The Greatest American was a four-part American television series hosted by Matt Lauer in 2005. The show featured biographies and lists of influential persons in U.S. history, and culminated in a contest in which millions in the audience nominated and voted for the person they felt was the "greatest American". The competition was conducted by AOL and the Discovery Channel and reported on by the BBC.
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | The Greatest American Hero (1) | 1981-03-18 | 45 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | The Greatest American Hero (2) | 1981-03-18 | 45 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | The Hit Car | 1981-03-25 | 45 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | Here's Looking at You Kid | 1981-04-01 | 45 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | Saturday on Sunset Boulevard | 1981-04-08 | 45 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | Reseda Rose | 1981-04-15 | 45 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys | 1981-04-29 | 45 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | Fire Man | 1981-05-06 | 45 min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | The Best Desk Scenario | 1981-05-06 | 45 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 1 | The Two-Hundred-Mile-an-Hour Fastball | 1981-11-04 | 45 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 2 | Operation Spoil Sport | 1981-11-11 | 45 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 3 | Don't Mess Around with Jim | 1981-11-18 | 45 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 4 | Hog Wild | 1981-11-25 | 45 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 5 | Classical Gas | 1981-12-02 | 45 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 6 | The Beast in Black | 1981-12-09 | 45 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 7 | The Lost Diablo | 1981-12-16 | 45 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 8 | Plague | 1982-01-06 | 45 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 9 | A Train of Thought | 1982-01-13 | 45 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 10 | Now You See It... | 1982-01-20 | 45 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 11 | The Hand-Painted Thai | 1982-01-27 | 45 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 12 | Just Another Three Ring Circus | 1982-02-03 | 45 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 13 | The Shock Will Kill You | 1982-02-10 | 49 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 14 | A Chicken in Every Plot | 1982-02-17 | 45 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 15 | The Devil in the Deep Blue Sea | 1982-02-24 | 48 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 16 | It's All Downhill from Here | 1982-03-03 | 45 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 17 | Dreams | 1982-03-17 | 45 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 18 | There's Just No Accounting... | 1982-03-24 | 49 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 19 | The Good Samaritan | 1982-03-31 | 48 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 20 | Captain Bellybuster and the Speed Factory | 1982-04-07 | 49 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 21 | Who's Woo in America | 1982-04-14 | 47 min |
| Season 2 | Episode 22 | Lilacs, Mr. Maxwell | 1982-04-28 | 45 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 1 | Divorce Venusian Style | 1982-10-29 | 45 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 2 | The Price is Right | 1982-11-05 | 45 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 3 | This is the One the Suit Was Meant For | 1982-11-12 | 45 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 4 | The Resurrection of Carlini | 1982-11-19 | 45 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 5 | The Newlywed Game | 1983-01-06 | 45 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 6 | Heaven is in Your Genes | 1983-01-13 | 45 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 7 | Live at Eleven | 1983-01-20 | 45 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 8 | Space Ranger | 1983-01-27 | 45 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 9 | Thirty Seconds Over Little Tokyo | 1983-02-03 | 45 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 10 | Wizards and Warlocks | 1983-02-10 | 45 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 11 | It's Only Rock and Roll | 1983-02-17 | 45 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 12 | Desperado | 1983-02-24 | 45 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 13 | Vanity, Says the Preacher | 1983-03-03 | 45 min |
| Season 3 | Episode 14 | The Greatest American Heroine | 1986-02-13 | 46 min |
