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Season 0

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  1: Remembering "The Fall Guy" -- An American Classic

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  2: The Unknown Stuntman

  Short documentary about the theme song.

Season 1

• _{Wednesday, November 4th, 1981}

  1: The Fall Guy

  Big Jack sends Colt, with Howie, to find a driver who was responsible for a hit-and-run that hospitalized a young child, and who has since jumped bail. Arriving in a small backwater town, Colt discovers that the man is actually a crooked sheriff, and finds himself up against the entire town's police force.

• _{Wednesday, November 11th, 1981}

  2: The Meek Shall Inherit Rhonda

  Milton Bach is a computer hacker who ripped off the bank and ran. His wife, Rhonda, and friend Jerry stole the money and went to Mexico. He wants her back.

• _{Wednesday, November 18th, 1981}

  3: The Rich Get Richer

  The bounty keeps them on the run as he tries many places to sell the bonds he stole. Kay Faulkner is a recurring character as the insurance agent trying to recover the bonds.

• _{Wednesday, November 25th, 1981}

  4: That's Right, We're Bad

  Danny was framed by 'Animal' for an armored car robbery. If he goes to jail, 'Animal' will kill him. Colt and Howie go undercover in prison to protect him and it all goes awry.

• _{Wednesday, December 2nd, 1981}

  5: Colt's Angels

  Colt is sent to the Mohave Desert to bring back a biker wanted for drug dealing, rape, and assault. He infiltrates the biker's club and competes with them in difficult stunts.

• _{Wednesday, December 9th, 1981}

  6: The Human Torch

  Colt is sent to a country town to pick up an arson suspect. The townspeople of Federalsburg, and the suspect's mother, insist he is dead and buried.

• _{Wednesday, December 16th, 1981}

  7: Japanese Connection

  Pursuing the Rio Brothers, two small time crooks, to Hawaii, Colt and Howie find that the pair have trod on the toes of a dangerous Japanese syndicate.

• _{Wednesday, January 6th, 1982}

  8: No Way Out

  In Las Vegas at a cycle show, Shecky turns himself in to Big Jack and tells her he needs a bodyguard. Reluctantly, Colt takes the assignment.

• _{Wednesday, January 13th, 1982}

  9: License to Kill (1)

  Colt and company go to Hawaii to catch a man who turns out to be trying to stop an assassination. Things get mixed up and Colt becomes a target.

• _{Wednesday, January 20th, 1982}

  10: License to Kill (2)

• _{Wednesday, January 27th, 1982}

  11: Goin' for It!

  A trio of small time crooks are using cars to smuggle jewels out of the country and hit a snag when one of them sells the cars to Howie to smash up for the movie.

• _{Wednesday, February 3rd, 1982}

  12: The Adventures of Ozzie and Harold

  Harold had a run-in with his brother and now faces life as Ozzie, a homeless man. He witnesses a murder and becomes a target.

• _{Wednesday, February 10th, 1982}

  13: Soldiers of Misfortune

  Colt and Howie 'join up', as they go undercover to try and nail a master criminal who is a mercenary trainee. In the process, they meet a woman journalist with her own reasons for pursuing this story.

• _{Wednesday, February 17th, 1982}

  14: Ready, Aim...Die!

  A woman says she must find her brother, a gambler with a big debt to a bookie who's sworn to make an example of him, before a hit-man does.

• _{Wednesday, February 24th, 1982}

  15: Ladies on the Ropes

  Colt tries to help a couple of pro-wrestling girls win a big championship match by disrupting the plans of their scheming manager and an avaricious team owner who wants their contracts. Colt's plans also involve Howie entering the arena as 'Handsome Howard'.

• _{Wednesday, March 3rd, 1982}

  16: The Snow Job

  In Aspen, a politician's wife tells Colt that she shot her husband in self-defense, but he is saying he did it himself.

• _{Wednesday, March 17th, 1982}

  17: Guess Who's Coming to Town?

  With Colt injured and laid up from a stunt accident, he reluctantly agrees to let Howie and Jody take the case of bringing in a criminal from a small rural town. The case is made more difficult by the fact that the wanted man is related to a local bigwig.

