A look at the making of the hit TV series 'The Fall Guy' about Hollywood Stuntman Colt Seavers as he moonlights as a bounty hunter. Great memories and very fine stunts.
@@cartoonfan959 The first iconic string of shows beginning with "J.J. Starbuck" (1955 - 1988) as creator, writer and executive producer under his own indie banner, Stephen J. Cannell Productions for Desilu/CBS Studios. Followed by "Baretta," "The Rockford Files" (for which he won an 1978 Emmy), "Black Sheep Squadron," "The Greatest American Hero," "The A-Team," "Hardcastle and McCormick," "Riptide," "Hunter," "21 Jump Street," "Wiseguy," "The Commish" and "Silk Stalkings." As well as developing, financing and producing many features such as "Somewhere in Time" for Universal, the original "Rambo" trilogy for Lionsgate/StudioCanal and both "Bill and Ted" flicks for Warner Bros. Pictures.
When I was a little kid the Fall Guy was one of my favorite shows-along with Dukes of Hazzard, Night Rider, the Incredible Hulk and V the Series. Let’s not forget the A-Team!
Fall Guy, Airwolf, A-Team, Black Sheep Squadron, Riptide, Magnum PI, Nightrider, 240 Robert, SWAT, The Duke's of Hazard, Chips, & a bevy of other fantastic shows really made the 80s & 90s iconic, in how they helped to mold young kids of my generation's personality, & creativity. I thank GOD for those shows back then!
Fall Guy had such an impact on us 80's High School guys that we all sold our Firebird's & Camaro's and bought pick up trucks and lift kits. Too funny!!!!
My favorite 80's Television show!!! Colt was my hero all through the 80's and 90's!! And Lee Majors seems like a great guy!!! WE ALL LOVE THE FALL GUY!!!!
I had both Heather posters (Thomas and Locklear) on the wall across from my bed so I could see them every morning when I woke up. Not a bad sight to wake up to.😁
The Fall Guy was my favorite show growing up. I just found it on Amazon Prime & OMG! I'm back in the 80's. Man I do miss the 80's. I love this show still.
Ah I was a friend of David Somerville, and Glenn, which wrote the theme song and lived in the real Fall guy house, and I also new Glenn larson, I was so lucky to know both of you guys, and will never forget both of you, so much fun going to the Fall guy house and just hanging out, the thing was, I was always a fan even before I met Dave and Glenn, so the first time David said, I live in the Real Fall Guy house, I said what, then we drove up on the hill, if you guys are reading this, and know about the Real Fall guy house, it is close to Universal Studios, in LA , Thank you so much for all the memories, miss both of you, RIP,
I was 8 when the 80's started and 18 when it ended, the most impressionable years of my life. I to this day I still have the Heather Thomas in the pink bathing suit in the hot tub poster!
I remember reruns aired in syndication for the first few years after the show ended but then it seemed to leave the airwaves for forever. In the 90s eighties action shows would turn up on cable channels but not the Fall Guy. TV Land didn't even pick it up. Only the first season has ever shown up on streaming.
Lee truly is perhaps yhe best in the business. Been a HUGE fan since the "six million dollar man." I got to meet Lee at New York City's Big Apple comic con between 2010 & 2012 (give or take a year or two); what an awesome experience. One of the nicest, friendliests stars I've ever met! Will never forget shaking his hand (he gave me one of the coolest urban handshakes ever!!) Hoping to see him again one day.
@@patricksimmons9853 She looks awful, like a slightly melted waxwork dummy of herself. Markie Post though is still stunning, and has aged fantastically.
This show is still watchable today with some fun episodes and great cast/guest stars. Airwolf... ugh... why did we think that was good? Like Knight Rider, the vehicle was 100% the star.
I still watch this daily on RUclips...Growing up in north western Canada I watched a lot of tv series...I am so glad some old shows were uploaded to RUclips,I wish I could watch all the 60s-70s-80s-90s tv series on here...
One of the best shows ever, still got my autograph picture from Heather Thomas from 1985! She was at the Cavalcade of customs signing autographs in Cincinnati and I was a young boy in Love
4 years on from your post, but maybe something will come out with the Fall Guy film being released this year. It's not along the same line though, which is a shame. Jody was a stunt woman so quite progressive enough for these times. And the person hiring Colt for bounty hunter work was a woman too. Nope, gotta make the main female lead the woman in charge of everything.
