History Series / TheFallGuy

* StockFootage: The opening uses stunt clips from such movies as ''Film/ThePoseidonAdventure'', ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'', ''Film/SilverStreak'', and ''Film/DirtyMaryCrazyLarry''. A lot of the episodes uses stock footage for action scenes. One episode in particular uses the chase scene from ''Film/RaceWithTheDevil''.

''The Fall Guy'' was one of the first ActionSeries that made the genre popular in TheEighties. It grants the people who do the dangerous stuff on set their well-deserved limelight, and while it's at it, it takes the occasional chance to lampoon Hollywood and also allows for loads of [[TheCameo Cameos]]. It was created by Glen A. Larson, whom also served as executive producer, was produced by Glen A. Larson Productions and Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox (this was his first series he ''didn't'' do at Creator/{{Universal}}), and ran on Creator/{{ABC}} from 1981-86.

No relation to ''VideoGame/FallGuysUltimateKnockout''

* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Sung by Lee Majors. The Germans liked it enough for two different cover versions with German lyrics (the French version also differs).

* Terri Shannon (Markie Post) is the bail bondswoman who assigns Colt most of his cases. In the first season the role was filled by Samantha "Big Jack" Jack (Jo Ann Pflug). Terri, in turn, was replaced in the final season by Pearl Sperling (Nedra Volz) after Post left to play Christine Sullivan on ''Series/NightCourt''. After a few episodes, Pearl was replaced by Edmund Trench (Robert Donner).

* StockFootage: The opening uses stunt clips from such movies as ''Film/ThePoseidonAdventure'', ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'', ''Film/SilverStreak'', and ''Dirty Mary Crazy Larry''. A lot of the episodes uses stock footage for action scenes. One episode in particular uses the chase scene from ''Film/RaceWithTheDevil''.

--->'''Ricardo Montalban:''' '([[ItMakesSenseInContext as a clerk]])'' Cheesecake? You'll find that in frozen foods! Aisle seven!

* MsFanservice: Jody. Even her sole panel in ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'''s satire "The Brawl Guy" pointed this out, having her in a bikini... in a supermarket during a chase. "Just showing some cheesecake!"
-->'''Ricardo Montalban''' ([[ItMakesSenseInContext as a clerk]]): Cheesecake? You'll find that in frozen foods! Aisle seven!

* ChaseScene[=/=]HotPursuit: At least one, preferably multiple per episode.
** Also, stock footage of chase scenes from various movies (such as ''Sky Riders''[[note]] the guy hanging onto the helicopter[[/note]], ''Film/TheCannonballRun'' [[note]] the men getting out of a car and jumping into the sea[[/note]], ''Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry'' [[note]] the car crashing into a train and exploding[[/note]] and others released by ''The Fall Guy'' makers Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox) is incorporated into the opening credits.

->''I might [[RampJump jump an open drawbridge]]\\
or Franchise/{{Tarzan}} from a [[VineSwing vine]]\\

That makes [[Creator/ClintEastwood Eastwood]] look so fine!''

* Colt Seavers (Creator/LeeMajors) is an experienced Hollywood [[StuntDouble stuntman]] who discovered that life in Southern California, moreso in Hollywood, is too expensive to afford as just a fall guy, so he moonlights as a BountyHunter. He spends most of the time of an episode hunting criminals who were bailed out, escaped, got back into crime, and defend themselves against whoever wants to take them back to jail with deadly force. Lee Majors also sings the theme song (he also performs it on camera in one episode).

* CaptainCrash: As a [[StuntDouble stuntman]], Colt seems to be so used to crashing vehicles at high speed as part of a stunt that he can't drive them halfway safely at high speed anymore. This becomes a problem whenever his second job as a BountyHunter requires him to chase an escaped criminal. It doesn't help that his own truck runs on suspensions that weren't exactly made for high speeds.

* DoItYourselfThemeTune: Sung by Lee Majors. [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff The Germans liked it]] enough for two different cover versions with German lyrics (the French version also differs).

* Colt Seavers (Creator/LeeMajors) is an experienced Hollywood [[StuntDouble stuntman]] who discovered that life in Southern California, moreso in Hollywood, is too expensive to afford as just a fall guy, so he moonlights as a BountyHunter. He spends most of the time of an episode hunting criminals who were bailed out, escaped, got back into crime, and defend themselves against whoever wants to take them back to jail with weapon force. Lee Majors also sings the theme song (he also performs it on camera in one episode).

