The Fugitive (TV Series) Never Stop Running (1964) User Reviews

Once again, Richard Kimble does good...

[planktonrules · 8/10 · 30 March 2017]

During the course of the four year run of "The Fugitive", Richard Kimble (David Janssen) did more than enough good works to qualify for sainthood! Although on the run from the law, he so often seems to walk into situations where he is desperately needed and you can depend on him doing the right thing...even if it might mean him getting caught. This is exactly what happens in "Never Stop Running".

Some folks say they are looking for a doctor and ask Kimble to come with them...though he insists he isn't a doctor. But they've heard rumors and know that he knows something about medicine and take him with them. The sick person they are taking him to see is a child...a kidnapping victim who is a hemophiliac. Can Kimble save the bleeding kid's life AND save himself and the kid from these kidnapping scum.

This is a good, solid and enjoyable episode. Kimble once again does the right thing and miraculously everything seems to become just fine...a trademark in these shows. Well worth seeing.

Plot summary

[ynot-16 · 8/10 · 20 November 2006]

Kimble is leaving a migrant worker job where he is known as "Doc," a former ambulance driver. An attractive couple persuades him to come and look at their sick little boy.

When Kimble arrives at the remote cabin, he learns that the "couple" was a woman and her brother-in-law. The real husband Ralph Simmons, played by actor Claude Akins, is a tough ex-football player. The three of them have kidnapped a small child for ransom. Jimmy, unfortunately, suffers from hemophilia and his internal injuries pose severe medical danger. Kimble himself faces danger as he tries to maneuver around the crooks and see to Jimmy's safety.

Kimble saves a sick boy from kidnappers

[Christopher370 · 8/10 · 14 June 2023]

Like in so many episodes, Kimble is led to a place where his presence is desperately needed. In this case, it's to help rescue a hemophiliac boy from sick, demented kidnappers and get him to a hospital.

The lead kidnapper was a special kind of evil....even after Kimble tells him the boy will die if he doesn't immediately get to a hospital, he just laughs and says he's keeping the boy till he gets his ransom! Wow. So heartless.

At this point he should have just cut his losses, got the heck out of there and laid low until he could kidnap a different boy. But he's not only evil, but stupid too because if the boy dies, he gets nothing. Funny how he didn't realize that.

Kimble goes so far to help the kid that he actually stops for a police roadblock which was taking quite a heck of a chance that the state police would recognize him as a fugitive from his "Wanted" flyer that's in all the police stations.

It was pretty daring and incredibly risky but it shows the kind of good person Kimble is. That he would willingly place another person's life ahead of his own without hesitation. It's just one of the reasons why I love the character so much.

My only minor gripe was the scene of the German woman with the attack dog that I found a little strange. Why on earth would she not help or at least use the phone herself to call for help after seeing the helpless sick boy in Kimble's arms? All she had to do was close the door and call an ambulance for him.

It was such a glaring contrast to how far Kimble went for the boy, risking his very life through the roadblock while this woman couldn't even bother to pick up a phone to help him.

I was glad he stole her truck....but I wondered how someone like Kimble knew how to hot wire a car so easily. Unless it was something he picked up after 2 years being a fugitive, it didn't seem like something an educated doctor like him would know how to do.

I still love the episode and liked how the lead kidnapper's brother conked him out with the bottle that allowed Kimble to bring the boy inside the hospital. Solid 8 rating.

I did find the title confusing because at first I couldn't find any connection to it with the story and since Kimble is always running, so the title seemed redundant.

Then it hit me that the title isn't referring to Kimble's running, but the little boy since he's a "bleeder" and his blood continuously runs being that he's a hemophiliac. In that way, it's a clever play on words for the title to refer to both Kimble and the boy.

Or perhaps i'm just reading into it too much, but the title does make sense either way.

3/31/64: "Never Stop Running"

[schappe1 · 21 April 2015]

They changed the opening narration for this one. It's no longer an "irony" that Kimble is innocent. Now "laws are made by men, carried out by men and men are imperfect". Somebody must have complained about the law being "ironic".