• _{Wednesday, March 24th, 1982}

  18: Child's Play

  Colt is sent to bring in a gambler who is to testify against the mob, only to find he is on the run from mobsters out to silence him, and ends up looking after his fiesty, young daughter, Libby.

• _{Wednesday, April 7th, 1982}

  19: Charlie

  Colt and the gang are in Las Vegas to attend a stuntman convention, where Colt meets up with old friend Charlie, a female stuntman whose brother is being hunted down by some heavies after becoming mixed up in a fraudulent scheme.

• _{Wednesday, April 14th, 1982}

  20: Three for the Road

  A pretty jewel thief hops off to Mexico with Colt and his friends, joined by insurance investigator Kay Faulkner, hot on her trail.

• _{Wednesday, April 28th, 1982}

  21: The Silent Partner

  To avoid being arrested for fraud, a country western singer frames his chauffeur for the murder of his ghost writer.

• _{Wednesday, May 5th, 1982}

  22: Scavenger Hunt

  Some naval officers were involved in a $5 million robbery in Hawaii and they are looking for the man holding the money. For some reason, they just can't find the money.

• _{Wednesday, May 5th, 1982}

  23: Scavenger Hunt

  Some naval officers were involved in a $5 million robbery in Hawaii and they are looking for the man holding the money. For some reason, they just can't find the money.

Season 2

• _{Wednesday, October 27th, 1982}

  1: Bail and Bond

  Colt and Howie are in Rio de Janeiro filming stunts for a spy movie, and find themselves involved in a real life James-Bond-style adventure when Terri assigns them to bring back a bail-jumper involved with money laundering.

• _{Wednesday, November 3rd, 1982}

  2: The Ives Have It

  Terri sends Colt to Aruba to bring back a burglar, but it turns out she is one of twins and had a good reason for the breaking and entering. But which one did it?

• _{Wednesday, November 10th, 1982}

  3: Colt's Outlaws (1)

  While shooting on location, Colt and his mentor Dan Wild go drinking and when they come out of the bar, the sheriff arrests Wild for being drunk. The next day, Colt learns that while in custody, Wild shot someone. Colt returns to L.A. and learns that the mayor of the town is crooked. He also finds out that the governor is trying to build a case against the mayor, but so far the only person willing to testify against him was the man Wild killed. Obviously Wild was set up. Colt then comes up with a plan. He organizes some of the stunt men who are Wild's friends, and they pose as bikers and go down to the town and tear it up.

• _{Wednesday, November 10th, 1982}

  4: Colt Breaks Out (2)

  After breaking Dan out of jail and with Mary who witness the murder Littlefield engineered, Colt goes back to L.A. to vindicate Dan. But when Littlefield learns that Mary's a witness against him, he calls someone in the National Guard and they capture Howie and the stunt men who were making their way back to L.A. So Colt can't let Mary testify, and with no other choice, he goes back to Littlefield with Dan and Mary to break Howie and the others. But Littlefield is ready for him.

• _{Wednesday, November 17th, 1982}

  5: Mighty Myron

  Colt and Howie visit the circus to bring in a jewelry thief, only to find him murdered and an orangutan seemingly responsible. With the primate on the run, Colt and Howie must track him down and prove his innocence before he is put to sleep.

• _{Wednesday, November 24th, 1982}

  6: Reluctant Traveling Companion

  Colt is sent to bring a woman back from the East Coast. The problem is that the woman is not going easy and refuses to go by plane. So they go by train, and she continues to be disruptive. And right next to them is Richard Burton. And it seems that someone wants her dead.

• _{Wednesday, December 1st, 1982}

  7: A Piece of Cake

  Terri sends Colt to New York City to bring in a bail jumper, only for Colt to find himself stepping into the middle of an FBI stakeout to try and nail a syndicate member -- via any means necessary!

• _{Wednesday, December 8th, 1982}

  8: Hell on Wheels

  When Colt is sent in to investigate a criminal at a roller derby team, Jody is persuaded to go undercover and join the skating stars to try and root out the real culprit.

