The Fall Guy: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Fall Guy Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Devil's Island
Sep 21, 1983
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.
Trauma (I)
Sep 28, 1983
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).
Pleasure Isle
Oct 5, 1983
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.
Baker's Dozen
Oct 19, 1983
Colt is sent to a dude ranch in Arizona after a bail jumper, but he finds it is a paramilitary encampment.
The Last Drive
Oct 26, 1983
Colt is sent to a dude ranch in Arizona after a bail jumper, but he finds it is a paramilitary encampment.
Dirty Laundry
Nov 9, 1983
Flo hits an amourous man, is jailed, and then jumps bail. She flees to Reno where she is involved with a money laundering scheme.
Inside, Outside
Nov 16, 1983
Colt refuses a bribe, so Terri is kidnapped to pressure him not to testify.
Nashville Pirates
Nov 23, 1983
Colt encounters a case of piracy when he goes after a bounty in Nashville. He performs 'The Unknown Stuntman'.
Hollywood Shorties
Nov 30, 1983
A drug dealer needs a midget to retrieve his stash. Opening stunt: the midgets trip and 'net' a man.
To the Finish
Dec 7, 1983
Fargo is afraid Pat will recognize him from the past, so he hires two thugs to keep him away from a car race.
Wheels
Dec 21, 1983
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.
Cool Hand Colt
Jan 4, 1984
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.
Bite of the Wasp
Jan 18, 1984
They set up a sting to catch a politician who is extorting money from a movie producer.
Rabbit's Feet
Jan 25, 1984
Colt and his assistants become fugitives after they are involved in a jail break in Argentina.
Olympic Quest
Feb 1, 1984
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.
Always Say Always
Feb 22, 1984
Actresses interrupt work on a "James Bond" film to help Colt catch smugglers in Hong Kong and return a Ming vase.
King of the Cowboys
Feb 29, 1984
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.
Boom
Mar 7, 1984
A drug dealer who lost $250,000 when Colt nabbed his bail-jumping son holds hospitalized Jody and others hostage for $1 million.
Undersea Odyssey
Mar 21, 1984
An insurance investigator trying to retrieve sunken gold deals with both Colt and his bail-jumping quarry.
Old Heroes Never Die
May 2, 1984
An ex-baseball player is now a swindler with a big debt.