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Nobody Loses All The Time.....Steve's Review
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swagner1585
Today at 10:09 AM
Hi Bobby,
Please find below my review of "Nobody Loses All The Time"....
I’ve always thought that one of the better ideas the writers and producers came up with for Season 4 was to get the One Armed Man more involved. After all, little was learned about him over the past three years beyond what we’ve seen each week as the show opens. He apparently was the real killer of Helen Kimble, and he stays on the move because he knows Kimble escaped custody and his looking for him. But in the series final season, we are finally learning more about him. Much like Kimble, Fred Johnson is a fugitive as well. He moves from location to location, surviving on a variety of odd jobs under assumed names. He has the same taste in Men’s Sportswear as Kimble, the gray windbreaker. And surprisingly enough, he shares another characteristic in common with Kimble: he has the occasional relationship with the opposite sex to spice up his road experiences. Who knew? Though Johnson has his one obvious handicap, clearly the rest of his body must be in good working order.
“Nobody Loses All the Time” asks the viewer to suspend huge chunks of reality,
but it’s still one of the better episodes of Season 4. The idea of Kimble
setting himself up as “Dr. Robinson” and having the run of the hospital without
his credentials being formally checked is beyond ludicrous, even in 1966. Kimble
steals an ambulance from the hospital and is quickly spotted blasting around in
it, looking like he’s careening around in the Ghostbustermobile. Though Nurse
Bianchi and Maggie clearly helped Kimble escape, neither is prosecuted and they
are seen chatting wistfully together in the epilogue. Apparently Lt.Gerard is
very selective in who he charges with obstruction of justice. Just ask Mike
Decker of “Search in a
But there are some nice, exciting moments in NLATT that make it a fun watch. For once we see in detail how Kimble dodges pursuit. Twice he escapes out of the hospital garage and we see how he does it, taking advantage of police distraction both times. Best of all, there’s an exciting chase sequence through the railroad yard with Kimble using a freight train as blocker between him and the police, diving in and out of boxcars, and climbing a signal tower. The writers resist the temptation to turn the acquaintance between Kimble and Nurse Bianchi into a full blown romance as they might have done in Season 3. When the writers stick to the action and minimize the sap the series always benefits.
The title of the story is “Nobody Loses All the Time”, but that’s not really true. Hamilton Burger lost to Perry Mason all the time (except for two cases where Mason’s client was ultimately exonerated after the verdict anyway). The Washington Generals always lost to the Harlem Globetrotters. Wily Coyote always loses to the Roadrunner. And there’s one more: Lt. Gerard always loses to Richard Kimble. It’s Gerard that diminished this story. Lt. Rowan, ably played by Philip Pine, would have been fine as the main threat to Kimble. Instead Gerard shows up looking and sounding like he’s in need of an enema, and is more of a hindrance than a help. The scene in which Maggie uses her wheelchair to block Gerard from chasing Kimble is hilarious. Later, Gerard is fooled into thinking Kimble’s taken off in an ambulance while he’s actually hiding a few feet away from him in a laundry bin. Gerard rushes up a flight of stairs madly barking out orders to stop the ambulance, sounding like a complete maniac after which Kimble emerges from the laundry bin and saunters away. Wily Coyote indeed.
At this point of the series more of the One-Armed Man is okay, but we could use less of Gerard. Sad to say but the way he’s being portrayed is dragging down episodes rather than elevating them. “Nobody Loses All the Time” is an example of a story that would have been better off without him.
My rating – 6 – slightly above average
Steve W.
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Mar 11 11:32 PM
COMING NEXT
SUNDAY MARCH 19
"RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SEASON"
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ORIGINAL REVIEWS
"NOBODY LOSES ALL THE TIME"
Loses All the Time"
After Kimble spots Fred Johnson at the scene of a fire, he gives chase, but stops to help a woman, Maggie Tibbett (guest star Barbara Baxley) who has been hit by a vehicle. After Kimble helps her get to a hospital, he discovers that she is Johnson's girlfriend. Meanwhile, Johnson has contacted her and told her to contact the police.
• Barry Morse and Bill Raisch appear in this episode.
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OPENING AND CLOSING NARRATION"
Narrator: [Opening Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble at work as a bartender. Kimble sees a news broadcast on TV about a huge fire at the Harrington Processing Company and, in a background of onlookers, sees Fred Johnson, the one armed man, standing and watching the fire with a woman, Maggie Tibbett, beside him. Kimble immediately leaves the cocktail lounge and heads for the fire] Any public disaster will attract a crowd of spectators - people secretly pleased, perhaps, that they are not touched by the tragedy, that they may walk away from the dying and go on about their lives.
[Richard Kimble arrives at the scene of the fire and immediately starts searching for Fred Johnson]
Narrator: But one man here today cannot remain so uninvolved, no insulated against another's pain. He is bound by an oath taken many years ago - an oath written by a man named Hippocrates. "I will follow that method of treatment which, according to my ability and my judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patient."
[Kimble sees Johnson about a half block away, talking to Maggie. At the same moment, Johnson spots Kimble]
Narrator: [Johnson runs away into the street to escape and Maggie follows him. A truck horn blares and Maggie is struck by the vehicle]
Narrator: "Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick."
[Kimble arrives at Maggie's side and looks up at Johnson several feet away. Johnson sees Kimble and runs off]
Narrator: These words, remembered from better days, return to haunt Richard Kimble
Narrator: [Epilog Closing Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble, having escaped the city, enter a large building with several businesses. He is seeking a job] "I will practice my profession with conscience and dignity; even under threat, I will not use medical knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity. I make these promises solemnly, freely, and upon my honor." And for Richard Kimble, Fugitive, they still apply.
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BOBBY REVIEWS
"NOBODY LOSES ALL THE TIME
Wildly improbable and really preposterous, it nevertheless manages to
create some memorable moments of suspense. Once again, against all the
odds, Kimble and Johnson find themselves not only in the same town but
in the same neighborhood.
If writers continue to depend on this, at some point the one-armed man
just may have to be dropped from a plane right on Kimble's head.
No need to be quite that blatant now however, since the oam is taking
the stupid route by standing on a street corner and allowing himself
to be photographed live on local tv during a major fire. Not to be
outdone, Kimble, who is conveniently working nearby, sees this and
immediately goes over and stands there himself. Wow, you would think
these two guys had nothing to hide.
If the sight of Fred Johnson in an earlier season four fantasy, all
dressed up and with a job, albeit with a major crime organization, was
jolting, this goes one up on that. Now he seems to have a girlfriend!
I kind of assumed that he had given up on
women when his earlier date with Helen Kimble didn't exactly work out.
While there really is no time in this one part story to delve into how
and why these two losers managed to find each other, I still have to
wonder exactly what this woman, though she is not exactly a raving
beauty herself, could possibly find in this ...uh..man...
Is it his look in general? His one arm that keeps him slightly off
kilter? His unkempt appearance and the quality of his nearly four year
old uncleaned clothing? Dining out in dumpsters? Or is it his clipped
and endlessly aggressive way of speaking? Or perhaps it's just his
general demeanor around women, especially when there is a lamp in the
room that he can use to hit them over the head.
The part of Maggie is played well by Barbara Baxley, one of the
premier actresses of her time, although she really should have been
given more to do in this story. The same can be said of Joanna Moore
in a good understated performance. Obviously a woman who knows a good
looking doctor when she sees one and comes right out and tells him so,
it is a real stretch of the imagination that a woman who looks like
this could have any trouble drawing male attention.
But this story is not about love affairs and that is for the good.
Let's get right to the chase and for me, act III is the best part of
the story. A very nicely filmed sequence in those railroad yards does
manage to create a good bit of suspense. There's just something about
watching Kimble dart in out of freight cars, this time with the cops
hot on his heels and taking shots at him, that just gets to me every
time. Really an expansion of the shorter sequence in The 2130, it
never gets old.
Then there are several moments of that
deja vu all over again thing. Something that you've sure you've seen
before..or perhaps something you might see in the future. Kimble
commandeering an ambulance to escape from the hospital comes back
decades later in a similar moment early in The Fugitive movie with
some guy named
And then there is that startling image of
a man climbing a tower of some sort to get away, or as it turns out,
to peruse the railroad yards below him to see what he is facing. Can
that be.......?...nah..oh yes it is..
Richard Kimble! Now why would a person want to climb up something if
he was trying to get away? Hmm..somebody write this down...perhaps we
can ask this later on at the end of the season.
One third of the way into a dreary season, a writer has the collosal
gall to set fire to Kimble's shoes and as it turns out, the old boy
has a little spring in his step left after all. While the story is
full of holes and improbabilities, and I'm not about to give it
the kind of all star rating that Kelly will in her review which
follows this one, it is a
reawakening of sorts, at least for me..
I didn't fall asleep for a change.
My rating on a scale of 0 to 10
7 -- ABOVE AVERAGE
BOBBY
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KELLY REVIEWS
"NOBODY LOSES ALL THE TIME
This latest episode is called Nobody Loses All The Time. I would say
that this is probably the best episode we've seen so far of season
four. I know that some shows like to do special shows for a 100th
episode and this one I think delivers.
We start out seeing Kimble working in a bar and the TV set is on
telling everybody that there is a huge fire in town. Kimble leans in
and turns up the volume so everybody can hear it better and to his
surprise and ours we see the One Armed Man standing there as an
onlooker and he's talking to a woman.
Kimble immediately puts on his coat and he high tails it out of there
to go find him. He gets there in record time and he finds the OAM
talking to the woman around the corner. The OAM sees him, shoves the
woman he's with out of his way and runs. Kimble begins the chase but
so does the woman and she's promptly hit by a truck.
Kimble runs to her aid as he sees Fred Johnson AKA the OAM turn
around, look and run the opposite direction. Kimble tells someone to
call an ambulance. The ambulance arrives and he tells them that she
needs a doctor and that she's critical. They tell him that if he's a
doctor to come along because everybody is tied up with the fire and
the victims there. Kimble jumps in the ambulance and rides to the
hospital.
He's greeted by a nurse, Ruth, played well by Joanna Moore. This is a
much better part for her than when she played the airhead wife of an
inept kidnapper back in season one. She tells him he needs to operate
on this woman because all of the other doctors are busy with the fire
victims. He tells her his name is Robertson but he's not authorized
to practice in that state. She tells him she'll get him
authorization. Kimble begins to do surgery. While the surgery itself
is rather unrealistic. This woman's carotid artery was supposedly
ruptured and yet once again there's no hint of any blood, but I'll
give the show points because Kimble is showing himself to be an actual
doctor.
Today, he really did hold up to his Hippocratic Oath and he helped
someone who got injured, unlike in some other episodes. He tells Ruth
that this woman also broke her ankle and so she should be taken down
for an x-ray....
Kimble looks in her purse and sees that her name is Maggie Tibbett and
he sees a hotel room key. He promptly goes to that hotel room and
begins to search it. He sees a stuffed bear on the bed and then he
sees a picture on the dressing table of Maggie holding the bear with
Fred Johnson with his arm around her. He takes the picture.
There's a knock at the door and he answers it. It's the landlady
telling Kimble that Maggie owes her money. Kimble explains that
Maggie was in an accident and he was trying to find out if she had any
friends or relatives that he could call. She tells him that she's
never noticed anyone coming to visit her. Kimble asks her if she's
ever noticed a one armed man visiting and she tells him everybody
looks the same to her.
Kimble leaves dejected but goes back to the hospital. He finds Ruth
tending to Maggie in the hallway. He asks why she's in the hallway
instead of a room. She tells him that this was all that was
available, the fire victims got priority on the rooms and there isn't
any room at the other hospital in town either. She tells Kimble that
there's a private room but it's expensive. Kimble tells her to put
Maggie in the room and he'll take care of the bill.
The next day, Kimble visits Maggie and wants to know about her friend
Fred Johnson as she's very upset that he hasn't called her or come to
see her. He tells her to call him, she tells him that she won't call
him because that's the losers way out. She then explains that she and
Fred had an argument and she was trying to make up with him and then
for no reason he just shoved her out of the way and ran away from her.
Kimble explains that he wasn't running from her, but that he was
running from him. He tells her that he's got to find him. There's
trouble that only he can clear up. Maggie won't do it. She tells him
that Fred is good to her and takes her places and listens to her. She
doesn't want to lose that. Kimble leaves.
As Kimble walks out, the hospital administrator comes up to him and
would like him to join the staff. Kimble tells him he has a practice
back east and was just there on vacation. He still tells Kimble to
consider it even temporarily. Ruth tells Kimble as she's having
coffee with him that she senses he's in some kind of trouble although
he's young and single and she knows plenty of nurses who'd be
delighted to have him on staff, herself included but if he needs a
friend she's there for him.
Maggie then calls Fred and he tells her to call the cops on Kimble for
killing his wife. She tells him she can't do that because he saved
her life. Fred gives her an ultimatum saying that if she doesn't do
it, she won't see him ever again.
We then see Maggie talking to the police and she identifies Kimble.
She's quite shocked that he really is wanted for murder and Ruth who's
there in the room says she refuses to believe that he could actually
do something like that.
The police call Lt. Gerard and tell him to come. We then see Kimble
coming in to the hospital and we get a pretty good chase scene here of
cat and mouse. Kimble gets on the elevator to see Maggie and then
sees the police. He shoves an orderly in to the police and shuts the
elevator door. He goes to the very top floor gets rid of his jacket
and dons a white coat. He then gets in the emergency elevator that's
run on a different power line.
All of the other elevators and exits are being covered. There is a
policeman at the ER entrance but the man at the entrance gets a phone
call asking for an ambulance. This distracts both he and the
policeman and Kimble walks calmly out the door and into an ambulance
and drives away. The officer in charge, McCaffrey immediately puts
out an APB on the ambulance.
Kimble drives it to a railroad yard and he ditches the car as the
police are separated from him by a moving train. Kimble then jumps in
to a train as the police are chasing him and shooting at him.
Gerard has arrived at the hospital by this time and is promptly told
that they lost Kimble. He looks dejected suffice to say. They do
find Kimble's jacket and Gerard sees the picture of Maggie and the
OAM. He questions Maggie about it but Maggie won't tell him
anything. She appears to be feeling very guilty over what she's done.
Gerard goes outside the room with McCaffrey and tells him that Kimble
will be back. McCaffrey doesn't buy it. He tells him that Kimble
wants them to believe that he's left but he'll be back as long as
Maggie is in the hospital because she's her link to the OAM who Kimble
believes killed his wife. McCaffrey asks him if he believes that.
Gerard says that it doesn't matter what he believes, it's his job to
bring him in.
Gerard then demands that McCaffrey leave him some plainclothes
policeman so he can catch Kimble when he comes back. McCaffrey
begrudgingly tells him he'll leave him five men and Gerard demands
twenty five as he's already got fifteen men here McCaffrey doesn't
want to do it as they don't have the money for that and Gerard reminds
him that he's the one who lost Kimble. Hey Gerard! How many times
have you lost Kimble?
I will still never understand how Gerard can walk in to another
jurisdiction and make demands like he does and the police officers
there just play dead for him. He has no authority, he can't fire
anyone there why doesn't someone for once just tell him to go to
hell? After all, he was called as a courtesy nothing more.
However, Gerard gets what he wants and Kimble who jumped off the train
and hitchiked back to town, shows up at Ruth's door step. He tells
her he needs to get in to the hospital. Ruth tells him a good friend
would help him get out not get in. He tells her he's got to try and
talk to Maggie again. Ruth agrees to take him there.
We see plainclothes police all over the hospital as Ruth drives up
with Kimble hiding in the backseat. Gerard tells Maggie that an
undercover cop dressed as an orderly will be staying with her. Maggie
doesn't like any of them and wants them all to just leave her alone.
Ruth walks in to Maggie's room with a wheelchair and tells her that
she needs to take her to treatment room 103 for therapy. The cop
follows and tells them that they're going to treatment room 103. The
arrive in the room and Ruth tells the man that Maggie needs to
undress, is he going to watch? He says he'll wait outside. Maggie
asks Ruth what this is all about and Ruth shoves a curtain to the side
where there is a door and Kimble comes through it.
Maggie is shocked to see him and tells him that the police are there
and he's got to leave. We then see the door slightly open and Ruth
walks up to the man and asks him if he's a dirty old man. He thought
he should hear what's happening. Ruth walks out and tells him that
she'll get him some coffee as there's nothing going on in there other
than that Maggie is getting a heat lamp treatment.
Kimble tells Maggie that Fred killed his wife, Maggie doesn't believe
it. She tells him she knows he loses his temper but she just can't
believe that Fred would do something like that. She then tells Kimble
that if she tells him she loses either way.
Meanwhile Gerard is swarming the place as he's learned there are
treatment rooms on every floor but not necessarily a treatment room
103.
Maggie still won't tell Kimble where he can find the OAM and they hear
the police outside. Kimble darts out the door and Gerard comes in and
asks where Kimble is, Maggie says she doesn't know what he's talking
about. Ruth says that Maggie was getting a heat treatment and Gerard
feels the lamp and says it's cold. Maggie blocks him in her
wheelchair from getting out but he does get past her.
They run out and they see a stiff has just been put in a hearse.
Gerard concludes that Kimble is driving the hearse and demands that
they chase after the car. They all leave and Kimble comes out from
underneath a gurney and just calmly walks away.
The last thing we see is Maggie getting out of the hospital and she
gives Ruth a gift for being so nice to her. She asks him if she liked
Kimble and she said yes, she did but that's the way it goes
sometimes. She then says, nobody loses all of the time. She asks
Maggie if she needs a ride anywhere and Maggie says no...and once
again Kimble is walking on the lonely road.
I did enjoy this episode despite a couple of shortcomings. As I said
earlier and many times for that matter. Gerard has turned in to a
boring robot who's only line is it's his job. Well, isn't it his job
to investigate if something doesn't seem quite as it should be? I
actually would have preferred Gerard to not be in this episode. He
really didn't enhance anything. McCaffrey could have been the the one
to draw the conclusion that Kimble wants to come back and it would
have made a little more sense.
The chase scenes I think were well done. I thought we were left
hanging a little too much though. Was Fred Johnson waiting for Maggie
downstairs or did he leave her? We don't know, it would have been
nice to know, it would have been nice for Maggie to see Fred for what
he was and she's certainly a character that could have come back later
say to help turn in Fred Johnson at the end of the series as payback
to him for leaving her.
I enjoyed the character of Ruth as well. I could even see how Kimble
could have been drawn to her. After all, it was established that
Helen was a nurse and Ruth is a nurse and I suspect that they would
have a lot in common. Although I'm glad that they never shared a
kiss. It was nice to just see her helping him out as a friend.
I give this one a thumbs up and I'll give it a rating of nine. It's
the best we've seen so far in a season of mostly below average shows.
KELLY
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KEN REVIEWS
"NOBODY LOSES ALL THE TIME
Again I question the placement of episodes in this series. I think
this story should have been used to start season four. This way the
audience get's an update on what is happening with the series three
main characters-Kimble,Gerard, and Johnson.
Many members on this board feel that the occasional use of Johnson
added more suspense. I agree.
In season one we saw Johnson run from Kimble's house in the flashback
scene in 'Egypt.' Then we saw him on the bus in 'Search.'
In season two we saw him in 'Escape.'
In season three we saw him in 'Wife Killer.'
Up to this point he is a mysterious figure that we know little about.
Who is he? What happened that night in Stafford? Why he is running
from Kimble? Too many questions left unanswered.
Delete 'A Clean and Quiet Town.' Complete nonsense. Kimble and
Johnson running around in circles. Delete 'Second Sight'. Kimble
stumbling through garbage cans a waste of time.
Use 'Nobody loses all the Time' to begin season four. Johnson and
Kimble are in the same town. Kimble spots not only him but meets
someone else who knows Johnson. Maybe some questions can be answered.
Still the episode fell short. Why not develop a story line explaining
who Johnson is? Does he have a past? He has a girlfriend? Who is she?
I liked the part played by Barbara Baxley. She was not over the top.
But why is she attracted to Johnson? Hey, Kimble saved your life.
Help him out a little. Why betray him?
Good acting performance by Joanna Moore. Here is another love
interest. Not a bad match for Kimble. I could see Kimble and Ruth
working together in a hosptial.
Chase scenes played out well. Kimble is getting smarter at escaping
Gerard.
At the end I was left hanging for the tenth time. What is next for
Kimble? He seems to be getting close to some answers but still no
cigar.
Story kept me guessing. I will go with a 6 rating. Ken
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bobbynear
Oct 23, 2016
COMING NEXT
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"SHADOW OF THE SWAN"
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ORIGINAL REVIEWS
"STROKE OF GENIUS"
WRITTEN BY: JOHN KNEUBUHL
DIRECTED BY: ROBERT BUTLER
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: FEBRUARY 1, 1966
Garry Keller, a promising art student, tests his
new rifle by firing a random shot, which instantly
kills his mentor, the town minister who happens to
be driving on a road right in the line of fire.
Kimble is in the car because the minister had given a ride to him. The car crashes and Kimble
hobbles away. A guilt-ridden Gary wants to confess,
but his father Steve refuses to let him do so because
it will destroy his promising career. The police arrive
on the scene and after spotting Kimble, they think he is the killer and notify Gerard, who arrives in town to track him down.
Meanwhile, Steve
decides to take matters into his own hands by finding Kimble and hiding him so he does not implicate his son.
GUEST STARS:
TELLY SAVALAS
BEAU BRIDGES
ELLEN CORBY
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OPENING AND CLOSING NARRATION
Narrator: (Opening Narration. Viewers see an injured
Richard Kimble lying on the ground following a jeep crash.
Next to him is the driver of the vehicle from whom
Kimble had hitched a ride. The driver, Reverend Barlow, has been killed by a sniper.)
For many men life is a ceaseless flight.
Each moment of each day must be escaped by fleeing, somehow somewhere without rest until one day all hope dies, even the hope of further flight. Perhaps for such men, death comes as a final and all obliterating kindness: after a
lifetime of nightmarish flight, an eternity of dreamless rest. But for Richard Kimble, there is no rest, nor freedome to live. He is also denied the freedom of death.
Narrator: (Closing narration. Viewers see Sheriff Bilson about to question Steve Keller)
Even for the guilty, there is no relief when the truth is known.
(Viewers see Richard Kimble, having escaped, stumble along a back country road.)
But for Richard Kimble, the truth that will free him lies somewhere ahead over the next horizon, beyond the next town, at another place, at another time.
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BOBBY REVIEWS "STROKE OF GENIUS"
A decent episode with lots of potential and some top notch acting from some of the best actors in the business. Any story with Telly Savalas in it is generally worth watching. After wasting his talents in the awful "Where The Action Is", his next two appearances are memorable. Here however he is playing pretty much the same kind of part he played in "May God Have Mercy" as a man who did something wrong and now decides to make amends by seeing that Kimble escapes.
I will defer on rehashing every scene and instead concentrate on what I don't like about it. And that is this tendency by some writers in this series to tinker with long established characters. In this case..Gerard.
This new touchy feeling Gerard
full of compassion for his long time adversary is really a total fantasy that simply does not fit at all. I'm afraid that I've spent too many years watching Gerard's obsessive determination to bring his man in no matter what for me to buy any of this sudden concern for Kimble's welfare.
Gerard grew a heart??
Where has he been?
To see The Wizard Of Oz?
Shades of Judgment still long in the future with Gerard confronting
Kimble face to face with not a bit of electricity being generated.
Once Gerard catches up to him, I was surprised he didn't suggest
they go out to lunch and talk over old times.
People who own The Fugitive Recaptured should check out page 129 where author Ed Robertson speculates on why any of this is happening. It's quite interesting but unfortunately I don't really see it this way.
Robertson suggests that Gerard finds himself in this episode in the unusual position of having to prove that Kimble did not commit this crime so he'll be released by the sheriff and he can take him back to death row. Oh I see..all of a sudden Gerard wants to play by the rules.
Don't make me go down the list of times that Gerard has blown into town and pulled rank on everyone..pushed people aside and announced that Kimble is his and his alone and he's taking him back to death row and if they want to prosecute him later, well get in line!
Robertson also speculates that Gerard's actions in this episode, from opening a can of soup for Kimble to not handcuffing him because he's already injured and even offering him a bit of sympathy over the fact that everyone in town believes he killed the minister (Poor baby...how could they think such a thing of you..when everyone knows you only killed your wife.
Unfortunately we're going to have to kill you for that alone...), shows that on some level he recognizes the good things Kimble has done for people in the past.
Oh now I get it. Those dream sequences way way back in episode number 11..Northoak..weren't just parts of the story..the entire episode was a dream..
It must have been because I didn't really see that jail sequence where Gerard totally pushes aside the fact that Kimble just saved a busload of kids from a fiery death. It took Gerard 69 more episodes to realize..even that Kimble does have some "admirable qualities" after all.
Actually I like Ed Robertson's speculation here. It might have made for a more interesting series if the writers had gone in that direction and developed more fully this idea of a conflicted Gerard having to struggle with his dedication to his job and the law...vs. having his own life saved numerous times, including those of his wife and son. The problem is that up till now, there is nary a hint of that.
I wish the producers had at least attempted to keep their writers under control. To make it clear that this is not science fiction or fantasy. That the character of Gerard has been established to the most minute degree. The audience has had this relentlessly pushed into their heads. Unlike some series, where certain characters are multi-dimensional, this series goes in the opposite direction.
Kimble is always good..Gerard is always bad. Gerard is a robot..completely blinded by his dedication to his job and the law. If not, then he would have given up this nonsensical pursuit of one man long ago.
Now don't get me wrong. I don't necessarily expect Gerard to go in and break Kimble's arm or cause him additional discomfort or to try to starve him to death. But there is a little too much sudden concern for Kimble's welfare in this story.
And finally, once again we have Gerard totally forgetting how to be an effective officer of the law. We've seen this before and this is one of the worst examples. You've spent almost three years of your life chasing one man and now you've got him. You've ruined his life and your own marriage...and now maybe it was worth it after all.
Nothing stands in your way.
Just follow the rules..don't leave this world-class prisoner in the custody of someone you don't even know while you call in on your police radio. Use your head man!
Isn't it strange that in the preceding episode, we had a policewoman put handcuffs on Kimble just because she thought he was acting in a suspicious manner, and here we have a policeman not doing it even though he is convinced he actually committed murder and has been chasing him for years?
Is it really too much to ask that the producers at least require writers to take a look at the script of the preceding episode?
Oh..wait a minute!!! This one did!
John Kneubuhl..the writer of "Stroke Of Genius"...actually co-wrote "Echo Of A Nightmare" too!
A potentially good premise is squandered away by a stupid ending. These are glaring problems for me and they break my one and only cardinal rule. Don't tinker with my Gerard. I might have given this
a 6 or 7 rating but unfortunately for them...I deduct points for this kind of nonsense.
MY RATING - 5 AVERAGE..AT BEST
BOBBY
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KELLY REVIEWS "STROKE OF GENIUS"
This latest episode called Stroke of Genius is not a bad title. When Bobbynear told me that I was going to be treated to yet another episode where Kimble saves Gerard, I was immediately thinking that I was going to just hate this episode.
I was pleasantly surprised. This episode started out with a young man by the name of Gary walking out of his house with a shotgun. Gary is played very well by a young Beau Bridges whom I have always enjoyed seeing as an actor. This is probably the youngest I've seen him in something.
Gary seems a bright person but also lacks total common sense. Apparently his overbearing father played by Telly Savalas who is once again terrific, didn't ever tell his son that if he wanted to target practice, he should do it in an area where there is no chance a person could be walking by, let alone a car driving by.
Telly Savalas whose name is Keller in this episode comes home and is very upset with his son because his son hasn't applied to college. Gary says he's not interested in going because his father can't afford to pay for it. Keller is reading him the riot act while Gary is scarcely paying attention and is pretending to shoot. Well, he does shoot as a car is driving by and he accidentally hits the driver.
Poor Kimble just happens to be in the backseat as the car is veering out of control. Gary and Keller watch in horror as the car crashes. Keller tells Gary to go in to the house, but Gary won't do it. He immediately runs down to the street to see if anyone is hurt. Keller follows him in his truck.
Kimble wakes up and is badly injured. He sees the man in the driver's seat is dead and has been shot and he runs away from the scene even though Gary yells for him to wait. Gary simply wants to render aid to poor Kimble.
They see that not only is the driver dead but it's Rev. Barlow who apparently has been a good friend and mentor to Gary over the years. Gary is shattered by the site of what he's done. He wants to go to the police and confess but Keller won't hear of any of it.
In the meantime, Kimble has been wandering around and he finds a woman who speaks only Spanish and we find out that Kimble can speak Spanish. He tells her that a man has been shot and killed on the highway and that she needs to call the police to get help.
Kimble then hides in her chicken house and collapses. She does call the police and they arrive, she gives them a description of Kimble through an interpreter. They have her go to the police station to see if she can identify the man and fill out an official report.
Keller wants to go out in to the woods with Gary and stay there a few days and he tells Gary that if anyone asks that they've been out camping all week and saw nothing. Just as they're about to leave the phone rings and Gary won't listen to his father, he runs in to the house and he picks up the phone to answer it. It's the sheriff and he wants to talk to Keller.
So, Keller and Gary go in to the sheriff's office. Before they go in, Keller tells Gary to tell the sheriff that it was him that pulled the trigger. He tells Gary to tell them that Keller was cleaning the gun and it accidentally went off because he wants to protect Gary and not ruin his future. Gary still doesn't want to do it. He really wants to confess because he feels terrible about this.
They go in and yet, Gary keeps his mouth shut per his father's instructions and Keller feigns ignorance on the shooting. Then a man walks in and identifies Kimble as the man that Rev. Barlow was giving a ride to as they were both in his diner.
The sheriff, decides to call Gerard and just like that! Gerard appears on the scene. The good Rev. Barlow was just killed a couple of hours ago and yet, Gerard appears to be able to get there as though he borrowed one of the transporters from Star Trek and just beamed right over.
Anyway, Gerard walks in and tells the sheriff flat out that he doesn't believe for one minute that Kimble killed this preacher. This is actually a new experience watching Gerard. He's actually thinking methodically like a cop. He tells him that it doesn't make sense that Kimble would kill the preacher and then go tell someone to call the police. What a pity we don't see more episodes like this.
Keller hears that and leaves as Gerard is looking through the preacher's belongings and he notices the keys missing.
Kimble is walking in the woods and comes across a man who pulls a gun on him and it turns out that he's got the same kind of cap on that Keller has on. He appears to be in charge of a chain gang so Keller is some kind of officer of the law and yet, it's never really specified what he does. The man asks Kimble where he's going and he tells him High Point Road. He gives Kimble directions once he determines that Kimble is not part of the group he's in charge of.
We also see another interesting scene. I found myself wondering if they needed a scene for filler as this just came out of nowhere. Kimble sees what appears to be an abandoned school bus and yet when he walks inside to try and see if he can drive it somewhere, out pop children from behind the seats. Not a word is spoken but it's kind of a surreal scene.
Kimble walks outside just as a cop car is pulling up. The cop tells him he'll give him a ride to the gas station but Kimble says his buddy just went for help and so the cop leaves looking at Kimble rather strangely. It appears this cop wasn't given the memo to look for Kimble as the sheriff said every available person will look for Kimble.
Keller goes back home and he sees Gary with his paintings as it's now determined that Gary is an artist. Keller tells him about how the murder could be hung on Kimble because that's who they are now looking for. Gary isn't happy about that. He tells his father that Mrs. Barlow wants to see him. He also tells Keller about a cabin that Rev. Barlow had rented. Keller demands to know where it is because he thinks Kimble might be hiding there.
Gary tells him but makes him promise not to shoot Kimble. Keller tells him that he's not planning to shoot him, he just wants to talk to him. He's a convicted murderer so he's not sure what kind of a person he's going to find, he just wants the gun for protection. Gary makes him promise not to shoot unless it's necessary and Keller insists that he won't.
Kimble has arrived at the cabin and just as he's about to start taking care of his wounded arm, Keller shows up. He demands to know what Kimble saw when he ran away from the car. Kimble tells him that he saw a man and a boy approaching the car but he didn't get a good look at either of them because they were too far away.
Keller insists that he knows the father and the son and he tells him that it was an accident and the boy didn't mean to do it. Kimble's cool with it, he didn't see anyone to make a positive ID.
Back at the Barlow house, Gary shows up and I have to admit that for a woman who just lost her husband of over thirty years that morning to a gunshot wound while he was driving, she's holding it together quite well. She wanted to see Gary because her husband had applied to a place for a scholarship for Gary. He sent them some of Gary's artwork and the letter came that day saying that Gary had been awarded $5,000 to study art in Europe.
Gary can't take it, he begins to sob hysterically and insists that it was an accident and he didn't mean to do it.
Now, it looks like Kimble might be in the clear because Gary is now in the middle of a deep confession and Keller is satisfied that Kimble can't identify either of them so he tells Kimble to run away because he knows who he is but he wants to protect his son. However, at that point Gerard just happens to show up.
Keller tells Kimble to follow his lead. He tells Kimble to walk in front of him and as they emerge we have an interesting confrontation with Gerard and Kimble they look at each other very calmly and acknowledge each other, I almost thought Gerard was going to shake Kimble's hand he was so cordial.
Gerard tells Kimble and Keller to get back in to the cabin because he wants to ask him a few questions about the shooting. Gerard walks in and Kimble says to Keller that it was his son wasn't it? Keller tells him that if he values his life he won't say anything to Gerard about it.
Gerard wants to cuff Kimble but sees he's got an injured arm. If I didn't know better I'd say Gerard is turning in to a softy here as he doesn't bother to cuff Kimble. He even inquires as to whether Kimble is hungry.
So, Gerard proceeds to question him like a regular cop. This is rather interesting considering this crime took place outside of Gerard's jurisdiction so why does he care? The other thing I found a little funny about this scene is how meticulous he was questioning Kimble about this and yet, he wasn't the slightest bit interested in questioning the one armed man a few episodes back.
Gerard is satisfied that Kimble doesn't know anything and he assures Kimble that he'll get someone to look at his arm…what a guy. He's going to make sure Kimble goes to death row healthy! He then informs Keller that he's going to want a list of addresses for houses along the road that Barlow was shot on. Again, if Gerard were this meticulous, Kimble might not have been convicted!
We then get a very interesting ending. The three of them are walking toward the police car and Gerard tells Keller to stay with Kimble while he calls ahead, why would you leave your unhand cuffed prisoner out in the open like that? Gerard has once again failed police protocol and it nearly costs him his life.
Gerard starts to call and Keller decides he's got to put an end to this because I'm sure the implication is that Kimble might be able to cut some kind of deal if he's brought in, plus Gerard is going to find out that it's his house right along the road where Barlow was shot.
Kimble tells him not to do it but Keller takes aim at Gerard, Kimble yells Gerard Look Out! He throws Keller off balance so he only wounds Gerard while Kimble turns and runs the opposite direction.
Both Gerard and Keller then hear on the radio that Gary has confessed to shooting Rev. Barlow.
In the end we see Gerard hobbling in to the police station with Keller walking behind and Gary tells Keller that he had to tell them. He and his father hug and Gary walks in to another room with another cop. Keller asks the sheriff what will happen to him and the sheriff tells him, not nearly as much as what will happen to Keller.
It might have been nice to hear what Gary's verdict would be. I would think that because Gary is under the age of twenty-one and this is a first time offense he'd probably get off with a very light sentence, maybe even probation as I don't think he'd have that hard of a time convincing the judge that it was an accident. Keller on the other hand is looking at prison. Trying to kill a police officer is serious stuff and he did aid and abet a convicted murderer in the eyes of the law.
Overall, I did like this episode. I found very little to complain about, it was a refreshing change to see Gerard actually using his mind as opposed to being on auto pilot with his famous I enforce the law line. When Kimble saved Gerard it wasn't a long drawn out thing, it was not the focal point of the show and I think that worked better.
Beau Bridges acting and Telly Savalas's acting were first rate all the way. Beau did a great job of conveying his grief and his guilt and how he wanted to confess but he still felt some loyalty to his father.
On the one hand, one could easily dislike Telly Savalas's character as I thought initially that he was going to try to use Kimble as a scapegoat to take the rap for the crime and yet, Keller surprised me, he was simply interested in protecting his son. Once he determined that Kimble didn't know who his son was, he was more than ready to let him go. One could make the argument that Keller was acting like a protective parent…although there does come a point where if your kid some something horrendously wrong they do have to face up to it and that was Keller's shortcoming in the end.
Gary in the final analysis was probably more mature than his father as he wanted to confess from the very start.
I think the acting all the way around was very good, the scene with the kids in the bus was interesting although as I said it seemed a little surreal as it never was looked at again and curiously enough it was a school bus that had deaf children on it. It makes me wonder if there was a scene that ended up on the cutting room floor.
So, I am going to give this a thumbs up and a 9.5 rating. While I liked Gerard with his intuitiveness, I thought he was just a little too nice to Kimble when they caught up with each other.
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KEN REVIEWS 'STROKE OF GENIUS"
The producers must love Telly Savalas. This is his 3rd appearance. I
liked him in 'May Have God Have Mercy.' To me he will always be
Victor Leonetti in my Fugitive lore.
Why use him again?? My rule is broken again for the tenth time.
Beau Bridges was good here. I like his father also-Lloyd Bridges.
Hey why not use him in this story as the father of Gary Keller? Just
a thought. Maybe Lloyd was too busy with 'Sea Hunt.'
Good to see Phil Gerard again. Any time Kimble and Gerard meet face
to face elevates the series. They almost are buddies now. We can
count on Kimble to be the guardian angel of Phil. Any time somebody
wants to shoot Gerard, Kimble will come to the rescue just in the
nick of time.
I believe they are friends now. Once in awhile they both talk on the
phone. Remember(Escape into Black) and (Wife Killer). At the end of
that episode Kimble was put on hold and we fans never saw that
conversation.
I agree that the ending was predictable. Kimble escapes at the last
moment. Gerard has egg on his face again. I agree Kitty. Phil needs
to go back to police school. Learn your lesson. Kimble is crafty and
escapes everytime.
I am debating what to rate this story. I felt sorry for Gary Keller.
I can identify with him. I have three sons myself. Would I as a
parent try to hide the crime committed? Sorry to say maybe. But I
would not try to kill Gerard. Too extreme. That is why the story
falls flat. My rating-4 Ken
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bobbynear
Oct 15, 2016
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"STROKE OF GENIUS"
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ORIGINAL REVIEWS
"ECHO OF A NIGHTMARE
DIRECTED BY JAMES SHELDON
TELEPLAY
JOHN KNEUBUHL
STORY
ROBERT J. LEWIN
ORIGINAL AIR DATE
JANUARY 25. 1966
Jane Washburn, an undercover policewoman, witnesses three youths beat up and rob Kimble.
She tends to him but becomes suspicious after he declines to report his mugging to the police. Jane handcuffs herself to Kimble to arrest him, but he manages to flee the area with her.
After Jane sprains her ankle while jumping off a freight train,they break into an abandoned farmhouse so Kimble can tend to her as well as saw off his handcuffs. Soon the family that lives there returns and Kimble is held at gunpoint by the sadistic patriarch of the family.
GUEST STAR:
SHIRLEY KNIGHT
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OPENING AND CLOSING NARRATION
Narrator: [Opening Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble, suitcase in hand, walking down the street in a small town] As a doctor, he had dedicated himself to the preservation of life. Now a Fugitive, the life he must preserve is his own. Richard Kimble's safety depends on knowing where the enemy is - and who.
Narrator: [Epilog Closing Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble in a boxcar of a moving train, filing off a handcuff from his wrist] All men run the risk of being chained to their past. For Richard Kimble, that bondage is stronger than the steel that hangs from his wrist. And so he moves on, searching, knowing that for him, now there can be no freedom.
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BOBBY REVIEWS'
"ECHO OF A NIGHTMARE"
Richard Kimble, by the fact of his hand to mouth existence alone and the reality that he probably hasn't had a bank account in some time, always gets paid for his menial services in cash. But he's never been quite so poorly served as he is in this episode. Not only does his boss pay him in front of the world..but he does it in an exaggerated manner, one single bill at a time..so you can hardly miss it from a mile away.
While this story does have some interesting moments, there is something wrong with the basic premise. On just what authority does Jane Washburn decide to put handcuffs on Kimble and then tell him that she's taking him in for questioning because he's a very suspicious man? Suspicious of what?
Not caring that he just got robbed and wanting to get out of town instead of staying behind to prosecute the persons who did it?
She's got a lot of nerve and it seems to me that she's on very shaky ground here.
How many real life police officers have found great frustration in responding to a domestisc argument in which the wife has been badly battered only to find that she refuses to press charges against her husband? By Jane's standards, maybe she should be taken into custody instead of him.
Kitty asks where is Jane's gun? Well maybe they realized like we do that she's such a loose canon, she can't be trusted with a firearm. She might just have plugged Kimble right there and then if he tried to run away.
My other problem is her change of personalities. The Fugitive is often way ahead of its time in portraying female characters as strong and capable of making decisions on their own. But at other times, it sinks back into that mid-sixties mentality of showing women as too emotional to make any intelligent and rational decisions. In this bizarre episode, they show both.
It took a great deal of nerve, and poor judgment, for Jane to handcuff herself to a man she does not know but has suspicions about, especially while driving. She even throws the car keys out the window. But once Kimble pulls her out of the car, she crumbles and becomes a total victim, complaining and crying along the way and seeming to lose all of that bravado that she displayed earlier.
What exactly did she think was going to happen?
Actually I think this would have been a much more interesting story if Kimble had been handcuffed to another man who would have been on a more equal footing with him, at least physically. As it is, there is little suspense on whether or not Kimble will be able to overpower Jane, as he pulls and drags her across the countryside and on and off moving freight trains. Get rid of the cuffs and he's on his way, leaving the weaponless Office Washburn behind.
The early scenes are somewhat interesting and hold out some promise that it may lead to something. But later, Jane becomes a real annoyance and I was hoping that Kimble would just chop her arm off and get away already.
Shirley Knight is a good actress with an impressive career behind her, but The Fugitive didn't seem to know what to do with her. While this part is bigger than her role in "A.P.B.", her talents are still pretty much wasted. Actually she did much better when she returned to The Fugitive in a guest starring role in one episode of the 2000/2001 reprise of the series.
Mildly entertaining, with a healthy dose of suspension of disbelief but not worthy of much attention or any extra rating points.
My rating on a scale of 0 to 10
5 -- Average
BOBBY
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KELLY REVIEWS
"ECHO OF A NIGHTMARE"
This latest episode called Echo of a Nightmare is kind of a mixed bag for me. It has an interesting set up. We see four young thugs jumping out of a car. These four young men clearly look like they could have been guests in the episode Fun and Games and Party Favors because they walk into a restaurant, see Kimble getting paid a fair amount of money and immediately decide to split.
Kimble is walking out on the street when the four thugs drive up to him and ask him for directions. He tells them he doesn't know as he's a stranger in town. They jump out of the car and immediately start beating him up to get his money that he was just paid.
Now while this is a compelling start to the show, I found myself asking the question of what employer in his right mind would be doing payroll out in the public part of his restaurant? The boss clearly had a table set up in the back of the restaurant and there he was paying Kimble a lot of cold, hard cash. That's a nice way to not only set up your employee but yourself for robbery as well.
However, it provides a good catalyst for these four thugs to jump Kimble and boy do they ever. Now, it just so happens that a policeman is walking a young lady to her car and he sees the mugging going on. He runs down the alley to save Kimble, the thugs see him and run, but not before taking Kimble's wallet. The policeman takes down the license plate of the car, but Kimble high tails it out of there. The young woman sees him running away and in to a restaurant and follows him.
She sits with him and asks him if he's OK. He tells her he is and she offers him a cup of coffee. She asks him his name and he tells her Richard Taylor. I can't recall if Kimble has used his real first name before so this was a little different. She tells him her name is Jane and she's a secretary, she asks him if she can give him a lift to the police station so he can fill out a report on the boys who jumped him. He's not interested. They only got about twelve dollars and besides he's got to get to the airport to catch a plane to Denver as he's got a job waiting for him.
She tells him she'll give him a ride as it's no problem, she'll just go fix her face. She walks in to the hallway and calls the police and finds out that they got all of the boys involved. She sees Kimble leaving and she tells him that she really wants to give him a lift to the airport and that it's very close to where she lives.
Kimble gets in the car and as they are driving, she purposely loses her shoe. She asks Kimble to please take the wheel while she puts her shoe back on. Kimble does and as she gets her shoe on, she takes out her handcuffs and handcuffs herself to Kimble.
The car veers and crashes on a bridge and Jane explains that she's a policewoman. They found the boys and it was one hundred and twelve dollars that they took from Kimble not twelve and that it's very odd that he wouldn't want to press charges for that amount of money. Moreover, she knows that there is no two o'clock flight to Denver so they'll just sit tight until a car comes by because she can't get the car started again to take him in personally.
Kimble tries to grab for her purse. She grabs the keys and throws them out the window and in to the water. Kimble grabs her and out of the car they go walking in to the woods. This is compelling on some levels in that Kimble had the tables turned on him by a pretty unassuming face that turned out to be a woman of the law, but my question here is this…if Jane is a policewoman who carries handcuffs, where is her gun? One would think a policewoman would have pulled out her gun and given herself a bigger advantage here…and yet, Jane doesn't seem to have a gun.
The other problem I have is that as this episode is progressing, Jane doesn't seem like the type of woman who would be hired as a policewoman. She's way too rattled and unsure of herself. She hasn't thought this through completely. She handcuffs herself to Kimble and when the car doesn't start and he yanks her out of the car, gone seems to be the self assured lady cop and she really turns in to simply a victim.
We see them come up on some boys and she tries to scream. For a woman in bondage at that moment. she doesn't seem to be trying to do that much to gain the edge so that she can successfully scream. She doesn't try to kick Kimble or try biting him when he puts his hand over her mouth when she tries to scream. One would think she'd be taught all of this at the academy.
We are swept back to the police station and are treated to seeing these four boys and the captain of the precinct wants them to look through the mug shots to see if they recognize the man who they mugged because he's kidnapped a policewoman.
The head kid's father eventually shows up and tries to get them to release his son. The captain explains that Jane was kidnapped when she was fifteen and when her father who was a policeman found her and her kidnapper he lost it and beat the man to death. It took Jane two years to get over it.
The father goes in and tells his son to identify the man he mugged and the son won't do it so the father hits him and tells them to lock him up. One of the boys however, does give the captain the picture of the man they mugged and it's Richard Kimble.
In the meantime, Kimble and Jane have hitched a ride on a train much to Jane's dismay and then Kimble decides to jump off. Jane doesn't want to do it because it's too fast, Kimble insists that they're slowing down so he throws himself off and takes her with him.
He asks her if she's all right and she says no, she thinks she broke her foot. Kimble looks at it and concludes it's her ankle. She asks how he knows and he tells her he drove and ambulance, she tells him no, she recognizes him now. He's Richard Kimble.
Kimble doesn't deny it and he picks her up to carry her to a farm house. They conveniently come across a farm house where a man, his wife and son are going out to the fights. The son doesn't want to go because he's got homework. The father insists that he come along and lock the door. So the son begrudgingly goes along. Kimble carries Jane in to their garage, sets her on a table and begins sawing away at the handcuffs.
We keep seeing Jane looking at a hammer. Kimble even notices that Jane is looking at a hammer. I kept wondering why Kimble didn't move the hammer. It seemed it was in a prefect place for her to grab to hit him with it, but no, it appears to have a more traumatizing effect on her. As he's sawing away, she asks him if he really did it. Did he commit murder or was it just an accident? She says sometimes people commit murder but they're really not murderers. Kimble eventually says that no, he didn't kill anybody.
Kimble finally gets the handcuffs sawed in two and takes her in the house. He lays her on the bed and proceeds to put a splint on the ankle. Kimble asks her what's bothering her. I don't know Kimble, the fact that we're in a strange farm house, I've got a broken ankle and I'm with a convicted murderer that I've totally botched on bringing in to the station could be it. This after all is not going to look good on my yearly review.
No, it's more than that. Jane decides she wants to confess something to Kimble that she's never told anyone. She was kidnapped when she was fifteen. Her kidnapper brought her to a farmhouse and as he was coming toward her she grabbed the first thing she could find which was a hammer. She swung at him and hit him and hit him and hit him until he couldn't come toward her anymore.
Her father then found them and he told everyone that he killed the guy in a moment of rage because he'd kidnapped his daughter. His father lost his job as a policeman but he told her he didn't care because he'd do anything for her because she was his world after her mother died.
We are then treated to kind of a comic moment in the car of the family. The wife is apologizing for ruining the fight. The father is saying what fight because he only saw two rounds of the preliminary fight. She said she just couldn't enjoy it because their son didn't want to be there. The father goes on about how he got the tickets two weeks ago because she complained he never took her anywhere. The way she says Thank you so much says it all. It's obvious this family needs therapy! But it was a light moment in the show.
We then see the family arrive home. Jane passes out and Kimble throws a cover over her to hide the handcuff. He tries to get out through the window but the windows appear to be painted shut.
The family comes in and everybody is in a bad mood. The wife then walks in and sees Kimble and Jane. Kimble explains that she's hurt and he called for an ambulance, the father is totally unmoved by all of this but the wife is feeling bad for the woman. Kimble tells him that he only gave general directions to the farmhouse so he'd like to go out and flag down the ambulance.
The wife says that their son Perry will drive him. Perry is ready to go when the father notices the phone cord ripped out of the wall and he confronts Kimble and exposes his handcuff. He figures it out that this is Kimble and the woman in the bedroom is the policewoman they heard about on the radio. A fight ensues and it looks like the father will get a knife to harm Kimble but then the son Perry, for some inexplicable reason puts his foot on the knife so his dad can't get it. I can only assume that Perry does it because he's mad at his dad for being such a jerk to him and his mother.
The fighting continues so the mom finally pulls out a double barreled shotgun and tells both of them to stop it. The dad takes the shotgun and orders the mom and Perry to go to the neighbor's house to call the police.
They leave and Kimble is ordered in to the bedroom. The man confirms with Jane that it's Kimble and she's the policewoman. The man then orders Kimble outside. Jane demands to know why. He tells her it's none of her concern so then Kimble asks why do you need me to go outside then. It's obvious this guy want to put some buckshot in to Kimble. Kimble really does know how to pick farm houses!
Jane isn't allowing it and she grabs the shotgun and moves it upward so that the gun goes off in to the ceiling and that gives Kimble the chance to knock out the father. Kimble then proceeds to leave and Jane yells at him to stop and she means it. Kimble just looks at her and walks out. Jane has a dejected look on her face.
The final act shows Jane turning in her badge with her resignation. However, it's not accepted. Killing a guy even in self defense and letting your father take the rap for it is such an easy thing to forgive. I guess. I have to confess, this is not a woman I'd want on my police force. She's got way too much emotional baggage packing with her and when the chips are down she shows that she only does her job half way. Yes, she handcuffed Kimble but where was her gun?
In the end she prevents Kimble from being murdered in cold blood but she lacks the intestinal fortitude to do what was necessary to prevent Kimble from escaping, like shooting him in the leg.
All in all, it's not a terrible episode but not overly inspiring. Shirley Knight is one of those actresses who's very good at playing someone who's strong in some respects but weak in others and it's kind of irritating. If Kimble's going to have a confrontation with a police woman, I expect her to be stronger and smarter than Jane was. Marie Gerard in Landscape with Running Figures would be a more competent cop in my opinion than Jane was.
I'll still give it a thumbs up as it's one of the more creative scripts I think we've had but I'll give a rating of a six.
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KEN REVIEWS'
"ECHO OF A NIGHTMARE"
What was that??? Am I watching the Fugitive or Circus Circus? I can't
believe some of the odd stories that writers come up with. I have
said before I would have written a script with a policewoman on the
hunt for Kimble. How would Kimble react? It would be a change of pace
from all the looney men cops who have tried to catch Kimble.
But here we go again with Jane looking like an idiot. Handcuffing
herself to Kimble and throwing away the key has to rank as one of the
most lame dumb acts in the entire series.