• _{Wednesday, December 22nd, 1982}

  9: How Do I Kill Thee...Let Me Count the Ways

  A man is tricked into supplying computer tapes by using a fake auto accident and telling him the other victim died, thus making him a murderer. Two bumbling detectives take the case.

• _{Wednesday, January 5th, 1983}

  10: Win One for the Gipper???

  Colt's cousin and a friend are kidnapped by some army men who want to have a winning football team.

• _{Wednesday, January 12th, 1983}

  11: Happy Trails

  Colt is filming stunts for a new Roy Rogers film. Howie finds himself accused of theft when he buys a car to be used for filming, not realizing it's stolen. Colt tries to uncover the con-men's auto-theft racket.

• _{Wednesday, January 19th, 1983}

  12: Manhunter

  Colt is sent off to Mexico to bring back two jewel thieves. An undercover private detective has the same objective.

• _{Wednesday, January 26th, 1983}

  13: The Further Adventures of Ozzie and Harold

  Down-and-out Ozzie is back with his invisible friend. This time he witnesses a murder in a penny arcade, and with the killers now after him, he turns to Colt for help.

• _{Wednesday, February 2nd, 1983}

  14: Death Boat

  When a jewel thief has plastic surgery and takes a cruise to recover, Colt and insurance investigator Kay Faulkner join the cruise along with Howie and Jody, who pretend to be an invalid and his nurse. Now if only they could identify the thief.

• _{Wednesday, February 9th, 1983}

  15: Eight Ball

  Howie and Jody are concerned that Colt is acting very secretive. Little do they realize that he's helping a former pool champ, now a recovering alcoholic, practice for a big comeback game. But mobsters who have money on their own.

• _{Wednesday, February 16th, 1983}

  16: Spaced Out

  While Colt is involved in a brawl with a troublemaker, the rest of a small town are held spellbound by a supposed U.F.O. and its mysterious pilot. With the local bank robbed and Jody seemingly abducted, Colt is certain that there is a more logical explanation and determines to find just what is really going on.

• _{Wednesday, February 23rd, 1983}

  17: Strange Bedfellows

  A wild tale in which a man who fails to convince Colt to bail out a woman takes Jody hostage to further his cause. The woman has an urgent need to pick up a million dollars.

• _{Wednesday, March 2nd, 1983}

  18: The Molly Sue

  Terri took the airplane as collateral and it was stolen, so Colt is sent to Panama to retrieve it for Ace.

• _{Wednesday, March 9th, 1983}

  19: One Hundred Miles a Gallon

  The son of one of Colt's friends skips, and Colt goes to South Carolina after him. However, they aren't running moonshine like he thought, and the regular drivers quit.

• _{Wednesday, March 16th, 1983}

  20: P.S. I Love You

  Tab Hunter is framed for the murder of a debt collector, and Colt sets out to find the real culprit.

• _{Wednesday, April 6th, 1983}

  21: The Chameleon

  A man who was a master of disguise takes part in a staged accident to cover the robbery of an armored car.

• _{Wednesday, April 13th, 1983}

  22: The Chase

  Max sees a murder in the parking lot where he was about to steal a car. He is arrested and the killers escape. Now he is the target.

• _{Wednesday, May 4th, 1983}

  23: Just a Small Circle of Friends

  An industrialist begs Colt to rescue his daughter from a cult which she thinks is great, but isn't quite what she believes.

Season 3

• _{Wednesday, September 21st, 1983}

  1: Devil's Island

  Fred wants Mary detained long enough to keep her from testifying against his boss. She is in Mexico. Opening stunt is a choreographed battle in freefall.

• _{Wednesday, September 28th, 1983}

  2: Trauma

  Howie is seriously hurt in a sabotaged stunt meant to keep them from testifying against a thief. NOTE: This two-part episode was concluded on the series "Trauma Center."

• _{Wednesday, October 5th, 1983}

  3: Pleasure Isle

  Ivy bides her time and then uses the computer to abstract Vessman's assets. He kidnaps her and attempts to get the code numbers from her to regain his assets. Colt to the rescue.

