Fatso

Kimble (Bill Carter) is jailed for a minor traffic accident, and makes friends with Davy, played by actor Jack Weston. Davy is overweight, and of below-normal intelligence. He is in jail for public drunkenness. When Davy is released, Kimble, whose prints have been sent to the State Police and whose identity will soon be discovered, uses the opportunity to escape. The problem: Davy wants to tag along. Kimble has no time to argue and leaves with Davy right behind.

They hop a train to Davy's home, where he was summoned by his mother because his father is dying. Davy has been away for years. To Kimble's surprise, they are a wealthy family with a horse ranch.

Davy's father (David Sr.) and brother (Frank) despise and ridicule him, to the dismay of his mother, who loves Davy and just wants a happy family. Davy despises himself for being fat and a dummy, and also for a past action that embarrasses him. When Kimble stands up for Davy against Frank, he gains an enemy whose suspicions of Kimble lead to danger. Kimble must solve an old mystery, and put Davy on track to a happier future, before he can escape.

Kimble was now in Kentucky, (I would have liked more continuity in his locations so we can kind of follow him across the country). He gets blamed for a car accident, (he was hitch-hiking and the car owner wanted him to take a turn at driving), and winds up in jail. He breaks out with his cell-mate, "Fatso" Lambert, (Jack Weston), who was sleeping off a drunk. Kimble accompanies Fatso to his family's horse ranch, where he is not well-received. It seems that, while drunk, he burned down the horse barn and several horses died. His younger brother, Frank, (Burt Brinkerhoff), seems particularly hostile. Kimble has taken a liking to the simple, under-confident Fatso and manages to find out who really burned down the barn.

Not one of the more memorable episodes but it illustrates Kimble's compassion, an important 'hook' the writers use to get in involved in other people's stories. It made the series about more than just a man on the run.

As you can tell from the date, the whole country was about to become in engaged in figuring out what happened. And were about to show plenty of compassion of our own over something we've been "hooked" on ever since.

Harrowing story of the kindly person Davey Lambert played by the dazzling actor Jack Weston about a fat man who has been suffered bullying since when he was blamed to burn his father's horse barn, Dr. Kimble shares the cell with him, when after a car's crash he tries to escape stealthily, Davey is hold there for be drunk, he will be loose at 11:30 to take a bus, Kimble introduces himself as Bill Carter, then Davey a sort of insure man feels comfy about the newest friend, they escape from the jail and headed to Davey's home, a huge farm of horse breeding, they weren't welcome by Davey's young brother Frank who have an ironic smile calling him as Fatso, also remembering the new horse barn nearby, however is widely praised by his mother Mrs. Maggie (Glenda Farrell), once more Davey asking for Bill follow him when he must meet his sick father, whose received him frostily, for first time Dr. Kimble confess for someone who he is, just Davey had this proof of confidence, meanwhile the adamant hound Lt. Philip Gerard already knows his whereabout, thus Dr. Kimble decides slip out at once, not before finds the awful truth about the horse barn's fire, he suspects that Davey wouldn't make such thing knowing deeply his human nature, but letters has been arrived from unknown sender, further directed by the prolific Ida Lupino, one of best compelling stories about a true friendship!!

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First watch: 2020 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 8

I watched this episode on Metv early this morning and decided to skim reviews for this episode a few minutes ago. Something came to me while skimming these reviews and I must say it makes me look at the episode with even more appreciation than I did to begin with. It involves Davey's weight and how Dr. Kimble was observing him. Dr. Kimble is a kind man, a gentleman. He's another one on my list of favorite TV men tbh. Anyway, Dr. Kimble's not laughing at Davey or making fun of him. He's not being judgmental either. He points out Davey's basically stress eating and drinking. I wasn't alive during the 60s so I imagine there was probably more understanding for all the reasons somebody gets drunk. But I guess I expected absolutely no understanding for stress eating. I realize the writing for Dr. Kimble's character would never have him being a jerk and telling somebody "You love to eat and that's why you're fat!!" But that's the general attitude I would've expected, ya know?

As much as I enjoy Breaking Bad, I still say these are the types of shows I want to watch most. Dr. Kimble is kind to everybody he meets and he truly helps people who have dealings with him. Davey honestly doesn't have much going on for him. He's also being blamed for something he didn't do and his father and brother treat him like crap. His mother seemed like a decent person and was probably the only one that treated him like a human being during his growing up years.

I also like the ending. Richard Kimble is a man of his word. He promised to write Davey and Davey got a letter at the end of the episode. Richard also uncovered who burnt the barn down (something that was blamed on Davey that he didn't do) so perhaps Davey's father can actually start treating his son better? As for the brother, yeah, just gonna say he's probably a lost cause.

Anyway, this was an enjoyable episode that flew by. Would highly recommend this episode for people that might want to give this series a try.

When the story begins, Davey Lambert (Jack Westin) and Bill Carter (Richard Kimble...played by David Janssen) are in jail together. They make a break for it and travel to Davey's family home. There 'Bill' is shocked to see that his brother, Frank, and father treat Davey like he's worthless. Frank calls him Fatso and constantly makes fun of him and Bill even caught Frank whipping Davey--and Bill knocks the crap out of Frank. It seems that the two blame Davey for being a coward and stupid, worthless person...and Bill is determined to straighten this out because even though he's on the run, he's also a very decent guy and never neglects to help others. He needs to get Davey to stop drinking or running to avoid facing his problems...to give him the strength to be a man and demand better from his family and others. But at the same time, he is worried as Frank now has it out for him...and Frank is a real jerk!! How much of a jerk? Watch the show and find out for yourself.

This is one of the better episodes of "The Fugitive"...which is saying a lot considering how good the show was week after week. The story is exceptional and the acting very effective. Well worth seeing.