Then we get another dose of a soap opera with a dysfunctional family
who want to kill Kimble on the spot. Unbelievable!
Question for producers. After 79 episodes is this the best story you
can come up with? Please stick to the basic concept and premise of
the series and you will be find.
I am starting to lose my patience. My rule of repeat guest actresses
appearing in another role has been broken again. Shirley Knight
looked awful here. She looked better in 'The Homecoming.'
Now if Kimble was handcuffed to Susan Oliver or Suzanne Pleshette I
could live with that.
But this story tanked for me. My rating-0 Ken
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Oct 9, 2016
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"ECHO OF A NIGHTMARE"
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ORIGINAL REVIEWS
"THIS'LL KILL YOU"
DIRECTED BY ALEX MARCH
WRITTEN BY GEORGE ECKSTEIN
ORIGINAL AIR DATE
JANUARY 18, 1966
Kimble finds work at a laundromat owned
by Charlie Paris, a former stand-up comic and
mob bookie who hopes to go straight.
Kimble does not know that Paris has put out a hit contract on himself for testifying against some of their business associates.
Charlie hopes to make amends to his long time girlfriend Paula, but she's more interested in Kimble (surprise, surprise). When a mob flunky offers Paula $8,000 for turning Charlie over to them, she does not pass up the chance and takes the money, while Charlie refuses to believe Kimble's suspicions that Paula plans to betray him.
GUEST STARS:
MICKEY ROONEY
NITA TALBOT
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OPENING AND CLOSING NARRATION
NARRATOR: (OPENING NARRATION)
Viewers see Richard Kimble driving a delivery truck labeled "Priority Laundry"
The days of a fugitive run together as one,
with the fear and desperation unrelieved by the sounds of laughter. Richard Kimble,
now using the name Nick Phillips, will find
that a man may laugh only to escape the terror of silence.
CLOSING NARRATION:
Narrator: (Epilog Viewers see Richard Kimble
riding in a delivery truck, having hitched
a ride)
One man dies and another survives for at least another day, For one, the sound of laughter has faded; for the other, the echo of that sound remains.
Richard Kimble's lonely flight continues but now perhaps he will find an occasional moment to remember and smile.
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BOBBY REVIEWS "THIS'LL KILL YOU"
This is another of a long line of Fugitive episodes that benefits almost entirely by the acting and the ability of the casting directors to often place the perfect actors in the perfect roles.
Even though we have never seen this character before, about five minutes into the story it is hard to imagine anyone playing Charlie Paris other than Mickey Rooney. It would take something of a light comedic touch even in a dark story like this, to get enough empathy from the audience that by the time this loser who has royally screwed up his life finds an untimely end out on the streets, he's turned almost lovable and we're sorry to see him go.
From the outset, Charlie is laughing on the outside and crying on the inside and Mickey Rooney has this part nailed to perfection. And the same thing can be said of Nita Talbot whose portrayal of Paula brings back to mind Sophie as well as Norma Sessions from "Brass Ring".
She joins a long list of femme fatales who seem to have no trouble flirting with Kimble while still maintaining their real lust..for money. The Fugitive is an odd series in its treatment of women. Some are treated with great love, affection, admiration and respect...Karen, Aimee,
Wilma Springer, Margaret Ruskin. While others are characatures of evil, conniving, and out of control...Chris Polichek, Marcie King, Dorina Pruitt.
The story is nothing unusual. Even by the mid-sixties, it had been done many times.
The acting is good but frankly it is just another
plug and play story that fills time in the
season but has not a thing to do with The Fugitive.
I frankly am sick to death of these weekly
weepy soap operas where Kimble comes across yet another dysfunctional character and sticks his nose in where it does not belong.
This story could easily have played on Peyton
Place or any other daytime or nighttime soap.
It bored me to tears.
I fell asleep at least a half dozen times during
this snooze fest where there is all talk and virtually no action.
Wife Killer may have had enough holes in it
to drive a tractor through, but at least it kept me awake.
The only appropriate thing about this
is the title.
The will indeed kill you and
almost did that to me.
My rating - 3 below average
bobby
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KELLY REVIEWS "THIS'LL KILL YOU"
This latest episode is called "This'll Kill You" and the title pretty much says it all. This is one of those tales that could have played out well on a soap opera because it has all the elements but it's still an enjoyable episode to watch.
Mickey Rooney portrays a man by the name of Charlie. Ironically, I just saw Mickey Rooney in a movie at the theater a few days ago and the man hasn't changed much over the years. He looks older but his acting is still full of plenty of energy.
We start out seeing Kimble who is currently going by the name of Nick Phillips and he's working in a Laundromat and he does deliveries. Mickey Rooney plays Charlie, his boss who is a likeable fellow and he considers Kimble his lucky rabbit's foot because things have gotten better for him since Kimble arrived on the scene.
Kimble convinces Charlie to stop his bookie business on the side because while Charlie's a nice guy he's not too bright about who he hangs around with. The police are hanging around and actually present Charlie with a search warrant because they think he's still in the bookie business but they come out with nothing. They are suspicious of Kimble but Charlie insists that Kimble is OK because he's working for him.
The police leave and Charlie tells Kimble to take some pictures over to the hotel where his sweetheart Paula is supposed to be staying. They're caricatures of pictures that were done of the two of them ten years earlier. Charlie has spent the last eight years in jail for getting involved with the wrong kind of people. He tells Kimble that in his club days of being a comedian he got invited to parties and he many times heard things he shouldn't have heard.
It appears that there's a few people who might be after Charlie in addition to the police. Kimble takes the pictures to the hotel and tells them to give them to Paula once she checks in, however, Kimble is then informed that she's already checked in. He tells them to make sure she gets the pictures.
Kimble then goes in the bar to get a drink. He sees a beautiful woman sitting at the end of the bar and it seems to me that there's trouble written all over her. She's definitely the type of woman you want to steer clear of. A gypsy woman approaches Kimble to read his palm. I was sorry that we couldn't hear more of Kimble's fortune here. She was talking about a woman who was in his life but she's gone now. It might have been interesting to see what she might have said but instead we are treated to kind of a funny bit. She's being serious about the reading and then all of a sudden she looks at her watch and she says she has to go meet her husband but if Kimble comes back tomorrow, he can get his palm read then. She hands him a business card.
The woman at the end of the bar guesses that Kimble doesn't have a woman in his life right now. He tells her she's right. She makes it clear that she wouldn't mind being his woman. Kimble politely leaves.
Kimble gets back to the Laundromat and Charlie is talking on the phone to Paula and is making a date with her. Kimble walks in as Charlie is finishing up the phone call and he shows Kimble the picture of Paula. Kimble is rather surprised by this but he doesn't have time to tell him about Paula in the hotel.
Later, Paula arrives and Charlie sees that she's been followed so Charlie tells Kimble to get Paula out of there. He tells him there are people after him who would kill him. Kimble walks out and gets in the car with Paula. He tells her that he works for Charlie and she's been followed. The people behind her need to know that she was there to see him. So she leans over and kisses Kimble much to his chagrin.
Charlie watches through the window and sees not one but two cars follow Kimble and Paula as they drive off.
Back at the hotel, Paula rather likes Kimble in her room. Kimble reminds her that Charlie loves her and wants to marry her. Kimble tells her that Charlie told him to tell her to meet him tomorrow at noon at the Lover's Nest. She's not overly impressed, but Kimble leaves.
She undresses and puts on a robe and there's a knock at her door. It's a man by the name of Ragan who wants to see Charlie dead. He tells her he'd make it worth her while if she told him where Charlie was. They'd give her $5,000.
Paula's not interested. She starts to slam the door on Ragan and he tells her if she changes her mind he's in room 208. She then slams the door.
Back at Charlie's, Richard asks him what the Lover's Nest is and he tells him it's an ice cream and candy shop. He really is a kid at heart. The next day he sees Paula and Paula is less than impressed with ice cream for breakfast. Charlie tells her that they've got to run away together. She's willing, but Charlie then admits that he's broke. He lied in the letter he wrote to her that he had some money stashed away. She's taken aback by that but still tells Charlie to stay in touch with her.
We see Paula approaching room 208, ready to tell all to Ragan about Charlie. We see Ragan on the phone and he tells them Paula is now demanding $7,500 for Charlie's whereabouts. It's agreed on but Paula has to do something else. She tries to leave Ragan's room and he tells her she can stay. He puts a seductive hand on her shoulder. She tells him that Charlie will call her room. He tells her to have the call forwarded to his room.
The next thing we see is Paula brushing her hair and Ragan is doing up his tie, it's obvious some kind of an intimate encounter took place as Paula tells him she's now got a bruise on her shoulder, it's not really clear if Paula was actually raped or if she was a willing participant and it just got a little rough at one point. It doesn't really matter, as it's obvious Paula's more interested in money than anything else.
Then we see is Charlie putting some money together. The police come by and ask Charlie where his employee is and Charlie says he left and doesn't know where he is, why he asks. They tell him they'd like another look at him. They think he's wanted for something.
Charlie doesn't have much of a reaction, but Kimble comes back and Charlie tells him that he's got a room at the Clinton Hotel and to please take the note to Paula at the hotel to tell her where to meet him. He's got to get some money together. Kimble tells him he's got $40 he can have but Charlie won't take it. Charlie tells him that the police were looking for him. He didn't tell them anything though. Kimble says, that the police think that he was mixed up in something a couple of years ago. Charlie says he won't turn him in. He tells him that he hopes their paths will cross again one day.
Kimble leaves to give Paula the note. However, when he gets to the hotel, he discovers Paula and Ragan having a drink together. Paula opens the note from Charlie and announces she knows where Charlie is. She wants all the money now. Ragan says no, he'll give her half for the address and the rest once the actually get Charlie.
Kimble goes to Charlie at the hotel and tells him that Paula sold him out. He saw her in the bar with Ragan who was the guy initially tailing Paula.
Charlie won't believe any of it. He loves Paula and has known her longer than he's known Kimble and there's no way she'd do that to him. He yells at Kimble to get out. Kimble obliges and proceeds to go back to the Laundromat so that he can get his things.
Paula then arrives and sees Kimble. She asks him if he told Charlie and he tells her yes. She then smiles and says, "He didn't believe you did he?" Kimble replies no and Paula says, "I've got a prettier face."
She walks in to the hotel and Charlie confronts her with it. She then tells him that "Nick" tried to force himself on her in the car and tried to get it on with her at the hotel when he first saw her when he brought the pictures to the hotel.
Charlie doesn't initially buy it but then Paula shows her the convenient bruise that Ragan gave her and tells him that Kimble did it. Charlie is pushed over the edge. He calls the police and tells him that Nick Phillips is at the Laundromat. He then asks what he supposedly did. He's shocked to hear that Kimble would kill his wife. Charlie just can't fathom that Kimble would be that kind of person.
He then wants to forget about it and give Paula money to leave town. He starts to give her $50 to go to the bus station. She doesn't want it but he opens her purse and to his surprise he finds lots of money in it. He realizes that Kimble was telling the truth about her all along. He tries to call the Laundromat but gets a busy signal because Kimble is on the phone with someone telling him that no, Charlie doesn't handle bets any longer.
Charlie runs out of the building and in to his car and he speeds off not realizing Ragan and another hit man are following him. Kimble is in the Laundromat getting his things as the police are outside ready to come in and arrest him. We have a tense few minutes here where the one officer comes in the downstairs and does make a slight noise, Kimble's suspicion is aroused and he looks but not too hard.
Charlie then arrives and gets out of his car to run into the building and he's shot down by the hit man as Ragan drives by. The police come running out of the building and shoot back at the car. Kimble is taken aback by the gunshots.
Paula shows up in a cab and begins to cry as she sees Charlie dying in the police officer's arms. It's amazing how one can get a conscience all of a sudden. We have a very touching death scene here where Charlie says, "I can't think of anything funny to say." He then expires and even the cop who was riding him about still being a bookie seems sad to see him dead.
In all of the commotion at the end, Kimble manages to once again walk the other direction without being noticed. In the final scene we find out that Ragan and the other hit man were found and are in custody. They're saying that Paula's presence is requested at the station as well. Paula is taken off in cuffs for most likely being an accessory to murder.
The two policemen comment that there wasn't really anything to find on Kimble other than the famous suitcase and they're not even that interested in opening it. The office says he's going to ride with Charlie and the second officer says, Why? The main officer says, "Because I guess I liked Charlie."
Kimble is on the lonely road once again with a truck driver and they're hearing the news that Charlie is dead and that he was a comedian who used to perform in nightclubs and the driver comments that he'd never heard of him. Kimble is visibly upset at the loss of a likeable guy like Charlie.
Overall, I did enjoy this story. I thought the characters were well drawn out. Charlie was a poor sap blinded by love who couldn't see what was so obvious to the rest of the world that Paula was just simply bad news. The story itself had a predictable ending. I figured that the only way Kimble could escape from this was if Charlie took a bullet for him and in this case he inadvertently did, but I still liked this episode.
Mickey Rooney was great in this part. His energy and his going from one emotion of being a happy go lucky guy to the other of sheer anger at Kimble and at Paula was fabulous.
The Paula character reminded me to a certain degree of Sophie in Somebody to Remember, but I liked it better this way because unlike Sophie, Paula got what was coming to her in the end. She was looking at serious jail time.
I liked the interactions with David Janssen and Mickey Rooney too. We had two very strong actors and when they were both in front of the camera at the same time it was a delight to watch them.
Overall, I'm going to give this a nine rating and a thumbs up. I suspect in reality there'd be more than two cops in the end closing in on Kimble, but otherwise, I have very little else to complain about.
KELLY
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KEN REVIEWS "THIS'LL KILL YOU
Season three is the best season of the series. I agree that by casting Mickey Rooney in this part was perfect. Hard to imagine anybody else playing this role. He is a fine actor and can play any role you need. Certain actors have that ability. Telly Savalas and William Shatner come to mind.
Nita Talbot(Paula) was stunning in this role. Pretty crafty on her part to sneak a kiss on Kimble. However, she did remind me alot of Sophie(Somebody to Remember). I don't like it when the series portrays these kind of women in a dysfunctional way. She joins a list of many we have seen in the series.
The story has been done many times. But I was interested to see the
outcome. Why kill Charlie off?
Kimble drives me crazy. After three years on the run learn some lessons. If the cops are closing in escape while you can. Seems like
Kimble waits until the last moment to make his move.
I did like the buddy to buddy relationship Kimbe had with Charlie. It reminded me a little of Davey from (Fatso).
Not a bad episode. I will go with a 6 rating. Ken
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bobbynear
Oct 1, 2016
COMING NEXT
SUNDAY OCTOBER 9
"THIS'LL KILL YOU"
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ORIGINAL REVIEWS
"WIFE KILLER"
DIRECTED BY RICHARD DONNER
WRITTEN BY DANIEL B. ULMANN
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: JANUARY 11, 1966
Reporter Barbara Webb returns to Baker City MI where she was a reporter for the local paper and was engaged to marry the paper's editor Herb Malone.
Covering a police roundup during a murder investigation she spots Fred Johnson, the one-armed man, and remembers the Richard Kimble story. She takes a photo of Johnson and publishes it in the local newspaper. The image of the one-armed man draws both Kimble and Gerard to the town. While Gerard waits for Kimble to show up at the police station, the fugitive is outside and sees Johnson in the jail courtyard.
But the one-armed man spots Kimble and escapes and steals a car. Barbara spots Kimble and tells him to get in her car and they chase after Johnson.
During the chase down a winding mountain road the one-armed man's car crashes and Kimble has to tend to his injuries, knowing he's the only one who can clear him of his wife's murder.
Barbara for her part, helps Kimble and recruits Herb Malone to cover for her against Gerard.
GUEST STARS:
JANICE RULE
KEVIN McCARTHY
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OPENING AND CLOSING NARRATION
Narrator: A fugitive is usually a man without a goal, endlessly fleeing the furies that pursue him. Bur for Richard Kimble, there is a goal, a phantom, who has himself become a fugitive.
And Richard Kimble, in turn,
now becomes the hunter.
Closing Narration:
Viewers see Richard Kimble in a
pay phone booth.
"I'd like to make a person-to-person call to Lieutenant Phillip Gerard at the Baker City Police Department.
G-E-R-A-R-D, that's right. I'll wait."
Narrator: And Richard Kimble waits,not yet aware that his hope for salvation has again disappeared.
Waits to be reminded by Lt. Gerard that he's still as much a fugitive as before.
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"NOT WITH A WHIMPER"
SNEAK PREVIEW
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 25
"NOT WITH A WHIMPER"
Director: Alexander Singer
Writer: Norman Lessing
Original Air Date: January 4, 1966
Kimble arrives in Hempstead Mills, West Virginia to assist Andrew McCallister, his longtime mentor who is dying from lung cancer. McCallister's vigorous anti-smog campaign has earned him a reputation as a local crackpot, but the old man plans to go out with a bang by having a bomb hidden in a package and delivered to the local factory. When he discovers that a group of school children will be inside the factory during a filed trip at the time of the explosion, he dispatches Kimble to evacuate the building and deactivate the bomb before time runs out.
GUEST STARS:
LAURENCE NAISMITH
LEE MERIWETHER
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OPENING AND CLOSING NARRATION
William Conrad: [Opening Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble, duffel bag in hand, disembark
from a truck labeled "Checkerboard Van Lines", from which he had hitched a ride]
No matter how far a man may run, he cannot escape the emotional ties which binds
him to his past. So Richard Kimble finds himself drawn to the factory town of Hempstead Mills. Reason: the chance reading of a small item in a local newspaper.
Narrator: [Closing Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble escaping the police, riding in a car driven by Willis Hempstead] Richard Kimble, Fugitive, on a brief visit to a dead past, now once more in a search of a future.
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Yes into each Fugitive's life a little comedy must fall and here
it is in all its glory.
Remember how sad it was in Landscape when Kimble seemed
to be out of it while he walked through the rain on his way
to work? We all felt so sorry for him.
He seemed to need a few laughs so it's good to see
him in a Fugitive classic comedy.
BOBBY REVIEWS "NOT WITH A WHIMPER"
Nothing that happens during this silly episode is really important. It's all about the idiotic ending and little else.
Since law enforcement has always been portrayed in this series as a buffoonish, hopelessly inept, almost laughable entity, it seems only natural that after almost three seasons, the police have now been rendered so inert, that they have reached the point where they simply watch Kimble drive away. They don't even bother to follow him anymore.
This really is a shame and often hurts the series. For all of the intense suspense that is created in classic episodes usually involving Gerard, too many others simply fall flat because they lack a sense of urgency in capturing Kimble. Whether it's Kimble's wanted poster that hangs on a wall right in front of their noses, or a lack of knowledge about wanted criminals that makes many of them view Kimble as somehow familiar, yet keeps them unable to connect the dots, the effect is always the same. Kimble escapes. Why sometimes, the local cops even drive him out of town or to the bus station. Well at least they used to. This seems to have reached some sort of all time low point with this episode.
Of course when you have Mayberry town jerk..I mean..clerk, Howard Sprague
running the investigation, this is what you can expect. Turns out that
Sheriff Taylor made the right decision when he didn't choose Howard to replace Barney as his deputy. If he had, there might have been a bomb going off in one of Aunt Bee's famous cakes or pies.
The scene with Kimble attempting to defuse the bomb is so cliche ridden that it's laughable, right down to the clock on the wall, inevitably ticking down to high noon. But it's that inane ending with Kimble stopping a phalanx of cops in their tracks by holding a supposed 'bomb' that looks about as threatening as what a small child might have created with a 1950's toy chemistry set, that places this episode in The Fugitive Comedy Hall Of Fame.
Of course, it's not as though we haven't been warned early on with the scene in the diner, that we're in for a little comic relief. I certainly agree with Kelly in her following review that the piece of pie in question doesn't look all that bad. Especially to a man like Richard Kimble who is lucky he isn't having lunch in a dumpster out in the street.
Fans familiar with the 2000/2001 reprise of the series, may well remember a scene where a very hungry and very broke Richard Kimble enters a restaurant. While in there, unable to pay for any food himself, Kimble watches a patron leave the counter with good food left behind on his plate. He goes over and hungrily scoops up the leftovers while the waitress gives him a look of disgust, before she ultimately takes pity on this unfortunate creature and allows him to continue. This Kimble should thank his lucky stars that he can even afford pie and coffee even at these bargain basement prices.
In the end, the cops were right.
This really is a bomb. A big one.
My rating on a scale of 0 to 10
0 -- Totally Without Merit
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KELLY REVIEWS "NOT WITH A WHIMPER"
This latest episode is called "Not With a Whimper". Several episodes back there was an episode called Tug of War. I believed that script belonged in another show. I think this script would have been served better elsewhere as well, like maybe in a B movie about a mad scientist.
We start out seeing Kimble arriving in town looking slick in his suit and tie after traveling with a truck driver, that always bothers me. Nobody hitchhikes in a suit and tie. Kimble walks into a diner and orders a cup of coffee and a slice of pie. He balks at the pie as it looks crummy. I don't know I thought it just looked like pie. I think Kimble over reacted. The man ends up only charging him two bits but then lowers it to ten cents for just the coffee. He agreed that the pie tasted crummy. Who cares?
The main purpose this scene serves is that Kimble goes in and wants directions because he sees an old mentor's face in the paper and he's ill. The man gives him directions and tells him that the guy is just plain crazy with his notions about how smog is killing us. He even picketed the Hempstead factory and old man Hempstead's daughter picketed right along side him.
He then asks Kimble if he knows him and Kimble says no. The guy tells him he's like his wife. He thinks he knows everybody who comes in to the diner. Kimble walks out after getting directions and the man behind the counter picks up a detective magazine and starts to thumb through it.
Kimble arrives at the hospital to see Dr. McAlister and he sees his housekeeper first, Vera Murdock. Murdock tells him that Mac is asleep and can not be disturbed. She tells him that he shouldn't have come as anything can upset Mac and it could kill him. He's got a blocked artery. Kimble says it's not surprising since he's approaching seventy.
Kimble refuses to leave when he hears a woman laughing in the other room. Murdock walks in and hands him a note and Mac tells the woman she's got to leave temporarily. She agrees to go wait in the waiting room.
Kimble walks in and Mac is happy to see him and asks him why he didn't let him testify at his trial. Kimble says that it wouldn't have done any good. He came to see him because if it hadn't been for him giving him a part time job while in medical school he couldn't have finished medical school. He asks Mac about his work. Mac is disappointed that he's not dying of a lung disease and he's sure that people are dying of the pollution content in the air.
Kimble told him to keep fighting and Mac says, yes he will. He'll go without a whimper. Murdock is very upset to hear all of this and gets mad at Kimble. She tells him that as a doctor he should know that the mind starts going with this disease as well.
Mac orders her out of the room. She leaves and sees the police. She pokes her head in the door and says, police. The police approach her and tell her they need to see Mac. She tells them he can't be seen. They tell her that she has no choice.
They go in and ask Mac if he's heard from Richard Kimble. Mac says that Kimble called him about a half hour ago and told him he had to leave but he wanted to just check up on him. They tell him that if he hears anything else from him to call them immediately. He agrees. They say they'll set up roadblocks for him.
They leave and Mac tells Kimble that he'll have to stay the night with him. He tells him that Willis will drive him home. Willis Hempstead comes walking in and Mac tells her that this is Dr. Spaulding and to please take him back to his place to spend the night. Before doing so though, please take this package to the lab at the factory. It's a device to measure smog content.
Willis is delighted. She tells Kimble in the car that she's been involved in many causes but she truly believes in Mac's cause because he's a doer and not just a talker. They take the package in to the lab and it's a funky door. It's got a bar across the outside of it to secure it. Funny thing is though they don't close it when they leave.
Murdock tells Mac that she knows that Mac built a bomb, but what he doesn't know is that she disconnected it so it won't go off on Saturday at noon.
Back at the factory Kimble asks Willis if he'll see her tomorrow and she says not until the afternoon because she's giving some fifth graders a tour of the factory.
The next morning a police officer drops by Mac's house and asks him if he's heard from Kimble, he says no. The officer asks him why there are three places set at the table and he tells him that they are expecting Willis to come over.
The police officer leaves and Kimble comes down stairs and begins to sit down for breakfast. Mac wonders what is keeping Willis. Kimble tells him that Willis is giving a tour this morning of the factory to some students. He then walks upstairs to pack.
Mac gets a look of horror on his face. Murdock asks him why since she disconnected the bomb. Mac tells her that he knew that and he reconnected the wires. He starts to have an episode with his heart and she grabs the pills to give to him. Mac tells Murdock she's got to go to the factory to get the bomb and get those kids out of there. She won't leave him. She yells to Kimble to come down. He comes down and checks out Mac and she tells him about the bomb.
Kimble runs out and takes Murdock's car. We then see Willis walking in to the factory with the teacher and her class. One boy named Joey likes to wander off and he finds the unlocked lab with the package and looks at it with interest. Kimble comes running in the factory and tells Willis that she's got to get the kids out of there and he's got to get the package. She asks why and he tells her that he'll explain later. She gets the kids out. Kimble runs in to the lab and there's no package.
This is such a ridiculous episode. We have a guy who's so worried about the smog content in the air, that he's going to blow up the factory…never mind how much pollution that will throw in to the air, this is truly mad scientist gone totally mad. Then we have Kimble who's going to get the kids out of the building and take the package back to Mac.
Why didn't Kimble just run into the building and grab the package and leave and let Willis continue the tour? Joey didn't grab the package until Willis told everybody that they had to leave and Joey decided to do his own tour. If Kimble had just grabbed the package and nonchalantly left we would have been spared the painful events of what transpired next.
Everybody leaves the building but the teacher is saying Where's Joey? Kimble runs in to the unlocked lab and sees no package. He runs outside and asks Willis if everybody is out of the building. She tells him that Joey is still in there. He asks her where the package is and she said it's in the lab. He says it isn't. She said it was in there fifteen minutes ago. She tells him Joey must have grabbed it.
Kimble goes to the phone and calls Mac. He tells Mac that the package is missing and there's also a kid missing. He asks how to dismantle the bomb. Mac tells him and Kimble starts to run back in to the building. Willis has now caught on to this and says to Kimble that it's a bomb isn't it? Kimble doesn't answer. He runs back in to the building.
Mac meanwhile is back at his place and orders Murdock to get his car, he's got to go to the factory. Murdock wants to call the police but Mac says no because he doesn't want Kimble to get arrested.
Kimble is running around the factory calling out Joey's name and he finds Joey at the top of some stairs. Joey is holding the package and Kimble tells him to just hand it to him because there are things in there that can explode. Joey yells at him not to come closer or he'll drop it.
Mac has arrived with Murdock at the factory. He wants Willis to take him in but he's in a wheelchair and can't get up the steps. Murdock goes to the pay phone to call the police to report a bomb.
Back in the factory, this has got to be one of the more dysfunctional kids yet that Kimble has come across. We know nothing about Joey. His character seems to have been plopped in to this story for simply dramatic effect. The only thing I can guess from what we see is that Joey appears to be a kleptomaniac who craves attention and will get it any way he can even if he might get blown up in the process.
He comes down the stairs and runs back to the lab and puts the package on the table. Kimble grabs it as it's about to fall off the table. Joey runs out of the room and locks Kimble in it.
Outside, Mac is demanding to get in to the building so Willis wheels him around the back and as Kimble is about to try diffusing the bomb, he hears Mac say on the PA system, Kimble, don't try diffusing the bomb, it's too late just get out of the building. Kimble proceeds to do that but he finds that the little brat has locked him in. How convenient that there's chain link fencing on the windows and so he can't get out.
He then grabs the bomb and carefully puts it in a barrel of oil. He goes to the other side of the room and crouches down and fortunately for Kimble, the bomb doesn't go off. It just gurgles in the oil. It's never really explained why that worked but apparently oil diffuses bombs.
Now the police have arrived and Kimble is in quite the pickle. First he needs to get out of the room. There's a convenient wire hanger there that he bends and manages to get the bar off of the door. Meanwhile the police are showing Willis Kimble's picture and tells her he's wanted for murder.
Inside, Kimble proceeds to construct a fake bomb out of lab equipment. It's pretty kindergarten looking. He then walks out of the factory holding it and he tells everybody to stand back and he orders Willis to drive him out of there. Mac tells the police that the bomb will kill everybody there if they don't do what he says.
So Kimble and Willis drive off. The one cop then puts his gun away and says, He's getting away, it's a fake. Mac then says, it's not a fake, I should know, I constructed it.
Something happened here that I wasn't expecting. I started laughing. This episode now has the distinction of falling in to the same category as Storm Center and Fun and Games and Party Favors. These three episodes though pathetically written did manage to make me laugh.
The reason I laughed was because the cop just reacts so nonchalantly. His "Oh gosh it's a fake, but oh well, I guess we won't pursue it any further." What happened to the road blocks set up the day before?
In the epilogue, we see Kimble in the car with Willis. He tells her that Mac is a sick man but she's young and healthy and she can keep up the fight and fight the right way. He wants to throw away the fake bomb but she says that she wants to take it back with her to prove to everybody that there's nothing to fear from him or Mac. It's amazing how Willis would so easily accept that Kimble is innocent. She doesn't even ask him if he killed his wife. At least we were spared a boring romantic entanglement between these two.
I have always liked Lee Merriweather but her talents were so wasted in this script. This episode gets a big thumbs down from me but, since it made me laugh at the end I'll be kind and give it a rating of a two.
KELLY
KEN REVIEWS "NOT WITH A WHIMPER"
Again I can see the producers of the series having their weekly
meeting brainstorming what episode we should produce this week. Our budget needs to be used wisely. Hire the best scriptwriters to come out with a gem of a story. Keep the audience on the edge of their seats. We want our ratings to be the best they can be. Our sponsors buy air time because millions of people tune in each week to find out what Kimble and Gerard are up too.
Result-Whimper!!!
I had to look up the definition of the word whimper. The New
American Heritage Dictionary College Edition defines the
word 'whimper' as "To cry or sob with soft intermittent sounds; to
whine, complain".
I agree with Melissa and Bob. Wasted story with an ending fit for
the three stooges.
I like Lee Meriwether. But she had a useless part here. What was her
role here? She looked liked a yes man for Kimble.
I would have used Lee Meriwether in another story. Suggestion-
Develop a story where she is a woman cop who gets a lead on Kimble.
She could have gone undercover and almost capture Kimble. Seems like Kimble is always looking out for men cops. He could have got tricked by her. Come up with a surprise chase and you have a story.
The problem with 'Whimper'is that the story goes nowhere. Hey Kimble-next time you make a fake bomb get some advice from 'MacGyver'.
My rating-0 Ken
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Sep 18, 2016
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SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 25
"NOT WITH A WHIMPER"
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ORIGINAL REVIEWS
"WHEN THE WIND BLOWS
DIRECTED BY: RALPH SENENSKY
WRITTEN BY: Betty Langdon
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: December 28, 1965
In rural Wyoming, Kimble seeks refuge from the local constable at a small hotel run
by Lois Carter, a young widow who hires him as a handyman. Kimble soon befriends
Lois' savant son Kenny, who protects Kimble from the police when they arrive
looking for him.
Guest Stars: Georgann Johnson as Lois Carter,
Greg Mullavy as Carl Ritter,
Harry Townes as Russ Atkinson, and
Johnny Jensen as Kenny Carter.
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OPENING AND CLOSING NARRATION
Narrator: [Opening Narration. Viewers see a postman deliver an envelope to a café,
where it is accepted by the counterman who is also a part time town constable.
Inside the envelope is a wanted poster for Dr. Richard Kimble, who has just left the
café after eating a meal] For a Fugitive, there is no rest from the past, and no
safety in the present. Even here, in the remote village of Small Groves, Wyoming,
the most ordinary day may explode in his face. Rumors that Richard Kimble had
been seen in the city of Casper have been relayed to every law enforcement
agency in this corner of the state.
Narrator: [Closing Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble, suitcase in hand,
walking down a highway at night, trying to hitch a ride] For Richard Kimble,
there is no sanctuary from the night wind; there is no cave in which to hide.
But occasionally, along the road, a Fugitive will find a hand extended in trust,
and the night wind will not seem so cold.
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"WHEN THE WIND BLOWS"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnXEkHgNu9I
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BOBBY REVIEWS "WHEN THE WIND BLOWS"
Well Kelly is right about one thing in her review. This episode does remind me of "Cry Uncle", and how realistic and emotionally gut wrenching that was thanks to an outstanding performance by a young actor (Donald Losby). This pathetic attempt to recreate that atmosphere in a different setting comes
across as nothing more than manipulative trash.
There is virtually nothing in this wretchedly excessive story that can be recommended. Starting with an overly adorable boy child who looks like he just stepped out of a tv commercial. Saddled with dialogue that no real child would speak in a million years, and filmed with numerous soft focus close-up shots
that make him look positively angelic, this can only be tolerated by people who actually enjoy being bludgeoned to death with this "isn't he cute" kind of writing.
Kimble is right. There is nothing wrong with Kenny that wouldn't be fixed by taking him away from his moronic mother. A woman who thinks nothing of asking a perfect stranger who shows up at her door one day, to go and find her little boy, just because he doesn't look like a vagrant.
This is the worst case of child abuse since Suzanne Pleshette allowed Kimble to show up at her door one day with not even a driver's license and then hired him on the spot so he could drive her little girl to California in "All the Scared Rabbits".
Yes indeed, just what you want to do. Keep moving every time someone misunderstands him instead of providing the boy some stability and kids his own age so he can actually act like a child instead of allowing him to hang out in a
cave all day with a grown man. At least Michael Jackson had his own theme park.
Of course, Richard Kimble, pediatrician of the century, always has a quick fix for troubled youngsters that solves everything in about 45 minutes, from Jenny in "The Witch", to Chris in "Where the Action Is", to Joanne in "Moonchild", to Johnny in "Set Fire to a Straw Man".
The idea of a story that revolves around the empathy created when Kimble comes in contact with anyone who has been similarly cast off by society because of being unfairly accused or misunderstood, is an interesting concept that might work if done with some sincerity and intelligence instead of the cloying sentimentality on display here. Although they did attempt that in season one's
"Fatso", also with very mixed results.
Here's some advice to the writers and producers as The Fugitive inches closer to Its fourth season and triple digit episodes. How about not straying off course with these psychobabble
episodes? Go back to the story of Richard Kimble trying to find the man who killed his wife. That's why we came here in the first place.
Luckily we are just one more episode away from a true all time classic, "Wife Killer", that returns the series to its roots with spectacular results.
I remember reading once in the book, "The Official Fan's Guide To The Fugitive", author Mel Proctor telling a few of the things that the producers seriously considered as the series began to fade late in the game. One of them reportedly
gave Kimble a son out of nowhere, to take on the road with him. I used to laugh at the idea. Now after watching this claptrap, the thought is positively frightening.
I'm afraid that unlike Kelly, I cannot give this either a thumbs up or down, since by the time it had mercifully ended, I had chewed both of them off out of overwhelming boredom.
Line of dialogue early in this episode.
"It's nothing exciting"
Line from me;
NO S***T
My rating on a scale from 0 to 10
0 H D
and that doesn't stand for high definition but for
HOPELESS DRIVEL
BOBBY
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KELLY REVIEWS "WHEN THE WIND BLOWS"
Well, this latest episode is called "When the Wind Blows". To a certain degree
this episode reminded me a bit of "Cry Uncle", and while I think "Cry Uncle"
was a better episode, there are some good things in this episode.
We start out seeing Kimble sitting in a diner in Wyoming. He's gotten some kind
of meal with coffee because the man behind the counter cleared away dishes and I
have to admit, while I know the prices were low back in the sixties for dining, I
was surprised when the man told Kimble he owed him sixty-one cents. Kimble
leaves and catches a lift with a truck driver.
The diner owner then opens up an envelope that's been sent over by the county
sheriff, and to his surprise he realizes that he just had Kimble as a customer.
He looks outside and sees no one.
He then calls the county sheriff's office and wants to speak directly with the
sheriff but he's not in, but he's got the deputy. He doesn't want to leave any
message with the deputy and tells him to have him call him back. The diner
owner's friend comes in and tells him that he should catch Kimble himself. He
tells him that if he caught Kimble personally, he'd be a local hero and his
picture would be in the paper, and then he could be a full-time sheriff in town
instead of a part-time one.
In the meantime, Kimble has been let off outside of town at a gas station where
a widow or so we are left to assume, is there fixing up some cabins for when the
highway gets finished. She has a help wanted sign up and Kimble takes her up on
the offer. She does ponder the fact though that Kimble doesn't exactly look like
a vagrant but he's hired. She asks him to go find her son Kenny and tell him he
needs to get ready for school.
Kimble finds Kenny who's visibly upset. He's kneeling by a nest and the birds'
eggs had broken. He tells Kimble that the little birds died before they could
even be born. He buried them. Kimble tells him that the mother will build a new
nest, and Kenny says that the wind will just blow it down again.
Kenny runs away into his special cave and tells Kimble not to come in. Kimble
assures him that he wouldn't go in unless he was invited, but then he tells him
that if they make the mother a birdhouse, her eggs would be safe from falling in
the wind.
Kenny likes that idea so he tells him he doesn't have to go to school on
Saturday so maybe they could do it then. Kimble agrees. Kenny runs to his
mother's car and he's taken to school.
We then go back to the diner where the deputy is there wanting to know what made
the diner owner call and he apologizes and says he was mistaken. The deputy asks
why he's got his gun out then. He just sticks to his story that he was mistaken.
The deputy will not be deterred and he decides to stay for awhile, in case
anything new develops. The friend of the diner owner comes in eventually and
asks for the picture of Kimble so that the newspaper can run it. The diner owner
reluctantly agrees.
Back at the gas station and the cabins, Lois and Kenny have returned from
school. Kimble is busy doing handiwork and it's apparent that something is
wrong. He asks Lois what the problem is and she tells him that the teacher
thinks that something is wrong with Kenny.
Lois tells Kimble that Kenny got into an argument with another boy and told him
that eggs hatch in dead things. He said it over and over again and a little girl
started to cry. So Kenny has been branded a disturbed child. Lois doesn't know
what to do. Apparently just talking to her son hasn't crossed her mind in all of
this.
Kimble and Kenny finish the birdhouse and put it up, so now the mother bird will
have a safe place to make a nest and lay her eggs. Kenny is so taken with Kimble
that he invites Kimble into his cave. Kimble asks him what all of the stuff is
on the ground. Kenny explains that it's his dead stuff. Kimble asks him why he
calls it dead stuff. Kenny tells him that if something isn't useful anymore,
then it's something that's dead.
Lois' boyfriend comes over and he tells her he has a gift for Kenny. Kenny and
Kimble come up and Kimble tells Lois that Kenny showed him his cave. Lois is
visibly surprised at this news. Kenny opens up a gift that's a fishing pole. The
boyfriend invites Kenny fishing. Kenny doesn't really want to go. He goes into
the house and tells Kimble he'd rather not do it. Kimble tells him that if
someone asks him if he wants to do something, to just simply say no thank
you..and smile when you say it so they know you're being polite.
Back at the diner, the truck driver who gave Kimble a lift comes back in, and he
tells them that this is the guy he let off at the gas station outside of town.
The deputy and the diner owner are out the door to go investigate.
Lois has picked up a newspaper and is shocked to see Kimble's face on the
newspaper's front page. Kenny and her boyfriend come back and Kenny runs away.
The boyfriend tells her that he just doesn't understand Kenny. He tells her that
he thinks there's something wrong with Kenny.
Lois gets angry and says that just because a boy doesn't want to fish doesn't
automatically mean something is wrong with him. The boyfriend leaves in a huff.
Kenny finds Kimble and tells him that he was fishing, but then something grabbed
on his pole. He got scared and Lois' boyfriend reeled in the fish. Kenny saw
that it was a beautiful fish and didn't want to see it die as it was trying to
breathe in the air, so, he picked it up and threw it back in the water and it
swam away.
He tells Kimble that everybody thinks there's something wrong with him. Kimble
tells him no, there's nothing wrong with him. He doesn't think so at least. He
tells Kenny that he's special and different but there's nothing wrong with being
different. Kenny cheers up and leaves.
Kenny finds Lois and she tells him to stop bothering Mr. McGuire. Kenny tells
her that he's her best friend. She then sees the police pull up and she tells
Kenny to walk, not run, to Mr. McGuire and tell him to hide because these men
that have shown up want to hurt him.
Kenny does as she asks and walks away but then runs. The deputy and the diner
owner approach her and show her the picture and she tells him that no, she
hasn't seen him. They still want to look for him though.
Kimble is safely tucked away in Kenny's cave with Kenny. Kimble explains to
Kenny that he's going to have to leave after this. Kenny doesn't like that. He
wants him to stay with him. Kimble tells him to be quiet because the police
might find him. Kenny doesn't care if they hear him since Kimble is going to
leave and he runs back to the house.
The police though are oblivious and leave. Lois goes back to find Kimble and
tells him that he can go now because the police have left. He asks her why she
didn't turn him in. She tells him that the newspaper said that he was a doctor.
He tells her that he's a pediatrician, not a psychologist. She says that she
knows that but she just doesn't know what to do about Kenny. She then tells him
that he was invited into Kenny's cave and she's never been invited. He tells her
to go inside and look for herself.
She goes in and sees all of the toys in there, and Kimble explains to her about
Kenny's term dead things. She tells him that every school she takes him to, the
same thing happens, that's why she moves. Kimble tells her to stop moving and to
try talking to Kenny. He's smart and bright and with the right guidance, he'll
be way ahead of everybody else.
Lois is happy to hear that and Kimble asks her to say goodbye to Kenny for him.
Kenny sees Kimble getting into a truck, and Kenny runs and jumps into the back
of the truck.
Back at the diner once again, Lois' boyfriend is there getting coffee, and he
sees Kimble's picture and tells them that Kimble's at Lois' place. They all
arrive as Kimble and Kenny are pulling away.
Kimble gets out of the truck at a bus stop and Kenny sees him about to get on a
bus. Kenny jumps out of the truck and runs to Kimble. Kimble waves the bus on.
Kimble tells Kenny that he can't stay with him. Kenny wants to stay with Kimble
though because they're both special.
Kimble takes him aside and explains to him that he can't come with him because
everybody thinks he killed someone when he didn't and he can't be caught until
he can prove that he didn't do it. Kenny asks him if he told him that he didn't
do it. Kimble says yes and Kenny tells him that he believes him.
The police are at Lois' house and Lois is frantic because Kenny is missing. She
thought he was in his bedroom the whole time. The police automatically assume
that Kimble took Kenny as a hostage. After several hours and no word, they
leave, but Lois' boyfriend sees that the deputy is parking outside of the
driveway.
He goes into the house and Lois tells him that Kimble just called and he said he
didn't take Kenny hostage, Kenny jumped in the truck and followed him. She knows
where he is. Her boyfriend wants to tell the deputy and she tells him no.
This next part was very predictable. We see Lois leaving and the deputy
following her. We then see Kimble and Kenny in an abandoned building eating
sandwiches from who knows where Kimble found them. The lights on a car pull up
and we see a man's hat in the doorway and it's Lois's boyfriend who's come to
collect Kenny. Kimble tells Kenny to go with him and Kenny does after a tearful
goodbye.
In the final scene, we see Lois getting pulled over by the deputy and she tells
him that if he's going to arrest her, to just do it and get it over with. The
deputy tells her "What for? You'll just tell everyone that he threatened your son
if you didn't help him." She replies to him by saying, "Well, that's what the
newspapers said, isn't it? That he's a vicious killer?" The deputy turns and
drives away.
We then see Kenny riding home with Lois' boyfriend, and Kenny tells him that he
doesn't understand why nobody believes Kimble when he told them he didn't kill
anyone. He asks Lois' boyfriend if he thinks he killed anyone. He tells him no
he doesn't. Kenny asks him why. He tells Kenny that it's because Kenny told him.
Kenny snuggles up to him and it appears that Kenny is going to get a new
stepfather at some point.
We are then treated to the famous scene in "The Girl from Little Egypt" of
Kimble on the highway right before he gets hit by Ruth Norton's car.
Overall, it's not the greatest episode I've ever seen, but it's not the worst. I
think the formula was one we've seen in other episodes, but I'm going to give
this episode a thumbs up and a rating of a six because I really did enjoy the
scenes between Kimble and Kenny. The casting of Kenny was perfect. I don't know
what became of that child actor, but he played the wide eyed innocent child that
nobody understands but Kimble to perfection I think.
As for other plot points, I thought Lois was a little odd for a mother. Here
Kimble is having no problems conversing with her supposedly disturbed son, and
yet she can't talk to him and ask him a simple question for why he refers to
certain things as dead things.
Once one hears Kenny's explanation, it really doesn't sound that horrific. She
might even try clarifying to him the difference between something that's dead
and something that's inanimate. We never hear about Lois' husband. I assumed he
had died but that's never clarified, perhaps if the writer had thought to put
some kind of reasoning behind Kenny's rationale, it might not have appeared so
weird.
As for the law enforcement scenes, I really felt like they were filler for the
episode. I found the scenes between Kimble and Kenny interesting but it
obviously wasn't enough to fill the episode. The part with the diner owner
catching Kimble himself is something we saw not that long ago in the episode
with Earl Holliman playing a local sheriff, and we also saw it in that dreadful
episode "Tug of War" with the retired sheriff.
So this wasn't all that original, but it was watchable..and I might also add
that another plus for me was seeing the character of Lois not be one of the
women who will just fall in love with Kimble at first sight. It was obvious that
she cared about her boyfriend, so we were spared a jealous triangle.
Kelly
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KEN REVIEWS "WHEN TH3 WIND BLOWS"
This series has produced classic,good,fair,poor,lousy, and downright
awful episodes. But this present story is the strangest one up to this
point.
I know the 1960's was a trusting time but for Lois Carter to hire
Kimble on the spot was ridiculous. I agree with Kelly that she is not
dysfunctional like some of the other women of The Fugitive. She did
not fall over heels for Kimble. But how could she just trust Kimble
right on the spot. She needs to rent the movie 'Cape Fear.'
What mother would allow her son to hang out in a cave with dead
things? The town needs a social worker to help this woman out.
What is up with Kenny anyway? Little boys during this time play
baseball in the sandlots.
The scene in the cave with Kimble and Kenny was right out of the
Twilight Zone. Rod Serling must have been jealous. If I was Kimble I
would tell Kenny to get your head screwed on tight and let's play some
baseball. Go play some checkers with other kids.
I raised three sons myself. Give me ten minutes with Kenny and I will
do more than Kimble did with his awful advice.
The scene in the cave with Kimble and Lois was even more bizarre. She
invites Kimble into a dark cave to talk about her son? Hey Lois what
if Kimble is a roadside strangler? How could she be so batty?
Again we have a cop who drops everything he is doing to find and hunt
down Kimble. Is he the most sought after fugitive of all time? The end
scene left me empty again. The cop needs to go back to police school
and learn how to track down a fugitive. Waiting behind trees is not
going to work.
Let's add Kenny and Jenny(ep.2-The Witch) as the two most
dysfunctional kids in this series. Who is worse?
However, I cannot give a 0 rating. Any episode that uses the name Ken
at least gets a point.
My rating-1 Ken
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Sep 11, 2016
COMING NEXT
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 18
"WHEN THE WIND BLOWS"
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ORIGINAL REVIEWS
"END OF THE LINE
DIRECTED BY: William A. Graham
WRITTEN BY: James Menzies
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: December 21, 1965
After losing his wallet, Kimble steals another one to pay for his train fare. The wallet belongs to R.T. Unger, who owns a local dairy. Kimble works as dishwasher at a local diner in order to repay the debt, but when Unger finds his wallet missing, he calls the police. Kimble goes to Unger's house and gives back the wallet and money to Unger's daughter, Betty Jo, who is pregnant by Neil, a disreputable youth who works at Unger's dairy. Unger offers Neil $1,000 to leave town, but when Neil refuses, their argument turns into a fistfight where Kimble walks in and sees Neil kill Unger.
Guest Stars:
Crahan Denton as R.T. Unger,
James Hong as Hee,
Barbara Dana as Benny Jo Unger
Andrew Prine as Neil Hollis.
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OPENING AND CLOSING NARRATION
NARRATOR: (Viewers see Richard Kimble flag down a semi to hitch a ride). A man's image can be shaped by society's opinion of him.
A fugitive must ask how long can a running man
hold out against that opinion? How many miles,
how many accusations before he becomes what society has labeled him?
NARRATOR (CLOSING NARRATION)
(Viewers see Richard Kimble on a passenger train, handing a ticket to a conductor)
Some people run for exercise, some are professionals chasing a record and still others must run to live. Theirs is the longest race-if they can last until tomorrow, their reward is one more day of running.
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"END OF THE LINE"
https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=RNQvn_adKo4
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BOBBY REVIEWS "END OF THE LINE"
Nothing is more frustrating in this series, than watching a good beginning turn
into a bad end. This episode starts out rather well with Kimble in jeopardy and
running basically from his own fears.
The opening scene with the truck is a good one even though it does look too much like the one in Landscape, where Kimble also was jolted awake that time to face a roadblock. This time he's headed right for a prison gate. It may well have been a much more interesting story, if he had been driven inside and had to find his way out, even though that had been done already in "Wings of an Angel".
The scene on the train is even more interesting, with Kimble facing a conductor
requesting tickets, a quartet of police officers and their prisoner and an
ex-con who knows a man on the run when he sits next to one. This also would have made for a more interesting story, even though it too, would have looked
similiar to the train scene in "Escape into Black".
But, not to worry, all of this is squandered away as yet another writer becomes
determined to cast real suspense aside in favor of yet another dysfunctional
family, their problems..a crime Kimble sees but cannot report..blah blah
blah...where have I seen this all before?
Worse than this, much worse than this, is this tiresome and endless need to
portray Kimble as a man of extraordinary honesty and virtue. This has become
annoying almost beyond endurance.
The producers and writers have gone way overboard in reminding us again and again that Richard Kimble will always do the right and honorable thing.
There may well have been good reason for this in the first few episodes of the
series when we hardly knew this man who was after all convicted of a capital
crime. But after more than 2 1/2 years, it has been beaten to death and Kimble
continues to be burdened with something thats makes him look incredibly naive
and stupid.
Get over it Dick!! Your life is on the line. Sometimes real life demands that
you make certain decisions and sacrifices that stretch your values to the
limit.
But noooo...this time Kimble not only has to return the wallet, but find a
temporary job as well in order to return every single dime...and then return
it..in person yet.
And last, but certainly not least, Kelly is quite correct in pointing out that
Kimble arrives at the dairy..before the murder is committed and yet provides
about as much help here as he did when he made faces and stared at his dead wife on the floor back in season one. Why not at least try something? After all, we certainly know that Richard the good..will never be able to leave town until he sees the bad...the perpetrator of this crime arrested.
I suppose there is a lesson to be learned from all of this. If you steal some
cash from a man's wallet in order to save your own life, you are morally
obligated to return that money even if it does end up costing your life at the
end. But it's ok to stand helplessly by and watch a man get beaten to death with
a milk bottle.
Yes..that makes sense.
My rating on a scale of 0 to 10
3 Below Average
Bobbynear
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KELLY REVIEWS END OF THE LINE
This latest episode is called End of the Line. We start out seeing Kimble on the
lonely road as we usually do although he seems to have found himself in a remote part of Florida where bus service is almost nonexistent because he can't seem to find one.
Kimble is hitchhiking and a trucker reluctantly picks him up. He initially
wouldn't give him a lift because he's not a college kid but be has a change of
heart when he tells him a bus will be by eventually. Kimble gets a disappointed
look and the man takes pity on him.
Kimble falls asleep in the truck as the man is telling him his life story. I
don't even remember what he was telling him so Kimble had good cause to fall
asleep but when Kimble wakes up, it's a very rude awakening as he sees himself looking at a Florida Penitentiary. The man laughs and tells him it's the end of the line. He'd take him in but he's not so sure he'd be able to get him out.
This is all in good fun. Kimble grabs his bag and high tails it out of the truck
but of course he conveniently leaves his wallet behind.
