Lee Majors did pretty well for himself, moving on from the Six Million Dollar Man to The Fall Guy who was the cool stuntman by day, and since his dangerous way of making a living could not make him enough money, he moonlighted as a bounty hunter.Įach episode usually began with Majors performing a major stunt for a movie, and then repeating a similar stunt while trying to get the bad guy, often helped by Barr or Heather Thomas.įor the movie stunts Colt Seavers relies on his physical prowess, for the bit where he needs to chase the bad guys down and haul them in to get the bond money, it's his GMC trucks that do all the hard work. RELATED: Here's Where The Ford Gran Torino From Starsky & Hutch Is Today So here’s what we could dig up about the trucks from The Fall Guy, and where they are now, almost 35 years after the series itself ended… And considering it was off the moment it touched back on terra firma, it looked as indestructible as the protagonist himself. The series ran from 1981 to 1986, and the truck was a big part of it all because this was what Majors, as Seavers, drove whilst chasing the bad guys down, and bringing in the criminals to earn some side money for himself.Īnd boy, the truck could jump – off anything, onto anything, and look completely at home while doing it. Yet another star of the show which was far more attainable than Thomas and Majors was the GM-owned GMC truck Seavers drove, as larger than life as Lee Majors himself. The cast also comprised Douglas Barr and of course, the utterly gorgeous Heather Thomas. To those not very conversant with television in the ‘80s, The Fall Guy was an action and adventure TV series that starred Lee Majors as Colt Seavers, a Hollywood stuntman who doubled up as a bounty hunter, along with his intrepid team of stunt performers.
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