The majority were used for stunts and as such didn’t survive the various jumps, fishtails, and other tragedies to befall the A-Team in their pursuit of vigilante justice. Article contentĮight vans in total were built for the show – some with sunroofs, some without – but only one survives today, and for some reason it sits in a British museum. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Surprisingly, this modification never caught on with the serial killer set, no doubt saving ABC television millions of dollars in out-of-court settlements over the decade or so The Fall Guy spent in reruns. Unlike Officer Baker’s truck, however, Seaver’s was further equipped with its own portable jail, which took the form of a hidden compartment accessed via a swing-out door in the covered portion of the cargo bed.
The tough truck was modified with a lift kit and, as with CHiPs, a light bar. Why it’s awesome: The premise of The Fall Guy was a simple, gleaming beacon of ’80s high concept: what if a stuntman was also a bounty hunter? And what if, somehow, those two skill-sets were complementary?įor character Colt Seaver, they definitely were, and this included as many jumps as possible from behind the wheel of his GMC K2500, which was quickly becoming the ‘go-to’ vehicle for TV shows looking for blue-collar cred.
Unfortunately, he regretted the decision for the rest of his career.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. It involved a dangerous stunt that Reynolds agreed to perform in an effort to prove himself as a tough guy. Deliverance was controversial at the time of its release, though it was a massive success that gained heaps of critical acclaim.Īs noted by Collider, the film's most infamous scene involves Ned Beatty's character being assaulted by a hillbilly and made to "squeal like a piggy." That being said, there was another scene, which involved Reynolds, that proved to be even more taxing, even if it didn't have the same chilling effect on moviegoers. The survival thriller follows a group of city slickers who go on a canoe trip in the Georgian backcountry, only to encounter unwelcoming locals with violent tendencies in the process. However, Deliverance was arguably the film that propelled the legendary actor into the mainstream consciousness (along with a risqué photoshoot he did for Cosmopolitan to coincide with the movie's release). From Smokey and the Bandit to The Longest Yard, Burt Reynolds starred in some of the most iconic movies of the 1970s.
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