On this very date in 1981, the most awesomest TV show in the history of the world premiered on ABC: The Greatest American Hero!
I was so excited to watch the first two-hour pilot episode that I may have even peed in my pants (a.k.a. the kid equivalent of an orgasm). The premise was brilliant: average high school teacher receives a red suit with super powers from mysterious aliens, but he loses the instruction book leading to all sorts of misadventures as he tries to figure out how the suit works while helping an eccentric, dog biscuit-eating FBI agent solve cases. Here’s the show’s opening credits featuring the most brilliant TV theme song ever to exist in the known universe courtesy of Joey Scarbury:
