Classic TV Theme: The Fall Guy
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- Опубликовано: 9 июн 2024
- Usually when a show is created, the theme is written to reflect the show. But with 'The Fall Guy' it was the other way around. Producers already had the theme (written for a series that never got off the ground) now all they needed was the show to build around it. And they got one that ran for five seasons. It had action and humor, plus occasional star cameos. And that theme song - by David Somerville, Gail Jensen, and Glen Larson - stuck around for the entire run. The visuals under it did change a bit, so we have two opening title sequences (one includes the first-season explainer narrated by Majors), plus two end credits rolls with different arrangements. At first the singer was identified as Colt Seavers (Majors' character name) but in later seasons it read 'Lee Majors'.
00:00 Opening titles, with explainer (season one).
02:56 End credits.
03:25 Opening titles (with Heather Thomas).
05:06 End credits (revised). 
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Who is here cause they watched the original?
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Definitely not me, not old like you all. 😅 J/k.
@@laurenchristianna2092 it's coming for you too,,lol
@@laurenchristianna2092it's the truth ..🤣,47 I am an old geezer
Friday nights on ITV and Cheers on Channel 4 at 10 pm.
One of the best theme songs. In 1982 I wanted that truck. Now in 2022 I still want that truck.
Freaking loved this show..also The Incredible Hulk , The 6 Million Dollar Man, Greatest American Hero, All in the Family, Three's Company, Cheers , Family Ties
Hahaha same here!
Will you get that truck in 2023?
All you need is a good chassis. Parts are all available through the after market.
Just make sure it's a 3/4 ton 1973-1987 GM truck chassis.
Colt Seavers was one of the coolest characters in tv history.
Imagine sharing a few cold Beers with Colt Seavers/Lee Majors & Bandit/Burt Reynolds in a dive bar somewhere... i guarantee there would be chairs going flying at the end of the night in a bar brawl
@@a.d.the.4mvla43 and it would be the greatest night of our lives.
Totally agree
You know what ? Its caracters is not a superman, not a hero …a man like you and me tending to have more money by working as a bounty hunter !
Absofukinlutlee
5 year old me back in 1982 would sing along every week to this epic theme song. Lee Majors was that dude. I was the only black kid in school singing "The Unknown Stuntman." Hell, even the white kids didn't know what I was singing because they were too young to understand this show. But the Fall Guy, Remington Steele, BJ and the Bear, Hardcastle & McCormick, Simon & Simon, Magnum PI, A-Team, Knight Rider, Manimal, AirWolf, Buck Rogers, Blue Thunder, The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, Werewolf, Hart to Hart, and Mike Hammer!
Yeah it was cartoons during the day, and adult themed shows at night every week!
I love my childhood!👍🏾
Hell Ya!!!
Sounds like you were the only cool kid in school which is the best demographic by far.
I was just as nerdy about all the same shows, i sang along had all the toys and books and i even had knightrider wallpaper...Here in the UK it was always around 5pm on a saturday when these shows were on, a true golden time and era.
I was 11
We could be friends
You weren't the only 1. I looked at this religiously as a kid. The shows in the 80s were just great across the board.
This and the A-team . Damn I miss this part of my childhood.
the Dukes of Hazzard?
You made me cry! I feel the same. Knight Rider, Magnum PI, Miami Vice, etc.
@@bmwforlife6951 Incredible Hulk
😞
Add "KINGHT RIDER and AIRWOLF"
Man, in the 70s and 80s, every single show had a fantastic opening theme song. Hollywood really put effort into what it produced, then.
Which is ironic because TV was considered inferior to films. Shows didn’t have the status they enjoy now. I think it was 24 that changed things.
golden era
@@omarmadhloom2602 I always think it was The Sopranos that changed it. 24 and The Wire then came after that. So, basically the combo of those three maybe, that showed TV could be even superior to movies for the first time.
@@dgoodall Yeah but now it all sucks. No good TV shows, and no good movies. Hell, I'd love to go to a theatre and watch a real movie like "Hunt for Red October" like we could 30 years ago. Now it's all streaming crap with loser superheroes.
