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The Fall Guy

Wed, Nov 4, 1981
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  • Crime
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Synopsis

Hollywood stuntman Colt Seavers picks up some extra pocket money by using his rough-and-tumble skills to track and capture bail jumpers.

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Cast

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  • Lee Majors
    Lee Majors
    as Colt Seavers
  • Douglas Barr
    Douglas Barr
    as Howie Munson
  • Heather Thomas
    Heather Thomas
    as Jody Banks
  • Markie Post
    Markie Post
    as Terri Michaels
  • Jo Ann Pflug
    Jo Ann Pflug
    as Samantha 'Big Jack' Jack
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Episodes

5 seasons · 111 episodes

Ended · 111 aired
Season 1
22 episodes · 22 aired
▾
  • E1
    The Fall Guy
    Aired · Wed, Nov 4, 1981 · 120m

    Colt attempts to bring a corrupt Arizona sheriff back to California to face manslaughter charges.

  • E2
    The Meek Shall Inherit Rhonda
    Aired · Wed, Nov 11, 1981 · 60m

    Colt pursues a bail jumper to Mexico.

  • E3
    The Rich Get Richer
    Aired · Wed, Nov 18, 1981 · 60m

    Colt is stymied by an embezzler who has the funds to make capture difficult.

  • E4
    That's Right, We're Bad
    Aired · Wed, Nov 25, 1981 · 60m

    Colt and Howie go undercover in a prison to prove a man was wrongfully convicted of robbery.

  • E5
    Colt's Angels
    Aired · Wed, Dec 2, 1981 · 60m

    Colt tries to bring in a motorcycle-gang leader who's hiding in the desert.

  • E6
    The Human Torch
    Aired · Wed, Dec 9, 1981 · 60m

    Colt tracks an arsonist to a town run by the torch's mother.

  • E7
    Japanese Connection
    Aired · Wed, Dec 16, 1981 · 60m

    A samurai mob chieftain is looking for the two bail jumpers who are breaking in on his marijuana trade.

  • E8
    No Way Out
    Aired · Wed, Jan 6, 1982 · 60m

    Colt helps a con man get out of Las Vegas before he's hit by the mob.

  • E9
    License to Kill Part 1
    Aired · Wed, Jan 13, 1982 · 60m

    An armed-robbery suspect is actually out to stop an assassination.

  • E10
    License to Kill Part 2
    Aired · Wed, Jan 20, 1982 · 60m

    With Ryker out of action, Colt and Howie must stop the assassination.

  • E11
    Goin' for It!
    Aired · Wed, Jan 27, 1982 · 60m

    A stuntman is nearly killed when a "gag" fails, and Colt suspects foul play.

  • E12
    The Adventures of Ozzie and Harold
    Aired · Wed, Feb 3, 1982 · 60m

    A derelict witnesses a murder.

  • E13
    Soldiers of Misfortune
    Aired · Wed, Feb 10, 1982 · 60m

    Colt infiltrates a survivalist camp to capture a mercenary wanted for gunrunning.

  • E14
    Ready, Aim... Die!
    Aired · Wed, Feb 17, 1982 · 60m

    A woman claims she wants to find her brother before loan sharks do.

  • E15
    Ladies on the Ropes
    Aired · Wed, Feb 24, 1982 · 60m

    The manager of a wrestling team is threatened with death unless his wrestlers throw a match.

  • E16
    The Snow Job
    Aired · Wed, Mar 3, 1982 · 60m

    Colt protects the wife of a corrupt state official who wants her dead before she can release evidence that will ruin him.

  • E17
    Guess Who's Coming to Town?
    Aired · Wed, Mar 17, 1982 · 60m

    Colt pursues a check forger who's being held prisoner in a town with a deadly secret.

  • E18
    Child's Play
    Aired · Wed, Mar 24, 1982 · 60m

    Colt hooks up with a streetwise girl to protect her father, who's turning state's evidence against the mob.

  • E19
    Charlie
    Aired · Wed, Apr 7, 1982 · 60m

    Colt aids a colleague who helped a con man swindle $1 million from a mobster's son.

  • E20
    Three for the Road
    Aired · Wed, Apr 14, 1982 · 60m

    Colt pursues a beautiful bail jumper and stolen jewels.

  • E21
    The Silent Partner
    Aired · Wed, Apr 28, 1982 · 60m

    Colt pursues a bail jumper who confessed to a killing committed by a music star.

  • E22
    Scavenger Hunt
    Aired · Wed, May 5, 1982 · 60m

    An ex-naval officer eludes his partners in crime and tries to recover $5 million he stole from the Navy.

