Everybody Gets Hit in the Mouth Sometime
- Episode aired Mar 9, 1965
- TV-PG
- 51m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
164
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While working as a dispatcher for a small trucking company, Kimble deals with its owner and his guilty secret with a troubled woman.While working as a dispatcher for a small trucking company, Kimble deals with its owner and his guilty secret with a troubled woman.While working as a dispatcher for a small trucking company, Kimble deals with its owner and his guilty secret with a troubled woman.
Barry Atwater
- Cleve Logan
- (as G.B. Atwater)
Barry Morse
- Lt. Philip Gerard
- (credit only)
William Conrad
- Narrator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaAbout halfway through the story, Hendricks offers to pay Lucia $2,300 to leave town. Soon afterwards, he plots the hijacking of electronic gear insured for $25,000. In 2021 terms, those amounts would be about $19,020 and $206,700, respectively. To put them into context in 1965, the base price of a new Rambler American 440 4-door compact sedan was about $2,200 and the average price of a new home was $13,600.
- GoofsThe police arrest the would-be hijacker in a phone booth before he has committed any crime for which he could be arrested. Since a crime has not yet been committed there are no grounds for the arrest.
- Quotes
Narrator: [Act One Opening Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble, clipboard in hand, checking in an arriving truck] The road of escape has led Richard Kimble to a new sanctuary, to work as a dispatcher for Bullet Trucking Company. No questions asked, no references required. A good job for a fugitive.
- SoundtracksTheme from The Fugitive
Music by Pete Rugolo
Featured review
An odd one where, for once, Richard Kimble seems to make the wrong moral decision.
So often in the episodes of the old "Fugitive" TV shows, Richard Kimble is forced to make choices--choices that often put him at risk of being arrested. But, since he's a fundamentally good and just man, you can rely on him doing the right thing....but not in this episode! I was surprised that Kimble's sympathy for his boss, Gus (Jack Klugman), is very misplaced.
Gus owns his own trucking company and barely can make ends meet. Because of this, he often breaks the law and has his drivers drive longer than the rules allow. Surely someone or some group of people are going to get killed because of Gus' actions. But through it all, Kimble is strangely loyal. Even when Gus becomes mentally unstable and violent towards him, Kimble is loyal. Even when Lucia (Geraldine Brooks) is very demanding and pushes Gus to make more flagrant violations of the law, he is loyal.
Overall, an interesting but morally suspect episode...one that left me confused since the writer seems to have violated an unwritten law concerning Kimble. Additionally, the ending is incredibly grim and downbeat...making this a less than thrilling installment in the series.
Gus owns his own trucking company and barely can make ends meet. Because of this, he often breaks the law and has his drivers drive longer than the rules allow. Surely someone or some group of people are going to get killed because of Gus' actions. But through it all, Kimble is strangely loyal. Even when Gus becomes mentally unstable and violent towards him, Kimble is loyal. Even when Lucia (Geraldine Brooks) is very demanding and pushes Gus to make more flagrant violations of the law, he is loyal.
Overall, an interesting but morally suspect episode...one that left me confused since the writer seems to have violated an unwritten law concerning Kimble. Additionally, the ending is incredibly grim and downbeat...making this a less than thrilling installment in the series.
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- planktonrules
- Apr 14, 2017
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- Filming locations
- Halfway House Cafe - 15564 Sierra Highway, Santa Clarita, California, USA(restaurant, gas station, motel under surveillance)
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- Runtime51 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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