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The Fall Guy
1981 - 1986 7.5 (148 votes) 5 Seasons
Genres
Action & Adventure Crime
Networks
ABC
Created By
Glen A. Larson

The Fall Guy

Overview

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

Key Crew

Director: Tom Connors

Producer: Glen A. Larson, Lee Majors

Top Cast

Lee Majors
Lee Majors

Colt Seavers

Douglas Barr
Douglas Barr

Howie Munson

Heather Thomas
Heather Thomas

Jody Banks

Markie Post
Markie Post

Terri Michaels

Jo Ann Pflug
Jo Ann Pflug

Samantha 'Big Jack' Jack

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1981)

No overview available.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Pilot
1981-11-04

Colt chases a crooked sheriff and tries to protect a friend and his family.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 2: The Meek Shall Inherit Rhonda
1981-11-11

Milton Bach is a computer hacker who ripped off the bank and ran. His wife, Rhonda, and friend Jerry stole the money and went to Mexico. He wants her back.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 3: The Rich Get Richer
1981-11-18

The bounty keeps them on the run as he tries many places to sell the bonds he stole. Kay Faulkner is a recurring character as the insurance agent trying to recover the bonds.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 4: That's Right, We're Bad
1981-11-25

Danny was framed by 'Animal' for an armored car robbery. If he goes to jail, 'Animal' will kill him. Colt and Howie go under cover in prison to protect him and it all goes awry.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 5: Colt's Angels
1981-12-02

Colt is sent to the Mohave Desert to bring back a biker wanted for drug dealing, rape and assault. He infiltrates the biker club and competes with them in difficult stunts.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 6: The Human Torch
1981-12-09

Colt is sent to a country town to pick up an arson suspect. The town's people of Federalsburg, and the suspect's mother, insist he is dead and buried.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 7: The Japanese Connection
1981-12-16

Colt is sent after the Rio Brothers who are much worse than he knows.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 8: No Way Out
1982-01-06

In Las Vegas at a cycle show, Shecky turns himself in to Big Jack and tells her he needs a bodyguard. Reluctantly, Colt takes the assignment.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 9: License to Kill (1)
1982-01-13

Colt and company go to Hawaii to catch a man who turns out to be trying to stop an assassination. Things get mixed up and Colt becomes a target.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 10: License to Kill (2)
1982-01-20

Colt and company go to Hawaii to catch a man who turns out to be trying to stop an assassination. Things get mixed up and Colt becomes a target.

Runtime: 45 min
Episode 11: Goin' For It
1982-01-27

A trio of small time crooks are using cars to smuggle jewels out of the country and hit a snag when one of them sells the cars to Howie to smash up for the movie.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 12: The Adventures of Ozzie and Harold
1982-02-03

Harold had a run-in with his brother and now faces life as Ozzie, a homeless man. He witnesses a murder and becomes a target.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 13: Soldiers of Misfortune
1982-02-10

The bounty is a mercenary trainee. Colt and Howie have to 'join up'. In the process, they meet a woman journalist with her own reasons for pursuing this story.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 14: Ready, Aim, Die
1982-02-17

A man says he must find his brother, a gambler with a big debt, before the 'hit man' does. The bookie has sworn to make an example of him. Some action takes place in the display of floats for the Tournament of Roses parade.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 15: Ladies on the Ropes
1982-02-24

Eddie needs three days, so he can attend bout and prove his innocence. These skips always have a good reason to delay. He manages women wrestlers. Howie is persuaded to to take part as Handsome Howard.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 16: The Snow Job
1982-03-03

In Aspen, a politician's wife tells Colt that she shot her husband in self-defense, but he is saying he did it himself.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 17: Guess Who's Coming to Town?
1982-03-17

The statute of limitations will run out for a young man in just two days. He is related to a VIP, so caution is needed.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 18: Child's Play
1982-03-24

Libby's father is planning to testify against the mob, but what they don't know is that Libby has a photographic memory and the evidence is in her brain.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 19: Charlie
1982-04-07

In Las Vegas, Colt runs into an old partner and finds out she is involved in a fraudulent scheme. Jody is kidnapped to be a hostage and there is a stagecoach chase.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 20: Three for the Road
1982-04-14

A pretty jewel thief hops off to Mexico with Colt and his friends, joined by insurance investigator Kay Faulkner, hot on her trail

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 21: The Silent Partner
1982-04-28

When a country music star kills his ghost writer and pins the blame on his chauffeur, it's up to Colt to set the record straight.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 22: Scavenger Hunt
1982-05-05

Some naval officers were involved in a $5 million robbery in HI and they are looking for the man holding the money. For some reason, they just can't find the money.

Runtime: 47 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1982)

No overview available.

