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The Fall Guy Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1983 - 1984
Episode 1
Devil's Island
Wed, Sep 21, 1983
Colt and Howie go to Mexico to arrest Mary Connors. A corrupt colonel too is interested in Mary who spurns his advances. The colonel then imprisons her in the Devil's Island prison. Colt and his team plot to rescue Mary from the prison.
Episode 2
Trauma
Wed, Sep 28, 198360 mins
When Colt apprehends one of his skips, a conman, he finds himself cornered by some of the people he bilked. Colt places him in the secret compartment in his truck, then gets away. While in the compartment the man places a key in it. When Colt gets back to L.A., he goes to work at a movie and his truck is to be used in it. Colt makes a couple of other trucks to look like his so his won't get damaged. The man gets out of jail and tries to get to the truck to get the key. When Colt uses one of the duplicate trucks, he lets Howie do the stunt. The man has the truck shot so it will crash. Howie sees him do it but is injured. A trauma team is sent to help and they get Howie out but is unconscious. But Jody who was with Howie tells Colt that someone caused the accident. So Colt sets to find out who did it.
Episode 3
Pleasure Isle
Wed, Oct 5, 1983
A swindler who got millions of dollars from several victims goes on the run and leaves his girlfriend behind. She then goes to his computer and alters the access code number to his account. She is then arrested and bailed out by Terri. The swindler then has her picked up and brought to her at the non extradition island where he now stays. Terri sends Colt to get her and he brings Howie and Jody along. And when they get there, she convinces Colt to get the access code name to the account.
Episode 4
Baker's Dozen
Wed, Oct 19, 1983
Terry wants Colt to bring back Ferris who is hiding in a dude ranch owned by Baker who seems to be planning a major heist using ex-military types. Colt infiltrates Baker's operation.
Episode 5
The Last Drive
Wed, Oct 26, 1983
Colt tries to get a wheel man. But some guy tries to stop him but he gets him. Later Terri informs him, the man' vanished. Colt goes to meet with the cop he turned him over to and is met by a woman who tells him, she's a cop and the man he caught works for her. She tells him he was hired to do a job but because Colt injured him, he can't do the job. So she asks Colt to take his place. Colt reluctantly agrees.
Episode 6
TKO
Wed, Nov 2, 198340 mins
Colt is sent to bring back Lou Carnesco. He's in Las Vegas and he's managing a boxer who wants to quit. But a mobster whom Lou sold an interest in his boxer to, is upset. Colt catches Lou but he gets an offer from Larry Holmes for his fighter to fight him. He accepts and asks Colt to let Lou help him.
Episode 7
Dirty Laundry
Wed, Nov 9, 1983
A crooner, Vic Madison (Paul Anka) is under pressure to do "one final run" by a gangster named Jacks. Madison's girlfriend, Flo, accidentally kills one of Jack's henchmen. Holt goes to Lake Tahoe to find Flo and end Jacks activities.
Episode 8
Inside, Outside
Wed, Nov 16, 1983
Sam Garrick, against whom Colt is going to testify, tries to dissuade him, even offering him money, but Colt refuses. Later someone kidnaps Terri and calls Colt, warning him not to testify. Colt goes to see Garrick, wrecks his house and threatens him if anything happens to Terri. Garrick convinces Colt he wouldn't do that. Colt thinks someone close to Garrick is trying to frame him, so that he would be sent away for a long time, maybe even executed. Howie poses as his new enforcer, and later learns that one of the kidnappers is Garrick's wife.
Episode 9
Pirates of Nashville
Wed, Nov 23, 1983
The son of a man whom Colt knows, who works at a record company in L.A. is arrested for killing the man he works for. He goes on the run and turns to a friend of his father who owns a chain of record stores. Colt follows him. What they don't know is that the man who was murdered was involved in a counterfeit record operation and was trying to get out but was killed by the man behind it. But it seems before he died he sent proof of operation to the record store owner whom the killer works for and is trying to get it back. But first has to find it.
