Ralph Hinkley is a teacher at Whitney High School and the main protagonist of ABC's 1981-83 television series The Greatest American Hero. He is also first Pamela Davidson's boyfriend, and then her husband. Ralph teaches a class of special education "problem students," whom he takes on a field trip out into the desert (for some reason.) He meets FBI agent Bill Maxwell at a diner, where Bill has an almost violent altercation with Tony Villicana, one of Ralph's students. Before Ralph and his students get to their destination, the bus breaks down. Going for help, he again runs into Bill whose car also stops working. They then encounter an alien ship, and the “little green guys” give Ralph a box containing the suit and a book of instructions. They then instruct Ralph and Bill to work together to make the world a better place (On the last episode (Vanity, Says the Preacher), it is discovered that the aliens do this because Earth is one of the universe's last "green planets" and they want to save it. Unfortunately, he loses the instruction booklet on the way back to the bus and must figure out how to use the suit by trial and error. While he does so, he uses it to fight evil alongside Bill and Pamela.