23 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Bail and Bond
1982-10-27

Colt and company go to Rio de Janeiro after a bail-jumper involved with money laundering. The local cop tells them to help him catch the Countess or else.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 2: The I'ves Have It
1982-11-03

Terri sends Colt to Aruba to bring back a burglar, but it turns out she is one of twins and had a good reason for the breaking and entering, but which one did it?

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 3: Colt's Outlaws (1)
1982-11-10

Colt organizes his stuntman friends into a biker club to stop a man who runs the town of Littlefield and oppresses the citizens.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 4: Colt Breaks Out (2)
1982-11-10

Colt organizes his stuntman friends into a biker club to stop a man who runs the town of Littlefield and oppresses the citizens.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 5: Mighty Myron
1982-11-17

An orangutan in a carnival sideshow is accused of murder and slated to be destroyed, but some of the carnival workers want to save him.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 6: Reluctant Traveling Companion
1982-11-24

A woman bail jumper demands she be returned by train rather than plane. She raises a ruckus and disturbs the man in the next compartment who happens to be Richard Burton.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 7: A Piece of Cake
1982-12-01

A New York City police officer tries to take advantage of Colt in his scheme to frame a syndicate member.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 8: Hell On Wheels
1982-12-08

Jody is persuaded to join a Roller Derby team, and steps are taken to see that she is hired, when they have to arrest one of the female skating stars.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 9: How Do I Kill Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
1982-12-22

A man is tricked into supplying computer tapes by using a fake auto accident and telling him the other victim died, thus making him a murderer. Two bumbling detectives take the case

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 10: Win One for the Gipper?
1983-01-05

Colt's cousin and a friend are kidnapped by some army men who want to have a winning football team.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 11: Happy Trails
1983-01-12

Two con men sell a stolen car to Howie to use in the movie when he tells them the car will be smashed. The law begs to differ. When the conmen run, a posse of cowboy stars takes off after them

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 12: Manhunter
1983-01-19

Colt is sent off to Mexico to bring back two jewel thieves. An undercover private detective has the same objective.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 13: The Further Adventures of Ozzie & Harold
1983-01-26

Ozzie is back. This time he has witnessed a murder while rag-picking. He temporarily regains his sanity, but not for long.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 14: Death Boat
1983-02-02

When a jewel thief has plastic surgery and takes a cruise to recover, Colt and insurance investigator Kay Faulkner join the cruise along with Howie and Jody who pretend to be an invalid and his nurse. Now if only they could identify the thief.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 15: Eight Ball
1983-02-09

Colt tries to dry out an alcoholic former pool expert and protect him from the mob, so he can enter and maybe win an upcoming competition.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 16: Spaced Out
1983-02-16

While the town is held spellbound by a purported UFO, the bank is being robbed. Jody is kidnapped and Colt traces the origin of the UFO, and it seems to rain money.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 17: Strange Bedfellows
1983-02-23

A wild tale in which a man who fails to convince Colt to bail out a woman, takes Jody hostage to further his cause. The woman has an urgent need to pick up a million dollars.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 18: The Molly Sue
1983-03-02

Terri took the airplane as collateral and it was stolen, so Colt is sent to Panama to retrieve it or Ace. Anyone who watched the Rockford Files knows that Angel, played by Margolin, was never up to any good and he plays the skip the same way.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 19: One Hundred Miles a Gallon
1983-03-09

The son of one of Colt's friends skips and Colt goes to South Carolina after him, but they aren't running moonshine like he thought and the regular drivers quit

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 20: P.S., I Love You
1983-03-16

Tab Hunter is framed for the murder of a debt collector and Colt sets out to find the real culprit.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 21: The Chameleon
1983-04-06

A man who was a master of disguise takes part in an staged accident to cover the robbery of an armored car.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 22: The Chase
1983-04-13

Max sees a murder in the parking lot where he was about to steal a car. He is arrested and the killers escape. Now he is the target.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 23: Just a Small Circle of Friends
1983-05-04

An industrialist begs Colt to rescue his daughter from a cult which she thinks is great, but isn't quite what she believes.

Runtime: 47 min
Season 3 poster
Season 3 (1983)

No overview available.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Devil's Island
1983-09-21

Fred wants Mary detained long enough to keep her from testifying against his boss. She is in Mexico. Opening stunt is a choreographed battle in free fall.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 2: Trauma (I)
1983-09-28

Howie is seriously hurt in a sabotaged stunt meant to keep them from testifying against a thief. The crossover continues on Trauma Center S01E02 Notes About Courage (II).

