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My Hero Episode Guide

SERIES 1
1. PILOT - It’s just an ordinary day at the Northolt surgery. Dr Piers Crispin, the publicity- mad TV doctor, still fancies Janet almost as much as he fancies himself, Mrs. Raven, the sarcastic receptionist, is still frightening patients and Janet’s mother has dropped in to wonder why her daughter is bent on passing up such an eligible husband as Piers. Janet, however, is trying to get back to normal after her recent holiday, during which she was rescued by Thermoman when a freak gust of wind blew her into the Grand Canyon. (Piers is jealous that she was in the news rather than him.) Janet has fallen for Thermoman but never expects to see her superhero savior again, so when an odd hypochondriac Irishman called George Sunday visits her at the health center, at first she doesn’t make the connection.

2. GUESS WHO'S COMING TO LUNCH - George Sunday has moved in with his new girlfriend, nurse Janet Dawkins, though why on earth she is attracted to the peculiar Irishman is beyond her colleagues. Piers can’t wait for Janet to introduce George to her parents, knowing that George is bound to make the wrong impression. Janet’s mother, Ella, disapproves of everything Janet does and her father, Stanley, is pathologically protective of his little angel so, understandably, both George and Janet are very nervous when her parents arrive for Sunday lunch. George is under strict instructions to try to behave ‘normally’, but he can’t resist helping to cook the chicken and heat the soup with his breath. After that disaster, George decides not to use his special powers to extinguish the burning oven gloves…

3. MISSION IMPOSSIBLE - Thermoman is called upon to save Grimsby from being destroyed by an abandoned Russian space station. Unfortunately, he has his own domestic disaster to deal with first. He’s got Marmite over the front of his Thermo-uniform. It may be 100 per cent Thermomium and resistant to fire, flood, toxic waste and nuclear attack, but the Marmite won’t shift. Janet insists on washing his costume, which not only makes him late for his rescue mission but makes him itch like crazy due to an allergic reaction to the washing powder. Piers becomes suspicious when he sees Thermoman scratching himself on a news bulletin and seconds later George appears in his surgery scratching all over. He insists on giving George a medical, and when he discovers George has two heart beats and superhuman eyesight, threatens to reveal Thermoman’s double identity live on television unless George leaves Janet. A brainwipe seems to be the only answer.

4. THERMOMAN'S GREATEST CHALLENGE - Thermoman’s repeated visits to the health center to save Janet from a wasp sting or a spider are baffling patients and staff. Piers thinks he’s made a new celebrity friend and invites him to be guest of honor at the fund-raising party he has organized to boost his own public image. Janet’s parents insist both George and Janet attend the party so that George can personally thank Thermoman for saving Janet from falling into the Grand Canyon. Not easy, given that George is Thermoman. George hatches a cunning plan which involves him meeting Thermoman in the toilets, but the fake rendezvous doesn’t quite go as planned.

5. OLD MAN RIVERDANCE - George receives a visit from his father, the original Thermoman, who now resides in the Dunrescuin’ home for retired superheroes in Florida. George’s father, [Earth name] Seamus (Peadar Lamb), is unhappy that his son is co-habiting with an Earth girl. Apart from the smell, she is interfering with his work. On planet Ultron, a father’s word is law, or risk intervention by the all-powerful Ultron Council – a prospect George doesn’t relish having seen what they did to his cousin Arnie Having given the couple two days to try to prove him wrong, Seamus decides George must leave. But Janet has a plan: if Seamus meets her own parents and hears how much they disapprove of George, this should make Seamus jump to George’s defense. Fine in theory; in practice the parents bond in mutual disapproval of their offspring’s relationship. There is only one thing to do. If George wants to stay with Janet, he must renounce his superhero status…

6. THE PARTY'S OVER - It’s Janet’s 30th birthday, but an earth girl hitting the Big 3-0 means nothing to the Ultron male. So when Janet says she doesn’t want to discuss it and then changes her mind, poor George isn’t quite sure what to do. As always, he turns to his cousin Arnie for advice. It’s decided that George should throw Janet a surprise birthday party (although George doesn’t quite understand the concept). Disguised in a hat and sunglasses, George visits the health center to invite Janet’s work colleagues to the party. George flies Janet over to New York to meet Arnie which should keep her out of the way while her friends and parents get the party swinging in Northolt. Piers arrives with Zoe (a runner from his TV show who he’s paid to accompany him) while Mrs. Raven is busy fighting off amorous advances from Janet’s fried-brain neighbor, Tyler. All seems to be going smoothly when George flies off to collect Janet, but on arrival, he accidentally spills the beans about her surprise party. Can George can come up with the perfect solution?

