Caught on Film: The Fall Guy Ep That Caused Chaos on Set
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"Baker's Dozen" (The Fall Guy)
Aired: Oct. 19, 1983
With the release of the reboot movie "The Fall Guy" starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, I thought I'd do a video on two episodes of the original Lee Majors series in which near-fatal accidents happened while filming behind the scenes.
The first, in which the late stuntman Mickey Gilbert was directing, occurred at Indian Dunes Park where the a fatal helicopter crash claimed two lives while filming the movie The Twilight Zone. The second, two years later to the day, happened in Valencia, Calif. during a spectacular stunt jump.
Both accidents resulted in life-changing injuries for those involved... and even resulted in a ground-breaking lawsuit against creator Glen Larson and star/producer Majors.
Let's take a look at the Fall Guy's stunts gone wrong... on Best Eps.
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One of the best parts of Fall Guy was Heather Thomas coming through those saloon doors in the intro sequence.
The "Farrah Fawcett" moment for many young guys at the time. 😁😁😁
The painted on blue bikini! 😮
🙄
I liked the theme song more.
You mean THE best. Intro, in general was great.
No CGI there! Those were the days.
Roger that ! I hate CGI.
CGI could never could do for boobs what old fashioned boobs do on film!!!!!
The Fall Guy was never forgotten. Not by the fans.
Two reasons to watch: Markie Post and Heather Thomas.
Oh you just know markie was an undercover freak in the show
Heather was so hot !!
Definitely!!!
Markie Post.
lee majors was great on fall guy.
I like how the television show itself gives you footage of actors being stuntmen which you can use to illustrate your story while paying tribute to the real stuntmen.
My Dad was a director on "The Fall Guy"! In His fifty year career no one was ever hurt! And Dad was known as an action director! Pop used the best stunt guys who gaffed and prepared all the stunts with precision, planning and preparation and rigging! Safety was the number one priority not just getting the shot at all cost for the directors ego! Such as was the case with Vic Morrow and the two children who lost their lives on the movie "The Twilight Zone" ! Because of the ego of John Landis ! Vic Morrow was a great friend of my Dad's who also directed the series "Combat" with Vic in the early 60's to the late 60's! A side note Vic's daughter is actor Jennifer Jason Leigh! It broke Dad's heart loosing Vic in such a senseless and tragic way! My Dad would come home after a days shooting with tattered clothes and covered from head to toe with dirt! But no one got hurt and they rapped early saving the budget from going over budget! RIP Pop and Vic I know you guys are playing cards drinking beer and reminiscing about you're days in the business! I love you Pop and thinking of you on the 16th year anniversary of you're passing on May 29th 2008 at 3:45 PM Thursday! Till we meet again rest easy sweet prince and may you're memory be eternal! You're loving son John! To be continued someday!!!!!!!!!!!! 🙏💔👍😀
Your dad was a great director and helmed episodes of some of my favorite shows including Lottery!, Whiz Kids, Knight Rider, and Simon and Simon. Thank you for posting in his memory.
Thank you for your kind words and thoughts! The best to you and yours! JF👍😃
Thanks for your insight, very cool
@@plap. Thank you on your input! My best to you!
Wow I just looked up your dad on IMDb and he was involved with so many shows I grew up with!!. And a fellow Ohioan that’s really cool!
One of my favorite 80's shows growing up.
Same here. I loved watching this show as a kid!
@@dieseljester3466 Then there was the A-Team, Knight Rider, Mat Houston, and Magnum PI
@@RangerPhantomSAS Miami Vice, Sledge Hammer, Quantum Leap, Airwolf. Ahhhh, the 80s and 90s were a great time to be a geeky kid! 😁
@@dieseljester3466 Oh yeah. "Trust me I know what I'm doing." LoL. Riptide and Night Court. Could go on and on. They don't make them like they used to and some have aged better than others, but still classic 80's.
@@RangerPhantomSAS OOoh yeah, Night Court was the king of comedy shows back then! Cracked up a lot as a kid/teenager watching it. Watching it again as an adult and I laugh even harder now. 🤣😂
Lee Majors when he was famous for the bionic man, he came here to Baltimore. It was Toys “R” Us. He came to we met him in person. It was so awesome. I think it was between 1970s and 80s.
I was a teenager when Fall Guy was on TV. I . Loved. It. I can still sing the theme song in my head without effort.
Cuz I'm the unknown stuntman that made a monkey out of Burt!
Only aired that one once!
@@kleetus92 Ironic that Burt Reynolds started out as a stunt man and did many of his own stunts.