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 3: Pleasure Isle
1983-10-05

Ivy bides her time and then uses the computer to abstract Vessman's assets. He kidnaps her and attempts to get the code numbers from her to regain his assets. Colt to the rescue.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 4: Baker's Dozen
1983-10-19

Colt is sent to a dude ranch in Arizona after a bail jumper, but he finds it is a paramilitary encampment.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 5: The Last Drive
1983-10-26

Colt is sent to a dude ranch in Arizona after a bail jumper, but he finds it is a paramilitary encampment.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 6: TKO
1983-11-02

Colt tries to protect a fight manager from the mob.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 7: Dirty Laundry
1983-11-09

Flo hits an amourous man, is jailed, and then jumps bail. She flees to Reno where she is involved with a money laundering scheme.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 8: Inside, Outside
1983-11-16

Colt refuses a bribe, so Terri is kidnapped to pressure him not to testify.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 9: Nashville Pirates
1983-11-23

Colt encounters a case of piracy when he goes after a bounty in Nashville. He performs 'The Unknown Stuntman'.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 10: Hollywood Shorties
1983-11-30

A drug dealer needs a midget to retrieve his stash. Opening stunt: the midgets trip and 'net' a man.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 11: To the Finish
1983-12-07

Fargo is afraid Pat will recognize him from the past, so he hires two thugs to keep him away from a car race.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 12: Wheels
1983-12-21

A former stuntman, now disabled, is reunited with his former fiancee by Colt in Seattle. He dumped her after his accident. Colt has a wild ride downhill in a wheelchair.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 13: Cool Hand Colt
1984-01-04

A corporation wants to drain the bayou. Colt is sent to bring back Junior to testify, but is put in a chain gang and the sheriff is out to kill him.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 14: The Huntress
1984-01-11

Colt searches for a hit woman who likes expensive art.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 15: Bite of the Wasp
1984-01-18

They set up a sting to catch a politician who is extorting money from a movie producer.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 16: Rabbit's Feet
1984-01-25

Colt and his assistants become fugitives after they are involved in a jail break in Argentina.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 17: Olympic Quest
1984-02-01

Colt's sister inadvertantly tapes a kidnapping at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. Colt comes to her assistance when she is threatened by two thugs who want the tape.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 18: Always Say Always
1984-02-22

Actresses interrupt work on a "James Bond" film to help Colt catch smugglers in Hong Kong and return a Ming vase.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 19: King of the Cowboys
1984-02-29

Roy Rogers and former TV cowboy stars John Russell, Peter Breck, Jock Mahoney and Roy Rogers Jr. join Colt's posse to track a gang of diamond smugglers using horses.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 20: Boom
1984-03-07

A drug dealer who lost $250,000 when Colt nabbed his bail-jumping son holds hospitalized Jody and others hostage for $1 million.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 21: Undersea Odyssey
1984-03-21

An insurance investigator trying to retrieve sunken gold deals with both Colt and his bail-jumping quarry.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 22: Old Heroes Never Die
1984-05-02

An ex-baseball player is now a swindler with a big debt.

Runtime: 47 min
Season 4 poster
Season 4 (1984)

No overview available.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Losers Weepers
1984-09-19

A cast of comedians, an insurance agent and the theft of $3 million interact in this episode.

Runtime: 90 min
Episode 2: Stranger Than Fiction
1984-09-26

A novelist, who made an incriminating tape, is chased through the Everglades, by a syndicate boss who wants the tape, after his aide accidentally falls out a window and she is accused of pushing him.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 3: Prisoner
1984-10-10

Jody is arrested in a small town and sent to the prison farm where female inmates are destined to be sold into white slavery.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 4: Terror U.
1984-10-17

Colt hides in a frat house from hit men, after he picks up his latest bounty, who was turning state's evidence in a money laundering case.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 5: Private Eyes
1984-10-24

Former private eyes, Cannon and Petrocelli, stick their noses into the case of the stolen stunt cars.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 6: October The 31st
1984-10-31

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 7: Sandcastles
1984-11-07

Colt and Howie pursue a murder suspect to Hawaii, only to discover that Jody has fallen in love with him and let him escape.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 8: Dead Bounty
1984-11-14

Colt has to leave his prisoner in the care of the local sheriff and finds that, during the night, his prisoner has been severely beaten and is in a coma. The sheriff accuses Colt of brutality and Colt becomes a fugitive.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 9: The San Francisco Caper
1984-11-21

A bored teen-aged girl stows away in Colt's truck while he is searching for a diamond thief.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 10: Baja 1000
1984-11-28

Dell Loomis is the man who gave Colt his break and he has been holding it over his head to get him to do things for him. He is also duplicitous.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 11: The Winner
1984-12-19

Problems arise at the Special Olympics.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 12: Semi-Catastrophe
1985-01-02

Colt helps an independent trucker who is the victim of a loan shark and a gambling habit.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 13: Her Bodyguard
1985-01-09

Colt is assigned to be the bodyguard for a woman who is the target of a hitman.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 14: I Love Paris
1985-01-16

Colt is sent to Paris on false pretenses. His real object is to identify a terrorist assassin only he can recognize.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 15: Sheriff Seavers
1985-01-23

