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Season 1

  • S01E01 The Fall Guy

    • November 4, 1981
    • ABC (US)

    Big Jack sends Colt, with Howie, to find a driver who was responsible for a hit-and-run that hospitalized a young child, and who has since jumped bail. Arriving in a small backwater town, Colt discovers that the man is actually a crooked sheriff, and finds himself up against the entire town's police force.

  • S01E02 The Meek Shall Inherit Rhonda

    • November 11, 1981
    • ABC (US)

    Milton Bach is a computer hacker who ripped off the bank and ran. His wife, Rhonda, and friend Jerry stole the money and went to Mexico. He wants her back.

  • S01E03 The Rich Get Richer

    • November 18, 1981
    • ABC (US)

    The bounty keeps them on the run as he tries many places to sell the bonds he stole. Kay Faulkner is a recurring character as the insurance agent trying to recover the bonds.

  • S01E04 That's Right, We're Bad

    • November 25, 1981
    • ABC (US)

    Danny was framed by 'Animal' for an armored car robbery. If he goes to jail, 'Animal' will kill him. Colt and Howie go undercover in prison to protect him and it all goes awry.

  • S01E05 Colt's Angels

    • December 2, 1981
    • ABC (US)

    Colt is sent to the Mohave Desert to bring back a biker wanted for drug dealing, rape, and assault. He infiltrates the biker's club and competes with them in difficult stunts.

  • S01E06 The Human Torch

    • December 9, 1981
    • ABC (US)

    Colt is sent to a country town to pick up an arson suspect. The townspeople of Federalsburg, and the suspect's mother, insist he is dead and buried.

  • S01E07 Japanese Connection

    • December 16, 1981
    • ABC (US)

    Pursuing the Rio Brothers, two small time crooks, to Hawaii, Colt and Howie find that the pair have trod on the toes of a dangerous Japanese syndicate.

  • S01E08 No Way Out

    • January 6, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    In Las Vegas at a cycle show, Shecky turns himself in to Big Jack and tells her he needs a bodyguard. Reluctantly, Colt takes the assignment.

  • S01E09 License to Kill (1)

    • January 13, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    Colt and company go to Hawaii to catch a man who turns out to be trying to stop an assassination. Things get mixed up and Colt becomes a target.

  • S01E10 License to Kill (2)

    • January 20, 1982
    • ABC (US)
  • S01E11 Goin' for It!

    • January 27, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    A trio of small time crooks are using cars to smuggle jewels out of the country and hit a snag when one of them sells the cars to Howie to smash up for the movie.

  • S01E12 The Adventures of Ozzie and Harold

    • February 3, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    Harold had a run-in with his brother and now faces life as Ozzie, a homeless man. He witnesses a murder and becomes a target.

  • S01E13 Soldiers of Misfortune

    • February 10, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    Colt and Howie 'join up', as they go undercover to try and nail a master criminal who is a mercenary trainee. In the process, they meet a woman journalist with her own reasons for pursuing this story.

  • S01E14 Ready, Aim...Die!

    • February 17, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    A woman says she must find her brother, a gambler with a big debt to a bookie who's sworn to make an example of him, before a hit-man does.

  • S01E15 Ladies on the Ropes

    • February 24, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    Colt tries to help a couple of pro-wrestling girls win a big championship match by disrupting the plans of their scheming manager and an avaricious team owner who wants their contracts. Colt's plans also involve Howie entering the arena as 'Handsome Howard'.

  • S01E16 The Snow Job

    • March 3, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    In Aspen, a politician's wife tells Colt that she shot her husband in self-defense, but he is saying he did it himself.

  • S01E17 Guess Who's Coming to Town?

    • March 17, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    With Colt injured and laid up from a stunt accident, he reluctantly agrees to let Howie and Jody take the case of bringing in a criminal from a small rural town. The case is made more difficult by the fact that the wanted man is related to a local bigwig.

  • S01E18 Child's Play

    • March 24, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    Colt is sent to bring in a gambler who is to testify against the mob, only to find he is on the run from mobsters out to silence him, and ends up looking after his fiesty, young daughter, Libby.

  • S01E19 Charlie

    • April 7, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    Colt and the gang are in Las Vegas to attend a stuntman convention, where Colt meets up with old friend Charlie, a female stuntman whose brother is being hunted down by some heavies after becoming mixed up in a fraudulent scheme.

