The BEST episodes of The Fall Guy
Every episode of The Fall Guy ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Fall Guy!
The Fall Guy was a series about bounty hunter Colt Seavers. Every week Colt and his gang was assigned to apprehend a fugitive from justice. Colt and his cousin Howie were also working as stuntmen in Hollywood. The tricks of that trade often helped them to capture their 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 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - License to Kill (2)
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/20/1982
#8 - 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.
#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 - October the 32nd
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/7/1985
Elvira and company are filming a horror movie in an old haunted mansion during a storm.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#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 - Inside, Outside
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/1983
Colt refuses a bribe, so Terri is kidnapped to pressure him not to testify.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#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.