• _{Wednesday, October 19th, 1983}

  4: Baker's Dozen

  Colt is sent to a dude ranch in Arizona after a bail jumper, but he finds it is a paramilitary encampment.

• _{Wednesday, October 26th, 1983}

  5: The Last Drive

  Colt breaks the arm of a mob driver who has turned state witness and is forced to fill in for him as part of a sting operation to bring down the crime ring.

• _{Wednesday, November 2nd, 1983}

  6: TKO

  Colt tries to protect a fight manager from the mob.

• _{Wednesday, November 9th, 1983}

  7: Dirty Laundry

  Flo hits an amorous man, is jailed, and then jumps bail. She flees to Reno, where she is involved with a money laundering scheme.

• _{Wednesday, November 16th, 1983}

  8: Inside, Outside

  Colt refuses a bribe, so Terri is kidnapped to pressure him not to testify.

• _{Wednesday, November 23rd, 1983}

  9: Nashville Pirates

  Colt encounters a case of piracy when he goes after a bounty in Nashville. He performs "The Unknown Stuntman."

• _{Wednesday, November 30th, 1983}

  10: Hollywood Shorties

  A drug dealer needs a midget to retrieve his stash. Opening stunt: the midgets trip and "net" a man.

• _{Wednesday, December 7th, 1983}

  11: To the Finish

  Fargo is afraid Pat will recognize him from the past, so he hires two thugs to keep him away from a car race.

• _{Wednesday, December 21st, 1983}

  12: Wheels

  A former stuntman, now disabled, is reunited with his former fiancee by Colt in Seattle. He dumped her after his accident. Colt has a wild ride downhill in a wheelchair.

• _{Wednesday, January 4th, 1984}

  13: Cool Hand Colt

  A corporation wants to drain the bayou. Colt is sent to bring back Junior to testify, but is put in a chain gang and the sheriff is out to kill him.

• _{Wednesday, January 11th, 1984}

  14: The Huntress

  Colt searches for a hit woman who likes expensive art.

• _{Wednesday, January 18th, 1984}

  15: Bite of the Wasp

  They set up a sting to catch a politician who is extorting money from a movie producer.

• _{Wednesday, January 25th, 1984}

  16: Rabbit's Feet

  Colt and his assistants become fugitives after they are involved in a jail break in Argentina.

• _{Wednesday, February 1st, 1984}

  17: Olympic Quest

  Colt's sister inadvertently tapes a kidnapping at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. Colt comes to her assistance when she is threatened by two thugs who want the tape.

• _{Wednesday, February 22nd, 1984}

  18: Always Say Always

  Actresses interrupt work on a James-Bond-style film to help Colt catch smugglers in Hong Kong and return a Ming vase.

• _{Wednesday, February 29th, 1984}

  19: King of the Cowboys

  Roy Rogers and former TV cowboy stars John Russell, Peter Breck, Jock Mahoney and Roy Rogers Jr. join Colt's posse to track a gang of diamond smugglers using horses.

• _{Wednesday, March 7th, 1984}

  20: Boom

  A drug dealer, who lost $250,000 when Colt nabbed his bail-jumping son, holds hospitalized Jody and others hostage for $1 million.

• _{Wednesday, March 21st, 1984}

  21: Undersea Odyssey

  An insurance investigator trying to retrieve sunken gold deals with both Colt and his bail-jumping quarry.

• _{Wednesday, May 2nd, 1984}

  22: Old Heroes Never Die

  An ex-baseball player is now a swindler with a big debt.

Season 4

• _{Wednesday, September 19th, 1984}

  1: Losers Weepers (1)

  A cast of comedians, an insurance agent and the theft of $3 million interact in this episode.

• _{Wednesday, September 19th, 1984}

  2: Losers Weepers (2)

• _{Wednesday, September 26th, 1984}

  3: Stranger Than Fiction

  A novelist, who made an incriminating tape, is chased through the Everglades, by a syndicate boss who wants the tape, after his aide accidentally falls out a window and she is accused of pushing him.

• _{Wednesday, October 10th, 1984}

  4: Prisoner

  Jody is arrested in a small town and sent to the prison farm where female inmates are destined to be sold into white slavery.

