
While on a road trip through a desert, mild-mannered high-school teacher Ralph Hinkley (temporarily changed to Ralph Hanley for part of season one due to real-life current events) is greeted by extraterrestrials, who present him with an extraordinary red flying suit that imbues him with uncanny powers. Learning of the suit, high-strung FBI agent Bill Maxwell convinces Ralph to help him fight crime. Ralph's girlfriend, attorney Pam Davidson, also knows of his secret life as a superhero.

A gangster pursues Ralph as he tries to prevent his colleagues from tossing their lives away on dreams.

Ralph is detoured from the trail of two escaped convicts when he decides the suit should be used to save ordinary people.

Ralph meets his alien mentors when they heal a critical wound he suffers while saving Bill from neo-Nazis.

A TV newsman (William Windom) plans a terrorist takeover of a nuclear plant to get publicity for a political career.