Douglas Barr

On The Fall Guy, Douglas Barr plays Howie Munson inside Glen Larson's stunt-world action hour. Colt Seavers moonlights as a bounty hunter between takes; Howie is the younger voltage in the truck. 1980s action television loved the jump; this series named the people who took it. Barr sells the crew as family without turning the hat-tip into a lecture.

Douglas Barr lasts through the 1981–1986 stretch. Colt Seavers does movie stunts by day and bounty hunting between takes — meta Hollywood action with truck jumps included. The Fall Guy on ABC needed Howie Munson the way a shop needs a second key — supporting gravity, not a guest sticker.

Douglas Barr makes s01e01 feel inhabited — The Fall Guy is Majors charm as the title job: bounty hunting between takes, Larson's truck jumps included, theme song already a time machine. s01e06 is the mid-shift temperature (The Human Torch is early-run stunt title: action TV tipping its hat to the people who hit the ground, not only the star who walks away). s03e01 is where Howie Munson is simply working, which is the turn (Devil's Island is mid-run location as spectacle: post–Six Million Dollar Man reinvention, still pure stunt poetry).

TV Flash keeps Munson in the Fall Guy file because the show is still a time machine with a theme song. Post–Six Million Dollar Man reinvention needed ensemble heat, not just a star in a cowboy hat. We file Barr as 1980s action craft: the sidekick who made the stunt lot look like a workplace with better crashes.

That is still the lede. Douglas Barr is why it did not flatten into a logo.