Sifting through the leftover scraps of the '80s, DreamWorks finds The Fall Guy
If the 1980s were a coalmine, it would be on the verge of collapse—stripped of all its cultural deposits in order to sustain our modern-day music, films, and TV shows by a civilization dangerously reluctant to find alternative sources of creative energy. But as with our reliance on fossil fuels, we just keep digging anyway: Now that The A-Team has made its way to the big screen and been declared a success, sort of, we guess, several other action shows of the era are due to follow, including previously announced film updates of MacGyver and The Equalizer. Today the LA Times adds to that list The Fall Guy, ABC’s action-comedy-adventure about a Hollywood stuntman who moonlights as a bounty hunter and catches criminals, usually by jumping over them in his big-ass truck. The show ran from 1981 to 1986 and is remembered mainly for introducing Heather Thomas to the nation’s adolescent fantasies (saying, “Hey, this is my blond TV star friend Heather, the one who’s not Heather Locklear”).