The Fugitive (TV Series) Detour on a Road Going Nowhere (1964) User Reviews

When the safe is robbed, it's time for Kimble to blow...

[planktonrules · 7/10 · 14 April 2017]

When the story begins, Richard Kimble is working at a resort in the mountains. He catches a young punk stealing from cars but the punk escapes...and this guy will be a factor later in the show. There also is a robbery of the safe at the resort...or at least this is what's reported. With all this crime, Kimble knows it's time to blow the place. But there's a problem...there have been a lot of landslides and the bus might not be able to get through. Well, he is able to slip onto the bus undetected but soon the trip is delayed due to the slides...and wouldn't you know it, the young punk thief also happens to be aboard!

This is a decent episode...nothing to dislike but also nothing to help it stand apart from any other episode. Tense and enjoyable, nevertheless.

Quick escape.

[kennyp-44177 · 7/10 · 11 August 2021]

Basic plot,Kimble is stuck on a broken down bus, in the middle of nowhere, and has to deal with a bunch of a++holes. We all want him to make a quick escape from this one!

Dick encounters an odd group on a bus

[jsinger-58969 · 8/10 · 12 February 2023]

Dick is toiling as a clerk at Indian Lake Lodge, a scene you should make with your little one. He chases away a punk robbing from cars, and you know we haven't seen the last of the punk. Anyways, the safe is robbed, according to the hard drinking office manager. Eventually, the guy finds the money he failed to put in the safe while he was loaded, but too late to stop the drama. Everyone is fingerprinted, so Dick has to leave like now. He flags down a bus taking some vacationers into town. These are an odd assortment of folks, soon to be joined by the previously seen punk. Well, a landslide brings the bus down, along with a broken axle. And the radio interrupts the regularly scheduled music for a bulletin about Richard Kimble. There's an attractive woman who had her sights on Kimble the night before when he shot her down. She's still mad and slaps him in the face. There's a guy having a midlife crisis, chasing the bunnies at the lodge in front of his humiliated wife. And there's the punk, mad at Kimble because he thought Dick reported him to the police. The punk speaks in comical 60's slang. Middle age ties up Kimble and holds a gun on him. Attractive apologizes and her hate quickly turns to something resembling love. And punk suddenly decides to help Dick escape. So they work together and Dick escapes, but he gives the gun to the middle age wife so she can protect herself from the punk, who has not entirely seen the light, daddy. The police soon get there and say they're going to have the woods filled with cops with flashlights looking for Kimble, but evidently they don't find him, because Richard Kimble, in the end, remains......a fugitive.

Plot summary

[ynot-16 · 10/10 · 16 December 2006]

Kimble, under the name Stuart Manning, is working at Indian Lake Resort when the boss finds the safe open and a bag of money missing. When police come to investigate they take fingerprints of the employees, requiring Kimble to hit the road.

Kimble intercepts the shuttle bus and tries to flee, but the road is blocked by a landslide. The majority of passengers encourage the driver to find a side road to get through.

The other passengers are an odd assortment who have complex relationships among themselves and with Kimble. One of them is a middle aged man, Tod Langner (actor Lee Bowman), who wants to feel like and live like a young man, to the dismay of his wife Enid (actress Phyllis Thaxter). The other passengers, an attractive woman who had argued with Kimble the night before, and a young man who is a criminal, have mixed feelings about Kimble, and play important roles in the drama.

After the bus breaks down on a deserted back road, the radio announces that Stuart Manning is really Richard Kimble, escaped murderer. Langner, anxious to display his manliness to the young lady, takes charge, by seizing the young criminal's gun, and using it to capture Kimble and hold him for the police.

12/8/64 "Detour on a Road Going Nowhere"

[schappe1 · 11 May 2015]

This is an episode going nowhere. Kimble leaves a mountain resort he's been working at when some cash is missing and the police are taking fingerprints of everyone to see if anybody has a record. The only way out is a bus carrying a load of passengers, each with their own problems. It's sort of "Grand Hotel" on a bus, except the difference between this and "Grand Hotel" is the difference between staying at the Grand Hotel and being on a bus. Elizabeth Allen is a flirty guest who has had a run in with Kimble and doesn't like him. Lee Bowman is a middle-aged man having a mid-life crisis such that he's been chasing younger women around the resort and his wife, Phyllis Thaxter, is fed up with him. There's also a crook with gun, etc. etc.

They find out who Kimble is due to a radio broadcast and Bowman, trying to be a "big man", grabs the crooks' gun and takes over, sort of. He gets distracted by Allen, who somehow has now fallen for Kimble. In the end our hero escapes from this group and this episode and is glad of it.

You do get a quick look at Natalie Wood's curvy kid sister, Lana at the beginning before she dives into a pool. It's the highlight of the episode.