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The Fall Guy Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1981 - 1982
Episode 1
The Fall Guy
Wed, Nov 4, 198195 mins
Colt Seavers is a stuntman who moonlights as a bounty hunter. His cousin, Howie Munson, shows up to "manage" Colt's career, and ends up helping him track down fugitive Country Joe Walker. Walker, who's new manager has Colt beat up, fails to turn himself in after Howie drops him off at the front door of the police dept. Meanwhile, Jody's first job doesn't quite go as planned. Then, Colt and Howie have to go to Arizona after a guy who ran down a kid on the street. While in Arizona, Country Joe shows up, as does his new manager.
Episode 2
The Meek Shall Inherit Rhonda
Wed, Nov 11, 198160 mins
The episode starts off with Colt demonstrating a new stunt to Robert Wagner involving jumping out of one plane to another. Then Colt and Howie travel to Mexico in order to bring a guy back who robbed the Gold Exchange. While down there they get into a little trouble with the law themselves.
Episode 3
The Rich Get Richer
Wed, Nov 18, 198160 mins
Jack wants Colt to bring in a man who stole 10 million dollars in securities, whom she bailed out and gave his house as collateral but when he sells out from under her. So she assumes he is planning to run she wants Colt to bring him in so that she could revoke his bail. Colt thinks it might be a snap but the guy has someone making sure no one gets him. And when Colt tries to get him again, a woman gets in his way who claims that she is protecting him.
Episode 4
That's Right, We're Bad
Wed, Nov 25, 198150 mins
Jack tells Colt that a guy she knows who is wanted fears that if he's caught he will be sent to prison and one of the inmates thinks he betrayed him. So she needs Colt to help him and to do that is to get the inmate to tell them where his partner who's the one who betrayed him is. So Colt and Howie go in as inmates so they get to the guy. The warden whom Jack knows helps her but he tags Colt as a cop killer which puts on the guards radar, so they come down on him. and when the warden has an attack, the head guard takes over which complicates things.
Episode 5
Colt's Angels
Wed, Dec 2, 198150 mins
Colt, Howie and Jody infiltrate a biker gang to apprehend their leader.
Episode 6
The Human Torch
Wed, Dec 9, 198160 mins
The trail of a fugitive arsonist and a missing insurance investigator leads Colt and Howie to a small town where the locals are less than helpful.
Episode 7
Japanese Connection
Wed, Dec 16, 198148 mins
Jack sends Colt to Hawaii to bring in a couple of brothers who are con men. What they don't know is that their latest stunt gets them in trouble with the Yakuza. When Colt learns of this, the Yakuza tell Colt that when he finds them to turn them over. When Colt refuses they reveal that they have Jody. So Colt tries to find them and find a way to make sure everyone is satisfied. .
Episode 8
No Way Out
Wed, Jan 6, 198249 mins
A wanted, deep-in-debt gambler gives himself up, hoping that Colt and Howie can get him out of Las Vegas alive.
Episode 9
License to Kill: Part 1
Wed, Jan 13, 198260 mins
A man is arrested for armed robbery, he calls Jack to bail him out. She calls Colt to keep an eye but because he was injured during his latest stunt, Howie offers to do it. But the knocks Howie out and gets away. When Jack learns of this, she calls Colt to go get him. They learn he went to Hawaii so they follow. But after they leave, two government agents show up and tell Jack to forget about the guy. But when Colt arrives, he and Howie are arrested and held incommunicado. Later a Naval officer whom Colt knows shows up and gets them out and wants Howie to describe the man who escaped. Later he shows up wanting to take Howie cause he saw him.
Episode 10
License to Kill: Part 2
Wed, Jan 20, 198250 mins
When Ryker is killed by a rogue agent, Colt takes to the air to expose the killer.
Episode 11
Goin' for It!
Wed, Jan 27, 198250 mins
When his stuntman friend is injured in a near-fatal accident, Colt teams up with investigator Kay Faulkner to uncover a sinister plot.
Episode 12
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harold
Wed, Feb 3, 198260 mins
Ozzie, a homeless man whom Colt knows who has an invisible friend Harold, witnesses two cops kill someone. The man who hired the cops who are actually fake, is worried about Ozzie so he tells them to take care of him. Ozzie is arrested for the crime and calls Colt for help who knows he couldn't have done it.
Episode 13
Soldiers of Misfortune
Wed, Feb 10, 198260 mins
Colt and Howie are caught in an explosive situation when they join a survival training unit in order to bring an ex-green beret to justice.
Episode 14
Ready, Aim... Die!
Wed, Feb 17, 198250 mins
A mob assassin uses an unwitting Colt to find her mark, a relocated government witness with a distinctive gambling habit.
Episode 15
Ladies on the Ropes
Wed, Feb 24, 198249 mins
Colt enters the world of women's professional wrestling, where the Golden Girls and their shady manager are preparing for a championship match.
Episode 16
The Snow Job
Wed, Mar 3, 198260 mins
While in Aspen, Colt comes to the aid of an old acquaintance, the wife of a crooked politician with dangerous mob ties.
Episode 17
Guess Who's Coming to Town?
Wed, Mar 17, 198249 mins
After Colt is injured in a stunt, Jack needs him to get a guy who wrote some bad checks. So Howie offers to go. Jody goes with him but when they get there, the Sheriff arrests them and says they can't have him. So they say Colt Seavers, the baddest bounty hunter, is coming and he will do whatever he has to get his man. Colt arrives and a lot of people approach him and try to reason with him but stands his ground. Howie goes off to find the guy and discovers that the town is hiding something but what.
Episode 18
Child's Play
Wed, Mar 24, 198249 mins
A girl with a photographic memory holds the key to the case of a man nabbed by the mob while preparing to testify against them.
Episode 19
Charlie
Wed, Apr 7, 198260 mins
While attending a stunt mans' convention, Colt reunites with a stunt woman named Charlie whom he worked with before. When Charlie's brother shows up, he claims to be in trouble but before he could say what's going on some men try to grab him. Colt and Charlie hold them off long enough for him to get away. They later learn that Charlie's brother tried pull a fast one on a son of a mobster and it seems the man is looking to get back at him.
Episode 20
Three for the Road
Wed, Apr 14, 198260 mins
Colt reluctantly teams up with Kay Faulkner on a trip to Mexico to recover a stolen cache of jewels.
Episode 21
The Silent Partner
Wed, Apr 28, 198250 mins
A singer is confronted by a man who has been writing some of his hit songs which he has not received credit. When he threatens to expose him, the singer kills him. That's when one of his people a naive young man comes in and sees what happened. The singer tells him the man attacked him. He tells the young man to say he did it and the singer promises to help him. Eventually he gets bailed out and the singer tells him to hide, in reality the singer's planning to kill him so that he won't recant and that there'll be no further investigation into his link with dead man. Colt is sent to bring him back. When they talk to his girlfriend she claims he didn't do it. It's while looking for him that Colt discovers the link between the singer and the dead man.
Episode 22
Scavenger Hunt
Wed, May 5, 198249 mins
Howie clashes with a group of disgruntled naval officers on the trail of the $5 million that they helped to steal.
