What are the best episodes of My Hero?

The best rated episodes of My Hero are: The Older Man - S3E4 rated 8.4, Thermoman's Greatest Challenge - S1E4 rated 8.1, The Party's Over - S1E6 rated 7.9, Brain Drain - S5E6 rated 7.9, A Sporting Chance - S4E1 rated 7.7, Big - S4E7 rated 7.6, Nemesis - S2E4 rated 7.6, Mission Impossible - S1E3 rated 7.6, Shock, Horror! - S3E6 rated 7.5, Guess Who's Coming to Lunch - S1E2 rated 7.5

What are the worst episodes of My Hero?

The lowest rated episodes of My Hero are: Believe - S6E8 rated 5.4, Not for Prophet - S6E5 rated 5.4, Top of the Table - S6E7 rated 5.5, Cassie Come Home - S5E4 rated 5.9, Big Brother - S5E9 rated 6.3, The Foresight Saga - S5E1 rated 6.4, Dermoman - S6E6 rated 6.4, Night Fever - S5E10 rated 6.5, Nothing to Hide - S5E5 rated 6.6, How Green Was My Ollie? - S5E8 rated 6.6

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Best Episodes of My Hero

The Older Man
S3 Ep4
8.4
28th Jun 2002
It's George's 327th birthday, Arnie asks George if he told Janet about what happens to Ultronians after their 327th birthday. Janet soon finds out, George starts to age ! It seems his body is worn out & he needs a new one. George selects 3 replacements (handsome, young,masculine) but Janet doesn't want these, She wants the body she fell in love with & married. George continues to age & Janet's parents visit. She tells them he's George's Grandfather & when they leave George & Janet kiss but Janet's Mum returns & catches them kissing.! Janet tells them she's left George & taken up with his Grandfather. When George is so old he can hardly walk he decides to try the time tunnel of youth that Ultronian woman sometimes use. However he goes to far & ends up as a baby.! Janet takes him to the bathroom & he goes to find the body in the reject room & surprises Janet with an old model body of his usual self.
Thermoman's Greatest Challenge
S1 Ep4
8.1
25th Feb 2000
George and his dashing alter-ego (Thermoman) are invited to the same charity fundraiser.
The Party's Over
S1 Ep6
7.9
10th Mar 2000
George decides to throw a surprise 30th-birthday party for Janet.
Brain Drain
S5 Ep6
7.9
11th Feb 2005
George and Arnie discover a way to filter out prejudices in peoples' brains. This sounds like a good idea until the brains get muddled up
A Sporting Chance
S4 Ep1
7.7
8th Aug 2003
George has some initial trouble getting to grips with the notion of sport when he is asked to join a cricket team, to help Piers out. Mrs. Raven gets intimate with Tyler after becoming convinced that he is her hero Thermoman. Ella belittles Thermoman - when he fixes her house after an incident and other people's houses as well - as not doing a perfect job. But Thermoman gets his revenge.
Big
S4 Ep7
7.6
19th Sep 2003
ollies half human half ultron body has unexpected results when he grows from a baby to an 18 year old with a serious girlfreind in just 24 hours
Nemesis
S2 Ep4
7.6
4th Jun 2001
An old friend of Thermoman's takes over Piers' body and tries to put Thermoman out of the superhero business.
Mission Impossible
S1 Ep3
7.6
18th Feb 2000
Thermoman faces his biggest challenge yet. After Janet washes his superhero outfit in biological detergent which make him itch, an book from his home planet says that he mustn't have sex more than once a month. But worst of all, Piers knows George's secret.
Shock, Horror!
S3 Ep6
7.5
12th Jul 2002