This was actually a new experience. I don't ever recall seeing Kimble totally
without money before. Yes, he's been low but I can't recall him being completely penniless and in a situation where he's running from the police. It turns out that he doesn't need to run it's just the police are around because he's by a penitentiary.
He goes to the train station and panics when he sees four policemen getting out of the car so he gets on the train and they get on too, but it turns out that
the policemen are just transporting another prisoner. Interestingly enough, when Kimble was getting transported, there was just Gerard transporting him, but in this case, the man who's getting transported actually has four officers getting on the car with him. Either this guy is a serial killer or Gerard is viewed as the ultimate cop/guard. This could explain why Gerard is so obsessed.
It's at this point that Kimble realizes that he's totally without money and he
asks the man next to him if he can spot him some and the man it turns out is an ex-con himself and he's not about to share his money with anyone from the joint.
He automatically assumes Kimble's been in jail since he's getting on at a train
station in town where the state pen is and he seems very nervous around all of
the cops.
There's also a father and daughter sitting in front of Kimble. The father gets
up to go to the men's room and Kimble follows him. The man has very conveniently left his coat hanging up with his wallet inside. What an idiot…frankly, I think he deserved to get his wallet lifted by Kimble. Who does that in the real world?
So Kimble walks out with the wallet and the man comes out, takes his coat, sees Kimble, doesn't even bother to check his coat pocket and just blindly walks back to his seat. The conductor comes by asking for tickets and Kimble can relax because the daughter already took care of it and hands them to the conductor.
The man next to Kimble is on his way to St. Petersburg but Kimble only wants to go to the next stop which is $2.25. He gives the man a twenty. He makes change for Kimble and tries to get him to buy a commuter pass as he'd save money.Kimble says no.
Kimble tries to give the wallet back to the guy by putting it under his seat and
the ex-con next to him tells him that he'll check it to make sure it's all
there. Kimble gets off at the next stop and so does the man and his daughter.
He again wants to give the wallet back but along comes a policeman who's
obviously a family friend and offers to give them a lift home so the man doesn't
have to pay for a cab ride. The daughter who's now visibly pregnant gets in the
cab with her father.
She is clearly not happy with him or with being home. Her name is Betty Jo and
her father's name is Roy. Betty Jo had been staying in that town because her
boyfriend Neil was in the prison. Roy and Betty Jo arrive home and Betty Jo is
very angry with her dad because Neil the father of her child was going to get
paroled that day and there'd be no one to meet him. She believes they can be
married and be a family.
It's apparent that the father believes that Neil is no good. Kimble meanwhile is
trying to figure out how to give the wallet back. He initially wants to just put
it in the mailbox but his conscience just won't let him do it. He finds a
Chinese restaurant that needs a dishwasher, so Kimble goes in to wash dishes and then he can pay the entire amount back.
Back at the house, Roy concludes that the man who got off the train with them
must have taken his wallet because he was in the washroom with him. He calls the police to give them a description. Betty Jo could care less. Roy is worried
about his wallet when his daughter is pregnant and the father of her baby is
getting out of jail.
Interestingly enough, I mentioned two episodes ago that we saw a married couple being cozy together in bed and I commented that the censors must has started loosening up the standards because the word pregnant is actually used in this episode and I know that was initially a very taboo word to say at one time on TV.
This episode might also be a groundbreaking one as well because we're actually seeing an unwed mother. I can't imagine that this was something normally seen on television in that era.
Kimble has collected his wages for the morning and he asks a cab driver about a person in town with the initials RTU. He also mentions that he has a pregnant
daughter. The cab driver tells him that must be Roy Unger. He tells him how to
get to his place and Kimble walks there.
He knocks on the door and Betty Jo answers it. Kimble returns the wallet and she initially is sarcastic to him as she says, 'sure after you stole it and took all
the money'. Kimble tells her to count the money and to her shock all eighty
dollars are there. Kimble leaves and starts to call her Mrs. and she cuts him off by saying, Miss.
Kimble walks away and is ready to leave town now that he's done his Boy Scout duty as Betty Jo describes it. Betty Jo calls her father at the dairy that he
appears to own and tries to tell him that the wallet is back with all of the
money.
He's not in the mood to hear about it. Betty Jo gets angry and yells into the
phone, "Well some people have boils but you've got me!" She then picks up the wallet and makes a decision.
Kimble walks back to the restaurant and as he's walking he asks the cab driver
where the bus depot is in town and he tells him that the nearest one is fourteen
miles away. How interesting that you have a small town with a train depot but
not a bus depot.
Kimble decides to earn a little more money before the next train leaves so he
goes back to wash more dishes. This Chinese owner must really be hard up for
dishwashers because he's happy to have Kimble come and work if only for a few hours. He tells him to take the empty milk bottles to the dairy across the
street. The same dairy happens to be across from the train station. As he's
taking the bottles to the dairy, he sees Betty Jo getting out of a cab to go in
to the train station.
He approaches her and she tells him that she's taking the money to go back so
she can be with Neil, the father of her baby. Kimble doesn't try to stop her.
Unbeknownst to both of them though, Neil is back in town and is placing a phone call to Roy. He asks him that now that he's in town, what does he want him to do?
Neil shows up at the dairy and Roy orders everybody out of the assembly line and they all split. This is the fastest I've seen so many people vacate work. Neil
comes in and Roy gives him an envelope with money in it. Neil counts it and
discovers it's five hundred dollars. He yells at Roy that he promised him a
thousand. Roy tells him that he'll get the other five hundred after the baby's
born. Neil isn't happy about this and he starts hitting Roy just as Kimble walks
in with the empty bottles. He stops and then he sees Neil pick up a bottle of
milk and hit Roy over the head with it. Milk bottles are falling everywhere and
the milk is getting on everything including Neil.
Kimble runs out without Neil seeing him and he goes to the train depot and tells
Betty Jo that her father is dead. She runs back to the dairy and comes in just
as Neil is dragging Roy's body out to supposedly get rid of it.
Betty Jo looks at him and he insists to her that it was an accident and it was
self defense. Kimble in the meantime, decides it's time to exit town but not
before a cop sees him and concludes he's the guy Roy called the police about.
He's taken in for questioning and is asked why he didn't just bring the wallet
in to the police station to turn it in. He claims he just didn't think about it.
The chief then gets a phone call telling him that Roy is dead and decides he
wants to bring Betty Jo in for questioning about who she might think did this
and he tells the other deputy to watch Kimble. Kimble tries to make a break for
it but he ends up handcuffed to a chair.
Back at the house, Betty Jo and Neil are there and Neil wants to put on some of her father's clothes and make a run for it. Betty Jo questions him about it
being an accident and he says of course it was but nobody will believe that
especially with his background.
The chief arrives and sees Neil. He asks what's all over Neil's pants and
concludes it's milk. He grabs him and brings him in for questioning.
He doesn't get very far with questioning because Betty Jo runs in and tells them that she wants to make a statement and she claims that she killed her father.
She tells them that it was an accident. She tells them that this nice man, she
gestures to Kimble, brought back her father's wallet. She went to the dairy to
give it to him and they started to argue and he hit her and she just grabbed a
bottle of milk and hit him back. So there's no need to be holding Kimble or
Neil. Kimble tells them that Roy gave Neil five hundred dollars. They search
Neil and he doesn't have it.
Kimble asks if he can talk to her. Everybody looks at him kind of funny. The
chief orders Betty Jo to be put in his office and he lets Neil go and tells the
deputy to take the handcuffs off of Kimble and let him go. Kimble asks if he can
talk to Betty Jo though.
They let him in and Betty Jo explains that being a woman and pregnant, she'll
get a year at the most but Neil will be locked up forever and then they'll never
be together. Kimble tells her that her father gave Neil five hundred dollars and
her baby deserves better than to be born in a prison. She doesn't believe him
about the money and she tells Kimble not to make trouble for her or she'll make trouble for him. She'll revise the story of the wallet. She knows he initially
took some of the money because her father said there were four twenties in there and it came back in different denominations.
So Kimble walks out. The chief tells the deputy to follow him. The deputy asks
which one? The chief says, Well, one of them is wearing Roy Unger's sweater but use your judgment.
So Kimble unable to stay out of this whole entanglement, walks back to the Unger house and finds Neil with the five hundred dollars. They fight, Kimble beats him up and takes the money away from him. The deputy hears the fighting and walks in just as Kimble has the money in his hands. Kimble just hands the money to the deputy and the last scene with this happy young couple is that the deputy brings Neil in. Neil begs Betty Jo to tell them that he didn't kill her father. The deputy hands the envelope of five hundred dollars to the chief and he notices it's the dairy's stationery.
Betty Jo realizes that Kimble was right and she asks the deputy to please take
her home. The chief asks about Kimble and he tells him that he took Kimble to
the train depot as there was nothing to hold him on and of course we see Kimble on a train leaving town.
Well, this was an interesting episode to a point. I thought it started out well
enough and as I said, they were tackling a controversial subject of an unwed
pregnant mother to be. However, this episode fell flat for me. For one thing,
Kimble not only witnesses a murder but he did nothing to stop it. We clearly see Kimble walk in and watch Neil pick up the bottle and hit Roy over the head with it. It seems to me, Kimble under other circumstances and in other episodes would have done something, whether it be to yell out 'stop' or run over and try to stop him. Kimble really is selective on who he saves in this series.
The other problem I had with it is that I don't recall hearing just what Neil
was in prison for. He was only in a few months so obviously not murder. Was it
supposed to be statutory rape of Betty Jo?
The other problem I had was Neil gets out and Roy decides to give him a thousand dollars now one would assume that that meant he was giving him money to stay away from Betty Jo…however, he's giving him five hundred now and he'll get the rest after the baby is born.
Now why is this so important? When I heard him say this, I kept thinking that
this is usually what you hear in a movie when someone hires a hit man. You say I'll give you half now and the rest after you make the kill.
What is up with waiting until the baby is born??? You want Neil out of the
picture give him all the money now and be done with it. It was obvious by the
way he was interacting with Betty Jo that he had no desire to marry her and be a family. It's a shame that Betty Jo had to lose her father to realize what a
first rate scumbag Neil was.
I also thought the episode ended way too abruptly. Kimble grabs the money from Neil and gives it to the deputy. The deputy just blindly accepts that Neil
killed Roy.
All in all, the best I can give this episode is a five rating for average. It
had potential but too many strange twists with no real meaning behind them.
Kelly
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Ken Reviews End of the Line
Kimble a robber? A fugitive on the run is going to resort to robbing
and stealing in order to survive. That is why the opening scene on
the train makes sense to me. If I was in that situation I may have
done the same thing. Question I have to ask myself? Would I return
the wallet and money stolen? Maybe. But the way Kimble handled the
problem was strange. Why not make a phone call? Explain what
happened on the train. It was a little risky to show up at the house.
First part of story was okay. The local dairy scene was a mess. Why
end the story with a murder? Barbara Dana played her part okay. My
rating-4 Ken
Kimble needs to take fugitive survival lessons.
1- Stop falling for dysfunctional women.
2- Stop trying to save everyone's life.
3- Stop getting kidnapped.
4- Stop hitching a ride and falling asleep.
5- Stop ending up in jail.
6- Stop running out of money.
7- Stop getting into fistfights.
8- Stop getting handcuffed.
9- Stop looking guilty.
10-Stop getting clobbered and shot.
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SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 11
"END OF THE LINE"
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ORIGINAL REVIEWS
"THE GOOD GUYS AND THE BAD GUYS"
DIRECTOR: Alexander Singer
WRITER: Don Brinkley
ORIGINAL AIR DATE:
December 14, 1965
In the small town of Drover City, Montana, Kimble stumbles onto the annual vigilante roundup, an event where locals hunt down anybody not wearing Western cowboy clothing. After being lassoed, Kimble is held "prisoner" in the local school cafeteria where the dance hall is. Meanwhile, Gerard arrives in the area after hearing reports of Kimble's spotting and has the state police set up roadblocks outside the town before entering the town and looking for the fugitive himself. Gerard shows Kimble's mug shot to Charley Judd, the town marshal who recognizes Kimble. Charley mistakenly thinks there's a reward on Kimble, so he sends Gerard away on a false lead and has his girlfriend, Laura, transport Kimble to the real jail at the police station.
Guest Stars:
Bruce Dern as Hank,
Earl Holliman as Charley Judd
Collin Wilcox as Laura.
• Barry Morse appears in this episode.
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OPENING AND CLOSING NARRATION
Narrator: [Opening Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble entering a western town which is holding a carnival, rodeo, and vigilante round-up] In a civilized society, a network of laws protects man against his own brutality. But for Richard Kimble, living outside the law, the civilized world has become a jungle. His only protection is his animal instinct, his will to survive. But always, there is the hunter - even here in Drover City, Montana.
Narrator: [Closing Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble walking down a country back road after having been dropped off from a ride] Some break the law, others are broken by it. But Richard Kimble continues his endless quest, pursued by the law he respects, a fugitive from the justice he seeks.
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BOBBY REVIEWS
"THE GOOD GUYS AND THE BAD GUYS"
This episode has a couple of things going for it that push it above many of the more routine stories. One is Earl Holliman. He brings the right amount of swaggering smart ass attitude to this episode that it badly needs. The other is the rather unusual setting that Kimble finds himself in.
By this point in the series, it is getting more and more difficult to come up with new ways to imperil Richard Kimble. Most of what we get is simply a slight variation on what we have seen previously. It also points out how dangerous Kimble's life is on a daily basis. Here he is simply wandering through a town. Nobody has recognized him, he hasn't yet met any dysfunctional person who he feels compelled to help and he's at least trying his best not to look guilty as he does in so many episodes. And yet, it's his very average appearance during a time when everyone is not looking average that gets him in trouble. Not so good, is this story's familiar look. In fact, it looks an awful lot like "Last Second of a Big Dream", only without the tigers.
Once again, here is a less than honorable person, hiding Kimble simply so he can turn him in for the notoriety and cash his capture will bring. The difference is, that story was ridiculous. Nobody was going to visit a run down animal show simply to see Kimble in a cage. This is more believable as it involves one man's direct involvement. He turns Kimble in and gets the reward. Too bad there isn't one, although by season four, there finally will be a price on Kimble's head. Collin Wilcox does a good job with what is basically a thankless part. Her character is so low key and boring, she barely makes a ripple even though she is the one who ultimately helps Kimble escape. It's not terribly pleasant to watch this woman allow herself to be taken advantage of by a slimy character like Charley and humiliated by everyone in town as they laugh behind her back.
There is no onscreen chemistry between her and her boyfriend. He hardly seems the type to want to be with such a bland woman. They appear totally mismatched. The only reason would have to be he is having too good a time completely dominating her and bossing her around, while keeping her on a very short string. And by the time we watch him get physically abusive with her at the end, the answer is obvious.
I'm not quite as bothered, as Kelly is, by Gerard's endless rant over why he feels compelled to bring Kimble in. He keeps using the old "the law says he's guilty and I enforce the law" thing over and over simply because he believes in it. Only at the end of "Landscape" did he admit that it was even more personal than that. All in all, not a bad episode. Although I might have expected or hoped for it to be a little more exciting, given a scene with Kimble trapped in a prison cell with Gerard on the other side. "Northoak"..it's not. I'm afraid I cannot rate it as high as Kelly. It simply doesn't belong in the same lofty position as episodes like "Goodbye" and "Search" and "Escape into Black". Still...one of the more interesting episodes.
My rating on a scale of 0 to 10
8 Well Above Average
Bobby
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KELLY REVIEWS
"THE GOOD GUYS AND THE BAD GUYS"
The title of this latest story, "The Good Guys and the Bad Guys" sums up the episode quite well. This is one of those rare occasions where the writer left us without a dull moment, in my humble opinion that is. This episode starts out with suspense.
We see road blocks set up and the good Lt. Gerard arrives on the scene. He asks them what they've done so far and what towns are in the area. He decides to check them out. As he drives away we see a sign for a town having its annual Vigilante Roundup. We then see Kimble walking through this town in a very carnival type atmosphere where everybody is looking like they're having fun..everybody except Kimble who looks very much out of place here. Everybody is dressed in western style clothing and Kimble appears to be the only guy who's dressed normal. This doesn't go over well with two guys who see him, and one guy walks up behind him and says, "You're under arrest". Well, Kimble does the only normal thing, he runs for his life unaware that he's gotten himself in the middle of a town game. He's caught, and now there are four guys fighting over him as the marshal named Charley, comes in to the scene and tells them that whoever can pay him the most for his pension fund gets to keep the prisoner.
He explains to Kimble that he stumbled into Vigilante Roundup Days in Drover City and anyone who's not wearing western attire gets arrested and is taken to jail, in this case it's the high school cafeteria. Kimble says he needs to move on to another town where there's a job waiting for him, but he still has to play the part of the prisoner until six o'clock. So he's stuck in the cafeteria where Charley's girlfriend Laura is serving coffee and other snacks. He'd like to escape but she told him that someone else would grab him and bring him in. She finds the whole ritual rather ridiculous and it's apparent she'd like to be somewhere else.
This she admits while all of the men are making fun of her, because she and Charley are technically engaged but no date has been set and this impending marriage has been in the works for quite some time. Kimble asks why she stays if she's unhappy. Well, it's her home and there's Charley. Gerard arrives on the scene and speaks to the deputy played once again by Bruce Dern. He does have a way of showing up in this series and playing similar roles too, but that's OK because he did a good job as the deputy.
He agrees to help him find the marshal but he gives him a cowboy hat so nobody will want to arrest him. Kimble sees Gerard coming in through the window and tries to make an escape, and Laura asks him where he's going and he says he was trying to find a phone. She tells him he can use the one in the office. Unfortunately, when he gets to the office, the door is locked and the windows have bars on them. Kimble is truly caged and David Janssen plays it perfectly. He listens as Gerard is asking for Charley. The men there say that Laura knows because Charley's going to marry her. They are very sarcastic about it and one guy even tells her that he'll marry her. It's not said how long Laura and Charley have been a couple but obviously long enough where everybody can see that it's going nowhere. She tells him he's not there and Gerard leaves to find Charley in his office. He shows Charley the mug shots of Kimble, and he says that he looks familiar but he can't place him. He tells Gerard that maybe he just remembers seeing a wanted poster or his picture in the paper.
What follows is a very interesting exchange between these two lawmen. We have Gerard who's very dedicated. We then have Charley who can't figure out why Gerard would come all the way from Indiana to chase one guy..after all, there are other men wanted for murder out there. Gerard insists that Kimble was his responsibility. He tells Charley that he's sure he'd do the same thing. Charley isn't convinced he'd do what Gerard was doing. Gerard once again gives his boring diatribe about how he follows the law and it's up to the courts to determine guilt.
Well, Charley takes a different viewpoint. Charley tells Gerard that a few years back, he came home from the Korean War and he had shrapnel in his leg, and the nice people of this town gave him the job as their marshal. If someone in the town got into trouble, he might think twice before enacting the law. Gerard then asks, "And what of Kimble?" He says, he'd have to get to know the guy before he made a judgment on it. Gerard tells him that he'll be going and Charley recommends a restaurant that has good chicken fried steak for a $1.10. Wow! Chicken fried steak for a $1.10, one really is in a time warp when they watch this show.
Charley goes back to the school cafeteria and sees Laura and Kimble together. Kimble tells him that he really needs to get to his job. Charley tells him to come in the office, he'll call the place and let them know that he'll be late. Kimble then tells him to never mind. Charley then tells Kimble he looks very familiar. He said he reminds him of a doctor who used to live in the town..a doctor named Kimble. Kimble sits down in the chair in pure resignation to his fate. Charley on the other hand finds all of this intriguing. He tells Kimble that he doesn't care for Gerard's type of cop. He asks Kimble why he's so dedicated. Kimble says he doesn't know. I found myself wondering why Kimble couldn't have said something a little more interesting here. How about a line saying that he escaped on Gerard's watch and Gerard's ego can't handle it. Let's face it, Kimble has been running for over three years now and he has no clue as to why Gerard can't let it go?
Charley figures that Gerard is in it for the reward, Kimble looks shocked at the reward comment. I wondered to myself why Kimble didn't say, There's no reward other than to soothe Gerard's ego. Then again, I gave Kimble the benefit of the doubt here as Kimble may be wondering if there is a reward. Charley handcuffs Kimble to the pipe in the room and he brings Laura in. He tells Laura that this is Richard Kimble who's wanted for murder and when he collects the reward money they can get married in style. Kimble says, "Have a nice wedding". Laura is shocked and they go outside and he convinces Laura to help him. They can have all of the money to themselves. If he brought in his deputy Hank, he'd want a piece of it. All they have to do is get rid of Gerard. Laura agrees to help him. She walks into the office and tells Kimble she's going to help him escape. She'll hide him until it gets dark. She said Charley gave her a pistol but she doesn't want to use it. Kimble asks why she's helping him, and she tells him that she gets all kinds of ribbing because Charley won't marry her. She tells him she knows that once Charley gets his hands on the reward money, he'll just leave town and she's not in the mood to take anymore insults about it from the locals.
Kimble asks her if she believes him when he tells her he didn't do it. She tells him she wants to believe him. She gives him a hat to wear and they start to sneak out the door. Gerard is over at the restaurant and Hank comes in. Gerard shows him the picture of Kimble, and he tells Gerard that he saw Kimble in town and that he's over at the high school because he was rounded up by the vigilantes. Gerard races over to the high school. Charley is calling a friend at the state police and tells him to call Gerard on his radio and tell him that Kimble was sighted at Acorn Falls. He also asks him to check out what the reward is for Kimble. Gerard races over to the school only to find an empty office with handcuffs on the floor. He's livid to put it mildly, and then he gets back to his car and he's told that Kimble was sighted at Acorn Falls which is about twelve miles from there. He asks where this information came from and it came from the town marshal. He tells him that the marshal is a liar.
In the meantime, Laura takes Kimble to what appears to be a safe place, only to find out that he's been had. They are in the marshal's office and Laura pulls the gun on him. She tells him to get in the cell, not the real cell, the one cell that's an historical landmark. Apparently there was a fire at one point and everything burned down but that cell, so Kimble gets to stay in what looks like a throwback to the 1800's. He begins to ask Laura why she's doing this and she said she's doing it for Charley and for herself. Charley may not be the greatest guy in the world but he's all she has. Kimble tells her that she deserves better than him.
Gerard comes into the office and demands to know where Kimble is and Laura tells him she doesn't know. Kimble is safely behind a wooden door. He asks where Charley is and she tells him she doesn't know. He tells her that Charley's in big trouble because he's helping Kimble which is aiding and abetting, and he gave false information to the state police to try and throw him off Kimble's trail. He's going to have Charley's badge and he'll be in jail when he's finished with him. He storms out. Kimble tells her that Charley's in big trouble. She tells him that Hank doesn't know anything and she'd never testify against Charley..but..Kimble could testify against Charley. Gerard catches up to Charley and reads him the riot act. Charley tells him to calm down. He tells him that he's got Kimble and he's safe. He'll turn him over to Gerard as long as he lets Charley have the reward money. Gerard looks at him like he's crazy and says, "Reward money?" Charley then says, OK I'll split the money with you fifty-fifty. Gerard agrees and he'd better have Kimble.
Meanwhile back at the office, the phone rings and Laura answers it. It's the state police confirming that there is no reward money. Laura realizes that the only thing that will come out of this is that Charley will go to jail with Kimble. She opens the door and lets Kimble go. She tells him she's doing it for Charley, not him. They open the door and there are teenagers across the street so Laura tells him to hide in her car. He gets in the car and crouches down and Charley and Gerard arrive and he sees that Kimble is gone.
Gerard is ready to arrest Charley, and Charley ushers Laura into the jail cell and as she tries to explain, he hits her. After they come out, Gerard tells Charley that he's pressing charges against him. Charley then says he was just joking with him. Gerard says, that he knows he placed a false report on Kimble with the state police. He then looks at Laura and Charley says, she won't testify. He tries to apologize to her and she looks at Gerard and says, I think I'm going to be an old maid but that's OK, they make good witnesses. She tells Gerard that she'll testify and she walks out, gets into her car and drives off. Kimble is still down in the back seat. We then see Gerard having Charley taken off in cuffs.
Hank is in shock over this as he never dreamed he'd be filling out papers for arresting Charley. He asks Charley if he wanted him to tell Laura anything. Charley starts to say something but then declines as he believes Gerard would have something else to charge him with.. Gerard and Hank are left alone and Gerard asks Hank if he's in charge now. Hank says, yes until the town council meets in a month. Gerard tells him the first thing he might want to do is get rid of the sign that obscures someone from being able to hide in the old cell. We then see Hank sitting back in the marshal's chair enjoying his newfound status if only for a brief while.
As for Laura and Kimble, Laura drives right past the road block, with the police thinking she's got a drunk boyfriend in the back seat. She lets Kimble out and tells him that they're both free now. She tells him to keep the hat and she hopes that one day he can prove his innocence. I really did enjoy this episode and I really can't find anything to complain about. I thought it was a very strong story. The characters were well written, and Earl Holliman did a fabulous job of initially playing the happy-go-lucky marshal to being a mercenary where Kimble was concerned. His change in personality was very well done. You see that the guy at the beginning was simply a façade to a very ruthless person who basically looked after one person - himself.
It was rather hard to understand why he'd even be interested in someone like Laura. I did like the character of Laura and how her character evolved. To a certain degree she reminded me of Cassie from "The Other Side of the Mountain" in season one, where we had a woman who felt like she was trapped in a nowhere town and yet lacked the strength to leave until she met Kimble. However, I liked how this story played out better in that Laura didn't release Kimble because she all of a sudden fell madly in love with him and believed him, she let him go because he could testify against Charley and there was no money to be had out of it at all. However, Kimble was the catalyst for her in that it exposed Charley for what he was. In the end when she said "We're both free", I took that to mean that she was going to pack her bags and leave once she testified against Charley, and that she believed she deserved better than that town and Charley.
I immensely liked the scene between Gerard and Charley. Gerard has been sounding like a broken record for three seasons, and finally someone asks him why and actually thinks he's crazy to chase this guy all over the country. Charley turned into an unsavory cop, but it was a refreshing change to see Gerard in essence be laughed at by another person in law enforcement.
This episode gets a big thumbs up from me and I'm giving it a ten rating. I don't do that very often but I just couldn't find anything to really dislike about this episode. The characters were well drawn, I cared about what happened and the episode held my interest from the first minute to the last.
Kelly
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"THE GOOD GUYS AND THE BAD GUYS"
I liked the story. Kimble wandering from town to town is what The Fugitive series is about. As the story developed I said please don't give me another hostage situation. Enough already. The hat is on Gerard and Kimble was worth the price of admission. Gerard was good here. Each time I see him he adds more to his character. His obsession is growing. I did not mind seeing Bruce Dern again. I liked his scene toward the end where he kicks back in the chair.
The character of Charlie was wishy washy. Please make up your mind. I did not like the way he treated Laura. Collin Wilcox was miscast here. How about somebody more interesting to listen to. The escape at the end was crafty. Mixed feelings on this one.
I will give it a 7.
KEN
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Aug 27, 2016
COMING NEXT
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 4
"THE GOOD GUYS AND THE BAD GUYS"
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"STRANGER IN THE MIRROR"
Kimble is working as a custodian for the Saturday
Morning Camp, run by Tony and Carole Burnell.
Things become complicated when two police officers are found beaten to death near the camp. The police recruit Tony, a former policeman, to interrogate a local juvenile delinquent who is the main suspect in the killings. Tony, however, reluctantly begins to suspect Kimble, after a box containing the badges of the murdered policemen shows up in Kimble's apartment.
Unknown to everyone, the real killer is Tony, who has been murdering police officers during black outs, and has no memory of the killings afterwards. Subconciously, Tony blames the police for the death of his father, a policeman who was sent to prison on a trumped-up murder charge and then killed by dirty cops during a prison riot.
Guest Stars: Norman Fell as Lt. Green,
William Shatner as Tony Burnell, and
Julie Sommars as Carole Burnell.
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OPENING AND CLOSING NARRATION
Opening Narration: For every acquaintance he makes, a man reveals a different face, a different identity. To the people of this Midwestern city, this man is John Evans, itinerant laborer. To those who know him better, he is Dr. Richard Kimble, fugitive.
Closing Narration: One man with a dozen names, a dozen identities, but none he can claim as his own. Richard Kimble moves on in search of justice, and the elusive privilege of answering to his rightful name.
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KELLY REVIEWS "STRANGER IN THE MIRROR"
This latest installment of The Fugitive is called "Stranger in the Mirror".
I have to say right off that I think this is definitely one of the better episodes and I think the casting of William Shatner in the story was perfect.
This story starts out very serene and peaceful looking. Kimble shows up at a
camp for boys and we see William Shatner hitting baseballs to the various kids In the field. Kimble smiles as he sees the kids having a good time and walks up to a woman who is on the pay phone. She calls her husband Tony in and tells him that his old boss Lt. Green wants him to come and see him.
Tony obliges and Carole tells Kimble that the camp has been all Tony had since he
had to give up his job. Kimble asks what kind of job. She tells him that Tony was a policeman but it's explained that Tony had to give it up because they found a heart murmur. Tony is happy to see Kimble there for the custodian job and Kimble is going by the name John Evans.
Tony leaves and goes to see Lt. Green, and he's shocked to find out that a policeman that he used to work with was murdered the night before and Tony was the last person to see him alive. This is the second killing of a policeman in the past month. Both officers were bashed in the head with a rock and they got their badges ripped off of their uniforms.
They've got a teenager in custody right now that they're questioning but getting nowhere with him. Tony asks Green if he can talk to the teenager and he does.
However, he concludes that the teen had nothing to do with the killings.
Back at the camp, Kimble tells Carole that he's having second thoughts about the job as she's showing him his surroundings. She thinks it's the poor salary, but he insists that he's got a job offer pending back east. She tells him that until he gets something set up, he can stay with them.
Later that night, Kimble is alone in his room, and he hears an intruder in the outer part of the building. He walks out but doesn't see anyone there. He finds a locked box on the floor and then a policeman walks in. He's come to drop by a notepad with some information in it for Tony. Kimble tells him that he heard something, and the policeman tells him he'll check it out.
Kimble walks back into his room and turns out the lights, the policeman goes outside to investigate and he's attacked from behind. Now why Kimble wouldn't wait for the policeman to come back and tell him he hadn't seen anything seems al ittle out of sorts with me.
While the policeman is down, we see a pair of feet walking toward him and hands picking up a good sized rock, and those hands prepare to bash his head in. The camera pans upward and we see that it's Tony with a wild look in his eyes.
The next day, we see Kimble in the outer office area, and Carole comes in and tells him that Tony is sleeping late. She sees the locked box and wonders where it came from. Kimble said he found it last night and thought they might have had a prowler. Carole is puzzled because she was sure that she had thrown that box away two years ago. It had belonged to Tony's father. Kimble says that maybe Tony's father kept it. She explains that it isn't possible because Tony's father died when he was young. Tony's father shot Tony's mother in front of Tony when he was a small boy, and his father was ultimately convicted of manslaughter and went to prison. One year after he went to prison he was killed in a prison riot. Kimble remarks that Tony's done well in spite of it. Carole replies, "Or maybe he's done well because of it."
At this point the kids come in telling Carole that Tony was supposed to hit balls with them this morning. Kimble steps up and tells them that he'll do it since Tony's not there. As he walks out to play ball with the kids, he sees Carole getting on a bicycle and riding away with the locked box in the basket.
Carole goes home and finds Tony still in bed in the fetal position. She wakes him up and, I have to admit I was a little surprised at this scene for the time period.
I believe this was 1966 so perhaps, the censors were loosening up things slightly for television at this point. Tony pulls Carole to the bed and they share a very passionate kiss. It's obvious that he's got more on his mind than just kissing. Carole tells him that they can't do that right now.
He tells her to give him twelve reasons why they can't. He kisses her again and she smiles and tells him she can't think of one good reason but, Tony remembers that he told the kids he'd play ball with them that morning so he has to get ready.
She tells him that John Evans is playing with them at the moment. Tony doesn't mind hearing this as he's in the bathroom getting ready. Carole then tells him that John found this locked box laying on the floor last night. Tony looks surprised and says he told her to get rid of it. She said she did. Tony has no Idea how it came back. Carole notices that it's locked and that it was never locked before. Tony is still very relaxed but also clueless. Carole tries to jimmy it open but Tony comes back in the bedroom and she stops. He asks Carole to please get his slacks cleaned as he got grass stains on them.
Meanwhile, Kimble is having a good time playing ball with the boys at the camp, and one boy tells him that the baseball has blood on it. Kimble looks very concerned, and we next see Kimble calling Tony and telling him that they've found a body on the campgrounds. Tony is shocked and tells him that he'll call the police, and Kimble says he already did and they're on their way over.
The police arrive and shoo away all of the kids. Kimble tries to hide so he can make a graceful exit but no luck, the police come in and question him. Green asks why his bag was packed, and he explains he just got there yesterday and hadn't had time to unpack.
Tony and Carole arrive and everybody is questioned. Kimble is ordered to write down his last two jobs to check out. Green tells the other officers to have it checked for prints when Kimble is out of hearing range. Kimble has been told not to leave town. Tony and Carole decide to go back to their house. Back at their house, Carole notices a key on Tony's ring that might fit in the lock box. Tony tries it but it doesn't work. Carole then tries it and she gets the box opened and there are the badges of the first two murdered police officers.
Carole then asks Tony what he did last night while she was at her sociology class. He tells her that he doesn't remember after a certain point. She tells him that she knows the real reason he was let go from the force. The psychiatrist told her that they deemed him psychologically unfit for duty. Tony's horrified that she would think that he killed those policemen. They were his friends after all. Tony then wonders why the third badge isn't in there.
He's decided to go ask John Evans for some answers. William Shatner plays this very well, I don't know if the man can sweat on cue but he did a pretty good job of it.
Tony goes back to see John Evans and finds him leaving. He asks him why, and he tells him another job came through but Tony still wants to question him inside.
When they get inside he realizes that the notebook lying on the desk is McKay's, the policeman who was murdered the night before. Kimble explains that he was going to give it to him but with everything else that happened he didn't have the opportunity. Tony isn't buying it, he thinks Kimble killed McKay. Carole in the meantime, has picked up Tony's pants for dry cleaning and the third badge falls out of the pocket.
Back at the police precinct, Lt. Green is questioning the same teen again, and the teen is crying and insisting that he had nothing to do with the murders. Green gets called out and the prints came back as a positive ID on Richard Kimble so it's off to go arrest Kimble with sirens blaring.
Tony has now pulled a gun on Kimble and wants to take him in for murder as Carole shows up and shows Tony the third badge. He asks her where she got it and she tells him that it was in his pants pocket. He can't believe that he could kill those men, they were his friends. Carole knows it wasn't the Tony she loves, but a split personality. Richard asks him how his father died.
Tony tells him in prison during a riot. Kimble asks if it was by other prisoners and Tony says that it was by the policemen there. The police car comes up and Tony wonders why they've come back. Kimble quickly says, it's because they want the man who killed the three policemen. He confronts Tony with the facts, the police took away his father and then they took away his job, he wanted revenge. Tony has really cracked up at this point and he will not be arrested. He goes to the window, breaks it and shoots one of the policemen.
Lt. Green gets the officer back to the car and assumes that Kimble did it. He tells Green that it was Tony who shot him. Green is completely stunned by this turn of events. He calls for more back up.
Inside the building, Kimble tells Tony that he doesn't want to do this and to give him the gun. Tony won't let go, they wrestle for it and Kimble throws it across the room. Carole picks it up. Kimble proceeds to walk outside apparently to tell them that Tony's killed the three policemen and Tony attacks him and picks up some weights as he's about to bash Kimble's head in. Carole yells to Tony not to do it, but Tony doesn't hear her. The next thing we hear is a gun shot.
Carole has shot Tony. Tony dies in Carole's arms telling his mother that he's sorry. Kimble makes a quick exit. By this time the back up is arriving. Kimble sees two motorcycle cops arriving and starts to go back in the building, but they call out to him and ask what he's doing. He tells them he heard gunshots and he was going to go investigate. They tell him that they'll investigate it and he should leave. So, Kimble gladly obliges and leaves.
Lt. Green runs in and finds Carole cradling Tony's dead body. He asks what happened. She tells him that he had a lot of anger and he killed those men, but in reality the man he wanted to kill was himself and she had to do it for him.
The episode ends where Green gives Carole a check for a large sum of money as a gift from the men at the precinct to keep the camp going. It's in honor of the Tony they knew and she just tells him that she hopes she can get some volunteers. He asks her if she's heard anything from Kimble and she says, John Evans? Green replies, Richard Kimble. She tells him no and doesn't expect to either.
All in all I thought this was a pretty good episode. The only complaint I really had was that I had to wonder why they felt it was necessary to reveal who the killer was at the end of the first act. That's one thing I've noticed with this show, they like to dispel mystery very quickly. When I saw Tony killing the policeman, and then saw the lock box that Tony had no clue as to where it came from, I was actually wondering if we were going to find out that Tony had an evil twin who was trying to sabotage his life..but when we saw the grass stained pants, I knew that Tony was the killer who was obviously suffering from some kind of split personality.
I think William Shatner was great in this part. He was fabulous at being the surrogate father figure to those boys, being the tough cop, being a loving husband to finally being a person who totally cracked under the stress. I think this was strong script and it kept me on the edge of my seat for most of it. I'm definitely giving this a thumbs up.
I thought William Shatner and David Janssen played off of each other very well.
In another reality, I could have seen these two characters being very good friends.
As for a rating, I'm going to give it a 9. I take the one point off for showing us who the killer was way too soon, and I also found it bizarre that Kimble would just calmly go to bed after he tells a policeman about a possible prowler and not wait to see if the policeman came back to say all was clear.
Kelly
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KEN REVIEWS "STRANGER IN THE MIRROR"
Little depressing for me to have the cops beaten to death.
I agree that the acting of William Shatner is outstanding. He is a lot like Telly Savalas. He can look kind and gentle one moment and evil and sinister the next moment. I like his scenes with Kimble at the ballpark in the opening segment. The story for me got off to a good start but then got weird toward the end. The crime by Tony was revealed way to early. Kimble looked a little goofy to me at times.
I admired Julie Sommars here. She kept my interest throughout the story. Yes I have to ask the question why she did not call the police? Tony was rough and dangerous and out of control.
I feel a six rating only for the acting of Shatner and Sommars here. Ken
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Aug 21, 2016
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"STRANGER IN THE MIRROR"
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"SET FIRE TO A STRAW MAN"
DIRECTOR - Don Medford
WRITTEN BY - Jack Turley
ORIGINAL AIR DATE - November 30, 1965
Kimble reluctantly becomes involved with Stella Savano, the sister of George Savano, who runs the trucking company where Kimble works. Stella is an emotionally disturbed woman with a dangerous obsession with Johnny, the adopted eight-year-old son of Jesse Stangel, Kimble's co-worker. Kimble learns that Stella is actually Johnny's mother, but Stella becomes so delusional that she thinks that Kimble is Johnny's father, and that the three are destined to be together as a family -- a dangerous proposition for Kimble, who has been warned by his boss to stay away from Stella.
Guest Stars: Edward Binns as George Savano,
Joseph Campanella as Jesse Stangel,
Diana Hyland as Stella Savano,
Clint Howard as Johnny Stangel, and
Shelley Morrison as Ginny.
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Narrator: [Opening Narration. Viewers see two assailants beating up Jesse Stransel in an alley] Tracton, New Jersey. A small industrial town where a passerby has summoned the police to a mugging in a dirty alley.
[Viewers see Richard Kimble driving an approaching delivery truck labeled "Savano Auto Parts]
Narrator: But this senseless beating is about to take on a far more significance to a man not even a witness to it, a man named Richard Kimble.
Narrator: [Closing Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble hop aboard a moving train] For each of us there is an occasional moment of fantasy, a search for a straw man of our own. But Richard Kimble can only hope that the memory of a face caught once in the glare of headlights is made of something other than straw.
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"SET FIRE TO A STRAW MAN"
**ANOTHER INTERESTING TITLE ALTHOUGH
THEY SHOULD HAVE CHANGED IT TO
"SET FIRE TO A STRAW SCRIPT"
AND THEN GONE AHEAD AND DONE IT**
BOBBY REVIEWS
"SET FIRE TO A STRAW MAN"
A FUGITIVE FABLE
Once upon a time in Fugitive Land, there was a story titled "Landscape with Running Figures". It was a brilliant tale, wonderfully written and acted, and full of suspenseful moments and rich characterizations.
People across the land extolled its virtues almost without exception. But there also was worry among the populace that the series, still only 2 1/2 years old had reached its peak too early. They wondered if perhaps now there was nowhere to go but down.
But in the euphoria of the Landscape moment, such concerns were quickly cast aside. After all, the series had been in this position before, facing the unenviable task of attempting to maintain a level of quality that even the producers could never have dared to imagine.
Not even an ill advised trip to Alaska on a leaky boat full of cardboard characters, nor even a sojourn to a gambling mecca to meet an out of control child woman badly in need of a spanking, or even an attempted hijacking of the series by a rowdy group of dance crazed teenagers could stop "The Fugitive" from its appointment with destiny and television immortality. Yes, there had been many Detours on a Road Going Nowhere that created a Storm Center of concern, but
there were always better days ahead.
THE SCENE:
THE CORPORATE OFFICES OF QM PRODUCTIONS
Back in the offices of the series producers, the self congratulating continued unabated. As they toasted each other over their brilliance in not only recognizing a classic script, but in fact expanding it from one hour to two hours, the realization that there were still 20 more episodes to go in season three was slow to arrive.
Producer # 1 - "Landscape was brilliant and so were we in recognizing it before it even went before the cameras. People will be talking about it for years. This is sure to win us an Emmy Award. We'll have to pull a truck up to the door to collect them all."
Associate Producer # 2 - "Yes, we have hit a peak. But you know TV. You're only as good as the last thing you did. We still have 20 episodes to go just in season three alone. People are going to expect this kind of quality all the time. I've read next week's script. It's awful, plus it's a virtual retread of a story we did in season two."
Producer # 1 - "So what else is new? We ran out of original ideas more than a year ago. Nobody notices. How many times now has Kimble saved Gerard's backside?
Hell...he's saved his entire family.
Does Gerard have any aunts or uncles?
Are his parents still living? This could go on forever."
Associate Producer # 2 - "I don't know.
This is just too similar...a mentally unbalanced woman..a cute kid..you know the
routine. Plus we're running out of actresses to play dysfunctional women."
Producer # 1 - "Impossible! Isn't Carol Rossen available?"
Associate Producer # 3 - "Hey guys, I've got an idea. Instead of trying to run and hide from the inevitability of repeating plots, why don't we just embrace it?"
Producer # 1 - "What? I thought we were already doing that."
Associate Producer # 3 - "No..No...I mean since it's obvious we've already done this script, let's make it even more obvious by getting the very same actress from the first time to play a different character in basically the same story.
It will prove to people that good stories are always worth telling over and over and over, especially if it gets the writers off the hook."
Producer # 1 - "Brilliant!! Get the writers to start on "Landscape 2, 3 and 4 immediately!"
Producer # 2 - "Plus we can get all kinds of character actors in supporting roles who have been here before. People will be so confused and so busy trying to figure out who's who and from which episode, they'll never notice they're watching a rerun at the end of November."
Producer # 3 - "Well maybe we should have saved Landscape for the end of the season."
Producer # 2 - "Nah..we've never demonstrated that we know how to end a season.
Why start now?"
Producer # 3 - "We're a hit. We may have a long way to go and we're already starting to repeat ourselves. Plus I've been hearing a rumor that ABC is going to require that all of their series go to color next season, and I've got a desk full of film noir scripts that are just begging for a black and white treatment. What do we do now?"
Producer # 1 (laughing while lighting up a cigar) - "Nonsense! I've been hearing that rumor for years. Color TV is just a passing fad. It'll never last."
And so, episode number 71 of The Fugitive, "Set Fire to a Straw Man" was created.
My rating on a scale of 0 to 10
0 - Totally Without Merit
Bobby
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Well, this latest episode called "Set Fire to a Straw Man" could have been more appropriately titled, "Where the Action Isn't Meets When the Bough Unfortunately Breaks". I have criticized this show for rehashing old plot lines when we could have seen some episodes featuring Kimble's brother Ray and his sister Donna, and this episode epitomizes that complaint.
It starts out interestingly enough, we see someone getting savagely beat up. The narrator tells us that a mugging is taking place, but this is no mugging. Nobody tries to steal the man's wallet, he just keeps getting pummeled with the punches until the police are heard in the background. We see a pretty, blonde woman watching and having a delicious smile over the whole thing.
As the police come, the two thugs beating the poor guy up run, one of them gets into the blonde's car and the other sneaks into a truck that Kimble is driving, but he quickly exits and gets into another truck. Kimble, hearing the police decides to make a break for it, gets stopped.
The next thing we see is that Kimble, who currently goes by Chris Benson, is in the boss's office with the victim. The police ask the victim three times if Kimble is the guy who beat him up and he repeatedly tells him no. The policeman tells Kimble to not run away and look guilty the next time the police want to question him.
Jesse, the victim, leaves the room and goes back to work and Savano, the boss, asks Kimble why he wanted to run from the police. Kimble just tells him that he had some trouble with the police out on the west coast and doesn't want anymore contact with them. Savano presses for more details but Kimble just walks away.
Kimble is in the warehouse with Jesse and he tells him he should get his
injuries checked out, but he tells him he'll be fine. He then gets a call from the boss's house telling him that someone is needed to go over and fix the car.
Jesse sends Kimble.
When Kimble gets there, he is greeted by a man who tells him to change the tire and then promptly leave. Kimble proceeds to do that but then the pretty blonde shows up who introduces herself as Stella, the boss's sister. She's immediately enamored with Kimble, unfortunately for him. I'm starting to wonder if Kimble has a sign on his back that says,"Dysfunctional Women of the World Come and Get Me!"
No sooner does this conversation start, then he gets a phone call from the boss telling him to meet him for a drink. Kimble agrees and Savano tells him that Stella gets lonely but she's engaged to be married to a man in the service and they plan to get married when he gets home. So Kimble is to stay away from her. Kimble has no problem with that. In fact, he seemed to me like he could really care less what Stella did.
So, the next day Jesse apologizes to Kimble for what happened at the house, and Kimble tells Jesse what Savano said and Jesse reacts with shock at that revelation, he tells Kimble that if he knows what's good for him he'll stay away from Stella. Kimble has no problem with that and he's definitely got this look on his face that's trying to figure out what the big deal is with this woman.
Jesse invites Kimble to dinner and he meets Jesse's wife and son Johnny. Johnny instantly likes Kimble and tells him about his friend Mr. Straw who gives him candy and toys. He tells Kimble that only that day the straw man gave him a new fire truck. Jesse insists to Kimble that it's just Johnny's imagination. Kimble tells him that he needs to go, and when he gets Kimble's coat, Kimble sees the red fire truck in the closet.
Kimble arrives in a bar thinking that Savano wanted to see him but in actuality, it was Stella who forged the note to Kimble. Kimble wants nothing to do with this woman who appears to be getting crazier and crazier as time goes on. She slithers on Kimble like a snake. Kimble leaves and she follows him and offers him a ride home. However, Stella's babysitter has been spying them the whole time and you just know it's going to get back to the boss.
They get back to his boarding house and she wants him to invite her in. Kimble refuses and tells her it could be dangerous for both of them. She then pulls a gun on him, but soon laughs as it becomes evident that the gun isn't real.
The next day, Jesse shows up at work with Johnny in tow and Johnny takes out the toy gun that Stella had the night before. Kimble tells Jesse that he saw Stella the night before and when Jesse tells him that he shouldn't have done that, Kimble explains that Stella tricked him into meeting her. He tells him that he saw Stella with that gun, and Jesse admits that Stella gave Johnny the gun but he shouldn't worry about it.
Stella has arrived at her brother's office and he confronts her about being with Chris Benson the night before, and he told her that he made it clear to her that she wasn't supposed to come to the warehouse or see the men who worked there.
She begins to leave and she sees Johnny. She asks Johnny if he knows who she is, he tells her that she's a pretty lady. She asks if the pretty lady can have a hug so Johnny gives her one but she doesn't want to let go, and Johnny tells her that he doesn't like her and runs out of the room. Savano yells at Jesse to take the boy out of there, that this isn't a nursery.
We then see Stella waiting for Kimble at his place after work and she tells him that he's just got to help her. He tells her that he'll help her if he can. Shetells him that he's got to help her get her baby back. He tells her that he'll help her but she has to go home and wait for him to call her. She leaves all smiling as she's got more toys for Johnny.
The next day, Johnny runs up the hill and looks for toys from Mr. Straw. He finds several toys and as he's about to grab a toy soldier, his hand gets grabbed by Stella. She tells him to come with her and he does.
Back at the office, Kimble walks into Savano's office and tells him that Stella came by his place last night and she wants him to help her get her baby. He told him that Stella needs help. Savano tells him that Stella is fine and he doesn't need a scandal. He came close to one five years ago. Stella got involved with a man at the warehouse who got her in trouble. He paid the man to go far away and he dealt with Stella's trouble. So now he just needs to get rid of Kimble.
He tells his secretary to call the police at 11:00 AM to tell them that Chris
Benson has stolen some stuff from the warehouse and to look into him further because he suspects that he's got a record. So Kimble leaves and starts packing.
At this point Stella comes over and tells him that it's just wonderful that he's packing because now they can go away with Johnny. Kimble is shocked to hear this. He asks her where Johnny is and she initially tells him he's in the car waiting.
Back at the warehouse Stella's babysitter has once again contacted Savano to tell him that Stella has gone to meet Kimble, so Savano tells his secretary to call the police now on Chris Benson. She reluctantly does.
Savano shows up with a gun and Kimble insists that Stella needs help and tells him that she has Johnny. She finally admits that Johnny is in the play room at home and she starts to lose it. The police arrive and Savano hides Kimble in the closet. He tells the police that he got there and Benson was already gone and he just found his sister in this state. She had a bit of a crush on the guy. She then starts to go for the closet and she screams that she needs to talk to Owen. Savano grabs her and tells the police to help him get his sister to the hospital.
They all leave and Kimble can calmly walk out of the building. In the final
scene we see Savano returning Johnny to Jesse and his wife, and Savano tells him that Stella is in a hospital now and he'd like to get to know Johnny if it's all right with them. Jesse says they can talk about it.
Apparently, Stella had Johnny and Savano for whatever reason arranged for Jesse his wife to adopt him. Why would you have someone that you know in your own town and one of your employees no less adopt your nephew if you're trying to make a problem go away? Why did you tell Stella who adopted him?
Why did the producers cast Diana Hyland in this almost exact same role as she did in "Bough Breaks"? Not only are we lacking an original script here but we are lacking an original actress to play the part. Carol Rossen has been on the show so far in three different episodes but I will give them credit. She wasn't playing the same character in those episodes.
This really did start off for me like "Action". Instead of a spoiled bratty
daughter, you have a spoiled bratty sister who's mentally disturbed, a reality that brother dearest refuses to deal with until it's almost too late just as in "Action". Then we have Diana Hyland going off the deep end, kidnapping a kid and thinking Kimble's the father, was this the same scriptwriter?
About the only redeeming quality I find in this is Clint Howard. He's a cute kid and obviously was at home in front of a camera at that very young age. I'm going to give this episode a big thumbs down for no originality and no original actors to play the parts and a rating of 1.
Kelly
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Ken Reviews Set Fire to a Straw Man
Interesting title for this story. In the new college edition dictionary one of the many definitions of the word straw-"Having little or no value or substance."
Throughout the series we have encountered many stories that are slow, dull, and seem to be out of place. 'Set Fire To a Straw Man' is a perfect example. The producers seem to scratch their heads coming up with ideas and plots for Kimble. They have used kidnapping many times. Kimble gets thrown into jail a couple of times. He saves the life of Gerard, Marie, and Phil Jr. Throw in some lovely women throwing themselves at the feet of Kimble.
If I was on the production staff of this series I may be looking for new fresh scripts also. One suggestion I would make is 'Hey fellas, let's stick with the basic concept of the show. Kimble on the run trying to free his name.'
