“The Fall Guy” was a short lived, mid 1980’s, action comedy TV show starring Lee Majors as a stuntman/bounty hunter. The show was dreadful, not even interesting enough to dislike and completely unworthy of discussion here. The opening credits depict a few scenes of impressive stunts from films, one of which I just can’t place.
At 1:10 in the above clip, there’s a shot of a person clinging desperately to the skid of a helicopter as it flies over mountainous terrain. I know I’ve seen that shot somewhere but for the life of me, I can’t think where. If you can tell me what movie this comes from then I’d be ever so grateful.
ETA - I guess not that short lived. Five years ain’t bad for American TV.
Wonderful, many thanks you kind and wise person. I never would have thought of that film. I have no recollection of ever seeing it but it sounds exactly like the kind of movie my dad would have watched on the Sunday afternoon cheezfest TV viewing.
Context matters. 90% of 80s action TV was dreck, but it was compelling, and there was nothing else. After the biggest shows ever are Dukes of Hazzard, A-Team, and Knight Rider, then you just roll with it when they give you Automan, Riptide, and Jake and the Fatman alongside.
There were so many I wanted to list*, though interestingly I didn’t watch any of those particular four you mention.
*Scarecrow and Mrs King, The Wizard, Hardcastle and McCormick, Seaquest DSV, TJ Hooker, Manimal, Street Hawk, as well as the ones that were actually quite good like Magnum PI, Simon and Simon, or MacGyver.