Hackett’s dynamic work as a man with mental problems is completely overshadowed when Heather Thomas wears an electric blue bikini. There’s also a subplot involving Lou Rawls as a country singer that’s tangled up with interstate drug dealers using Lou’s tour bus for mule purposes.īuddy Hackett shows up as a homeless guy in “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harold.” He and his imaginary friend witness a judge being mowed down by two cops.
Colt has to trick him into leaving the county lines by claiming to be a movie producer. He has no plans to return to Los Angeles to face the music. Turns out Eddie is the sheriff of a county in Arizona that he also owns. Lee ends up having to hunt down Eddie Albert ( Green Acres) when he skips town after running over a boy. The pilot movie sets the tone for the series. It does create a weirdness of reality when you see Lee Majors playing a stuntman for a major star, but during the stunt, you see a stuntman playing Lee Majors. Plus there’s always plenty of fight scenes. The pilot episode has a helicopter dangling a car across the desert. These aren’t just cheap sitcom level pratfalls they deliver theatrical level thrills. The show features plenty of stunts both on the backlots and the streets of Los Angeles. Colt’s main outlaw retrieval employer is a woman that goes by “Big Jack.” He is the student to Colt’s words of wisdom.
He also gets clued into the secrets of being a bounty hunter. He learns the unglamorous ways of the stunt trade in Tinseltown. In the two-episode pilot (that played as a movie when the show debuted), Colt’s young cousin, Howie Munson, arrives in Los Angeles wanting to get into the lucrative stuntman game. Somehow Colt isn’t doing a little bedroom bam-bam with Jody. This blonde doesn’t look like she’s been been dragged behind too many horses. He’s joined by Jody Banks, a stunning stuntwoman. In order to keep up payments on his outdoor bathtub, Colt works as a bounty hunter.Ĭolt doesn’t work alone in chasing down the fugitives. But the rehearsed dangerous work isn’t frequent enough to make Burt Reynolds’ bucks. In his third iconic role, Majors played Colt Seavers. He proved to be ready for the ’80s when he dropped into The Fall Guy. When the ’70s arrived, Majors was rebuilt with technology to emerge as The Six Million Dollar Man. In the sixties, he had become famous to TV audiences as the illegitimate Barkley brother on The Big Valley. He would have eaten those words if he’d lived long enough to see the career of Lee Majors. “There are no second acts in American lives,” wrote F. Fox Home Video presents The Fall Guy: The Complete First Season.
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