I wanted to be an actor. Then I met a few. No Plumbing is much more honorable.
The Fall Guy, Dukes of Hazzard and the A Team- a blissful early 1980s. Oh and Spielberg films too. Those of us born in the later 70's really had it good. 🤩
Don't forget The Greatest American Hero!!!😁
Magnum PI
Don't you mean later 60s or very early 70s, so we were old enough to know all this stuff, most of it actually came out in the late 70s to early 80s
! Being born in 69 I know! 😂
I was also a huge fan of the Greatest American Hero
Still remember in middle school, kids talking about the "who shot JR" controversy. 🤣 I didn't watch it though, probably because I was doing something else like planning my take over of the world lol. Didn't work out very well though, of course. 🤣
" I never spent much time in school, but I taught ladies plenty" - Pure gold.
Meanwhile not one of them came 😂😂
I've used that line. But they never got it.
And yes that verse was epic
@@DABA2024 They are women. So wgaf what they want or think?😂😂
Country music has some of the best lyrics, my G.
Lee Majors is a real-life superhero. Orphaned while an infant, he overcame paralysis as a result of a football play gone awry to become a major television star. He's earned the long life he's still living.
Heather Thomas was beautiful too back in the day
...and it cost 6 Million dollars!
@@blazzing So he was a six million dollar man?
The unfortunate way Farrah treated him..
Very talented actor..
Who came here after watching the movie trailer?
Yup
Iam 55years old❤
I sure did!
Wait, they want to tarnish this show with a movie version? 🤦♂️🤦♂️
Not me. I was reminiscing entertainment from my childhood. I didn't know there was a movie until now.
Lee Majors is simply awesome. He does the Six Million Dollar Man and follows up with this: greatness.
And did you hear the "bionic" noise in the new Fall Guy. 🤔
I miss this show!! Catchy theme!!
I am 48 now! Never gets old.
Dude! I'm 51 an the same!!
@@jessiehughes9432 just turned 50!! Still miss it!!
@@jessiehughes9432 by the way I am a GIRL lmao 🤣 not a dude!!
@@castielmaverickwentworth82074 🤦🏻♂️ lol
@@jessiehughes9432 LoL 🤣 what's so funny?
Heather Thomas in bikini was the highlight of the intro.
YES she was.
The greatest part of the intro was Heather Thomas in the bikini.
@@nehrualston5896The bikini in the intro was the greatest part of Heather Thomas.
Buck Rodgers
@@The2ndFirstnope
I jumped off the roof of my garage singing this song. Miss the 80's!
Lee Majors did a heck of a job with the theme song! 👍
If I remember correctly, they actually did an episode in which Colt's nephew (I think, the stuntman he was training) wrote the song and tried to get several country singers to perform it. Then he was told that Colt was a very good singer, and he should do it.
I was wondering if that was him singing it. I wonder how often the star of a show has sung the theme song?
@@teruin2 the only other one I can think of was the show “All in the Family.”
@keithdean9149 yeh, that's the only other one that comes to mind
It’s a shame I can only give this a “like” and not a “love”. Thanks for the memories.
This is definitely one of the best theme songs for a show. It just takes you back to better times. 😊😢
Yes, for sure. Miss those days.
True
I remember watching it
there will mever be anything like this era…….. Fall Guy, Simon & Simone, Knight Rider, Riptide, Hart to Hart…….. Miss these times. Best time in my life. Greetings to Hollywood and the USA and thank you for making such wonderful TV Shows.
Alex, Germany
You forgot the A team and Magnum PI!! TJ Hooker, Rockford files.... Man I could go on but you get it!! Best time for TV.
@@LoNeWoLf6661000 They were all great. And you're right, these times are sorely missed.
@@LoNeWoLf6661000 Highway to Heaven, the Incredible Hulk too.
You're so right! Nowadays it's all politically correct nonsense, pandemics & wars 😥 Wish we could go back..
Used to watch it growing up in the DE as well. Great times....
This guy practically raised me (through the screen). Thanks, Lee.
No other actor can compare!