Season 2
23 episodes · 23 aired
▾
  • E1
    Bail and Bond
    Aired · Wed, Oct 27, 1982 · 60m

    Colt doubles as a stunt double in a spy film and as a decoy for the Rio de Janeiro police, who want to nab a casino owner.

  • E2
    The Ives Have It
    Aired · Wed, Nov 3, 1982 · 60m

    Colt and Howie jet to the tropics for a burglar (Ann Turkel), who turns out to have an identical twin.

  • E3
    Colt's Outlaws (1)
    Aired · Wed, Nov 10, 1982 · 60m

    Colt poses as a gang leader to take on corrupt county officials who framed a fellow stuntman for murder.

  • E4
    Colt Breaks Out (2)
    Aired · Wed, Nov 10, 1982 · 60m

    After Colt, Mary and Wild Dan escape, Littlefield arranges for the Outlaws---including Jody and Howie---to be arrested.

  • E5
    Mighty Myron
    Aired · Wed, Nov 17, 1982 · 60m

    When Colt and Howie arrive at a carnival looking for an animal trainer, they find him dead---and the prime suspect is an orangutan.

  • E6
    Reluctant Traveling Companion
    Aired · Wed, Nov 24, 1982 · 60m

    Colt fails to make his train trip with a bail jumper as quiet as possible for the passenger in the next compartment---Richard Burton.

  • E7
    A Piece of Cake
    Aired · Wed, Dec 1, 1982 · 60m

    Colt ruins a police operation when he has a gambling den raided to flush out a bail jumper.

  • E8
    Hell on Wheels
    Aired · Wed, Dec 8, 1982 · 60m

    Jody joins the roller games to capture a skater who's wanted for assault and battery---and who's transporting drugs for her coach.

  • E9
    How Do I Kill Thee... Let Me Count the Ways
    Aired · Wed, Dec 22, 1982 · 60m

    Colt teams with two gumshoes (Paul Williams, Pat McCormick) to keep tabs on a man facing trial for manslaughter---who looks ready to leave the country.

  • E10
    Win One for the Gipper???
    Aired · Wed, Jan 5, 1983 · 60m

    Colt's nephew and two pro-football teammates are shanghaied by an Army sergeant who wants a winning team for his base.

  • E11
    Happy Trails
    Aired · Wed, Jan 12, 1983 · 60m

    A posse of cowboys rides to Colt's aid when he becomes involved with car thieves while working as Roy Rogers' double.

  • E12
    Manhunter
    Aired · Wed, Jan 19, 1983 · 60m

    Colt goes after con men running a scam on pre-Columbian treasures.

  • E13
    The Further Adventures of Ozzie and Harold
    Aired · Wed, Jan 26, 1983 · 60m

    Ozzie and his imaginary friend Harold are back as witnesses to a murder---committed by someone from Harold's past.

  • E14
    Death Boat
    Aired · Wed, Feb 2, 1983 · 60m

    Colt and his friendly nemesis (Judith Chapman) board a cruise ship to scuttle a jewel thief whose identity has been masked by plastic surgery.

  • E15
    Eight Ball
    Aired · Wed, Feb 9, 1983 · 60m

    Colt tries to protect a champion pool player (Tony Curtis) from mobsters who have bet against him.

  • E16
    Spaced Out
    Aired · Wed, Feb 16, 1983 · 60m

    A bank robbery, the kidnapping of Jody and a blackout are apparently the work of an extraterrestrial.

  • E17
    Strange Bedfellows
    Aired · Wed, Feb 23, 1983 · 60m

    Jody is kidnapped to force Terri to post bail for a woman who stole $1 million.

  • E18
    The Molly Sue
    Aired · Wed, Mar 2, 1983 · 60m

    Colt and Howie fly to Panama in pursuit of a man who jumped bail using a plane that's invisible to radar.

  • E19
    One Hundred Miles a Gallon
    Aired · Wed, Mar 9, 1983 · 60m

    Colt makes a trip to rural South Carolina to help out his former sweetheart Irene after her husband has been murdered and her son made a fugitive by a wealthy and crooked businessman who uses the local moonshining operation as a cover for cocaine smuggling.

  • E20
    P.S. I Love You
    Aired · Wed, Mar 16, 1983 · 60m

    Colt aids Tab Hunter when the actor is framed for the murder of a gangland debt collector.

  • E21
    The Chameleon
    Aired · Wed, Apr 6, 1983 · 60m

    Colt tracks a master of disguise in New York after a $240,000 heist.

  • E22
    The Chase
    Aired · Wed, Apr 13, 1983 · 60m

    Cleavon Little plays a bail jumper who witnessed a murder by a paramilitary organization.