  • S01E20 Three for the Road

    • April 14, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    A pretty jewel thief hops off to Mexico with Colt and his friends, joined by insurance investigator Kay Faulkner, hot on her trail.

  • S01E21 The Silent Partner

    • April 28, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    To avoid being arrested for fraud, a country western singer frames his chauffeur for the murder of his ghost writer.

  • S01E22 Scavenger Hunt

    • May 5, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    Some naval officers were involved in a $5 million robbery in Hawaii and they are looking for the man holding the money. For some reason, they just can't find the money.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Bail and Bond

    • October 27, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    Colt and Howie are in Rio de Janeiro filming stunts for a spy movie, and find themselves involved in a real life James-Bond-style adventure when Terri assigns them to bring back a bail-jumper involved with money laundering.

  • S02E02 The Ives Have It

    • November 3, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    Terri sends Colt to Aruba to bring back a burglar, but it turns out she is one of twins and had a good reason for the breaking and entering. But which one did it?

  • S02E03 Colt's Outlaws (1)

    • November 10, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    While shooting on location, Colt and his mentor Dan Wild go drinking and when they come out of the bar, the sheriff arrests Wild for being drunk. The next day, Colt learns that while in custody, Wild shot someone. Colt returns to L.A. and learns that the mayor of the town is crooked. He also finds out that the governor is trying to build a case against the mayor, but so far the only person willing to testify against him was the man Wild killed. Obviously Wild was set up. Colt then comes up with a plan. He organizes some of the stunt men who are Wild's friends, and they pose as bikers and go down to the town and tear it up.

  • S02E04 Colt Breaks Out (2)

    • November 10, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    After breaking Dan out of jail and with Mary who witness the murder Littlefield engineered, Colt goes back to L.A. to vindicate Dan. But when Littlefield learns that Mary's a witness against him, he calls someone in the National Guard and they capture Howie and the stunt men who were making their way back to L.A. So Colt can't let Mary testify, and with no other choice, he goes back to Littlefield with Dan and Mary to break Howie and the others. But Littlefield is ready for him.

  • S02E05 Mighty Myron

    • November 17, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    Colt and Howie visit the circus to bring in a jewelry thief, only to find him murdered and an orangutan seemingly responsible. With the primate on the run, Colt and Howie must track him down and prove his innocence before he is put to sleep.

  • S02E06 Reluctant Traveling Companion

    • November 24, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    Colt is sent to bring a woman back from the East Coast. The problem is that the woman is not going easy and refuses to go by plane. So they go by train, and she continues to be disruptive. And right next to them is Richard Burton. And it seems that someone wants her dead.

  • S02E07 A Piece of Cake

    • December 1, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    Terri sends Colt to New York City to bring in a bail jumper, only for Colt to find himself stepping into the middle of an FBI stakeout to try and nail a syndicate member -- via any means necessary!

  • S02E08 Hell on Wheels

    • December 8, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    When Colt is sent in to investigate a criminal at a roller derby team, Jody is persuaded to go undercover and join the skating stars to try and root out the real culprit.

  • S02E09 How Do I Kill Thee...Let Me Count the Ways

    • December 22, 1982
    • ABC (US)

    A man is tricked into supplying computer tapes by using a fake auto accident and telling him the other victim died, thus making him a murderer. Two bumbling detectives take the case.

  • S02E10 Win One for the Gipper???

    • January 5, 1983
    • ABC (US)

    Colt's cousin and a friend are kidnapped by some army men who want to have a winning football team.

  • S02E11 Happy Trails

    • January 12, 1983
    • ABC (US)

    Colt is filming stunts for a new Roy Rogers film. Howie finds himself accused of theft when he buys a car to be used for filming, not realizing it's stolen. Colt tries to uncover the con-men's auto-theft racket.

  • S02E12 Manhunter

    • January 19, 1983
    • ABC (US)

    Colt is sent off to Mexico to bring back two jewel thieves. An undercover private detective has the same objective.

  • S02E13 The Further Adventures of Ozzie and Harold

    • January 26, 1983
    • ABC (US)

    Down-and-out Ozzie is back with his invisible friend. This time he witnesses a murder in a penny arcade, and with the killers now after him, he turns to Colt for help.

  • S02E14 Death Boat

    • February 2, 1983
    • ABC (US)

    When a jewel thief has plastic surgery and takes a cruise to recover, Colt and insurance investigator Kay Faulkner join the cruise along with Howie and Jody, who pretend to be an invalid and his nurse. Now if only they could identify the thief.

