The Fall Guy: War on Wheels


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War on Wheels

Season 5, Episode 21

Bikers trap Colt, Howie and Jody in a deserted town soon to be turned into a reservoir and demand the release of their compadre. Lee Majors, Heather Thomas, Doug Barr. Travers: Keenan Wynn. Jake: Sonny Landham. Chris: Jeannetta Arnette.

repeat 1986 English
Action/adventure Cult Classic Crime

Cast & Crew
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Lee Majors (Actor) .. Colt Seavers
Doug Barr (Actor) .. Howie Munson
Heather Thomas (Actor) .. Jody Banks
Nedra Volz (Actor) .. Pearl Sperling
Sonny Landham (Actor) .. Jake
Keenan Wynn (Actor) .. Sam Travers
Jeannetta Arnette (Actor) .. Chris
Jim Staskel (Actor) .. K.B.
Paul Drake (Actor) .. Hardtail
Don Swayze (Actor) .. Stretch
Michael Berryman (Actor) .. Skin
Dee Cooper (Actor) .. Rex

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Did You Know..
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Lee Majors (Actor) .. Colt Seavers
Born: April 23, 1939
Birthplace: Wyandotte, Michigan, United States
Trivia: A football star at Eastern Kentucky State College, Lee Majors came to Los Angeles armed with a physical education degree and possessed with a vague desire to break into films. He worked as a park recreation director for the City of Los Angeles before entering show business in 1963. Majors was promoted as "the New James Dean," though he personally aspired to become a new Steve McQueen or Paul Newman (he also retained his permit to work as a recreation director, just in case the world wasn't holding its breath for a new Dean, McQueen or Newman). Majors achieved stardom on his own merits in a variety of television series, the most recent of which was 1992's Raven. His best-known TV roles included Heath Barkley on The Big Valley (1965-69), bionic Steve Austin on The Six Million Dollar Man (1973-78) and stunt man Colt Seavers on The Fall Guy (1981-86). In addition, he has headlined a number of made-for-TV movies, essaying the old Gary Cooper part in the 1991 sequel to High Noon and portraying U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers in a 1976 biopic. Majors would continue to act in the decades to come, memorably appearing in Big Fat Liar and on The Game. For several years, Lee Majors was married to actress Farrah Fawcett.
Doug Barr (Actor) .. Howie Munson
Born: May 01, 1949
Heather Thomas (Actor) .. Jody Banks
Born: September 08, 1957
Birthplace: Greenwich, Connecticut
Trivia: Lead actress, onscreen from Zapped! (1982).
Nedra Volz (Actor) .. Pearl Sperling
Born: June 18, 1908
Died: January 20, 2003
Birthplace: Montrose, Iowa
Trivia: Born in 1908, actress Nedra Volz began her career in show business as a little girl, appearing in vaudeville under the name "Baby Nedra" when she was a toddler. She served as a vocalist for a popular big band in the 1930s called Cato's Vagabonds, and was married in 1946 to Oren Volz, with whom she would have three children. It wasn't until the 1970s that Volz began the onscreen career that would make her a familiar face to so many fans, appearing on numerous TV shows like WKRP in Cincinnati and Maude. In 1980, she took on the role of Adelaide Brubaker on the popular sitcom Diff'rent Strokes, and she would stay with the series for two years. She also took on the recurring role of Emma Tisdale on The Dukes of Hazzard, and continued to wrack up a huge list of single-episode appearances on various shows throughout the '80s and '90s. Volz finally retired from acting in 1996 at the age of 88. She moved to Mesa, AZ, where she eventually passed away in 2003 at the age of 94.
Sonny Landham (Actor) .. Jake
Born: January 01, 1941
Trivia: Born William Landham, he is a former stuntman turned supporting actor, onscreen from the '70s.
Keenan Wynn (Actor) .. Sam Travers
Born: October 14, 1986
Died: October 14, 1986
Birthplace: New York City, New York, United States
Trivia: Actor Keenan Wynn was the son of legendary comedian Ed Wynn and actress Hilda Keenan, and grandson of stage luminary Frank Keenan. After attending St. John's Military Academy, Wynn obtained his few professional theatrical jobs with the Maine Stock Company. After overcoming the "Ed Wynn's Son" onus (his father arranged his first job, with the understanding that Keenan would be on his own after that), Wynn developed into a fine comic and dramatic actor on his own in several Broadway plays and on radio. He was signed to an MGM contract in 1942, scoring a personal and professional success as the sarcastic sergeant in 1944's See Here Private Hargrove (1944). Wynn's newfound popularity as a supporting actor aroused a bit of jealousy from his father, who underwent professional doldrums in the 1940s; father and son grew closer in the 1950s when Ed, launching a second career as a dramatic actor, often turned to his son for moral support and professional advice. Wynn's film career flourished into the 1960s and 1970s, during which time he frequently appeared in such Disney films as The Absent-Minded Professor (1960) and The Love Bug (1968) as apoplectic villain Alonso Hawk. Wynn also starred in such TV series as Troubleshooters and Dallas. Encroaching deafness and a drinking problem plagued Wynn in his final years, but he always delivered the goods onscreen. Wynn was the father of writer/director Tracy Keenan Wynn and writer/actor Edmund Keenan (Ned) Wynn.
Jeannetta Arnette (Actor) .. Chris
Born: July 29, 1954
Trivia: A fair-haired character actress who maintained a nearly constant presence in American television series and features (making her countenance eminently familiar), Jeanetta Arnette began her career in late-'70s exploitation pictures, such as the 1977 releases Teenage Graffiti and The Class Reunion Massacre. Beginning with a bit part as a party guest in Blake Edwards' midlife-crisis comedy 10 (1979), however, Arnette segued gently into more mainstream efforts. She specialized in playing upbeat, highly energetic women with a professional edge. Early assignments included Rob Cohen's underrated Age of Aquarius period film A Small Circle of Friends (1980), the made-for-television sci-fi opus Brave New World (1980), and Andrew V. McLaglen's telemovie Western The Shadow Riders (1982). Arnette achieved her broadest fame and recognition for several years in 1986, when she signed on to play Bernadette Meara, the assistant principal of the Monroe High School for teen prodigies, on the popular sitcom Head of the Class (1986-1991) -- a role she carried for the entire run of the series. Subsequent assignments included the Rodney Dangerfield comedy Ladybugs (1992), the gender-bending melodrama Boys Don't Cry (1999), and Lasse Hallström's offbeat romantic drama The Shipping News (2001). In 2007, Arnette tackled a more prominent role in director David Gordon Green's earnest ensemble drama Snow Angels.
Jim Staskel (Actor) .. K.B.
Paul Drake (Actor) .. Hardtail
Born: December 03, 1962
Don Swayze (Actor) .. Stretch
Born: August 10, 1958
Trivia: Lead actor, onscreen from the '80s. He is the brother of actor Patrick Swayze.
Michael Berryman (Actor) .. Skin
Dee Cooper (Actor) .. Rex
Born: January 01, 1920

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