  • E23
    Just a Small Circle of Friends
    Aired · Wed, May 4, 1983 · 60m

    A wealthy industrialist wants Colt to free his daughter from a cult before she signs away her inheritance.

Season 3
22 episodes · 22 aired
▾
  • E1
    Devil's Island
    Aired · Wed, Sep 21, 1983 · 60m

    Colt musters a small army of stuntmen to spring his high-school sweetheart from an island prison.

  • E2
    Trauma
    Aired · Wed, Sep 28, 1983 · 60m

    Howie's in critical condition after crashing, and Colt doesn't believe it was an accident.

  • E3
    Pleasure Isle
    Aired · Wed, Oct 5, 1983 · 60m

    Colt and Howie pursue a bail jumper being held on a tropical isle because she holds the key to stolen millions.

  • E4
    Baker's Dozen
    Aired · Wed, Oct 19, 1983 · 60m

    Army counterintelligence drafts Colt to get the goods on mercenaries planning a covert operation.

  • E5
    The Last Drive
    Aired · Wed, Oct 26, 1983 · 60m

    Colt poses as a getaway driver in a Government operation to nail a crime ring's "Mr. Big".

  • E6
    TKO
    Aired · Wed, Nov 2, 1983 · 60m

    Colt protects a fight manager from mob entanglements while his boxer trains for a title bout.

  • E7
    Dirty Laundry
    Aired · Wed, Nov 9, 1983 · 60m

    An unscrupulous lawyer is forcing an entertainer to smuggle laundered money out of the country.

  • E8
    Inside, Outside
    Aired · Wed, Nov 16, 1983 · 60m

    Terri is kidnapped to prevent Colt from testifying against a mobster.

  • E9
    Pirates of Nashville
    Aired · Wed, Nov 23, 1983 · 60m

    Colt heads to Nashville to find a friend's son, who's mixed up in murder and record pirating.

  • E10
    Hollywood Shorties
    Aired · Wed, Nov 30, 1983 · 60m

    A drug dealer needs a very small person to retrieve a lost package---and Colt's friend fits the bill.

  • E11
    To the Finish
    Aired · Wed, Dec 7, 1983 · 60m

    Somebody doesn't want Colt and his partner to enter their car in a race---and will do anything to stop them.

  • E12
    Wheels
    Aired · Wed, Dec 21, 1983 · 60m

    A stuntman Colt once trained is now in a wheelchair---and wanted by the mob.

  • E13
    Cool Hand Colt
    Aired · Wed, Jan 4, 1984 · 60m

    Howie and Jody must rescue Colt from a prison camp before a crooked sheriff kills him.

  • E14
    The Huntress
    Aired · Wed, Jan 11, 1984 · 60m

    Colt looks for a hit lady with a fondness for art.

  • E15
    Bite of the Wasp
    Aired · Wed, Jan 18, 1984 · 60m

    Colt masterminds a sting operation to trap a politician extorting money from a director.

  • E16
    Rabbit's Feet
    Aired · Wed, Jan 25, 1984 · 60m

    Colt and Howie become fugitives in Argentina when they're involved in the jailbreak of the con man they were sent to bring back.

  • E17
    Olympic Quest
    Aired · Wed, Feb 1, 1984 · 60m

    Attempts are made to kill Colt's sister after she films a kidnapping while in training for the Olympics.

  • E18
    Always Say Always
    Aired · Wed, Feb 22, 1984 · 60m

    In Hong Kong, Colt helps an American who wants to return three stolen Ming vases to the Chinese government.

  • E19
    King of the Cowboys
    Aired · Wed, Feb 29, 1984 · 60m

    Roy Rogers and a posse of TV cowboys team with Colt to round up horse rustlers involved in diamond smuggling.

  • E20
    Boom
    Aired · Wed, Mar 7, 1984 · 60m

    Colt must raise a million-dollar ransom to save Jody from men threatening to blow up a hospital with her in it.

  • E21
    Undersea Odyssey
    Aired · Wed, Mar 21, 1984 · 60m

    Colt races criminals and a shifty investigator (Mary Crosby) to recover $8 million in gold from a sunken boat near Bermuda.

  • E22
    Old Heroes Never Die
    Aired · Wed, May 2, 1984 · 60m

    Colt goes to bat for an ex-baseball player who's now a minor-league swindler with a heavy gambling debt.

Season 4
22 episodes · 22 aired
▾
  • E1
    Losers Weepers
    Aired · Wed, Sep 19, 1984 · 60m

    Colt, a greedy insurance investigator, and a couple of thugs are all chasing a woman implicated in the theft of $3 million.