Episode 10
Hollywood Shorties
Wed, Nov 30, 1983
A drug dealer chased by Colt hides a Fortune of cocaine in an air shaft, but has trouble getting it out when the coast is clear. Therefore, the equally small wife of a midget with whom Colt is working Gets abducted and Colt and the "Hollywood shorties" try to get her back.
Episode 11
To the Finish
Wed, Dec 7, 198360 mins
Colt tries to persuade Patterson, a Vietnam War veteran and former race-car driver, to return to racing. But Mr. Fargo's thugs do their best to prevent the two from reaching Phoenix where a race is being held.
Episode 12
Wheels
Wed, Dec 21, 198323 mins
Terry asks Colt to go to Seattle to arrest a former colleague, a very reckless stuntman Travis who is wanted as an accessory to murder. A bookie named Crase who wants his money back from Travis is also looking for Travis.
Episode 13
Cool Hand Colt
Wed, Jan 4, 1984
Colt ends up getting involved in a lawman's crooked prisoners for cheap labor scam down in Bayou Country.
Episode 14
The Huntress
Wed, Jan 11, 1984
A hit-woman who collects Rodin sculptures has to be caught by Colt. The trail leads him and Howie to a drama theater owned by the prim Mr. Lewellen. Also after the hit-woman is Diana, played by Cyd Charisse.
Episode 15
Bite of the Wasp
Wed, Jan 18, 1984
A loose pastiche of The Sting broken into three acts. Colt, Howie and Jody are working on a low-budget film when the producer suddenly finds themselves extorted for money. The extortionist is a crooked councilor who has recklessly run up some considerable gambling debts with the 'syndicate'. Colt decides to mount a 'sting' operation by pretending to be a contract killer called The Wasp and getting Jody to finagle her way into the councilor's affections by playing slutty and wearing a series of skimpy outfits. Stunts include: a couple of car crashes/explosions, land skiing, a helicopter grab and jumping and crashing Colt's truck.
Episode 16
Rabbit's Feet
Wed, Jan 25, 198460 mins
Colt, Howie and Jody travel to Argentina to bring a lying conman back to the U.S. They get embroiled in the conman's plot to smuggle horse embryos that were stolen from a millionaire who is ready to use violence to get them back.
Episode 17
Olympic Quest
Wed, Feb 1, 1984
Colt flies to Yugoslavia to join his sister who is a skier in the Sarajevo Winter Olympics. Criminals try to kill them. These are the same men who have kidnapped a millionaire and his mother.
Episode 18
Always Say Always
Wed, Feb 22, 1984
A Hong Kong millionaire and his henchmen are after a shipment of Ming vases while Colt, Howie and Jody are filming a Bond movie in Hong Kong which stars real-life Bond girls Britt Ekland, Lana Wood and Joanna Pettet, who play themselves.
Episode 19
King of the Cowboys
Wed, Feb 29, 198460 mins
Colt works with Roy Rogers again. When they need more horses, Howie goes to get some from a local ranch. But what they don't know is that someone who stole some diamonds and hid them on the horses. So they try to get them back.
Episode 20
Boom
Wed, Mar 7, 1984
Colt busts a PCP manufacturing factory, but its owners get away. Later, they take over the hospital room where a sick Jody is staying and hold her hostage. The hospital gets evacuated by a SWAT team. Colt and Howie must save Jody.
Episode 21
Undersea Odyssey
Wed, Mar 21, 198460 mins
A criminal named Milo knows where sunken gold is, in Bermuda waters. An unscrupulous detective named Claire is after the gold. She listens in on Colt's conversations and tries to get to the gold before Colt, Howie and Jody do.
Episode 22
Old Heroes Never Die
Wed, May 2, 1984
Colts childhood hero, (a famous baseball player who kept colt from breaking and entering when he was a kid), needs Colt's help when he owes a crooked Gambler, who is out to collect.