The 1980s just had the best tv theme tunes ever.
Miami Vice
The 70s were better.
Yes it did!!!
@@RamsLakersDodgers The good stuff was good, but the trash was far worse than the 80s trash.
Dukes of Hazzard @@LarsRyeJeppesen
R.I.P. to good, fun TV like this. And the theme is probably my all time TV favorite.
A time when TV actually meant something. Before CGI and all the bullshit.
I know..I know...its so sad with today's bulkshit I miss 70 s 80 s
and R.I.P. to Markie Post who played Bailbondswoman Terri Michaels
She died last night from cancer at the age of 70
She'll forever be known to Game Show Fans as one of the Card Dealers on The Original Card Sharks on NBC with the late Jim Perry and as an actress, along with her role on The Fall Guy, she'll forever be known as Sexy Public Defense Attorney Christine Sullivan on the Hit NBC Comedy Night Court
God Bless You Marjorie Armstrong Post (November 4, 1950 - August 7, 2021)
The Hulk ending theme.
My favorite TV them along with The Greatest American Hero, both of which came on Wednesday nights when I was in my early teens. Loved it!
Wish I could be in a never ending loop stuck in the 80s
Ditto!
I'm with ya
Yep.
Suck it kiddos! I was there as a child! Anybody born in the mid to late 70's remember the glory of the 80s.
@@LoNeWoLf6661000 born in 72 and damn glad
This, Dukes of Hazzard, GI Joe, Star Wars, Transformers, Ghostbusters, and Marty Mcfly.
This was my childhood. 🤘🔥❤
C.H.I.P's
The A-Team!👊😎🚐
If I may add: Thundercats, Silverhawks, M.A.S.K., Visionaries, He-Man and She-ra, etc... (just to name a few more)... Can’t complain about what I (or we had) back then... Nowadays, with this current generation, 30 yrs later... they’ll say, my childhood is all iPad... smh
@@pokemaster077 - didn't learn how to use apostrophes?
Mines also
Lee Majors is an icon! And a really nice guy too!!
I thought he was really good on a criminally underrated sitcom Raising Hope.
I really liked this show. I even remember having a Fall Guy lunch box in elementary :)
Hahahaha this was a quality show
Yep, me too! It'd probably be worth a few hundred dollars today!
@@kingram4503 never had the fall guy box.. but I did have a metal dukes of Hazzard box with matching thermos.. wish I still had all that shit from the early 80s . I used to have all the original Transformers/ he man/ Star Wars/ Gi joe.. that stuff would put my kid through college if I still had it. Dam you Father Time!
Mee too!! I had a Dukes of Hazzard lunch box and Incredible Hulk one as well and I heard those original lunch boxes in gr8 condition would make you rich today!!
@@travisdozier1357 What about Battlestar Galactica?? The original!!
Im sorry but this is The Fall Guy.
Lee Majors really made this show, now that i've watched the movie.
@@alertgasper let me guess.... the movie is crap
@@ivorharden for me it is, and it's not doing as well as expected at the box office. It's just a story of a boy trying to get back a girl, with action around it. which reminds there was less of that between Colt and Jody--it wasn't the TV show "moonlighting". which makes an interesting story of people working together. Its Gosling trying not to be a pretty boy and not trying to be Ken....while Lee Majors played a weary older guy who did his job and wanted to soak in a tub afterward. us older guys could relate to this :)
@alertgasper yeah, Colt should of been played by an older actor with Gosling playing the younger Howie. Not being horrible to Blunt, but 80s Jodie was hotter. The script looked iffy by watching the trailer. They should have done a sort of 2004 Starsky and Hutch style remake.
@@ivorharden ok, now that you mention that...Gosling would have done better as Howie. and they lost the whole bounty hunter idea, which i get but...i remember Steve McQueen's The Hunter movie. sometimes, a story just has an interesting character and the plot can be anything believable, you're just along for the ride
The 80s. The decade that wasn't perfect but so much light shone through.
It was a lot better than 2023!
@@ryancoffey4327Oh God here we go again with the boomer horseshit.Learn to adjust.
