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The Fall Guy: Season 3

22 episodes Premiered Sep 21, 1983 Updated Oct 4, 2026
Previously on The Fall Guy

Season 3 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of The Fall Guy Season 2.
  • ⚡ Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
  • ⚡ Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
  • ⚡ Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
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Season 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 3: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (19): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S3·E1 Mytharc

Devil's Island

Sep 21, 1983 · 47 min

Fred wants Mary detained long enough to keep her from testifying against his boss. She is in Mexico. Opening stunt is a choreographed battle in free fall.

S3·E2 Core

Trauma (I)

Sep 28, 1983 · 47 min

Howie is seriously hurt in a sabotaged stunt meant to keep them from testifying against a thief. The crossover continues on Trauma Center S01E02 Notes About Courage (II).

S3·E3 Core

Pleasure Isle

Oct 5, 1983 · 47 min

Ivy bides her time and then uses the computer to abstract Vessman's assets. He kidnaps her and attempts to get the code numbers from her to regain his assets. Colt to the rescue.

S3·E4 Core

Baker's Dozen

Oct 19, 1983 · 47 min

Colt is sent to a dude ranch in Arizona after a bail jumper, but he finds it is a paramilitary encampment.

S3·E5 Core

The Last Drive

Oct 26, 1983 · 47 min

Colt is sent to a dude ranch in Arizona after a bail jumper, but he finds it is a paramilitary encampment.

S3·E6 Core

TKO

Nov 2, 1983 · 47 min

Colt tries to protect a fight manager from the mob.

S3·E7 Core

Dirty Laundry

Nov 9, 1983 · 47 min

Flo hits an amourous man, is jailed, and then jumps bail. She flees to Reno where she is involved with a money laundering scheme.

S3·E8 Core

Inside, Outside

Nov 16, 1983 · 47 min

Colt refuses a bribe, so Terri is kidnapped to pressure him not to testify.

S3·E9 Core

Nashville Pirates

Nov 23, 1983 · 47 min

Colt encounters a case of piracy when he goes after a bounty in Nashville. He performs 'The Unknown Stuntman'.

S3·E10 Core

Hollywood Shorties

Nov 30, 1983 · 47 min

A drug dealer needs a midget to retrieve his stash. Opening stunt: the midgets trip and 'net' a man.

S3·E11 Core

To the Finish

Dec 7, 1983 · 47 min

Fargo is afraid Pat will recognize him from the past, so he hires two thugs to keep him away from a car race.

S3·E12 Core

Wheels

Dec 21, 1983 · 47 min

A former stuntman, now disabled, is reunited with his former fiancee by Colt in Seattle. He dumped her after his accident. Colt has a wild ride downhill in a wheelchair.

S3·E13 Core

Cool Hand Colt

Jan 4, 1984 · 47 min

A corporation wants to drain the bayou. Colt is sent to bring back Junior to testify, but is put in a chain gang and the sheriff is out to kill him.

S3·E14 Core

The Huntress

Jan 11, 1984 · 47 min

Colt searches for a hit woman who likes expensive art.

S3·E15 Core

Bite of the Wasp

Jan 18, 1984 · 47 min

They set up a sting to catch a politician who is extorting money from a movie producer.

S3·E16 Core

Rabbit's Feet

Jan 25, 1984 · 47 min

Colt and his assistants become fugitives after they are involved in a jail break in Argentina.

S3·E17 Core

Olympic Quest

Feb 1, 1984 · 47 min

Colt's sister inadvertantly tapes a kidnapping at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo. Colt comes to her assistance when she is threatened by two thugs who want the tape.

S3·E18 Core

Always Say Always

Feb 22, 1984 · 47 min

Actresses interrupt work on a "James Bond" film to help Colt catch smugglers in Hong Kong and return a Ming vase.

S3·E19 Core

King of the Cowboys

Feb 29, 1984 · 47 min

Roy Rogers and former TV cowboy stars John Russell, Peter Breck, Jock Mahoney and Roy Rogers Jr. join Colt's posse to track a gang of diamond smugglers using horses.

S3·E20 Core

Boom

Mar 7, 1984 · 47 min

A drug dealer who lost $250,000 when Colt nabbed his bail-jumping son holds hospitalized Jody and others hostage for $1 million.

S3·E21 Mytharc

Undersea Odyssey

Mar 21, 1984 · 47 min

An insurance investigator trying to retrieve sunken gold deals with both Colt and his bail-jumping quarry.

S3·E22 Mytharc

Old Heroes Never Die

May 2, 1984 · 47 min

An ex-baseball player is now a swindler with a big debt.

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