* Howie Munson (Douglas Barr) is Colt's little cousin. He had about a zillion jobs, none for longer than a year, before he came to Hollywood to try his hand at being a stuntman together with Colt, much to the latter's dismay. He also tries to hit on Jody, much to ''her'' dismay.

''The Fall Guy'' was one of the first ActionSeries that made the genre popular in TheEighties. It grants the people who do the dangerous stuff on set their well-deserved limelight, and while it's at it, it takes the occasional chance to lampoon Hollywood and also allows for loads of [[TheCameo Cameos]]. It was created by Glen A. Larson, whom also served as executive producer, was produced by Glen A. Larson Productions and Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox, and ran on Creator/{{ABC}} from 1981-86.

* Colt Seavers (''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'' Creator/LeeMajors) is an experienced Hollywood [[StuntDouble stuntman]] who discovered that life in Southern California, moreso in Hollywood, is too expensive to afford as just a fall guy, so he moonlights as a BountyHunter. He spends most of the time of an episode hunting criminals who were bailed out, escaped, got back into crime, and defend themselves against whoever wants to take them back to jail with weapon force. Lee Majors also sings the theme song (he also performs it on camera in one episode).

* Colt Seavers (''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'' Lee Majors) is an experienced Hollywood [[StuntDouble stuntman]] who discovered that life in Southern California, moreso in Hollywood, is too expensive to afford as just a fall guy, so he moonlights as a BountyHunter. He spends most of the time of an episode hunting criminals who were bailed out, escaped, got back into crime, and defend themselves against whoever wants to take them back to jail with weapon force. Lee Majors also sings the theme song (he also performs it on camera in one episode).

* Colt Seavers (''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan'' Lee Majors) is an experienced Hollywood stuntman who discovered that life in Southern California, moreso in Hollywood, is too expensive to afford as just a fall guy, so he moonlights as a bounty hunter. He spends most of the time of an episode hunting criminals who were bailed out, escaped, got back into crime, and defend themselves against whoever wants to take them back to jail with weapon force. Lee Majors also sings the theme song (he also performs it on camera in one episode).

* StuntDouble: InUniverse; the show is all about stuntpeople. In one episode, Colt even has to double Lee Majors' [[RealLifeRelative real-life wife]], Farrah Fawcett.

* Terri Shannon (Markie Post) is the bail bondswoman who assigns Colt most of his cases. In the first season the role was filled by Samantha "Big Jack" Jack (Jo Ann Pflug). Terri, in turn, was replaced in the final season by Pearl Sperling (Nedra Volz) after Post left to play Christine Sullivan on ''Series/NightCourt''.

* StuntDouble: The show is all about stuntpeople. In one episode, Colt even has to double Lee Majors' [[RealLifeRelative real-life wife]], Farrah Fawcett.

That makes [[Creator/ClintEastwood Eastwood]] look so fine!''\\
--"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4LX8PPMuOY The Unknown Stuntman]]", sung by Lee Majors

* MsFanservice: Jody. Even her sole panel in ''{{MAD}}'''s satire "The Brawl Guy" pointed this out, having her in a bikini... in a supermarket during a chase. "Just showing some cheesecake!"

* YouLookFamiliar: In one episode Lou Ferrigno appears AsHimself while Colt is guest-stunting on an episode of ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk''. Later Ferrigno appears as his character from ''Trauma Center'' in the first half of a two-parter, the other half being on ''Trauma Center'' itself.

* Terri Shannon (Markie Post) is the bail bondswoman who assigns Colt most of his cases. In the first season the role was filled by Samantha "Big Jack" Jack (Jo Ann Pflug). Terri, in turn, was replaced in the final season by Pearl Sperling (Nedra Volz) after Post left for ''Series/NightCourt''.

** Also, stock footage of chase scenes from various movies (such as ''Sky Riders''[[note]] the guy hanging onto the helicopter[[/note]], ''TheCannonballRun''[[note]] the men getting out of a car and jumping into the sea[[/note]], ''Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry''[[note]] the car crashing into a train and exploding[[/note]] and others released by ''The Fall Guy'' makers Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox) is incorporated into the opening credits.