Kimble is a farm worker again but because he's called "Doc", he's pressed into service to administer to a hemophiliac boy who has been injured. He senses something wrong and boy is it: the kid has been kidnapped and the authorities are trying to find him, which means they will also find Kimble. Kimble winds up escaping with the kid, (he manages somehow to start a car with a cigarette: I didn't know you can do that), and tries to get the boy to a hospital before the gang can recapture them or the cops can catch up with all of them. It winds up with a rather absurd fight scene between Kimble and the leader of the kidnappers, (Claude Akins) outside the door to the hospital. Nobody comes out to see what the commotion is. This allows Kimble to be on his way to the next adventure while the boy is discovered by the hospital staff.

Tatum O'Neal's Mom, Joanna Moore, plays Akin's girlfriend. She would get along with Madlyn Rhue's "Sophie" in the previous episode. They have the same heart rate.

The doc comes through again

[jsinger-58969 · 9/10 · 24 October 2022]

The doc, using the name Louie Pasteur, is quitting his job as a field hand and getting a ride into town when their truck is stopped by a guy who wants Kimble to look at his sick kid. Seems the guy has heard that the doc is known as "doc" for his uncommon medical skills. Plus, the doc is wearing a sports jacket, not common for a field hand. Dick doesn't want to go until the gorgeous Joanna Moore gets out of the guy's car and bats her eyes at him. Anyways, when they get to the remote cabin where they're keeping the kid, Kimble soon figures out the the whole story is a scam. There's a sick kid alright, but he's been kidnapped by these creeps for a ransom. And he's a hemophiliac with a bruise, so he needs attention. The ringleader of the gang is Claude Akins, a rather large and intimidating chap who was thrown out of the NFL for associating with gamblers. Eventually, Dr K knocks out Claude's brother and leaves with the kid. They stop at a house owned by an old woman and her vicious dog. Dick tells the woman he needs to call a doctor but she threatens to sic the dog on them, so Dick tears the end off a cigarette and uses it to start her truck. Is there anything that the doc can't do? So they get to the hospital where Claude is waiting for them. Dick tells the kid to crawl in the door while his stunt double fights Claude. It looks like the doc's undefeated streak is about to come to an end when Claude's brother shows up and cracks a bottle over his head. The cops then show up and brother Dave tells them the kid is in his car, giving Dick a chance to slip away. Of course, before he does he goes into the hospital and tells a somewhat dim witted nurse to take care of Jimmy the kid. The cops question Jimmy about the mystery man who saved his life. Jimmy remembers our hero's name. Louie Pasteur. While the cops look for Pasteur, Richard Kimble heads toward his next adventure.

Itching on the Richard Kimble's feet on ransom case!!

[elo-equipamentos · 7/10 · 16 September 2023]

After worked at season crops as migrant worker on south California Dr. Kimble decides dropped the job and take a ride in pick-up to next town, when he is stopped by a frantic couple asking his helping for his sick kid nearby due they hear about the workers there call him as "Doc" after a slight faltering he accepts after the couple almost beseech for his attendance, reaching on the isolate farmer Kimble figures out that something didn't matched with the previous plea, due the unusual behavior of all them, however to assist the sick boy he soon realizes that he is hermophiliac and have two bruises on the arm and on the belly, asking info about the boy nobody gave any hint about that, thus Kimble at once suspicious that boy doesn't belong them and those bruises were resulting on the acting of escape when they took the boy.

As predicted by Kimble in fact the little boy was kidnapped by the former football player Ralph Simmons (Claude Akins) who intents asking 200.000 dollars ransom for the little Jimmie (Michel Petit) aiming for got the money and runaway to South American to live a easy life with his shallow wife Hellen (Joanna Moore), they are helped by Ralph's brother David (Wright King) that has a dubious behavior concerning the kidnaping using his own house as captivity, Jimmy soon starts suffering pains, Kimble wondering that has some internal bleeding, worrying about the boy's bad conditions due for lack of medicine need is this case, Kimble jeopardized himself for the boy, looking the Bellinda hospital nearby there, therefore they need a transport at once.

Another fine episode when Kimble empathizing for a hopeless good boy, the chemistry between them comes to surface in two occasions, when at Hospital's door the little one asking for Kimble keeping there with him, displaying his reliance over the cautious men who cares him properly and finally when the Sheriff asking him real name, watch by yourself and see the Jimmie's gratefulness.

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First watch: 2023 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.5.