See Hollywood and Die

This is a good one! Chris Robinson is a menacing young psychopathic punk. You'll recognize him as the bombardier in 12 O'clock High. After killing the gas station owner, he and his dirtbag partner in crime take Kimble and a young woman hostage. Kimble pretends to be a rough character himself to stall for time for he and the woman hostage to escape. However he learns the cops are dusting her car for fingerprints. Always bad news when you're Richard Kimble. Kimble uses his wits to manipulate the punks and string them along. Suspense and tension throughout this one! I think these earlier black and white episodes were the best ones. Very good acting.

When the show begins, Richard Kimble (David Janssen) is posing as Al--a guy working at a gas station. Unfortunately, a couple dirt-bag armed robbers show up--killing the owner and taking a woman and Al hostage. Al is smart and keeps his wits...and then pretends to be the type of folks everyone thinks Richard Kimble is. He gets these crooks to slowly trust him and his hope is that will give him a chance to at least get the female hostage (Brenda Vaccaro) to safety. Later, they learn he's not Al the criminal but Richard Kimble the 'killer' and now they REALLY like their new hostage!

The title of the episode does not mean that the show is set in Hollywood. It actually begins in New Mexico and the criminals plan on eventually make it to Hollywood in their spree.

Overall, this is a very exciting and fast-paced episode. The actors playing the dirt-bags did a nice job in making the audience hate them!

After a bad experience on the crops, Doctor Kimble moves to small quiet Town working in a Gas station hoping has some peace time, when suddenly appears two young guys making an armed robbery, unfortunately the Town's Sheriff and a client arrives in that moment, the assault is halted, the shooting starts leaving the Gas station owner death, they running away taken two hostage, Dr. kimble and the young girl Joanne Spencer (Vaccaro), Kimble realizing that the two boys are dangerous and bad, recently released from a reformatory, the he settles a smart plain to misleading them, he presents himself as a professional thief and has a big job to do at Los Angeles, fine episode where the evil and malicious youngest guy Miles on a great acting (Chris Robinson) seemingly disconnected of the reality, strongly enhanced to violence as mere pleasure, Vinnie (Lou Antonio) the older is the chief is steadfast , Joanne is a girl running from her wedding day, she'll of utmost concernent on the plot, soon the police discover the real identify of Dr. Kimble as woman's killer, no Gerard this time!!

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First watch: 2020 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.5

The doc is working at Wally's filling station when a couple of crazy punk hoods rob the place. Kimble just attracts trouble. They kill Wally and take Dick and a good looking woman who happens by with them when they high tail it outta there. Of course, if there's a woman involved she's good looking, and Brenda Vaccaro fits the bill. Kimble thinks on his feet and has the punks believing he's about to score 150 large in LA. The punks were content to see Hollywood and take a swim in someone's pool, so color them impressed. One of them, Miles, is a wide eyed psycho who thinks Kimble is his father and calls him daddy the whole show. He stays in Brenda's car with her and apparently rapes her while Kimble and the other punk are buying a used car, which they do without needing to show a license or insurance, or even ID. The punks are impressed with how Kimble handled the salesman, when the salesman was even dumber than they are. Anyways, the cops get fingerprints off of Brenda's car, which they ditched after getting the other car from Dopey Dave's Cars Are Us, and it's front page news that big money Al is really Richard Kimble. With more quick thinking, Kimble tells the punks he has a partner and needs to call him. The "partner" is a reporter whose name is on a sign that fortunately the punks, who might as well be named Bill and Ted, fail to notice. One of them waits for the police in a hotel room while the other, the nut bag, goes with Kimble and Brenda. He plans to kill Brenda, but Kimble uses his superior fighting skills to knock him cold, ironically at the very site of a future swimming pool. Dick shows compassion and wants to know that Brenda will be alright before he runs away. He also wants her to know that he really didn't kill his wife. In future seasons, he didn't seem to care as much if people believed he did it or not. She tells the cops he went thataway, when he really went the other way, and Richard Kimble remains......a fugitive.

Dr. Kimble is now working at a gas station in New Mexico. It gets robbed by a pair of crooks, (Lou Antonio and Chris Robinson), with big ideas of using the money to get to Hollywood where they'll become famous and live in a mansion with a swimming pool. Obviously, they aren't too bright- or stable. They take Kimble and a woman, (Brenda Vaccaro), hostage as they escape. Kimble thinks quickly and pretends to be a crook who was planning to rob the station himself and get to LA, where he knows people and has a big job planned. He lords it over the hoodlums, saying if they play their cards right, they could be part of his plan.

This is the first of a series of episodes where the writers put Kimble in ironic situations- here he's pretending to be a crook when he's an innocent fugitive and he's having to deal with real crooks who are on the lam. He has to figure out how to save his hostage and deliver his new partners to justice without revealing himself to the law. Those dilemmas make this one of the better episodes. I also like the fact that David Janssen gets to come out of his self- imposed shell and play the role of a tough, confident professional criminal. He's not looking at the ground all the time in this one.