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THE FUGITIVE "AN APPLE A DAY" DAVID JANSSEN MONDAY 2:00 A.M. EASTERN METV

Oznell — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 02:11:42 GMT

2:00 a.m. Eastern-- The Fugitive "An Apple a Day" David Janssen, Arthur O'Connell, Sheree North, Kim Darby, Bill Quinn, Walter Baldwin, Amzie Strickland

In a strikingly filmed, cross-country flight from law enforcement, Kimble sprains his ankle, loses consciousness, and finds himself in the home of a country naturopath (Arthur O'Connell) who treats his ankle and offers refuge. How could Kimble know that his recovery there would cause him conflict both professional and personal....

You'll remember that repeat "Fugitive" performer Arthur O'Connell was so good in his previous outing earlier in the series, in "Tug of War". Here, while quite different, his character of "Dr. Josephus Adams" shares an interesting point of similarity or two with that earlier character....

Hmmmm-- how many female characters of every age have we seen direct this sort of gaze on the apparently oblivious Dr. Kimble.....

Kim Darby, (the Sixties' favorite "troubled" adolescent), as Dr. Adams' neice "Sharon", and beautiful Sheree North as his wife, "Marianne" round out this seemingly cohesive little family.

But as usual, all is not as it seems....

Sheree North's character of Adams' wife reminds me just a little of previous Fuge-ite Angie Dickinson, maybe a little around the cheekbones and the mouth, and for some reason, even in black-and-white here, her hair looks like it might have Angie's 'strawberry' cast....

Hey-- I just realized that two people in the cast of this episode are future "Mary Tyler Moore" players-- one is Sheree North, an earthy cabaret singer who dated "Lou Grant" for a while-- and another infrequent one I'll call a 'mystery character'-- can anyone tell who that other one is?

"An Apple a Day", streaming live on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMgr8c5mEIk

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twinsister — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 04:05:25 GMT

@Oznell - I laughed at the two pictures of Kim Darby and Sheree North gazing at Kimble! He attracts young and old!! I agree that Sheree North sort resembles Angie Dickinson because of the hair color. You described Kim Darby perfectly as playing troubled teens in the '60's. She was in two episodes of RFYL where she was definitely a troubled teen.

Looks interesting.

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Oznell — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 12:13:24 GMT

Well, I had totally forgotten that Kim Darby was on RFYL, @twinsister , thanks for that reminder-- she did seem to 'make the rounds' on TV in her default role of teenage angst.

Ha, ha, 'the gaze'. ~~Perchance~~ ~~a few of us have leveled that same~~ ~~absorbed, lambent stare at a "Kimble"-filled screen.....~~

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godi — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 12:23:30 GMT

The way you describe things @Oznell is marvelous. I can't wait to see this episode. I'm not sure about your question who is the other character?

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Oznell — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 16:37:34 GMT

Thanks for that encouragement, kind @godi ! Let's tease a little longer and see if anyone knows who the other Mary Tyler Moore player is in this..... I promise to reveal, if no one else does.

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Pearlee — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 17:58:40 GMT

@Oznell I don't ever think Sheree North looks like Angie D. Because AD is gorgeous and I think SN has a funny looking mouth that is not very attractive but I do see the hair resemblance. She is in one of my favorite Fuge epis, Walls of Night, with Janice Rule in the last season.

i remember Kim Darby's other Fuge epi better than this one, where she plays a young unwed mother with a sick baby who lives with her religious zealot father. Speaking of Darby, this is from a very long interview online entitled The Mouse That Charmed: An Evening With Kim Darby. She was in the film Generation (with our boy DJ), a film I've never seen! From the interview when asked about that film:

"I loved [lead actor] David Janssen because I had done two Fugitive [episodes] with him and he was so funny, you have no idea. And of course [co-star] Peter Duel and I fell in love in that movie, for real. We were engaged and I [long pause] was not with him when that horrible incident happened [Duel's suicide New Year's Eve 1971]."

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Oznell — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 23:30:11 GMT

Ah, interesting, @Pearlee -- I think she's very attractive, with sort of an unconventional European or continental look. Seems to look quite different from role to role:

Fascinating quotes from Kim Darby! So even she went for DJ's legendary humor and charm! Boy, these ladies who worked with him should have had their own club, ha.

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twinsister — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 23:46:30 GMT

@Oznell - Was the other Mary Tyler Moore character the coroner?

