PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's health-food shop-owner George Sunday, alias the world's most famous superhero, Thermoman.

Trouble is, Thermoman is not too familiar with Earth customs,so he is often embarrassingly honest and tends to take everything too literally. When he falls in love with nurse Janet Dawkins, his behaviour appears most peculiar to her family and colleagues. Thermoman met Janet when he rescued her from the Grand Canyon, but since then his mission to save the world from destruction often comes in the way of his earthly romance. Day-to-day, the couple have to overcome the conflicts that arise from Thermoman's double life. Did Janet really have to put his suit in the wash on the day when an abandoned space station was on course to destroy Grimsby? Should George stay for lunch with Janet's parents or fly off to stop an erupting volcano? Will George's life be worth living if he flies off? Even Thermoman can't be in two places at once, and his continually disappearing in and out of the toilet in Janet's tiny suburban flat or at the surgery is not easy to explain.

Ardal O'Hanlon from the hit comedy, Father Ted, plays the lovable superhero from planet Ultron in this new romantic comedy. Emily Joyce from Grafters is Janet, the nurse from Northolt he literally sweeps off her feet.

My Hero also features: Hugh Dennis as Dr Piers Crispin, Janet's vain boss and ardent suitor; Geraldine McNulty as Mrs Raven, the doctor's receptionist who can't stand patients or Dr Crispin; Philip Whitchurch as next-door-neighbour Tyler, whose brains were fried in the Sixties; Tim Wylton and Lill Roughley as Janet's doting parents who think George a complete maniac; Lou Hirsch (Superman III) as Thermoman's cousin Arnie, a 'defrocked' superhero who has had his special powers confiscated for dodgy dealing; and Moya Brady as Avril, George's besotted, drippy health-food assistant.

My Hero is created and written by Paul Mendelson (May to December) and Paul Mayhew-Archer (co-writer of The Vicar of Dibley).Geoffrey Perkins, BBC Head of Comedy, is the executive producer.

CAST
Ardal O'Hanlon (as George Sunday)
Emily Joyce (as Janet Dawkins)
Lou Hirch (as Arnie)
Tim Wylton (as Stanley)
Geraldine McNulty (as Mrs. Raven)
Hugh Dennis (as Piers)
Lill Roughley (as Ella)
Phillip Whitchurch (as Tyler)
Moyra Brady (as Avril)

PRODUCTION INFORMATION
Created by Paul Mendelson
Written by Paul Mendelson and Paul Mayhew-Archer
Directed by John Stroud
Produced by Marcus Mortimer and John Stroud
Executive Produced by Geoffrey Perkins

A Big Bear Films Limited production for BBC Television

DURATION
32 x 30'