  • S02E15 Eight Ball

    • February 9, 1983
    • ABC (US)

    Howie and Jody are concerned that Colt is acting very secretive. Little do they realize that he's helping a former pool champ, now a recovering alcoholic, practice for a big comeback game. But mobsters who have money on their own.

  • S02E16 Spaced Out

    • February 16, 1983
    • ABC (US)

    While Colt is involved in a brawl with a troublemaker, the rest of a small town are held spellbound by a supposed U.F.O. and its mysterious pilot. With the local bank robbed and Jody seemingly abducted, Colt is certain that there is a more logical explanation and determines to find just what is really going on.

  • S02E17 Strange Bedfellows

    • February 23, 1983
    • ABC (US)

    A wild tale in which a man who fails to convince Colt to bail out a woman takes Jody hostage to further his cause. The woman has an urgent need to pick up a million dollars.

  • S02E18 The Molly Sue

    • March 2, 1983
    • ABC (US)

    Terri took the airplane as collateral and it was stolen, so Colt is sent to Panama to retrieve it for Ace.

  • S02E19 One Hundred Miles a Gallon

    • March 9, 1983
    • ABC (US)

    The son of one of Colt's friends skips, and Colt goes to South Carolina after him. However, they aren't running moonshine like he thought, and the regular drivers quit.

  • S02E20 P.S. I Love You

    • March 16, 1983
    • ABC (US)

    Tab Hunter is framed for the murder of a debt collector, and Colt sets out to find the real culprit.

  • S02E21 The Chameleon

    • April 6, 1983
    • ABC (US)

    A man who was a master of disguise takes part in a staged accident to cover the robbery of an armored car.

  • S02E22 The Chase

    • April 13, 1983
    • ABC (US)

    Max sees a murder in the parking lot where he was about to steal a car. He is arrested and the killers escape. Now he is the target.

  • S02E23 Just a Small Circle of Friends

    • May 4, 1983
    • ABC (US)

    An industrialist begs Colt to rescue his daughter from a cult which she thinks is great, but isn't quite what she believes.

Season 3

  • S03E01 Devil's Island

    • September 21, 1983
    • ABC (US)

    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 freefall.

  • S03E02 Trauma

    • September 28, 1983
    • ABC (US)

    Howie is seriously hurt in a sabotaged stunt meant to keep them from testifying against a thief. NOTE: This two-part episode was concluded on the series "Trauma Center."

  • S03E03 Pleasure Isle

    • October 5, 1983
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S03E04 Baker's Dozen

    • October 19, 1983
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S03E05 The Last Drive

    • October 26, 1983
    • ABC (US)

    Colt breaks the arm of a mob driver who has turned state witness and is forced to fill in for him as part of a sting operation to bring down the crime ring.

  • S03E06 TKO

    • November 2, 1983
    • ABC (US)

    Colt tries to protect a fight manager from the mob.

  • S03E07 Dirty Laundry

    • November 9, 1983
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S03E08 Inside, Outside

    • November 16, 1983
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S03E09 Nashville Pirates

    • November 23, 1983
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S03E10 Hollywood Shorties

    • November 30, 1983
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S03E11 To the Finish

    • December 7, 1983
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S03E12 Wheels

    • December 21, 1983
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S03E13 Cool Hand Colt

    • January 4, 1984
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S03E14 The Huntress

    • January 11, 1984
    • ABC (US)

    Colt searches for a hit woman who likes expensive art.

  • S03E15 Bite of the Wasp

    • January 18, 1984
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S03E16 Rabbit's Feet

    • January 25, 1984
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S03E17 Olympic Quest

    • February 1, 1984
    • ABC (US)

    Colt's sister inadvertently 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.

  • S03E18 Always Say Always

    • February 22, 1984
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S03E19 King of the Cowboys

    • February 29, 1984
    • ABC (US)

    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.

  • S03E20 Boom

    • March 7, 1984
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S03E21 Undersea Odyssey

    • March 21, 1984
    • ABC (US)

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

  • S03E22 Old Heroes Never Die

    • May 2, 1984
    • ABC (US)

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

Season 4

  • S04E01 Losers Weepers (1)

    • September 19, 1984
    • ABC (US)

    A cast of comedians, an insurance agent and the theft of $3 million interact in this episode.