@@penknight8532 Now that's something I didn't know...
That truck!! Amazing! Big bouncy wheels!! 😉👍
Lee Major did show up as a cameo in end credit of the 2024 movie which my friends didnt understand cause it was way past their time.
Movie that is only Fall Guy in name.
I'm surprised Majors agreed to even show up.
The movie would have been much better if they followed the original storyline content and threw in a few cameos of famous stars like the TV Show did.
I'm just glad they didn't put Dwayne Johnson in it. Probably would have been pitching his stupid tequila in it too.
I lost a tooth because of this show!
Straight after the show ended, whilst the credits were still running, I gulped a glass of orange cordial then set out on a mission... to jump 'The Crick Ditch' on my sister's bike!
I didn't make it, neither did my sister's bike! 🇬🇧
I lent my MK2 silver Burner to Lee Cadman to jump the inlet to the culvert down from my house... Both made it but my handlebars needed pulling back up after!
@@skylined5534 Mate, funny you should say that. Last year here in France my neighbor asked me to clear his house for sale, and in exchange he would let me keep anything from his garage.
I agreed as I wanted the ride-on-mower. I left the pile of rusty bikes until the end, but when I got to the bikes on the last day, the bike leaning against the wall… the bike under all the others was a Mag Burner!!!
I never had a BMX as a kid, but now I have one at 50!!!
Best wishes 🇬🇧🌞
EDIT: under all the ‘others’ not under all the ‘otters!’
Just to be clear, no amphibious mammals were harmed in my ongoing pursuit to nail the perfect manual!
Are we related?
@@thekingsilverado3266 No need for a DNA test, instead of science… I normally tell from the stunts you have performed. So… how many front teeth do you have? 🤔
@@nigelcarren There are more older adults with them 70s & 80s BMX bikes. More than you might think. I found a 26" Silver Shadow in relatively good condition. For the most part I got new BMX tires and tubes. I let my grandson ride MY BIKE!!!! I had to get handle bars 4 it those were bent. Probably jumping a crick somewhere.
That took a lot of work to put that video together. Thank you. A job well done.
Thanks very much!
Wow that little view of the stunt car mods was awesome that cadalac took it almost ! Loved that show and and still love Heather !
Yes! I remember the "Fall Guy" from the 1980s! Saturday afternoon! Lee majors as colt seavers! 😉👍
But it was a prime time tv show.
@@alanrogs3990 exactly! 😉👍
One thing I know. To this day when I hear the word "Moron" I still have a picture of Howie in my head.
He seemed to have a college degree in everything related to the current situation they were in. I loved that show as a kid.
Jethro Bodine did it first.
@@thesunreport No, he took a course in everything but I don't think he had any degree...
@@realulli I knew it was something like that. 🙂
The older I get, the more I believe I’ve heard all the stories from my favorite shows. Often told multiple times by multiple UA-camrs.
But here you go…proving me wrong. I had never heard of these accidents. I remember the Airwolf accident, the Dukes accident, and several others but this is definitely new to me. Thank you so much!
Vic Morrow , probably the worst
@@mattburnett4185
That was a particularly bad one. Landis is responsible for some of my all time favourite films but he's an awful human being along with his son.
It's not stunt related, but from the same era... make sure you check out the Robbin Williams story this channel did. Yeah, I thought I knew who Williams was, too, and almost didn't click on it.
Here two accidents tell me that the crew needed to be behind barriers in case the vehicles went off course. These were avoidable and stupid.
Incidents like this is why those precautions exist today....sometimes we do learn from history
But really.....CGI 👽👽👽🗿
Today, it would be unmanned cameras around the landing spot. No crew anywhere near.
The mantra of incompetence and negligence: "We've always done it that way and never had a problem."
They really should stop doing these remakes of tv shows and movies. They usually turn out to be crap.
Roadhouse was terrible and no doubt the Gosling Fall Guy will also be just as terrible.
If you REALLY have to remake things at least stick as close as you can to the source material. Preferably, just don't!
Hollywood is out of ideas, and when they try to adapt foreign media ( i.e. Japanese anime or European films) into something, they tend to screw it up. What's worse is Disney's SJW ideas of comic book movies, so now those are crap too.
Roadhouse remake was garbage
Agreed very little originality. Although...the Gosling Fall guy was fun.
But yeah, new content please.
They won’t stop. Hollywood has gotten rid of all the creatives. They now just have people who can come up with ideas that are based on an IP that they already own.
