See Hollywood and Die

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.

In this exciting thriller, Kimble works at a New Mexico gas station when two young thugs, Miles (actor Chris Robinson) and Vinnie (actor Lou Antonio) rob the place. Miles shoots and kills the owner, and the thieves take off with two hostages, Kimble and Joanne Spencer (actress Brenda Vaccaro), a customer at the station.

Miles is excited by killing and wants to kill Joanne. Kimble, desperate to save the young lady as well as make his own escape, poses as an experienced older criminal. Vinnie is impressed with Kimble's helpful advice and self-confident criminal leadership, which keeps Kimble alive and gives him to opportunity to advise on the need to keep the hostage alive. Miles, however, repeatedly comes into conflict with Kimble and wants to kill him as well as Joanne.

Upon learning the thieves are going to Hollywood, Kimble leads them on with false promises of sharing in a big score on a heist he had planned in Los Angeles. Joanne, who is devastated and frightened by what has happened to her, begins to trust Kimble, but her faith is shaken when the newspaper reveals who he is. Despite Joanne's distrust, Kimble must protect her from the increasingly homicidal urges of Miles. With the cops closing in, and the criminals ever more desperate, Kimble faces danger from all sides.

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

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.

Made in an era where violent youth culture was certainly a thing in the media. If you were of a nervous disposition or just old. I doubt you set foot outside your house for a fortnight after watching this episode. In some ways this is a story that is ahead of its time.

Dr Kimble is working at a gas station in New Mexico. Two hoodlums rob the place, shoot the boss dead and get involved in a shootout with a passing police car.

Kimble finds himself hostage with a young woman Joanne Spencer (Brenda Vaccaro) who stopped at the gas station.

The unhinged villains are on the way to Hollywood where they dream of living the high life. Thinking on his feet to keep himself and Joanne alive. Kimble tells the two men that he was planning a job in LA. An extra twist is added when they later discover that Kimble is the escaped fugitive.

I thought this was more about youth culture of the period. The two thugs Miles (Chris Robinson) and Vinnie (Lou Antonio) seem to be without much thought or remorse. Even though they killed a man and shot at the police. Vinnie who is the calm one draws attention to himself at a diner where he is rude. Miles is constantly trying to rape Joanne and has acquired the taste for killing.

In a quieter moment Joanne confesses to Kimble that she was due to get married the day before. She ran out as she wanted to experience some excitement and ended up in this dangerous situation.