Wine Is a Traitor

Episode aired Nov 1, 1966
TV-PG
51m

IMDb RATING

7.3/10

165

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David Janssen and Roy Thinnes in The Fugitive (1963)

Adventure Crime Drama Thriller

While driving through vineyards, Dr. Kimble and two passengers are shot by a sniper killing one who was a union organizer. Kimble can identify the sniper but the police and powerful owners o... Read allWhile driving through vineyards, Dr. Kimble and two passengers are shot by a sniper killing one who was a union organizer. Kimble can identify the sniper but the police and powerful owners of the town winery conspire to keep him quiet.While driving through vineyards, Dr. Kimble and two passengers are shot by a sniper killing one who was a union organizer. Kimble can identify the sniper but the police and powerful owners of the town winery conspire to keep him quiet.

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IMDb RATING

7.3/10

165

YOUR RATING

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Trivia
Just three months before Roy Thinnes premiered in his own QM production vehicle: The Invaders (1967).

Goofs
The police are looking for Kimble in a migrants camp. Kimble hides behind a trailer as one cop walks away from the front of the trailer. Kimble comes to that side just as another cop comes from behind, and (the actor playing this cop) quite obviously looks at Jansen (the actor playing Kimble), but does NOT see Kimble? As this is a migrant camp of Mexicans and Mexican Americans, Kimble would have stood out like the proverbial sore thumb. Therefore, this second cop could not have helped BUT to have noticed, seen, Kimble.

Quotes
Narrator: [Opening Narration. Viewers see Richard Kimble riding in a car after thumbing a ride] For a Fugitive, the offer of help - some simple, decent act of kindness - must be rejected. There are no relationships of any duration for him. Life consists of fleeting contacts.

Soundtracks
Theme from The Fugitive
Music by Pete Rugolo

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11/1/66 "Wine is a Traitor"

Kimble is back in California in the middle of grape picker's strike where the son of a major farm owner has taken matters into his own hands and killed one of the leaders. Kimble witnesses it but flees before the cops come because he doesn't want to be recognized. The grape pickers think he did it, too at first. He has to win them over and avoid the police, not for his usual reasons but because they are essentially in the employ of the father.

The father is played by the always excellent James Gregory. The son is played by Roy Thinnes who would become the star of Quinn Martin's next series about a wandering hero: The Invaders."

This is not Kimble's first encounter with Mexican agricultural workers: there is Episode 7, "Smoke Screen" where he is one of them but they are suspicious because they think he's an undercover immigration agent and Episode 59, "The Old Man Picked a Lemon", where he has to take sides between the workers and a sadistic new farm owner.