They have already made The Fall Guy. (It was actually quite good)
Next is a prequel to a girlboss movie, Furiosa. If that character was so bankable why didn’t they make this movie 10 years ago, after that character was introduced?
Nothing for nothing but in the '81-'82 season when The Fall Guy was a top 20 show it had 15.7 million people watching. Four seasons later, it was ranked #30 with 15.4 million people watching. So it might have fallen in rank, but it didn't lose many viewers between seasons 1 thru 5.
An interesting point. However I suspect that what mattered to the network were the Demographics of those 15 million. If by the fourth season most of the 15m were outside of the valuable 18-34 demo, the network may have wanted to move on. Just a theory.
@@tvsbesteps also, everyone was probably only contracted for five seasons. So a sixth season would mean a raise for all involved and the show wasn't pulling the numbers to justify that.
@@TheNameisPlissken1981 Absolutely agree.
That’s cool. Not everyone thinks about stats like that. You are absolutely correct it did not fall at all.
There was also a built in economics of diminishing returns for tv series. Back then the real goal of any production was to survive to get enough episodes for major syndication down the road. Because that was essentially free money in perpetuity. To get a syndication deal you ideally needed 100 episodes for rotation. So about 4 seasons (Star Trek was a rare exception). Anything above that 100 sweetened the deal, but started to have diminishing returns. As production costs increased over time. The reason no Star Trek show made it past season 7, is that is roughly the point where the costs outweighed the benefits of making more episodes. To make it to 4-5 seasons you needed to be a top 20 show for a number of years. To make it past 5-7 seasons you needed to be top 10 must watch shows. Because with 4-5 seasons they could keep making a steady flow of money from syndicated reruns, without needing the production costs and risks.
I absolutely love lee majors in the fall guy and the bionic man
I have been on second unit shoots for stunts - shit goes wrong all the time. But there's an unspoken rule that when someone gets hurt you're not supposed to talk about it!
Kinda like Fight Club, eh?. : ) Shhhhhhhhhhhh. 🤐
So you would protect Alec Baldwin?
@@andyroid5028
Shhhhh! We're not supposed to talk about it!
@@TheDieselndust
John Landis did worse and he's ok...
So many shows in the 70s and 80s went hard on the action stunts and car crashes. There are probably ten broken bones and injuries for every "gone wrong" story we do hear. Or maybe not, those guys were good. I love the bonus content from Death Proof that spotlights the stunt drivers. Nobody makes car chases like that anymore.
I loved the show Fall Guy. Heather Thomas was gorgeous.
the best thing about the show was the opening scenes and song
Ryan Gosling as Lee Majors it should have been someone more believable
You KNOW he's something when Darr Robinson's name is said right before his, with no comment.
The Fall guy is my all time favourite tv show ❤thank you so much for this ! South Australia 🇦🇺
This was the best show in the 80s 0:53
That 2024 Fall Guy movie was a disgrace.
UGH… my wife made me watch it. It was hard to sit through!!
Heather Thomas is 66 years old now and still drop dead gorgeous
Loved her back then but she kind of aged like milk.
And rotted into stinky pus.
she looked horrible in the movie ending
She not worth the cost
Even her dui picture looks good...was a few years back
Very cool! We are located in Australia and the very 1st scene in this clip is of a 1973 to early 1975 AUSTRALIAN made Chrysler Valiant VJ sedan, probably from one of our cop shows in the 1970s. (We just happen to be the most experienced Aussie Mopar experts in the world) The VJ model Aussie Chrysler Valiants came out with the 318, 340, 360 V8 LA small blocks and the legendary Aussie vertical mounted HEMI 6 cylinder engines in 215 (low compression version) and 245 and 265 cid. Our factory Aussie HEMI six cylinder cars included the 302 Horsepower six-pack version with the Italian triple weber side draft carbs. The VH 265 HEMI Pacer was the fastest 6 cylinder 4 door sedan in the world! And our 1972 VH Chrysler Valiant RT Charger 265 cid 6 pack 4 speed manual stick shift HEMIs did 0-60 MPH in 14.1 seconds on old 1971 type tyres and was the fastest accelerating Australian production car for decades, including V8s! ua-cam.com/channels/WcuDXS6ZOF2DHur3gWT2Ig.html
At about 10:30, there is a scene with 4 power poles in the background. I see this in so many 80s action shows. It might be the Newhall Ranch. It appears also to be an abandoned oil field.
I wonder where that is?
I'm sure it's less that Fox appealed the $150 fine but the OSHA citation at the "serious" category.
Most people do t look at the whole story and react to emotional statements like they appealed the $150. It’s very annoying.
