When Kimble suffers temporary amnesia from an explosion, he finds himself caught between a social worker who wants to help and a psychiatrist who doesn't.When Kimble suffers temporary amnesia from an explosion, he finds himself caught between a social worker who wants to help and a psychiatrist who doesn't.When Kimble suffers temporary amnesia from an explosion, he finds himself caught between a social worker who wants to help and a psychiatrist who doesn't.
- The Checker
- (as Donald Barry)
- Marty
- (as Herb Vigran)
- Diner Customer
- (uncredited)
- Narrator
- (uncredited)
- Train Passenger
- (uncredited)
- Policeman
- (uncredited)
- Patient
- (uncredited)
- Conductor
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe photo showing Kimball in the hospital bed is the same one from Season 1 episode "Nightmare at Northoak."
- GoofsIn the photo of Kimball in the hospital bed, there's no bandage on Kimball's forehead, and it looks like he has received no head injury.
- Quotes
Narrator: [Act One Opening Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble disembark from a truck labeled "Tracy Trucking Company" on which he had hitched a ride] Another stopping place at the end of another road. If your name is Richard Kimble, you're guilty to escape and flight.
[Kimble starts to cross the street, heading toward an all-night diner]
Narrator: You have no future unless you can find the past - the night of September 17th, two years ago. You saw the man who killed your wife that night.
[Kimble, in a flashback from two years ago, in salt-and-pepper hair, driving his vehicle, observes a shadowy figure running from Kimble's yard and start to dash across the street]
Narrator: His face was there for only a moment
[Kimble clearly sees a one armed man in the car headlights. The car nearly strikes the man. They stare at each other for a moment, then the one armed man runs off]
Narrator: but you'll never forget it. You keep looking. Today, a truck driver mentions a one armed man in Decatur. The description fits.
- SoundtracksTheme from The Fugitive
Music by Pete Rugolo
Anyway, Kimble winds up in a hospital, not knowing who he is. He gets flashes of a dead woman, a one-armed man, etc. But he can't add it up. The hospital staff and the local police try to help him find out who he is, which is the last thing he would want- if he knew who he was.
Meanwhile there's a conflict between the doctor caring for him and the social worker who is trying to find out who he is. The doctor long ago decided he could be a better doctor if he took no personal interest in his patients. The social worker is a bleeding heart advocate for everyone whose case winds up on her desk. They've clashed before and are now jousting about what to do with Kimble. Kimble, searching for the truth of his life, agrees with the doctor's plan to use sodium pentothal to pull Kimble's hidden memories to the forefront and we again see the flashbacks to the night of the murder and the subsequent trial. The doctor now knows who Kimble really is. He convinces Kimble he's really running from his own guilt.
When Kimble finds out he's a doctor who killed his wife, he thinks he may be guilty of the murder. He even goes to a library and looks up the old newspapers and decides the case against him is pretty strong. Meanwhile the social worker finds the one-armed man, who denies knowing Kimble in an unconvincing manner. The man then calls the police to report that Kimble is in the hospital. He escapes but decides to call Gerard to turn himself in. He takes a train headed for Stafford. But on the way he looks out the window and sees his reflection- which becomes the reflection in the original opening credit sequence, which then gets repeated, allowing Kimble's memory to come back.
The social worker is played by old time song and dance gal Betty Garrett, who was familiar with men in dire straits, having been married to the blacklisted Larry Parks, who got off the blacklist by naming names and thus winding up with the contempt of both sides in that era. The doctor is played by Ivan Dixon and that's significant because Dixon was black but there's no reference to that in the script. One break through is to get roles as black characters in stories about racism. But the greater breakthrough is to be considered for all roles with color not being an issue. Unfortunately, that didn't happen enough for performers like Dixon, who wound up taking the insubstantial role of "Kinchloe" in "Hogan's Heroes". Eventually he turned to directing, where it didn't matter what color he was.
Ironically, at one point Garrett, discussing Dixon's impersonal attitude, sarcastically says "You wouldn't want to stain your lily- white coat, would you?" Dixon points out that he could lose his license to practice if he allowed a convicted murderer to escape and says "You wouldn't want two defrocked doctors would you?" Apparently, he thinks of himself as a priest more than a doctor.
- schappe1
- May 7, 2015
Details
- Runtime51 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1