After a number of years in L. A. playing small parts in Cheers", Quantum Leap, 21 Jump Street and other shows, the tall (6'2), strapping winningly grinning Bader got a break when director Penelope Spheeris cast him as the heroic but dense and accident-prone biker hero The Searcher in a 1993 installment of the broad spoof show, Danger Theatre.