Yea, I figure its the same reason you might fight a ticket. The hike in insurance. They dont want the insurance costs of all their productions to go up. If it was an accident, its just part of the business. If they are at fault, they are now flagged as a higher risk. Insurance for 10 different shows now goes up.
Have you seen the price tag on. OSHA fines now ?
Now they will write a small company a big enough fine to put them out of business.
I think it's just how much bigger government is, compared to 1085
@@edbeck8925 1085? I didn't know OSHA had been around that long!🦧
A lot of information here that the public didn't know. Impressive.
Thanks!
Back when they did actual stunts loved those days... now it's all bullshit cgi that looks fake as fake can be...
I loved the Fall Guy and never missed an episode,this was when stunts were done for real,look at Knight Rider,they trashed dozens of KITT cars.Knight Rider is my favourite.
Well done, thanks for this behind the scenes documentary.
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching!
Theirs only one Colt Seavers Lee Majors! Can’t beat an original. Big fan of his since big valley, only one six million dollar man , last show saw him was called Ronan, retired living on his own boat .
A classic example of not learning by mistakes. Crew should have been protected by a barrier or cage 🤷
Watched all of the series mentioned as a kid ❤ Hard to believe it was that dangerous.😮
This show was, and is still awesome
Well, at least none of the stuntmen were asked to walk thirty-feet underneath a damn helicopter, with pyrotechnics exploding everywhere.
Or, be ejected from a Roman-era chariot, onto an active horse race track, with other chariots screaming down on the stunt person.
And as it is with all Hollywood remakes, this Fall Guy will suck.
Hollywood ruins everything that use to be good.
It's funny that they thought better stunts would cure their ratings problem instead of better writing. I never watched this show just for the stunts. But I did enjoy seeing that big brown truck imitating the general lee.
9:10 It's interesting to see how a 15.2 TV rating gets you only 30th place back then. Now a days the top 10 TV shows are lucky to get 3 to 4% of the audience share. But that's what happens when you only had three major networks and most TV sets only had 12 channel options on the dial.
Whaddya mean? There were UHF channels at the time too!!!
Only if you put foil wads on the antenna lol.
@@joelellis7035 - yea PBS and the like, they never came in good
Not in uk 🇬🇧 we only had 4 channel
I lived in a rural area and only got six channels, and sometimes not all of those would even come in. Ever since the US switched completely to digital TV I haven't been able to get ANY channels.
Hard castle and McCormick was amazing. Still should be on tv.
DRIIIIIVE!
Dar Robinson & Alan Oliney created & did stunts that couldn't be performed today
Well all I got to say is it should have never dropped down that low because the falll guy was a great show
Superb docu, well done.
Much thanks!!
Gr8 show. I was suprised this lived up to the thumbnail. ✌️
I use to love this in the 80's. In South Africa this was dubbed into Afrikaans as "Die Waaghals" (The Stuntman) Back then dubbed movies and series' were done so well in SA you would never know it was dubbed. Also the Six Million Dollar man was dubbed as "Man van Staal" (man of steel)
Its an amazing iconic stunt
I expected Lee Majors to take a quieter job after his serious aviation accident in 1973...
Halled ass from school to see the fall guy and magnum
What time did your school get out? At 7:58 p.m.?
Saw the movie. Had a lot of the good feels from the original TV seriers. Worth watching again.
As a Trontonian I love that picture of Dar Robinson in front of the CN Tower, I remember as a kid watching him jumping from the observation deck. 😃
Legend has it, 2nd season GM brass didn't like how The Duke's car was flying higher than their pickup. I've read GM built as many as 6 mid engined trucks for the series with dummy transfer cases and front axles, so it could fly as high as it did in the 3rd season. I always wonder where they went?
Some of those jumps were crazy!
Loved seeing the tires bounce a few times and the truck just kept trucking!
I read that they were crashing the trucks left and right before they moved the engine.
@@penknight8532
As a kid, I didn't see how the show was profitable, the amount of trucks wrecked. Turns out GM had a deal, if movie studios used their vehicles, GM sold them for $1.00. Pretty good deal.
GM didn't build them. The stunt team built them special, on a specialty chassis, with the engine moved back for better balance in the jumps.
@@tommissouri4871
Thanks, I wondered if GM built them or farmed it out. The source on here didn't say.
The Fall Guy was my favourite show as a kid and my late mums favourites
As a kid I never noticed just how badly damaged that GMC pickup was after it jumped in front of that Porsche 930!
Damn you, adult eyes!