Wasn't it Farrah fawcett because she's one of the actresses from that era with that name and the only actress that I can think of from those days she's dead now but she was beautiful
What was interesting was that The Fall Guy debut in 1981 after The Original Charlie's Angels got cancelled and both shows were Videotaped at 20th Century Fox Studios
@@hepchaos technically they were still married, but according to Lee Major's biography on Wikipedia, they were separated at the time. I see him asking her to do a cameo and her acceptance, as well as the lines was to publicly convey "no hard feelings" with their break up.
I built a Truck based on this show. I constantly made changes to my suspension until I could jump it like this without busting it up. Success and good times.
The irony is that Lee Majors is STILL (some 40 years later) best remembered as Steve Austin, Astronaut, The Six Million Dollar Man. (But I guess it depends on your generation. I am sure some people recall him best here, or in The Big Valley).
The Fall Guy an all time classic. And yes Heather Thomas is an very very underrated actress. I would infact put Heather up there with Lucille Ball and Kirstie Alley for comic timing. She was in an episode of TJ Hooker and I was in stitches laughing. Fond fond memories as a kid from England UK Plus Lee Majors has a very spooky Elvis vibe going on I always thought
This was my favorite TV show as a boy. In retrospect i believe this show had quite an impact on many views in my life. What makes a man a man. What is a cool car. That it's important to be helping and respectful. How is life in the USA (i am from Germany). Working hard and having two jobs to pay the bills. And so much more. Thank you to everyone involved in that show ❤
I just noticed how long the intro of this tv series is some days ago. And nobody never was bothered about that. It just brings your mood ready to watch the show.
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You just have no idea how big this show was for us little German kids. Colt was everything and only the top dog kid got to be him on the playground :)
Glen Larson created so many of the TV shows I loved as a child, I can't even imagine what the 80's would have been like without him.
Stephen J Cannel did even more iconic shows in the 80s
@@cartoonfan959 Agreed. Amazing Creative Talent.
@@cartoonfan959 The first iconic string of shows beginning with "J.J. Starbuck" (1955 - 1988)
as creator, writer and executive producer under his own indie banner, Stephen J. Cannell
Productions for Desilu/CBS Studios. Followed by "Baretta," "The Rockford Files" (for which
he won an 1978 Emmy), "Black Sheep Squadron," "The Greatest American Hero,"
"The A-Team," "Hardcastle and McCormick," "Riptide," "Hunter," "21 Jump Street,"
"Wiseguy," "The Commish" and "Silk Stalkings." As well as developing, financing
and producing many features such as "Somewhere in Time" for Universal,
the original "Rambo" trilogy for Lionsgate/StudioCanal and both "Bill and Ted"
flicks for Warner Bros. Pictures.
@@cartoonfan959 Both of them were geniuses.
@@cartoonfan959 Glen Larson, Stephen Cannel, Donald Bellisario, Frank Lupo. They all had a similar style.
When I was a little kid the Fall Guy was one of my favorite shows-along with Dukes of Hazzard, Night Rider, the Incredible Hulk and V the Series. Let’s not forget the A-Team!
"I like it when a plan comes together"
Dukes of Hazard, Knightrider, Airwolf, A team, StreetHawk, TJ Hooker such great shows in the 80’s
Street hawk was great but canceled only after one season if I remember correctly.
V, I have meant only a few people who remember that awesome show. I loved it. The new version sucked though.
@@batsonelectronics As kids we were allowed to stay up late to watch V, to this day I've never found those sunglasses to buy anywhere :(
Fall Guy, Airwolf, A-Team, Black Sheep Squadron, Riptide, Magnum PI, Nightrider, 240 Robert, SWAT, The Duke's of Hazard, Chips, & a bevy of other fantastic shows really made the 80s & 90s iconic, in how they helped to mold young kids of my generation's personality, & creativity.
I thank GOD for those shows back then!
Street Hawk, Automan, Manimal, Simon and Simon, Hardcastle and McCormick, Blue Thunder................
@@Dangerous_Brian Hellz yeah brudder!
That smile when he talked about Farrah
What a great theme song...it makes so much sense to hear the theme song was first, and became the concept for the show.
Crazy on the quiet how big a part of childood Larson was. Fall Guy, Galactica, Quincy and Knight Rider.
Absolutely loved this show, and still do.
I've always wanted a fall guy truck. It was so awsome back in the day and I think still is.
Kurt Martin you and me both. None on eBay.lol. I can still dream
@@driver4music19 just get a GMC pickup the same year and make a replica 👍👍👍👍👍
A friend of mine has the jump truck they reference in this. He takes it shows and events.