George has had very little time to rest.(too many rescues.) Janet urges him to rest. Olly is sick & George keeps flying home to check on him before flying away again. As George tires, he flies slower & a reporter tracks him to the flat where he takes a picture & splashes it all over the next mornings paper. With several T.V. crews camped on the footpath outside the flat George tries to tell the reporter that there is nothing going on between Janet & Thermoman. Kevin Trench (the reporter) sensationalises George's explanation infering Thermoman & George are a couple.! Janet solves the problem by discrediting the reporter,saying that he is actually an Ultronian & an arch enemy of Thermoman. Olly gets better & things go back to normal.
Guess Who's Coming to Lunch
S1 Ep2
7.5
11th Feb 2000
As George and Janet are now an item, things move on for them and it's time to meet Janet's parents. But Janet's mother knows what she wants for her daughter - smooth, oily Dr. Piers, not weird George. Janet is a bag of nerves and even more so that George says and does the oddest things, sometimes at the worst moment imaginable.
A Day to Remember
S3 Ep10
7.5
23rd Aug 2002
George doesn't want to change Olly's nappies. He keeps flying off to an emergency. When George has to erase the memory of a man He tells Janet about it when he returns home & demonstrates on himself. George has erased his memory & doesn't know he's Thermoman. Arnie tries to retrain him. George is shocked that his infant son can talk.! Janet is happy because George is now changing Olly's nappies. George thinks he is an ordinary man with a Wife,a child & a small business. When a bushfire flares out of control in Queensland Australia, it's Olly to the rescue. Janet & Arnie tell George he's Thermoman. They need to convince him because a Meteor is heading for Earth & Thermoman has to stop it. George remembers he is Thermoman & flies off to stop the Meteor, Janet,Arnie & Tyler think he didn't make it until he comes back to the flat. Janet asks George to change Olly & George pretends he has amnesia again.
A Little Learning
S3 Ep9
7.5
16th Aug 2002
It's Mr & Mrs Dawkins 40th wedding anniversary. They're planning a party and don't want George to come.! George wants to be more thoughtful & smarter, so he flies to Ultron & asks for a cure for stupidity. They give him a pork flavoured snack. Now George is smarter & more helpful. Mr and Mrs Dawkins want him to come to their party and to give a speech as well. Mrs Raven asks Arnie to marry her & she's planning the wedding but Arnie's not that keen. George becomes addicted to ""pork scratchings"" It's up to Arnie to help him get off them & go 'cold porky' ! Four days later George is cured of his addiction but is back to his old self & still has to give the speech.(Which he does in typical George fashion) Mrs Raven decides after listening to George's speech,not to marry Arnie & Janet welcomes back 'her' George.
Space Virus
S4 Ep5
7.5
5th Sep 2003
Termoman - space virus - George - passing it onto those closest to him. Now he has to fix it.
Baby Talk
S3 Ep1
7.5
7th Jun 2002
The arrival of a little bundle of joy with superhuman powers has made life even more stressful for George and Janet. Meanwhile, Dr Piers's TV career appears to be on the up after he appoints a new agent
Old Man Riverdance
S1 Ep5
7.4
3rd Mar 2000
Thermoman's father comes to visit and starts interfering with his son's love life.

