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Everybody Gets Hit in the Mouth Sometime

  • Episode aired Mar 9, 1965
  • TV-PG
  • 51m
IMDb RATING
7.6/10
146
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Jack Klugman in The Fugitive (1963)
AdventureCrimeDrama

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.

  • Director
    • Alexander Singer
  • Writers
    • Jack Turley
    • Roy Huggins
  • Stars
    • David Janssen
    • Jack Klugman
    • Geraldine Brooks
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.6/10
    146
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Alexander Singer
    • Writers
      • Jack Turley
      • Roy Huggins
    • Stars
      • David Janssen
      • Jack Klugman
      • Geraldine Brooks
    • 7User reviews
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    David Janssen in The Fugitive (1963)
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    Jack Klugman and David Janssen in Everybody Gets Hit in the Mouth Sometime (1965)
    Everybody Gets Hit in the Mouth Sometime (1965)
    Everybody Gets Hit in the Mouth Sometime (1965)
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    David Janssen in The Fugitive (1963)
    David Janssen in The Fugitive (1963)
    David Janssen in The Fugitive (1963)

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    David Janssen
    David Janssen
    • Dr. Richard Kimble…
    Jack Klugman
    Jack Klugman
    • Gus Hendricks
    Geraldine Brooks
    Geraldine Brooks
    • Lucia Mayfield
    Michael Constantine
    Michael Constantine
    • Ernie Svoboda
    Barry Atwater
    Barry Atwater
    • Cleve Logan
    • (as G.B. Atwater)
    Barry Morse
    Barry Morse
    • Lt. Philip Gerard
    • (credit only)
    Jimmy Stiles
    • Jimmy Mayfield
    Tracy Stratford
    Tracy Stratford
    • Lucy Mayfield
    Kathleen O'Malley
    Kathleen O'Malley
    • Receptionist
    John Mayo
    • Mr. Williams
    K.L. Smith
    K.L. Smith
    • Pete
    Marlowe Jensen
    • Sgt. Fountain
    James Devine
    • Gas station attendant
    William Conrad
    William Conrad
    • Narrator
    • (voice)
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Alexander Singer
    • Writers
      • Jack Turley
      • Roy Huggins
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    • Trivia
      About 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.
    • Goofs
      The 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.

    • Soundtracks
      Theme from The Fugitive
      Music by Pete Rugolo

    User reviews7

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    9/10
    Klugman shows his chops...again
    The good doctor takes a no-questions-asked job as a dispatcher for a troubled trucking company. Gus Hendricks (Jack Klugman), the owner, has a long-standing reputation for disregarding safety rules and is under increased regulatory scrutiny because one of his drivers has died in an accident-one that presumably could've been prevented.

    Hendricks feels internal pressure to support the driver's widow and her two young children, who are constantly getting into trouble. Their physically attractive mother, Lucia Mayfield (Geraldine Brooks), seems unable and/or unwilling to control them without a male authority figure and seductively suggests as much on at least one occasion to Dr. Kimble. She is also constantly asking Hendricks, who's already struggling to pay bills, for money-which only increases the guilt Hendricks feels and the pressure he puts on himself to make life easier for the widow's family.

    Hendricks is further conflicted when acquaintance Cleve Logan (Barry Atwater as G. B. Atwater) proposes a lucrative opportunity involving insurance fraud. Hendricks initially refuses the offer categorically. However, the pressure increases and drives Hendricks to drink with dire consequences when little Jimmy, Geraldine's son, needs $300 in dental work.

    Ultimately, a series of events put both Hendricks and Kimble in a terrible predicament. Kimble's strong sense of loyalty inevitably pulls him into the fray with Hendricks, forcing him to risk his own freedom.

    This is arguably one of the darkest and most bitter episodes. It brings to mind a line by Tolstoy about the illusion of beauty and by Bellow about good intentions being worse than malevolence when they lack understanding. In a show filled with trouble, there's even more trouble beneath the surface.

    There are hard truths, jagged consequences, and complicated characters with no easy resolution. As usual, the great Jack Klugman (who also appeared on the 1963 episode "Terror at High Point") is fabulous.
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    Details

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    • Release date
      • March 9, 1965 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • Halfway House Cafe - 15564 Sierra Highway, Santa Clarita, California, USA(restaurant, gas station, motel under surveillance)
    • Production companies
      • Quinn Martin Productions (QM)
      • United Artists Television
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    • Runtime
      51 minutes
    • Color
      • Black and White
      • Black and White
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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