That truck still look's fantastic
I did too... and the Simon & Simon Dodge truck
Fall Guy had such an impact on us 80's High School guys that we all sold our Firebird's & Camaro's and bought pick up trucks and lift kits. Too funny!!!!
Yep....were called Rednecks down here. Lol 😅😅😅😅
It sure didn't hurt having Heather Thomas on the show!
One of my favorite shows as a kid. It never got dull.
My favorite 80's Television show!!! Colt was my hero all through the 80's and 90's!! And Lee Majors seems like a great guy!!! WE ALL LOVE THE FALL GUY!!!!
Tim Stanley I loved the fall guy and TJ Hooker they had the to hottest women heather locklier and Heather Thomas both smoking hot.
He invented being cool. He was the Six Million Dollar man and was married to Farrah Fawcett.
I had both Heather posters (Thomas and Locklear) on the wall across from my bed so I could see them every morning when I woke up.
Not a bad sight to wake up to.😁
Absolutely Right,love u colt,Barr and Judy m
yep also in the Netherlands.
Loved this show. Thanks for this. 😉
Colt Seavers!Meine Lieblingsserie in den 80zigern!Bis heute nichts von Ihrer Popularität eingebüßt!Immer nach wie vor noch Spitze!!!
The 80s was legendary..lots of talent and creativity, The Fall Guy was awesome, it's sad that same creativity and talent doesn't exist today.👍🇺🇸
Right you are on that one.
Too expensive to pay for a team of writers. Why "Reality" television is so popular with producers and studios.
Yeah load of Shit on TV these days not like the 70's and 80's and I'm in the UK 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I'm American, but I love British TV shows from the 70s and 80s!
If it gets much worse it will be pointless to own a TV...
The Fall Guy was my favorite show growing up. I just found it on Amazon Prime & OMG! I'm back in the 80's. Man I do miss the 80's. I love this show still.
Netflix are you listening? Put this show up!
Boxer Dog The Fall Guy is on Hulu.
Only 1 season.
They pulled the first season
And A team and black sheep squadron
Ya right it's not the fare left they put shit about Alexandra arsenal context!
One of my favorite TV shows!!
Loved Fall Guy growing up
Had that song memorized for my weekly tradition...growing up as an 80s kid was amazing!
Ah I was a friend of David Somerville, and Glenn, which wrote the theme song and lived in the real Fall guy house, and I also new Glenn larson, I was so lucky to know both of you guys, and will never forget both of you, so much fun going to the Fall guy house and just hanging out, the thing was, I was always a fan even before I met Dave and Glenn, so the first time David said, I live in the Real Fall Guy house, I said what, then we drove up on the hill, if you guys are reading this, and know about the Real Fall guy house, it is close to Universal Studios, in LA , Thank you so much for all the memories, miss both of you, RIP,
I was 8 when the 80's started and 18 when it ended, the most impressionable years of my life. I to this day I still have the Heather Thomas in the pink bathing suit in the hot tub poster!
I love this show!
The Fall Guy and The Dukes of Hazzard we're my two favorite shows as a kid.
I drive a pick up today because of that show. It was one of the best shows that would keep me inside the house watching and enjoying.
That intro song is awesome That intro and Hardcastle & Mccormick and The Dukes are the best intro songs ever
79tazman
What about Gilligan's Island?
@@timtripp4222 Chips!
The theme song wasn't that memorable. Now a bikini-clad Heather Thomas coming through those saloon doors, on the other hand...
Darren O'Connor
Heather was / is definitely hot eye candy, no doubt.
79tazman what about the song for greatest American hero? That was an awesome theme song.
I remember reruns aired in syndication for the first few years after the show ended but then it seemed to leave the airwaves for forever. In the 90s eighties action shows would turn up on cable channels but not the Fall Guy. TV Land didn't even pick it up. Only the first season has ever shown up on streaming.
In Colombia this show was a super hit! We all 80's kids dreamed about some day having a truck like Colt's.
Absolutely loved the fall guy as a little kid, I even had a toy fall guy truck .
Lee truly is perhaps yhe best in the business. Been a HUGE fan since the "six million dollar man." I got to meet Lee at New York City's Big Apple comic con between 2010 & 2012 (give or take a year or two); what an awesome experience. One of the nicest, friendliests stars I've ever met! Will never forget shaking his hand (he gave me one of the coolest urban handshakes ever!!) Hoping to see him again one day.
Damn the 80’s were outstanding.