• _{Wednesday, October 17th, 1984}

  5: Terror U.

  Colt hides in a frat house from hit men, after he picks up his latest bounty, who was turning state's evidence in a money laundering case.

• _{Wednesday, October 24th, 1984}

  6: Private Eyes

  Former private eyes, Cannon and Petrocelli, stick their noses into the case of the stolen stunt cars.

• _{Wednesday, October 31st, 1984}

  7: October the 31st

  Elvira and company are offered a night in a haunted house.

• _{Wednesday, November 7th, 1984}

  8: Sandcastles

  Colt and Howie pursue a murder suspect to Hawaii, only to discover that Jody has fallen in love with him and let him escape.

• _{Wednesday, November 14th, 1984}

  9: Dead Bounty

  Colt has to leave his prisoner in the care of the local sheriff and finds that, during the night, his prisoner has been severely beaten and is in a coma. The sheriff accuses Colt of brutality and Colt becomes a fugitive.

• _{Wednesday, November 21st, 1984}

  10: The San Francisco Caper

  A bored teen-aged girl stows away in Colt's truck while he is searching for a diamond thief.

• _{Wednesday, November 28th, 1984}

  11: Baja 1000

  Dell Loomis is the man who gave Colt his break and he has been holding it over his head to get him to do things for him. He is also duplicitous. Presently, he has Colt working on a tenth-rate picture and provides him with shoddy equipment. When Colt's truck is damaged, he says that Colt has to pay for it himself. He then tells Colt that if he competes in a desert race to get some footage he needs for the film, he might be able to pay for his truck. But what he doesn't tell Colt is that he made a wager with a Vegas wise guy who, after learning how good Colt is and that they stand to lose $500,000, sends a man whom Colt once caught to make sure that Colt doesn't win.

• _{Wednesday, December 19th, 1984}

  12: The Winner

  Problems arise at the Special Olympics.

• _{Wednesday, January 2nd, 1985}

  13: Semi-Catastrophe

  Colt helps an independent trucker who is the victim of a loan shark and a gambling habit.

• _{Wednesday, January 9th, 1985}

  14: Her Bodyguard

  Colt is assigned to be the bodyguard for a woman who is the target of a hitman.

• _{Wednesday, January 16th, 1985}

  15: I Love Paris

  Colt is sent to Paris on false pretenses. His real object is to identify a terrorist assassin only he can recognize.

• _{Wednesday, January 23rd, 1985}

  16: Sheriff Seavers

  Colt acts as sheriff in a town owned by the bounty's father.

• _{Wednesday, January 30th, 1985}

  17: Tailspin

  Wild Bill Hillman needs some money to keep his air show afloat, so he "borrows" some from a buried stash. Unfortunately, he is caught, and the mobsters want all of the money.

• _{Wednesday, February 6th, 1985}

  18: High Orbit

  Thieves change the stunt to cover the theft of a chip from a space shuttle.

• _{Wednesday, February 13th, 1985}

  19: Rockabye Baby

  Colt trails a bail-jumping girl singer accused of murder. Cameos: The Four Tops, the Temptations, LaToya Jackson.

• _{Wednesday, February 20th, 1985}

  20: Spring Break

  Colt is in Florida on the trail of a computer hacker, who inadvertently copied the secret account kept by his professor in the same file as his next exam questions.

• _{Wednesday, February 27th, 1985}

  21: Split Image

  A mobster who has been threatened finds a shoe salesman who is a look-a-like for a him.

• _{Wednesday, March 6th, 1985}

  22: Skip Family Robinson

  Nick, the boss, has undergone plastic surgery, but Shelby can identify him and has a grudge against George. He promises his honest daughter that he will go straight if she will help him this one last time.

• _{Wednesday, April 10th, 1985}

  23: Reel Trouble

  Colt takes three stunt women to Turkey for a film that is meant to fail. One of the women is a self-willed novice and botches some scenes, while they all get mixed up with a drug deal.