Was perfect to me.. hasn't been a decade to top it yet. Golden era for Film, TV and music in imo
@@ryancoffey4327Yep. Here we are in 2023 and almost every TV show is a wokefest.
@@user-cr8dq7sc6h I agree
I watched the fall guy movie in the cinema tonight..really enjoyed it..loved the lee majors cameo..
2024… who still remembers this great tv show with an equally cool theme?
We loved it in the UK, I used to watch it with my older brother and I had a crush on Colt. I’m loving reading all the comments here, you’re making me laugh & giving me tears in my eyes, happier times indeed
I love the inside joke in the first line -- "I'm not the kind to kiss and tell, but I've been seen with Farrah". At the time, of course, Farrah Fawcett was Lee Majors' wife.
Funnier part was their marriage reportedly ended because he didn't want her to be a star. He wanted her to be a housewife. But years later he used her stardom to plug his new show - LOL! I read somewhere that she appeared in the first episode. So I guess they were still cool after the divorce.
@@fwdthinker Time heals all wounds, I suppose.
Loved this show. Take me back to those times. They were a lot better than where we are now!
Amen
🤦🏽
Such an amazing way to connect with a better time in our lives, song takes me there
I'm 42 and I have to admit back in the 80's I couldn't have been more than 6 or 7 years old but I loved Lee Majors and I used to want the truck he had.
Sheesh, this takes me right back to being 10 and wanting that truck so bad ...
I’m 39 and I still want that truck
Me too, to both of you!
I still want the truck.
I loved this show so much i named my own son Colt.
Could you imagine if this song showed up on todays tv? This generation’s heads would explode! Miss the old days!
Wokism and Political Correctness ruined everything!
Not me! I’m 16 too!
I'm 36!
Amen, brother!
No they wouldn’t, stop it with the boomer horseshit LOL - every AH makes this comment to death on every old video
This Show is now 40 years old. Wow 😳 how Time Flies.
41
does it go past fast?
Ya I was a kid at 9...
I have no idea why I woke up this morning with this intro on my mind, but I'm glad I did. I haven't seen this show or heard this song in YEARS. It was my favorite TV intro song in the 80's!!! #Memories # TheGoodOleDays 💃🏾
I soooo miss the 80s
I remember loving this show when I was kid and quite a few years later, once I'd grown up, I heard this song again and was old enough to understand what he was singing about I just started laughing. This is one of the best songs ever.
Minds explode as an adult when you realize what some song lyrics really are about 😂
Same I was like 5 but I remember having one of my first crushes on him lol. Then about 8 years back I saw an episode of AIRWOLF lol that gave me nostalgia out the wazoo leading me on finding and rewatching all these old shows I once loved and WOW I MISSED SO MUCH LMAO. all I knew was he was cool and I liked him lmao. This songs now on my play list lol. I love it. Airwolf too gotta love the air wolf theme oh and china beach lol. This show and so many others....they just dnt make TV like thIs no more. I hate reality TV. If it pretends like it didn't have a script that its real life ....I am less then enthused about watching it.
@@tinyoverlord🎉
I got teary eyed.
Same here, I miss those days of watching those great shows.
Almost 40 years since I was trying to sing this song, without knowing a single word in English :-) Thank you so much for uploading
RIP MARKIE!
BEST SHOW!
NO REMAKES KRAP NEEDED
Only hearing this for the first time in a very long time am I reminded, not only how clever, but how lyrically funny this theme is. Alright, alright- Heather Thomas walking through the saloon doors in that blue bikini was also one of the reasons I needed to see this again. ❤️
Wasn't through the saloon doors, it was going through Colt's house
@@christophertindall8486 I promise I did know that… I know she wasn’t in an actual Saloon bar. I was referring to the name of that style of the doors. If you google ‘saloon doors’ ,that’s the type she was walking through.
@noirjacques3274 we knew that too! Saloon doors were cool in a house. Heather Thomas was always in my head since pretty much forever.
I might watch that part again....a few times.
Like checking out certain literature for the "articles", we all enjoyed this Heather Thomas show for the "lyrics".