They were awesome ! I discovered that show when they rerun this on French channel TF1 from 1995 until 1999 and I was 8 to 12 years old !
I love this show and the cast too bad they can't make tv like this anymore
they don't have the money for it, now it's all serious gritty drama heavely based on dialogue
Damn, Heather Thomas!! WOW! Still looks fantastic
she's had alot of work done on her face.
@@The427Cammer So what she's still smoking hot...
@@patricksimmons9853 She looks awful, like a slightly melted waxwork dummy of herself. Markie Post though is still stunning, and has aged fantastically.
LOL Thks to multiple surgeries !!! But YES she does indeed ...
@@topfitnessssss genetics help too..
Heather thomas coming through those saloon doors in that Bikini made me glad i was straight.
Heather Thomas. Locklear was on TJ Hooker.
tvmoviefan oops,
Still take them both.
tvmoviefan Top man
I masturbated to her posters everyday.
My favorite show as a kid. I love it so much I built a full size replica of the truck in 2006.
Love this show so much!
Watched every single Fall Guy still as good as it was in the 80s timeless!😎😁
I had a fall guy lunch box .
Me too!!
_The Fall Guy_ lunchbox is a part of the "National Museum of American History" :)
americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1054211
I still have one.
michael Sanseverino I had a Big Valley lunch box.....with thermos.....
@@heavenstomurgatroyd7033 Now, that's old school.
This is a bold statement, but that may be the best tv theme song ever.
Maybe next to Airwolf.
Word.
In matters of being a full-fledged song, YES!
@@NJDVLS9500 air wolf lack the singing part of the song but I say that and the knight rider theme always got me excited for the show
Used to watch this when I was 4-5
This show and Airwolf were the shit
This show is still watchable today with some fun episodes and great cast/guest stars. Airwolf... ugh... why did we think that was good? Like Knight Rider, the vehicle was 100% the star.
I still watch this daily on RUclips...Growing up in north western Canada I watched a lot of tv series...I am so glad some old shows were uploaded to RUclips,I wish I could watch all the 60s-70s-80s-90s tv series on here...
Due South was a great TV show as well available on RUclips. It had a quirky wit to it.
One of the best shows ever, still got my autograph picture from Heather Thomas from 1985! She was at the Cavalcade of customs signing autographs in Cincinnati and I was a young boy in Love
They need to release the full series DVD box set. I would buy it in a second! Love this show!
Why Settle for Anything Less? Let both Shout Factory and Disney can do the work for you.
4 years on from your post, but maybe something will come out with the Fall Guy film being released this year. It's not along the same line though, which is a shame. Jody was a stunt woman so quite progressive enough for these times. And the person hiring Colt for bounty hunter work was a woman too. Nope, gotta make the main female lead the woman in charge of everything.
Heather looks amazing!
THIS was the Best Show!!!
4:16 One of the best cars on TV. Manly car
My favorite catchphrase from Colt Seavers "That's It." when he gets aggravated and angry.
this show and six million dollar man two of my favorites.always liked Lee majors
My favorite show with Columbo as a French kid back in the 80s.
Hooper , Burt Reynolds.......70s hit , best stunt movie
" There was a lady named Farrah something " hahahahahaha.
Wasn't it Farrah fawcett because she's one of the actresses from that era with that name and the only actress that I can think of from those days she's dead now but she was beautiful
@@kevinmiller1980 - Yes, Farrah Fawcett. She was still Lee Majors wife at hat time, so it was actually Farrah Fawcett Majors. That was the joke.
What was interesting was that The Fall Guy debut in 1981 after The Original Charlie's Angels got cancelled and both shows were Videotaped at 20th Century Fox Studios
@@hepchaos technically they were still married, but according to Lee Major's biography on Wikipedia, they were separated at the time. I see him asking her to do a cameo and her acceptance, as well as the lines was to publicly convey "no hard feelings" with their break up.
He is so funny
One of my most favorite shows of all time. Beats just about every show out there today, hands down.
The fall guy was my second fav TV show (The dukes of hazard being 1st) and I always looked forward to jody walking through the doors 😍
Has to be one of my favourite shows when I was younger.
I built a Truck based on this show. I constantly made changes to my suspension until I could jump it like this without busting it up. Success and good times.
Lol you lying bitch
The irony is that Lee Majors is STILL (some 40 years later) best remembered as Steve Austin, Astronaut, The Six Million Dollar Man. (But I guess it depends on your generation. I am sure some people recall him best here, or in The Big Valley).
