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The Fall Guy is an American action/adventure television program produced for ABC and originally broadcast from November 4, 1981 to May 2, 1986. It stars Lee Majors, Douglas Barr, and Heather Thomas. Majors and Barr are the only two actors to appear in all 112 episodes of the series. Thomas appeared in every episode of the show except for one in the first season.
Lee Majors plays Colt Seavers, a Hollywood stunt man who moonlights as a bounty hunter. He uses his physical skills and knowledge of stunt effects (especially stunts involving cars or his large GMC pickup truck) to capture fugitives and criminals. He is accompanied by his cousin and stuntman-in-training Howie Munson (Barr), whom Colt frequently calls "Kid", and occasionally by fellow stunt performer Jody Banks (Thomas).
Typically, an episode begins with a voice-over introduction from Seavers explaining the precarious life of a Hollywood stuntman, and how he, Colt, is unable to make a full-time living from stunt work and must moonlight as a bounty hunter. This is intercut with actual Hollywood stock footage, from various eras, of dangerous movie stunts, such as an exploding plane plunging straight into the ground, or a motorcycle jumping through a flaming hoop. After the voice-over introduction, the crew is seen performing a stunt for a film or TV series when Seavers is then assigned to finding, for example, a man who has skipped bail. His case turns out to be more complicated than it first seemed. In the course of dealing with the villains, Seavers performs a stunt similar to the one shown at the beginning of the show. Colt's voice-over narration was dropped from the second series onward.
Actors: Dave O'Brien (miscellaneous crew), Dave O'Brien (actor), Pete Smith (actor), Leon Tyler (actor), Pete Smith (producer), Joe Ansen (writer), Joe Ansen (writer), Dave O'Brien (writer), Dave O'Brien (director), Dave O'Brien (actor), Joseph Dietrick (editor),
Plot: This MGM short film, part of the Pete Smith Specialty series, looks at what to do with unwelcome gifts. Harry Horseknucle's rich aunt who always remembers his birthday. He receives a mobile but can't quite understand what it all means. Among the things he can do without there's also an electric toaster, tools from his wife, an old trunk bought at a blind auction and a motorcycle.
Keywords: pete-smith-specialty, title-spoken-by-narratorActors: Webster Campbell (actor), Leon De La Mothe (actor), William Parsons (actor), Wilbert Melville (writer), Leon De La Mothe (director), Velma Whitman (actress), Siegmund Lubin (producer), Louise Dunlap (actress), Fay Brierly (actress),
Genres: Drama, Short,