Maybe the producers of the show did not have a plan on how to develop each season. I think they went show by show and hoped for the best.
Today it is obvious that television has learned how to produce episodes in a consistent order. The show '24' is a good example. All 24 shows are written out before the season starts.
Maybe this could have worked for The Fugitive. Maybe not. But I would have liked to see more development in the life of Richard Kimble. Some flashbacks episodes of Helen and Richard. Some memories of Kimble working as a doctor. Even bring back occasionally a past guest star that Kimble helped. Maybe he runs into Cassie or Davey again.
Well so much for my babbling. Any comments? By the way my rating
for 'Straw' is 0. Ken
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COMING NEXT
SUNDAY AUGUST 21
"SET FIRE TO A STRAW MAN"
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ORIGINAL REVIEWS
"LANDSCAPE WITH RUNNING FIGURES"
PART TWO
ORIGINAL AIR DATE - OCTOBER 23, 1965
DIRECTOR: Walter Grauman
WRITER: Anthony Wilson
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: November 23, 1965
Kimble and Marie Gerard, who is still blind and helpless, arrive in Tilden a town which has been evacuated because of flood warnings. While waiting for help in the abandoned town, Kimble and Marie are menaced by a trio of sadistic teenagers. After the teens leave, Marie finally realizes who Kimble is, after Kimble mentions, in passing, the motto for the local paper in his old hometown. Through a telephone switchboard, she is able to contact her husband and ask for help, but while planning to delay Kimble until he is captured, he eventually manages
to escape once again.
Guest Stars: Herschel Bernardi as Captain Ames and Barbara Rush as Marie Gerard.
• Barry Morse appears in this episode.
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Narrator: [Opening Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble driving a pickup truck, an injured Marie Gerard beside him, as he seeks medical attention for her] A police dragnet, a bus accident, and an ironic Fate have brought together two people on a lonely country road. The woman, blinded in the accident, is unaware that the man beside her is Richard Kimble and neither is aware that the other is fleeing from the obsession of Lt. Philip Gerard, hunter of the man, husband of the woman.
Narrator: [Closing Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble trying to thumb a ride on a U.S. highway] For a brief moment, time also stopped for Richard Kimble and for a while it had been good to stop and look back and find that there was something there. But now it's over. For the Fugitive, time has started again
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PART TWO
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PART TWO
(WITH CLOSED CAPTIONS)
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PART TWO
ACTS I AND II
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ACTS III AND IV
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"LANDSCAPE WITH RUNNING FIGURES"
PART ONE
PLOT:
An exhausted Kimble screws up and signs his real name (rather than his alias) on a time sheet. In response, Lt. Gerard must cut short a vacation with his wife Marie to follow the lead, and Marie becomes fed up enough with her husband's obsession with Kimble, which has hindered their marriage. As Gerard monitors the dragnet from police headquarters, Marie decides to leave her husband, and winds up on the same bus with a demoralized Kimble, due to the fact many buses are not running because so many roads are underwater from a flood. When the bus crashes, Marie suffers from a head injury, resulting in temporary blindness. Kimble and Marie, both traveling under false names, are unaware of each other's true identities, and drive off together, in search of medical help for Marie. To be continued.
Episode Number 69
"Landscape with Running Figures" - Part One
Original Air Date - November 16, 1965
Guest Stars:
Barbara Rush - as Marie Gerard
Herschel Bernardi - as Captain Ames
Barry Morse - as Lieutenant Philip Gerard
Written by Anthony Wilson
Directed by Walter Grauman
OPENING AND CLOSING NARRATION
Narrator: [Opening Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble, small duffel bag in hand, walking in an alley at night in a driving rain and approaching the employee entrance to an all-night diner] There is a point beyond which a man cannot push himself, a final defeat of the spirit that cannot be overcome. If it is to end for the running man, this is the way it is to be. It is 2:00 AM in the city and Richard Kimble, Doctor of Medicine, moves to the start of another working day. For those with no past and little future, the city offers only the most menial of labors, those designed to provide nothing more than day-to-day survival; but to Richard Kimble, kitchen helper in an all night diner, survival, even for a day, has come to be enough.
Narrator: [Closing Narration. Viewers see Lt. Philip Gerard reviewing maps as he tries to determine which route Richard Kimble will take to escape] In the city, the search for Richard Kimble goes on.
[Viewers see Richard Kimble, transporting an injured Marie Gerard in a borrowed pickup truck as he tries to locate medical help]
Narrator: But it is one more grim appointment he will not keep. The relentless steel jaws will close on a empty trap. But for Richard Kimble, the Fates are preparing another appointment at another time, at another place.
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**WE DID TWO PROGRAMS FOR THIS
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AND ONE FOR ACTS III AND IV
UNFORTUNATELY FOR SOME REASON THE
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HERE IS A LINK TO PART ONE
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"RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SEASON"
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"NOBODY LOSES ALL THE TIME"
Loses All the Time"
After Kimble spots Fred Johnson at the scene of a fire, he gives chase, but stops to help a woman, Maggie Tibbett (guest star Barbara Baxley) who has been hit by a vehicle. After Kimble helps her get to a hospital, he discovers that she is Johnson's girlfriend. Meanwhile, Johnson has contacted her and told her to contact the police.
• Barry Morse and Bill Raisch appear in this episode.
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Narrator: [Opening Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble at work as a bartender. Kimble sees a news broadcast on TV about a huge fire at the Harrington Processing Company and, in a background of onlookers, sees Fred Johnson, the one armed man, standing and watching the fire with a woman, Maggie Tibbett, beside him. Kimble immediately leaves the cocktail lounge and heads for the fire] Any public disaster will attract a crowd of spectators - people secretly pleased, perhaps, that they are not touched by the tragedy, that they may walk away from the dying and go on about their lives.
[Richard Kimble arrives at the scene of the fire and immediately starts searching for Fred Johnson]
Narrator: But one man here today cannot remain so uninvolved, no insulated against another's pain. He is bound by an oath taken many years ago - an oath written by a man named Hippocrates. "I will follow that method of treatment which, according to my ability and my judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patient."
[Kimble sees Johnson about a half block away, talking to Maggie. At the same moment, Johnson spots Kimble]
Narrator: [Johnson runs away into the street to escape and Maggie follows him. A truck horn blares and Maggie is struck by the vehicle]
Narrator: "Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick."
[Kimble arrives at Maggie's side and looks up at Johnson several feet away. Johnson sees Kimble and runs off]
Narrator: These words, remembered from better days, return to haunt Richard Kimble
Narrator: [Epilog Closing Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble, having escaped the city, enter a large building with several businesses. He is seeking a job] "I will practice my profession with conscience and dignity; even under threat, I will not use medical knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity. I make these promises solemnly, freely, and upon my honor." And for Richard Kimble, Fugitive, they still apply.
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"NOBODY LOSES ALL THE TIME
Wildly improbable and really preposterous, it nevertheless manages to
create some memorable moments of suspense. Once again, against all the
odds, Kimble and Johnson find themselves not only in the same town but
in the same neighborhood.
If writers continue to depend on this, at some point the one-armed man
just may have to be dropped from a plane right on Kimble's head.
No need to be quite that blatant now however, since the oam is taking
the stupid route by standing on a street corner and allowing himself
to be photographed live on local tv during a major fire. Not to be
outdone, Kimble, who is conveniently working nearby, sees this and
immediately goes over and stands there himself. Wow, you would think
these two guys had nothing to hide.
If the sight of Fred Johnson in an earlier season four fantasy, all
dressed up and with a job, albeit with a major crime organization, was
jolting, this goes one up on that. Now he seems to have a girlfriend!
I kind of assumed that he had given up on
women when his earlier date with Helen Kimble didn't exactly work out.
While there really is no time in this one part story to delve into how
and why these two losers managed to find each other, I still have to
wonder exactly what this woman, though she is not exactly a raving
beauty herself, could possibly find in this ...uh..man...
Is it his look in general? His one arm that keeps him slightly off
kilter? His unkempt appearance and the quality of his nearly four year
old uncleaned clothing? Dining out in dumpsters? Or is it his clipped
and endlessly aggressive way of speaking? Or perhaps it's just his
general demeanor around women, especially when there is a lamp in the
room that he can use to hit them over the head.
The part of Maggie is played well by Barbara Baxley, one of the
premier actresses of her time, although she really should have been
given more to do in this story. The same can be said of Joanna Moore
in a good understated performance. Obviously a woman who knows a good
looking doctor when she sees one and comes right out and tells him so,
it is a real stretch of the imagination that a woman who looks like
this could have any trouble drawing male attention.
But this story is not about love affairs and that is for the good.
Let's get right to the chase and for me, act III is the best part of
the story. A very nicely filmed sequence in those railroad yards does
manage to create a good bit of suspense. There's just something about
watching Kimble dart in out of freight cars, this time with the cops
hot on his heels and taking shots at him, that just gets to me every
time. Really an expansion of the shorter sequence in The 2130, it
never gets old.
Then there are several moments of that
deja vu all over again thing. Something that you've sure you've seen
before..or perhaps something you might see in the future. Kimble
commandeering an ambulance to escape from the hospital comes back
decades later in a similar moment early in The Fugitive movie with
some guy named
And then there is that startling image of
a man climbing a tower of some sort to get away, or as it turns out,
to peruse the railroad yards below him to see what he is facing. Can
that be.......?...nah..oh yes it is..
Richard Kimble! Now why would a person want to climb up something if
he was trying to get away? Hmm..somebody write this down...perhaps we
can ask this later on at the end of the season.
One third of the way into a dreary season, a writer has the collosal
gall to set fire to Kimble's shoes and as it turns out, the old boy
has a little spring in his step left after all. While the story is
full of holes and improbabilities, and I'm not about to give it
the kind of all star rating that Kelly will in her review which
follows this one, it is a
reawakening of sorts, at least for me..
I didn't fall asleep for a change.
My rating on a scale of 0 to 10
7 -- ABOVE AVERAGE
BOBBY
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KELLY REVIEWS
"NOBODY LOSES ALL THE TIME
This latest episode is called Nobody Loses All The Time. I would say
that this is probably the best episode we've seen so far of season
four. I know that some shows like to do special shows for a 100th
episode and this one I think delivers.
We start out seeing Kimble working in a bar and the TV set is on
telling everybody that there is a huge fire in town. Kimble leans in
and turns up the volume so everybody can hear it better and to his
surprise and ours we see the One Armed Man standing there as an
onlooker and he's talking to a woman.
Kimble immediately puts on his coat and he high tails it out of there
to go find him. He gets there in record time and he finds the OAM
talking to the woman around the corner. The OAM sees him, shoves the
woman he's with out of his way and runs. Kimble begins the chase but
so does the woman and she's promptly hit by a truck.
Kimble runs to her aid as he sees Fred Johnson AKA the OAM turn
around, look and run the opposite direction. Kimble tells someone to
call an ambulance. The ambulance arrives and he tells them that she
needs a doctor and that she's critical. They tell him that if he's a
doctor to come along because everybody is tied up with the fire and
the victims there. Kimble jumps in the ambulance and rides to the
hospital.
He's greeted by a nurse, Ruth, played well by Joanna Moore. This is a
much better part for her than when she played the airhead wife of an
inept kidnapper back in season one. She tells him he needs to operate
on this woman because all of the other doctors are busy with the fire
victims. He tells her his name is Robertson but he's not authorized
to practice in that state. She tells him she'll get him
authorization. Kimble begins to do surgery. While the surgery itself
is rather unrealistic. This woman's carotid artery was supposedly
ruptured and yet once again there's no hint of any blood, but I'll
give the show points because Kimble is showing himself to be an actual
doctor.
Today, he really did hold up to his Hippocratic Oath and he helped
someone who got injured, unlike in some other episodes. He tells Ruth
that this woman also broke her ankle and so she should be taken down
for an x-ray....
Kimble looks in her purse and sees that her name is Maggie Tibbett and
he sees a hotel room key. He promptly goes to that hotel room and
begins to search it. He sees a stuffed bear on the bed and then he
sees a picture on the dressing table of Maggie holding the bear with
Fred Johnson with his arm around her. He takes the picture.
There's a knock at the door and he answers it. It's the landlady
telling Kimble that Maggie owes her money. Kimble explains that
Maggie was in an accident and he was trying to find out if she had any
friends or relatives that he could call. She tells him that she's
never noticed anyone coming to visit her. Kimble asks her if she's
ever noticed a one armed man visiting and she tells him everybody
looks the same to her.
Kimble leaves dejected but goes back to the hospital. He finds Ruth
tending to Maggie in the hallway. He asks why she's in the hallway
instead of a room. She tells him that this was all that was
available, the fire victims got priority on the rooms and there isn't
any room at the other hospital in town either. She tells Kimble that
there's a private room but it's expensive. Kimble tells her to put
Maggie in the room and he'll take care of the bill.
The next day, Kimble visits Maggie and wants to know about her friend
Fred Johnson as she's very upset that he hasn't called her or come to
see her. He tells her to call him, she tells him that she won't call
him because that's the losers way out. She then explains that she and
Fred had an argument and she was trying to make up with him and then
for no reason he just shoved her out of the way and ran away from her.
Kimble explains that he wasn't running from her, but that he was
running from him. He tells her that he's got to find him. There's
trouble that only he can clear up. Maggie won't do it. She tells him
that Fred is good to her and takes her places and listens to her. She
doesn't want to lose that. Kimble leaves.
As Kimble walks out, the hospital administrator comes up to him and
would like him to join the staff. Kimble tells him he has a practice
back east and was just there on vacation. He still tells Kimble to
consider it even temporarily. Ruth tells Kimble as she's having
coffee with him that she senses he's in some kind of trouble although
he's young and single and she knows plenty of nurses who'd be
delighted to have him on staff, herself included but if he needs a
friend she's there for him.
Maggie then calls Fred and he tells her to call the cops on Kimble for
killing his wife. She tells him she can't do that because he saved
her life. Fred gives her an ultimatum saying that if she doesn't do
it, she won't see him ever again.
We then see Maggie talking to the police and she identifies Kimble.
She's quite shocked that he really is wanted for murder and Ruth who's
there in the room says she refuses to believe that he could actually
do something like that.
The police call Lt. Gerard and tell him to come. We then see Kimble
coming in to the hospital and we get a pretty good chase scene here of
cat and mouse. Kimble gets on the elevator to see Maggie and then
sees the police. He shoves an orderly in to the police and shuts the
elevator door. He goes to the very top floor gets rid of his jacket
and dons a white coat. He then gets in the emergency elevator that's
run on a different power line.
All of the other elevators and exits are being covered. There is a
policeman at the ER entrance but the man at the entrance gets a phone
call asking for an ambulance. This distracts both he and the
policeman and Kimble walks calmly out the door and into an ambulance
and drives away. The officer in charge, McCaffrey immediately puts
out an APB on the ambulance.
Kimble drives it to a railroad yard and he ditches the car as the
police are separated from him by a moving train. Kimble then jumps in
to a train as the police are chasing him and shooting at him.
Gerard has arrived at the hospital by this time and is promptly told
that they lost Kimble. He looks dejected suffice to say. They do
find Kimble's jacket and Gerard sees the picture of Maggie and the
OAM. He questions Maggie about it but Maggie won't tell him
anything. She appears to be feeling very guilty over what she's done.
Gerard goes outside the room with McCaffrey and tells him that Kimble
will be back. McCaffrey doesn't buy it. He tells him that Kimble
wants them to believe that he's left but he'll be back as long as
Maggie is in the hospital because she's her link to the OAM who Kimble
believes killed his wife. McCaffrey asks him if he believes that.
Gerard says that it doesn't matter what he believes, it's his job to
bring him in.
Gerard then demands that McCaffrey leave him some plainclothes
policeman so he can catch Kimble when he comes back. McCaffrey
begrudgingly tells him he'll leave him five men and Gerard demands
twenty five as he's already got fifteen men here McCaffrey doesn't
want to do it as they don't have the money for that and Gerard reminds
him that he's the one who lost Kimble. Hey Gerard! How many times
have you lost Kimble?
I will still never understand how Gerard can walk in to another
jurisdiction and make demands like he does and the police officers
there just play dead for him. He has no authority, he can't fire
anyone there why doesn't someone for once just tell him to go to
hell? After all, he was called as a courtesy nothing more.
However, Gerard gets what he wants and Kimble who jumped off the train
and hitchiked back to town, shows up at Ruth's door step. He tells
her he needs to get in to the hospital. Ruth tells him a good friend
would help him get out not get in. He tells her he's got to try and
talk to Maggie again. Ruth agrees to take him there.
We see plainclothes police all over the hospital as Ruth drives up
with Kimble hiding in the backseat. Gerard tells Maggie that an
undercover cop dressed as an orderly will be staying with her. Maggie
doesn't like any of them and wants them all to just leave her alone.
Ruth walks in to Maggie's room with a wheelchair and tells her that
she needs to take her to treatment room 103 for therapy. The cop
follows and tells them that they're going to treatment room 103. The
arrive in the room and Ruth tells the man that Maggie needs to
undress, is he going to watch? He says he'll wait outside. Maggie
asks Ruth what this is all about and Ruth shoves a curtain to the side
where there is a door and Kimble comes through it.
Maggie is shocked to see him and tells him that the police are there
and he's got to leave. We then see the door slightly open and Ruth
walks up to the man and asks him if he's a dirty old man. He thought
he should hear what's happening. Ruth walks out and tells him that
she'll get him some coffee as there's nothing going on in there other
than that Maggie is getting a heat lamp treatment.
Kimble tells Maggie that Fred killed his wife, Maggie doesn't believe
it. She tells him she knows he loses his temper but she just can't
believe that Fred would do something like that. She then tells Kimble
that if she tells him she loses either way.
Meanwhile Gerard is swarming the place as he's learned there are
treatment rooms on every floor but not necessarily a treatment room
103.
Maggie still won't tell Kimble where he can find the OAM and they hear
the police outside. Kimble darts out the door and Gerard comes in and
asks where Kimble is, Maggie says she doesn't know what he's talking
about. Ruth says that Maggie was getting a heat treatment and Gerard
feels the lamp and says it's cold. Maggie blocks him in her
wheelchair from getting out but he does get past her.
They run out and they see a stiff has just been put in a hearse.
Gerard concludes that Kimble is driving the hearse and demands that
they chase after the car. They all leave and Kimble comes out from
underneath a gurney and just calmly walks away.
The last thing we see is Maggie getting out of the hospital and she
gives Ruth a gift for being so nice to her. She asks him if she liked
Kimble and she said yes, she did but that's the way it goes
sometimes. She then says, nobody loses all of the time. She asks
Maggie if she needs a ride anywhere and Maggie says no...and once
again Kimble is walking on the lonely road.
I did enjoy this episode despite a couple of shortcomings. As I said
earlier and many times for that matter. Gerard has turned in to a
boring robot who's only line is it's his job. Well, isn't it his job
to investigate if something doesn't seem quite as it should be? I
actually would have preferred Gerard to not be in this episode. He
really didn't enhance anything. McCaffrey could have been the the one
to draw the conclusion that Kimble wants to come back and it would
have made a little more sense.
The chase scenes I think were well done. I thought we were left
hanging a little too much though. Was Fred Johnson waiting for Maggie
downstairs or did he leave her? We don't know, it would have been
nice to know, it would have been nice for Maggie to see Fred for what
he was and she's certainly a character that could have come back later
say to help turn in Fred Johnson at the end of the series as payback
to him for leaving her.
I enjoyed the character of Ruth as well. I could even see how Kimble
could have been drawn to her. After all, it was established that
Helen was a nurse and Ruth is a nurse and I suspect that they would
have a lot in common. Although I'm glad that they never shared a
kiss. It was nice to just see her helping him out as a friend.
I give this one a thumbs up and I'll give it a rating of nine. It's
the best we've seen so far in a season of mostly below average shows.
KELLY
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"NOBODY LOSES ALL THE TIME
Again I question the placement of episodes in this series. I think
this story should have been used to start season four. This way the
audience get's an update on what is happening with the series three
main characters-Kimble,Gerard, and Johnson.
Many members on this board feel that the occasional use of Johnson
added more suspense. I agree.
In season one we saw Johnson run from Kimble's house in the flashback
scene in '
In season two we saw him in 'Escape.'
In season three we saw him in 'Wife Killer.'
Up to this point he is a mysterious figure that we know little about.
Who is he? What happened that night in
from Kimble? Too many questions left unanswered.
Delete 'A Clean and Quiet Town.' Complete nonsense. Kimble and
Johnson running around in circles. Delete 'Second Sight'. Kimble
stumbling through garbage cans a waste of time.
Use 'Nobody loses all the Time' to begin season four. Johnson and
Kimble are in the same town. Kimble spots not only him but meets
someone else who knows Johnson. Maybe some questions can be answered.
Still the episode fell short. Why not develop a story line explaining
who Johnson is? Does he have a past? He has a girlfriend? Who is she?
I liked the part played by Barbara Baxley. She was not over the top.
But why is she attracted to Johnson? Hey, Kimble saved your life.
Help him out a little. Why betray him?
Good acting performance by Joanna Moore. Here is another love
interest. Not a bad match for Kimble. I could see Kimble and Ruth
working together in a hosptial.
Chase scenes played out well. Kimble is getting smarter at escaping
Gerard.
At the end I was left hanging for the tenth time. What is next for
Kimble? He seems to be getting close to some answers but still no
cigar.
Story kept me guessing. I will go with a 6 rating. Ken
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ORIGINAL REVIEWS
"APPROACH WITH CARE"
Approach with Care" William Hale Lee Loeb November 15, 1966 (1966-11-15)
Kimble meets Willie Turner, a mentally retarded young man who is accused of hurting a child. Kimble reluctantly hides Willie at a carnival where Kimble currently works. Kimble tries to persuade Willie to return to the hospital where his sister had him committed, but when the police discover Kimble, he is forced to run and Willie decides to tag along with him.
Guest Stars: Dabney Coleman as Edwards, Michael Conrad as Hogan, Collin Wilcox as Mary, Denny Miller as Willie.
*** SPECIAL NOTE ***
The day after this episode aired, Dr. Sam Sheppard was finally acquitted of murdering his wife, twelve years after he had been originally convicted. Sheppard's case was the one that may have partly inspired this series.
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Narrator: [Opening Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble working as a roustabout at a traveling carnival] A traveling carny, here one day, there the next. A place for a man on the run, like a Fugitive. A place for Richard Kimble.
Narrator: [Epilog Closing Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble at night, walking down a back road] For some men, the world has provided little room, no place for them to live as other men. But for Richard Kimble, there is such a place and to find it he must now continue his lonely search.
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BOBBY REVIEWS "APPROACH WITH CARE"
Another stop on an increasingly tedious road as The Fugitive heads for
100 episodes, a number that, based on current performance, probably
should never have gone that high.
As this agony goes on, it becomes increasingly apparent that the
series has gone way off track, almost worse than the train crash that
began it. Whenever it drifts away from the story of Richard Kimble, it
simply becomes leaden and is almost impossible to watch.
At this point, with the writers bereft of any original ideas, they are
just throwing unusual, quirky, dysfunctional characters in Kimble's
path and waiting for some other character to recognize him and then
providing a way for him to escape.
This episode is a good example of that. Kimble has no reason to be
involved in this.
The story has about as much to do with him as it does with me. He just
happens to be there. It does not advance his cause or add or detract
anything from his plight.
This valuable time would have been much better spent on starting a
thread that would have run the last 20 episodes of the series,
culminating in a thrilling ending that pulled all the pieces together.
Unfortunately the pieces are by this time too scattered to find all of
them and the
series just creaks along.
It's just filler, and not very good filler at that.
My rating on a scale of 0 to 10
ZERO
bobby
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KELLY REVIEWS "APPROACH WITH CARE"
This latest episode is called Approach with Care. I have to say up
front that I think that's an understatement. We have Kimble once
again interacting with an adult who has the mentality of about a six
year old if that.. Of all of the episodes we have seen with this type
of scenario I think I liked this one the least of all.
To a certain degree this story reminded me a little of a classic book
by John Steinbeck called "Of Mice and Men" that I had to read for an
English class in high school. It's a terribly depressing book and I
have never made any attempt to see either film version of it or see it
as a play.
This story starts out innocently enough. We see a good looking blond
man in his twenties walking along and he sees some kids playing
football. He decides that he wants to join in the playing. He app
roaches the boys, catches the football and begins to run with it. The
boys are not happy about this. They chase him and in the process he
accidentally knocks one boy down.
The mother comes out just as a police car is going by and the kids
tell her that the man hit her kid. The man takes off running. The
mother tells the policeman and he tells her that it looked like Willie
Turner. His family tried to have him committed but he ran away from
the hospital two months ago but, his file said he was harmless. The
mother assures him that he's not harmless.
Willie then approaches a carnival and finds Kimble setting up for it.
He's got a sledgehammer and he's pounding stakes in the ground.
Willie walks up to Kimble and introduces himself to him and Kimble
realizes very quickly that Willie has some kind of mental handicap.
Willie sees the ferris wheel and decides he wants to ride it so he
pulls the lever and gets on and takes a ride. The carny sees him and
stops the ride and tells him get out of there. Willie runs away and
begins to start playing with everything he can find except nobody is
ready for anyone to play any of the games. Willie doesn't care. He
just loves carnivals as he told Kimble and his sister Mary used to
take him to carnivals all the time.
By now, Willie has everybody chasing him and when they catch him over
by Kimble, he yells at everybody to leave him alone and that he didn't
know any better. Kimble who's calling himself Pete, tells Willie to
run along home. Willie is convinced that Pete is his new found
friend. Willie wants to help Kimble out. He takes the sledgehammer
and demonstrates to Kimble that he can pound stakes in. The man in
charge of the carnival sees that and he offers Willie a job at five
dollars a day and he can room with Pete.
Willie is thrilled to hear this and accepts. Kimble tells the boss
that Willie has the mind of a child and this isn't a good idea. He
tells Kimble that Willie has brawn and he doesn't need brains for this
job.
Later, after the carnival has opened, Kimble and Willie are in charge
of a lemonade stand. Willie sees the police approaching and ducks
out. The police approach Kimble and want to know where Willie is.
Kimble asks why. They tell him that his family had him committed two
months ago but he ran away from the institution. Kimble takes them to
the various places that he could be but they don't find him. They
tell Kimble to let them know when Willie comes back.
Willie then comes back in to the trailer and Kimble asks him why he
ran away. Willie explains that his father wanted to put him away but
his sister didn't. Now, I did have a question here. If Willie has
been living on the streets for two months, how come he looked so well
groomed and clean cut?
Moving along, Kimble drives Willie back home and his sister Mary
answers the door. Willie comes in and wants to know where their dad
is. She tells him he's not home right now. Willie then wants to play
with Tiger the dog. Mary tells him that Tiger is in the back yard.
After Willie exits to pet his dog, Mary explains that their father
died. Her father didn't want to put Willie in the hospital but he was
dying and he saw no other way for Willie. She thought it was awful
initially too but then when Willie vanished, she started to have a
life and she's now going to get married. She tells Kimble that every
cent she and her father had went in to getting Willie the best of care
but he never seemed to get better. She had to read to him every night
children's books and she just couldn't take it anymore.
Mary's fiance Steve shows up and wants to know who Kimble is and
Kimble tells him he's a friend who's leaving. Willie then comes in
and wants Kimble to meet Tiger and Kimble tells him he has to go.
Willie wants to know who the other man is in the house and she tells
him that he's her fiance. Her fiance Steve wants to know who this
over sized child is and she tells him that he's her brother...it's a
nice little detail that she left out when she was telling him about
her family.
Willie comes out while Mary and Steve are talking and he wants Mary to
read him a comic book and she tells him later because she's talking to
Steve. Willie isn't happy about this. Steve decides to go and they
share a kiss goodnight. Willie gets very upset and rips his comic
book up.
Mary comes over and tells him he's made a mess and that they need to
clean it up. Willie asks why she kissed him and she tells him because
she wants to marry him but she assures him that she'll still be his
sister even though she's married. Willie isn't convinced.
The next day he returns to the carnival and wants to travel with the
carnival and with Kimble. Kimble tells him that won't work. Willie
still refuses to understand.
Mary arrives with the police and Steve and a man named Hogan from the
hospital. Mary goes in to see Kimble and Willie alone and she assures
him that she'll visit him at the hospital and then after awhile, he
can come and visit her and Steve after they're married.
Willie finally agrees to go. Kimble walks out with the boss and he
passes Hogan on the way who looks at Kimble funny but keeps on
walking. He approaches Willie and tells him that he hears he likes to
play football and Willie says he does and Hogan tells him that they
need someone who can play football at the hospital, so it seems that
all is going to go well and then Hogan remembers who Kimble is.
Willie demands to know what Hogan remembers about his friend Pete. He
tells him that his name is actually Richard Kimble and he killed his
wife.
Willie calls him a liar and he won't let him go spreading lies about
Pete to the police. He throws Hogan to the ground and starts to hit
him. Mary and Steve pull him off. Willie runs out and jumps in the
pickup truck with Kimble and he tells him that the police want him
because Hogan lied and said that Pete killed someone. Kimble puts the
pickup in gear and high tails it out of there.
Road blocks are set up and Kimble pulls over and turns around but the
police see them do it and they begin to chase after him. Kimble pulls
in to a wrecking yard and the man there offers him fifty dollars for
the truck.. Kimble agrees and tells Willie they can hide there until
dark.
Back at the carnival, the boss is told who Pete is and he can't
believe he let him work with a sledgehammer. The deputies chasing
Kimble arrive and tell the sheriff that they lost him, but they'll go
back and scout out the area where they lost him at. Mary asks if
Hogan will be all right and she's told probably but Willie hit him
pretty hard.
Later that night, Kimble calls Mary and tells her to come and pick up
Willie at the wrecking yard and to come alone for Willie's sake. He
also tells her to not worry about Willie or her getting killed. If he
was the murderer that they say he is, he would have killed Willie a
long time ago.
Mary comes to the wrecking yard and the police who are staking out the
area see her drive up. She goes in and Willie doesn't want to go with
her. Kimble tells him that he's got to go with Mary. The police
arrive and tell Kimble that they've got the place surrounded and to
come out. Willie immediately thinks that Mary called the police and
she swears that she didn't.
They then say that they're coming in after him. Willie says he's
going out and Kimble tries to stop him but gets thrown across the room
and is knocked out. Willie runs out to meet the cops with their guns
drawn and begins to throw tools at them and when he hits one of them,
the deputy's gun goes off and the bullet hits Willie.
Mary runs to cradle him in her arms and the sheriff asks him where
Pete, his friend is and Willie tells him that he's not his friend
anymore. He left awhile ago and left him alone so he's not his friend
anymore.
Kimble has come to in the next room and sees that Willie's been shot
and sees a window and climbs out. The deputy goes in and sees nothing.
Willie dies in Mary's arms. The sheriff asks Mary if Kimble was there
and she asks what if he was. The sheriff tells her that if he's still
in the area they could find him because he's a dangerous criminal and
she says, like Willie was dangerous? The sheriff starts to walk away
and Mary says that Kimble called her from out of town and told her
where she could find Willie. He left him here quite awhile ago.
And once again Kimble is walking the lonely road.
Of all of the episodes I've seen this is probably the most depressing
one yet. Who did Kimble help? Nobody. Poor Willie ends up getting
killed. One can not help but think that if they had put him in some
kind of hospital years ago even as an outpatient he might not have
been so out of control as he turned out to be.
Denny Miller did a good job playing this mentally handicapped man but
I'm afraid I'm going to have to give this a zero rating.
I didn't enjoy any of it. It was painful to see this poor
misunderstood kid who obviously has been needing help for a long time
but had an over protective father who just couldn't get him the right
help that he needed. It was apparent that the sister coddled this
kid. Did it never occur to her to say no, when he asked her to read
him a story? Good grief even normal kids get told no on occasion.
Sorry but I just couldn't find anything to like well enough to give it
a rating and as I said, it reminded me of the book "Of Mice and Men"
and that gets about as depressing as you can get.
KELLY
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KEN REVIEWS "APPROACH WITH CARE"
I am looking for new stories at this point. Why are the writers
having a hard time in season four? Another mental retarded
dysfunctional young person story line? I count three others we have
seen. Ep.13-Terror at Highpoint. Ep.52-Moonchild. Ep.95-Ten Thousand
Pieces of Silver.
I will give credit for Denny Miller playing his part well. But I
agree with Kitty. Too depressing and sad to watch. Collin Wilcox
looked like the same character she played in Ep.73- Good Guys and Bad
Guys.
Not much to get comment about in this story. My rating-0 Ken
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"WINE IS A TRAITOR"
Wine Is a Traitor" Gerd Oswald Howard Dimsdale November 1, 1966 (1966-11-01) 4760
Carl Crandall is the wealthy and spoiled son of
Guest Stars: Roy Thinnes as Carl, James Gregory as Pete, Pilar Seurat as Elena
OPENING AND CLOSING NARRATION
Narrator: [Opening Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble riding in a car after thumbing a ride] For a Fugitive, the offer of help - some simple, decent act of kindness - must be rejected. There are no relationships of any duration for him. Life consists of fleeting contacts.
Narrator: [Epilog Closing Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble riding in a pickup truck out of town] A hunted man can clutch at a single straw, that one day the hunters will lay down their guns. But for Richard Kimble, that day has not yet come.
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*** Back when we did original reviews of
this episode, a group member went on the
board and asked why there was no review
from a Mr. Bobbynear. Having suffered through it again
today, I can only say that nothing has changed.
I still have nothing to offer.
I've run out of insults.
MEMO TO WRTERS:
When you come up with something that has
anything even remotely to do with the
flight and plight of Richard Kimble..
CALL ME
In the meantime I'll let Ken's review speak
for me.
One demand I do have is that a story have
something to do with The Fugitive and this
one doesn't meet it.
Whatever series this script was destined for..
well look for a review there.
bobby
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KELLY REVIEWS
"WINE IS A TRAITOR"
This latest episode is called Wine Is A Traitor and I have to admit
compared to what we've seen recently I think this was a fairly good
episode.
Kimble starts out walking along a road and he flags down a car with
two Mexican workers in it and asks them if he can get a lift. They
stop and he gets in the back seat of the car. The passenger is very
friendly and tells Kimble there is currently no work in town as the
driver Felipe convinced everybody last night to go on strike. Felipe
tells Kimble that his passenger was against it but he tells him that
he'll see the difference that going on strike makes. They work in a
vineyard chopping grapes for the owner Pete Crandall.
All of a sudden out of nowhere, Felipe the driver gets shot and Kimble
gets grazed in the arm. Both Kimble and the passenger get out of the
car and they run in o pposite directions. Kimble is running through
the vineyard with a bloodied arm. He gets stopped by a police
officer. He's taken in and a doctor is stitching him up. Initially
the sheriff considers him a suspect but then they find the gun and the
shells where Kimble tells them and he's back to being a victim. They
say that it looks like the shooter was a man by the name of Morales as
it was his gun they found.
Kimble at this point wants to leave town and tells the sheriff he
wants to go to
is
heading to
just show up at 8:00 and tell him the sheriff sent him.
Kimble walks out and heads to the local hotel/restaurant and a Mexican
woman named Elena who is working there as a waitress is looking at him
with disdain. She tells him she needs to speak with him. She takes
him to her room and asks him why he's telling lies that her father
killed Felipe. He tells her that he didn't tell them anything. She
wants to know how much the Crandalls are paying him and he tells her
he doesn't know the Crandalls or Morales. She tells him she hopes
he's getting a lot of money for covering for them. She walks out and
he sees a picture of the passenger in the car on her table and he
realizes that the passenger is Morales who they are looking for.
Kimble goes back to the police station to tell them that Morales was
in the car with him but when he gets there, he sees Carl Crandall the
owner's son sitting there and Kimble recognizes the red shirt that
Carl was wearing and realizes he's looking at the killer. Kimble
makes a hasty exit but not before Carl gets his name.
Back at the office, Pete is furious that Felipe was killed. He gets a
call telling him that a man named
Carl sticks to it that Morales did it and Pete finds it hard to
believe that Morales would do that. Carl tells him to look at it as a
blessing in disguise. Without Felipe to lead them, there'll be no
strike.
They could not have afforded a strike. Pete yells at Carl that there
would not have been a strike as he was going to talk to Felipe. He's
been running the winery for thirty years and while he's done maybe a
few questionable things he's never resorted to murder. Carl asks his
dad when he'll get more responsibility running the winery and Pete
tells him when he's ready to take it on and so far he hasn't
demonstrated that he's ready.
Carl walks out and Pete tells his two hired guns to keep an eye on
Carl..
In the hotel, Kimble is composing a letter and walks up to the front
desk and asks for a stamp. The man at the front desk, played by Dabbs
Greer, tells him that they don't have stamps but meters so Kimble
begrudgingly gives him the letter to stamp. The man sees that it's
for the district attorney. Kimble asks where the closest mail box is
and he tells him down the street.
Kimble walks out and the man calls Carl's goons. The next thing we
see is Kimble approaching a mailbox and he's attacked and the letter
is taken away from him. Kimble decides it's time to get out of town
and he goes to the pharmacy and the pharmacist tells him the trip is
off.
We then see the two goons confronting Carl and Carl just says it's a
lie. The man says he'd like to believe it's not true but he knows
Carl too well. He's not going to tell Pete though because all of this
just might kill Pete.
Kimble goes back to the hotel and is told there is no bus station in
town and there is no rental car to be had to drive to the next town
and it's too far to walk. He's offered a room but he declines and
just asks for his suitcase. Kimble walks out of the hotel and someone
tries to run him down but misses. Carl is really upset to hear this.
He
orders everybody to find
Kimble shows up in Elena's room. When Elena comes back she
immediately orders Kimble out but Kimble tells her that he knows her
father didn't kill Felipe. He explains that he didn't know who
Morales was until he saw the picture. He tells her Morales was in the
car with him so he didn't kill Felipe. He tells her that Carl did it
but he can't get out of town to tell anyone. She tells him that if he
can get to the tent city of the workers they might be able to help him.
She opens the door and sees a man with a gun outside and tells him
that it appears he's stuck being there for the night though. The next
morning, one of Carl's goons looks through a truck sitting outside of
Elena's window. Once he's checked it out, Kimble jumps in and the
truck takes off.
He goes to the tent city and the police are swarming the place hoping
to find Morales and getting no help from anyone. Kimble goes to one
man's tent and is told he can't help him because he's scared of the
Crandalls. He goes to another man's trailer and he's told pretty much
the same thing. Kimble opens the door and he's promptly knocked out
with a gun.
When he comes to, he's looking at Morales. He explains to Morales
that he knows he didn't kill Felipe and that it was Carl Crandall.
Morales tells him that they'll help him escape through town. We then
see all of the workers in the back of a truck and when they are
stopped, the police and the goons are there, but the workers promptly
start to pile out of the truck getting in every body's way and Kimble
is able to escape in to the winery.
The police start to follow him in but the goons stop them and tell
them that it's not Morales, it's just a guy who's in a hurry to talk
to Pete Crandall. Kimble gets involved in a tour of the winery and
then breaks off from them in the barrel room. He attempt to get
through the exit but Carl and the goons come in looking for him. One
guy stands by the entrance.
In the meantime, Morales goes to see Elena and tells her he needs to
hide until
from her. She starts to give him money but the police show up and
take Morales off in cuffs.
Kimble is still stuck in the barrel room at the winery. After the
tour leaves, Carl and the two goons are now looking for Kimble. He
tries to make a break for the door and promptly has a gun on him.
Carl then proceeds to take him out but then Pete shows up and Kimble
tells him that he's
Morales because Morales was in the car with him.
Carl denies everything and asks his father if he's going to believe a
drifter who he doesn't even know. Pete tells him that he's right he
doesn't know Taylor but he knows Carl and this doesn't sound out of
the realm of possibilities. He asks the two goons if Carl is telling
the truth and they both look at each other and one tells Carl that
it's over. Carl tells Pete that it was an accident that he was just
trying to scare Felipe. Pete tells Carl that they need to go see the
sheriff.
Kimble makes a break for it and Carl chases him and starts to shoot at
him. Pete tells the two goons that Carl is his problem to take care
of. Pete calls out to Carl and he ignores him, he just keeps chasing
Kimble and as Carl is taking aim to kill Kimble, Pete takes aim and
kills Carl.
One of his goons tells him that it's OK, it was an accident. Pete
says, Yes, an accident just like it was an accident when Carl killed
Felipe. He walks away a broken man.
We then see Kimble walking along the road and a truck stops and Elena
and Morales get out of the car to offer him a ride with the other
workers as a way of saying thank you for helping to clear his name.
Overall, I liked this episode. I thought it had pretty good drama and
suspense. The one scene I didn't like was seeing Kimble stonewalled
for getting out of town, it just seemed a little too cliche. Perhaps
it's because I wasn't used to seeing the actor Dabbs Greer who's been
on the show before playing such a smarmy person.
I thought Roy Thinnes made a good bad guy and I enjoyed the
performance of James Gregory as well as Pete Crandall. I thought he
did a good job playing a father who was bit tormented in knowing that
his son was not exactly a boy scout but seemed lost on how to deal
with it. I would have preferred to not see Carl die at the end. That
seemed too easy of an out for him. I would have liked to have seen
Carl get some real consequences for what he did and realizing that his
father's money couldn't buy his way out, so if I had my druthers I'd
have had Carl only wounded at the end.
I was a little bit surprised that we didn't know what became of Pete.
Was Pete going to have to spend any time in prison or at the very
least do community service or did they basically say it was
justifiable homicide because he did it to save someone else. I think
the writer copped out a little bit there. My other scenario would
have been Pete committing suicide because as I watched Pete walk out
and the camera panned back to Kimble I half expected to hear another
gun shot and that would have been Pete doing himself in, but we just
don't know because nothing is said about it in the epilogue.
For me that was where the story really fell short but otherwise I
don't have that much to complain about, yes, we saw a similar scenario
in Man on a String where the character of Lucy was accused of murder
when she didn't do it but I found this episode to be a little more
interesting.
I'll rate this one a six and I'll give it a thumb up. It kept my
interest and I found myself caring for Morales and his daughter
Elena. I will also give them points for not automatically making
Elena a love interest for Kimble as well. In the end she just wanted
to help him so he could help her father.
KELLY
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KEN REVIEWS
"WINE IS A TRAITOR"
I
first saw this episode in 1993 on the A&E channel. Since
Thinnes was the guest star all I kept thinking about was the show
that he starred in 'The Invaders.' I remember watching that show in 1968. Whenever an invader was exposed he vaporized in thin air. It was cool to watch the alien burn up in a moment.
That series ran out of gas quickly. Only so many stories could be
written.
I now see what problems 'The Fugitive' series has at this point.
Writers are running out of ideas.
Kimble hitches a ride. He is in the wrong spot again. A shooting
occurs and Kimble flees. The police find him. Kimble is a suspect.
Bad guys are looking to take Kimble out. Girl wants to help. Dull
ending and Kimble escapes.
I don't see how this story adds to the series concept. Writers are
stretching on this one.
A suggestion. Why not take the series in a new direction. Add a new character who has clues about Helen's murder. He is a detective trying to locate Kimble. Develop three or four story lines.
My rating for 'Wine is a Traitor'-1 Ken
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ORIGINAL REVIEWS
"SECOND SIGHT"
"Second Sight" Robert Douglas Daniel B. Ullman October 25, 1966 4752
Now employed by a film supply store as a photo developer, Kimble spots Fred Johnson, the one-armed man, in a photo. After tracking down Howie Keever, a freelance photographer who took the picture, Kimble learns that Johnson works at a nearby chemical warehouse. Kimble goes there and surprises Johnson. During a scuffle, Johnson accidentally ignites some chemicals, creating an explosion which leaves him badly injured and Kimble blinded by the flash. Johnson manages to escape and once again reports Kimble to the police. Kimble must find a way back to Howie's apartment for safety, but Howie and his uncle learn about the $10,000 reward on Kimble and call the police.
Guest Stars: Tim Considine as Howie, Ned Glass as Albert, Ted Knight as Dr. Rains.
• Bill Raisch appears in this episode.
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OPENING AND CLOSING NARRATION
Narrator: [Opening Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble working in the darkroom of the Apex Photo Supply Store] For a Fugitive to survive, he must rely entirely upon his senses. Richard Kimble has survived because his senses have become exceptional. The world is his jungle and the tiger he stalks is a man with one arm.
[Viewers see Richard Kimble discover a picture of the one armed man in the background in a photo he has just developed]
Narrator: From Kimble's years in this jungle, he has learned to miss nothing and to react quickly, as one must in a jungle.
Narrator: [Epilog Closing Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble boarding a passenger bus as he leaves town] And so Richard Kimble, Fugitive, is back in the jungle again, where, as always, he must be the prey of others until the day once more he can become the hunter.
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BOBBY REVIEWS "SECOND SIGHT"
Perhaps the most amazing thing about this story is its inability to
create any suspense at all, given that all the components are there.
Kimble is in dreadful jeopardy again like he was in Escape Into Black.
Once again losing one of the senses so vital to his survival that it
seems virtually impossible to continue. The one-armed man is there too
as he continues to be far too often in season four.
The early scene where Kimble is attempting to trap Johnson and ends up
getting injured himself is especially disappointing.
The non-Fugitive like music in the background keeps building and
building but there is nothing happening on screen to justify it.
Everything that comes after this is just a rehash of Escape Into Black
where it was done far better.
Kimble running into virtually every trashcan in town is laughable.
It's almost as if we are blind and need to hear the constant
clattering of metal hitting the ground in order to understand what is
happening.
And then there is Gerard who is nowhere to be found at a time when he
is most needed. In this case I almost have to agree.
After more than three years of bumbling and stumbling and making
stupid decisions it would have been too much for us to watch him fail
to catch a blind man.
Even cartoon characters have to maintain some credibility.
Most shocking of all: this episode was written by Dan Ullman who
created "Wife Killer" and "The 2130". Proving one lesson to even the
most talented of writers. If you're going to steal from yourself and
others, at least make sure you take the best, not the worst.
All in all, another insipid season four episode with
yet another idiotic escape by Kimble.
Honestly, how do these actors even
keep a straight face at this point?
My rating on a scale of 0 to 10
1 -- WELL BELOW AVERAGE
BOBBY
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KELLY REVIEWS 'SECOND SIGHT'
This next installment is called Second Sight. It has been deemed by
some as the worst episode in the series which I think is a little
harsh. Compared to the last episode this one was tolerable, but only
to a point. I think the best parts of the episode happened in the
first act and then it was a slow downhill from there.
This episode started out well enough. We see Kimble working in a
photo developing place and to his surprise he comes across a
photograph of a man and a woman in a bar but who is sitting in the
background but the now infamous One Armed Man! It seems kind of
stretch that they just happen to be in the same city again but I think
this is one of those cases where you need to suspend your disbelief.
Kimble looks at who the pictures belong to and he goes to the
apartment of that person, Howie Keever. He knocks on the door and
there is no answer. An older man opens the door next to the apartment
and asks him what he wants. Kimble just wants to talk to Howie, the
man asks him if Howie's in trouble again and Kimble says no, he just
wants to talk to him. Kimble palms him some money and and the man
tells him where he can find Howie... He's a young kid who wears a
grey jacket and he's got a smart mouth.
Kimble walks away and to the bowling alley where he can find Howie.
Before he walks in, Howie appears with his camera and a middle aged
man asks him if he's gotten the pictures back and Howie says maybe.
The man wants the picture. Howie tells him that it will cost him $25
and if he doesn't want to buy the picture that shows him cozying up to
a beautiful brunette, he'll offer the picture to his wife.
The man starts to beat up Howie. Kimble walks in and initially he
does nothing but then intervenes. He gives the man his picture back
and he walks away. Kimble takes Howie back to his place. The older
man barges in and tells Howie that the man treating his wounds has
money. Howie tells him to go away. He tells Kimble that he's his
loser uncle Wingo. Kimble tells him that his name is Jack Anderson.
Kimble takes out the picture of the man with the brunette and he asks
him if he knows the one armed man in the background. Howie says
maybe. Kimble gives him some money and Howie tells him that he's at
the bar a lot. Kimble tells him his name is Fred Johnson. Howie
tells him that his name is Walters. Apparently this elusive one armed
man has a few identities...
Kimble goes back to the bar and asks the bartender if he knows Walters
and he tells him yes and that he just missed him. He's a night
watchman in a warehouse a couple of blocks away. Kimble leaves to go
after him.
At the warehouse Howie approaches Walters and tells him he's got
information for him if he's willing to pay for it. Walters tells him
to get out. Howie leaves and here we see I think a good cat and mouse
chase with Kimble and the OAM. Walters as he's known in this story
sees Kimble's shadow out the window. Kimble opens the window and the
two have eye contact. It was a dramatic moment, I won't deny that.
Here in this scene I really found myself thinking that yes, this
really is an elusive creature of the dark.
Unlike in a past episode, the OAM is going for the more subtle
approach of injuring Kimble. He hides behind crates and eventually
positions himself behind a few that he can push on to Kimble. There's
some type of pipe behind Kimble and when the crates fall on him they
break the pipe and there is an explosion in the warehouse.
We next see Kimble and the OAM being rushed in to the emergency room.
Kimble wakes up and tells the doctor played quite well by Ted Knight
of Mary Tyler Moore Show fame. Although Kimble's reaction to when he
wakes up is a little funny. He tells the doctor he can't see
anything. I was thinking to myself Gosh Kimble try opening your eyes!
We then see the doctor looking at Kimble's eyes and he tells him that
it might be easier on him to keep them shut. He wants an X-ray of
Kimble's head to make sure there isn't more damage.
The nurse proceeds to wheel Kimble down the hallway and they pass the
OAM who has made a full recovery from his injuries. He realizes that
Kimble is blind and he promptly calls the police to tell them that
escaped wife killer Richard Kimble is in their hospital.
Kimble is sitting in the hallway and asks the nurse if she saw the OAM
and she said that yes he was released and they strolled right past
him. Kimble then hears the police getting a call behind him telling
him to look for Richard Kimble in the hospital.
Kimble does the only thing he can do and that's get up and make an
exit although where to exit to is another question. I know they were
trying to be different here but seeing Kimble walking in the street
totally blind was rather painful to watch. The whole third act really
looked like filler in the final analysis.
Kimble is frantically trying to get away from the police. We then see
two old drunks breaking in an electrical plant site. It's only a
matter of time before Kimble finds these two drunks. He does. They
take him in to the office and he tells them to please go to Howie's
address and tell him to come and get him. He gives them money. Well,
it's a forgone conclusion these two drunks aren't going to get Howie,
they're going to get more booze and that's what they do.
The next morning, Kimble wakes up and he sneaks out of the office that
he was sleeping in. However, he manages to get right in to the power
facility where he could easily get electrocuted. The workers there
stop and the foreman yells at him and gets him away from the danger
area. Kimble tells him that he lost his seeing eyed dog and that he
needs help getting back to Howie's place. The foreman tells him that
he can't take him there but they can take him to a bus and the bus
driver can direct him.
Back at Howie's place the police are there questioning him about his
picture of the fire that he submitted to the paper as he's credited
for it. The police think he may have started it. Howie denies it and
his uncle comes in wanting to know what Howie has done now. The
police then ask Howie if he saw Kimble there or since then. Howie
tells him that he hasn't seen him. Wingo tells the detective that he
saw Kimble there the day before and he's itching for the $10,000
reward.
Kimble is on the street and a police woman at least that what Howie
called her sees Kimble bumping in to things and she offers to walk him
home. She seems an oddly dressed policewoman in a dress and spiked
pumps. She takes him to Howie's and he tells her that he's his uncle
Jack and he takes him in to his apartment. He tells Kimble that he
can't stay there because the police have been there. Besides why
shouldn't he call the police and turn him in? Kimble tells him that
he's innocent and that the man who actually did kill his wife was
Walters. He needs Howie to help him find him and then he can turn him
in and collect the reward.
Howie agrees because Kimble helped him out in the bar and he knows a
couple of places where Kimble can hide. However, they no sooner walk
out and the police are there to catch him. Wingo called them and he's
extremely happy that he's going to get $10,000.
