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Welcome Back, Kot--um, Fall Guy!
June 1, 2007

One of my favorite 80s boob tube guilty pleasures remains The Fall Guy, Season One of which hits the street next week (Fox, street: June 5, $59.98 srp). True, I found it hard to believe that series

star Lee Majors would “kiss and tell, but I did accept that he’d “been seen with Farrah.” Majors appears in the set’s retrospective featurettes, along with co-star Heather Thomas (what red-blooded American male can forget the image of the bikinied Ms. Thomas walking through a set of swinging doors) and series creator and executive producer Glen A. Larson. Fun anecdotes and reminisces are shared by all but Majors has the most fun when he talks about how his recording the opening theme song, “Ballad of the Unknown Stuntman,” became a colossal hit in Germany.

“I don't know why, but everybody has a hit in Germany. David Hasselhoff had a hit in Germany. I had a number one in Germany,” Majors laughed at one point. “I guess they just don't much about music over there.”

Oh, and while I’m praising those who made a point of coming out and talking up their earlier television work, lemme also use this opportunity to ask John Travolta why he didn’t make an appearance on the new Welcome Back, Kotter: The Complete First Season (Warner, street: June 12, $29.98)? All the sitcom’s other living stars were onboard for the making-of featurette, including Gabe Kaplan, Julia Strassman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Ron Palillo and Robert Hegyes. You guys are all class acts for stepping up to talk about the show that made you all famous, while you, Johnny Boy, you’re just a Sweathog...

Posted by Laurence Lerman on June 1, 2007 | Comments (0)