  • E2
    Stranger Than Fiction
    Aired · Wed, Sep 26, 1984 · 60m

    A novelist is pursued by a syndicate boss who wants the incriminating tape recording that's in her possession.

  • E3
    Prisoner
    Aired · Wed, Oct 10, 1984 · 60m

    Jody is jailed for disturbing the peace by a county sheriff who sells female prisoners into prostitution.

  • E4
    Terror U.
    Aired · Wed, Oct 17, 1984 · 60m

    Colt hides from hit men at a fraternity house while waiting for agents to pick up his prisoner.

  • E5
    Private Eyes
    Aired · Wed, Oct 24, 1984 · 60m

    Former TV crime-stoppers William Conrad, Mike Connors and Barry Newman give Colt more help than he needs to find out why someone's stealing his stunt cars.

  • E6
    October the 31st
    Aired · Wed, Oct 31, 1984 · 60m

    During the filming of a movie at a mansion, the "ghost" of the owner (John Carradine) tries to scare everyone out of the house. Carradine's sons David, Keith and Robert have cameos.

  • E7
    Sandcastles
    Aired · Wed, Nov 7, 1984 · 60m

    Jody releases a bail jumper she's fallen for because he says he can prove he's not a murderer.

  • E8
    Dead Bounty
    Aired · Wed, Nov 14, 1984 · 60m

    Colt is pursued over rugged terrain by a deputy sheriff who framed him and now wants him dead.

  • E9
    The San Francisco Caper
    Aired · Wed, Nov 21, 1984 · 60m

    A teen infatuated with Colt stows away in his truck, impeding his efforts to find a diamond thief.

  • E10
    Baja 1000
    Aired · Wed, Nov 28, 1984 · 60m

    Colt's tricked into running an off-road race by a director, who bets on a Colt victory. But the bookie who took the bet plans to prevent Colt from finishing.

  • E11
    The Winner
    Aired · Wed, Dec 19, 1984 · 60m

    Jason Kingsley, a 10-year-old with Down syndrome, portrays a boy who runs away to compete in the Special Olympics---and winds up witnessing a murder.

  • E12
    Semi-Catastrophe
    Aired · Wed, Jan 2, 1985 · 60m

    Colt protects a bail-jumping trucker from extortionists who want to run her out of business.

  • E13
    Her Bodyguard
    Aired · Wed, Jan 9, 1985 · 60m

    To nail a bail jumper planning to murder a woman, Colt finagles a job as the woman's bodyguard.

  • E14
    I Love Paris
    Aired · Wed, Jan 16, 1985 · 60m

    Colt is tricked into going to Paris to identify a terrorist who's plotting to assassinate a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

  • E15
    Sheriff Seavers
    Aired · Wed, Jan 23, 1985 · 60m

    Colt, acting as sheriff of a town, has 48 hours to bring in a bail jumper whose father owns the town.

  • E16
    Tailspin
    Aired · Wed, Jan 30, 1985 · 60m

    Colt joins a flying circus to find a bank robber who saw his loot unearthed by the air show's owner.

  • E17
    High Orbit
    Aired · Wed, Feb 6, 1985 · 60m

    Colt wants to change a stunt, unaware that it's being used to cover the theft of a microchip from the space shuttle.

  • E18
    Rockabye Baby
    Aired · Wed, Feb 13, 1985 · 60m

    A singer has evidence implicating an extortionist in the murder of a music producer.

  • E19
    Spring Break
    Aired · Wed, Feb 20, 1985 · 60m

    During spring break, Colt protects a computer hacker from thugs who want an incriminating computer disc in his possession.

  • E20
    Split Image
    Aired · Wed, Feb 27, 1985 · 60m

    A shoe salesman is set up to take the fall by a mobster lookalike, who's wanted by both Colt and the dope dealer he double-crossed.

  • E21
    Skip Family Robinson
    Aired · Wed, Mar 6, 1985 · 60m

    Colt and a family of con artists run a scam to flush out a crime boss whose features were altered through surgery.

  • E22
    Reel Trouble
    Aired · Wed, Apr 10, 1985 · 60m

    An insurance representative asks Colt to track down the drug dealers who stole the negative of a movie he was working on.

Season 5
22 episodes · 22 aired
▾
  • E1
    Dead Ringer
    Aired · Thu, Sep 26, 1985 · 60m

    An ex-con is being blackmailed into forging a new will for a man's "sickly" uncle.

  • E2
    The King of the Stuntmen
    Aired · Thu, Oct 3, 1985 · 60m

    Colt's former friend, now a rival, is his chief competition in a King of the Stuntmen contest.