I love this theme. Must-see TV as a kid.
You are totally correct
Loved the show! This song reminds me of songs by Kenny Rogers like the The Gambler, Coward of the County, where the lyrics tell a story and describe a character and his or her arc so well in such a short time. You can make a whole separate movie based off the lyrics. Amazing writers, performers and songs.
I remember watching this when I was like 9 years old. One of the best memories of my childhood!
Heather and Markie in the same show! Man I loved it!
Mrs. Post unfortunatelly died yesterday:-( R.I.P Mrs. Post!
@@butlerhatler2444 MARKIE
GOD BLESS
SO YOUNG
Post really wanted out of the show soon afterward and wasn’t able to leave until the end of 1984.
@@ekop1778 Young? she was 70 for cryingout loud, atleast she lived to see 70, my father didn't even make it that far.
@@tjames9698 she did Night Court after markie left Fall Guy
I remember racing home to tell my mum that the fall guy was on so she could tape the theme song for me, mum’s are awesome 💪🏽
I remember taping from the tv and at the end my mom said something. I was so mad. But I wish I had that tape now so I could hear her sweet voice again.
Used to watch this with my Dad. Got the dvds now, and it's still great. That Truck, and Jody are to die for
man the 80s was a great time to be a kid
True.
This reminds me of my dad coming back from the pub on a Sunday a little worse for wear, having dinner my mum made and then him crashing out by the fire late afternoon, as this program came on. The theme tune stuck in my head for years. Childhood 80's were the BEST
Imagine a show every having a theme this great ever again? They don’t even care to have credits.
Blame greedy TV networks. They continually cut everything down to make more space for commercials. Back in the Sixties if a TV show was in a 60 minute slot you would get about 50 minutes of the show and 10 minutes of commercials. Nowadays that same 60 minute slot you will get 38 minutes of show and 22 minutes of commercials.
never
These old theme tunes always bring me to tears, as they remind me of a time when my parents were alive and I was truly happy without a care in the world.
I'm 49 years old. The Pick up truck and Heather Thomas were the stars of the show.
I remember our whole family would sit down to watch the Fall Guy. Fond Memories!
The Fall Guy from the creator of Magnum, P.I. & Knight Rider and from the studio that gave us Daniel Boone, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, M*A*S*H, Trapper John, M.D. and Batman
Starring Famed Actor and abc Legend Lee Majors (The Big Valley & The Six Million Dollar Man), Douglas Barr (The Wizard), 80's Hottie Heather Thomas, Jo Ann Pflug (Hanna-Barbera's The Fantastic Four and Catlow) and the late Markie Post (Card Sharks, Night Court & Hearts Afire)
The show was a Top 30 Hit during the 1st 4 Seasons, but when Markie Post left the show to join the cast of Night Court, plus competition from NBC in The Cosby Show & Family Ties on Thursday Nights and later competing against The Facts of Life on Saturday Nights spelling the end of The Fall Guy
God Bless You Lee Majors, Douglas Barr & Heather Thomas for a job well done, God Bless You Jo An Pflug for your performance as Big Jack and God Bless You Markie Post and Thank You for all the years that you've entertained us
R.I.P. Terri Michaels
Loved the ending and beginning themes of all seasons. I miss my childhood. No bills to pay and all the cereal I could eat watching The A Team, Airwolf, and The Fall Guy!
The 80s had the best theme tunes.
70s were better.
The 80s didn’t have game of thrones, or succession, or Westworld…I’d say 2010s takes that win.
Ahhhhh, my childhood growing up in the 80’s
Watched every episode with my Pop as a kid. He passed away a few years ago and watching this got me a little choked up but in a good way - good memories.
Colt Seavers made Eastwood look so fine
Nothing like 80's series 🔥🔥
70s were better.
rip Markie Post. Beautiful inside and out. xoxo.
Oh this brings the feels....it's the early 1980s .. I'm 10yrs old....it's Friday night
This is amongst the TV with The A Team, Dukes of Hazard, Knight Rider...
