This is a good episode, with some great performances ,especially from Tim O Connor. The stories where we had glimpses into Kimble's past were always interesting and strengthened his characterisation. This one we find out he is pretty fast on roller skates!
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This guy has issues....
planktonrules29 March 2017
When the show begins, Richard Kimble is posing at Bob Davies and works in a roller rink. I was impressed at David Janssen's skills on skates, by the way. He meets a nice kid there and helps him. Soon the kid's seriously messed up Uncle Joe (Tim O'Connor) arrives to pick him up...and Joe recognizes Kimble. It turns out that the pair were in the Korean War together and Joe took a grenade that was thrown at Kimble. Joe acts all chummy with Kimble...but he's harboring an insane plan for vengeance and he plans on punishing Kimble for his scarred face and limp. What exactly is this plan? Tune in to this strange installment of "The Fugitive" to find out for yourself.
This is a good but most unusual show. Well made and very original...but perhaps too strange for all tastes. Worth seeing regardless.
This is a good but most unusual show. Well made and very original...but perhaps too strange for all tastes. Worth seeing regardless.
Plot summary
ynot-1616 December 2006
Kimble is working at a roller skating rink when he assists a boy picked on by bullies. When the boy's uncle, Joe Hallop (actor Tim O'Connor) shows up, he believes he recognizes Kimble, then confirms it is true. Hallop lives with his dead brother's widow and her son, and works in their small diner.
Kimble and Hallop were in the same army unit in the Korean War, where Kimble served as a medic. Hallop saved Kimble's life, though Kimble did not know who it was because he was unconscious and then shipped out. However, during the incident Hallop suffered a leg injury still causing him to limp, and a disfiguring scar on his face.
Hallop suffers greatly from physical pain and from the psychological pain of feeling that his life is ruined and that no woman will want him. He blames Kimble for his troubles. While pretending friendliness to Kimble, he plots revenge. Kimble feels obligated to Hallop, and cannot leave without helping him toward a happier life.
Kimble and Hallop were in the same army unit in the Korean War, where Kimble served as a medic. Hallop saved Kimble's life, though Kimble did not know who it was because he was unconscious and then shipped out. However, during the incident Hallop suffered a leg injury still causing him to limp, and a disfiguring scar on his face.
Hallop suffers greatly from physical pain and from the psychological pain of feeling that his life is ruined and that no woman will want him. He blames Kimble for his troubles. While pretending friendliness to Kimble, he plots revenge. Kimble feels obligated to Hallop, and cannot leave without helping him toward a happier life.
3/17/64: "Taps for a Dead War"
schappe119 April 2015
When in Korea, Kimble was medic who got knocked out by a grenade explosion and saved by a GI named Joe Hallop, (Tim O'Connor), who got badly disfigured in the same explosion and also walks with a bad limp because of it. Hallop has become a very bitter man. He thinks society has discarded him and is mad at the world. He figures Kimble should have at least thanked him. When they encounter each other again, Kimble insists that he tried to find out who saved him but couldn't. The physically and mentally twisted Hallop pretends to befriend him but is really plotting to kill him. Hallop lives with his dead brother's wife, (Lee Grant, not long after she came off the blacklist), and son. She has come to love him, despite his injuries but feels neglected due to his obsessions.
O'Connor's make-up here looks painful. It involved pulling the skin below his left eye down a bit. It's a difficult and great performance.
O'Connor's make-up here looks painful. It involved pulling the skin below his left eye down a bit. It's a difficult and great performance.
Suspenseful and dramatic
Christopher37010 June 2023
Warning: Spoilers
I love this episode for the heightened drama and suspense it has. Kimble's life was saved by a fellow army mate back when he was a medic in Korea and the injuries sustained by Kimble's savior badly disfigured his face. Ever since then, he's been on a downward spiral of hate, drink and self pity.
When by chance he crosses path with Kimble in the city that he lives, he quickly begins to plan his revenge to hurt Kimble the way he was hurt when saving him. The scene with the acid was especially menacing because it showed that Joe didn't want to just kill Kimble, but to disfigure him in the same way that he was. Yet even after that attempt to hideously scar him, Kimble still sticks around to make things right.
The performances are excellent by all the actors and I felt empathy for Joe even though he wanted to hurt Kimble. Thankfully things played out to where Kimble was able to return the favor and save Joe's life....perhaps not literally like Joe did for Kimble, but figuratively where Joe can finally put his hate and self pity behind and live and love once again.
I loved the final scene where Kimble showed Joe what's been right there in front of him all along to make his life worth living, and Millie, played wonderfully by Lee Grant, confirms it to him. It's very heartfelt and poignantly done.
I see that some other reviewers here didn't enjoy this episode as much as I did, and that's ok. But for me this is a solid 10 star episode for the great emotional story and the wonderful dramatic performances by David Janssen, Tim O'Connor and Lee Grant.
When by chance he crosses path with Kimble in the city that he lives, he quickly begins to plan his revenge to hurt Kimble the way he was hurt when saving him. The scene with the acid was especially menacing because it showed that Joe didn't want to just kill Kimble, but to disfigure him in the same way that he was. Yet even after that attempt to hideously scar him, Kimble still sticks around to make things right.
The performances are excellent by all the actors and I felt empathy for Joe even though he wanted to hurt Kimble. Thankfully things played out to where Kimble was able to return the favor and save Joe's life....perhaps not literally like Joe did for Kimble, but figuratively where Joe can finally put his hate and self pity behind and live and love once again.
I loved the final scene where Kimble showed Joe what's been right there in front of him all along to make his life worth living, and Millie, played wonderfully by Lee Grant, confirms it to him. It's very heartfelt and poignantly done.
