Friday, April 18, 2008

The Fall Guy? What?

For anyone who had never heard of "The Fall Guy":

According to Wikipedia:
"The Fall Guy is an American television program produced for ABC and originally broadcast from 1981 to 1986. It stars Lee Majors, Heather Thomas, and Douglas Barr.

Lee Majors plays Colt Seavers, a Hollywood stunt man who moonlights as a bounty hunter. He uses his physical skills and knowledge of stunt effects (especially stunts involving cars or his large GMC pickup truck) to capture fugitives and criminals. He is accompanied by his cousin and stuntman-in-training Howie Munson, and occasionally by fellow stunt performer Jody Banks."

Trivia:
*The theme song, "The Unknown Stuntman", was sung by series star Lee Majors, and actually became a minor hit in the early 1980s. The lyrics of the theme song include the line, "I've been seen with Farrah," a reference to Lee Majors' ex-wife, Farrah Fawcett.
*The opening credits feature a man falling down onto what seems to be a glass floor. This stunt is from The Poseidon Adventure (1972) in which a man falls from a table onto the glass ceiling in the ball-room when the ship has turned upside down.
*Initailly, the TV execs were a little wary of doing a show a stuntman who moonlights as a private investigator. But when they were played a demo tape of Lee Majors singing "The Unknown Stuntman", they changed their minds.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love the new trivia blog. I'm already a fan of the webmistress, I bet she's even hotter than Heather Thomas!

Emily said...

Haha... thanks for the vote of confidence!