The BEST episodes of The Fall Guy

#1 - Soldiers of Misfortune

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/10/1982

Colt and Howie 'join up', as they go undercover to try and nail a master criminal who is a mercenary trainee. In the process, they meet a woman journalist with her own reasons for pursuing this story.

#2 - That's Right, We're Bad

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/25/1981

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

#3 - Mighty Myron

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/17/1982

Colt and Howie visit the circus to bring in a jewelry thief, only to find him murdered and an orangutan seemingly responsible. With the primate on the run, Colt and Howie must track him down and prove his innocence before he is put to sleep.

#4 - Reluctant Traveling Companion

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/24/1982

Colt is sent to bring a woman back from the East Coast. The problem is that the woman is not going easy and refuses to go by plane. So they go by train, and she continues to be disruptive. And right next to them is Richard Burton. And it seems that someone wants her dead.

#5 - Colt's Angels

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/2/1981

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

#6 - License to Kill (2)

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/20/1982

#7 - Goin' for It!

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/27/1982

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.

#8 - Charlie

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/7/1982

Colt and the gang are in Las Vegas to attend a stuntman convention, where Colt meets up with old friend Charlie, a female stuntman whose brother is being hunted down by some heavies after becoming mixed up in a fraudulent scheme.

#9 - A Piece of Cake

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/1/1982

Terri sends Colt to New York City to bring in a bail jumper, only for Colt to find himself stepping into the middle of an FBI stakeout to try and nail a syndicate member -- via any means necessary!

#10 - Ladies on the Ropes

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/24/1982

Colt tries to help a couple of pro-wrestling girls win a big championship match by disrupting the plans of their scheming manager and an avaricious team owner who wants their contracts. Colt's plans also involve Howie entering the arena as 'Handsome Howard'.

#11 - Ready, Aim...Die!

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/17/1982

A woman says she must find her brother, a gambler with a big debt to a bookie who's sworn to make an example of him, before a hit-man does.

#12 - Hell on Wheels

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/8/1982

When Colt is sent in to investigate a criminal at a roller derby team, Jody is persuaded to go undercover and join the skating stars to try and root out the real culprit.

#13 - The Fall Guy

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/4/1981

Big Jack sends Colt, with Howie, to find a driver who was responsible for a hit-and-run that hospitalized a young child, and who has since jumped bail. Arriving in a small backwater town, Colt discovers that the man is actually a crooked sheriff, and finds himself up against the entire town's police force.

#14 - Japanese Connection

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/16/1981

Pursuing the Rio Brothers, two small time crooks, to Hawaii, Colt and Howie find that the pair have trod on the toes of a dangerous Japanese syndicate.

#15 - The Adventures of Ozzie and Harold

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/3/1982

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.

#16 - Colt Breaks Out (2)

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/10/1982

After breaking Dan out of jail and with Mary who witness the murder Littlefield engineered, Colt goes back to L.A. to vindicate Dan. But when Littlefield learns that Mary's a witness against him, he calls someone in the National Guard and they capture Howie and the stunt men who were making their way back to L.A. So Colt can't let Mary testify, and with no other choice, he goes back to Littlefield with Dan and Mary to break Howie and the others. But Littlefield is ready for him.

#17 - The Snow Job

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/3/1982

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

#18 - Inside, Outside

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1983

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

#19 - The Ives Have It

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/3/1982

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?

#20 - No Way Out

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/6/1982

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.

#21 - The Meek Shall Inherit Rhonda

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/11/1981

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.

#22 - Colt's Outlaws (1)

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/10/1982

While shooting on location, Colt and his mentor Dan Wild go drinking and when they come out of the bar, the sheriff arrests Wild for being drunk. The next day, Colt learns that while in custody, Wild shot someone. Colt returns to L.A. and learns that the mayor of the town is crooked. He also finds out that the governor is trying to build a case against the mayor, but so far the only person willing to testify against him was the man Wild killed. Obviously Wild was set up. Colt then comes up with a plan. He organizes some of the stunt men who are Wild's friends, and they pose as bikers and go down to the town and tear it up.

#23 - The Silent Partner

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/28/1982

To avoid being arrested for fraud, a country western singer frames his chauffeur for the murder of his ghost writer.

#24 - License to Kill (1)

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/13/1982

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.

#25 - The Human Torch

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/9/1981

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