Great show that really needs a box set!
I kept thinking, "I Like this music".. Ah yea, I see you've used White Bat Audio. Smart choice.
Thank you for listing the stunt men and showing their faces.
Love how sometimes it was a GmC and other times a Chevy lol
Back when the Fall Guy was on the air with other action TV shows and I was watching movies, I would memorize the names of all the stunt people in movies.
I'm still in the habit of counting how many stunt people are in a movie to see if it's a genuine action movie!
He will always be Heath Barkley to me
All so the big valley and the six million dollar man I just love Lee majors
All those places now Full of houses I used to ride my motorcycle out there. In the good old days.
Near the Tillman plant?
New Fall Guy movies is excellent. Go see it. I was a fan of the TV show back in the day, blessed to know a bunch of modern stunt men and women. Lane Leavitt, Debbie Evans-Leavitt, Jalil Jay Lynch... and more. Good their names and add stunts... You'll see you've seen these guys and never knew it. These athletes and performers need an OSCAR of their own.
That truck was a work of art , 454 moved way back every piece of suspension was modified. Next truck might be K10-k20 it would be my thrid OSB .
The driver of that Jeep obviously didn't know what he was doing.
Love this show
I can't believe the Love Boat was beating the Fall Guy in the ratings.
God Bless Mickey... Dudes like him rock... Not CGI... Blood balls & brans!!!
228 i remember that episode, that stunt was way cool back then, truck jumping in front of car
Lots off accidents happened on the set in those days.Sadly a stuntman was killed filming an airwolf episode when the helicopter crashed.
Lee majors movie Blue Steel had a death of stunt man AJ Bakunis. He jumped from the a high rise onto an air bag. The airbag split and his pelvis was pushed into his chest. This was in I think 1978.
I confess that stuntman Eddie Braun said to me in an email that in the episode "Seavers dead or alive" he had performed this stunt(!) However, this communication with him took place in 2010 and he was most likely mistaken. John Cade did the jump and incredibly a few months later jumped the A Team van!
Thanks for the info!
I loved the show I wish they would release it on Blu-ray. It is airing again on heroes and icons channel may 9th
This show, The A-Team and Airwolf were my childhood.
We went from the bionic man playing Colt Seavers to a Ken doll. Sad what the world has come to!
80s TV shows, where continuity was completely ignored. 😂
Of course as we all know the New Fall Guy Film is now on the cinema!! 😉👍
Ryan Gosling? Why in the world did they pick that goofball?
Lee majors was the best person for fall guy. it would of never been what it was with out him I liked this show so much I never missed one episode I had the toy truck T shirts it was a good time in my life I’ll never forget that truck was so beautiful . heather Thomas lol was more beautiful but that truck still had the look
Jump successful. Toward Camera. Damn damn.
I loved that show .
I can't believe Pinky Brewster got higher ratings than Fall Guy. That must have hurt.
"Cade, McCuaid and King" reminds me of "Dylan McDermott or Dermot Mulroney?" from SNL. Alliteration in names impairs name recognition.
Thank God . The Rock as The Fall Guy never panned out. That would have been horrible.
Stunt guys doing stunt guy things. RIP the long list of stunt folk and actors who die for our entertainment.
At the very start of this video the low grade clip of someone going over the front of an approaching sedan, the car looks like a 73-76 Aussie Valiant (VJ-VK model).
What makes me angry and sad is that, these movies ruined so many classic American cars from the 70's and 80's that will never be made again. Let the people break and burn, but spare the cars.
I love the fall guy I'm a really big fan
🎶 "I never spent much time in school but I've taught ladies plenty. Its true hire my body out for pay a hey hey.. 🎶
Good old 70’s before CGI and the opioid epidemic and computers were a distant dream/nightmare 👀👁🧟♂️🧟♂️
10:16 Hey wait a minute, that's from to live and die in la, not fall guy, which was directed by the guy who did the exoricist and the french connection, who just sadly also passed, also with the front it folded up and the brakes probably failed, the same thing happened on the dukes of hazzard with one of the jumps, as the brake master clyinder is mounted on the firewall on the left side, and when it bucked it probably knocked it either up or loose hence why it didnt stop
and those kinda jumps are the worst on a car as theirs no give, so you got solid concrete on something not designed to deform with a reinforced chasis, bracing and concrete in the trunk to level out the weight
what episode had them fighting on top of a hot air balloon?
I loved the Fall Guy especilly that truck.
I thought Lee Majors and Douglas Barr were really handsome.
My dad fancied Heather Thomas.