GREAT times to be a young boy
Yep. Those days were magical now half of the new movies that release today and most current TV shows are nothing but woke garbage
Who came here for Heather Thomas
Me Everyday!!!
Yes but I feel like a perv
4:20
Your mom did. 😂
I came for Heather back in the 80's and stayed for her. ❤
My childhood...loved this series as an 80s kid!!!
I used to love this show!! What nostalgic memories this song gives!
I really love this theme song, and the show was great. His pickup truck is iconic as well
Was fun watching it when it was on the air and still is in 2024 forty two years later.
Hope the movie is much more different from the show. Cannot wait to see the movie.
Legendary! brings back great times of 80's and best memories. (i was 3-4 years old)
Lee majors. Should’ve been a huge star. He was a Steve McQueen sort of actor. Charismatic.
He was the 6 million dollar man and married to Farrah
ffs he was a huge star
He was good but unfortunately couldn't make the transition from TV to big Hollywood films. At least he is rightly getting an cameo in the new 'The Fall Guy' movie starring Ryan Gosling.
12 years old watching this. I lived throughout the best decade of my life.
80's.
I loved this show when I watched the reruns in the early 90s
I loved the theme of this show such it really brings back memories.
My, goodness!! This brings back so many memories from my childhood!! Haven't heard the name of "Colt Seavers" in about 41 years!!!
I always did like Lee Majors. 🙂
Loved this back in the 80’s. Now watching reruns of the six million dollar man. Brilliant times back then.
I loved this show and this song. It is savage how he calls out the girls he was with, ha. I love that truck!!!
Boy! This brings back memories. The 80’s had the best theme series
70s were better.
My childhood tv series that I have never missed a single episode that time.
Feeling nostalgic !!!!
Takes me back to my childhood.
You still have to listen to it 10 times in a row.
One of my favourite TV shows when I was a young child in the early 1980s. It's very of its time, especially the crossover country sound of it's opening theme here, and hasn't become a part of popular vintage/retro pop culture, but I like it that way. This one is special for us 40+.
Absolute classic 👍🏻
When I was 8 years old back then, it was my fathers rules behind the T.V. The A-Team, Magnum P.I., Air Wolf, etc. I always liked the Fall Guy series.
Oh my God I forgot all about this show until I seen the trailer for the new one! I remember watching this when I was a kid. I love that truck!
Listening to this made me cry. I could immediately remember my grandmothers living room. Sitting beside my grandad. Watching this show. He passed in 1993 but I hold this show close to my heart!💯❤️🥹
Nostalgia is a powerful emotion! Because its a combination of overwhelming joy. Mixed with overwhelming sadness! The joy of the memories and people. Coupled with the sadness of knowing they are gone forever.❤
@@CoreyT127🙏🏾❤️💯
One of the greatest 📺 show introduction songs!
"Wow, did you see all those sheep?" Now thats some real action!!!
Latch key kids grew up on shows like this. Our favorite babysitters is Lee Majors and Heather Thomas.
Lee Majors sang the theme song didn't he?
Great show and theme.
Yes, he did!
@@ClassicTVMan1981X
And Chuck Norris sang Walker Texas Ranger?
What's funny is on the credits it says Colt Severs.
On the later season, the credit for singing was changed from Colt Seavers to Lee Majors. I wonder if Lee requested this or if there is any story behind it.
@@tommix6733 I just checked one of the credits on RUclips. November 1981. It says sang by Lee Majors. maybe they changed it to Colt Seavers has a novelty.
Always loved that Pickup truck as a kid along with Kit from Night Rider
Thank you for this flashback. Damn this show was great! Theme has lived rent free in my head for 40years.
Enjoyed the theme song sung by Lee Majors, good rhythm and lyrics. Seeing Heather Thomas walking in, wearing her blue bikini I'm blown away.
Love this show.
I love this show
why did this song randomly pop in my head… and i think one of the saddest things is tv shows no longer have theme music
Exactly I miss it
Great TV theme song and great TV show
Used to love this as a kid 😀
Man I was watching this live in the 80s you youngins are seeing TV at its best IMO.