  • S04E02 Losers Weepers (2)

    • September 19, 1984
    • ABC (US)
  • S04E03 Stranger Than Fiction

    • September 26, 1984
    • ABC (US)

    A novelist, who made an incriminating tape, is chased through the Everglades, by a syndicate boss who wants the tape, after his aide accidentally falls out a window and she is accused of pushing him.

  • S04E04 Prisoner

    • October 10, 1984
    • ABC (US)

    Jody is arrested in a small town and sent to the prison farm where female inmates are destined to be sold into white slavery.

  • S04E05 Terror U.

    • October 17, 1984
    • ABC (US)

    Colt hides in a frat house from hit men, after he picks up his latest bounty, who was turning state's evidence in a money laundering case.

  • S04E06 Private Eyes

    • October 24, 1984
    • ABC (US)

    Former private eyes, Cannon and Petrocelli, stick their noses into the case of the stolen stunt cars.

  • S04E07 October the 31st

    • October 31, 1984
    • ABC (US)

    Elvira and company are offered a night in a haunted house.

  • S04E08 Sandcastles

    • November 7, 1984
    • ABC (US)

    Colt and Howie pursue a murder suspect to Hawaii, only to discover that Jody has fallen in love with him and let him escape.

  • S04E09 Dead Bounty

    • November 14, 1984
    • ABC (US)

    Colt has to leave his prisoner in the care of the local sheriff and finds that, during the night, his prisoner has been severely beaten and is in a coma. The sheriff accuses Colt of brutality and Colt becomes a fugitive.

  • S04E10 The San Francisco Caper

    • November 21, 1984
    • ABC (US)

    A bored teen-aged girl stows away in Colt's truck while he is searching for a diamond thief.

  • S04E11 Baja 1000

    • November 28, 1984
    • ABC (US)

    Dell Loomis is the man who gave Colt his break and he has been holding it over his head to get him to do things for him. He is also duplicitous. Presently, he has Colt working on a tenth-rate picture and provides him with shoddy equipment. When Colt's truck is damaged, he says that Colt has to pay for it himself. He then tells Colt that if he competes in a desert race to get some footage he needs for the film, he might be able to pay for his truck. But what he doesn't tell Colt is that he made a wager with a Vegas wise guy who, after learning how good Colt is and that they stand to lose $500,000, sends a man whom Colt once caught to make sure that Colt doesn't win.

  • S04E12 The Winner

    • December 19, 1984
    • ABC (US)

    Problems arise at the Special Olympics.

  • S04E13 Semi-Catastrophe

    • January 2, 1985
    • ABC (US)

    Colt helps an independent trucker who is the victim of a loan shark and a gambling habit.

  • S04E14 Her Bodyguard

    • January 9, 1985
    • ABC (US)

    Colt is assigned to be the bodyguard for a woman who is the target of a hitman.

  • S04E15 I Love Paris

    • January 16, 1985
    • ABC (US)

    Colt is sent to Paris on false pretenses. His real object is to identify a terrorist assassin only he can recognize.

  • S04E16 Sheriff Seavers

    • January 23, 1985
    • ABC (US)

    Colt acts as sheriff in a town owned by the bounty's father.

  • S04E17 Tailspin

    • January 30, 1985
    • ABC (US)

    Wild Bill Hillman needs some money to keep his air show afloat, so he "borrows" some from a buried stash. Unfortunately, he is caught, and the mobsters want all of the money.

  • S04E18 High Orbit

    • February 6, 1985
    • ABC (US)

    Thieves change the stunt to cover the theft of a chip from a space shuttle.

  • S04E19 Rockabye Baby

    • February 13, 1985
    • ABC (US)

    Colt trails a bail-jumping girl singer accused of murder. Cameos: The Four Tops, the Temptations, LaToya Jackson.

  • S04E20 Spring Break

    • February 20, 1985
    • ABC (US)

    Colt is in Florida on the trail of a computer hacker, who inadvertently copied the secret account kept by his professor in the same file as his next exam questions.

  • S04E21 Split Image

    • February 27, 1985
    • ABC (US)

    A mobster who has been threatened finds a shoe salesman who is a look-a-like for a him.

  • S04E22 Skip Family Robinson

    • March 6, 1985
    • ABC (US)

    Nick, the boss, has undergone plastic surgery, but Shelby can identify him and has a grudge against George. He promises his honest daughter that he will go straight if she will help him this one last time.

