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The Fall Guy Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1985 - 1986
Episode 1
Dead Ringer
Thu, Sep 26, 1985
Colt goes to work for a new bail bonds woman named Pearl. She wants him to find a guy, a convicted forger on parole, who was charged for burglary and is also an Elvis impersonator. She sends them to Las Vegas to find him but unfortunately there's an Elvis competition going on. Eventually they find him and he claims that someone wants him to forge a will, and when he refused they framed him. He came to Las Vegas because he wants to show everyone his talents and convinces Pearl to let him. When someone tries to grab him, Colt thinks he's telling the truth so tries to find the one who wants him to forge the will.
Episode 2
The King of the Stuntmen
Thu, Oct 3, 1985
Colt goes to a stuntman competition where he meets some old friends, there is a prize of $50,000 to the winner, and there is a thief on the loose.
Episode 3
Femme Fatale
Thu, Oct 10, 1985
Pearl sends Colt to bring in a murderer she bailed out. She tells him to keep an eye on the witness who's going to testify against him. While waiting they see someone approach the witness and they jump him thinking he works for the guy but he turns out to be an FBI agent who is also looking for the murderer and he threatens to charge him unless he helps him.
Episode 4
A Fistful of Lire
Thu, Oct 17, 198560 mins
While working in Italy Howie falls for a local girl who is working on the movie. Her brother invites Colt to their village. But when they get there. they learn that the brother wants to pit them against a criminal who is terrorizing the village. They also learn that the brother is also looking for a treasure which the criminal also wants.
Episode 5
The Life of Riley
Sat, Nov 30, 1985
Colt is sent to bring in a man who broke into the DMV. The man claims that he is looking for his daughter who was kidnapped and the only lead he has is the type of car that was seen, which is why he broke into the DMV. Colt lets him check the car he was checking when Colt grabbed him. After talking to the owner and his employee, Colt suspects the employee so they follow him.
Episode 6
October the 32nd
Sat, Dec 7, 1985
Elvira makes her second appearance on this show. She, Colt and others spend a night in a haunted house in England. Ghosts of a murdered couple appear, terrorizing everyone.
Episode 7
Seavers: Dead or Alive
Sat, Dec 14, 1985
While tracking a skip, Colt witnesses the man with another. And while trying to get him, a rival bounty hunter tries to take him from Colt but with Howie's help they outsmart him. Later, Colt is approached by a prosecutor who wants him to testify about the man he saw his skip talking to before he caught him. It seems the man is an elusive criminal. Colt agrees. Later he is framed. When Colt is about to go to court, the prosecutor tells him that she suspects the man he is going to testify against framed him to not only discredit him but to cease them from investigating him. So she tells Colt to go on the run and clear himself. And to do that Colt sets out to find the girl who helped frame him. Pearl who put up Colt's bails wants Howie and Jody to bring him in and when they refuse, the rival bounty hunter takes the job. He then goes to the criminal and offers to take Colt out.
Episode 8
Escape Claus
Sat, Dec 21, 1985
Santa Claus is given the key to a locker. Colt arrests Santa who is also a bail-jumper and works in an orphanage that is about to be closed due to lack of money. In the locker, Colt finds stolen treasury bonds that the thugs are after.
Episode 9
No Rms Ocean Vu
Sat, Jan 4, 1986
Thugs are after a spoiled socialite's pricey necklace. She escapes from them in her plane. She and Colt make a forced landing in a deserted island, where they have to survive.
Episode 10
Miami's Nice
Fri, Jan 10, 1986
A DEA agent blackmails Colt into working for him. Together, they try to end Duncans' drug-smuggling ring. Meanwhile, Howie becomes a beauty contest judge and fraternizes with the contestants, to Jody's dismay.
Episode 11
Reunion
Fri, Jan 17, 198660 mins
Colt goes to his high school reunion and connects with the sister of a classmate who is a jeweler. Later some men rob her brother and take her hostage. Colt wants to help find her but the Sheriff who is another classmate who hates him tells him to back off. Colt then suspects something and confronts her brother who admits he set the whole thing up cause he needs the insurance. But the men he hired double cross him and want more.
