The Fall Guy - "Lucky Stiff" - 03:00 am Wednesday, May 20 on WWOR Heroes & Icons

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).

Robert Fuller (Actor) .. Watson

Born: July 29, 1933
Birthplace: Troy, New York, United States

Trivia: Robert Fuller spent his first decade in show business trying his best to avoid performing. After his film debut in 1952's Above and Beyond, Fuller studied acting with Sanford Meisner at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse but never exhibited any real dedication. He tried to become a dancer but gave that up as well, determining that dancing was "sissified." Fuller rose to nominal stardom fairly rapidly in the role of Jess Harper on the popular TV western Laramie (1959-63). Once he found his niche in cowboy attire, he stuck at it in another series, Wagon Train, turning down virtually all offers for "contemporary" roles. When westerns began dying out on television in the late 1960s, Fuller worked as a voiceover actor in commercials, earning some $65,000 per year (a tidy sum in 1969). On the strength of his performance in the Burt Topper-directed motorcycle flick The Hard Ride, Fuller was cast by producer Jack Webb as chief paramedic Kelly Brackett on the weekly TVer Emergency, which ran from 1972 through 1977. In 1994, Robert Fuller was one of several former TV western stars who showed up in cameo roles in the Mel Gibson movie vehicle Maverick.

Rebecca Balding (Actor) .. Sandra

Born: September 21, 1955
Died: July 20, 2022
Birthplace: Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

Trivia: Collected a Joseph Jefferson (Jeff) Award for her performance in Chicago theater in 1975. Played the "Mrs." role in the 1980 failed pilot for Mr. & Mrs. & Mr.; also costarred in Makin' It, which ranked No. 40 on TV Guide's 50 Worst Shows of All Time list (compiled in 2002). Met her producer-husband James Conway while auditioning for a part in his 1981 horror movie, The Boogens. They were married a little more than a month after their first date. Appeared in the series Charmed as two different characters, first as Aunt Jackie in Season 1, then as Elise Rothman in Seasons 5-8.

Arthur Burghardt (Actor) .. Maguire

Born: July 29, 1947

Brian Libby (Actor) .. Zabo

The Fall Guy: Lucky Stiff

03:00 am - 04:00 am, Wednesday, May 20 on WWOR Heroes & Icons (9.4)

Lucky Stiff

Season 5, Episode 14