  • E3
    Femme Fatale
    Aired · Thu, Oct 10, 1985 · 60m

    Howie goes undercover as a female impersonator to protect a witness who's hiding from a killer.

  • E4
    A Fistful of Lire
    Aired · Thu, Oct 17, 1985 · 60m

    Colt runs interference for Italian villagers who want his protection from gangsters while the villagers search for church relics hidden by the Nazis during WWII.

  • E5
    The Life of Riley
    Aired · Sat, Nov 30, 1985 · 60m

    Colt's efforts to help a bail jumper find his daughter are thwarted when the man they suspect of kidnapping her is released for lack of evidence.

  • E6
    October the 32nd
    Aired · Sat, Dec 7, 1985 · 60m

    Colt and a movie-company crew are trapped at an English estate that is being stalked by an escapee from a home for the criminally insane.

  • E7
    Seavers: Dead or Alive
    Aired · Sat, Dec 14, 1985 · 60m

    Colt jumps bail after being framed for heroin possession---and to make matters worse, a bounty-hunting rival is on his trail.

  • E8
    Escape Claus
    Aired · Sat, Dec 21, 1985 · 60m

    A bail jumper working at a financially troubled orphanage---who believes he's Santa Claus---finds a locker containing $2 million worth of stolen bonds.

  • E9
    No Rms., Ocean Vu
    Aired · Sat, Jan 4, 1986 · 60m

    Colt is stranded on a deserted island with a snobby socialite who's being chased by thugs.

  • E10
    Miami's Nice
    Aired · Fri, Jan 10, 1986 · 60m

    A rogue Federal agent traps Colt into helping him set up the biggest cocaine supplier on the East Coast.

  • E11
    Reunion
    Aired · Fri, Jan 17, 1986 · 60m

    Colt's classmate arranges to have a jewel shipment stolen to collect the insurance, but the plan backfires and his cohorts get greedy.

  • E12
    Trial by Fire
    Aired · Fri, Jan 24, 1986 · 60m

    In Bangkok, Colt is approached by a man he knew in Vietnam who wants to go after a buddy who was recently seen in a Cambodian prison camp.

  • E13
    In His Shadow
    Aired · Fri, Jan 31, 1986 · 60m

    Colt meets the son he never knew he had, who's now in danger of falling in with car thieves.

  • E14
    Lucky Stiff
    Aired · Fri, Feb 7, 1986 · 60m

    A loser who arranged to have himself killed so his wife could collect insurance can't buy out of the contract after winning a lottery.

  • E15
    Beach Blanket Bounty
    Aired · Fri, Feb 21, 1986 · 60m

    Colt enlists the aid of a rock band to capture an industrial spy.

  • E16
    The Last Chance Platoon
    Aired · Fri, Feb 28, 1986 · 60m

    Colt becomes a drill instructor when an Army buddy drafts him to help conduct an investigation of stolen equipment.

  • E17
    I Now Pronounce You... Dead
    Aired · Fri, Mar 7, 1986 · 60m

    Pearl presses Colt to grab a conman at his wedding in San Diego and when he slips away under chaos, Colt is led to a trail of several women who have been tricked by the conman into marrying him and also has to get the better of the conman's other foes.

  • E18
    Two on a Skip
    Aired · Fri, Mar 21, 1986 · 60m

    After the first bounty-hunter who was sent to nab a suspect seems to be procrastinating, bail bondsman Trench sends Colt to San Francisco to track them both and Colt soon gets drawn into a crooked deal involving a stash of stolen armor and mob money that the first bounty-hunter covets.

  • E19
    The Lady in Green
    Aired · Fri, Mar 28, 1986 · 60m

    With Colt in hospital for a knee surgery, Howie and Jody reluctantly team up with an ex-actor and his pal, who used to play a crime-fighting duo in their movies, in probing a murder that the actor witnessed at a museum, and a recuperating Colt soon joins in.

  • E20
    Tag Team
    Aired · Fri, Apr 4, 1986 · 60m

    Colt wins the contracts of two pro wrestlers in a poker game, and uses them when he goes after a counterfeiter who's also protected by heavyweights.

  • E21
    War on Wheels
    Aired · Fri, Apr 11, 1986 · 60m

    Bikers trap Colt, Howie and Jody in a deserted town soon to be turned into a reservoir and demand the release of their compadre.

  • E22
    The Bigger They Are
    Aired · Fri, May 2, 1986 · 60m

    A cop asks Colt to help him get evidence on a nightclub owner who's suspected of dealing PCP to kids.