Episode 12
Trial by Fire
Fri, Jan 24, 1986
While working in Thailand, an old Army buddy of Colt approaches him and tells him that another friend of theirs is still a POW and he found him. He wants Colt to help. Colt's a little hesitant cause of something that happened between them. But he goes anyway. But when the chopper that's suppose to pick them up is damaged Howie scrambles to get it repaired. And when Colt rescues his friend, he tells Colt there's another prisoner, they have to get him too.
Episode 13
In His Shadow
Fri, Jan 31, 1986
Young Dustin (played by Lee Majors' real-life son) tells Colt that he is his son. Dustin hates Colt for "deserting his mother". When Dustin gets arrested for stealing a car, Colt needs to coax Dustin away from a life of crime.
Episode 14
The Lucky Stiff
Fri, Feb 7, 198660 mins
A loser whose money making schemes always go wrong, is thrown out by his wife. And wanting to make it up to her he takes out a contract on himself so that his wife could get his insurance. Moments after meeting with the one who will execute it, he wins the lottery. At the same time, it seems that one of his schemes got him arrested and the one who bailed him out wants Colt to bring him in. Now the guy after claiming the money, is caught by Colt. He asks Colt to make a phone call and the one he calls is the man he hired and he tells him to call it off but the man is worried that he's a loose end decides to take him out.
Episode 15
Beach Blanket Bounty
Fri, Feb 21, 1986
While working in Florida, Colt gets a call from Pearl telling him to find a guy who stole some plans. Colt finds him but at the same time some guys who owns a club are looking for him because he stole the money they were going to use to pay the loan on the club. After they find him, a fence whom he approached to sell the plans tries to get him back because they want the plans.
Episode 16
The Last Chance Platoon
Fri, Feb 28, 198660 mins
An Army buddy of Colt's drafts him into helping find out who on the base is stealing army equipment. He makes Colt a drill sergeant for a special platoon consisting of deadbeats whom he has to shape up. He brings Howie and Jody in to help him. And they keep their eyes on a man whom the Colonel knows has to be involved hoping he'll lead them to the rest of the ones involved.
Episode 17
I Now Pronounce You... Dead
Fri, Mar 7, 1986
When Colt is sent to get a guy at his wedding. But when they do a woman pulls out a gun and tries to shoot him. That's when two men grab him. They learn that the woman is his wife. She agrees to help them as long as she can tag along. She takes to where he has a business and they discover she has another wife. And it seems that one of the men who grabbed him, entrusted him with his money and it seems he used it to support his wives.
Episode 18
Two on a Skip
Fri, Mar 21, 1986
Bounty hunter Cleveland Tudor has not yet caught Eli, a skip, so Colt is sent after both of them. Colt learns that Eli is trying to sell guns to the mob, so Colt reluctantly partners with the slippery Cleveland to stop Eli's gun-running.
Episode 19
Lady in Green
Fri, Mar 28, 198660 mins
While hospitalized Coot awaits surgery, Howie and a retired actor solve a murder and search for a priceless painting.
Episode 20
Tag Team
Fri, Apr 4, 1986
Colt becomes the manager of 2 wrestlers after he wins their contract in a poker game. The wrestlers move in with Colt. Howie trains them. Colt has to spend much money to feed them, but the wrestlers do help Colt nab a skip.
Episode 21
War on Wheels
Fri, Apr 11, 1986
Colt and team nab a skip whose biker friends force them to take refuge in a ghost town's shop where an old man and his grand-daughter are staying. The bikers lay siege to the shop. Colt and team have to escape from the bikers.
Episode 22
The Bigger They Are
Fri, May 2, 1986
Colt arranges for a bullied teenager to getting boxing lessons at a gym. The gym owner, a cop, seeks and gets Colt's help in nabbing a drug dealer who uses teenagers to transport drugs.