See Hollywood and Die

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

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.

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.

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!

This episode I can watch repeatedly without tiring of it. Mainly because of the excellent performances of the main characters, but most of all Chris Robinson as the homicidal dunderhead Miles. Love the scene where he get's jealous of Kimble pretending to seduce the female hostage, and then pantomimes shooting a poor little kid. This after he kisses the windshield twice. This episode also showed that Kimble didn't have to always play the persecuted righteous loner. Another difference in this episode is at the beginning where we see the fugitive not immediately freaking out when he see's policemen, and actually smiles and waves at two who are approaching in a squad car.