Season 5

• _{Thursday, September 26th, 1985}

  1: Dead Ringer

  Colt is sent after a jumper and then discovers his quarry has entered an Elvis Presley impersonator contest and merged with the crowd.

• _{Thursday, October 3rd, 1985}

  2: King of the Stuntmen

  There is a "King of the Stuntmen" contest.

• _{Thursday, October 10th, 1985}

  3: Femme Fatale

  Howie goes undercover as a female impersonator, Denise, when the skip is a material witness in hiding.

• _{Thursday, October 17th, 1985}

  4: A Fistful of Lire

  Colt has to protect an Italian village.

• _{Saturday, November 30th, 1985}

  5: The Life of Riley

  When Colt catches a young man wanted in Los Angeles, he stumbles into a kidnapping-for-adoption ring in Sacramento. Simon begs Colt to wait one more day while he checks out his last lead -- a VW that matches the one used in the kidnapping.

• _{Saturday, December 7th, 1985}

  6: October the 32nd

  Elvira and company are filming a horror movie in an old haunted mansion during a storm.

• _{Saturday, December 14th, 1985}

  7: Seavers, Dead or Alive

  The tables are turned when Colt is framed and becomes a fugitive.

• _{Saturday, December 21st, 1985}

  8: Escape Claus

  A fitting story for Christmas -- Santa is arrested for freeing the reindeer. He asks what each wants for Christmas. Jody wants a white Christmas in spite of the current heat wave; Colt reluctantly says he needs a new truck. There is a child care center threatened with eviction, and some crooks want the bonds Santa's cellmate is hiding. Trench's slogan: "You bust 'em, we bond 'em."

• _{Saturday, January 4th, 1986}

  9: No Rms Ocean Vu

  Colt is stranded on a desert isle with a spoiled socialite, who has a perfume company, after their plane is shot down by robbers. Prologue is filming a perfume commercial.

• _{Friday, January 10th, 1986}

  10: Miami's Nice

  An FBI agent persuades Colt to participate in a cocaine sting. Jody presents awards to Miss Stuntwoman USA winners.

• _{Friday, January 17th, 1986}

  11: Reunion

  One of Colt's old classmates steals his own jewels for the insurance money.

• _{Friday, January 24th, 1986}

  12: Trial by Fire

  An old army buddy begs Colt to rescue one of the group that was betrayed years ago in Vietnam. He insists a recent photo shows the man as a POW even though everyone believes he is dead.

• _{Friday, January 31st, 1986}

  13: In His Shadow

  A young man arrives who might be Colt's son.

• _{Friday, February 7th, 1986}

  14: The Lucky Stiff

  Jerry has lost his money, house and wife, so he puts out a contract on himself -- then wins the lottery.

• _{Friday, February 21st, 1986}

  15: Beach Blanket Bounty

  A severe earthquake rocks L.A., and Colt coincidentally is involved with a rock group that wants $20,000.

• _{Friday, February 28th, 1986}

  16: The Last Chance Platoon

  Colt becomes the drill instructor for a platoon of misfits.

• _{Friday, March 7th, 1986}

  17: I Now Pronounce You...Dead

  Pearl wants Colt to grab the skip during his wedding, but one of his wives beats him to it. As his creditors chase him, more wives turn up.

• _{Friday, March 21st, 1986}

  18: Two on a Skip

  Trench sends Colt after another bounty hunter who he thinks is taking too long and spending too much.

• _{Friday, March 28th, 1986}

  19: The Lady in Green

  An old actor who, in his earlier days, played "Silver Blade" (a Zorro-type crime fighter), witnesses a murder and wants to go after the killer.

• _{Friday, April 4th, 1986}

  20: Tag Team

  Colt wins two pro wrestlers (losers) and Howie trains them. They do come in handy in a pinch.

• _{Friday, April 11th, 1986}

  21: War on Wheels

  A town was bought to become a reservoir, but one resident refuses to leave. His granddaughter wants to put him in a rest home. Howie has a remote 'out-of-control' tank. A gang of bikers have them all trapped in the town.

• _{Friday, May 2nd, 1986}

  22: The Bigger They Are

  A cop wants evidence against a club owner who sells PCP to kids.