The WORST episodes of The Fall Guy

Every episode of The Fall Guy ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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.

Last Updated: 2/21/2025Network: ABC (US)Status: Ended
No Rms Ocean Vu
star
4.75
4 votes

#1 - 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.

The Lucky Stiff
star
5.50
4 votes

#2 - 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.

Terror U.
star
5.50
6 votes

#3 - Terror U.

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/1984

Colt hides in a frat house from hit men, after he picks up his latest bounty, who was turning state's evidence in a money laundering case.

Directors: Alan Crosland
Losers Weepers (2)
star
5.50
4 votes

#4 - Losers Weepers (2)

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/19/1984

Writer: Lou Shaw
Two on a Skip
star
5.60
5 votes

#5 - 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.

The Life of Riley
star
5.60
5 votes

#6 - 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.

Directors: Larry Elikann
A Fistful of Lire
star
5.60
5 votes

#7 - A Fistful of Lire

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/17/1985

Colt has to protect an Italian village.

Spring Break
star
5.60
5 votes

#8 - Spring Break

Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/20/1985

Colt is in Florida on the trail of a computer hacker, who inadvertently copied the secret account kept by his professor in the same file as his next exam questions.

Directors: Ted Lange
Dead Bounty
star
5.60
5 votes

#9 - Dead Bounty

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/1984

Colt has to leave his prisoner in the care of the local sheriff and finds that, during the night, his prisoner has been severely beaten and is in a coma. The sheriff accuses Colt of brutality and Colt becomes a fugitive.

Writer: Keith Walker
King of the Cowboys
star
5.64
11 votes

#10 - King of the Cowboys

Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/29/1984

Roy Rogers and former TV cowboy stars John Russell, Peter Breck, Jock Mahoney and Roy Rogers Jr. join Colt's posse to track a gang of diamond smugglers using horses.

Directors: Daniel Haller
High Orbit
star
5.67
6 votes

#11 - High Orbit

Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/6/1985

Thieves change the stunt to cover the theft of a chip from a space shuttle.

Directors: Daniel Haller
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Prisoner
star
5.67
6 votes

#12 - Prisoner

Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1984

Jody is arrested in a small town and sent to the prison farm where female inmates are destined to be sold into white slavery.

Writer: Sam Egan
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Sandcastles
star
5.67
6 votes

#13 - Sandcastles

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/1984

Colt and Howie pursue a murder suspect to Hawaii, only to discover that Jody has fallen in love with him and let him escape.

Directors: Daniel Haller
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Femme Fatale
star
5.67
6 votes

#14 - 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.

Directors: Alan Crosland
Writer: Sam Egan
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Miami's Nice
star
5.67
6 votes

#15 - 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.

Directors: Bruce Kalish
Writer: David Garber
Reunion
star
5.67
6 votes

#16 - Reunion

Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/17/1986

One of Colt's old classmates steals his own jewels for the insurance money.

Directors: Bruce Kessler
TKO
star
5.67
46 votes

#17 - TKO

Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/1983

Colt tries to protect a fight manager from the mob.

Directors: Don McDougall
Writer: David Braff
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Undersea Odyssey
star
5.73
11 votes

#18 - Undersea Odyssey

Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 3/21/1984

An insurance investigator trying to retrieve sunken gold deals with both Colt and his bail-jumping quarry.

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Beach Blanket Bounty
star
5.80
5 votes

#19 - 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.

Directors: Daniel Haller
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Seavers, Dead or Alive
star
5.80
5 votes

#20 - Seavers, Dead or Alive

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/14/1985

The tables are turned when Colt is framed and becomes a fugitive.

Directors: Bruce Kessler
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Skip Family Robinson
star
5.80
5 votes

#21 - Skip Family Robinson

Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/6/1985

Nick, the boss, has undergone plastic surgery, but Shelby can identify him and has a grudge against George. He promises his honest daughter that he will go straight if she will help him this one last time.

Directors: Tom Connors
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Split Image
star
5.80
5 votes

#22 - Split Image

Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/27/1985

A mobster who has been threatened finds a shoe salesman who is a look-a-like for a him.

Directors: Daniel Haller
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Her Bodyguard
star
5.86
7 votes

#23 - Her Bodyguard

Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/9/1985

Colt is assigned to be the bodyguard for a woman who is the target of a hitman.

Directors: Don McDougall
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Always Say Always
star
5.92
12 votes

#24 - Always Say Always

Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/22/1984

Actresses interrupt work on a James-Bond-style film to help Colt catch smugglers in Hong Kong and return a Ming vase.

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Nashville Pirates
star
5.92
12 votes

#25 - Nashville Pirates

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/23/1983

Colt encounters a case of piracy when he goes after a bounty in Nashville. He performs "The Unknown Stuntman."

Directors: Bruce Kessler
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