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| The Fall Guy: The Complete Season 1 | 
 enlarge | Directors: Michael O'herlihy, Ray Austin, Tom Connors, Paul Stanley, Georg Fenady
Actors: Nedra Volz, Markie Post
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 22061
Format: Box Set, Color, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 6
Running Time: 1109
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.5 x 1
MPN: 2242644
UPC: 024543426431
EAN: 0024543426431
ASIN: B000O77SNG
Theatrical Release Date: November 4, 1981
Release Date: June 5, 2007
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The hero of The Fall Guy, Colt Seavers--played by Lee Majors, the former Six Million Dollar Man--is a Hollywood stunt man, which lets the show do all kinds of spectacular car crashes with no justification whatsoever, and he's a bounty hunter, which lets him get into all kinds of fist fights and ridiculous plots with no justification whatsoever. It's the perfect 1980s TV show, and it's no surprise it was created by Glen Larson, the mastermind behind such hits as Knight Rider, Battlestar Galactica, and Magnum, P.I. Assisted by his handsome but not-too-bright cousin Howie Munson (Douglas Barr) and sexy stuntwoman Jody Banks (blonde bombshell Heather Thomas), Colt grapples with a corrupt sheriff, a mob hit man, a government secret agent, a neo-Nazi biker gang (which, naturally, Colt had to infiltrate through cunning disguise), women wrestlers, and more, more, more. Preposterous? Absolutely! It's all an excuse to set things on fire and parade scantily clad young women around (Thomas had a popular bikini scene that led to a top-selling poster), while the Hollywood setting allowed for cameo appearances by stars ranging from James Coburn (In Like Flint) to Lou Ferrigno (appearing as himself playing the Incredible Hulk--it's downright postmodern) to Farrah Fawcett (Charlie's Angels), Majors' just-divorced ex-wife. But what kept The Fall Guy running for five seasons wasn't silly plots or leaping cars. Lee Majors is one of those relaxed, genial actors who were made for television. Manly but gentle, handsome but down-to-earth, Majors appealed to men and women equally, could toss off a snappy one-liner without effort, and gave the impression that, no matter what happened, it would come out all right in the end. He even sang his own theme song. The Fall Guy: The Complete First Season is pure comfort television. (Season 1 is the only season with Jo Ann Pflug as Colt's boss, "Big Jack"; her adult sexiness and worldly wit were much-missed on later seasons.) The only extras are a couple of brief but entertaining featurettes, featuring interviews with Majors, Thomas, and Larson. --Bret Fetzer
Product Description
Lee Majors stars as the Fall Guy Colt Seavers a stunt man moonlighting as a bounty hunter who uses Hollywood stunt tactics to capture criminals.System Requirements:Running Time: 1068 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 024543426431 Manufacturer No: 2242644
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 An Old Friend July 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I loved the complete first season for one primary reason: It took me back to Wednesday nights at 9:00 on ABC. The whole family would sit in front of the television to see this show. This is wonderful for Fall Guy fans. Sure, the scripts were not Emmy award winning, and the acting was not Emmy award winning, but people tuned in to see light-hearted entertainment and action. It had no message, but we didn't expect it to have one, we just enjoyed the ride. It was fun. We got to see Lee Majors, car chases, and older actors from the sixties and seventies that you didn't see anymore. They had a soundtrack of popular music of the eighties in many episodes. I just hope seasons 2, 3 and 4 come out soon.
Only for "Fall Guy" fans June 11, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you are truely a "Fall Guy" fan, then you will appreciate the collection. I mean, the theme song alone is worth the money :)!
 Enjoyable fun with one of the best theme songs ever June 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It's been over 25 years since "The Fall Guy" first aired, but time has been very kind to this series about Hollywood stuntman, Colt Sievers (Lee Majors), who also works as a bounty hunter between jobs in order to pay the rent. I saw this show for the first time when I was a child and it was airing on television and I liked it then and rewatching it many years later on DVD, it still holds up pretty well. The show is a nice blend of comedy and action, with some truly amazing stunts. Given the fact that the stories were written in the 1980's, they're not too bad, and the three leads, Majors, Douglas Barr and Heather Thomas, are all likeable. And finally, this show has one of the best television theme songs ever. If you don't find yourself singing along by the final episode, I'd be surprised.
 Disapointed! April 14, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
I am disappointed. The reason is simple.
I have literally waited and waited for a video release of the Fall guy, and then waited and hoped it will come out on DVD, for decades!
Then one day - VOILA - I see it, I buy it, and I regret it. I was thinking "I cant believe it, this is so good!" And unfortunately it was too good to be true. In the title it says the "COMPLETE Series 1", and nothing can be further from COMPLETE than what can be found in this load of rubbish!
Every single song has been either chopped up (to the point that you get the feeling the camera operator might have been drunk) OR the song has been completely replaced with a GENERIC imitation with different melody and lyrics to the song that was originally used.
Now this is NOT A MUSICAL SHOW. However, this is history. The DVD is supposed to be a representation of a particular way of life and way of thinking in society at a particular point in time.
Instead of getting an artists work', we get a version of a corporate executive's greed. Enjoy the show!!
This show must be retitled, removed the word COMPLETE from the subtitle, and all artwork resembling the show changed to more GENERIC ACTION MOVIE images, from the front cover.
This is NOT the Fall Guy.
 Poor Paul Williams, Fox Removed Him AND His Music! April 8, 2008
10 out of 13 found this review helpful
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In the pilot movie, during the bar fight scene, you'll notice the band performing in the background is blurred out, and there's some strange editing going on. Fox was trying to hide the fact that they replaced and edited out Paul Williams singing the Patsy Cline hit "Crazy", and the acting scenes he had before and during the fight. Since all traces of Paul Williams were edited out, his name was removed from the guest star credits at the beginning of the movie, and the song credit for "Crazy" was edited out of the end credits.
There's no mention of music replacement on the back of the box, but in their review of the set, TVShowsOnDVD-DOT-com provided some information that may indicate lots more music replacements in the set:
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Chris Cook dug up some information from NOMA Music and posted it to the Home Theater Forum. NOMA posted this on their website: "20th Century Fox home video release of "The Fall Guy" starring Lee Majors features eight new songs by Robert Allen, Octane Saints, Don Fisher and Matt King." This, coupled with the odd scene from the pilot, leads me to believe there were some music replacements on the set.
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I watched the DVD episode a little more and noticed more instances of music replacement, such as during the restaurant fight, and some score music removed before and after that scene. There are probably lots more, but it would take a lot of effort to compile a complete list.
I taped this episode many years ago in syndication, and although the quality of my copy sucks (it was before I had cable), I have to keep it because it's a more complete copy than what's on the DVD.
It makes me mad that not only did Fox not mention the music replacement on the packaging (reminds me of Anchor Bay with the Grounded For Life sets), AND edit out all of Paul Williams' acting scenes, but that they're charging more than usual for the set - even going so far as to split it into two volumes to make it more affordable - which I presumed was due to music rights, but now I can only assume that greed was the motive.
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