Kimble is then in the jail cell and the doctor is telling him that his
sight should return and he tells him good luck. Kimble tells the
detective that the One Armed Man killed his wife and the detective
tells him that they're looking for him. He asks Kimble why he's so
sure the OAM killed his wife and Kimble tells him that he did and
moreover, he's the one who called them. The detective says they don't
know who called them. Kimble replies, there's a reward, why would
someone turn him in and not want a reward unless he had something to
hide?
It gives the detective food for though but he tells him that another
detective will be taking him back ti
been called? The detective then tells him that Howie Keever is there
to see him. Kimble tells him that he'd like Howie to get credit for
it and to get the reward money.
Howie starts to come in and the detective tells him that he's going to
get the reward money. He goes in to see Kimble and asks him why he
told them that he turned him in? Kimble wants him to have the money
and to do something productive with it.
Kimble's sight then just happens to conveniently return and Howie
realizes it. He bids Kimble goodbye. The other detective comes in
and tells Kimble that it's time. Kimble still pretends to be blind.
Howie is outside waiting and as Kimble and the other detective come
walking out to the car, Howie walks to the detective and says How
about a picture and he snaps a big flash in his face while Kimble
knocks him out from behind. He grabs the keys to the handcuffs and he
gets out of them. Howie tells him to get on his motorcycle and the
two of them drive off.
Howie drops him off at the bus station and he gives Kimble back the
money he initially gave him. Howie then tells him that they're even.
He owes him nothing and that the next time they meet Howie will turn
him in and collect the reward. Kimble tells him that he knows he
will. He then turns and gets on the bus.
As I said in my opening remarks, I think this had an interesting first
act and then went downhill. I really liked Tim Considine in this,
however, I guess I'm a little prejudiced as I always enjoyed watching
Tim Considine in Spin and Marty and The Hardy Boys back when they were
serials on the Mickey Mouse Club...the original classic one!
I think Tim Considine captured the right balance of the rebel without
a cause but then not wanting Kimble to go to the electric chair. Did
he really believe that Kimble was innocent? I'm not entirely sure
that he did but I think Howie might have seen Kimble as a kindred
spirit. Howie was clearly someone who had his scrapes with the law as
the detective was well informed of Howie's past in juvenile court.
The middle section was ridiculous though. Having Kimble walk through
town like he did and having to rely on drunks was unnecessary I
think. I would have preferred to see a little more of Howie, maybe
Howie showing up at the hospital instead of the jail.
I'm also rather surprised that nobody was looking for Kimble at the
bus station. Kimble knocked out a policeman surely, someone would
have noticed that before Kimble got to the station and what about
Howie, it isn't going to take a rocket scientist to figure out that it
was Howie who helped him escape. Sorry Howie, you told Kimble all you
did was take a picture but it's clearly obvious you gave him a ride
out of there.
I'm impressed though that they are still talking about the reward. At
least we've got a little consistency. It took four seasons but better
late than never.
I'm going to give this episode a rating of a four.
KELLY
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KEN REVIEWS 'SECOND SIGHT'
My first impression with this story is what a shame. This episode
could have been a classic if well written. The premise is Kimble is
blinded while searching for the OAM. The police are on his trail. How
can he escape yet continue his search for Fred Johnson? On paper this
sounds like an exciting story.
We
first saw OAM in '
on the bus in 'Search.' Who is he? Then we find out in 'Escape' that
he knows who Kimble is. He calls the police to turn Kimble in. We are
shocked! He confesses in 'Wife Killer.' Wow!
Instead having suffered while watching 'Clean and
forever has stained this show) I now am numb at seeing Fred Johnson
again in 'Second Sight.'
After the explosion this story continue to stay in the dark. Kimble
escapes out of the hospital and stumbles into trash cans. He hides in
a shed and gets help from two drunks. He wanders around the town.
Nothing happens. Unneccesary scenes. Where is content and drama?
Too bad Kimble was blind here. That policewoman was pretty.
However I was relieved to see a new character show up. Tim Considine
was a good choice to play Howie. I like his acting ability. For a
moment there I thought we were going to see a previous guest star
return.
Terrible police work again. How in the world does Kimble escape here?
Knock out the cop and jump onto a motorcycle. A new low for this
series. Kimble gets on a bus and goes nowhere. Where have I seen that
scene before?
I agree Bob. Dan Ullman messed up here. I wonder if he wrote this
story overnight in order to meet a deadline.
My rating-2 One rating point for the introduction of a new guest
star. And another rating point for that pretty policewoman. Ken
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ORIGINAL REVIEWS
"TEN THOUSAND PIECES OF SILVER"
"Ten Thousand Pieces of Silver"
James Neilson Teleplay: E. Arthur
Kean and
Story: E. Arthur Kean October 11, 1966 (1966-10-11)
Kimble finds work on Jake Lawrence's farm where he develops a special friendship
with Jake's autistic daughter, Cathy. Kimble becomes nervous when a sheriff, Mel
Bailey, begins searching for Joe Burmas, a convicted murderer who escaped from
prison a few weeks before. Meanwhile, back in
Guest stars: June Harding as Cathy, Lin McCarthy as Jake, Joe Maross as Bailey,
Paul Mantee as
• Barry Morse appears in this episode.
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OPENING AND CLOSING NARRATION
Narrator: [Opening Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble at work as a hired hand at a family farm] At dawn, he rises to labor through the sunlight hours. His hands, skilled enough for a surgeon's knife, are now forced to cruder tasks - tasks no longer of his own choosing. Not even his name is his own.
Narrator: [Epilog Closing Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble hiding behind a tree as a nearby posse searches for him] A Fugitive gets his fill of good byes, of loyalties born and discarded, and yet not discarded. For the fugitive game is a lonely one, with only two players to see it through. A game, it would seem, without end.
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"TEN THOUSAND PIECES OF SILVER"
Let's see now...more than three years and the publisher of the local
paper suddenly figures it's his civic duty to offer a reward for
Kimble and he's berating Gerard for not finding him by now? That's
pretty funny. Who are these kids and their harmless pranks that are
taking up the police department's time? Is it the brats from Fun And
Games And Party Favors?
Hell, they are more dangerous than Kimble.
June Harding picks up the old script from Moon Child and just keeps
acting the same part. It's easier that way. Once again, she's a
dysfunctional young woman and her life might be in jeopardy from a
killer who is in the area. She even has a cave she retreats into. It
might actually have been amusing if she and Kimble had run into Kenny
while they were in there and perhaps Cassie as well from The Other
Side Of The Mountain. That one ended in a cave too. You know this
series is in trouble when characters from old episodes start running
into each other.
If you are going to steal from yourself, can they try remaking some
classic episodes? How about another version of Never Wave Goodbye?
That was episodes 4 and 5. It's been awhile.
Kitty is right. There is, once again, nothing new here. Actually I
found the title, Ten Thousand Pieces Of Silver, much more inventive in
describing the reward than anything else in this episode. Although it
does make Kimble sound like a pirate
I'm afraid I've never had ten thousand pieces of silver in my
hands at one time so I don't know what it looks like.
But I do know a total piece of crap when I see it..
My rating on a scale of 0 to 10
1 Well Below Average
Bobby
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KELLY REVIEWS
"TEN THOUSAND PIECES OF SILVER"
This latest episode is called Ten Thousand Pieces of Silver which
brings in a concept we've never seen before on this show. We get to
see what happens when there is a reward offered for Kimble. It's
interesting how Gerard never thought of that years ago.
We start out seeing two police officers vising a farmhouse and showing
the owner and his older daughter a wanted poster. We then see a
younger daughter come walking up with her dog. The sheriff Bailey is
his name, walked to the girl Cathy and shows her the picture of a
wanted killer. His name is
she tells him no. He tells her that if she sees him to just smile
pretty and to walk away.
The father, Jacob walk up and tells Cathy to go in to the barn and get
Mr..
and he tells her she shouldn't call him that because he's not really
her uncle, however, she really likes him and he really likes her so
Kimble has to conclude that he's sort of her uncle.
Outside, the father, Jacob berates Bailey for talking down to Cathy
just because she's different. Inside the barn, Cathy remembers that
her father and the sheriff want to talk to him. Kimble gets a worried
look on his face and proceeds to walk away but they walk in and Bailey
asks him if he's seen the escaped killer they are looking for. Kimble
replies no. Bailey says that they are setting up a perimeter to catch
him because he's believed to be armed and very dangerous.
Cathy has asked Kimble to have lunch with her so that she can show him
her special hiding place that nobody knows about. Ella, the older
daughter comes in with lunch and asks Kimble to have lunch with her.
He explains he agreed to go with Cathy, but he'll go with her
tomorrow. Ella laments that all her life it's been Cathy first and
her tomorrow. She knows Cathy is different, but she just some times
gets frustrated. She wants to leave the farm. She tells Kimble that
the farm just isn't profitable anymore.
Back in Stafford
Stafford Chronicle's office. Gerard is not a happy camper. He has
read an editorial titled How to kill your wife in Stafford
get away with it. Gerard is furious with him to wire an editorial
implying that the reason Kimble hasn't been found because the police
are too busy picking up teenagers doing harmless pranks. He reminds
Pierce, the editor that his son stole a car. Pierce tells him that
his son was just borrowing the car and was going to bring it back.
Gerard tells him that a jury will decide that.
I have to admit I kind of like Gerard here. At least he's
consistent. He always says that the jury says Kimble is guilty and
he's making no judgment about Pierce's son other than to say he'll get
his day in court like anyone else and the jury will decide. Gerard
tells him that as a newspaper man he could help in the assistance of
capturing Kimble by simply putting his picture in the newspaper more.
Pierce says that he's done better than that. He shows Gerard the new
edition and it not only has Kimble's picture in it but it has a reward
of ten thousand dollars.
Back at the farm Kimble is walking in to a cave with Cathy, he gives
her a book to read and she tells him that it will take her awhile to
read it. He tells her to remember to concentrate and they've got
time. However, he agrees to eat lunch first.
Later, Kimble takes Jacob's truck to town and is at the local
grocer's. He picks up the supplies that Jacob wants from the grocer
and as he's leaving the papers get delivered. Corman sees Kimble's
picture on the front page with a reward attached to it. He
immediately calls Pierce in Stafford
papers.
Kimble is on his way back to the farm house when the wanted killer
gun to Kimble's head and tells him to drive off the main road as
they've got the main roads blocked. Kimble obliges but neither
realize that it's a dead end road because the bridge is out on it.
Bur mas jumps out of the truck but Kimble ends up in the water knocked
out in the truck.
Bur mas runs away. Back at the farm, Ella tells her father that she
thinks Dave should have been back at the farm by now. Jacob says he's
sure he's fine, he probably just stopped for a drink on the way back.
Cathy isn't convinced. She starts crying and tells Jacob she's sure
that something has happened to Dave. Jacob calls Corman while Bailey
is there. Bailey is inquiring as to where the newspapers are and Cor
man tells him that they didn't get delivered today.
The phone rings and Corman reluctantly answers it and he tells Jacob
that Dave left well over an hour ago. Bailey says he'll drive out
that way and see if any thing's wrong. He drives toward the farm and
notices tire tracks going on a side road. He follows them and finds
Kimble stuck in the truck. I for one was wondering why Kimble didn't
try rolling down the window to get our of the truck. Regardless
Bailey gets him out. On the way back to the farm house, Bailey
wonders if he's seen Kimble somewhere before and Kimble says no, don't
think so. He then asks if he was in
was never in
a face.
Back in Stafford
Kimble, all he needs to do is go get him. It's amazing what a little
money will accomplish although he's not terribly thrilled with having
to dish out ten thousand dollars.
Cor man is on the phone with Pierce and Bailey comes back in and is
furious that all Corman thought of was himself when he sees the front
page of the newspaper. Cor man says there was a reward and why
shouldn't he get it? Bailey tells him he had Kimble and he could have
arrested him. He storms out.
Back at the farm, Kimble is finishing up dinner with the family and
Jacob invites Kimble to play checkers with him. In the living room.
Jacob asks Kimble what's going on between him and Cathy because she's
so drawn to him. He tells him that he's been working with her and
she's capable of doing more if she just had the right teachers around
her. Jacob tells him that they went to the doctors and there was
nothing they could do. Kimble asks how long ago, and he says ten
years ago. Kimble says they've made advances since then, he should
give it another try. Kimble says it's his call to make but, he has to
leave due to a family emergency at home.
Cathy comes in and is devastated. Ella isn't happy. She goes to see
him and she asks why he can't say and he says he told her it's a
family emergency.
Bailey and Gerard arrive on the scene the next day and Gerard is not
happy to hear that Kimble hasn't been arrested. They go out to the
farm house and Ella and Jacob tell them that he left in the night.
Kimble for whatever reason hasn't even left the property. He's hiding
in the trees not far from the house.
Jacob calls Cathy in the room and he tells her that Dave hasn't really
left. He's just playing hide and seek with her. He wants her to tell
them where Kimble could be hiding so they can go find him. Ella is
disgusted by what she sees and she tells Cathy not to tell them
anything because they want to kill Dave. Ella berates her father for
trying to use Cathy like that. Jacob tells her that the reward money
could save their farm.
Outside, Kimble once again has a gun in his back and Bur mas tells him
to hide them both. They go to Cathy's cave. Cathy then arrives with
food for Dave and promptly has a gun pulled on her. She's terrified
and thought this was all a game because her father told her he was
just hiding.
Bur mas sees the newspaper with Kimble's picture and realizes they
want him too. He orders Kimble to run out there and be a decoy so he
can escape with the girl in tow. Kimble runs and is promptly chased
by Gerard, Bailey and everybody else. Cathy's dog Andy finds them and
Bur mas orders her to get rid of the dog. Cathy tells Andy to go
home. and he finally runs out of the cave.
Bur mas then grabs Cathy and proceeds to escape with her. Some how,
Kimble and Bur mas and Cathy all end up in the same vicinity
together. Cathy gets away from Bur mas and starts to run away, Bur
mas grabs her and they think it's Kimble grabbing her. Gerard tells
Jacob not to worry he won't hurt Cathy. Jacob says I thought you said
he was a killer, Gerard says no, I said he's killed.
However, Gerard gets a look of shock on his face when
police in the distance and he fires at them. Kimble jumps in to the
water and he sees Cathy with Bur mas and he calls to her to jump in
the water. She doesn't want to but Kimble tells her to concentrate.
She jumps in and Kimble catches her. Bur mas runs toward the cops
shooting and he is shot dead. They approach him thinking that it's
Kimble but Gerard gets disappointed again that it's not Kimble.
Back in the cave Cathy asks Kimble why he has to go away and he tells
her that they think he killed someone but he didn't do it. Cathy asks
if they'll still be friends even though they won't see each other
again. Kimble says that they will always be friends.
Cathy then says, they're still looking for me and she runs out of the
cave to create enough of a diversion so Kimble can escape.
I'm going to give this episode a rating of a six as I liked the idea
of the reward. I'll be interested in seeing if the reward is brought
up again. Otherwise nothing else was really all that original.
Kimble helps a child who has a hiding place, there's a woman who likes
him who'd like to go with him and leave the farm forever, Kimble's
worked as a farmhand before, so it's nothing very original but the
girl was cute and likable and so was her dog.
KELLY
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KEN REVIEWS
"TEN THOUSAND PIECES OF SILVER"
What is going on? Lin McCarthy? I thought he was married to Donna.
June Harding? We saw her in Moon Child. Bonnie Beecher? We saw her in
Ill Wind. My repeat guest actors/actresses in different roles has
been broken again. This time three times. This is driving me crazy.
This story could pass for Moon Child Two. Thug is in town. Kimble is
a suspect. Girl wants to have a picnic with Kimble. In Moon Child One
there was a thug hiding in an abandoned building. He get's shot.
Kimble escapes.
This story is outside with scenery and water. Kimble is held at
gunpoint for the 10th time. Somehow he escapes.
Gerard says don't shoot. But why did he shoot at Kimble in ep.64
(Trial by Fire)? Maybe a change of heart by Gerard?
I am stretching myself trying to review this lousy story. The reward
factor added nothing.
My rating-0 Ken
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ORIGINAL REVIEWS
"THE SHARP EDGE OF CHIVALRY"
WRITTEN BY SAM ROSS
DIRECTED BY GERALD MAYER
ORIGINAL AIR DATE - OCTOBER 4, 1966
Kimble is working as an apartment janitor in a down metropolitan city. Roger Roland, a neighbor, murders a woman in the building where Kimble lives by bludgeoning her to death with a marble statue after she refuses his advances. After a tenant reports seeing a figure run from the murder victim's apartment, the police arrive and suspect Kimble despite his alibi.
Gueststars: Robert Drivas as Roger, Eduard Franz as Edward Roland, Madlyn Rhue
as Liz Roland, Ellen
• Barry Morse appears in this episode.
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Narrator: [Opening Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble, who is working as a maintenance man, carry a trash can down to the curb] A big city, a jungle of anonymity, where nobody looks too closely and everybody is locked in with his own big problems. A hiding place for a man who, at the moment, calls himself Carl Baker.
Narrator: [Epilog Closing Narration. Viewers see Lt. Gerard] One man is still the hunter
[Viewers see Richard Kimble]
Narrator: and the other is still the Fugitive.
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"THE SHARP EDGE OF CHIVALRY"
Pretty routine stuff. Kimble once again in the wrong place at the
wrong time. From the moment the young man in question sees the lovers
in the hall...to the moment that he stares up at the shapley young
woman in the window.....to the moment when he invades her apartment
while she is undressing..supposedly just to talk to her, it's obvious
this is a story about sexual repression.
But it's he mid-sixties and tv is not quite ready to tackle this
subject in any kind of straighforward and adult manner. Instead we get
a story that wanders all over the place..takes the easy way out and
never really explains anything. Too bad, it would have been a lot more
interesting ten years later.
The inclusion of Madlyn Rhue doesn't help.
She's too boring here and seems to have left all of her personality as
the queen of the bad girls back with Gus in Somebody To Remember.
Likewise with Gerard. Don't put him in a story if he has nothing to do
but stand outside of a building.
Probably not the worst of season four but
it just leaves one with the feeling that there is a more adult story
here. They just weren't about to let anyone see it.
At least now we know what classic films like
Psycho and Rear Window would have looked like
without Hitchcock behind the camera and the
result ain't pretty.
Last..what is Gerard doing in this story?
This low energy new Phil who just stands around
a building he thinks Kimble is in without bombarding
it with tear gas to smoke him out does not bode
well for the future.
Fifty years later, is Gerard still waiting there?
Poor Marie
My rating on a scale of 0 to 10
1 -- Well below average
bobby
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KELLY REVIEWS
"THE SHARP EDGE OF CHIVALRY"
This latest episode is called The Sharp Edge of Chivalry. While some
parts are interesting, I found the ending a little too easy although
the last scene of the episode was certainly different from what we've
seen in past episodes.
The story starts out innocently enough with Kimble, who's calling
himself Carl Baker, is working as a custodian/handyman for three
apartment buildings. He's currently taking out the trash and coming
back in. He walks by a young couple passionately kissing in the
hallway. These two really need to get a room.
Kimble walks by and is unaware that there is another young man lurking
in the shadows. Kimble grabs more garbage to take out to the street.
The young man is discovered in the shadows and the young woman who's
name is Millie, who makes a joke out of it saying that the prince has
left the castle and is out slumming. He runs out.
As he runs out, he runs past Kimble who says, Hi Roger. There's no
response. Another woman, Mrs. Turney, comes by who asks Kimble if
it's too late to wash some sheets. He tells her no. She tells him
he's lucky to not be married and have no children and have a life of
ease like he does. Kimble tells her that she is the lucky one with
her kids.
Another young woman played once again by Madlyn Rhue, comes walking
by who asks him to walk her home. Her name is Liz and she clearly
likes Kimble. Up in another apartment we see Roger with his father
who is polishing up a sword from Medieval times apparently. Roger
sees Kimble talking to Liz and he tells his father that Liz is talking
with Baker outside.
Liz asks Kimble to come up for a drink and he politely declines but
then she asks him why he always declines. Her name is
named after a very popular queen and also named after a very popular
age in history and she's descended from much royalty. Kimble agrees
to come up after he finishes up what he needs to do.
Liz walks upstairs to the apartment and Roger is her brother. Their
father is apparently obsessed with their family history as they are
descendants of William the Conqueror. Roger is not impressed with any
of this. In fact, he gets so mad that he breaks the sword that his
father was polishing up. The father, Edward doesn't understand why
Roger is the way he is and that Roger even dyes his hair dark when his
natural hair color is blond.
Roger walks out and sees Kimble by the garbage cans again and Kimble
stops him and asks him about maybe playing a game of chess. They
played the night before and Roger beat him. Kimble tells him he'd
like to have another crack at it. Kimble also senses that something
is bothering Roger. Roger finally agrees to go in and the two young
lovers in the hallway are still at it. Roger is clearly upset to see
this.
Kimble and Roger make an exit and Millie tells her boyfriend that it's
time he went home. He tries to convince her to let him come upstairs
and she tells him no. So, the boyfriend leaves and Millie goes to her
own apartment. Her bedroom window just happens to be facing where
Kimble's apartment is.
Kimble sets up the chess set and Roger looks out the window and sees
Millie putting the shade down and he sees her undressing in the
shadows. Roger is clearly a Norman Bates in the making. Kimble asks
Roger what's bothering him and he tells him that he thinks he's
supposed to do something great but he doesn't know what it is.
Kimble's phone then rings and it's another tenant Mrs. Murdock who
needs to have a light fixed in her apartment. Kimble grabs his tool
kit and tells Roger he'll be right back.
Kimble leaves and Roger is still looking at Millie undressing and
dressing for bed and he decides to grab the pass key to Millie's
apartment. He walks in to her apartment and of course when she sees
him there she freaks out. She tells him to get out right now. He
tells her that he just wants to talk to her and tell her how beautiful
she is. Millie grabs the phone to call the police and he takes it
away from her. She begins to scream and he tries to shut her up but
does the panicking thing and he grabs some kind of decorative bowl and
hits her with it a few times.
He runs out and Mrs. Turney sees the back of a man running out of
Millie's apartment. Kimble meanwhile is still in Mrs. Murdock's
apartment finishing up his task while Mrs. Murdock tells him that he
should marry Liz because she's such a nice girl. He walks out ans
sees everybody clamoring around Millie's apartment and he quietly
leaves.
Roger is in Kimble's apartment and he is washing off the murder
weapon. He proceeds to hide it in Kimble's apartment and then he puts
the key back on the wall where it came from.
Kimble comes in and tells Roger that he's got to leave for awhile
because something happened in the building. Kimble goes outside and
sees the various police cars drive up. We then see the return of
another guest star in Richard Anderson. He's Lt. Sloan and Lt. Sloan
demands that Kimble get the pass key since he's the janitor.
They go in to Millie's apartment and find her dead. Lt. Sloan deducts
that that someone she knew must have killed her because there is no
sign of forced entry so someone must have come in who had a key or was
let in. He also finds hair of someone who's had his hair dyed black.
He tells Kimble he can leave but don't leave the apartment building.
Kimble goes to his apartment and dumps out his bottle of hair dye and
hides the bottle. He then finds the murder weapon and hides it in the
heating vent. There's a knock at the door and it's the police and
they want a list of all of the tenants. Kimble agrees to give them
the list.
Back in Stafford
heard about the case and hears that it's a case of a woman murdered
who's been hit over the head and they are looking for a man in his
thirties with dark hair. He says, It sound like Kimble's MO. I'm
leaving for the airport can someone pick me up when I get there?
It sounds like Kimble's MO? Let's see ever since the episode of Storm
Center at the end of Season One, we've been told nonstop that Kimble
strangled his wife. Now, all of a sudden a woman getting bludgeoned
to death is Kimble's MO. I'm sorry but I just can't overlook that and
give them a pass. We must put this with the many inconsistencies in
this series. I guess I should at least give them credit. They said
this before the final episode so it at least gets people thinking less
of strangulation as the cause of death for poor Helen Kimble.
And again, Gerard must have the best travel agent in the history of
law enforcement...either that, or he chartered a Lear Jet to get
there. This all takes place in one evening after all.
We do see Kimble leave the building and tell the police that he's got
to go fix something in another building. He arrives at Edward's
apartment and Kimble tells Edward and Liz that Roger killed Millie.
Edward refuses to believe it and thinks Kimble did it and is trying to
put the blame on Roger. He then picks up the phone and dials the
police. Liz hangs up the phone and tells him that they can't turn in
Kimble for something Roger may have done. She reminds him that Roger
isn't well and they can't protect him forever. Kimble looks out and
sees that Gerard is now on the scene.
Gerard and Sloan are interrogating Mrs. Turney and out of frustration
she identifies Kimble as the man she saw run out of Millie's apartment
even though she only saw the back of a man's head.
Gerard and Sloan are in Kimble's apartment getting prints to confirm
that it is Kimble living there. I find it fascinating that we saw
them lifting prints out of Kimble's apartment, did it not occur to
anyone to lift prints out of Millie's apartment? Apparently not, as
Kimble appears to be guilty by simple association, nobody has even
come up with a motive for why Kimble would do this. Supposedly he
killed Helen because she didn't' want to adopt a baby. Hmm do they
really think that's his motivation in this case?
Kimble exits Edward's apartment and makes his way out to the fire
escape. We then see Kimble climbing from one fire escape to the next
and eventually ending up in Mrs. Murdock's apartment. Mrs. Murdock
volunteers to go with him to police. She knows he didn't kill Millie
because he was fixing her light, therefore she's his perfect alibi.
He tells her they can't go to the police because he's in other
trouble. He leaves and ends up down in the laundry room.
Kimble goes down to the laundry room to hide and sees Mrs. Turney
there taking sheets out of the dryer. Kimble is hiding and Mrs.
Turney hears something. She asks who's there. She tells who we think
is Kimble that he doesn't come out she'll scream for the police and
then all of a sudden Roger comes from behind her and starts to choke
her. She passes out and Kimble fights off Roger and he runs out.
Kimble checks on Mrs. Turney and she assumes that he was one who tried
to kill her and she starts to scream.
Kimble runs out. As Roger comes outside he starts to run from the
police who catch him and they ask him why he started to run and he
tells them he just got scared. He runs home and it's apparent to Liz
that her brother is in trouble. Kimble then comes knocking on the
door. He tells Liz and Edward again that Roger killed Millie because
he saw her and her boyfriend in the hallway making love and he now
tried to kill Mrs. Turney
Edward asks him if Roger did it and of course Roger says no. Liz
isn't convinced. She asks Roger what happened and Roger starts to
tell her that he just wanted to talk to Millie because she was so
pretty and then she started to scream and then Roger just falls apart.
Edward won't turn in his son and pulls a gun on Kimble and then calls
the police to tell them that they've got the killer in the apartment.
Sloan and Gerard spring in to action. Liz tells Edward that they have
to turn in Roger for his own protection and the protection of others.
Edward still doesn't want to do it and he keeps the gun trained on
Kimble. Liz asks him what he's doing other than living in history.
The reality is that they are living in 20th Century filth and Roger
needs help. Edward finally relent and lets Kimble hide and when the
police get there Gerard says, I thought you said you had Kimble.
Edward says, No, I said I had the killer of that girl and he points to
his son.
As all of the police leave the street, Kimble is hiding at Mrs.
Murdock's apartment and the last thing we see is Kimble looking out
the window at the lone figure of Gerard who doesn't want to vacate the
premises as he's sure that Kimble is still around.
Interesting beginning and interesting ending, it's a shame the middle
kind of fizzled. I think it was an interesting cat and mouse chase of
Kimble being sectioned off like he was but to plop Gerard in the story
when it wasn't necessary I think was a bad idea, for one thing,
nobody flies that quick, but the most irritating thing about Gerard
now is that Gerard is telling everybody that Kimble's MO is
bludgeoning a woman to death. Sorry Quinn Martin but you dropped the
ball big time!
As I said earlier it's fascinating that fingerprints were taken in
Kimble's apartment but not in Millie's and Lt. Sloan just decides that
since Kimble killed his wife therefore he must have killed Millie. I
think 98% of the cops on this series should have been fired. I can't
believe how shoddy police work is portrayed on this show.
It was nice to see Kimble interacting with a nice girl and in fact it
was kind of strange seeing Madlyn Rhue playing a nice girl. It struck
me odd as to how fast Kimble could forget that he told Liz he'd go up
to her place and have a drink with her once he saw how upset Roger
was...and what about this thing with Roger? OK clearly he was
mentally disturbed, but I think Kimble's description of what Millie
and her boyfriend were doing in the hallway was a little over the
top.
Was passionate kissing once described as making love? I always
thought making love was a nice term for having sex and Millie and her
boyfriend were not having sex in the hallway. Kimble slightly
exaggerated I think.
Overall, I'm going to give it a five rating. Nothing necessarily
really bad but nothing to really write home about either.
KELLY
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KEN REVIEWS
"THE SHARP EDGE OF CHIVALRY"
Repeated theme in this series again. Kimble get's blamed for a crime
without any true evidence. Develop a story around dysfunctional
characters and wait to see how Kimble escapes.
Writers we have seen this before. Ep.2-Kimble is blamed for molesting
Jenny. Ep.42-Kimble is blamed for stealing money. Ep.46 Kimble is
blamed for the murder of Leslie Stevens. Ep.52-Kimble is accused of
strangling a victim. Ep.62-Kimble is accused of beating a woman.
We need new scripts to keep us interested. This episode was strange.
Question for Kimble-After four years on the run why are you still
confused on how to escape the police? As a Fugitive you need to be on
the lookout at all times. Have an escape plan for every city and job
you work at. Bad idea to take a job where you work upstairs in a
building. If the police cars arrive how are you going to escape.
Hiding in someone's apartment and hoping not to get caught may not
work.
This episode reminded me a little of that movie 'Rear Window.' The
set with the apartment buildings and the dark streets.
I agree Gerard was wasted her. The end scene with Gerard standing
there was out of character for him. Remember ep.30 'End Game,' he was
knocking on every door searching for Kimble.
Nice to see Madlyn Rhue again. Poor police work again. Where is the
cast of 'Law and Order?' They would do a better job of gathering the
facts.
My rating-1 Ken
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COMING NEXT
SUNDAY JANUARY 29
"THE SHARP EDGE OF CHIVALRY"
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ORIGINAL REVIEWS
"A CLEAN AND QUIET TOWN"
WRITTEN BY HOWARD BROWNE
DIRECTED BY MARK RYDELL
ORIGINAL AIR DATE - SEPTEMBER 27, 1966
While searching for the one-armed man, Kimble makes the mistake of going to Clark City, Nevada, a corrupt gambling town. Fred Johnson, the one-armed man, works there as a numbers runner under the alias of Steve Cramer, and hires two cops to attack Kimble. He survives but Johnson puts out a contract on him. Kimble is nursed back to health by Cora, a prostitute (after she first tries stealing his wallet). She tells Kimble that the town is under the control of mob underboss Oliver Enright, to whom Kimble goes to ask for protection from the dirty cops. Johnson then forces Cora to lead Kimble to an alley ambush, but Johnson is beaten senseless by Kimble and dragged to the police, Kimble turning himself in. Unfortunately, the mob-connected cops take Kimble and Johnson directly to Enright. They are brought to the elderly and invalid Mafia boss Victor Luchek, who must decide what to do with the two fugitives in his town.
Guest Stars: Michael Strong as Oliver Enright,
Carol Rossen as Cora,
Eduardo Ciannelli as Victor Luchek,
Bill Raisch - as Steve Cramer/Fred Johnson.
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OPENING AND CLOSING NARRATION
Narrator: [Opening Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble beaten up and lying on the ground in an alley] A man on the run comes to expect neither justice nor mercy. Every hand is against him, every face turns away from his pain. In such moments, the thread of hope, of life itself, stretches to the breaking point.
Narrator: [Epilog Closing Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble get into an elevator as he prepares to leave town] A man on the run must never stop. After every fall he must get up, and push on toward the same elusive goal, a goal so close at times as to be only a heartbreak away.
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VIDEO OF "A CLEAN AND QUIET TOWN"
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BOBBY REVIEWS "A CLEAN AND QUIET TOWN"
Here we go again. Another half-baked story that reeks of desperation
on the part of the writers. It must be season four.
The Fugitive breaks one of its longest standing rules that has served
it very well.
That was to avoid the temptation to use the appearance of either
Gerard or the
one-armed man as just a prop, a way of pumping up a weak story.
Sorry but I prefer my one-armed man as sort of an ephemeral or
transitory character. Someone who comes into few stories for only a
few seconds and then disappears. From the very beginning when we got a
look at him in Search In A Windy City, he has been that way.
Was that really him in that phone booth when he slowly turned around
so we could see his one arm? Is that really the same person who ran in
front of Kimble's car that evening? Is that really the one-armed man
that Kimble sees through the bus window as it pulls away?
Having him appear and disappear so quickly keeps us off balance. He
has no business being the focal point of any story.
Although he is just that in Wife Killer, that was for a reason, the
attempt to coerce a confession out of him. It's a thrilling story
because it is so unexpected. We don't figure to see Kimble and the oam
confront each other until the end of the series.
Later in season four, we will see them again when, with the help of a
college professor, Kimble tries to get him to confess through sleep
deprivation.
I can already hear Gerard laughing.
Now here he is in this ridiculous corrupt little town and all of a
sudden, it's the one-armed man who is after Kimble rather than the
other way around. Sorry, but I'm not buying into it. For one thing, as
Kelly pointed out in her review, he has no reason to do this.
What does he fear? There's no evidence he killed anyone and I've been
pointing out from the beginning that Kimble's plan to drag him over to
Gerard will prove nothing if he simply denies it all. So what is the
point? Why start trouble? Let Kimble chase you. Certainly Gerard
doesn't care.
Oh it's all so contrived. Kimble catches him, but everybody running
the town is just as bad as the one-armed man and couldn't care less
what Kimble's problem with him is. Just leave town and leave us out of
it.
How convenient.
Kelly pointed out that the oam is a stupid criminal. No..I think it is
the new writers for season four who are stupid. They are the only ones
in the room who don't realize the are fresh out of ideas and now have
to rely on placing Gerard and the oam out there just for the fear
factor alone.
It doesn't work and neither does this bizarre story.
I won't be as tough on it as Ken but I'm afraid I
harbor no guilt for this being a pleasure for me.
But I will give it a few points.
1 for the fight scene between Kimble and Johnson
1 for the car chase that should have appeared
in The Judgment
1 just for laughs for that inept G rated 'stripper' who
appeared in that club.
Best dialogue in the entire episode:
Question:
"What kind of world would it be if
everyone went around lying?"
Answer:
"Everyone would run for President Of
The United States...and win"
My rating - 3 well below average
bobby
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KELLY REVIEWS "A CLEAN AND QUIET TOWN"
This latest episode is called A Clean and Quiet Town. I have to
admit, I did enjoy this episode although I couldn't help but think
that maybe it would have been more appropriate for a little later in
the season.
The episode starts with Kimble seen walking down a street and he his
approached by two police officers. They demand that he go into an
alley with them and they frisk him and get his wallet. They see that
his name is Paul Miller. They give Kimble back his wallet and tell
him that there's no problem and as Kimble is about to walk away, they
both start beating him up and when they're finished they tell him to
get out of town or else.
We then see a woman, played once again by Carol Rossen walking by and
she sees the attack. She hides from the policemen as they walk away.
She then walks in to the alley and Kimble is in bad shape. She wants
to take him to a hospital and he tells her no, that he doesn't want to
go to the hospital. She ends up taking him back to her place.
In the meantime, the two police officers are taking a payoff for
beating up Kimble. The person who's giving them the money is none
other than the infamous One Armed Man who's calling himself Steve
Kramer.
While Kimble is at the woman's place recuperating from his wounds, she
asks him if he's a gambler. He tells her no. She tells him that
usually that's who the police are trying to run out of town. He tells
her that he's not a gambler but just someone in town looking for an
old friend of his. She tells him that it's usually Mr. Enright who
has the police do things like that because he runs it. He asks her
for her name. She refuses to give it and informs him that the
hospital is closed. He thanks her for her kindness and she tells him
that it was nothing than ten dollars won't take care of. Kimble hands
her the ten dollars and he exits.
The next day, Kimble goes to find a place where he can place a bet.
He's shown a dry cleaners place. He asks the bookie who runs the
gambling in the town and he tells him nobody. Kimble walks back out
and asks the cab driver out front who runs the gambling in town and he
tells him Mr. Enright. Kimble asks where he can find him, the cabbie
tells him for ten dollars he'll tell him. Kimble hands it over and
the cabbie directs him to the office building across the street.
Kimble goes in and the secretary will not let him in to see Mr.
Enright. Kimble then demands to see a phone book and Kimble looks up
his address. Kimble informs her that he'll go to Enright's house and
will wait for him to return home but either way he'll be seeing him
that day. She then calls in to the office and another man walks out
and Kimble asks if he's Enright. He says no, and frisks Kimble. He
then takes Kimble in to the office and he meets Mr. Enright. Enright
asks him what he wants and Kimble tells him that he heard that he had
pull with the police. He tells him that two police officers roughed
him up and he heard that he had pull with the chief. He needs his
protection because he's looking for someone in this town and he needs
to stay until he finds him.
Enright doesn't believe him until Kimble shows him his bruised up
body. Enright then asks where he's staying and Kimble tells him. He
then tells Kimble that he'll be in touch.
Enright then calls the police chief and tells him to find the police
officers who did this because he doesn't want anyone honing in on his
business. The chief assures him that he'll get to the bottom of it
and he takes down the name Paul Miller. The camera then pans the room
and we once again see the One Armed Man in the room. The chief gets
off the phone and Kramer aka Johnson aka OAM gives him his payoff from
Enright.
Kimble goes back to see Enright at his invitation and he shows him two
pictures of policeman and he tells him that these are the men who
roughed up Kimble. Kimble tells him that no, those aren't the guys.
Enright believes him and he offers him a job working in a strip club
so he can find the guy he's looking for. Kimble takes the job and who
should walk in that night but the OAM. He sees Kimble but Kimble
doesn't see him and he runs out.
Kramer then seeks out the two cops to get rid of Kimble and they tell
him they won't do anything else for him because he's not calling the
shots Enright is. We see the hotel manager at Kimble's hotel
answering the phone and he tells the person that they don't have a
Paul Miller in room 211 but one in 208 and then the line goes dead.
We then see Kramer sitting in a funeral home sitting with an
unassuming funeral director He tells him to get rid of Paul Miller
and hands him five hundred dollars. The funeral director lets him
know that it will be taken care of that night.
We then see the funeral director walking down the street with a
suitcase that truly does resemble the one Kimble has used a lot. He
goes in to the building across the street and he takes out the gun in
a bathroom and waits for Kimble to show up. Kimble goes in to his
hotel room and as he's washing his face in the bathroom, the hit man
shoots at him but misses.
Kimble runs back to the Carol Rossen's apartment. We've found out
that her name is Cora and he breaks in to her place and demands that
she go in to the police and identify who jumped him because someone
just tried to kill him and he's thinking the police officers are
behind it. She tells him she can't help him. He leaves and one of
the policemen comes out of her bedroom putting his attire back on.
It's apparent that Cora is a lady of the evening.
The policeman has had enough of Kimble and he takes Cora to see the
OAM and they agree to set up Kimble. Cora stays at the club until
Kimble shows up and she tells him that she found out who he's looking
for and tells her that her friend works at a burger joint and she
describes the OAM to him. She tells him that she can take him to her
friend who can give her more information.
Kimble willingly goes and Cora drops him off in front and tells him to
go in to the back because her friend doesn't want to be seen talking
to him.. Kimble walks to the back and Cora drives off. Kimble is
greeted by the OAM with a knife who gets in some good punches and even
tries to strangle Kimble so I guess it's not completely impossible for
the OAM to have strangled Helen Kimble, but Kimble does get the upper
hand and he knocks out his nemesis once and for all.
The next thing we see is Kimble walking in to the police station and
he tells them that his name is Richard Kimble and that they need to
arrest this man for the murder of his wife from three years earlier,
now this is where the episode started to fall a little flat for me.
I've said before that I thought the OAM was a stupid criminal and I
think this scene illustrates it.
Let's face it, the police got Kimble convicted. The OAM isn't wanted
for anything that we know of. Heck, Gerard didn't even care that the
guy confessed in a past episode, so you'd think Kramer a la Johnson
would be immediately saying to the police something to effect of, I
don't know this guy. He's nuts, I was walking along the street
minding my own business and he all of a sudden he jumped me and
insisted that I killed his wife. I've never seen the guy before in my
life!
Instead he stands there like a deaf mute looking guilty! He's too
stupid to realize that the law is on his side at this moment in time.
He could have even said, he's Richard Kimble, he's the guilty culprit,
he's been sentenced to die. Call the FBI and have him picked up.
Kimble tells the police to call Lt. Gerard in Stafford Indiana and
he'll tell them everything. All I can say is Kimble is very lucky
they didn't call Gerard because Kimble would have been on his way back
to death row and the OAM would be roaming the countryside again
feeling good about everything. Apparently Kimble hasn't figured it
out yet that Gerard ain't interested in the OAM and I could easily see
Gerard just laughing when he picks up Kimble and says Kimble we got
our man. The OAM ain't wanted! Prove to me that he was in the
house. The man flatly denies ever being in Stafford Indiana. What
else could Gerard do at that point?
We then see Kimble in a jail cell being released and he and the OAM
are being taken to see Enright's boss, Luchek. Luchek asks Enright
why he gave a punk like the OAM a job. He's been nothing but
trouble. Enright tells Luchek that the OAM saved his life in a bar
four years ago in a knife fight. When he showed up looking for work,
he thought he owed him one. Luchek is unimpressed. Luchek asks the
OAM why he's making trouble and he tells him that he's tired of
running from Kimble. Luchek then tells Kimble he doesn't want his
trouble in his town and he wants both of them out.
Enright takes them both back in to town and tells the OAM that his
debt is cleared and that he'll give him a twenty four hour lead on
Kimble. The OAM drives off. He tells Kimble that he'd better not
leave before noon tomorrow or he'll have the state police pick him up
and send him back to death row. Kimble walks out of the building but
he can't give up his opportunity to get the OAM and he steals
Enright's car and starts a mad chase after him. Enright proceeds to
call the police.
We then see a wild car chase with Kimble driving like a maniac on the
wrong side of the road. I half expected to see this episode end with
Kimble getting in to a car accident. The episode culminates where the
OAM is stopped but then speeds through the police as Kimble is coming
and Kimble seeing the police makes a fast turn but gets stuck. The
police approach him and say Mr. Miller, Mr. Enright wants to see you.
Kimble drives back to town in a police escort.
Enright berates Kimble that he nearly turned him in to an informant
for the police and he orders Kimble out of town or the next time he
sees Kimble, the trip to death row will be the least of his problems.
Kimble leaves quite dejected that he was with the One Armed Man and he
lost him.
Now, as I said initially I think this episode might have been better
served if it had aired more toward the end of the series. I think
this episode would have served as a good episode to lead in to the
finale of the series. Overall, not a bad episode. I thought the
beginning started out suspenseful enough. Kimble getting beat up by
the police in the first three minutes was certainly not anything that
I was expecting. I know we have seen Carol Rossen now several times
in this series but I do like her in this episode. She was definitely
playing the bad girl who was interested primarily in self preservation.
I was also happy to see that there wasn't any kind of romance between
their characters. I would have been greatly disappointed if there had
been. I think this is the most we've seen of the One Armed Man since
the show began and he certainly is an unsavory character, but I still
don't think he's too bright. He doesn't do the obvious with Kimble
and say OK take me to Gerard and let's see which one of us he
believes. I'd like to see Kimble deal with that dilemma because yes,
as we saw Kimble can march the OAM in to the police but the police
didn't especially look all that convinced when Kimble told them that
the OAM killed his wife.
Overall, I think it was a good episode up until that point and I'll
give it a thumbs up and I'll rank it a seven rating.
KELLY
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KEN REVIEWS "A CLEAN AND QUIET TOWN"
It's official. The Fugitive has entered an alternate universe and one
of it's episodes is stuck in a Star Trek nebula. I guess that
Kimble's many travels will land him in a strange town.
I have to make a correction. I said before that 'Storm Center' was
the worst episode of the series. I was wrong. 'Clean and Quiet Town'
is the worst and downright hideous and repulsive.
Absurd-Kimble get's beat up by cops.
Ridiculous-Kimble dragging the OAM into police station. He claims
Johnson killed his wife. Based on what evidence???
Foolish-OAM in a suit.
Unreasonable-One man Oliver Enright controls entire town.
Monotonous-Carol Rossen again??
Batty-Kimble surrenders to police and reveals his name.
Looney-Kimble wants to see Gerard right away.
Goofy-OAM standing in police station with a cartoonish look on his
face.
Am I watching the Fugitive series? Season one we saw a OAM running
from Kimble's house.(Ep.14-Egypt). No words exchanged between OAM and
Kimble.
Ep.19(Search) OAM on bus looks at Kimble. KImble is too late.
Ep.39(Escape) Kimble has amnesia and OAM leaves town.
Ep.77(Wife Killer) OAM in coma and only nods his head to Kimble.
So far the OAM is still a mystery. Kimble still does not know what
happened to Helen that night.
What is the point of "Clean and
Johnson. A fight occurs. Kimble drags Johnson into police station.
Nothing happens. Both Johnson and Kimble are forced out of town. We
the viewers have no idea of what is going on. Is there any hope for
Kimble?
What a mess of a script. Too strange even for the Twilight Zone or
the Outer Limits. My rating-0 Ken
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16448DEATH IS THE DOOR PRIZE REVIEWS VIDEO SCREENCAPS
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bobbynear
Jan 14
COMING NEXT
SUNDAY JANUARY 22
"A CLEAN AND QUIET TOWN"
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ORIGINAL REVIEWS
"DEATH IS THE DOOR PRIZE"
WRITTEN BY OLIVER CRAWFORD
DIRECTED BY DON MEDFORD
ORIGINAL AIR DATE SEPTEMBER 20, 1966
Kimble believes he sees the one-armed man entering an audio visual trade show at a courtyard-style hotel in an undisclosed city.
After he runs into a guest and accidentally takes her wallet, on-site security mistakes him for a pickpocket and takes chase.
Thinking they know he's an escaped convict Kimble tries to jump a fence, but is caught by a guard and has to punch him to get away.
A saleswoman at an exhibit hides Kimble in her room. To complicate things, Kimble's visit was caught on videotape. It is seen by a security guard, an ex-cop who shot a young burglar and desperately needs Kimble to act as a witness at an inquest to prove that he fired in self defense. The guard discovers that Kimble is a fugitive but promises to help him escape.
GUEST STARS
OSSIE DAVIS
LOIS NETTLETON
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OPENING AND CLOSING NARRATIONVi
Narrator: Opening narration. (Viewers see Richard Kimble riding a city bus)
For a fugitive, there must be a wariness in
even the simplest chore. An extra strength
strengthened by the two-fold chase, the fugitive
hunted and the fugitive hunting.
Narrator: closing narration:
(Viewers see Richard Kimble boarding a passenger
bus to leave town.)
A fugitive moves on through anguished tunnels of
time, down dim streets, into dark corners.
And each new day offers fear and frustration, tastes
of honey and hemlock. But if there is hazard there
is also hope.
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VIDEO FOR "DEATH IS THE DOOR PRIZE"
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BOBBY REVIEWS
"DEATH IS THE DOOR PRIZE"
This entire wretched piece of junk can be
summed up in the last moments of this
episode.
Lois Nettleton says to Richard Kimble as
he prepare to board a bus and get out
of town:
"Another farewell scene.
Don"t you hate them"
Yes dear, I do and I deduct points for moments
like this, in fact most of them.
This monstrosity gives us some of the worst
wooden acting, especially from David Janssen
along with other usually reliable actors and
some of the dumbest cops in the history of
cinema and blends them into a poisonous
concoction that just may end the series
right here.
Kimble jumps off a bus to confront a
one armed man who looks nothing like
the real one. A woman living alone immediately
falls for a total stranger, takes him home and
leaves him there along with all of her
possessions and her personal safety.
And that's just for starters.
A spectacular mess of a story that I fell
asleep through at least three times.
I had to keep rewinding the episode
and that just prolonged the agony.
I originally actually gave this a 7 rating
but that was before I received therapy.
Kelly and Ken gave it a 9 and 10 and
it was nice for awhile being in that
padded cell next to them but I managed
to escape and have come to my senses.
All I need now if for Steve to tell me he
liked it and I'll close this group down for
good and claim I never heard of it or
had anything to do with it.
Those two little uninspired pecks on the
cheeck or wherever that David puts
on Lois at the end are appropriate.
Because this god awful embarrassment
is over..
and so is The Fugitive
You can kiss it goodbye
from here on out
They were wrong.
Death is not the door prize here.
The booby prize from
Bobby is
1 -- Well below average
bobby
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KELLY REVIEWS
"DEATH IS THE DOOR PRIZE"
This latest episode is titled Death is the Door Prize. I'll start
off by saying that I think this is definitely one of the better
episodes that we've seen in awhile. This is a rarity that we see
Kimble running and hiding for most of the episode.
I loved the start of the episode as it hooked me in immediately.
Kimble is seen riding a regular bus in a downtown area. He turns to
look outside and he sees the backside of a man with his right arm
missing. Kimble is not one to take that lying down. He's got to
immediately go in and investigate. He gets off the bus and runs to
where the man has walked in.
It's a hotel that's hosting a Hi-Fi Show and Exhibition. Kimble buys
a ticket and runs in. He then bumps right in to a familiar woman. We
just saw Lois Nettleton a few episodes back but I didn't mind as I
like her as an actress. Her purse flies open and her things end up
going everywhere. Kimble apologizes and she tells him that maybe
it's destiny. Kimble jumps up and runs to go find the man, not
realizing he still has her wallet.
He also doesn't realize that some concerned citizen saw him collide
with the woman and he tells the security guard that Kimble is a
pickpocket, so the security guard tells him that he'll be on the
lookout for him.
Kimble realizes that he's got the woman's wallet, but he won't be
deterred from finding the man. He does finally find him but his
search is in vain, because he approaches the man from behind, grabs
him and turns him around, only to find it's not his One Armed Man
because he's not a One Armed Man. He's just a guy who's got a broken
arm and has it in a sling. The man looks at Kimble rather
indignantly and Kimble too embarrassed can't really say anything.
He simply wants to return the woman's wallet at this point. He looks
in the wallet and sees where her exhibit is, and goes there to
return it. When he gets there, he sees that she is demonstrating a
newfangled device for the world of 1966. She's demonstrating a video
recorder. She engages people in conversation and then plays it back
on a TV monitor. I don't know, I have my reservations about whether
this kind of thing will take off.;)
Kimble then approaches her after she finishes demonstrating with
someone and he gives her back her wallet. She sees that all of her
money is there and asks him how he knew to find her and he tells her
the card told of her location. She thanks him and tells him she only
reported it missing to Lost and Found. She didn't want to believe it
was stolen. She introduces herself as Marcia Stone and Kimble tells
her his name is Ed Sanders. She starts to demonstrate the video
recorder to him and he promptly turns it off. She's puzzled, she
tells him that most people like seeing the demonstration and he
explains that he prefers not to be photographed.
Kimble proceeds to leave, but as he does, the security guard Pete,
sees him and wants to question him as he matches the description of
the pickpocket, Kimble is in no mood for questions and he proceeds
to run. This is a very interesting chase sequence because there is
really nowhere to run in this place. All of the exits are covered by
security guards so he really is a rat caught in a maze. He runs to
find a place to hide. He finds a room to go into if he can get his
hand through the wiring to unlock the door and he cuts himself, but
that's not the worst of it. He inadvertently interrupts a burglary
in progress by two teenage boys stealing stereo equipment.
The security guard comes running in, Kimble hides behind the door.
The guard pulls his gun and the boys initially drop the stuff they
are stealing, but one boy doesn't freeze like Pete tells him to and
he ends up getting shot. Meanwhile, Kimble runs for his life as the
other guard comes in. Pete continues the chase.