DIESEL0759 i remember as both the Six Million dollar man was in reruns at this time but The Fall Guy was a great show
Yeah, I watched this in syndication in the late 80's, I didn't even though about SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN until 2002.lol.
I watched all 3 shows and six million dollar man was my fav
Boomers, X'ers and Millennials! Oh my
Both.
This was one of my favorite shows.
LMAO He says " I approached a Farrah something to do a cameo ".
There will never be anymore shows like this.When I was a kid it was the fall guy and dukes
One of the all time great 80s shows!
My hands down favorite show when I was a kid...followed by the a-team and the dukes of hazard..
incman78 me too!🇺🇸
Me too 👍🏻
Me too and Miami Vice
What about Chips?
@@woodrow0007 Nah...Chips was kinda boring.
Steve McQueen's last movie The Hunter was likely, in part,, where they knew this show was going to make it.
Every time I see that beautiful Chevy I can’t help but say HELL YEA glad I still have my old trucks good stuff 👍🏼👍🏼
My favorite action show as a kid. It would come on right after Knight Rider on Friday nights!
I grew up watching this mans creations. It was magic. I’d dream of being like his characters.
Loved that show back in the day. A great, but often forgotten follow up to the Six Million Dollar Man.
HAD THE POSTER OF HEATHER & THE TRUCK !!!!👍👍🇨🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧🇬🇧✌✌
TV shows nowadays aren't the same anymore : this is one of many that defined the 80's - I miss those days!.
I love it when they drive how much play in that steering wheel 😆😅😄
True but most of those old cars HAD that much play🤣🤣🤣🤣
Play should not exceed 10 degrees (or about two inches on a 20-inch wheel) before front left wheel barely moves.
✌😎👍 🤣🤣
Loved that show.
Ok, can we just take a moment to appreciate how good Heather Thomas still looks, knock out city. What a doll!...
The Fall Guy an all time classic.
And yes Heather Thomas is an very very underrated actress.
I would infact put Heather up there with Lucille Ball and Kirstie Alley for comic timing.
She was in an episode of TJ Hooker and I was in stitches laughing.
Fond fond memories as a kid from England UK
Plus Lee Majors has a very spooky Elvis vibe going on I always thought
This was my favorite TV show as a boy. In retrospect i believe this show had quite an impact on many views in my life. What makes a man a man. What is a cool car. That it's important to be helping and respectful. How is life in the USA (i am from Germany). Working hard and having two jobs to pay the bills. And so much more. Thank you to everyone involved in that show ❤
I absolutely loved this show when I was a kid
Colt Seavers, Bud Spencer and Terence Hill... The three big Idols of my Childhood! ❤️
Colt Seavers = real man.
I loved this show when I was a kid and still do. I wish it would have lasted a lot longer.
This was the best show.
Still is.
Best theme song ever, this show. I did forget he was the Six Million Dollar Man, I always remember him as the Fall Guy
One of my favorite TV shows of all time. Need to make more like this.
I remember this show as a kid.
I cant believe i forgot about this show, was one of my favs as a kid
larsen such a genious producer ! thanx for this great shows!!
This was such a cool show when it was new. Seems even cooler now!
Lee was my all time actor through 70s and 80s as a kid....They sure don't make shows like the fall guy anymore.
Love lee majors he is great in any thing he has ever been in.
The 80s was classic...!!! 😁👌
If they would release the entire series, I'd buy it. Shame that it is stuck in limbo...
Got a DVD set of the 1st season at Christmas. Wife found it on Amazon. Great show.
One of my favorite shows as a kid!
I just noticed how long the intro of this tv series is some days ago. And nobody never was bothered about that. It just brings your mood ready to watch the show.
One of My favorite Shows Ever, Great cast,and production team
This show rules! What a great time…
This was the first thing I ever watched Lee Majors in before I ever watched the Six Million Dollar Man.
Wish seasons 3,4 and 5 would be released on dvd .
Loved seeing Heather Thomas again,this documentary is very interesting.
I was born in 76 so I've been watching this for many years still watch the odd episode now on RUclips
Colt Seavers was my childhood hero - just broke my arm as I try to " stunt " myself on the playground
That was a fun show. Good memories!
Love how Lee mocked Farrah fawcetts cameo. Guess they were pretty cool after the divorce
GavinJ37 I forgot they were married.
Jayson T Yes, that was one cool couple! Pity they couldn't make it work.
What? She's in the theme song, for God's sake... of course she'd be on the show.
Love the 80s shows