Worst Episodes of My Hero

Believe
S6 Ep8
5.4
10th Sep 2006
When George's super-powers begin to malfunction, Thermoman begins to destroy more than he saves. Arnie must perform an MOT to George's self-confidence that have unexpected consequences.
Not for Prophet
S6 Ep5
5.4
18th Aug 2006
When Ollie's pet spider dies, Thermoman resurrects it, then kills it because it frightens him. Wanting to teach Cassie about Ultronian religion, George tries to organise it on Earth. He winds up resurrecting Piers from a fatal overdose of Mrs Raven's human testing pills, which leads people to believe he is "The Chosen One.
Top of the Table
S6 Ep7
5.5
1st Sep 2006
When the Superhero Assessment of Total Saves League table results are announced, George is so horrified by his standing, and the effect it will have on Janet's affections toward him, that he resolves to take action.
Cassie Come Home
S5 Ep4
5.9
28th Jan 2005
Janet's mother Ella becomes a trainee JP. When visiting Janet and George she comments on the fact that Ollie hasn't spoken a single word yet. He responds by talking a language that sounds like baby talk (George has been teaching Ollie the language of Jupiter). With Ella's thoughts in mind, George goes out to get some educational stuff for the kids, he ends up getting porn for them and giving Ollie a cigar and alcohol. Ella takes Ollie and Cassie away from Janet and George but without them Cassie reverts to being a normal human.
Big Brother
S5 Ep9
6.3
18th Mar 2005
George's family discover the joys of reality TV.
The Foresight Saga
S5 Ep1
6.4
7th Jan 2005
George and Janet have a new addition to the family: Cassie. She can see into the future. However, shortly after birth, she has horrible premonitions that everyone on the Northern hemisphere is going to die! Meanwhile, Piers enters for ""I'm A Celebrity: Get Me Out Of Here!""
Dermoman
S6 Ep6
6.4
25th Aug 2006
When Thermoman attempts to fly faster than the speed of light, he is caught and has to resit his superhero theory test or he will lose his license and be sent back to Ultron. Meanwhile, George's attempts to be attractive to Janet have interesting results, both at the gym and when he tries to reverse the effects.
Night Fever
S5 Ep10
6.5
25th Mar 2005
George wakes up in bed with miss Raven but doesnt understand that it was just a dream
Nothing to Hide
S5 Ep5
6.6
4th Feb 2005
Thermoman liberates the stolen Mona Lisa from an art thief's clutches, but comes under suspicion from Scotland Yard when he cannot explain its presence in his flat.
How Green Was My Ollie?
S5 Ep8
6.6
4th Mar 2005
As an attempt to get Ollie to eat his vegetables, George gets Ultroneon GM vegetables, with unfortunate side-effects. He then makes the minke whale extinct by using it to plug a volcano! Piers decides that Thermoman has gone too far, and makes a campaign against Thermoman abusing nature, thus getting him a TV show. George's attempts to be environmentally friendly backfire until he gets so angry that he has a temper tantrum and moves the Earth away from the sun... Meanwhile, Mrs. Raven tries to get the Triplets into a Christian School...and has to rely on Ella, who has recently eaten the Ultronean GM fruit!
Heres One I Made Earlier
S6 Ep2
6.6
Janet and the children are having trouble adjusting to George's new body, and things just get worse when George learns he had a secret love child. Meanwhile, Janet plans a meeting with an old boyfriend.
Sidekick
S6 Ep4
6.6
11th Aug 2006
In effort to lighten his workload, George makes a sidekick out of one of his ribs, a beautiful woman called Lula. But she turns out too well, replacing everyone at the health centre, and she even takes George's job as protector of Earth.
Fear and Clothing
S5 Ep7
6.8
25th Feb 2005
George starts doubting his invincibility, and starts disapperaing.
The Consultant
S4 Ep8
6.8
26th Sep 2003
Arnie put the hard word on George, being Thermoman and the consequences of his actions. George therefore retires as Thermoman.
The Family Way
S4 Ep9
6.8
3rd Oct 2003
george becomes pregnant with a surrogate baby for a childless couple on ultron

My Hero Episode Guide

My Hero
S1 Ep1
7.4
4th Feb 2000
Janet does not realize that the Irish hypochondriac who's come to see her at the health centre is actually the famed superhero Thermoman, who saved her life while she was vacationing in Arizona.
Guess Who's Coming to Lunch
S1 Ep2
7.5
11th Feb 2000
As George and Janet are now an item, things move on for them and it's time to meet Janet's parents. But Janet's mother knows what she wants for her daughter - smooth, oily Dr. Piers, not weird George. Janet is a bag of nerves and even more so that George says and does the oddest things, sometimes at the worst moment imaginable.
Mission Impossible
S1 Ep3
7.6
18th Feb 2000
Thermoman faces his biggest challenge yet. After Janet washes his superhero outfit in biological detergent which make him itch, an book from his home planet says that he mustn't have sex more than once a month. But worst of all, Piers knows George's secret.
Thermoman's Greatest Challenge
S1 Ep4
8.1
25th Feb 2000
George and his dashing alter-ego (Thermoman) are invited to the same charity fundraiser.
Old Man Riverdance
S1 Ep5
7.4
3rd Mar 2000
Thermoman's father comes to visit and starts interfering with his son's love life.
The Party's Over
S1 Ep6
7.9
10th Mar 2000
George decides to throw a surprise 30th-birthday party for Janet.

My Hero is a BBC sitcom created by Paul Mendelson. The programme ran for six series, first broadcast in February 2000, and concluding in September 2006. The series follows the antics of the dim-witted superhero "Thermoman", portrayed by Ardal O'Hanlon in series one to five and by James Dreyfus in the final series. The series was regularly directed by John Stroud. In the UK, the digital channel Gold regularly re-runs the programme, although the last series has yet to appear on the channel. In the United States it was shown on PBS and, briefly, BBC America. In Australia, UKTV offered re-runs of the first three series, while BBC Entertainment provided repeats for Scandinavia.

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