The Fall Guy
Stranger Than Fiction
TV Flash files “Stranger Than Fiction” as hour 69 of 111 in the TV Flash guide — The Fall Guy (1981–1986) on ABC, season 4, episode 2, aired 1984-09-26, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E02: listed hour 69 of 111 in the The Fall Guy guide, hour 2 of 22 in season 4. It aired 1984-09-26 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Losers Weepers” (S04E01). Next is “Prisoner” (S04E03).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A novelist is pursued by a syndicate boss who wants the incriminating tape recording that's in her possession.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Stranger Than Fiction sit in the The Fall Guy guide?
S04E02 is listed hour 69 of 111 — hour 2 of 22 in season 4, season 4 episode 2.
When did The Fall Guy S04E02 air?
Stranger Than Fiction aired 1984-09-26 and is listed at 60 minutes.
What's the double life?
Hollywood stuntman and freelance bounty hunter. Cases exist to justify the jumps; the job description is in the theme song.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Majors charm plus stunt-world celebration — action TV that actually tips its hat to the people who hit the ground. Colt Seavers moonlights as a bounty hunter between takes; Larson's truck jumps included. Theme song alone is a time machine. Post–Six Million Dollar Man reinvention, pure stunt poetry.
He hits the ground for a living, then moonlights in a truck. ABC's The Fall Guy (1981–1986), Glen A. Larson, reinvents Lee Majors post–Six Million Dollar Man as Colt Seavers: movie stunts by day, bounty hunting between takes. Douglas Barr and Heather Thomas along for the gags as Howie and Jody. The theme song advertised the job description better than any pitch meeting. *Denim, a GMC, a body as choreography, Hollywood as the fitting room.* Style is the plot. **This was not a soft launch of a second action brand;…
Filed against
- Lee Majors as Colt Seavers
Lee Majors’s Col. Steve Austin made The Six Million Dollar Man a national slow-motion language — 1970s catalog cyborg adventure, better-stronger-faster as a family-hour religion. The Bionic Woman and The Fall Guy kept the jawline in…
- Douglas Barr as Howie Munson
Douglas Barr rode shotgun as Howie Munson on The Fall Guy — stunt-world celebration, bounty-hunter moonlighting, and 1980s action that actually tipped its hat to the people who hit the ground. Lee Majors had the charm; Barr had the crew…
- Heather Thomas as Jody Banks
Heather Thomas played Jody Banks on The Fall Guy — Lee Majors charm, stunt-world celebration, Colt Seavers moonlighting as a bounty hunter between takes, truck jumps included. Theme song as a time machine. TV Flash files her as 1980s…