Kimble finds his way back to Marcia. Marcia sees that he's hurt and
hides him. Pete comes in wanting to know if he's seen a guy matching
Kimble's description come in and she tells him no and Pete leaves.
Marcia lets Kimble out of the room and takes her to her hotel room
and tells him to relax and hide there until at least the next day.
She re-bandages his hand and tells him that she'll take his coat in
to be mended by a good tailor she knows.
Kimble asks her why she's helping him and she explains that she had
two weeks of a paycheck in her wallet and if he hadn't returned it
to her she would have been hurting. He asks her if she wants to know
why he's running and she says yes, but she doesn't know him and he
doesn't know her so she has no right to ask.
Pete goes back to the scene of the crime only to find that the one
boy that he shot is dead. The other boy Gary, is insisting that Pete
killed him for no reason. Pete insists that the boy made a motion to
his back pocket like he was grabbing something, that's why he shot
him and he wasn't trying to kill him.
The detective in charge, Johnny Gaines, played very well by Ossie
Davis wants to believe Pete because Pete is an ex-cop but he's got
to investigate this by the book. Gary is currently not saying
anything at the station until his parents and his lawyer get there.
Johnny tells him he's seen too many TV shows but I'm wondering if
this is around the time when certain rules did start come in to
play, such as Moranda Rights and that for a minor accused of a
crime, you must have at least one of his or her parents there for
the questioning.
On a side note here, Gary is being played by an actor named Kevin
O'Neal. When I first saw Gary, I was thinking that this was a young
Ryan O'Neal and then I saw the closing credits and it said Kevin. I
looked at IMDb.com and sure enough Ryan O'Neal has a brother named
Kevin and Kevin was actually in a small part in Echo of a Nightmare
playing one of the toughs who jumped Kimble. In this episode, he has
significantly more lines.
Pete realizes he's in big trouble and needs Kimble to corroborate
his story because the other guard who came on the scene came on
after Pete pulled the trigger. Pete tells Johnny that he wants to
look at the files of pictures to see if he can recognize who the
pickpocket might be. Johnny informs him that he probably won't find
anything because the pickpocket wasn't a pickpocket.
They just got the report from Lost and Found that the man who took
Marcia Stone's wallet returned it to her. He still wants to look
through the mugs because if he really didn't steal anything, he
wants to know why this guy was so hot to run away. Johnny tells him
he's wasting his time, some people just don't like uniforms or like
to get involved. Pete tells him that it's his to waste and he'll
have a lot more of it to waste if that kid's story gets to stand as
it is.
Pete goes through the files and comes across Kimble's picture and
realizes it's him. Johnny comes in and asks him if he's had any luck
and Pete tells him no. Pete then goes back to see Marcia and
questions her. She admits that yes, he returned the wallet to her
and she told Lost and Found that she got it back. Pete asks her what
his name was and she tells him Ed Sanders. He asks if she can
remember anything else about him. She tells him that he didn't want
to have his face on camera. Pete asks her to rewind the tape so he
can see what she got. She plays it back for him and sure enough it's
Kimble.
Pete then decides to play the detective that he once was and he goes
in to various places asking if they have seen Kimble. He goes in to
one tailor and tells him about the jacket and he tells Pete that a
man didn't bring in the coat for the sleeve to be fixed but a young
woman did. Pete asks who the woman was and he tells her it was
Marcia Stone.
Pete waits the next day outside of the tailor shop and sees Marcia
pick up the coat. He follows her back to her hotel room. Marcia and
Kimble both listen to the news and the news tells that the police
are looking for a man who was a witness in a shooting of a young
man. Marcia realizes that Kimble saw the shooting. Kimble asks if
she's curious as to why he won't go forward to testify. She tells
him of course she's curious, but she's only known him for twenty-
four hours and that's hardly enough time where she can demand that
he tell her his life story.
They have a poignant goodbye and as she leaves the hotel room, Pete
is there and demands to be let in. She resists and won't give him
the key but he grabs it from her and tells her that she's lucky he's
not turning her in for aiding and abetting. He walks in to the hotel
room and sees that Kimble has gone out the window.
He then calls the manager of the hotel and the manager tells him
that there's only one way out of the hotel and that's through the
pool area and he'll stall Kimble until Pete gets there. Pete runs
out of the room and Marcia looks on.
The manager stops Kimble and engages him in conversation long enough
for Pete to get there. Pete takes him off to the side and tells him
he knows he's Dr. Kimble. Pete makes a deal with him and tells him
that if he comes to the police station and corroborates his story,
he'll let him walk away. This is some interesting dialogue here.
Pete tells him that he supposes that Kimble claims he's innocent.
Kimble says that yes he is. Pete acknowledges that the day before he
wouldn't have bought it but now that he's in the predicament that
he's in, he's willing to believe that it's possible.
Kimble wants to know how he can be so sure that Pete will let him
walk away. Pete assures him that Ed Sanders isn't wanted for
anything so why wouldn't he be able to walk away and he has his word
that he'll put his picture right back in the file where he found it.
Kimble finally agrees and we next see Kimble at the police station
corroborating Pete's story. The only one who still insists that Pete
murdered his friend is Gary. Gary's parents are there and his father
finally confronts him and tells him that if he's telling the truth
then he and his mother will stand by him, but if the two men are
telling the truth then he's got to admit it because he's already in
enough trouble as it is with the charge of theft.
Gary finally admits that Pete and Kimble are telling the truth.
Johnny takes a close look at Kimble and asks him if they've met
before and Kimble says, no he doesn't think so. Johnny then says
that's fine and tells him he can go.
Kimble walks out of the room and finds Marcia in the hallway. She
tells him that she followed him and Pete here. She asks Kimble if
everything is all right and he says, yes, but, not quite. Johnny and
Pete come walking out and Johnny tells him to wait he wants to check
something out and tells Pete not to let him leave.
Pete walks up to Kimble and he tells him that he swears he didn't
say anything to Johnny. Johnny is going through the picture files
and grabs on and walks out in the hallway. He apologizes to Kimble
for the inconvenience. He tells him that if he were three inches
shorter and ten years older he'd be the one he was looking for, so
it turns out that Kimble reminded him of someone else.
The last thing we see is Kimble and Marcia at the bus terminal. They
hug each other goodbye and she tells him that whatever he's running
from or looking for, she hopes he finds it. Kimble walks away to get
on the bus.
Overall, I really liked this episode. It had plenty of suspense
right from the beginning where Kimble thought he saw the One Armed
Man, we had a great cat and mouse chase with Kimble feeling quite
caged and then we finally see Kimble walking in to clear Pete of
possible murder or manslaughter charges….only to see that it's not
quite over yet because Johnny thinks that he may have seen Kimble
before but he was mistaken.
This episode definitely left me wondering all the way through. I
also have found myself wondering too if there is a new trend with
season four. I've noticed in the past that David Janssen was seen in
almost every scene in the show and yet for these first two shows of
season four, we've seen the supporting players profiled a little
more than we've seen in the past. I find myself wondering if this
was conscious on the part of the writers because David Janssen
complained about the hours he had to work or if this is just a
coincidence. It will be interesting to see as the season moves ahead.
I found the acting to be very good on all fronts. David Janssen was
good with his expressions and his trying to not look guilty when it
seems evident to everybody else around him that he is. Lois
Nettleton played her part well as someone who was trying to hide
Kimble while pretending to be kind of an airhead about it. I loved
her line when a guard knocked on her door and he said he was looking
for a man and she laughed and said So am I! That was a great
diversion.
Howard De Salva was very good as an ex-cop turned security guard who
was only trying to do his job and had a good deal of determination
to find Kimble to clear him. He said at the beginning to Johnny, You
know I was good cop and I'd never shoot anyone to purposely kill
him. His determination to pound the pavement and investigate all
possibilities of where Kimble might be tells me that he probably was
a good cop.
I liked Ossie Davis as the "By the Book" cop who really didn't want
to investigate his friend but had no choice and if he had to arrest
him he would do it.
I also liked Kevin O'Neal, who obviously hasn't had the career that
his brother Ryan has had but, I liked his portrayal of Gary. I saw a
kid who maybe felt a little guilty that he and his friend were
trying to rip the place off and his friend got killed as a result
and he was trying to alleviate his guilt by pinning it on Pete. It
would have been interesting if we could have learned if it was
Gary's idea to rip off the place, but it was still well done.
I'm giving this episode a thumbs up and I will rank it as a nine
rating.
KELLY
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KEN REVIEWS
"DEATH IS THE DOOR PRIZE"
agree with Kelly on this one. This story kepy my interest from start
to finish.
Usually I object to repeat guest appearances from actresses in
different roles. But I will give Lois Nettleton a pass here. Besides
she is on my wall of fame so I can't be mean to her. She played her
part very well. Not to dull or soapy. But she fell for Kimble's looks.
Puppy love at first sight. I count 20 other women in this series with
the same problem.
Many other actresses could have played the same part. I would have
asked Ann Margaret.
Lois Nettleton set a fugitive record here. She is 0 for 2 as far as
Kimble's love interest. And it only took 3 episodes to come back again.
She was in ep.89(Plain Wrapper.)
Ed
Nelson held the old record. He was in ep14(
10 episodes later in ep.24(Flight.)
I liked this story. The characters of Pete and Johnny were well cast.
These two made the story compelling. Their interaction with each other
added good drama. Pete was faced with a dilemma. He needed Kimble as
his witness. But do I turn him in? I would have reacted the same way.
The tension scene in the police station was well done. Johnny looks
like a good cop. A no nonsense type of guy.
I watched the shooting scene again and again. The boy did reach for
something. At first glance I missed it.
Chase scenes in this series usually work. I liked it when Kimble got
caught. Pete is a good detective.
Marcia Stone is a nice girl here. Kimble should have taken her phone
number and look her up later. Hey Kimble why are you leaving town so
fast. At least take Marcia out to dinner. You owe her that. I agree
with Bob. Tearful goodbye at the end was flat.
The color episode adds to the story. The grass is green and the flowers
have blooms on them.
Good flow to the story. It belongs in Fugitive lore. My rating-10 Ken
16435THE LAST OASIS REVIEWS VIDEO SCREENCAPS
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bobbynear
Jan 7
COMING NEXT
SUNDAY JANUARY 15
"DEATH IS THE DOOR PRIZE"
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ORIGINAL REVIEWS
"THE LAST OASIS"
WRITTEN BY BARRY ORINGER
DIRECTED BY GERALD MAYER
ORIGINAL AIR DATE SEPTEMBER 13, 1966
Shot during a police chase, Kimble seeks refuge
at an orphanage near a Navajo Indian reservation
in Puma County Arizona.
A woman named Annie Johnson removes the bullet and offers Kimble work as a teacher.
The local sheriff Prycer believes Kimble is still in the area and suspects Annie of sheltering the fugitive.
GUEST STARS:
HOPE LANGE
MARK RICHMAN
ARCH JOHNSON
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OPENING AND CLOSING NARRATION
Viewers see two persons - Native Americans - riding
in a jeep in the desert. There is no sign at this point
of Richard Kimble who has been wounded by
a shot and is lying unconscious nearby.
Narrator: A fugitive has many enemies -
the desertt is among them. But the desert
can also bring friends.
Viewers see Richard Kimble beneath
a wooden bridge between the
U.S.A. and Mexico.
Narrator: To Richard Kimble
a border is a dark tunnel whose
other end might lead to a final
encounter with a many-faced
enemy. But for the moment it
leads to safety
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BOBBY REVIEWS "THE LAST OASIS"
Richard Kimble's film noir days of vivid black and white are not only
numbered, but gone. He may find himself on the run in the colorless desert, but it's more colorful than ever.
This lead off episode to season four is so derivative of previous stories, it's almost as though the writer and director were playing a
connect the dots game rather than creating something fresh and interesting.
On the run from the cops, especially a
determined to make a name for himself
deputy sheriff (Tug Of War), Kimble takes refuge in an orphanage (Cry Uncle), meets another beautiful woman (take your pick),convinces her he didn't do it and eventually gives her one of those
furtive hello..goodbye..sorry I can't stay here kisses (take your pick), and then plays the wrong end of target practice as the deputy decides to shoot him rather than take him in (Nicest Fella You'd Ever
Want To Meet).
In fact, the final scenes with Kimble hiding behind rocks while the deputy stands above him taking shots at him looks as if it was filmed
at the very same place that Nicest Fella was.
Hope Lange, looking awfully good despite being stuck out in the desert, plays the first potential love interest of season four. But the two can't stir up enough heat to set fire to a cactus.
The story is incredibly mundane and there isn't a bit of suspense..or
water..anywhere to be found.
Good actors try their best but still appear to be going through the
motions. Even worse...rumour has it that The Fugitive, coming off an Emmy award winning season, has put its best cards on the table and has
nothing left to bet
Welcome to season four. The change to color has no positive effect
whatsoever...
other than to make the series look like every other series on tv in the mid-sixties..and if there is anything that The Fugitive should never do...it's to look like
everything else.
This story is nothing but a mishmash rehash of other
episodes taking a little from here and there to create
a rather uninteresting episode.
The best scene is at the end with our fugitive
scurrying away from the USA/MEXICO border.
Memo to Richard Kinble
Don't come back here unless you learn how to
tunnel not just run. Fifty years later that border
just might end up looking a lot different.
At least that's the rumor.
A colorful thumbs down from me.
My rating on a scale of 0 to 10
3 Below Average
Bobby
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KELLY REVIEWS "THE LAST OASIS"
This latest episode and first one that we get to review in color is
called The Last Oasis. I will start by saying that yes, I see
similarities in this episode to other episodes that I thought were bad, but I think this one might be just a little bit better.
We start by seeing the police arrive at a car that's parked by the train. The deputy feels the car and says that the car is still warm
The sheriff concludes that Kimble must have jumped on the train. The deputy isn't buying that because he actually shot Kimble and it would
be difficult for him to jump the train.
They get back to the station and the sheriff still remains convinced
that Kimble jumped the train and notifies the next town to stop the train and take a look. He tells the deputy whose name is Jimmy Steel
that it’s not his problem anymore. Jimmy isn't taking that for an
answer. Sheriff Prycer asks Jimmy why it's so important that he get Kimble.
Now, I liked this scene and I have to admit I kind of liked Jimmy Steel in this episode. For one thing, Jimmy sort of is reminding me of Gerard. He's relentless, but he doesn’t remind me of a robot like
Gerard is. The differences being, Jimmy doesn’t really know Kimble's history with people or Kimble's case, Kimble hasn't saved Jimmy or
anyone in his family. Jimmy is just a cop doing his job. Kimble's name
is on the wanted poster and he was convicted so he must be guilty.
After all, when you get right down to, practically everybody in prison will tell you they didn't do the crime for which they were convicted,
so from Jimmy's perspective, why should Kimble be any different?
Jimmy also has other motivations. He's not just touting a stupid line
that's gotten way to old in this series of ..I am an instrument of the law and the law says he's guilty. Well, Jimmy explains to Prycer that
his father was a marshal in a very small town for years and he lost a convicted murderer who ended up killing four more people before they
caught him. When he died, nobody grieved for him because nobody cared
that he'd done a good job for them all those years they only remembered him as the stupid marshal who let that murderer get away.
It seems odd that his father was still a marshal to retirement if the
people felt that strongly but, it makes for at least a motivation on
Jimmy's part.
I also found it a little amusing that Jimmy referred to all the other
dumb cops who have been chasing him all over the country and that
Kimble is obviously smarter than they are. I kept expecting him to say
especially that Gerard guy. You know, I think if Gerard had been in
this episode it could have been highly amusing to see Gerard lock
horns with Jimmy. Gerard usually comes to town and throws his weight
around and I think Jimmy would have told him exactly what he could do
with his orders and remind him that he's the idiot cop who keeps losing Kimble.
I also liked Prycer in this episode as well. To a certain degree he
reminded me of Gerard's old boss Capt. Carpenter. I was thinking as I
watched this that this actor would have made a good replacement for
the actor who had to leave the part of Capt. Carpenter for health reasons.
Meanwhile, back in the desert, we see an Indian man driving a jeep
with a small Indian child and they have come out to the desert to find
wood. The small boy named Roger goes back to Sam and tells him he sees
a dead body. Sam initially thinks he’s making it up but Roger insists
there is a body, so Sam walks over and discovers Richard Kimble who
does have a gunshot wound to the leg.
Sam helps Kimble to the car and Kimble is taken to the school and
orphanage that is run by a teacher named Annie Johnson who is played
nicely by Hope Lange. She sees the bullet and tells Kimble that they
should take him to a doctor. Kimble says no, that he can take out the
bullet. Annie tells him that she'll do it. She does it and we get to see some good facials from David Janssen.
Annie later convinces Kimble who calls himself David Morrow, to stay.
She tells him about her father who took off when she was a child and
then both of her brothers left later. She said she used to think that
everybody left but then realized that only some people left. She asks him if he's afraid to stay. She wants him to stay because the kids adore him.
Back in town, Jimmy wants to do some additional looking for Kimble
while Prycer is out of town. They go out to the desert and the other
deputy O'Hara tells him that the desert is big and Kimble could be
anywhere now because it's been ten days. However, Jimmy discovers that
there are some keys in the desert. He picks them up and decides to
have them analyzed.
At the school, Annie and Sam are getting ready to take the kids in to
town for ice cream. They ask David if he
ll come and he tells them no. He's busy weaving hats. Apparently,
Richard Kimble's talents are never ending, now he can weave a perfect
hat! Now, here is where I really would take Kimble to task. Back in
Never Wave Goodbye, he was several states away from Indiana and Gerard
and nobody in California was interested in catching him, so you can
see why he'd stick around. However, he's not that far away from the
town where a psycho cop shot him and yet, he stays at the school.
Now, yes, Annie's sweet and cute and the kids are sweet and we all
know how Kimble loves kids and I think we even get another glimpse
into Kimble’s love for kids when he weaves a new hat for Roger who
lost his old one but honestly, get a clue Kimble! You ought to have
the Fugitive rules worked out by now.
The kids go into town and they are at the ice cream parlor and another
deputy walks in and sees Roger with the hat. He compliments Roger's
hat and Roger tells him that David made it for him. The deputy assumes
that David is a new assistant to Annie. The deputy likes the hat and
thinks his kid would get a kick out of it so he swaps a knife for the hat.
Back at the school, Roger goes in to tell Kimble that he swapped the
hat for the knife and he hoped he didn't mind. Kimble tells him no, he
didn't mind but asked him who the man was that he swapped it with.
Roger tells him he doesn't know other than he had a star on his shirt.
I find it hard to believe that Roger didn't realize it was a
policeman, but it makes for good drama.
Back at the police station, Jimmy is looking at a map as he's telling O'Hara that the prints matched Kimble's prints so he must be in the
area. The other deputy walks in with the hat and Jimmy asks where he
got that. He tells him that he swapped it with an Indian kid from the
orphanage. He said that someone named David made it. He assumed that
there must be a new assistant. Jimmy tells him that there is no new
assistant at the school so it must be Kimble.
That night, Kimble is in his room and the kids want him to come out to
a ceremony to induct him into the tribe. Annie goes to get him and
Kimble tells her he has to leave. Annie is quite unhappy and wants to
know why. Kimble just tells her he has to go. She tells him he's going
to have to face what he's running from some day. Kimble replies some
day but he's obviously not going to do it today.
The next morning, Jimmy arrives wanting to know about David and Annie
won't say anything. Jimmy reminds her that this school is not on the
reservation and he's within his jurisdiction. Annie reminds him that
it's private property and he needs a warrant. He provides her one.
Jimmy reminds her that the police need to uphold the law. Annie reminds him that the law wasn't there to protect these children's
fathers who died in the gulch. Now I really didn't catch the
significance of that statement, but something obviously happened to a
lot of Indians and Annie lost her respect for law enforcement as a
result. It would have been nice if that had been explained a little better.
Jimmy shows Annie Kimble's picture and she asks what he's wanted for.
Jimmy tells her that he murdered his wife. Annie is dumbstruck by the
revelation. Jimmy asks her how long Kimble was there and she replies
about twelve days. He asks her when he left. She tells him around nine
o’clock last night. He asks where he was headed and she tells them
north.
Prycer arrives and tells Jimmy to start doing roadblocks and to notify
the next town.
Apparently Annie, is now having second thoughts. We see her taking
supplies and a gun to the jeep and taking off. She catches up to
Kimble and tells them that they’re waiting for him in the next town.
Kimble gets in and she asks him if he really did kill his wife and he
replies no. That’s enough for Annie and she takes off the opposite
direction with him.
Annie tells him that she'll take him to the border and to go a certain
town and find person and to tell him that Annie sent him. He'll take
care of him. We then see the car conveniently die. So they have to
head for the border through the mountains.
We see them cooking in a cave and Kimble laments that he'd like to
stay with Annie at the school. If Annie only knew how many other women
he's had this similar conversation with, she'd probably throw dirt in
his face but we then get the obligatory kiss. I would have liked this
better if Annie was just helping Kimble as a friend, simply because
she saw how he was at the school with the kids and simply deducted
that he couldn't kill anyone. They only knew each other twelve days
after all.
In the meantime, Jimmy has found the jeep and deducts that they went
through the mountains. The next morning, Jimmy is out in a helicopter
looking for Kimble. Kimble is out of the cave looking for wood when
the helicopter comes up. Jimmy sees Kimble run back to the cave and he
tells the pilot to set him down so he can go get Kimble. The pilot
reminds him that they were only supposed to look for Kimble and if
they spotted him to report his position. Jimmy reminds him that he is
supposed to take orders from him. The helicopter sets down and Jimmy
comes out with his shot gun. He yells to Kimble that he knows that
he's in there and to come out with his hands up.
Kimble has no choice but to make a run for it so he comes out and
runs. Jimmy shoots him and appears to graze him this time. Kimble
rolls down and Jimmy takes aim and is ready to take Kimble out for
good when we hear another gun behind Jimmy and Annie yelling at Jimmy
to drop his gun.
Jimmy reminds Annie that it's against the law to do what she's doing.
She also reminds him that it's also against the law to shoot an
unarmed man who's not resisting arrest at the moment. Jimmy reminds
Annie that Kimble is a murderer and Annie reminds him that he'll be a
murderer if he pulls the trigger and they'll just have to see who the
DA believes.
Jimmy tells Annie that he doesn't believe she'll shoot him and she's
asks what makes him so sure. Jimmy finally relents and puts down his
gun and Kimble hobbles away. Annie then tells Jimmy to just sit and
relax while they wait for his friends to show up.
The epilog shows Jimmy bringing Annie back to the school. Apparently
neither one told on each other because Jimmy is still a cop and Annie
hasn't been arrested for aiding and abetting. Jimmy thanks Annie for
giving him a second chance at being a good cop. Annie asks him if he
would have really shot Kimble and he says that he would have this
morning but not now. He asks Annie if she really would have shot him
and she tells him that she'll see him later.
The last thing we see is Kimble sneaking over the border into Mexico.
Now, I will agree with Bobbynear that this episode certainly has
elements of both Tug of War and Nicest Fella You'd Ever Want to Meet
and Annie kind of reminded me initially of Janet in Angels Travel
Lonely Roads Part 2, however, I think this was a better written
episode than all three of those episodes.
I found Jimmy's character interesting and in the end, he realized that
he needed to think things through logically instead of just letting
his emotions take over and I also got the impression that he realized
too that maybe some times it's better to walk away from a case as
opposed to letting it consume you and quite possibly destroy you. Had
he killed Kimble in cold blood like he wanted to, he might have had to
kill Annie as well to cover up what he did and I think in the end he
realized he would have become what he was supposedly trying to protect
people from.
On the character of Annie, initially I didn't really find her all that
interesting but in the end she turned out to be one tough babe
although, I did predict what was going to happen. When Kimble ran out
of the cave, it basically ended the only way it could with Annie
coming out and pulling her gun on Jimmy but this is the first woman
we've encountered who was ready to shoot a law enforcement officer to
let Kimble go. Annie is right up there with gutsy Kate who tried to
throw a pitchfork into Gerard, so Annie gets high points with me on
that front. As for the other elements, seeing Kimble interacting with
the kids is always nice but it wasn't really anything new other than
we now know that he's an expert hat weaver.
I'm going to give this episode a six rating. It was nothing original,
but for rehashing some old scripts,
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Dec 31, 2016
COMING NEXT
SUNDAY JANUARY 8
"THE LAST OASIS"
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ORIGINAL REVIEWS
"CORALEE"
WRITTEN BY JOY DEXTER
DIRECTED BY JERRY HOPPER
ORIGINAL AIR DATE APRIL 26, 1966
After a diver dies in an underwater mishap, Kimble comes to the defense of the diver's girlfriend who the locals believe is a jinx. Kimble knows that the death may have been due to negligence, knowledge that puts him in jeopardy.
GUEST STARS
ANTOINETTE BOWER
MURRAY HAMILTON
DABNEY COLEMAN
PATRICIA SMITH
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OPENING AND CLOSING NARRATION
OPENING NARRATION
Viewers see Richard Kimble working on a barge.
NARRATOR: A derrick barge used for underwater
salvage work off the coast of Southern California.
Richard Kimble has taken the name of
Tony Carter and unknowingly taken the
hand of trouble.
CLOSING NARRATION
Viewers see Richard Kimble on a highway flagging
down a passenger bus labeled Corina Bus Lines.
NARRATOR:
The highway north carries a fugitive to freedom.
It is a freedom shadowed by his own special
jinx. He cannot look back now, he can only look
ahead to the day when that jinx will ultimately
be broken.
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BOBBY REVIEWS "CORALEE"
Well I'm not about to waste my time discussing any aspect of this appallingly deadly, tedious, boring story other than to point out yet again, the incredible stupidity of the producers and their inability to come up with a suitable season ending episode.
This may well be the worst example of them all. At the end of an Emmy award winning season with some of the most classic tv episodes ever presented up to that time, (Landscape, Wife Killer, The 2130), with the show's original producer, Alan Armer leaving and on the eve of changing the entire look of the series by going to color, The Fugitive needs some link to the past. It needs to give the audience some reason some reminder of why they sat through 90 hours and why they should do another 30. Instead they present this dreadful story that has absolutely nothing to do with Kimble, Gerard, the one-armed man or the basic premise of the series.
Ed Robertson in his book, "The Fugitive Recaptured" relates the story that filming of this watery junk was extremely unpleasant for the cast and crew and though it was filmed early in the season, they cast it aside and shoved it in at the end of season three. If only they had shoved it into the water instead
Another Kimble girlfriend and one of the very worst. No screen chemistry between the two of them at all. She's the world's most boring waitress and I would sooner send Kimble off with Sophie (Somebody To Remember) or even Norma Sessions (Brass Ring), when she gets out of prison, or even back to death row alone than burden him with this. What were these people thinking?
The Fugitive makes cinematic history with this
episode. It's the only one filmed totally in
slow motion. There is some humor though.
Kimble in that diving outfit is laughable.
It would have been even more laughable
if when they tugged on that line to get Kimble
to come up, Gerard would have shown
up instead.
Some episodes have promise at the beginning
and some dive to the bottom immediately
like this one which goes down to the
bottom faster than The Titanic.
My rating on a scale of 0 to 10
0 Totally Without Merit
Bobby
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KELLY REVIEWS "CORALEE"
This latest episode is called Coralee. I guess I'll start from the
beginning of this episode by saying first off, this episode in a
very small way reminded me a little bit of Brass Ring. We see Kimble
outside a lot in this episode like we did in Brass Ring. They did
quite a bit of location shooting by the looks of this episode so I
find it a little unique from that perspective.
We start by seeing Kimble, who's calling himself Tony Carter working
on barge. Things start out pleasant enough when the man who's
working below loses his footing and drowns. We as usual see Kimble
do nothing to aid in the recovery of this young man. Everybody else
is pulling on the man's life line while Kimble stands back and
simply looks "concerned."
Kimble then discovers that the accident might have been avoidable
because the helmet the that man was wearing shows a bit of corrosion
and it appears that it might have been an avoidable accident.
Kimble's boss, Joe immediately grabs the helmet and throws it in the
water.
They go back to the shore and Joe's wife Lucille is there. Lucille
was Johnny's sister and she's devastated to lose her brother. She
then turns to a very pretty woman standing on the pier and asks her
why she couldn't stay away from Johnny. Kimble looks at her and is
immediately taken by her beauty. Who can blame him? This is Coralee
Reynolds and she's played by a very pretty actress by the name of
Antoinette Bower. I would have to say that she's definitely one of
the prettier ladies we've seen on this series I'd rank her looks up
there with Susan Oliver.
In fact, Antoinette Bower almost looks miscast. Here you have a
gorgeous woman who could probably make a good living as a model as I
noticed in one scene she even seems to walk like a runway model and
yet, she's wasting her life in this hick town waiting on tables.
We then see Coralee at work in a diner and Kimble walks in and
orders coffee. We then see Joe and another diver come in and they
refuse to take coffee from Coralee. The owner tells her to take the
day off and she walks out in disgust.
Well, Kimble can't resist a pretty face as we all knowwell at least
most of the time he can't resist a pretty face. He runs after her
and asks her what it's all about and she tell him nothing. He tells
her he's got a shoulder to cry on if she needs one. She tells him
she already has two shoulders of her own.
Kimble walks away. Later, however, Coralee shows up at his room as
it turns out they are rooming in the same place. She apologizes for
being rude to him earlier. Kimble tells her that it's OK. She tells
him that she's bad news and he tells her that he'll be leaving soon
so she's not going to do any harm to him.
We then see everybody at Johnny's funeral and afterwards, Joe is
extremely worried because there's going to be an investigation. His
wife Lucille is worried as well because they went through this a
year ago and if it happens again it will break them completely
Kimble overhears some of this but then walks away when it's apparent
that they don't want him in on the conversation.
Coralee goes back to work and her boss who was her father's business
partner tells her that she's got to leave because when she's around,
people don't want to come in and eat and he can't take the loss in
business, but then does an about face and tells her that she can
still finish out the week.
We then see Kimble sitting on a chair on the front porch. Coralee
walks out and tells Kimble that she came to get some air. Kimble
stands up, grabs her and kisses her. Now, maybe it's just me but why
did he do that? I saw no motivation at all. It made about as much
sense as when he kissed Marcie in that dreadful episode Storm
Center. It isn't just a friendly kiss either, it's deep passion. Now
I could buy it a little more if we'd seen more than two brief scenes
between these two.
We then see these two go back to the diner to get coffee, why I
don't know because it's obvious everybody in the diner except for
maybe the sheriff dislikes Coralee. Joe sees them together and
laments that he wished that Tony would just go away because he
doesn't want him around for the investigation. His friend Pete picks
up on it and picks a fight with Kimble and punches him.
Kimble certainly has a knack for being able to punch guys out in
certain episodes but yet there are other episodes where he looks
completely inept at defending himself like this one. Anyway, the
Sheriff George breaks it up and Coralee asks for the first aid kit.
Kimble puts some disinfectant on his face where he was hit and out
the door they go.
Coralee then tells Kimble by the water that everybody around her
dies and people think she's a jinx. Kimble tells her there's no such
thing as a jinx. She relates that she was out on her father's boat
when he drowned and there was another boy before Johnny who also
drowned. Kimble tells her that it was just a coincidence. She tells
him she dated Johnny and now he's dead.
Kimble tells her that he's more of a jinx. He's wanted by the police
and that's why he can't stay much longer. She tries to get more
information out of him and Kimble responds by passionately kissing
her.
We see more of Joe lamenting about Tony and everybody is reassuring
him that it was just an accident and what could Tony possibly say?
We then see Coralee walking along the beach and she sees Kimble
sitting on the rocks.. She walks up to him and he once again
passionately kisses her. These two are acting like a couple of
lovesick teenagers.
We then see Joe coming home to Lucille drunk and he tells Lucille
that Tony's going to ruin him and he's got to find a way to stop
Tony from telling the investigators about the accident.
Lucille then goes to see Coralee and apologizes to her for blaming
Johnny's death on her. She then tells Coralee to please stop Tony
from going to work the next day as she's afraid that Tony knows
something about Johnny's accident and that Joe will try to hurt him.
The next morning Coralee tells Kimble what Lucille said and Kimble
blows it off as her being worried and that he'll be fine. Coralee
isn't convinced. She's at work and George the sheriff comes in and
she asks him if he could take a boat out to the barge and get Tony
off of there. George tells her that he can't go out there without
cause.
Coralee tells him that he's wanted by the police for something.
George tells her that he could go out there if he knew what it was
for and who he was. Coralee grabs the bottle of disinfectant and
tells him that his fingerprints are on it. George takes it and tells
her he'll get right on it.
We then see Kimble on the barge and he's being told by Joe that he
needs him down under the water. Kimble tells him he's not qualified
to be a commercial diver and Joe tells him he's going to do it
anyway..
The police then arrive at the diner and George tells Coralee that
the prints are those of Richard Kimble and he was convicted of
murdering his wife. Coralee gets wide eyed at this bit of news. The
police take off and she gets on the phone to marine
operatorapparently, with the way Kimble kisses, he couldn't possibly
be a murderer.
The radio on the barge goes on and Kimble just happens to answer it.
He tells Joe that they want some more buoys out there as there are
some smaller boats in the area. Kimble gets in the wetsuit and goes
overboard as he sees the police coming.
The police come out and tell Joe that Tony Carter is actually
Richard Kimble who's wanted for murder. Joe tells him that Kimble is
under the water. George tells him to yank on the life line to tell
him to come up. The life line gets yanked but no Kimble. Instead
what comes up is the helmet that Johnny was wearing which Pete
conveniently divulges to the police. George immediately says to keep
it for the investigators.
Kimble meanwhile is swimming away to safety and there's Coralee in a
boat waiting for him. Kimble jumps in and off they go. The last
thing we see is Coralee driving him to where he can catch a bus.
Where he got the good clothes and a new suitcase is anyone's guess.
Coralee calls him Tony as they kiss for the last time and Kimble
says, no more Tony and on the bus he goes, but not before telling
Coralee that she broke the jinx..
OK, my question to Kimble is how did Coralee break the jinx? I can
see it now, everybody is going to say that the convicted murderer
stayed in town because of Coralee and boy is she ever more of a jinx
than ever.
I think this is one of those episodes that had an interesting
premise to start with and even had a mildly suspenseful ending but
the middle really fell flat mainly because nothing was really
happening other than Kimble and Coralee were acting like a couple of
teenagers.
At least in Brass Ring it was established that he had been there for
awhile taking care of Leslie before he started putting the moves on
Norma Sessions, but here, Coralee's boyfriend is barely cold and
Kimble can't get enough of her.
I thought the beginning was interesting. I thought there'd be a
little more to the accident angle. I thought maybe we were going to
uncover perhaps that a murder had been committed to Johnny. I
thought maybe Coralee was going to turn out to be some black widow
chick who kills the people she gets close to, but to no avail. It's
just an accident and otherwise intelligent people think a gorgeous
woman is to blame. I thought we had left the dark ages where people
believed in superstitions a few centuries ago but I guess not.
I wonder if Kimble ever found out that it was Coralee who turned him
in? Would he really be telling her that she wasn't a jinx any
longer? It turns out she was kind of a jinx for him in the final
analysis. Was Joe really planning to harm Kimble? Who knows? Joe
really didn't seem like a violent person, just one who talked a lot
and what happened at the hearing? I would have liked to see how that
got resolved.
Anyway, my rating for this is a five. I give it an average rating at
best.. I thought the acting was OK and I did enjoy the location
scenes, we don't get scenes like that very often so it was a good
change of pace.
I know that Kimble always inadvertently is supposed to help someone
out, but in the end did he really help out Coralee? I don't know
that too many people are going change their opinion of her and as
far as we know she's still going to be out of a job at the end of
the week so how was Coralee helped? The world will never know.
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KEN REVIEWS "CORALEE"
Great Scott! What an exciting, thrilling, suspenseful climax to
season three. Kimble is stuck on a moving train chasing the one-armed
man who is clinging on to the rail for dear life. Gerard is chasing
Kimble who is running on top of the train helping a family in
distress. The closing scene fades into darkness as the train crashes
on the bridge. What will happen next?
Whoops- I am dreaming again. Instead I need to force myself to watch
an episode titled 'Coralee.' Kimble is working on a fishing boat. Bad
idea Kimble. After three years on the run have you not learned your
lesson yet. What if the police coast guard learn you are on the boat.
How do you plan on escaping? Swimming to shore will not work.
I agree with Bob. Dreadful story. All Fugitive producers should have
gotten a pay cut. What were they thinking. The series is renewed for
season four. End the season with 'The 2130.' Even 'Ill Wind' would
have been acceptable. Gerard's famous line to end the season-"Kimble,
Kimble, come back." "Wife Killer' would be a good ending.
Even 'Running Scared' is a nice ending. Kimble hugs Donna and sees
Gerard. He runs through the basketball arena and barely escapes.
Put "Coralee' at number 66 or 70. Not episode 90.
I agree with Kitty that Antoinette Bower was an interesting choice to
play Coralee. I am sure that David Janssen requested another love
interest. Not that many in season three.
Okay fellow members I have a surprise. After watching this episode a
couple of times I am convinced that Coralee is the match that Richard
Kimble has been waiting for. We have discussed many times on this
board who Kimble should walk away with at the end of his run. Think
about all the women he has come across. In 90 episodes there are
probably 20 to choose from.
Monica Wells? No. She has a child.
Karen? No. She had doubts in the cave. Besides she deserves better.
Ellie? No. She's a liar.
Sophie? No. She's a theif.
Marcie? No. Her real name is Bendict Arnold.
Aimee? No. Kimble wants her to choose her boss. She desrves better.
Norma? No. She is in jail for murder.
Kate? No. Not a good match.
That leaves Coralee. She is pretty but dull, boring, and lonely.
Kimble is quiet, keeps to himself, and never talks about his wife.
Guess what. They have the same profile on E-Harmony.com. Kimble and
Coralee can retire in the
waves come in. They can be quiet and live a happy life together.
My rating-0 for the story. But a rating of 8 for solving the problem
of who Kimble should end up with. So my rating jumps to 4.
Memo- Congratulations Bob and Kitty for completing 90 episode reviews
on this series. Only 28 more to go until 'The Judgment.' Hang in
there. Ken
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bobbynear
Dec 24, 2016
COMING NEXT
SUNDAY JANUARY 1, 2017
"CORALEE"
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ORIGINAL REVIEWS
"IN A PLAIN PAPER WRAPPER"
DIRECTED BY RICHARD DONNER
TELEPLAY BY JOHN KNEUBUHL
STORY BY JACKSON GILLIS AND GLEN A LARSON
ORIGINAL AIR DATE APRIL 19, 1966
Richard Kimble, working as a bartender in a local diner, becomes involved with waitress Susan Cartwright. However their growing romance is complicated by the arrival of Susan's orphaned nephew Gary, who is trying to break into a small group of local boys. When Gary recognizes Kimble, he tells the boys of his find and they decide to capture him with a rifle they purchase from a magazine ad. Meanwhile Susan's social worker Mr. Shaw investigates her and her ability to raise Gary.
GUEST STARS
KURT RUSSELL
LOIS NETTLETON
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OPENING AND CLOSING NARRATION
Narrator: (Opening Narration. Viewers see
three young boys pooling their resources
to purchase a mail order .303 carbine from
The Teton Firearms Company)
A target may be paper, an animal,
or a man. To a gun it makes no difference,
nor does it care who pulls the trigger or why.
(Viewers see Richard Kimble walking down
the street, on his way to work as a bartender
at the Little Vienna Restaurant)
To Richard Kimble, a fugitive, guns are a
familiar enemy, for he is always the targeet.
A target for which the law has issued a
mandate: if necessary, shoot to kill.
Narrator: (Closing Narration. Viewers see
Richard Kimble boarding a passenger bus labeled
"Iroquois Bus Line")
Love needs time to grow. Yesterday a need that
found hope in a look, a word, a touching of
hands is today denied by flight, a flight
from guns. Today's guns are already miles
behind but the need remains.
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THE VIDEO FOR "IN A PLAIN PAPER WRAPPER'
CAN BE FOUND ON THIS LIST:
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BOBBY REVIEWS
"IN A PLAIN PAPER WRAPPER"
Having already saved every dysfunctional person in the
country, Kimble now takes on gun control and second
amendment rights.
The man is nothing if not ahead of his time.
I thought the most interesting scene was between Kimble and Susan
when he informs her he has to leave. We've seen this dozens of times
of course and the scene is almost a duplicate of the one with Monica
Wells in the pilot episode.
But Kimble does take a few minutes to confront two issues that plague
him and those around him throughout the series.
First and foremost...the issue of leaving all of these women behind.
It seems to me that Kimble never takes any responsibility for leading
these women on when he knows it's all going nowhere. For instance, he
reminds Susan, "I told you that one day this would happen".
Oh really? Well how about not letting it happen in the first place?
Kimble sometimes acts and sounds like a man with a disease, not
necessarily fatal, but doomed to ruin every love affair. He puts out
the warning, but these women just refuse to listen. "Oh yes..I know
I'm incredibly charming and good looking and you can't resist me, but
I'm telling you now it can't last so don't blame me when I have to
run away".
Perhaps most interesting of all, Kimble when asked by Susan if there
is another woman, admits that there is.....his wife.
Oh yes...the wife...wasn't she named Helen or something? I forget.
It's strange that the producers constantly refuse to make Helen a
part of this series through the use of flashbacks so we know next to
nothing about her, but they don't shy away from pointing out that it
all started with her.
Of course it did, but poor Helen may be the most abused character in
tv history.
She's there but she's not there.
She's simply a black cloud always hanging over Kimble's head, causing
him trouble long after she's gone. Sometimes I wonder if the real
reason Kimble is in this mess is not Fred Johnson, or Gerard...but
the wife..Helen...I believe is her name.
I've seen worse in this series than this story, but it might have
been more interesting and created a little more suspense if the kids
had taken Kimble hostage with that gun rather than popping up out of
some bushes in the middle of the street expecting to take him down on
the spot. But they weren't all that bright.
and this story is not all that new or interesting.
What is this story about?
Kids being reckless with guns?
Will they shoot each other?
Will they shoot that dog?
Is this a love story?
The two have no onscreen chemistry
at all..even enough to light a match.
It's just another easy in, easy out
for Kimble.
His willingness to tell his true story
to this woman is absurd.
FANTASY DIALOGUE
Kimble: "I've been convicted of killing
my wife. Everyone thinks I did it."
Susan: "Oh that's OK
we all have bad days now and then."
I'm starting to see why Helen
was always so angry.
My rating -- 2 well below average
bobby
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KELLY REVIEWS
"IN A PLAIN PAPER WRAPPER"
This latest episode is titled "In a Plain Paper Wrapper". As I
watched it, I couldn't help but wonder if the writer of this story
was making a political statement about how easy it was in the 1960's
to obtain a gun.
We also see the return of a couple of actors we've see before. We see
Lois Nettleton from "Man on a String" and we see Kurt Russell, who's
now a little bit older and a little bit taller than he was in the
episode, Nemesis.
Kurt Russell is the first person we see in this episode as the camera
zooms on three boys, the oldest played by Kurt Russell whose name is
Eddie, is looking intently at some kind of magazine and one of the
boys has brought him money. He's thrilled that they now have money
for the item, but they are still short $2.75 for shipping.
The three boys are disappointed that they don't have enough for
shipping but, Eddie vows to find the money somehow so they can make
the purchase. The camera then zooms in on the magazine and we see
that they are intent on buying a gun, a rifle to be exact.
The scene then switches to a restaurant where Kimble is working and
he's currently calling himself Bob Stoddard. He is working as a
bartender here. This might be the first bartending job I've seen him
have since "Fear in a Desert City". We then see a waitress walk in by
the name of Susan Cartwright who's played by Lois Nettleton. She's
telling a young boy about the age of twelve to run along and find
some kids his age to play with.
I found that to be awfully trusting. She's just taking it for granted
that Gary is going to find nice kids to hang out with on the street.
What a different mentality from today. Susan tells Kimble that Gary
arrived the night before and it's been a rough start. The case worker
handed him to her at the airport and they spent the rest of the
evening staring at each other.
Apparently, Gary is the son of Susan's sister and her husband and
they were killed in a car accident and Gary was thrown out of a
foster home so she's now stuck with him as she puts it. She's not
sure about the single parent thing.
Gary is out walking on the street and comes across Gary and his two
friends, he tries to befriend one of them and is promptly told to get
lost, however, Eddie sees a prime opportunity to get that $2.75 that
he wants. He tells Gary that he can be part of their group but
there's an initiation fee of $2.75. Gary tells him he doesn't have
any money and that he just moved in with his aunt. Eddie suggests he
get the money from his aunt and then to bring it to them at their
meeting place. Gary isn't sure if he can do that and Eddie tells him
so long, so Gary desperate for a place to belong goes back to the
restaurant.
He sees Susan and asks for an allowance. She tells him that they'll
discuss it later, right now she's got to get ready for the restaurant
to open. She walks away and Gary sees a lot of change sitting on a
tray. He walks up to it and grabs a bunch of quarters. Kimble who's
coming up from behind the bar sees Gary taking the money and yells to
him. Gary sees Kimble and gets a huge look of fear on his face and he
knocks over some dishes as he runs out of the restaurant.
The restaurant owner asks Kimble about Gary stealing the quarters and
that there must have been three dollars worth that he got. Kimble
reaches in to his pocket and gives him the three dollars and tells
him not to bother Susan.
We then see Gary giving the money to Eddie and he tells them that he
keeps thinking he knows Mr. Stoddard from somewhere. He thinks he's
wanted for killing someone and that it was in all of the newspapers.
Eddie tells him that he's crazy and gives him his left over quarter.
Gary goes to the library and comes back with a photocopy of the
newspaper showing Kimble's picture.
Eddie gets an idea, he tells everybody that he'll use the gun to
capture Kimble. He tells Gary to go and mail in the money and the
order form and that he'll be in charge of going to the post office to
see if it's arrived. Gary dutifully goes to the mailbox and puts the
envelope in.
Meanwhile, back at the restaurant, Kimble tells Susan he'll come over
and see her and Gary that night. Kimble arrives with food and when
Susan asks Gary to come out and shake Mr. Stoddard's hand Gary
refuses and runs back in to the kitchen. Susan demands that Gary
apologize for being so rude, but he refuses.
Kimble decides to make a graceful exit. The next day, Susan tells
Kimble she knows about him giving the boss the three dollars that
Gary stole and she insists on paying him back. Kimble suggest that he
and Gary go see a movie the next day. Susan has to meet with the case
worker Mr. Shaw.
We then see Susan in a car with Mr. Shaw who's telling her that if
she can't handle the situation with Gary, they can put him back in a
foster home. Susan makes the flippant remark that they'll just throw
him out of that one as well. Mr. Shaw then tells her that the last
foster home was their fault. The people he was with were only
interested in getting the state money. They spend none of it on Gary.
Susan then looks worried. Shaw then asks her if she's got a steady
man friend and she says that she and Mr. Stoddard aren't real
serious. Shaw tells her that some people look down on a single woman
with a child but in her case since she's his biological aunt it
shouldn't be an issue.
They get back to Susan's place and Kimble and Gary aren't there.
Susan offers him a cup of coffee when Kimble and Gary show up. Gary
is all smiles. Shaw wants to talk to Gary alone. Susan takes Kimble
in the kitchen and tells him that she's worried that they'll take
Gary away from her because she doesn't have a husband.. Kimble is
very noncommittal. He tells her that he can't make any guarantees.
She asks him how it went with Gary and he tells her not real well.
We then see Gary emerging the next day from the post office with the
gun that he's sent away for. All of the kids are excited. There's
just one problem, no bullets came with the gun, they have to get
those separately.
Back at the restaurant, Shaw walks in and starts to ask Kimble
questions about his past. Kimble inquires why and Shaw explains that
he's a close friend of Susan's and he has to check out her friends.
Gary implied to him that everything was fine when they went to the
movie but he'd like to hear more from Kimble. Kimble tells him that
he was born in Phoenix AZ along with some other wild tales.
Eddie and his two compatriots are in a burger joint and his one
friend Rick comes up with an idea of how to get bullets for the gun.
He motions for the newspaper man to come over and sit with them. He
asks Rick how it's going and Rick tells him not too well. He proceeds
to spin a tale that his brother want to go hunting tomorrow and gave
him a dollar to pick up some bullets for his gun, but the gun shop
won't sell them to him because he's not over the age of eighteen. The
newspaperman takes pity on him and tells him that he'll get the
bullets for him. Rick gives Eddie a wink as they walk out.
As Kimble is leaving the restaurant, he tells Susan that they need to
talk. They go back to Susan's place unaware that Gary is in the
kitchen hiding. Kimble proceeds to tell her that he has to leave and
they can't see each other any longer. Susan is crushed by this as she
tells him she knew there were no strings attached but that she's now
in love with him and why can't they be together with Gary. He
explains that Shaw asked a lot of questions about him that he lied
about.
She could lose Gary if they find out about him which they will at some point when they try to do a background check on him. She asks him to explain so Kimble tells her that he was convicted of killing his wife but that he didn't do it. He escaped and he's been running ever since.
Gary hears all of this in the kitchen and sees Eddie and the other two walking toward where Kimble lives with the gun. Gary climbs out of the window and runs after them and tells them that they can't turn Kimble in because he didn't kill anyone. They don't believe him and keep going. Gary runs back to Susan's and asks where Mr. Stoddard is and Susan tells him he just left a few minutes ago.
Gary runs out of the house as Susan is calling him. Kimble approaches his boarding house as Eddie stands up with his two friends and tells him to put his hands up and that they know who he is. A neighbor lady across the street sees what's going on and looks horrified. Before she can do anything, Gary runs up and yells to him to not shoot him.
Gary and Eddie struggle for the gun and they fall in the bushes and we hear the gun go off.
Eddie stands up and is convinced that he's killed Gary. Kimble runs up to Gary to check him out and tells Eddie that it's only Gary's arm and he'll be fine. The lady across the street phones the police.
Kimble picks up Gary and puts him on the chair on the porch and Kimble proceeds to make some kind of splint. The police sirens are coming and Gary begs everybody not to tell the police who Kimble really is. He tells Eddie that they'll say that they just found the gun in the bushes and that he Gary was just playing around and accidentally shot himself.
The police arrive and Kimble tells them that he'll call for an ambulance. The police demand to know what happened. The one kid Rick
tells him that they were just playing around and it was an accident.
The police want to know how they came in to possession of this gun and Eddie steps up and says, he ordered it out of a catalogue and it's his gun.
The police take the three boys off in the squad car as the ambulance arrives to take Gary to the hospital. We then see the two police officers lamenting about how easy it is for a kid to get a hold of a gun.
The last thing we see is Shaw and Susan heading to court and Gary's got his arm in a sling. Susan is worried that Gary will be taken away from her but Shaw tells her that while this is a serious matter, he doesn't think it will come to that. Gary reaches up and gives his aunt Susan a kiss goodbye to symbolize they really are becoming a family and it's heavily implied that Shaw likes Susan so while it may not have worked out with Kimble it appears that Susan will probably
end up with Shaw which isn't necessarily bad. He seemed like a nice good looking guy.
Kimble gets to ride a bus out of town, as usual.
I thought this episode was pretty good. The only complaint I really have with it is its ending. It seemed too good to be true. Gary, it's established doesn't trust Kimble because he thinks he is a killer, but then all of a sudden has a change of heart just because he hears Kimble tell Susan that he's innocent. The scene of Gary trying to convince Eddie not to pull the gun on Kimble might have been a little more convincing if we had actually seen a scene where Kimble and Gary
were getting along and Gary was enjoying his company.
I also found it hard to believe at the end that Eddie would fess up and tell the police that he was the one who ordered the gun. Eddie really didn't seem like a would be criminal with a heart of gold just trying to break out so I think it falls short in that respect, otherwise I didn't really have a problem with the rest of it. I actually found it refreshing to see Kimble dating a woman who wasn't
a basket case like say, Laurel in "Middle of a Heat Wave".
