That’s to be expected and a rather helpful start to things.Īs the voice-over ends, we watch a nurse tend to a poor man with a gauze-covered head and leg cast, and then … well, then the show gets awesome because Lee Majors enters the room, claiming to be a family friend, and a fight immediately breaks out. Did they really used to make TV shows like this? There’s a prologue sequence (similar to what every CW show currently does) in which a rather folksy Lee Majors voice-over (in character as stuntman-turned-part-time-bounty-hunter Colt Seavers) explains the basic premise of the show before informing us that he’s closing in on his latest bounty, a master of disguise who has evaded capture multiple times. Well nuts to that because as I curiously watched Fall Guy‘s two-part pilot I had no idea what the heck was going on. Back then, saying “It’s a Glen Larson show” was akin to saying “It’s a Dick Wolf show” now – the mere mention of the name gives the impression you know what to expect. He’s also the producer often accused of stealing his ideas from movies and other TV shows, but whatever he put his name on tended to adhere to the same familiar formula guaranteeing a syndication-qualifying run. and the Bear, Quincy, M.E., Magnum P.I., The Greatest American Hero and Knight Rider. Larson’s the legendary TV producer responsible for Alias Smith and Jones, McCloud, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, B.
Fall Guy was a Glen Larson show, which either means nothing or absolutely everything to you depending on your age. Turns out, The Fall Guy ran for just as long as Six Million Dollar Man (five seasons each), but ended its run with a higher episode total (113 vs. Surely if The Fall Guy was anywhere near as significant it would have popped up on my pop culture radar at some point.
As a pop culture obsessive, I arrogantly assumed The Fall Guy must have been a one season wonder because why else hadn’t I heard of it before? After all, even though I’ve never actually seen an episode of Lee Majors’ best-known series The Six Million Dollar Man I’ve at least heard of it. Well, it ran on ABC from 1981 to 1986, and according to The AV Club, “It concerns a stuntman (Lee Majors) who moonlights as a bounty hunter, catching criminals using his conveniently applicable stuntman tricks and by just sort of driving around for a while, until he inevitably runs them over.” The iconic Fall Guy truck, albeit with Dwayne Johnson’s head superimposed over Lee Majors’ because Johnson is attached to a potential film adaptation They paired it with an image of Lee Majors’ barely-smirking 1980s face in a scene from a TV show called The Fall Guy. To hype its new Evil Kenevil documentary Being Kenevil, Hulu recently ran a huge image of the daredevil legend on its homepage.