The BEST episodes of The Fall Guy season 5
Every episode of The Fall Guy season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Fall Guy season 5!
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 - 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.
#2 - I Now Pronounce You...Dead
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/7/1986
Pearl wants Colt to grab the skip during his wedding, but one of his wives beats him to it. As his creditors chase him, more wives turn up.
#3 - Tag Team
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/4/1986
Colt wins two pro wrestlers (losers) and Howie trains them. They do come in handy in a pinch.
#4 - Dead Ringer
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/26/1985
Colt is sent after a jumper and then discovers his quarry has entered an Elvis Presley impersonator contest and merged with the crowd.
#5 - Trial by Fire
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/24/1986
An old army buddy begs Colt to rescue one of the group that was betrayed years ago in Vietnam. He insists a recent photo shows the man as a POW even though everyone believes he is dead.
#6 - In His Shadow
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/31/1986
A young man arrives who might be Colt's son.
#7 - The Last Chance Platoon
Season 5 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/28/1986
Colt becomes the drill instructor for a platoon of misfits.
#8 - The Lady in Green
Season 5 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/28/1986
An old actor who, in his earlier days, played "Silver Blade" (a Zorro-type crime fighter), witnesses a murder and wants to go after the killer.
#9 - War on Wheels
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/11/1986
A town was bought to become a reservoir, but one resident refuses to leave. His granddaughter wants to put him in a rest home. Howie has a remote 'out-of-control' tank. A gang of bikers have them all trapped in the town.
#10 - The Bigger They Are
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/2/1986
A cop wants evidence against a club owner who sells PCP to kids.
#11 - Escape Claus
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/21/1985
A fitting story for Christmas -- Santa is arrested for freeing the reindeer. He asks what each wants for Christmas. Jody wants a white Christmas in spite of the current heat wave; Colt reluctantly says he needs a new truck. There is a child care center threatened with eviction, and some crooks want the bonds Santa's cellmate is hiding. Trench's slogan: "You bust 'em, we bond 'em."
#12 - King of the Stuntmen
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/3/1985
There is a "King of the Stuntmen" contest.
#13 - Seavers, Dead or Alive
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/14/1985
The tables are turned when Colt is framed and becomes a fugitive.
#14 - Beach Blanket Bounty
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/21/1986
A severe earthquake rocks L.A., and Colt coincidentally is involved with a rock group that wants $20,000.
#15 - Femme Fatale
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1985
Howie goes undercover as a female impersonator, Denise, when the skip is a material witness in hiding.
#16 - Miami's Nice
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/10/1986
An FBI agent persuades Colt to participate in a cocaine sting. Jody presents awards to Miss Stuntwoman USA winners.
#17 - Reunion
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/17/1986
One of Colt's old classmates steals his own jewels for the insurance money.
#18 - A Fistful of Lire
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1985
Colt has to protect an Italian village.
#19 - The Life of Riley
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/30/1985
When Colt catches a young man wanted in Los Angeles, he stumbles into a kidnapping-for-adoption ring in Sacramento. Simon begs Colt to wait one more day while he checks out his last lead -- a VW that matches the one used in the kidnapping.
#20 - The Lucky Stiff
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/7/1986
Jerry has lost his money, house and wife, so he puts out a contract on himself -- then wins the lottery.
#21 - Two on a Skip
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/21/1986
Trench sends Colt after another bounty hunter who he thinks is taking too long and spending too much.
#22 - No Rms Ocean Vu
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/4/1986
Colt is stranded on a desert isle with a spoiled socialite, who has a perfume company, after their plane is shot down by robbers. Prologue is filming a perfume commercial.