Jack Gill

I'm positive they did.

Was Jack Gill on this episode by this point? Or on the series by now?

I would say yes.

I believe he was...

Haven't we already done a motorcycle? Yeah, we just did one.

Yeah.

And Jack Gill was definitely in that one where they jump at the very end.

They jump on a dirt bike.

we're jumping the Kit car every single week.

Jack made a science of putting that car in the air.

It's palatable when you watch the show because it's real.

Dukes of Hazzard, the steel on the General Lee was a little thicker, and it could take the landings a little beefier than the Knight Rider car.

But it's not safe.

And we found out that people were breaking their backs doing these big car jumps.

Did Jack

really do that stunt?

But for a long time, it seemed Canut might remain the only stunt performer to be recognized by the Academy.

Just ask stunt coordinator Jack Gill, who in 1991 began a personal campaign to have a Best Stunt Coordinator Oscar created, after legendary director Sidney Lubet told Gill stunt professionals had become department heads comparable to cinematographers and production designers, and should have their own Academy category.

Lumet helped Gill gain Academy membership so that he could personally lobby the organization, kicking off a long process of proposals and, ultimately, Academy rejections, with the group often citing the low number of stunt coordinators in the Academy, the already too long length of the Oscar telecast, and the Oscars having too many categories as their reasons.

Even the support of notable Academy members like Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, James Cameron, and Arnold Schwarzenegger didn't move the needle.