The Fugitive (TV Series) Flight from the Final Demon (1964) User Reviews

Plot summary

[ynot-16 · 9/10 · 9 December 2006]

Kimble, using the name Al Dexter, is working at a health club, unaware that the man he is massaging is Sheriff Bray, played by actor Carroll O'Connor (Archie Bunker on All in the Family). Kimble's coworker Steve Edson, played by actor Ed Nelson, hears the sheriff on the phone asking for information about Kimble. Edson warns Kimble, and helps him escape, though Edson is wounded by gunfire.

Edson is troubled by feelings of guilt after his recent experience of going on trial for murder and being acquitted on the grounds of self-defense. He had killed the brother of his girlfriend.

Edson's complex relationships with the sister and brother of the deceased pose danger for him and Kimble, as does the relentless pursuit by Sheriff Bray.

Kimble is still a doctor.

[kennyp-44177 · 7/10 · 17 June 2022]

I agree with other comments, why would Kimble stick with a guy who clearly has personal issues? And is therefore a liability to their freedom. But we are forgetting Kimble is still a doctor at heart and his fellow fugitive being injured means he is obliged to stay and help. Its only until the other fugitives girlfriend turns up, Kimble feels she can take over his well being, and he can break away. Some good performances in this one, especially Ed Nelson has Kimbles partner on the run.

The doc finds an ally

[jsinger-58969 · 9/10 · 4 October 2022]

Dick is working at a health club giving a massage to a guy who happens to be an out of uniform sheriff. The guy, the future Archie Bunker, tells Dick he looks familiar. Kimble has a nervous twitch and says he's the son of Clark Gable, so that's why he might look a little familiar. Archie sees the resemblance but thinks he also resembles a wanted poster he's seen. The doc's co-worker overhears Archie on the phone asking about a certain Dr Kimble and warns Dick, but too late. Arch is about to take the doc in when Steve hilariously knocks him into a hamper of clothes. Steve was last seen as a cad in the Girl from Little Egypt who Dick threatened to knock into his wall-to-wall carpeting. Anyways, they high tail it outta there and Steve gets shot in the arm in the process. Turns out that Steve was acquitted of murder, but feels guilty about it, as he should. He killed his girlfriend's brother, self defense he said, but not really. Well, he contacts the gf and her other brother gets wind of it and goes to meet Steve with bad intentions. Kimble knocks him out and hits him hard enough to put him out for the night. The doc hits guys with surgical precision. But Archie is closing in and Kimble is in a pickle. Steve runs interference and a deputy just shoots him in a back as he's running away. Arch tells the deputy he did the right thing as he sees the body, which is face down. When he sees that the dead guy is Steve and not Dick, Arch is all over the deputy, who tells Archie to pound sand. The doc hops a convenient freight and leaves in the confusion, as he always does.

3/10/64: Flight from the Final Demon"

[schappe1 · 18 April 2015]

Ed Nelson, who had been in "The Girl From Little Eqypt", returns in another role as a co-worker who helps Kimble escape when the local Sheriff, (played by Carroll O'Connor several years before he became Archie Bunker), corners him at the health club they've been working at. It turns out that Nelson has also faced a murder jury and is on the run from their verdict. He can't go back, either. For a time they travel together as fugitives but something is wrong. Nelson doesn't seem to know the "rules of the road" and even when they are explained to him, he seems to keep making mistakes. It turns out his situation is the exact opposite of Kimble's.

This one has a strong, haunting ending. It also shows us what Kimble has learned about avoiding the law, (from Ed Robertson's book):

• Whenever possible, travel by bus or train. The frequent turnover of passengers makes it difficult for the driver, (and thus the police) to keep track of you. (Robertson points out in another episode that Kimble rarely travels by plane- now way to get out if you are trapped. And he was lucky to get out of that boat in "Ticket to Alaska"). - If you are driving a car, always observe the speed limit. A speeding ticket or car accident will attract the police. - Never cash a check. An out-of town check requires a phone call to your home branch, which could attract the police. - Never make a long distance call from a hotel. By checking the phone records, the police could discover your next destination or uncover information about your past. - If you have another person's ID, memorize every detail about that card before you use it. - Always have an alias ready in case you need one on the spot. And always remember which name you're using. - If you confide in people, make sure they never use your real name. - Whenever possible, always travel alone: traveling with others could lead you to complications or tie you down at a critical moment, (as happens in this episode).

Strange but watchable.

[planktonrules · 6/10 · 29 March 2017]

When this episode begins, a nosy sheriff (Carroll O'Connor) meets Richard Kimble and Kimble's face is familiar...so familiar that the sheriff thinks he recognizes him from a wanted poster. But before he can take Kimble in, Steve (Ed Nelson) helps Kimble escape and the two are on the run. But why would Kimble's co-worker risk his life to aid a fugitive? And, why would Steve take a bullet for a guy he hardly knows? What follows is a weird and difficult to believe psychological portrait of a man who down deep wants to be punished...but for what? And how will Kimble get away from this super-strange man?

I found this one to be less satisfying than most episodes of "The Fugitive"...mostly because the plot was less believable than usual. It just didn't make a lot of sense and left me cold compared to most of the shows in this otherwise well made series.

There's place that even the escapee Dr. Kimble wouldn't to stay!!

[elo-equipamentos · 7/10 · 19 May 2023]

Whenever Richard moves more troubles he finds, now working in a health club as massagist as Al Dexter around three weeks or so, he working with Steve Edson (Ed Nelson) who invites for a drink in a night club and aftermaths a relief, the faltering Kimble ends up agreeing, on work he has been finished to attend a fat man, looks like big figure as the way he expresses himself, he asking to Kimble if he knows him somewhere, due your face seems too familiar, Kimble answers smooth trying avoid to expose too much, actually the fat guy is the local Sheriff Bray (Carroll O'Connor), after that demands to Steve phone to Precinct to certify that such guy sounds like the escapee Dr. Kimble, Steve behind the door listen everything and right away aware Dexter all about.

At moment that Sheriff Brady asking for Dexter accompanies him at precinct Steve punches him and they escape by Steve's car, soon Sheriff Bray is at your neck randomly shooting in order to hit one of them, to avoid be caught they got another direction through a vicinal road trying to mislead the Sheriff's crew, leaving the car on the woods and take a regular bus toward into Steve's city where his girlfriend Linda (Ellen Madison) will get the support to hidden them safe.

Kimble starts wondering why Steve taken a risk to help him, due only going to lose, Steve replayed that once was indicted to a murder of Linda's brother whereof regard Steve wasn't enough good for his sister, as violent man Steve murder him in self-defense and acquitted in Court-house.

Somehow Kimble wasn't convinced at all, due by several times Steve put in danger his freedom on purpose as if he were wanting to be caught to pay something which is gnawing at, whilst the story unfolds the awful truth goes at surface bluffing the audience, as they say at closing end, "A place that even Dr, Kimble would not to stay".

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First Watch: 2023 /How many: 1 /Source: DVD /Rating: 7.5.