The original series, which aired on ABC from 1981 to 1983, starred William Katt as a bumbling teacher who finds himself tasked by aliens with fighting crime, using a poorly documented supersuit with a nebulous list of powers. Interestingly, the series ended with Katt passing the suit off to a female protege (in an episode title “The Greatest American Heroine”), a fact that presumably won’t do much to tamp down the ire of the kind of guy pissed off that another “classic” franchise is being “ruined” by putting a woman in the lead.