Susan was just a nice woman trying to make a living and provide a
stable home for her nephew. That was a refreshing change, and when
Kimble broke up with her, while she wasn't happy about it, she wasn't
going to go off and driving somewhere to get in to serious trouble
like Laurel.
Over all, I'd give this a thumbs up and a rating of a six. I can't
rate it any higher because I just found Gary's transformation a
little too quick with no real reason behind it. With Susan I could
buy her reaction because it was established that she'd been dating
Kimble for awhile, but with Gary he just met the man and was scared
of him and was trying to avoid him.
He obviously lied to Shaw about the movie so that he could stay with
Susan even though Kimble was giving him the creeps.
It's still an episode worth a look though.
KELLY
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KEN REVIEWS
"IN A PLAIN PAPER WRAPPER"
Still on a high from ep.87 The 2130. As a fan I was hoping for a
thrilling climax and conclusion to season three. Remember this is the
season that gave us true classics such as 'Landscape, Wife Killer, Ill
Wind, and The 2130.'
But the writers and producers are back to their old tricks again. The
end of season two had two duds. Remember a lemon and a tiger. This time
someone in the board room suggests a cliffhanger two part suspense to
end season three. He is overuled 20-1 because we need another set of
looney kids to fill an episode. (Jenny ep.2- The Witch and Kenny ep.75-
When the Wind Blows) are not enough. Let's add three little boys to the
Fugitive story. Add some suspense with a shotgun. Close call for
Kimble. Oh Hum.
I agree with Bob about the character of Susan. Lois Nettleton is a fine
actress. It has been awhile since Kimble had a love interest. In
ep.84 'Ill Wind' Kate came close but no sparks from Kimble. In
ep.81 'Shadow of the Swan,' Tina was weird. Come to think of it the
only love interest in season three was Peggy in ep.67 'All the Scared
Rabbits.' That story went nowhere.
I wanted to see more of Susan in this story. Maybe she is the one
Kimble should settle down with after his running stopped. She is
attractive and sincere with a nice heart. Hey Kimble open your eyes.
Keep her phone number in your wallet.
Bob your point about Helen is correct. I honestly feel the producers
had no intention of exploring the character of Helen. In their minds
Helen is dead. Why bother. Colossal mistake. Many of us long to know
more about Helen.
This story should have focused on the Kimble and Susan relationship.
Touching moment at the table.
"Is there another woman?" Susan asks.
Kimble replies. "Do you want to know about the dysfunctional ones or
the sincere ones I have met in my travels."
A couple of small flashbacks on Helen would shed some light. Delete
all the scenes with the little boys.
My rating-5 Only because of Lois Nettleton. Ken
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bobbynear
Dec 17, 2016
COMING NEXT
SUNDAY DECEMBER 25
"IN A PLAIN PAPER WRAPPER"
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ORIGINAL REVIEWS
"A TASTE OF TOMORROW"
ORIGINAL AIR DATE - APRIL 12, 1966
TELEPLAY - JOHN KNEUBUHL
STORY - MANN RUBIN
DIRECTED BY - LEONARD HORN
Kimble meets Joe Tucker, another fugitive from
justice, who claims that he was wrongly convicted of embezzlement four years earlier and wants to kill Charlie Fletcher the man he suspects is the real culprit.
When Kimble discovers that Joe suffers from a dangerous illness, he tries to help him.
Tucker delirious with the illness, escapes and tracks down Fletcher at his house where he confronts him with a gun until Kimble helps prove Tucker's innocence.
GUEST STARS
FRITZ WEAVER
BRENDA SCOTT
MICHAEL CONSTANTINE
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Narrator: opening narration (Viewers see Richard Kimble hiding in the brush as police squad car cruise past)
To a fugitive only the past is real.
Each morning it rises with the sun,
each night it returns with the darkness.
There is no present and for Richard Kimble
the future is filled with uncertainty and fear.
Narrator closing narration (Viewers see
Richard Kimble getting out of a car after hitching
a ride, and walking along a road trying to
thumb another) For some an end finally
comes to the running. But for Richard Kimble
the end has only come to one more day --
and the running must go on.
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THE VIDEO FOR 'A TASTE OF TOMORROW"
CAN BE FOUND ON THIS LIST
https://archive.org/details/The_Fugitive_Series#
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SCREENCAPS
http://richardkimblethefugitive.com/fugitivescreencaps88.htm
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BOBBY REVIEWS "A TASTE OF TOMORROW"
Well I have to admit that this has never
been one of my favorite episodes.
Fugitive creator, Roy Huggins is quoted as
having said that from the start, he knew that
certain things had to be in his series in
order for it to work. One of them was that
Richard Kimble had to be convicted of a
capital crime. Nothing less would do. And this
episode proves how right he was.
Joe Tucker's story just isn't as compelling as
Richard Kimble's because embezzlement
can't hold a candle to murdering your wife.
Kimble has good reason to run because his life
is on the line. Tucker simply doesn't want to
go to jail for a crime he didn't commit but
the idea that he would actually end up
committing a murder out
of pure hate is a little off the wall.
We also don't know as much about Tucker as we
do about Kimble. His story of course is
chillingly familiar regarding being accused
of something you did not do and having to
run endlessly to stay free. But we actually
watch Kimble live that from day to day whereas
we only hear Tucker tell his story. We
don't have as much invested in Tucker as
we do in Kimble..and so the feeling is not
exactly the same.
The story did do one thing for me though.
I got to wondering...what if
instead of The Judgement as the series
finale..we got one like this?
The one-armed man gives a deathbed confession
in which he admits he killed Helen Kimble.
Even Gerard is convinced and Kimble is
now a free man. But after four years of
running, Kimble is even worse off than Joe
Tucker. He doesn't believe it for one
minute and refuses to turn himself in and
continues to run. Even public pleas by Gerard
and an admission that he was wrong won't do.
Kimble for one reason or another is unable to
contact Donna, or perhaps he does but
even she can't be sure this isn't an elaborate
trap.
The premise is exactly the same as "A Taste Of
Tomorrow" and I don't know if it would
work...but I do know one thing..it would
make for a much more compellling story than
this one.
My rating on a scale of
0 to 10
3 -- BELOW AVERAGE
BOBBY
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KELLY REVIEWS "A TASTE OF TOMORROW"
This latest episode is
called A Taste of
Tomorrow and while the
concept of it is
similar to some other
episodes we've seen in
the past, this one
seemed to have a
different twist to it.
We have seen Kimble
encounter people before
who were innocent of
something they had been
accused of and we've
seen Kimble encounter
people who were truly
guilty, but I don't
think we've seen Kimble
encounter an innocent
person who was bent on
revenge and the
consequences be damned.
We start out seeing
Kimble hiding in some
brush from some passing
police cars. We also
get to see one of the
police officers in the
car played by Michael
Constantine who's name
is Wycoff say that It's
amazing that after all
these years, we're
going to finally catch
him.
I was starting to
wonder if Gerard had
been replaced, that
sounded like something
Gerard would say about
Kimble not another cop
in reference to Kimble.
However, we soon find
out the cops are not
looking for Kimble.
Kimble finds his way to
an abandoned camp and
proceeds to hide there
until someone comes out
from the shadows and
tells him to put his
hands in the air.
It's not a cop, but it
just happens to be
someone who's trying to
avoid those cops that
Kimble thought were
chasing him. He asks
Kimble if he's with the
cops to look for him
and Kimble assures him
that he's trying to
avoid the cops just as
much as he is. The man
tells Kimble to leave.
Kimble proceeds to
leave but then he
realizes that the man
is very sick. He's
complaining of
headaches and a fever.
He's also got spots on
his skin.
He asks Kimble why he's
running from the police
and Kimble just tells
him that he's got his
reasons. The man
concludes that he must
have been convicted of
petty larceny. The man
then proceeds to tell
Kimble that he's been
convicted of
embezzlement. I
actually found this
next bit rather
interesting because the
acting from David
Janssen tells it all.
The man goes in to the
explanation of how he'd
lived in Boise for his
whole life and he was
well respected and then
one day, a bunch of
money disappeared from
the firm that he worked
at and then he was
informed that he was
the one who had stolen
the money. He finds it
rather amazing really
because he didn't even
know that there was an
account to take money
from.
Everybody who he
thought were his
friends, testified
against him, including
his own daughter. He
got convicted and then
he escaped four years
ago and has been on the
run ever since.
He tells him that they
used every trick in the
book to get him to come
back but it never
worked until now but
he's not there to turn
himself in and after
this evening it won't
matter. He's here to
find Charlie, the one
who actually did steal
the money. The facial
expressions on David
Janssen's face here
were quite convincing I
thought. I almost felt
as though I was
reliving Kimble's trial
and it was much better
than what we saw in
Girl from Little Egypt
where we actually had
pictures.
Kimble asks where the
keys to the truck are
and he'll go in to town
and get him some
medicine for the fever.
The man tells him his
name is Joe Tucker and
if he's on the run then
why is he going to help
him. Kimble assures him
that they're not
looking for him here.
Meanwhile, back at the
station, Wycoff has
learned of a truck with
Colorado plates that
Tucker has been driving
and he immediately puts
out an ABP on it.
Kimble unknowingly
drives in to town and
goes to the drugstore
to get medicine and on
his way out, the police
tell him to get out of
the truck. He's ordered
to produce a license
and amazingly enough,
he's got one for the
name of Alan Mitchell.
Wycoff demands to know
where he got the truck
and Kimble tells him he
bought it a few days
ago in Colorado. Wycoff
tells him that he knows
he's lying because they
know that Tucker bought
the vehicle two weeks
ago in Colorado so
Kimble gets arrested
for car theft.
Kimble is taken to the
station and booked and
fingerprinted. This is
not looking good.
Wycoff pleads with him
to tell him where
Tucker is. He then
tells him that they
know he's innocent. He
explains that ten days
ago Andrew Wycoff died
but on his deathbed he
confessed that he was
the one who stole the
money, not Joe Tucker.
Kimble asks how they
know Fletcher told the
truth and Wycoff says
that they don't but
it's a deathbed
confession and they
have to accept it so
Joe is on the verge of
being exonerated if
he'll just come in.
Kimble won't tell
though. Joe's daughter
Sarah then comes in and
cries her heart out to
him and tells him that
she wants her father
back especially now
that they know he
didn't do it and she
wants to make it up to
him for believing the
lies that she was told.
Sarah here is played by
Brenda Scott who played
the wild teenager in
The Cage back in season
2. I have to admit, I
liked her better in
this performance. It
was refreshing to see a
pretty face not
immediately fall at
Kimble's feet and want
to bear his children.
She truly was only
interested in finding
her father and making
amends to him.
Kimble is finally moved
and he tells Sarah that
he'll take her to him
but only her and no
police. He tells them
that Joe is sick and
needs medical
attention. He's got
Mountain Fever and he's
got a gun. He's not
thinking rationally. He
tells them that he
thinks he's here to
harm someone named
Charlie. Wycoff tells
him that Charlie is
Charlie Fletcher and
he's the son of Andrew
Fletcher.
Kimble is let out of
jail but as he's
picking up his personal
items, he hears a
deputy in the office
get a phone call on
those prints. Now, I
have to say it, this is
incredible! This is
1966 and Kimble wasn't
even in jail for an
hour they've already
got a positive ID on
those fingerprints! Is
Boise Idaho on the ball
or what?
Anyway, Kimble doesn't
wait around, he runs
for his life and drives
off as fast as he can
go. Wycoff comes
running out and orders
road blocks to get
Kimble. Susan ask
Wycoff what's going on
and he tells him that
the man with her father
is a convicted murderer
named Kimble. Susan
can't believe this. She
simply wants her father
to come back and is
horrified to find out
that he might be
keeping company with a
murderer. Wycoff asks
her how she thinks he
feels.
Wycoff is the one who
convinced Joe to
initially turn himself
in to get it all
straightened out and
then he bad mouthed him
to everybody and
testified against him
in court and even
enjoyed hearing the
guilty verdict. He
concluded he liked his
job a little too much.
What's this? A cop with
a conscience? A cop who
actually feels a little
remorse? Wow! Joe's
never even saved his
life like Kimble has
saved Gerard numerous
times and Wycoff
actually comes across
as a more
multidimensional
character in one
episode than Gerard has
in three season. At
least it sounds like
Joe had a compelling
case against him that
was well manufactured,
so you could understand
why everybody turned on
him, which is more than
can be said for the
Kimble case. Moreover,
I don't even think
Gerard even feels that
bad at the end of the
series.
However, continuing
with this episode,
Kimble drives along the
road and cuts off a
truck to take a back
way back to the camp
area. Kimble gives the
medicine to Joe and he
explains that he got
picked up for driving
his truck and now
they're after him. Joe
doesn't believe him.
Joe also doesn't
believe him when he
tells him that they
know he didn't steal
the money and that
Andrew Fletcher made a
deathbed confession.
Joe refuses to believe
it. He tells Kimble
that Andy Fletcher gave
him a chance and
furthered his career
and promoted him when
he thought other people
should have been
promoted over him. He
was a vice president of
the company at the time
of the theft. No, as
far as he's concerned
Charlie Fletcher,
Andy's son who was also
a vice president was
the one who stole the
money. He's the one who
disappeared out of town
after the trial and
he's been living in
Europe for all of these
years until now.
He came across a
newspaper article in
the Boise paper because
he still checks out
what's happening in
newspapers from this
area in libraries
across the country. He
tells Kimble that he
saw that Charlie was
coming home to take
care of legal matters
now that his father is
gone....so it must be
Charlie.
Kimble tells him that
his daughter wants him
to come home and that
she's very worried about
him. Joe asks if she
cried because she's
very good at that. Joe
is certainly feeling a
bit bitter. I can't say
that I blame him.
Joe is cold and Kimble
gives him his coat and
tells him to wear it
for warmth and he
s going to leave when
it gets dark because
Joe isn't interested in
Kimble's stories
because as far as he's
concerned that's all
they are just to get
him to turn himself in.
The truck driver who
Kimble cut off sure
hasn't forgotten about
Kimble though and he
shows the police where
he turned off at. The
police descend on that
back road. Kimble has
convinced Joe that he
needs medical attention
that he should at least
get to a phone and
contact his daughter...
Joe agrees.
Kimble walks out to the
truck and Joe emerges
as the police swarm in
with guns as they had
to leave their cars
parked on the other
side of the river. They
see Joe walk out of the
building with Kimble's
coat on and Joe starts
shooting. They shoot
back thinking it's
Kimble. Wycoff tells
them to stop shooting
because he's not so
sure that it's Kimble
they're shooting at.
Joe accuses Kimble of
setting him up and
Kimble tells him that
he's the one they're
after now. They shot at
him because he was
wearing his coat. Joe
asks why they'd be
after someone who just
committed petty larceny
and Kimble replies
because they're after
him for murder because
they think he killed
someone.
Now, I once again have
to take this passage to
task because we have
seen this show now for
almost three full
seasons and we can
probably count the
times on one hand that
Helen's name has been
mentioned. Not only
that, in this episode
poor Helen Kimble has
gone from being the
wife who Kimble killed
to just being someone
that he killed. Why
can't Kimble say, They
think I killed my wife.
Is that so difficult?
Are Kimble's memories
of this woman so bad
that he can't even
refer to her as once
being his wife? Helen
Kimble, the pivotal
prop in the series who
deserves so much better
than that.
However, Kimble has
decided he has had
enough of Boise,
Wycoff, and Joe and he
tells Joe that he's
getting out at the
first available place.
Joe tells him that he
can't drive because
he's too sick and that
Kimble is going to
drive him as he's got
the gun on Kimble.
We then see that it's
gotten dark and Kimble
pulls in to the back of
a gas station and sees
that Joe has nodded
off. Kimble gets out of
the car and why he
didn't take Joe's gun
with him is a complete
mystery but, he calls
Wycoff and tells him
where he can find Joe,
you'd think Kimble
would have hung up but
he then tells Wycoff
that he�ll try to tell
him. Tell him what? He
gets back to the truck
and Joe is missing.
Kimble immediately goes
to a phone book at the
pay phone remember when
we actually used to
have phone books with
pay phones?? He finds
the address for Charlie
Fletcher.
The police arrive at
the gas station along
with Sarah and nobody
is there but Wycoff is
pretty sure where Joe
was headed and he tells
Sarah to get in the car
with him.
Joe arrives at
Charlie's house and
Charlie's wife Carolyn
opens the door, Joe
pulls the gun out and
demands to be taken to
Charlie.. Charlie is
actually relieved to
see Joe until he sees
the gun. Joe is
convinced that Charlie
took the money. Charlie
tells him that no, his
father took the money.
He'd been siphoning off
money from the company
for years. He was
promoting Joe all along
so Joe would be his
Fall Guy if it ever
came to light. Charlie
testified against Joe
in court because he
father made him do it,
Carolyn tells him that
Charlie gave all of the
financial information
to Wycoff just a little
bit ago to clear him.
Joe still isn't buying
it until Kimble walks
in and tells him that
it's true. He tells him
that Wycoff told him to
tell him that when he
called him from the gas
station. He tells him
that if he didn't like
running with an
embezzlement charge on
his back, murder is not
going to be any better
and he knows first
hand. Carolyn then
tells Joe that Charlie
has signed everything
over to her. Charlie
stands up and tells Joe
that he's turned
himself in and that
he's going to stand
trial for perjury.
Joe finally believes
everybody and he puts
down the gun. The
police arrive and Sarah
and Joe are reunited.
Wycoff asks Charlie and
Carolyn if anyone else
came with Joe and
Charlie tells him no,
just a couple of
ghosts. Everybody
leaves and we see
Kimble's silhouette
walking past the back
window.
In the epilogue, we see
Joe in a hospital bed
with his daughter.
Wycoff comes in and
appears to truly feel
bad for everything and
wants to make it up to
Joe. Another deputy
comes in and tells
Wycoff that there's
still no sign of Kimble
and Wycoff tells him to
take down the
roadblocks and when the
deputy questions him he
tells him in no
uncertain terms to just
do it. He then asks Joe
what Kimble was like
and Joe says Well, you
know how we convicts
are. He then kind of
smiles and all's well
that ends well except
for Kimble of course
who's now being seen
getting out of a car in
a very nice suit with a
suitcase. How does that
man do it?
Overall, it's probably
not the greatest
episode but not the
worst. In fact, I will
give it a thumbs up and
a rating of a six. I
found the characters
believable and I was
able to feel something
for them. Joe was
justifiably feeling
bitter. Sarah and
Wycoff were both guilt
stricken by helping to
put Joe away and it cut
deeper with them as
this was his daughter
and Wycoff was someone
whom he regarded as a
friend.
Charlie I thought
played it well as
someone who was just
relieved to finally be
able to tell the truth.
The only problem I have
with Charlie is that it
was never quite
explained how his
father blackmailed him
in to testifying
against Joe. I think it
might have been better
if it turned out that
Charlie didn't know the
truth until the death
bed confession and he
could have found out
that he was just as
much of a pawn as Joe
was but I didn't mind
the ending.
I thought the suspense
was well played
throughout the episode.
We had Kimble trying to
keep a balance between
not getting caught and
yet trying to prevent
Joe from making a
terrible mistake. Now I
know Kimble has at
times gotten himself
involved with some
crazy people where my
advice to him would
have been to simply
move out, but here he
was actually trying to
prevent a murder and
for that reason I think
this episode works.
KELLY
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KEN REVIEWS "A TASTE OF TOMORROW"
Hard to please Ken does not have much to say on this story. Odd title.
What does 'Taste of Tomorrow' have to do with embezzlement and revenge.
Question for Kimble- What are you doing driving a car without a proper
state driver's license? Keystone cops show up again.
I agree with Melissa's review. Started interesting but fell flat.
Fugitive writers scratching their heads again and producing a dud.
Producers bringing back Brenda Scott who left a huge mark on the series
with her performance in 'The Cage.'
I am still enjoying ep.87 'The 2130.' The writers for ep.88 should
have picked up with a new story with Kimble in freezing Cranberry
Boggs. How did he survive there????
My rating-since the writers had me on a high mountain with 'The 2130'
and brought me down to a low valley with a bitter Joe Tucker.
Rating-1 Ken
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bobbynear
Dec 10, 2016
COMING NEXT
SUNDAY DECEMBER 18
"A TASTE OF TOMORROW"
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ORIGINAL REVIEWS
"THE 2130"
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: MARCH 29, 1966
WRITTEN BY: DANIEL B. ULLMAN
DIRECTED BY: LEONARD HORN
While working as a chauffeur in Denver Colorado, Kimble reluctantly covers for teenager Laurie Ryder after she dents her father's car, but Kimble flees after discovering that she was involved in a hit and run accident. After discovering Kimble's identity, Laurie's father Dr. Mark Ryder, summons Gerard along with the entire Kimble file to Denver.
There he introduces Gerard to
The 2130, a super computer that can help capture Kimble by determining a pattern to his travels.
GUEST STAR
MELVYN DOUGLAS
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OPENING AND CLOSING NARRATION
Narrator: (Opening Narration)
Viewers see Richard Kimble who has
been working as a chauffeur, drive off
when he sees the police approaching)
If you are Richard Kimble, you lead a
complicated life. However certain decisions
are simple - when the police start getting
involved, you don't wait around to see
what happens.
Narrator (Closing Narration)
Viewers see Richard Kimble who has
secured employment as a cranberry
picker huddling around a heating
barrel at the Royal Crest
Foods field.
If you are Richard Kimble,
fugitive, your already complicated
life has become more so.
You can no longer rely upon
your instinct because, for all
you know, your pursuers
may be machines and you
are merely a human being.
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THE VIDEO FOR "THE 2130"
CAN BE FOUND HERE
https://archive.org/details/The_Fugitive_Series#
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"TALKING FUGITIVE" PODCAST
DURING 2008 WE DID A TWO PART TALKING
FUGITIVE RADIO PROGRAM FOR "THE 2130"
HERE ARE LINKS TO BOTH PARTS.
PART ONE -- ACTS I AND II
http://www.richardkimblethefugitive.com/mp3/tf-fugitive-072908.mp3
PART TWO -- ACTS III AND IV
http://www.richardkimblethefugitive.com/mp3/tf-fugitive-081208.mp3
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bobbynear
Dec 3, 2016
COMING NEXT
SUNDAY DECEMBER 11
"THE 2130"
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ORIGINAL REVIEWS
"THE WHITE KNIGHT"
Directed by: Robert Gist
Written by: Daniel B. Ullman
Original air date: March 22, 1966
After witnessing a small plane crash, Kimble rescues the pilot and the two passengers, senatorial candidate Glenn Madison, and his assistant, Pat Haynes. Glenn's PR man, Russ Haynes, Pat's husband, arranges for a sketch artist to draw a portrait of Glenn's rescuer who had left the scene. Russ locates Kimble and brings him to the Madison estate for Glenn to congratulate him for saving his life. Meanwhile, Glenn's wife, Claire, recognizes Kimble, and threatens to turn him in unless he tells her of the person that Glenn has seeing, aware of her husband's long history of infidelity. Kimble claims not to know anything. When Kimble confronts Pat, she admits to her affair with Glenn. Claire overhears the conversation and decides to destroy her husband's image.
Guest Stars: Steven Hill as Glenn Madison, Jessica Walter as Pat Haynes, James Callahan as Russ Haynes, Nancy Wickwire as Claire Madison, and Ted Knight as Lt. Mooney.
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OPENING AND CLOSING NARRATION
Narrator: [Opening Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble driving a delivery truck labeled "Hogue's Tri-City Delivery"] Quick reflexes are necessary for a doctor; they are indispensable to a Fugitive. To Richard Kimble, who is both doctor and Fugitive, they can mean survival.
Narrator: [Epilog Closing Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble boarding a passenger bus labeled "Trans Mountain Bus Lines"] In the story books, when you save a man's life, you are richly rewarded. For a Fugitive, it doesn't always work that way. And sometimes, when you are chased by the Furies, the life you must save is your own.
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THE VIDEO FOR "THE WHITE KNIGHT"
CAN BE FOUND HERE:
https://archive.org/details/The_Fugitive_Series#
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SCREENCAPS
http://richardkimblethefugitive.com/fugitivescreencaps86.htm
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BOBBY REVIEWS 'THE WHITE KNIGHT"
The Fugitive takes the night off and Peyton Place expands
to fill its time slot with yet another foray into the world
of soapy melodrama along with every cliche ever invented.
Poor Richard Kimble. He can't even drive along a road
without witnessing Donald Trump's plane crashing.
"Oh no Doc..don't save anybody..not this time..
the future of the world depends on it!"
Some people never learn, and Richard Kimble is one of them. OK..so we get it.. no matter what happens, Richard will always be there to save the day. He just can't walk away from anything and disaster just follows him everywhere.
But for some reason, Kimble does not realize that every time you tell people you do not want publicity for a life saving act and every time you turn pale as your picture is being taken, you do nothing but raise red flags. Everybody wants publicity, everybodys want to be a hero, everybody
wants to be in the papers and these days on their own reality show. You don't want it? Then something's wrong. Kimble needs to do his daily good deed and hightail it out of town instead of just saying, "No thanks".
Here we go again..another tired old retread, that dates all the way back to its original form in season one's "Northoak". But screaming children in a flaming bus are not there and a sheriff's wife faced with an impossible conflict of interest is not there. Oh sure, Nancy Wickwire is there but it's all just a textbook example of how to waste a good actress.
Kelly says she looks different than in Northoak. Of course..she doesn't really want to be seen and associated with a script this bad. Nobody told her that by this time the series was running on empty and had nothing to offer her..or us.
Or...maybe they do. It's all kind of sad to see these two recent stories as the third season, the one that would win the series its only Emmy, starts to come to a close. But maybe the producers knew it all along. Perhaps they were just marshalling their forces for one last run at the glorious good old days.
For a series this highly regarded, The Fugitive presented a surprising number of less than mediocre episodes. But the one thing that always kept you going while you were stuggling to stay awake, was the inner knowledge that somewhere...down the road..maybe next..maybe months from now..they would hit you with not just a Fugitive classic, but an all time tv classic.
Maybe there would be one of those stories where Kimble and Gerard face off between prison bars..or maybe Kimble would have to jump from a moving train to escape Gerard or perhaps he would actually catch the one-armed man and make him confess. Ahh..the memories..even though fairly recent are already starting to fade under the increasing shadow of mediocrity.
Perhaps...maybe....hopefully...this series has one last truly great story in that tank of what once were original ideas and maybe..it's just around the corner...and maybe it will take a computer to show them the way.
I am tempted to give this a zero but last week's rancid
string cheese deserves to stand
alone in the Fugitive hall of shame.
If this story had been on Peyton Place
My rating --- 5 average
For The Fugitive
My rating -- 1
Waaaaay below average
bobby
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KELLY REVIEWS "THE WHITE KNIGHT"
This latest episode is called The White Knight. It's really nothing that unique after all, Kimble could theoretically be called The White Knight in just about every episode. I must admit I ran the gamut of emotions watching this. I was intrigued at the beginning, bored in the middle and not surprised too much with the ending.
We start out seeing Kimble rescuing a man and a woman from a plane that has crashed in the desert. The woman is conscious, the man is in and out of it. Kimble is working for a delivery place and tells the woman that he'll go call for an ambulance to come and get them.
The next thing we see is the man in a hospital bed recovering in his home with a broken leg who is bound and determined to reward this good Samaritan for saving his life. The reality is that he wants to find Kimble so he can pay him off. The woman, Pat tracks Kimble down at the delivery place and begs him not to tell anyone that she was on the plane because she wasn't supposed to be there.
Kimble understands completely. He tells her that he's got problems of his own and he's not interested in publicity or in getting any kind of a reward.
Glenn Madison isn't convinced, he's having the police artist do a sketch of Kimble to put in the newspapers so he can track him down and personally pay him off. Pat calls Glenn and tells him that she found "Dan Gordon" and he's not interested in coming forward nor is he interested in getting a reward. Glenn says that he says that now but in a few months when he starts campaigning for the Senate that will be a different story. Pat doesn't think so.
In the meantime, someone from Kimble's work has seen his picture and called Glenn's aid Russ who finds Kimble and ushers him to the car so that Glenn can personally say thank you to him. Kimble seeing a police car pull someone over obliges.
Back at Glenn's house, his wife Claire comes home and confronts him about flying alone. She doesn't buy it and knows he was with a "buddy" and she'll figure it out sooner or later. I must admit, I liked how Nancy Wickwire looked in this episode. They had her looking very glamorous here unlike in Nightmare at Northoak. In that episode I thought she looked older and kind of frumpy but here I thought she was quite attractive…unfortunately, I think her talent was wasted here.
Russ brings Kimble back and Glenn insists on having a drink with him. When Russ tries to take their picture, Kimble asks him not to take it. Glenn tells Russ to listen to the man and go away. Russ leaves the room.
Back at the police station, the sketch artist who swore he'd seen Kimble's face before has been going through the mug shots and he finds Kimble's picture. Lt. Mooney, played by Ted Knight calls the Madison house and tells Russ that Kimble is there. Russ immediately runs in to Glenn's room and tells Kimble wait on the terrace. Kimble looks out as a police car is heading toward the house.
Russ calls Kimble back in to the bedroom and Glenn tells him that they know he's Richard Kimble and the police are on their way over. Glenn tells him that he'll hide him until the police are out of the area as payback for saving his life. The police arrive and Glenn tells him that Kimble left about ten or fifteen minutes earlier. The police look around the house and the grounds and leave. Claire has seen Kimble ushered in to another room and walks in and looks at the picture.
We don't really know what's on Claire's mind as it seems at this moment Claire could spill it about Kimble because she's also been drinking. However, she keeps quiet. Russ takes Kimble food for dinner and Kimble isn't hungry, he wants to leave. Russ advises him to stay until the patrol cars are out of the area.
Claire is in the bedroom with Glenn wondering what he plans to do with Dr. Kimble when Russ opens the door and tells him his wife has come up from San Diego to come and see him. In walks Pat. Yes, it's the same Pat who met with Kimble earlier to ask him to not tell anyone who was in the plane with Glenn. It's now evident that not only has Glenn been having an affair but, he's having an affair with his so-called best friend's wife.
So, we have a scenario now where Kimble is perfectly content to just sit on his laurels and play Dear Abby. Claire comes in and wants to know who the woman was in the plane with Glenn and Kimble won't tell her. She even threatens to call the police and turn him in and he still won't tell her. We then get treated to a diatribe about Claire's and Glenn's dysfunctional relationship. She tells him that he only married her because of her father's money and she was lonely and she wanted him so her dad bought him for her.
However, their marriage is less than idyllic to put it mildly still, she finds the thought of being a senator's wife appealing and who knows? Maybe she might even be First Lady some day. She walks out of the room.
We then see Pat in Glenn's room and Pat tells him that it's over. Glenn isn't willing to let it be over. She still tells him that it's over. He tells her he's not letting her go and even threatens to tell her husband. She's willing to tell him everything though if it comes to it if that's what it takes.
Pat then goes in to Kimble's room to play Dear Abby with him. She explains that Glenn initially seemed nice but she now sees him for what he is. Claire overhears it all. Pat tells her that she's sorry. Claire tells Pat that she's sorry too.
The next scene could have easily been lifted from a soap opera. Claire walks in to Glenn's room and announces that she's leaving him. She tells him that she knows about Pat and doesn't blame her because she knows how suave and charming he can be until you get to know him better. He tells her she won't leave because she can't live without him. She retorts by saying she used to think she'd die if she had to live without him, but now it's the opposite, she'd rather die that live one more day with him.
He still tells her that she won't leave him but she insists that she will and she's going to tell the press just what kind of a bastard he really is and he can kiss his bid for the Senate goodbye…it's ironic that something like that would actually give him a shoe in for that Senate seat in today's world. Anyway, he tells her that nobody will want her because she's old and fat…well, now I think he was being overly harsh. It's a shame that Claire couldn't have shot back by saying something like You think so? I never told you how many of your associates have propositioned me. However, it sets up the traditional slap in the face but he grabs her and hits her back and she goes flying to the floor and Claire is now very much dead.
I have to admit, I was rooting for Claire in this scene and for me it went totally downhill once he killed her. I think the writer definitely took an easy way out here because the next thing we see is that Glenn hobbles in to Kimble's room and tells him to take the car and go and leave it at the bus station. He even makes a point of telling him that it's the middle of the night and so the cops have left the area. How he is so sure is a mystery to me but we have to take the good politician's word for that.
So, Kimble drives off in Glenn's main car. Glenn then messes up his bedroom and calls Russ in and tells him to hurry. Russ comes in the room and Glenn proceeds to tell Russ that Kimble was in there and went crazy and attacked him. He then sees a piece of Claire's clothing and Glenn says, That's Claire's! Russ runs in to Claire's room and finds Claire on the floor dead…at least she should be dead. I could have sworn there was a slight smile on Nancy Wickwire's face.
Russ comes back in and tells Glenn that Claire is dead. Glenn tells him that Kimble must have done it. He tells Russ to get him his gun. He's going to go after Kimble personally and kill him for killing Claire. Russ tells him that he can't do that. What would it do to his career? Glenn tells him that he has no career, if the police find Kimble, Kimble will tell them that he was there the whole time and that they helped him allude the police. Russ then takes the gun and tells Glenn that he'll take care of it.
He runs out past Pat with the gun in his hand. Pat runs in to the bedroom and asks Glenn what happened. Glenn tells her that Kimble killed Claire and that Russ is now after Kimble. Pat sees that there's dirt on Glenn's foot and so she knows that he's been out of bed and concludes that Glenn is the real wife killer in the house, not Kimble. She tells him that It's a shame he couldn't get out of bed, otherwise he might have been able to save Claire.
She walks out of the room. Now, I have gotten on the case of this program for its lack of continuity but this one really takes the cake. Kimble is told to leave as it's the middle of the night. Fifteen minutes later, Russ is driving like a maniac to catch up with him and surprise, we see that it's daylight out, not daybreak but it truly looks like it's been daylight for quite some time.
Kimble gets a phone call in the car. He answers it and Pat tells him that Russ is on his tail and proceeds to tell him everything. We don't actually see her tell him but, by David Janssen's good reaction we know the cat is out of the bag. Kimble purposely crashes the car and pretends to be unconscious as Russ pulls up, they fight with the gun and it goes off. Kimble yells at Russ that he didn't kill Claire, that Glenn did and that his wife Pat is on the phone and she'll tell him. Russ then takes the phone and we see him relax his grip on the phone.
The last thing we see is Kimble about the get on the bus as he's talking to Russ and Kimble tells him that he should go back to Pat.
Well, here's my take on all of this. As I said, I found the beginning rather intriguing and it was suspenseful when the police arrived, but as soon as the police left, they really had nowhere to go with this story. This is one of those rare instances where the show would have been better served to have only been a half hour as opposed to an hour.
The Dear Abby sequences with Kimble really weren't particularly interesting. They were kind of stereotypical, the mentally abused wife and the mistress who really is a nice woman and just got caught up in circumstances. I like both Nancy Wickwire and Jessica Walter but they both deserved better parts than these. Just as I was starting to like Claire she got murdered although I'm sure Glenn will plead manslaughter after all, it was a crime of passion in the moment. He didn't set out to kill her, but the entire ending was way too contrived.
I question how Pat's husband Russ could be so oblivious. I mean I could maybe see him not realizing his wife was being unfaithful, but he was supposed to be Glenn's closest aid and yet he doesn't realize that Glenn is off having affairs with other women. The idea of damage control on that aspect never even comes up in conversation and yet, Claire knows about his dalliances.
As for it being believable that Russ would go and kill Kimble for Glenn, again I find that farfetched. Yes, I'm sure there are political hacks who will bump people off for their employers, but Russ just seemed too nice of a guy for that. He never came across as slimy and I kept asking myself why Pat would want to be unfaithful to a guy who just seems like a nice guy.
On the ending, I think it was a cop out. I would have liked to have seen the police at Glenn's house and Pat and Russ making a statement about Glenn killing Claire. Glenn could have been trying to deny and blame it on Kimble and we could have seen Pat and Russ put up a united front and say Kimble left the house before the police ever got there the first time.
Instead, we're really left hanging…maybe the writer figured that nobody cared that much. Anyway, over all, not a very inspiring episode. I'm going to give it a thumbs down and on a scale of one to ten, I give it a rating of four.
KELLY
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KEN REVIEWS "THE WHITE KNIGHT"
Okay I agree that a Fugitive roaming the country will run into odd
situations beyond his control. It's probable that he will witness a
crash of a small aircraft. What person would not be concerned and be
quick to rescue the injured passengers. A good opening scene to draw
the attention of the viewing audience.
How should the story proceed from here? Can we make this a classic
episode that fans will want to watch again. Will the introduction of
new characters add to the drama of this four year series? Let's try
politics, an affair, and bring back Nancy Wickwire. Why not? We have
not seen her since ep.11-Nightmare at Northoak. Results-a confused
audience wondering why Kimble dosen't leave town and stay out of
sight.
Writers need to get a clue. The key to a successful series is to give
the fans what they want. In my case if you want me to stay up late
every Tuesday night and tune in at 10:00 p.m. to watch your show
please only give me one thing. BE CONSISTENT. This is a drama series
about the Fugitive. Not
Okay the writers fire back at me and say Go ahead and write a story.
I will give it a try. Let's tell a story we have not seen.
For the White Knight I would keep the opening scene with the crash of
the small aircraft. The crash occurs out in the middle of nowhere
because Kimble is trying to hitch a ride on a lonely highway. Kimble
rescues the passenger just before the explosion. At this point change
the characters.
The passenger is a small town cop. Kimble helps him recover and
arranges for him to find his home. Introduce the wife and family
members and Kimble is a hero. The cop finds out through an old
detective magazine that Kimble is a Fugitive. Kimble learns the truth
about the cop. Both have a dilemma. What does the cop do? Turn in
Kimble? How does Kimble escape quietly? Family members are faced
with a stange situation. Help their father or help Kimble?
My rating for White Knight-0
My rating for my story-?????
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bobbynear
Nov 26, 2016
COMING NEXT
SUNDAY DECEMBER 4
"THE WHITE KNIGHT"
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ORIGINAL REVIEWS
"WITH STRINGS ATTACHED"
DIRECTED BY LEONARD HORN
WRITTEN BY JOHN KNEUBUHL
ORIGINAL AIR DATE MARCH 15, 1966
Kimble is hired as a chauffeur by Geoffrey
Martin, a gifted but troubled 17 year old
prodigy violinist. Geoffrey's demanding
guardian, Max Pfeiffer, refuses to let him
go to college because under a contract
Geoffrey is obliged to continue performing
until he is 21. In order to free himself
from Max, Geoffrey manipulates his
assistant Ellen and Kimble into
believing that Max is emotionally
destroying him. Martin's inevitable
meltdown becomes real when he takes
Max at gunpoint and finds that Kimble
is wanted by the police leaving him so
confused he "frees" himself in
bizarre fashion
GUEST STARS
REX THOMSON
CAROL ROSSEN
DONALD PLEASANCE
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OPENING AND CLOSING NARRATION
Narrator: [Opening Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble entering the Pfeiffer household, seeking a job as a chauffeur] The life of an artist is a restless, lonely life without peace, like a man pursued finding only release and rest when he has created something of beauty. But then after that he is forced into flight again and he moves once more into the unknown, searching. For Richard Kimble, a Fugitive, there is also only pursuit and a lonely searching. Moments of beauty, moments of rest, are rare because for him, as for the artist, to stand still is to die.
Narrator: [Epilog Closing Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble walking down a back road, trying to thumb a ride] Some men can never be free. From birth, they are their own jailers, they are their own prisons, they are trapped by their own talents. For Richard Kimble, a Fugitive, freedom is flight; for flight brings hope and with hope, there is always tomorrow.
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THE VIDEO FOR "WITH STRINGS ATTACHED" CAN BE FOUND ON THIS LIST
https://archive.org/details/The_Fugitive_Series#
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http://richardkimblethefugitive.com/fugitivescreencaps85.htm
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BOBBY IGNORES "WITH STRINGS ATTACHED"
Really?
Seriously?
You're going to follow "Ill Wind" with this?
Rancid leftovers from Thanksgiving?
The only one who should be thankful is that canary that dropped dead at the start of this story. At least he didn't have to sit through it.
The stupidity starts early with Kimble
getting a job as a Uber driver without
any i.d. any luggage, any license
and any excuses and escaping at
the end by just walking away because .. well the hour is
mercifully over.
There are no strings attached to my
review of this...
I ain't writin' one or assigning any
numbers either.
Memo to writers:
Call me when you come up with
something worthy of consideration
and/or discussion.
bobby
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KELLY REVIEWS "WITH STRINGS ATTACHED"
This latest episode is called With Strings Attached and while I don't think this is a great episode, it's not a half bad episode either. We see Kimble once again thrust into a situation where he's among wealthy people but we haven't seen him among a rich and famous person since the episode Ballad for a Ghost.
We start the episode with Kimble walking up to a very nice house and he hears violin music playing from the window. The camera zooms in and we see a young boy in his teens playing the violin whose name is Geoffrey. Geoffrey takes out another violin that's a genuine Stradivarius and explains how music sounds so much better when he plays his new violin.
The doorbell rings and a woman named Ellen answers the door. She shows Kimble in to see an older man named Max who is played by Donald Pleasance.
Kimble is shown in to the study and Geoffrey asks who is at the door and Ellen explains that it's a man applying for the chauffeur job. Geoffrey then starts to feed his canary and is shocked to see that the bird has died.
In the study, Max is completely unimpressed with Kimble who's calling himself Hank Carter. Kimble has no references to speak of and doesn't even have his signature suitcase, so Max has no problem telling him that he won't be getting hired.
Geoffrey who's been listening outside the door is not happy to hear this. He opens the door and tells Max that he wants Mr. Carter to stay. He tells him that they need a driver and besides, Geoffrey wants to go in to town to get a new canary because his current one just died. Max relents and tells him it's OK, because Geoffrey is a child prodigy violinist who's only fifteen, and to a certain degree what Geoffrey wants, Geoffrey gets.
Ellen comes in and shows Kimble to the guest house where he'll be staying and he asks her if she's related to Geoffrey and she tells him no. She's simply a secretary who's been employed for four months. She and Max are the only people there with Geoffrey aside from a cleaning woman who comes in once a week. She tells him that he'll need a dark suit for being a chauffeur and he tells her he has no bags. She tells him that they'll pick him up some stuff in town the next day.
The next day Ellen and Kimble come back to the house from shopping and Geoffrey is practicing although having a very rough practice session at that. Max is yelling at him and telling him he's playing it wrong when in actuality it sounded pretty good to my ear and to Ellen's and to Kimble's ears as well. Geoffrey begins to cry.
Ellen makes the suggestion that he take out the Stradivarius to play because Geoffrey likes playing it and everybody is horrified to see that the violin is broken in two. Max is more enraged and demands to know how this happened and Geoffrey says he doesn't know. He runs upstairs.
Ellen looks at the canary cage and sees a button in it which strongly implies that someone put it there so the canary would choke on it. Ellen and Kimble find Max's coat and see a button missing.
The next day Max proceeds to leave to run errands and he tells Kimble that Geoffrey isn't to leave the house. He's to rest because he's got a big concert that night. After Max leaves, Ellen tells Kimble he should take Geoffrey to get a new canary. Kimble doesn't want to, but Ellen says that Geoffrey needs a break and he wants a new canary very badly. They could be back before Max gets back.
We then see Kimble and Geoffrey in an ice cream parlor having ice cream. Geoffrey is excited about getting a new canary and here we find out what the deal is with Geoffrey and Max. Kimble asks Geoffrey about his parents and he tells him that Max heard him play when he was nine years old and convinced his parents to let him take over teaching him the violin on the condition that they stay out of the way. He tells him that Max thought his parents weren't cultured enough. He also explains that Max was a great violinist in his day but his career got ruined because he drank so he took on coaching instead.
He tells him that Max is a lot better than he used to be. He hasn't had a drink in six months according to Geoffrey. Geoffrey then says that he doesn't have much longer to wait because his contract expires when he's eighteen and that's just six weeks away. He can then do whatever he wants to do which is NOT play the violin. Kimble is surprised to hear that he's seventeen and he told him that Max said it always flies better with people when they think you're younger.
Kimble wonders how they're going to explain the canary and Geoffrey says that he'll just tell Max that he sent Kimble out to get the canary which is partially true since Kimble drove the car.
Kimble and Geoffrey arrive home and Geoffrey is happy about the new canary and Max sees them come in. He immediately grabs the small cage that the bird is in and he lets the bird fly free outside. Geoffrey runs in to the study. Max runs after him and slams the door.
Geoffrey comes out crying and holding his hand. He runs up the stairs to his bedroom. Ellen and Kimble follow and Geoffrey tells them that Max hit his hand with a paperweight. Kimble checks his hand out and tells him to open and close it. Geoffrey tells him that it feels numb.
Ellen can't take it anymore. She goes downstairs to the foyer and calls the police and tells them to come over. Unbeknownst to her, Geoffrey is upstairs looking down and smiling as he taps his bad hand on the banister.
The police arrive and Ellen begins to tell them about the bird, the violin and Geoffrey's hand. Kimble is trying not to make eye contact with the police. Geoffrey comes in and downplays everything and tells Ellen not to worry. Max comes in and Geoffrey tells Max that the police were there simply to get his autograph because they heard he was in town. The police leave although one police asks the other if Hank Carter rings a bell. The other one says no and the two get in a the squad car but the one clearly looks like he's going to investigate something.
All four arrive at the concert hall that night and Max tells them that after the concert, there'll be a reception at the British Consulate for Geoffrey that will go in to the morning. The two of them can wait in the kitchen.
Geoffrey won't hear of it. He likes Ellen and Carter and he gives Kimble fifty dollars and tells him to take Ellen out for dinner and dancing as they don't deserve to spend all night in a kitchen. Kimble takes the money although he's a little skeptical.
Kimble and Ellen walk out and Kimble finds it odd that Geoffrey would carry so much money on him like that. He asks Ellen about the contract ending when he's eighteen and Ellen tells him that the contract isn't up until Geoffrey is twenty-one. Kimble wants to see the contract to know for sure. They get in the car and head back to the house.
Meanwhile, a giant gift has arrived and Geoffrey gives the delivery man a big tip. He takes the gift in and tells Max that it's a gift for him. Max asks from who and Geoffrey says he doesn't know. He opens it up and takes out food and then a bottle of liquor. Max tells him to get rid of it. Geoffrey tells him that he'll get rid of it later.
Geoffrey then opens it up and pours a glass. Max asks him what he's doing and Geoffrey tells him he's really not fifteen and he's entitled to try it. Max asks him if he wants to drink away his career.
Geoffrey then tells Max that the reason his career didn't take off wasn't because he drank it was because he was second rate and he just drank to cover it up. Max hits Geoffrey across the face twice for that.
Meanwhile, back at the house, Kimble and Ellen find the contract and they confirm that Geoffrey isn't free of his contract until he's twenty-one. Kimble asks if there is a gun in the house and when Ellen goes to find it, it's not there.
Back at the concert hall, it's nearing the end of the show and Geoffrey has the end result he wanted. Max is totally inebriated from drinking the bottle that Geoffrey had delivered.
Kimble and Ellen arrive back and find both of them gone. He's told that they left early due to illness. Kimble tells Ellen to go to the party in case they actually did go there and he'll catch a cab back to the house.
Back at the house, Max is totally out of it from the alcohol and is now telling Geoffrey that he's as good as he'll ever get. The doorbell rings and it's the police. They ask Geoffrey where Hank Carter is and Geoffrey tells them that he doesn't know, he gave him and Ellen the night off. He asks if Carter is in trouble and they tell him no, it was just a personal matter.
Kimble is arriving back by cab and sees the police leaving who say that they'll wait around the back in case Kimble returns in the evening. Kimble sneaks in to the house but, not before Geoffrey pulls a gun on Max and forces him to go upstairs to Geoffrey's bedroom.
The bedroom has been completely trashed courtesy of Geoffrey who explains everything to Max in how he's going to kill him and make it look like self defense and that Ellen and Carter will testify on his behalf. He then looks at Max and tells him he wants to be free once and for all.
Kimble runs in and tells him not to do it. Geoffrey tells him not to come any closer or he'll shoot him. Kimble asks how he'll explain that. He'll tell him that Max shot him while he was trying to help him and then Max will go to jail and Geoffrey will be free that way. Kimble explains to him that he's wanted by the law and if he shoots him and blames Max, then he'll turn Max into a hero.
Geoffrey looks just massively torn on what to do and he finally fires the gun multiple times. The police come charging in to find that Geoffrey didn't shoot Kimble or Max but only his violin. He keeps saying that he just wants to be free.
Kimble sneaks out the back. In the end the police are taking Geoffrey to a mental hospital as it's obvious that he's had a complete mental breakdown. Ellen asks what will happen to Geoffrey and they said it all depends on Max because there isn't a law against shooting your own violin. Max tells them that he won't be pressing any additional charges.
Ironically, the one person that Geoffrey wanted to be rid of turned out to be the one person he reached out for in the end as he was asking where Max was as he was walking out. Max walked out with him and as usual, we see Kimble on the lonely road again trying to hitchhike out of there.
Overall, I liked this episode. It wasn't that original of a script as Kimble has certainly seen his share of mentally unbalanced people before but they are usually women who want him. This was a different kind of scenario in that we got to see Kimble interacting with a child, granted an older child but one that's more disturbed because of the environment around him. You get the feeling watching this that if he'd been allowed to have a normal childhood and adolescence that plotting a murder would never occur to him.
I must admit by personal bias may be playing a part here as I myself play the violin and I can recall having a teacher in grade school whom I did not like, so I can understand the frustration that Geoffrey was experiencing when he's playing his heart out and it's never good enough.
I thought the acting was well done in this. Donald Pleasance played the part of Max perfectly and I thought Rex Thompson did well as the troubled teen. I especially liked the final confrontation the two of these actors did when Geoffrey was ready to shoot Max. It wasn't enough that Geoffrey wanted Max dead. He wanted Max to fully understand why he was doing it and you do see a turning point with Max because of course in the end, he's not angry at Geoffrey anymore, he simply feels bad that he took a gifted person and turned him in to such a nervous wreck that he would try to take out the one person who wanted to him help.
The one flaw I found with the story though is the lack of mentioning Geoffrey's parents. I would have thought that in the end, Max would not only go with Geoffrey to get him checked in to the hospital but I would have expected him to tell Ellen to call Geoffrey's parents in England as it was apparent that Geoffrey needed his parents at that point.
Overall, I liked it and I'll give it a thumbs up. As I said the story wasn't that new but it had enough new twists on it to make it likeable for me.
Carol Rossen did a good job as Ellen and I'm glad she's back as I would have hated for her last performance in The Fugitive to have been that awful episode called Middle of a Heat Wave.
On a scale of one to ten, I'll give it a seven.
Kitty
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KEN REVIEWS "WITH STRINGS ATTACHED"
I guess I am picky. Sorry Guys.
Another story where Kimble is stuck in the middle of family problems.
Add in two dysfunctional characters squabbling back and forth. Add in some tension scenes with violence and Kimble saves the day in the end. Don't forget we need a pretty face. How about Carol Rossen? Add in something new and mix in a dead bird. Why not? We have already used cats, dogs, swans, tigers, rabbits, and bees.
What does a story like this have to do with the basic concept of The Fugitive series? I am perplexed at the writers and producers. Please have mercy on the viewing audience. We are devoting our time week after week watching your show.
I
don't mind family stories. Some work in the series. Fear in a
With Strings Attached did not work for me. The feud between Max and Geoffrey got tiresome for me. Boring conclusion. Kimble fades away
again. My rating-1 Only because I am a music fan also. I admire musical instruments like the violin. Ken
6296KELLY AND KEN REVIEW 'ILL WIND'
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bobbynear
Nov 19, 2016
KELLY REVIEWS "ILL WIND"
This latest episode is called Ill Wind. The title is very fitting although the story isn't all that original. However, I think it's a strong story and if they're going to rehash a plot line, at least they picked some good stories to rehash with the exception of maybe one.