Colt acts as sheriff in a town owned by the bounty's father.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 16: Tailspin
1985-01-30

Wild Bill Hillman needs some money to keep his air show afloat, so he 'borrows' some from a buried stash. Unfortunately, he is caught and the mobsters want all the money.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 17: High Orbit
1985-02-06

Thieves change the stunt to cover the theft of a chip from a space shuttle.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 18: Rockabye Baby
1985-02-13

Colt trails a bail-jumping girl singer accused of murder.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 19: Spring Break
1985-02-20

Colt is in Florida on the trail of a computer hacker, who inadvertantly copied the secret account kept by his Professor in the same file as his next exam questions.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 20: Split Image
1985-02-27

A mobster who has been threatened finds a shoe salesman who is a look-a-like for a him and then the fun begins.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 21: Skip Family Robinson
1985-03-06

Nick, the boss, has undergone plastic surgery, but Shelby can identify him and has a grudge against George. He promises his honest daughter that he will go straight if she will help him this one last time.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 22: Reel Trouble
1985-04-10

Colt takes three stunt women to Turkey for a film that is meant to fail. One of the women is a self-willed novice and botches some scenes, while they all get mixed up with a drug deal.

Runtime: 47 min
Season 5 poster
Season 5 (1985)

No overview available.

22 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Dead Ringer
1985-09-26

Colt is sent after a jumper and then discovers his quarry has entered an Elvis Presley impersonator contest and merged with the crowd.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 2: King of the Stuntmen
1985-10-03

There is a 'King of the Stuntmen' contest.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 3: Femme Fatale
1985-10-10

Howie goes undercover as a female impersonator, Denise, when the skip is a material witness in hiding.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 4: A Fistful of Lire
1985-10-17

Colt has to protect an Italian village.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 5: The Life of Riley
1985-11-30

When Colt catches a young man wanted in Los Angeles, he stumbles into a 'kidnapping for adoption' ring in Sacramento. Simon begs Colt to wait one more day while he checks out his last lead - a VW that matches the one used in the kidnapping.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 6: October the Thirty Second
1985-12-07

Elvira and company are filming a horror movie in an old haunted mansion during a storm, of course.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 7: Seavers, Dead Or Alive
1985-12-14

The tables are turned when Colt is framed and becomes a fugitive.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 8: Escape Claus
1985-12-21

A fitting story for Christmas - Santa is arrested for freeing the reindeer. He asks what each wants for Christmas. Jody wants a 'white' Christmas in spite of the current heat wave; Colt reluctantly says he needs a new truck. There is a child care center threatened with eviction and some crooks want the bonds Santa's cellmate is hiding.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 9: No Rms., Ocean Vu.
1986-01-04

Colt is stranded on a desert isle with a spoiled socialite, who has a perfume company, after their plane is shot down by robbers.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 10: Miami's Nice
1986-01-10

An FBI agent persuades Colt to participate in a cocaine sting. Jody presents awards to Miss Stuntwoman USA winners.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 11: Reunion
1986-01-17

One of Colt's old classmates steals his own jewels for the insurance money.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 12: Trial By Fire
1986-01-24

An old army buddy begs Colt to rescue one of the group that was betrayed years ago in Vietnam. He insists a recent photo shows the man as a POW even though everyone believes he is dead.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 13: In His Shadow
1986-01-31

A young man arrives who might be Colt's son.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 14: The Lucky Stiff
1986-02-07

Jerry has lost his money, house and wife, so he puts out a contract on himself - then wins the lottery.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 15: Beach Blanket Bounty
1986-02-21

A severe earthquake rocks L.A. and Colt coincidentally is involved with a 'rock' group, who want $20,000, and an industrial.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 16: The Last Chance Platoon
1986-02-28

Colt becomes the drill instructor for a platoon of misfits.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 17: I Now Pronounce You ... Dead
1986-03-07

Pearl wants Colt to grab the skip during his wedding, but one of his wives beats him to it. As his creditors chase him, more wives turn up.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 18: Two On a Skip
1986-03-21

Trench sends Colt after another bounty hunter who he thinks is taking too long and spending too much.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 19: The Lady in Green
1986-03-28

An old actor who played "Silver Blade", a Zorro type crime fighter, in his earlier days, witnesses a murder and wants to go after the killer.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 20: Tag Team
1986-04-04

Colt wins two pro wrestlers (losers) and Howie trains them. They do come in handy in a pinch.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 21: War On Wheels
1986-04-11

A town was bought to become a reservoir, but one resident refuses to leave. His granddaughter wants to put him in a rest home. Howie has a remote 'out-of-control' tank. A gang of bikers have them all trapped in the town.

Runtime: 47 min
Episode 22: The Bigger They Are
1986-05-02

A cop wants evidence against a club owner who sells pcp to kids.

Runtime: 47 min

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