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Accepting her thanks, he assures her, ''Anything for my leading lady.'' She warns him to be careful on the job - ''I know you, remember?'' - and as he walks away, calls out, ''Hey, you still got great legs!'' It's an oddly affecting moment for a standard piece of calculated television entertainment.Įarlier, at 4:30, ABC's ''Afterschool Special'' series is offering ''Tough Girl,'' a decidedly sketchy profile of a girl caught in a custody battle and shunted from the street-smart city to her father's home in manicured suburbia. Majors in a dress and blond wig doing a stunt for an actress named Farrah Fawcett, who used to be Farah Fawcett-Majors before their divorce. Along the way, on what are supposed to be film locations, there are cameo appearances by stars such as James Coburn. But in the end, Colt gets his man, in this case a crooked sheriff played by Eddie Albert, and rescues a black friend, played by the Lou Rawls, the singer, from the clutches of drug meanies. Tonight's primary setting is in a small town in Arizona, which may look exotic to overly jaded Californians. Press releases declare that Colt's assignment will take him frequently to exotic locales. Eventually, Colt jumps from the burning copter, which proceeds to explode in flames. This evening's escapade has him being chased across plains by several police cars, then hopping on to a helicopter, which in turn snags a carful of villains and dumps them atop a gloriously isolated mountain as ''America the Beautiful'' is played on the music track. As a bounty hunter, he gets into situations that demand further stunts. Needless to say, the viewer gets to see Colt at his stunting work, escaping from burning race cars and driving cars into, among other things, mounds of watermelons. Because she is nearly invisible in this special premiere, it is difficult to assess her chances. Also on hand is Jody (Heather Thomas), who would like to become a stunt woman. He is what used to be called the dumb blond. Howie's main function is to look handsome and act terribly stupid. The other regulars in the series include Howie (Douglas Barr), Colt's young cousin who has just returned from seven failed years of college to become his partner. There seems to be no Federal law, however, restricting the heated imaginations of television scriptwriters. He carefully explains that there is a Federal law defining the legal intricacies for citizens pursuing a fugitive. He is a bounty hunter, chasing people who have jumped bail. He can make a lot of money for a single job, up to $5,000 a day, but, as Colt notes, ''Picture work isn't wall-to-wall employment.'' For that reason, Colt has another job. The premise for this one is that the stunt man is one of America's great unsung heros who, while making the stars look good, never gets either any credit or the girl. ''The Fall Guy'' is a prototypical television concoction, falling somewhere between the whooping hijinks of ''The Dukes of Hazzard'' and the tongue-in-cheek action of ''Charlie's Angels.'' The same formula can work successfully for box-office movies, most notably some of the Burt Reynolds epics, but its heart belongs to the television weekly series. Television is not always ungrateful to its stars. Majors gets to sing the ''Unknown Stuntman'' theme. The hero is Colt Seavers, a veteran Hollywood stunt man, played by Lee Majors, the actor who once made a good deal of money for the same network as ''The Six Million Dollar Man.'' In addition to being co-producer of the series, Mr. TV weekly series, ''The Fall Guy,'' is being launched tonight at 9 o'clock as a two-hour movie.
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