2. PARENTS - George ruins Janet's parents’ amateur dramatic performance by shouting out as if it's a panto, so Janet tries to deflect their anger by telling them the truth – that he is really superhero Thermoman. Although Janet's mum and dad now love him, life gets more complicated when everyone knows, particularly when Mrs. Raven tries to offer him her body.

3. GIRLFRIEND - Disaster strikes at the heart of Thermoman's domestic bliss when his long- lost fiancée, Xil, arrives from Ultron. Janet is horrified to learn that George is bound by Ultron law to marry Xil, but she is determined not to lose her man. George's cunning plans to dissuade Xil don't work, neither do Janet's woman-to-woman powers of persuasion. All seems lost, until Janet makes a discovery…

4. CAR - Thermoman's defrocked superhero cousin, Arnie, wants his powers back. George agrees to intercede with the Ultron High Council on condition that Arnie behaves himself and will take care of saving the world while George saves up for a car for Janet. Sadly though, temptation is too much for Arnie, and when he steals the Crown Jewels things have to revert to the way they were. But Janet still gets her car in the end…

5. NEMESIS - A vengeful school mate, Rovi, comes to Earth intent on making George (aka Thermoman) miserable. First he takes over Piers’ body and makes Janet fall in love with him. Then he takes over as the world's superhero. In a desperate attempt to win Janet back, Thermoman issues the terrible challenge of Chang-Ching. Can he defeat Rovi/Piers and win back Janet's love?

6. PREGNANT - When Janet discovers she is pregnant, Thermoman is over the moon and gives her special powers to protect herself and the unborn baby. Janet isn't keen at first, but as she gets used to being a superhero she is even better at it than Thermoman!

7. WEDDING - Janet's dad is insisting that her baby be born in wedlock, and Thermoman's bosses on Ultron are of the same mind. But as usual things don't go smoothly for the world's favorite superhero as the baby starts to arrive during the marriage ceremony.

SERIES 3

1. BABY TALK - Life is becoming increasingly stressful for George and Janet Sunday. Keeping George's alter ego secret from Janet's parents is difficult enough but with a new baby in the house who, to put it mildly, takes after George rather more than Janet, it is becoming impossible.

2. ZERO TOLERANCE - Life at the health center takes an unexpected turn when a desperate man turns up waving a gun and demanding access to the drugs cabinet.

3. PET RESCUE - Ella and Stanley have the decorators in, so Janet has volunteered to look after their dog, Biggles--much to George's disgust. However, George is determined to overcome his aversion and bond with the mutt.

4. THE OLDER MAN - It's George's birthday and, at 327 years old, he's a mere spring chicken in Planet Ultron terms. But the lease on George's earthly body has run out and he's starting to look his real age rather rapidly…

5. PUTTIN' ON THE WRITS - It's just an ordinary morning in a supermarket car-park - until Mrs. Raven has a run-in with a stack of wayward trolleys and is tipped over the edge of the multi-story building. It's Thermoman to the rescue--but when he refuses Mrs. R's kind offer of Battenberg cake in return for saving her life, retribution is swift!

6. SHOCK, HORROR! - Baby Ollie has a temperature so George, instead of concentrating on saving the world, keeps zooming back to the flat to check on the baby. But all this dashing about is making George careless and it's not too long before an unscrupulous journalist takes advantage of the situation and obtains pictures of George in his Thermoman guise… Suddenly it's all over the papers that Janet is having an affair with Thermoman.

7. LITTLE GREEN MAN - Janet thinks George is taking her for granted. After all, most husbands would react rather badly after discovering their wife in a compromising position with the handy man…George's response is merely 'Why should I be jealous of a human when I can do it 15 times a night?' But it's not long before George succumbs to jealousy.

8. MINE'S A DOUBLE - George has to attend a Super-Heroics Conference which means leaving Janet at home alone, minding the baby. In their wisdom, the Ultron Council provides a "George clone" with the unlikely name of Hilary to keep Janet company. But while Hilary looks just like the real thing, his character couldn't be more different…

9. A LITTLE LEARNING - George is devastated when Ella and Stanley ban him from their 40th wedding anniversary party. The situation calls for some drastic action. Admittedly George's attempts to make new friends via the calling cards in telephone booths backfire somewhat but when he obtains some magic pork scratchings which increase his brain power, miraculous effects occur.

10. A DAY TO REMEMBER - It's a bad day for Planet Earth when George accidentally erases his own memory, to the extent he can't remember who Thermoman is, let alone that he is Thermoman. For Janet it's a dream come true. George turns into a model husband who volunteers to change nappies and take Ollie for strolls in the park - a first in the Sunday household!

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