size, but the manual is microscopic, he can not shrink
again without the manual.
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David Whiteman sdcsvax!sdccs6!whiteman
UCSD Medical School, La Jolla CA
{insert boring .signature file here}notes@iuvax.UUCP (03/27/84)
#R:uw-june:-114800:iuvax:10800006:000:673 iuvax!apratt Mar 26 19:07:00 1984 Yes, in one of the shows (one of the *few* I saw), the aliens did reappear and he did get the instruction book. I don't remember if we actually saw any aliens, but we did see their craft. The FBI fellow is with him in an open field, as I recall, and they flip through the instruction book. The Hero happens on the word which will shrink him to ant-size, and he reads that word. Down he goes, among the blades of grass. A little while later, he says the same word backwards, and up he comes to full size. But, woe of woes, he left the book on a "boulder" while shrunk, and it didn't grow with him when he said the word. Darn. Lost the book again. -- Allan Pratt
urban@trwspp.UUCP (03/28/84)
I semi-saw the GAH episode in question (I was doing housework at the time and wasn't paying what you'd call close attention). Ralph and Robert Culp manage to temporarily lose the suit, they are taken aboard the alien's saucer, Ralph's mission to help humanity is re-emphasized (something like the aliens screwed their own world totally, so they wanna make sure we don't do the same), and give them a new instruction manual. They manage to get the suit back (you have to be wearing the suit to read the manual; these guys been playing Adventure or something?) Finally, in the closing scene, Ralph starts reading the book. He tries out the "shrinking" power and shrinks to sub-ant size and is confronted by an ant. In panic, he drops the book, then he restores to normal size. So the book is lost again (shrunken sized this time) somewhere in the sand. Right. Mike
moriarty@uw-june (Jeff Meyer) (04/01/84)
During a spring break hallucinagin-filled late-night trivia discussion, someone mentioned that in one of the last episodes of the Greatest American Hero, Ralph, the clutzy hero, finally gets the instruction manual for his super-suit. This jibes with the ad I saw in TV Guide for a show that I was unable to see due to important matters (like, my car needed washing, man). Also, he intimated that you finally saw the aliens who gave him the suit in the first place. The source of this info is not to be trusted, espescially considering the size of his pupils and the short gasping breaths he was taking, and since I was fighting off large furry bats at the time, I failed to get a chance to cross-examine him that evening. Anyone can confirm/deny this? The Napoleon of Crime | Currently skulking around | UUCP: MORIARTY | {ihnp4|decvax|tektronix}!uw-beaver!uw-june!moriarty | ARPANET: AKA -jwm- | moriarty@washington