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.

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.

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.

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!

Phew! What a ride! Yet another cracking episode. This time trading on the fifties theme of psychotic teen punks taking hostages. In the quiet little New Mexico backwater of Sierra Point, Kimble has a job as a grease monkey at a garage. Things seem so settled that he can even calmly exchange a greeting with the sheriff. But, as ever you know something is going to go wrong, and it does, in the shape of juvenile delinquents Myles and Vinnie whose attempted holdup at the garage goes disastrously awry. Kimble is taken hostage along with a young woman, Joanne, who is running away from her wedding. Sensing major differences in the criminals' personalities, Kimble plays divide and rule. He praises the slightly more stable Vinnie whilst criticising unpredictable Myles who waves his gun about, continually mouthing "Pow! Pow!". Kimble's ace is to pretend that he is a professional criminal who had been setting up the garage owner and he is annoyed that the two kids have queered his pitch. However, all is apparently not lost. Learning that the crims are heading for Los Angeles he tells them that was his next stop for a big payroll heist. Naturally the punks are hooked and want in. Having swapped cars, Kimble's fingerprints are the only ones identified and his conviction as a wife killer is reported on radio and in the newspapers. This news alarms and confuses Joanne since Kimble had previously assured her he was on her side, and she has serious doubts when he repeats his promise of help. The thugs become impatient with the extended cruising around L.A. and demand he sets up the heist. What Kimble does is engineer a masterpiece of cunning and ingenuity which results in splitting up the pair and inevitably leading to their downfall. This episode would have made a good movie. The two miscreants played by Lou Antonio and Chris Robinson are genuinely scary. Particularly Robinson's character Myles who is just itching to kill someone and who has unpleasant intentions towards Joanne (Brenda Vaccaro). Killing her being just one of them. Emotionally, Kimble is torn between saving Joanne or himself. Since this is still Series 1, we know how things will turn out. But it's a breathless ride before we get there!