Scenario: Ralph and Bill have a falling out over how to
best use the suit. Ralph, without the
suit, risks his life to save Bill, but is himself critically
wounded.
The aliens return to cure Ralph and get them back on track. Of Note: New
suit power: shrinkage Critique: Wow, Ralph and Bill at each
other's throats, Ralph shot, they go inside the ship, they get the instructions,
Ralph gets a new power. Stop! You had an A+ at Ralph shot, now
your just getting greedy. A+++
3x2 "The Price is Right"
11-5-82 9301
Written by: Stephen J. Cannell
Directed by: Ivan Dixon
Guest stars: Steve Shortridge, Dick
Butkus,
Claude Jones,
Patrick Collins
Scenario: One of Ralph's high school classmates is now
a pro football
star, but gamblers kidnap his wife to force him to throw
a game. Ralph dons the suit to save his pal, but
to do so, Ralph must take his place in a big game.
Critique: The single funniest episode but Ralph as sports star has
been done before. A+ for funny B for
story
3x3 "This is the One the Suit Was Meant
For" 11-12-83
9308
Written by: Babs Greyhosky
Directed by: Ivan Dixon
Guest stars: Bo Brundin, Pepe Serna, Loyita
Chapel, Jay Varela
Scenario: Pam is ready to break up with Ralph after 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. Critique: Poor Pam, her superhero boyfriend puts the lives
of others before her, boo hoo. That's no proposal Ralph, get on one knee and pull out a
ring chump! A
3x4 "The Resurrection of Carlini"
11-19-82 9305
Written by: Frank Lupo
Directed by: Arnold Laven
Guest stars: Andrew Robinson, Jack Magee,
Timothy Carey, Ferdinand Mayne,
Scenario:A magician 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. Critique:
This show knows how to do spooky. A-
3x5 "The Newlywed
Game" 1-6-83
9309
Written by: Babs Greyhosky
Directed by: Chuck Bowman
Guest stars: June Lockhart, Norman Alden,
Woody Eney, Hansford Rowe
Scenario: Ralph and Pam's wedding is almost ruined
when Ralph
receives special orders from the President to fly
a mission over the North Pole. Bill discovers the orders
were faked, and that Ralph has accidentally given
the Russians valuable military secrets.
Of Note: Ralph and Pam married. Critique: A
great idea for the suit to be used by the government, disappointing it
wasn't for real, a great plot. The abbreviated nuptials were a
let down after 2 seasons of waiting. A
3x6 Heaven is In Your Genes"
1-13-83 9307
Written by: Patrick Burke Hasburgh
Directed by: Christian I. Nyby, Jr.
Guest stars: William Prince, George McDaniel,
Dennis Lipscomb, Carolyn
Seymour
Scenario: A former Nazi genetic engineer fakes Bill's
death to use
him in an experiment, but Ralph realizes his friend
is still alive. He flies off to rescue Bill and the evil
doctor's other victims, but a genetic horror created
in an earlier experiment waits to battle him. Critique: They were so
close to a phenomenal episode until Andre the Giant appears.
Lacking in emotion; a team member is dead and then reunited, lost some great
drama possibilities. Ralph drinking in the Mexican bar is great humor
though. A
3x7 "Live at Eleven"
1-20-83 9304
Written by: Babs Greyhosky
Directed by: Arnold Laven
Guest stars: William Windom, Alan Fudge,
William Bogert, Eugene
Peterson
Scenario: An Aging TV anchorman plans to retire in
grand style.
He hires a band of mercenaries to sabotage a nuclear
plant, hoping that his coverage of the event can
launch a Presidential campaign. Ralph must stop
the plant from exploding, but the saboteurs, now
dying of radiation poisoning, are determined to
succeed. Of Note: New suit power as a result of high radiation:
Mind Control Critique: It
is a shame Ralph didn't get to keep even a milder version of his new power, it
made for an interesting episode. A
3x8 "Space Ranger"
1-27-83 9311
Written by: Rudolph Borchert
Directed by: Ivan Dixon
Guest stars: Joe Santos, Douglas Warhit, Kene
Holliday, Edward Bell
Scenario: One of Ralph's students invents a radio
telescope capable
of decoding Russian satellite messages. The
KGB tries to steal his system. When that maneuver
fails, they decide to kill him before he can
share his discovery with the CIA.
Critique: Ralph's students could not be
more annoying but the plot is somewhat original. C+
3x9"Thirty
Seconds Over Little Tokyo" 2-3-83
9302
Written by: Danny Lee Cole and J. Duncan Ray
Directed by: Arnold Laven
Guest stars: Soon-Teck Oh, Christine
Belford,Lloyd Kino, Dana Lee
Scenario: A young Chinese scientist has invented a
deadly particle
"ray gun" weapon. A local gang kidnaps his
uncle, hoping to obtain the gun. Bill's plan to save
the Uncle backfires, and Ralph must test his suit
against the deadly ray. Of Note: Ralph finally has a body count, the villain
dies. Critique: Lame. D
3x10 "Wizards and Warlocks"
unaired 9306
Written by: Shel Willens
Directed by: Bruce Kessler
Guest stars: Steve Peteman, Shunil
Borpujari, Nicko Minardos, William Bogert,
James Whitmore Jr. , Bob Saget
Scenario: Ralph and Bill agree to find a missing Middle
Eastern prince, not realizing
that the boy's involved in
an intricate role-playing game. They must first master
its many rules and find the prince before a revolutionary
fanatic (who has vowed to assassinate him) does.
Critique: Bob Saget is a the perfect guest star in this
geeky scenario.Some good comedy. C+
3x11 "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll"
unaired 9312
Written by: Babs Greyhosky
Directed by: Christian I. Nyby, Jr.
Guest stars: Judson Scott
Scenario: Bill is called by the manager' of a rock
group from
aboard a plane threatened by a bomber, who has
hidden a device set to explode if the plane lands, Ralph
flies into action, but matters escalate when Pam
is kidnapped and a band of bikers threaten Bill's
life. Critique: I just saw the same 'bomb blows up if plane lands" plot
on "Alias", they probably stole it. Another less than menacing biker gang, but the neighborhood
committee was a funny touch. C
3x12 "Desperado"
unaired 9310
Written by: Stephen J. Cannell
Directed by: Chris Nelson
Guest star: John Vernon
Scenario: A weekend in the country leads Ralph, Pam and
Bill into a race to save a
wild stallion from a cruel rancher.
The man blames the horse for a crippling injury.
His men are also selling horses for use as dog
food. Critique: Nice stuff but
not much action for the suit. B
3x13 "Vanity, Says the Preacher"
unaired 9313
Written and directed by: Robert Culp
Guest stars: Isela Vega, Jason
Culp
Scenario: A ceremony to honor Bill as
"Man-of-the-Year" masks
a plot to kidnap him. He's taken to a South American
country which he helped liberate years ago.
Ralph and Pam follow his trail, only to discover
that Bill is risking his life to re-live his past days
of glory. Of Note: A visit
from the green guys after Bill is shot. A bunch of the ship/alien footage is reused
from 3x1,
Bill's clothes clearly don't match. New suit power: Megaphone? Guest stars
Culp's real sons. Critique: The plot is too
big for this little show.
How could Bill have helped this
country 20 years ago when he doesn't even speak Spanish. And Ralph reads
the Spanish letter aloud in English although he has said he can't make out
Spanish. The suit should
have been able to allow Ralph to speak in English and understand and be understood in
Spanish which would of helped his final speech. D+