I see that some other reviewers here didn't enjoy this episode as much as I did, and that's ok. But for me this is a solid 10 star episode for the great emotional story and the wonderful dramatic performances by David Janssen, Tim O'Connor and Lee Grant.
Doc is recognized again
jsinger-5896910 October 2022
The doc is working at a roller skating place where he befriends a kid who is being set upon by bullies. And that's where his troubles begin. The kid's uncle comes in, and he recognizes Kimble from Korea. Seems the doc was a medic who inadvertently tipped off his platoon's location. Uncle Joe saved Dick's life at the cost of a gimp leg and a disfigured face, and he would like nothing better that to kill Kimble, who he blames for his plight. Oh, and he determines the fugitive's real identity. And so does his nephew and his mom. Anyways, Joe is a bit of a nut who keeps a live hand grenade on hand in the event he should run into Kimble, which believe it or not, he has. Joe also clobbers his nephew, leaving a large bruise on his face which his mother never notices. The mother, who is the widow of Joe's brother, is kinda sweet on Joe. And Joe is kinda sweet on her, but it takes Dick to bring them together at the end. And, of course, he does, after dodging the grenade and changing Joe's life in the process. Doc gets away just before officer Swanhauser gets there. It's doubtful if Swanny could have apprehended Dick even if he had gotten there in time. He seemed to be about as bumbling as he was on Sanford and Son. Everyone has a happy ending except for maybe the kid. Hopefully he wasn't abused by uncle dad. Not a happy ending for our hero either, but Richard Kimble continues his search for the one-armed man and the day when he is no longer....a fugitive.
The jinxed Dr. Kimble stumbles at your past wartime!!
elo-equipamentos22 July 2023
Wherever he goes Dr. Kimber doesn't have a single moment of peace, now working at roller skating place, he aiding a little boy injured in a quarrel when he faces his past time at Korean war in the men Joe Hallop (Tim O'Connor) who saves your life at there in a grenade blast, letting Hallop with awful scar at your face and lame either, henceforth Joe is often rebuffed by the girls and starts drinking a lot becoming in a bittered man also an undesired companion.
Aware of the jeopardy being recognized by a scar's man for his guilty, thus Kimble decides leave the town, out of the blue appears Joe at your door pleading that he stays for a while, upon so entreats Kimble cornered agrees, however the bleak Joe settles a painful plan at your secret home dropping down seemingly unintentionally a bottle of acid passing closest at Kimble's face, such thing arouse in Kimble a slight distrust on Joe, later upheld by a simple research at pharmacist in the city, Joe actually lives at your sister-in-law house Millie Hallop (Lee Grant) with his nephew, since his brother died, Millie has a snack shop and is worried about Joe's latest happenings, when he virtually is giving up on living, entering in a irretrievable self-destruction process.
Kimble is concerned about Joe and Millie future, meanwhile wondering about yourself due Joe is too much unpredictable as he apparently shows on the acid matter and upcoming events that will takes him to the jail over Joe's bitter background whom surrendered to the boozes, there's danger ahead on the dubious Joe, don't be fooled by what's comes next!!
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First watch: 2023 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.25.
Aware of the jeopardy being recognized by a scar's man for his guilty, thus Kimble decides leave the town, out of the blue appears Joe at your door pleading that he stays for a while, upon so entreats Kimble cornered agrees, however the bleak Joe settles a painful plan at your secret home dropping down seemingly unintentionally a bottle of acid passing closest at Kimble's face, such thing arouse in Kimble a slight distrust on Joe, later upheld by a simple research at pharmacist in the city, Joe actually lives at your sister-in-law house Millie Hallop (Lee Grant) with his nephew, since his brother died, Millie has a snack shop and is worried about Joe's latest happenings, when he virtually is giving up on living, entering in a irretrievable self-destruction process.
Kimble is concerned about Joe and Millie future, meanwhile wondering about yourself due Joe is too much unpredictable as he apparently shows on the acid matter and upcoming events that will takes him to the jail over Joe's bitter background whom surrendered to the boozes, there's danger ahead on the dubious Joe, don't be fooled by what's comes next!!
Thanks for reading.
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First watch: 2023 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.25.
Haunting storyline - could have been done better
MissClassicTV21 December 2015
I so wanted to like this episode. With an actress of Lee Grant's caliber as a costar, I expected a lot. It's a small part, though. Her character, Millie, is a widow who seems quite independent. But she's in love with her brother-in-law, Joe, and therein lies the problem with this episode. Joe (actor Tim O'Connor) is a bitter Korean War vet who hates Dr. Kimble. Meanwhile, Kimble doesn't even recognize that he served with Joe in Korea because he had only been with the unit a couple of days. Joe is mean and miserable to everyone. It's incongruous that a woman as strong as Millie would put up with a character like Joe.
The episode is useful in that we get a little more background into Dr. Kimble's life. We learn more about his time in Korea during the war. And we see the always athletic and active David Janssen roller skating, which is kind of fun.
This was filmed in 1964 so Lee Grant was about a year into the process of rebuilding her resume after 12 years of being on the blacklist. This episode, unfortunately, is a showcase for Tim O'Connor, not Grant. Overall, it was disappointing.
The episode is useful in that we get a little more background into Dr. Kimble's life. We learn more about his time in Korea during the war. And we see the always athletic and active David Janssen roller skating, which is kind of fun.
This was filmed in 1964 so Lee Grant was about a year into the process of rebuilding her resume after 12 years of being on the blacklist. This episode, unfortunately, is a showcase for Tim O'Connor, not Grant. Overall, it was disappointing.
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