This episode is kind of a Never Wave Goodbye meets Corner of Hell meets Smoke Screen meets Storm Center with a few different variations on all of them.
Storm Center of course was a terrible episode so thankfully the only thing they salvaged from that episode was that this story took place in a hurricane.
Our story starts out where we see Richard Kimble whose name is Mike, working as a migrant worker picking cauliflower in Texas and it appears that everybody he works with just thinks he's the best friend in the world.
Oh and we also have some throwbacks to other episodes as well. Kimble asks his friend Lester what he said when they found him sick and delirious. This was very reminiscent of An Old Man Picked A Lemon and Three Cheers For Little Boy Blue where Kimble in those episodes is established as coming across his employers because they found him sick in their garages, but hey if it works, it works.
I keep thinking it might be an interesting episode though if we could actually see Kimble in these sick, delirious states meeting these people for the first time.
However, the start of this isn't bad after all, this is right out of Never Wave Goodbye. Kimble is finishing up a day, this time in the field and he's telling the family who took him in, Lester, his wife Naomi and their daughter Kate, (who I might add has a similar look to Susan Oliver from Never Wave Goodbye) that he's leaving.
They're not especially happy to hear that, particularly Kate, who's taken a shine to Mike, just as Karen did in the sailmaking shop. Kimble seems to like her but alas, we all know it can never be so what's the point in staying?
We even have the former boyfriend Jonesie, who still likes Kate. He shows up in the family's camp with his guitar and tells Kate that one of the people they know has a little girl who's sick and he was wondering if she'd like to go along to check on her. She curtly tells him no because she wants to stay with Mike. Lester then tells Kimble that Kate and Jonesie used to be very close and they thought they were going to have a singing son in law for awhile.
He walks away with his guitar and starts to sing a peculiar song about a man on the run and the lawman who's chasing him. Kimble asks the family what he said when he was sick and Lester tells him that they know that he's on the run but they didn't tell anyone anything but, that doesn't mean that other people haven't figured it out.
Kimble of course is more convinced that he's got to leave. Kate runs up to him and throws her arms around him and tells him to go even if she calls him name, to not turn around and look back.
Kimble leaves, but in the meantime, apparently those people working the cauliflower fields got profiled in the newspaper because we then see Gerard looking at the picture with the local police and they are soon out to the Crawford place to find Kimble.
Nobody wants to tell Gerard anything but then Gerard questions Lester and tells him that if he finds Kimble and he finds out that he's involved in his escape he'll go to jail for a year and how would his family deal with that.
Now, I realize in order for the plot to move ahead somebody needs to rat out Kimble…but why Lester? He seemed a little smarter than that. Anyone with half a brain could say to Gerard, What are you a mind reader? What makes you think I know where he went? He left, he said nothing. Prove to me Buster how you're going to prosecute me! So the plot falls for me somewhat at this point.
A more logical person I think to rat out Kimble should have been Jonesie. Now he seems like he could have been an interesting character and he if he'd been the one to rat out Kimble, his singing the song about Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid would have been so much more poignant because he would have been perceived as taunting both of Kimble and Gerard but instead his character seems a little thick headed and it's like he sings only for background music or because he's bored.
However, I'm getting ahead of myself here. Lester caves in to Gerard and tells him that Kimble went to the train station. The next thing we see is the police arriving and, I have to admit there was some very good camera work. We initially see some menacing shadows. Kimble runs through the train depot and stops abruptly as he sees what might as well be the boogeyman in a suit appearing in the form of Gerard as he comes through the shadows.
Once again, Gerard is relying on his menacing appearance alone as he doesn't even have his gun drawn, I personally think it would have more scary to have Gerard with his gun drawn because that is what a "real" cop would do.
So the next thing we see is Kimble and Gerard riding in the back of a police car handcuffed together. Gerard lights up a cigarette and he's about as happy as can be, but it's not meant to be. There is a hurricane approaching and the two local cops have been ordered to evacuate some older people to a shelter. They're going to drop Kimble and Gerard off at the Crawford farm so that Gerard can make other arrangements, although I'm not sure what since the farm is in the middle of nowhere and there's a hurricane coming in.
Meanwhile back at the farm, the migrant workers are going to their boss's main shelter and he won't let anyone in unless they pay him $2 and he especially won't let anyone in because he sees a woman with her sick child and is convinced that she's got typhoid fever. He orders them all to the barn which could blow down at any moment but they have no choice.
Kimble and Gerard arrive and inquire with Jack, the boss as to whether there's any other transportation and he tells them no. Kate has seen them arrive and she immediately runs over and tells Kimble to please come to the barn because there is a sick child there.
Gerard is initially not willing to go but then relents. This was another missed opportunity for some consistency. I think a good line for Kimble here could have been, Come on Gerard, you have kids don't you? It would have been a good reminder.
Gerard does relent though and they go over to the barn. Gerard takes the cuffs off of Kimble so he can treat the child. Kimble asks Jonesie to go over to the main shelter and see if they've got medicine. He goes over and gets it and a tree branch hits him in the face. He comes in wounded and Lester asks him if Jack did that to him. He tells him that it was just a tree branch. He apologizes to Kate for not being a heroic kind of guy.
Kimble gives the little girl the medicine and says that they have to wait and see if her fever breaks. Kimble then gets to be handcuffed to Gerard again and they sit on the ground and everybody starts to fall asleep.
We then have a bit of a tense moment, Kimble wakes up and grabs Gerard and pulls him away as a pitchfork is getting plunged toward him. Gerard asks him if he saw who did it and he tells him no. Kimble then informs him that he will try to escape. Gerard says he knows. Kimble insists that he take off the cuffs so he can check on the child. Gerard complies although I don't know why. Kimble's putting his hand on the child's forehead to see if she still has a fever, it's hardly a two handed job. Gerard has a knack for going from tough guy cop to pushover so easily.
So, Kimble walks over and checks on the little girl and the little girl is much better. He then confronts Kate about the pitchfork and she admits that she did it. She doesn't want him taken off to death row. Kimble tells her to promise that she won't do that again. She doesn't understand why he wouldn't want Gerard dead and Kimble tells her in no uncertain terms that it's wrong.
We then get an interesting scene. Kate then tells Kimble that she can imagine him in his office and driving his big car and living in a nice neighborhood. She always wanted to live like that as they used to drive through those places. She then says, "I'll bet your wife fit in with that world too." Kimble kind of smiles and says, "Yes she did." But once again, the series has chopped off an opportunity for us to hear anything about Helen Kimble and feel any emotion for her, because Kate then asks Kimble, "What was your wife like?" Kimble then says, "It's hard to remember." What a cop out!
Everybody then comes over to see the little girl now that her fever is broken….all but Gerard. He is conveniently watching everything in the back and of course a big wind blows and takes out the area that Gerard is in and injures him. I'll give the show credit, Gerard has severed an artery and we at least see some blood on his arm this time.
Kimble yells to the people to get him a cloth and a stick so he can make bandage him up as he's bleeding very badly. Nobody moves initially, but then Naomi gets him what he needs. Lester sees Gerard's gun on the ground and tries to move it away with his foot but Gerard grabs it.
Kimble runs across to the other shelter and demands that they be let in and he tells him the little girl doesn't have typhoid fever but a man could die. Jack is holding his gun on Kimble but then all of the men from the barn come walking out and Kimble tells him that he's going to have to shoot all of them, so Jack relents and lets them in.
Everybody is totally perplexed that Kimble is trying to save Gerard. Kate asks him why when Kimble tells her to boils some items that he needs and he tells her that every life is important. It would have been a nice touch if he had told Kate that Gerard isn't just a cop, he's got a family who needs him in spite of what we all think of him, but again a lost moment for consistency.
Kimble then announces that Gerard needs a blood transfusion or he'll die and that Gerard has B type blood and if anyone can donate B blood they'll save him. Nobody moves. It's a very dramatic moment…again, another missed opportunity to humanize Gerard a little bit by saying he's got a family.
Gerard can't believe that all of those people are willing to help Kimble in spite of what they know about him. Kimble reminds him that perhaps it's because they don't believe it. Gerard once again reminds Kimble that this won't change anything. I really wish Kimble would say, In that case Shut up!
All the while Jonesie is once again playing his guitar and singing about a lawman and a man on the run where one of them is destined for hell and the girl in the song will be crying. It is interesting. Jonesie, really reminded me of the fiddler in Fiddler on the Roof, no real purpose to him being there other than to be in the background providing the music at the right moment. Like I said, it would have been nice to add a little more of a sinister quality to Jonesie but his introspective singing does add to the episode.
Finally, Kate agrees to give Gerard her blood if it's that important to Kimble. After the transfusion has taken place, the storm begins to die down and the police are on their way back to the farm. Lester has broken out all the booze in the place and Kimble decides it's time to make his move. He tells Gerard that he needs to find him a new bandage. Gerard tells him that he'll keep the one he's got.
Jack comes back in from wherever he went and he's got his gun, Jonesie has had enough of Jack's bullying and punches him out. Kimble uses the distraction to make his move to the door. Gerard stands up and pulls out his gun, but everybody gets in the way between Gerard and Kimble. Kimble runs out the door. Kate calls after him but Kimble keeps running.
Gerard stumbles to the door and I couldn't help but say to myself at this point, "Like…wife, like…husband." Gerard runs outside and stumbles on the ground a couple of times yelling Kimble! Kimble!
At least Kimble had the good sense to keep running and not go back and utter that ridiculous line of "Don't do this." But then again Mrs. Gerard was cuter in Landscape with Running Figures.
In the final scene Gerard is asked if he wants to press charges and he says no, because there were so many of them and he's not in the mood to come back and testify against any of them.
Kimble once again is seen on the open road getting a ride from a truck driver.
Overall, I liked this episode, yes, it's another repackaging of other episodes, but at least in this case they chose mostly good episodes to rehash.
I liked the characters. I liked the interaction between Kimble and Kate. Kate is one of those characters where it would have been interesting to see how she went on with her life after this experience. She was not a psychotic bimbo as so many of the women in this series have been portrayed. She was a good person who genuinely had romantic feelings for Kimble but was pragmatic about it. She knew she couldn't run away with him, like so many others want to…but she wanted to at least make sure he was safe even if it meant murdering Gerard.
Now, she initially told Kimble that all she wanted to do was injure Gerard but with where that pitchfork made impact in the bale of hay, Gerard would have been dead, no question about it.
She was a person who I thought had some tunnel vision of the world, but Kimble makes her realize that it's not just about him and by letting Gerard die, it's wrong and he becomes what the state of Indiana says he is and while she doesn't like it, she does understand it and finally gives in to letting Kimble do a blood transfusion because it's the right thing to do.
In the end, Naomi, Kate's mother question's why Kimble saved a man like that and Kate says, because all life is important. I couldn't help but wonder if maybe Kate might start saving her money to perhaps go to school and maybe do something more with her life instead of just dream about it.
I am giving this episode a thumbs up and I will rate it a nine. I think the characters were fairly well drawn out except for Jonesie, whose character could have been more but he did serve a purpose. Lester was a guy who just wanted to do the right thing by his family and his friend and I found his turmoil very believable.
In spite of the fact that this is now the fourth time that Kimble has saved Gerard, this was at least a little more interesting. I do wish Kimble had said…This is four you owe me Gerard and don't forget about your wife and your son!
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KEN REVIEWS 'ILL WIND'
I remember seeing this episode for the first time in 1993. For some
odd reason I really liked it. I will give credit to the producers for
excellent casting of the characters. John McIntire, Bobbie Beecher, and
Tim McIntire were all good.
I really liked Kate. I agree with Bob. She reminded me of Cassie in
ep.3(Mountain). Kimble told Cassie to make a life for yourself. He gave
Kate some good advice. She listened and believed in Kimble. But Kate
please be smarter. Don't fall for Kimble just because he is dashing and
handsome. I felt sorry for Kate. What is she doing with her life? It is
time to move on to the big city and become a detective or something.
Hey Kimble-Why did you not give some good advice to Kenny in ep.75
(Wind Blows). All you told Kenny was it is okay to play with dead
things. Come on Richard please be consistent.
The only flaw with Kate was the notion of falling in love with Kimble
at first sight. Kate deserves better. Cassie deserves better. Karen
deserves better.
I agree Kitty. Kimble is cold when asks questions about Helen. Why?
Please Kimble we all want to know more about Helen.
I liked the guitar playing and the songs. I am trying to remember
other stories where we had some songs played.
As far as Lester confessing to Gerard where Kimble went I understand.
Family always come first.
Great performance here by Gerard. This is the first episode that I
feel Gerard starting to doubt whether Kimble is guilty. But he must
still "enforce the law." Kimble really is a white knight here. He
saves Gerard not once but twice. That is a record for him.
All in all a nice flow to the story. Classic ending with
Kimble "running" out the barn. Sorry Gerard your plea of "Kimble,
Kimble" was not as dramatic as Marie's cry for help in 'Landscape.'
Question-Does Gerard phone back home and tell Marie where he is?
Anyway I wish characters like Monica, Karen, Cassie, Kate, Davey,
Marie, all returned in different episodes as the same character to find
out what happened to them. But we will never know.
My rating for ILL Wind
-10 Ken
270THE CHINESE SUNSET REVIEWS VIDEO SCREENCAPS
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bobbynear
Nov 13, 2016
COMING NEXT
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 20
"ILL WIND"
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ORIGINAL REVIEWS
"THE CHINESE SUNSET"
DIRECTED BY JAMES SHELDON
WRITTEN BY LEONARD KANTOR
ORIGINAL AIR DATE MARCH 1, 1966
Kimble is working in a Beverly Hills hotel on Sunset Boulevard. An undercover policeman
named Fred Bragin checks into the hotel to survey Eddie Slade, a notorious mob bookie.
When Slade leaves town for a
few days to sort out some business, his low class,
fast-talking girlfriend Penelope
Dufoir stays behind and Bragin
focuses his surveillance on her.
Penelope meets Kimble and
turns to him for help in mingling
with the wealthy in-crowd of
the hotel residents. Kimble
agrees to tutor her on the fine
art of socializing, manners and
better increasing her vocabulary.
GUEST STARS
WAYNE ROGERS
LAURA DEVON
PAUL RICHARDS
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OPENING AND CLOSING NARRATION
(Viewers see Richard Kimble as a bellhop, carrying several pieces of luggage)
The Chinese Sunset motel, situated on the tarnished hyphen called the Sunset Strip that separates Los Angeles from Beverly Hills. For Richard Kimble, working as a man
of all jobs under the alias of Jack Fickett, it is a welcome bit of limbo.
(Viewers see Richard Kimble boarding a bus)
A fleeting moment to laugh, to be warmed, to contemplate what might have been.
An hour ago he was Jack Figett; now he must find a new name, a new place, a man who cannot lose himself so that once again he might find himself.
Richard Kimble: Fugitive
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http://richardkimblethefugitive.com/fugitivescreencaps83.htm
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BOBBY REVIEWS "THE CHINESE SUNSET"
Two weeks early The Fugitive
delivers one of the biggest
Thanksgiving turkeys of
season three.
Don't look towards me for something good to say about this idiotic miserable story. How many times must we say it? Every single time that the producers get away from the original intent of the series and go for some quirky character study that they they think will be interesting, the story just lays there like some wounded duck waiting for the hunter to come along and put a bullet in it to mercifully end the agony.
What a pity to see Paul Richards, so memorable as the psychotic killer in
"APB" now reduced to just a piece of furniture in this story.
Because what it's really about is the pretty blonde actress who can't act and how many scenes they can place her in with her hair perfectly done up, her makeup heavily applied and in a succession of dresses, gowns, furs..etc. David Janssen, as he does in many other hopelessly bad stories, seems lost and wondering exactly why he was even required to come to the set that day.
To say nothing of yet another
scintillating escape by
Kimble.
My rating on a scale of 0 to 10
0 Totally Without Artistic Merit Of Any Kind Whatsoever
BOBBY
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KELLY REVIEWS "THE CHINESE SUNSET"
This latest episode is called The Chinese Sunset. It's definitely a sunset of an episode too. I can honestly say up front that I cared nothing about the characters in this episode, nor did I care about how it was going to turn out.
We start out seeing a man and a woman arriving in a hotel/apartment as it's apparent that some people live there. One of the people living there recognizes a man by the name of Eddie Slade who's just been released from jail about two months ago. He's hooked up with a beautiful blonde on his arm but she's not too bright.
Eddie it appears, is in town to get in good with the local mobsters and goes to see one who just happens to be in the hospital. He looks like Hannibal Lector the way they've got his face bandaged up. He tells Eddie that he has no work for him and that Eddie is bad news and to just leave town and don't come back.
Eddie begs for more time so he gives him two weeks. Eddie goes back to the hotel and tells Penelope that he's leaving for a few days to go see old acquaintances to maybe line up some work with them.
Penelope is a would be artist as she is sitting in a coffee shop with Kimble. She asks Kimble, who's going by the name of Jack Thickett if he'd like to see her drawings. He says OK. Penelope asks him what he does and he tells her that he does a little bit of everything in the hotel. She's struck by how educated he is. She tells him that she quit school and believed that she could get by on good looks. He basically tells her that it's never too late get educated. She's insulted and leaves.
She later goes to see him and asks him to meet her after her shift. In the meantime a good looking young man checks in and he's played by a young Wayne Rogers who would later be on MASH.
Eddie leaves and Penelope says good bye to him all the while being observed by Bragin (Wayne Rogers). We see him get up, go to a pay phone and call the police. It turns out he's an undercover cop who's been assigned to watch Eddie's movements. He tells them that Eddie's leaving but he believes he'll be back since Penelope is staying behind.
Penelope later meets Kimble and asks him to give her a crash course in learning proper things. She tells him that Eddie's first wife was educated and she's afraid that he won't stay with her if she doesn't get a little smarter. Kimble initially balks at the idea but she tells him she'll pay him for his time and that she's a fast learner. He finally agrees.
So we are treated to Kimble playing Pygmalion to Penelope. It's really not all that interesting. They are being watched by Bragin and by a dark haired woman who keeps eying both of them. Why? I have no idea. She apparently has some resentment toward Penelope but it's a mystery as to what the point is.
Bragin tries to make conversation with Penelope and she rudely brushes him off. Kimble observes it and tells her that there are nicer ways to tell a guy she's not interested. Hey Kimble, ever heard of Fatal Attraction? I say she was perfectly within her rights to tell Bragin to buzz off. Nip it in the bud outright if she isn't interested. Why should she be polite to him? She doesn't know him. She doesn't want to know him. She doesn't owe him a thing!
Bragin has now turned his attention on Kimble. He asks Kimble where he's from and Kimble gives vague answers. Bragin now calls the precinct and tells them to see if they can find anything on Jack Thickett.
Well, it's a negative and so Bragin is puzzled. Meanwhile, Eddie has arrived back in town and Bragin doesn't seem concerned in the least. Hey Bragin! Your assignment was Eddie Slade, not a lowly desk clerk named Jack Thickett. That doesn't stop him though, he's keeping a close eye on Kimble.
Everybody descends on a party given by one of the residents. Penelope has informed Eddie that she's been taking lessons from Jack. Eddie doesn't like it and goes and tells Kimble to stay away from her. Eddie then tells Penelope that he knows how he can make a fast fifty thousand and tells her to learn something from him about human nature.
At the party, the dark haired woman who dislikes Penelope takes Kimble's picture. It's a Polaroid and Bragin notices that Kimble sneaks over to her purse and steals it. Bragin walks to the trash can and picks up the negative. He then decides that he's going to search Kimble's room. Again, his assignment was to keep and eye on Eddie and yet he's completely oblivious that Eddie is about to hustle everybody at the party.
The man who's throwing the party approaches Eddie and asks him what kind of business venture he's in. Why anyone would want to do business with Eddie who obviously has mob ties is beyond me. The mobsters don't even want anything to do with him and yet these idiots are very quick to be taken in. He tells him that they can get twenty dollars back on each dollar invested. The one guy falls for it and tells him he'll raise the fifty thousand for him at the party. Eddie leaves happy for himself.
Bragin who has forgotten that Eddie is even alive, breaks into Kimble's room to search it. A judge would certainly have a field day with him. Let's see he breaks in to someone's room without a search warrant and has no cause to do so other than he thinks Kimble is acting strange. Bragin and Shirley Knight's character from a few episodes ago need to get together and discuss their mind reading abilities and how they just know someone is guilty all the while as Eddie gets away with scamming people.
Bragin is almost caught searching Kimble's room because Kimble starts to show up and then Penelope shows up and insists they go downstairs for coffee.. Bragin leaves and goes to the police station. Apparently his boss has forgotten about Eddie as well because they're all enamored by the negative that Bragin brought in.
They get the picture back and one guy realizes who he is and he removes a piece of paper from the wanted poster and shazam! They see Kimble's wanted poster…and who was it that Bragin was supposed to be keeping an eye on? Oh yeah that's Eddie who's now looking down the barrel of a gun because he didn't get out of town like he was supposed to and his acquaintance from the hospital has now sent his goons to take care of Eddie.
Eddie tells them he's still got twenty minutes. Penelope is spilling everything to Kimble about the scam so she tells him to go tell everybody before they give up their life savings. Kimble tells her that she's got to tell them. She won't do it…she still has some loyalty for Eddie even though he balks at the idea of them actually doing what the rest of the world does which is get jobs.
Kimble goes to tell everybody that Eddie is scamming them and they don't initially believe him so Penelope walks in and tells them it's true. So they all give up on that little fantasy. Apparently nobody ever told these people that if something sounds too good to be true it probably is.
The mobsters have had it with Eddie. Eddie's had it with them and tries to disarm them, but he get a right hook to the jaw and ends up going through the door, what a cliché! Penelope runs to his aid as does everybody else. The police come up, the mobsters flee, Kimble flees, Bragin tries to follow him but Kimble hides in the police car and then sneaks out and calmly walks away.
The end of this episode finally comes and Bragin tells Penelope that Jack's name is really Kimble and he's wanted in Indiana for murdering his wife. Penelope tells him that she'd bet her diamond earrings that Kimble is innocent and will one day prove it. Bragin tells her it's not likely but Penelope tells him that every 1,000 mile journey begins with one step. It's something an old professor told her…meaning Kimble.
And we see Kimble boarding a bus at the end, although how he got his suitcase back is beyond me but who really cares?
This episode gets a big thumbs down from me. The reason being is because we once again see the classic episode where Kimble gets taken in by a pretty face, we have mobsters but why? The story goes nowhere. We have an undercover cop, why? That story went nowhere.
Penelope in the end really hasn't learned that much because she still wants to be with a loser like Eddie so I'd say Kimble didn't teach her enough.
I felt no sympathy for any of the characters. I thought they were all boring and pointless. This was a true filler episode. I'm not sure David Janssen had to put much acting effort in to this script.
I'm going to do something I don't think I've ever done. I'm rating this a zero. I can find nothing to like in it. There's not even anything that's so bad that it's amusing, like in Fun and Games and Storm Center. This is just bad!
If anyone can find something redeemable about this script, feel free to say so. I just can't see it.
kelly
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KEN REVIEWS "THE CHINESE SUNSET"
This present episode could set a record for the worst rating in the
series. Four O ratings so far including mine. But I know there is a far worst episode in season four that is downright hideous. Wait and see my review on that one.
Why is Paul Richards back again? He will always be to me the Neil Pinkerton character in A.P.B.Laura Devon was a bomb here. A pretty face does not help bad acting.
Again the producers cast way too many characters in this story. I count 15. Wow!
Question? We are following the four year journey of Kimble. Why did the series feel the need to bring back guest actors,actresses to play different roles? I don't remember any other long running series doing
this.
Bonanza and Gunsmoke had over 400 episodes. Did they use the same actor to play a different role?I am trying to remember if they did.
Maybe I am wrong. Maybe this was the trend in the 50's and 60's.The Fugitive T.V. series stands out. Quinn Martin probably did not care about consistency. I wonder how Roy Huggins felt. Examples of repeat appearances include Richard Anderson, Ed Begley, Lin McCarthy, Shirley Knight, Nan Martin, Carol Rossen, Telly Savalas, Pat Hingle, Ruth White, Janice Rule, Ed Nelson, Leslie Nielsen, Suzanne Pleshette, Bruce Dern, Robert Duvall.
Meanwhile we see little of Helen Kimble. Ray Kimble was used once. We never heard about Kimble's mother. Donna was used in six stories. Big mistake.
Oh well I am rambling on again. By the way my rating for The Chinese Sunset is 0.
Ken
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bobbynear
Nov 5, 2016
COMING NEXT
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 13
"THE CHINESE SUNSET"
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ORIGINAL REVIEWS
"RUNNING SCARED
WRITTEN BY: DON BRINKLEY
DIRECTED BY: JAMES SHELDON
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: OCTOBER 22, 1966
After learning of the death of his father, Kimble contacts Donna and her husband Len.Donna is distraught and desperately wants to meet her brother and they arrange a meeting in Fort Wayne Indiana. Donna and Len go there and check into a hotel under assumed names, but Donna is recognized by Mike Ballinger, the former prosecuting attorney at Kimble's trial.
Ballinger is running for governor and his top aide persuades him that assisting in the apprehension of Kimble will help him politically, Ballinger calls up Gerard to set up a trap but Ballinger's wife Harriet, fed up with his non stop campaigning and resulting growing addiction to stimulants hides Kimble and helps
him meet Donna and Len.
GUEST STARS:
JAMES DALY
JACQUELINE SCOTT
LIN MCCARTHY
JOANNE LINVILLE
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OPENING AND CLOSING NARRATION
NARRATOR OPENING NARRATION:
(Viewers see Richard Kimble crossing the street of a small town, having just purchased a
newspaper from a vendor called "Jake's
Local And Out Of Town Newspapers")
A man on the run may manage to elude the
law but his yesterdays follow him like an
ever lengthening shadow. For some, the shadow
of the past is an object of fear, but for
Richard Kimble it is a form of security.
His memories are a bulwark against helplessness
and despair. When the memories falter, so
does Kimble.
NARRATOR: CLOSING NARRATION:
(Viewers see Richard Kimble
walking along the tracks of a train depot)
Without a past, a man has no future.
For Richard Kimble, his memories are
the source of his courage.
They give him the strength to face another
uncertain tomorrow.
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The video of "Running Scared" can be found
on the following list.
https://archive.org/details/The_Fugitive_Series#
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TALKING FUGITIVE
**On April 8, 2008 we did a Talking
Fugitive radio program on "Running
Scared" and you can listen to it by
clicking on the following link:
http://www.richardkimblethefugitive.com/mp3/tf040808.mp3
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SCREENCAPS
http://richardkimblethefugitive.com/fugitivescreencaps82.htm
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BOBBY REVIEWS "RUNNING SCARED"
At long last, a little consistency in The Fugitive. In season one, as the story came to a close, we watched as Richard and his father John, embraced for what both knew would surely be the final time.
Now near the end of season three, the inevitable has happened with the death of Kimble's father. It's good to see some recognition of events that have happened in past episodes. A little more of that would have made the series even better.
The story is a little bit on the routine side, what with Gerard hatching another trap that is doomed to failure. But the real high point, as always, is in the reunion of the brother and sister who have learned to lean on each other when times are bad.
It never grows too old to be said that David Janssen and Jacqueline Scott had the kind of screen chemistry that directors must dream about. You always know there is something special going on when it becomes impossible to picture anyone else in a particular role. The idea that any actress anywhere at anytime might have replaced Jacqueline Scott, is almost laughable.
Too often in big screen and tv history, siblings have been portrayed only as rivals, usually for their parent's affection and attention. Richard and Donna have proven that in acting and in real life, it's really all about love and support and sharing common experiences both good and bad. These two give new meaning to the word bonding.
My personal favorite scene in this episode is when Mike Ballinger finds Kimble hiding in his hotel room. Some outstanding suspense here especially when Mike closes that door and leaves Kimble exposed hiding behind it and viewers having to watch the latest cigarette commercial before finding out what happened. A nice touch.
I have to defend Richard just a little here regarding his fighting skills mentioned as lacking this time. After all, Ballinger did give him a karate chop that laid Kimble out, something I don't think he has faced previously.
Any chase scene between Gerard and Kimble is always welcome of course, but this one seemed a little lacking in intensity. Save for that moment we always look forward to when Gerard calls out, "Kimble!!!" and there is that second frozen in time when they stop and glare at each other, each one afraid to make the next move for fear of losing whatever advantage they may have.
I do have to say that it is hard to imagine Gerard giving up so easily.
You would think he would do a little more. He certainly did back in season one's classic, "Never Wave Goodbye" Part I when he ran out into the street and looked in every direction for a fleeing Kimble.
I love Kelly's idea of having Ray in this story, acting as a decoy to help his brother escape. A little imagination by the writer might have had even the audience fooled as Gerard chases Kimble through the streets, only to find at the end that he has caught up to the wrong brother.
Perhaps the best thing to come out of this episode is that James Daly's son, Tim
may have learned a bit from it. Tim Daly, who would go on to play Richard Kimble in the 2000 reprise of the series, had said in interviews back then that he was on the set watching his father. It certainly didn't hurt to get a little exposure to the life of Richard Kimble.
It should also be pointed out that this particular story was actually combined with "Home Is The Hunted" to create a new one in the 2000 version of the series, titled "St. Christopher's Prayer".
In what I consider to be the best episode of that first and final season,
Kimble goes home to visit his dying father. There is the same tearful parting like there was in the original series and the entire episode is quite emotional. The high point clearly comes at the end when Kimble reads of his father's death in a newspaper article he picks up out on the street.
Tim Daly gives an awesome performance when Richard slowly breaks down as he leans against a wall on a dark deserted street, before finally collapsing onto the ground in uncontrollable sobs. A very memorable moment, so effective that the producers actually submitted "St. Christopher's Prayer" for Emmy consideration.
"Running Scared" lacks that emotional wallop which I think prevents it from crossing over into classic territory. Still though, any moment between
Kimble and his sister certainly adds extra points onto an episode for me.
Unfortunately this marks the last appearance of Donna until the series finale. You would think that Richard Kimble, facing a final season in color no less, and with almost all of the best stories already done, would find he needed his sister more than ever. Sadly, the writers and producers did not see it that way. One of the reasons that season four, with a few exceptions, is such a dismal failure.
The lesson is obvious.
There can never be too much Donna.
My rating on a scale of 0 to 10
8 Well Above Average
BOBBY
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KELLY REVIEWS "RUNNING SCARED"
This latest story is called "Running Scared" and it certainly fits the episode. Not only is Richard running in this episode he's now got his sister Donna and her husband Len running as well.
We start out seeing Richard Kimble reading a newspaper and he finds out that his father has recently passed away. This prompts him to call his sister Donna who's currently at home grieving with her husband Len.
Richard calls and Donna is quite shaken up. She tells him that she needs to see him very badly, so Richard agrees to see her and Len in another city. Gerard is no fool though and he orders Donna's house to be watched as Gerard is just certain that if Kimble doesn't show up in Stafford, then Donna is bound to go looking for Kimble.
Donna and Len devise a plan. Len leaves his house in plain site and is headed for the train station. Donna is simply in her bathrobe. The police phone in to Gerard that Len Taft is leaving and Gerard orders them to follow him. This leaves time for Donna to shed her bathrobe and grab her suitcase and hightail it to the airport.
Ah, for the good old days at the airport when you didn't have to produce picture ID when you checked in. Donna has checked in under another name.
Unbeknownst to her, is a man who works for the district attorney who just happened to be responsible for convicting Richard Kimble and we find him in a restaurant in the terminal. Michael Ballinger is sitting there with his wife Harriet and his assistant and she notices, Donna and asks, "Isn't that Donna Taft?" Mike is unimpressed and she says, "You know Donna Taft, she's the sister of Richard Kimble. She was at the trial every day it went on".
The D.A. is initially not interested even though his wife feels sorry for Donna. The assistant however, says that he was standing behind her in line and she didn't check in under the name of Taft, but under another name. Ballinger concludes that she must be traveling incognito so she can meet up with her brother. He tells his assistant to find out where she's headed. The wife on the other hand is less than enthusiastic. She's noticed that her husband has been working very hard and ever since the Kimble conviction, he's been very active in politics and it's taking its toll on their relationship.
Meanwhile, Donna is in the hotel room in the other city and Len arrives. He came by train when Donna came by plane. She's very frightened that Richard won't be able to show up. The phone then rings and it's a woman asking to speak with her. Donna immediately hangs up and assumes the worst that someone knows that they're at the hotel waiting for Richard. Len tells her to not be so jumpy and that it could have been the front desk. She relaxes a little bit.
Meanwhile, the police are descending on the hotel, including Gerard who recognizes the D.A.'s wife because she has arrived and gives a note to be taken to the Tafts. Len opens the door and looks at the note which states that the police are there and that it's a trap. Len tells Donna to stay put in case Richard calls. He walks out and is stopped by Gerard who asks him where he's going and Len tells him to buy some cigarettes. Gerard offers him one of his and he declines telling him that it's not his brand.
Len walks out of the hotel but is stopped by another policeman. Kimble meanwhile, is on his way to see Donna and he buys her some flowers, but before he can show up, the D.A.'s wife pulls over to him and tells him the police are swarming the hotel and to get in. Realizing he has no choice in this instance, he does.
She tells him that her husband was the one who convicted him but she doesn't want him to get caught. She feels badly because it's because she recognized Donna at the airport that the police are there. She explains that it's also for purely selfish reasons. She tells him that if her husband catches him, it will pave the road to glory for him politically and she doesn't want that because he's become obsessed with politics and he pays no attention to her anymore so she wants to help him escape and see his sister.
She arranges for them all to meet at a basketball game that evening. However, Gerard has tipped off her husband that she's there so he shows up in the hotel room. As Kimble hides, he realizes that he's not the only one in the room and he finds Kimble hiding in a closet. Kimble tries to make a break for it but the Mike manages to lay Kimble out with one punch.
Personally, I thought it looked rather lame. Kimble's endured much more punishment than that and has ended up the victor before. The wife comes back in and we are treated to the classic married couple argument that goes something like this…husband, Why don't you support me in my career? Wife then says, You don't pay enough attention to me and this career is destroying our life together.
As this goes on, Kimble very conveniently makes a hasty exit. Ballinger is not a happy camper. He's even more furious with his wife and he basically tells her he's leaving her. Now, with everything we saw up to this point with the wife, I really expected something better from her here, but unfortunately, she caved in and told her husband that Kimble was headed to the basketball game to see his sister. I was quite frankly hoping to see her yell something to the effect of I hope your career keeps you warm at night! But then again it is the 60's and it was a different mind set back then.
We do see a very poignant reunion with Richard and Donna and Len at the game. Donna can barely hold herself together here but Richard tells her that he needs her to be strong for him and to remember all of the good times. It was a very touching scene between these two siblings. It's a pity poor Ray wasn't invited to this little reunion…oh yeah he's in Las Vegas or else Chicago at this point.
Richard proceeds to leave, but of course Gerard shows up. He sees Donna and Len and demands to know where he is and of course they pretend to be totally stupid and say who? However, Gerard then sees Kimble and we get a good chase scene although I must admit it seemed that Gerard gave up on the chase awfully quick.
Over all, I liked this episode and I will give it a rating of a nine and thumbs up. I think it delivers on most levels, the only part I was really disappointed in was that the D.A.'s wife caved in at the end. It just seemed a little out of character after she had shown so much resolve to help Kimble.
As I stated earlier, it's a pity that we did not see brother Ray in this episode. I would have liked to have seen Ray showing some grief for his father and it could have really been interesting to see Ray provide another decoy, perhaps where Gerard thinks he's chasing Richard and when he catches up to him he finds he's been chasing the wrong brother.
I thought James Daly was fine as the D.A. and it's quite interesting that he is the father of Tim Daly who ultimately reprised the role of Richard Kimble in The Fugitive 2000. It would have been nice to see a little more of Mike Balliner though, I thought his character was pretty one dimensional. The story ended up being more about his wife than about him.
Interestingly enough, one of the premises of The Fugitive is that Richard Kimble ends up helping someone each week but in the final analysis, he really didn't help anyone in this episode. The DA's wife is going to be just as miserable as she was before and while he and Donna had a brief moment of happiness at getting to see each other, Donna and Len will go back to Stafford and be just as worried about Kimble as they ever were.
I won't fault it for that though as it's an enjoyable episode and I think it's great that they were able to get Jacqueline Scott to play Kimble's sister each time she was needed on the show. The actor portraying Len is not the one we saw briefly in Home is the Hunted and James Daly was not prosecuting Kimble in Girl from Little Egypt, but that's not necessarily bad.
KELLY
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KEN REVIEWS "RUNNING SCARED"
Donna where have you been??? I have missed you. Great to have you back.
I still feel that the series should have used her in 10-15 episodes.
Why not? Plenty of stories could have been written with her and Ray.
We saw Gerard about 39 times. Delete stories like Storm Center, Homecoming, Action, Fun and Games, Bloodline, etc...
I am still upset with the wacky decisions of the producers. Lin McCarthy as Donna's husband! Give me a break. We saw him as the
warden in 'Wings of an Angel.'
I liked 'Running Scared.' I felt the same emotion as Donna. She needed her brother. Outstanding acting by Jacqueline Scott. She was
better here than in "Hunted" and 'Trial by Fire."
Great scene in the hotel room. Donna is waiting for the phone call. A tense moment. All of us are eager for her to find and talk with her
brother. I can imagine the same feelings if I was in that situation.
I wish Donna was my sister.
The reunion at the ball game was a nice touch. However, Kimble was a little flat. He did not answer the most impotant question that Donna
asked.
"Are you going to find him?" Donna asks.
Kimble-"I think I better leave."
I know time is short. But that was a short reunion.
Good performances by James Daly and Joanne Linville. Sorry I would not vote for Ballinger for Governor. He treated his wife badly.
Gerard shows off bad police work again. I know the stadium is large but maybe you can seal off all the exits next time.
I liked the end scene where Donna and Gerard talk. Donna has that look on her face, glad that Richard got away again. Gerard is upset.
Way to go Donna. Because of her I am going with a 10 rating. Ken
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bobbynear
Oct 29, 2016
COMING NEXT
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 6
"RUNNING SCARED"
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ORIGINAL REVIEWS
"SHADOW OF THE SWAN"
DIRECTED BY JAMES SHELDON
WRITTEN BY ANTHONY LAWRENCE
ORIGINAL AIR DATE FEBRUARY 8, 1966
At a carnival, Kimble meets Tina Anderson, an attractive young woman who helps him
get a job and introduces him to her uncle Harry who is a retired police detective. Harry soon recognizes Kimble and tries to arrest him, but Tina helps Kimble get away and wants to run off with him, but he refuses. Tina who is revealed to be a possessive sociopath plots to betray Kimble for refusing her advances.
GUEST STARS:
JOANNA PETTET
ANDREW DUGGAN
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OPENING AND CLOSING NARRATION
Narrator: (Viewers see Richard Kimble entering
a carnival grounds) A carnival can be a place of
fun and games or the fun house mirror's of man's
uglier side. If you happen to be Richard Kimble,
it can simply be another lonely street where the
laughter belongs to someone else.
Narrator: (Viewers see Richard Kimble in the
box car of a moving Southern Pacific train)
The carnival has moved on, and so too has
Richard Kimble. The carnival moves north, taking
its ragbag of noise and excitement to another
town, searching for the crowds that are its life.
Richard Kimble, a fugitive still, searches for
the one man who can mean his life.
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VIDEO OF "SHADOW OF THE SWAN"
CAN BE FOUND ON THIS LIST:
https://archive.org/details/The_Fugitive_Series#
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SCREENCAPS
http://richardkimblethefugitive.com/fugitivescreencaps81.htm
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BOBBY REVIEWS "SHADOW OF THE SWAN"
It seems as though after giving Kimble a really serious love interest very early in the series in episodes four and five of season one, Never Wave Goodbye.. in which he very nearly decided to go for it and forego any further attempts to prove he is innocent, a deliberate decision was made to see to it that he never came close again.
It is true that in season two's World's End, he nearly left the country but Ellie was simply lying to him and the plane literally never got off the ground. Other than that, it has been an endless gallery of dysfunctional women who lack something in their lives and think they can find it by running off with a man convicted of a capital crime. This allows something to go wrong at the end and Kimble can escape with just a few kisses and not appear that he's been sleeping around.
And once again we have to be hit over the head with a scene of great tenderness and caring from Richard Kimble...No..not towards Tina..but towards that goldfish.
Yes..Kimble could not possibly have killed his wife...he wouldn't even casually toss a goldfish aside or horror of horrors..flush him away as, sadly so many have done over the years. Instead he lets him go free in that pond. For what? About 30 seconds before he got eaten? Give it to a kid..at least the fish will have a chance for a day or two. In that pond, he's just dinner.
Maybe the worst thing about this story is that there is not a single surprise in it.
We know how it's going to end. Of course, Tina has to die. She's not going to jail. She's hardly the type. So instead we have this contrived ending where the gun goes off and Tina gets a fatal wound.
It's just another one of those bloodless shootings that makes death
look oh so peaceful and quiet while Kimble simply stands there
like an idiot..
Oh wait a minute...haven't we seen that before? Oh yes...back in The End Is But The Beginning. But what do you know... not only is the ending almost the same although in that one, Aimee did live.. but the actor, Andrew Duggan is the very same person who fired the gun during a confrontation with Kimble. The man is dangerous. Take those guns away from him already before he blows away every psychotic woman in the series. What would Kimble do for companionship then?
Low moment of this trash finds Kimble yet again walking away slowly
right past cops who are responding to sounds of gunshots.
They seem to be amazingly
blind at the right times.
A dreadfully trite story that is a top candidate for the Fugitive hall
of shame.
My rating on a scale of 0 to 10
0 - TOTALLY WITHOUT MERIT
AND THOROUGHLY EMBARRASSING
BOBBY
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KELLY REVIEWS "SHADOW OF THE SWAN"
This latest episode is called Shadow of a Swan and could have been more appropriately titled Shadow of Past Bad Scripts. No, I don't think this was a great episode, I guess it's because I think I've seen everything before, the only difference being that the main character of Tina was probably the deadliest woman Kimble has encountered to date. One might argue that Norma Sessions was the deadliest from Brass Ring because she plotted to have her own brother killed and to pin it on Kimble but I think Tina was deadlier. Norma knew exactly what she was doing, Tina on the other hand was just plain crazy.
This episode's start actually reminded me a little of Brass Ring in that Kimble has stepped on to a carnival atmosphere quite literally. People are having fun and they're happy and we even see what appears to be two young lovers flirting at a carnival booth. The boss however, comes by and shoos the young woman away but not before she makes sure some of his merchandise falls on the ground and breaks.
Kimble eventually walks by and is doing something we rarely see. He's actually having a good time. We see him smile as he throws a ball and knocks over some bottles and wins a goldfish. He then gets a funny look on his face that says Great now what do I do with this fish? Had I been Kimble I would have found a child at the carnival to give it to but that's too easy. No, Kimble says, Swim fishy and be free!
There's just one problem here. He sits by the lake and watches a lovely swan swim by as he's being watched by that same lovely young woman we saw over by the carnival booth. Kimble tries to feed the swan but she yells to him that the swan won't eat anything. She believes that she grieves for her mate that died awhile ago. They engage in pleasant conversation and she tells him that swans are beautiful creatures. He tells her that he heard that swans can be vicious. She tells him that maybe there's a reason for it.
She asks him what his name is and he tells her Paul Keller. I guess he liked Telly Savalas's character from the last episode so he took his name. Her name is Tina and she asks him what he's doing in town and he tells her that he's looking for work. She tells him that she works in a veterinary clinic and maybe he can get a job there. The kennel person that they had got fired last week for stealing so the job's open.
This should have raised all kinds of red flags for Kimble. He meets a beautiful woman who just after knowing him for five minutes wants him to be employed at her office. Kimble run for your life. This woman's more deadly than Gerard! No, Kimble goes back to the veterinary clinic and he takes the job. The vet tells him that Jerry who'd been there before robbed him blind but yet, he gives the job to Paul Keller on the spot with no references or prior work experience to check out. I think he deserved to get robbed…ahh but there's more to this than meets the eye.
The vet takes Kimble to the back to show him around and we see Tina pick up a beautiful Siamese cat and start petting it. She then walks over to her locker and we see a microscope that the vet said that Jerry stole! Apparently, Tina is a kleptomaniac.
However, all seems well and Tina asks where Kimble lives. He tells her in a boarding house and it turns out it's not that far from where she lives. She asks him to walk her home and if they can go back through the carnival.
So they go back and Tina gets ice cream and lets Kimble have some. When is Kimble going to learn that any woman who's this friendly with a man she just met is totally bad news? Come on Dick! You've been running for close to three years now have you learned nothing? Apparently not!
OK, Tina tells Kimble that she'd like to ride the ferris wheel. They start to head toward it and Kimble gets separated from her. Tina in the meantime gets grabbed by the carnival guy she was hanging out with earlier. Since she met Kimble though, she's not particularly interested in this guy but he's very interested in her and he takes her behind a tent and it appears that we have an attempted date rape occurring here. Tina starts to scream and Kimble comes running in to save her.
This was one of the longer fights we've seen Kimble get in. Kimble ends up taking a few punches as good as he can give them and the carnival guy ends up running away. Tina through all of this just looks on and does nothing to try and help Kimble until afterwards when she insists on taking him home.
This is bad news for Kimble. They get back to her place and he gets to meet Tina's uncle, a retired police officer who's now working as a night watchman. He's automatically suspicious of Kimble but he wants Tina to press charges against the man who attacked her. Tina tells him she didn't get a good look at his face and Kimble says he didn't either.
Kimble then makes a hasty exit. Tina's uncle then lectures Tina on why she shouldn't be picking up strange men. Tina gets mad and goes to her room and closes the door in his face. He walks out and goes to the police station and tells he former colleague that someone attacked Tina. His former colleague is skeptical. It appears that Tina told some kind of tale a year ago and her uncle beat the guy to a pulp and he ended up losing his badge as a result.
The good uncle though still wants to come by the next day to look at mug shots because he's got a feeling that Paul Keller isn't all that he says he is.
The next day, Kimble arrives at the office to work and no sooner does he arrive then he sees Tina's uncle and his friend drive up. Kimble tells Tina that he's got to go and if anyone asks he had an important appointment. He leaves and in walks her uncle with his former colleague ready to arrest Kimble.
Her uncle shows her the picture and tells her that he killed his wife. She refuses to believe it and tells them that she doesn't know where he went. They leave. Tina clings to the beautiful Siamese cat for comfort. We then see Kimble packing in his room and Tina comes to see him. She tells him that they know who he is and she wants to know if he really did kill his wife. He tells her that if she really believed he killed his wife, she wouldn't be there right now. Why can't Kimble just say No I didn't kill her! Why play word games…especially with this nut job.
Then we get the obligatory phrase from all women who prostrate themselves at Kimble's feet. Take me with you! She tells him that she loves him. He tells her that she doesn't know him. That doesn't stop him from kissing this basket case though. Is Kimble really that hard up? Am I the only one who thinks he could do much better than this?
He pushes her away and tells her she can't go with him. Now if Kimble had one ounce of brains in his head, as soon as she left the room, he'd high tail it out of there as fast as his legs could carry him and say to heck with this town…after all, this psychotic woman knows who he is, she's got a retired cop for an uncle who with a former colleague came looking for him, this woman is now mad at him and yet, Kimble goes back to calmly packing his suitcase?
Meanwhile, Tina the woman scorned has just told her uncle everything and given him Kimble's address. The uncle calls his friend and the friend isn't interested. Apparently, they all know Tina is an unreliable source so he's not going to check out Kimble. The uncle pulls out his bullets and his gun so he can go after Kimble himself.
Tina has a look of satisfaction on her face and she calls Kimble at the boarding house. Kimble is about to leave his room when his phone rings. What does Kimble do? He actually answers it. Why? Why?
Tina tells Kimble that because he doesn't want her, then she's going back to that guy at the carnival because she needs to be with someone and he'll just take Kimble's leftovers. It's kind of a provocative conversation and if Kimble had one ounce of brains, he'd say, Fine, knock yourself out!
Then there's a knock at the door. The landlady tells him that the bus will be out front in five minutes. He asks if it goes by the carnival and she says yes. Kimble gets on the bus. The good uncle arrives to find Kimble gone.
Meanwhile, Tina has made her way to the carnival to give the Carney what he wants and he happens to be in his trailer so just as they're about to get very cozy, a woman walks in and tells Tina that she's his wife. The unhappily married couple begin to argue and the next thing we see is the policeman at the station getting a call at the station telling him that there's been a fire at the carnival and it's arson with attempted murder.
We then find out that it was a woman who started the fire by overturning the stove in the trailer and then locking the married couple in the trailer. The uncle arrives and so do the police. The uncle asks how he knew Kimble was there. His friend tells him that he's not there for Kimble, he's there because of a fire. The uncle runs off to find Kimble. Kimble, who should have stayed on the bus like any normal sane person would have done, sees the fire and he realizes from what he's told that it was Tina who started the fire and tried to kill the two people inside.
He finds her by the swan at the lake. He asks her why she did it. She really doesn't have much of an answer other than he was mean to her and needed to be punished. The uncle comes by and pulls his gun on Kimble. Kimble tells him that the police are looking for Tina because she started the fire.
Tina then weaves this amazing tale of Kimble and the Carney getting in to a big fight and Kimble just kept hitting him and hitting him and then he overturned the stove and grabbed her and then locked the trailer.
The uncle realizes it was her because Kimble was at his landlady's house when the fire started, and as she spouts off more at the mouth he realizes that she set the fire that killed her parents when she was ten years old. He then tells Tina he's got to take her in. Tina isn't thrilled to hear this and begins to fight with her uncle on the dock and as they both fall in the water, the uncle's gun goes off and shoots Tina.
Kimble helps get Tina out of the water and as Tina lies there dying on the shore, Kimble the good doctor that he is does…absolutely nothing. The uncle is too distraught to care about Kimble and he just calmly walks away as the police show up to find out what happened.
In the end, we see the good uncle at home and his friend invites him over to poker night with the rest of his old buddies. It appears that all's well that ends well and Kimble is once again riding the rails to look for the one armed man.
As I said when I started this review, this episode is a montage of various other scripts. We've got the woman who drops dead at Kimble's feet and wants to run away with him, like Cassie in The Other Side of the Mountain and Carla in The Cage. This is coupled with adding the mental instability of Chris in Where the Action Isn't…along with the two characters Diana Hyland played in When the Bough Breaks and Set Fire to a Straw Script.
We have the aging lawman who's out to prove something by brining Kimble in such as what we saw in Tug of War and Runner in the Dark. We've got the carnival atmosphere as was seen in Brass Ring. We've got the accidental shooting as was seen in The Garden House where Kimble once again does nothing to help a dying woman. Why was this episode written? Just watch these other episodes and you know how it all turns out.
About the only thing I enjoyed seeing in this episode were the very cute dogs and the beautiful Siamese cat. I'd like to take that cat home with me. As for a rating…it's probably not a as bad as Action, Tug of War, Set fire or Garden House, but I'll still give it a thumbs down and I'll give it a rating of a four. It's definitely below average…but at least the dogs and the cat were sweet!
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KEN REVIEWS "SHADOW OF THE SWAN"
Okay. I guess sometimes this series has to visit the land of Oz. Why
not? We have seen dogs, rabbits, bees, tiger, cats, and now a swan.
My only plea to the series producers. Please be nice to the guest
actresses. Stop making them out to be looney and batty.
Kimble can't help himself when talking with women. Why did he talk to
Tina anyway. Hey Kimble you are a fugitive. Get a job to feed yourself
and lay low and out of sight. Enjoy yourself at the park. Meet a nice
lady and take her out to a movie and dinner.
How many fight scenes have we seen now? Ep.2(Witch), ep.8(
ep.10(Fatso), ep.13(Highpoint), ep.17(Watch Me), ep.23(Angels), ep.37
(Tug), ep.48(Fella), ep.61(Wings) ep.70(Landscape), ep.79(Echo).
Kimble sure has a lot of bruises. I liked the swans. I like the carnival.
Story was a brick. My rating-1 Only because of the scenery. Ken
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