  • S04E23 Reel Trouble

    • April 10, 1985
    • ABC (US)

    Colt takes three stunt women to Turkey for a film that is meant to fail. One of the women is a self-willed novice and botches some scenes, while they all get mixed up with a drug deal.

Season 5

  • S05E01 Dead Ringer

    • September 26, 1985
    • ABC (US)

    Colt is sent after a jumper and then discovers his quarry has entered an Elvis Presley impersonator contest and merged with the crowd.

  • S05E02 King of the Stuntmen

    • October 3, 1985
    • ABC (US)

    There is a "King of the Stuntmen" contest.

  • S05E03 Femme Fatale

    • October 10, 1985
    • ABC (US)

    Howie goes undercover as a female impersonator, Denise, when the skip is a material witness in hiding.

  • S05E04 A Fistful of Lire

    • October 17, 1985
    • ABC (US)

    Colt has to protect an Italian village.

  • S05E05 The Life of Riley

    • November 30, 1985
    • ABC (US)

    When Colt catches a young man wanted in Los Angeles, he stumbles into a kidnapping-for-adoption ring in Sacramento. Simon begs Colt to wait one more day while he checks out his last lead -- a VW that matches the one used in the kidnapping.

  • S05E06 October the 32nd

    • December 7, 1985
    • ABC (US)

    Elvira and company are filming a horror movie in an old haunted mansion during a storm.

  • S05E07 Seavers, Dead or Alive

    • December 14, 1985
    • ABC (US)

    The tables are turned when Colt is framed and becomes a fugitive.

  • S05E08 Escape Claus

    • December 21, 1985
    • ABC (US)

    A fitting story for Christmas -- Santa is arrested for freeing the reindeer. He asks what each wants for Christmas. Jody wants a white Christmas in spite of the current heat wave; Colt reluctantly says he needs a new truck. There is a child care center threatened with eviction, and some crooks want the bonds Santa's cellmate is hiding. Trench's slogan: "You bust 'em, we bond 'em."

  • S05E09 No Rms Ocean Vu

    • January 4, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    Colt is stranded on a desert isle with a spoiled socialite, who has a perfume company, after their plane is shot down by robbers. Prologue is filming a perfume commercial.

  • S05E10 Miami's Nice

    • January 10, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    An FBI agent persuades Colt to participate in a cocaine sting. Jody presents awards to Miss Stuntwoman USA winners.

  • S05E11 Reunion

    • January 17, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    One of Colt's old classmates steals his own jewels for the insurance money.

  • S05E12 Trial by Fire

    • January 24, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    An old army buddy begs Colt to rescue one of the group that was betrayed years ago in Vietnam. He insists a recent photo shows the man as a POW even though everyone believes he is dead.

  • S05E13 In His Shadow

    • January 31, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    A young man arrives who might be Colt's son.

  • S05E14 The Lucky Stiff

    • February 7, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    Jerry has lost his money, house and wife, so he puts out a contract on himself -- then wins the lottery.

  • S05E15 Beach Blanket Bounty

    • February 21, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    A severe earthquake rocks L.A., and Colt coincidentally is involved with a rock group that wants $20,000.

  • S05E16 The Last Chance Platoon

    • February 28, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    Colt becomes the drill instructor for a platoon of misfits.

  • S05E17 I Now Pronounce You...Dead

    • March 7, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    Pearl wants Colt to grab the skip during his wedding, but one of his wives beats him to it. As his creditors chase him, more wives turn up.

  • S05E18 Two on a Skip

    • March 21, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    Trench sends Colt after another bounty hunter who he thinks is taking too long and spending too much.

  • S05E19 The Lady in Green

    • March 28, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    An old actor who, in his earlier days, played "Silver Blade" (a Zorro-type crime fighter), witnesses a murder and wants to go after the killer.

  • S05E20 Tag Team

    • April 4, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    Colt wins two pro wrestlers (losers) and Howie trains them. They do come in handy in a pinch.

  • S05E21 War on Wheels

    • April 11, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    A town was bought to become a reservoir, but one resident refuses to leave. His granddaughter wants to put him in a rest home. Howie has a remote 'out-of-control' tank. A gang of bikers have them all trapped in the town.

  • S05E22 The Bigger They Are

    • May 2, 1986
    • ABC (US)

    A cop wants evidence against a club owner who sells PCP to kids.

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