Just watched the Youtube version. Will comment tomorrow.

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Oznell — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 00:07:05 GMT

Bingo, ding, ding, ding, you win the prize, sharp-eyed @twinsister !

The coroner is played by Bill Quinn, who also appeared a few times as the physician-dad of "Mary Richards" on the MTM show.... Very good!

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twinsister — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 14:31:24 GMT

I enjoyed this episode. At first I thought Marianne and Josephus were an odd match, but then it was clear she was with him for the money. Her scenes with Kimble made me laugh. Subtlety was definitelty not her strong suit! While watching, I thought Sheree North resembled Dorothy Malone more than Angie Dickinson.

For someone who claimed to have experience only as an orderly, I think Kimble's comments about medicine was taking a chance on his part.

The one thing that I felt was a little implausible was Kimble not getting on the bus, but instead going back to help Sharon. He caught the warning signs about her illness when she displayed irritability with him by the bee hives, her sleepiness and then fainting. He just can't ignore someone who needs his help.

I liked the end scene with Josephus and how they helped each other.

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Pearlee — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 14:47:25 GMT

I liked this epi. DJ was sure looking good! ❤

His stunt double took quite a roll down the hill at the beginning! It's always a faraway camera shot for the stunt double!

Kimble always stubbornly sticks up for what he thinks is right, even if it puts him at risk. He could have just shut up about the way Josephus was treating people and laid low safely as his guest, esp when Josephus reminded him early on he was a guest in the house. But noooooo! Kimble had to keep criticizing his methods. And Kimble could have gotten on the bus and escaped, but noooo! KImble has to go back and do the right thing for Sharon.

A couple of things I didn't understand, perhaps because I watched late. How could the coroner say Josephus was too smart to hold himself out as being a doctor (which is illegal), when in fact that was exactly what he was doing? He even had signs in his office about "patients." Also why did Sharon have such a quick change of heart about real medicine being valid? Was that only because the woman with the cough died? I thought there was more to it than that.

Boy, O'Connell's eyes must really be strikingly blue for them to look so light and sparkly even in black and white. And Sheree North looked better than she did in Walls of Night but I still think her mouth is funny-looking.

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Pearlee — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 14:48:45 GMT

@twinsister We posted at the same time!

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twinsister — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 15:15:52 GMT

@Pearlee - Maybe since Josephus didn't (or really couldn't) write prescriptions and just used natural remedies that was how he could legally get away with what he was doing? Plus he had other signs about nature around the office. Also there were comments inferring the townfolk were not smart and very gullible. Good point though.

I do think the death of that woman changed Sharon's mind. Plus her crush on Kimble may have swayed her thinking.

Yes - he did look good in this episode!

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Pearlee — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 15:34:02 GMT

@twinsister I can see North's resemblance to Dorothy Malone, esp around the eyes. I thought Kimble was going to use his "I was a medic in Korea" line again about his medical knowledge, which would have accounted for more knowledge than his hospital orderly line.

I want to say thank goodness for Unibrow's decent videos!

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twinsister — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 16:31:33 GMT

@Pearlee - I was also waiting for Kimble to say he was a medic!

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Tique — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 16:39:49 GMT

I was never convinced that Sharon wholeheartedly believed in her uncle's form of medicine. She seemed to be parroting what she had heard and what she had been taught. She told Kimble the death of her father had made her turn her back on more acceptable methods but even that sounded like something she had been told as a way of elevating the natural and disclaiming the scientific ones.

I was amused by Marianne. She expected Kimble to be attracted to her and also flattered by her flirtatious manner toward him. I was surprised to hear she had been a nurse. I would have expected her to be in a profession that was a lot more glamorous and a lot less selfless.

As for Sheree North's looks I much prefer as @Oznell labeled it her "unconventional look" to the more common "beauty" of Angie Dickinson. Nothing about one reminds me of the other.

The character of Josephus was somewhat a villainous one. He knew he wasn't capable of providing the standard of care for some of his patients that was needed, specifically Mrs. Crandall. I liked Arthur O'Connell's portrayal of this character as much as I did of the one in the aforementioned "Tug of War".

Another winner in the Season Three collection which I enjoyed viewing.

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Oznell — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 17:03:20 GMT

@twinsister-- Dorothy Malone, yes, good observation! I can see that too, now.

Thanks also for explaining how Kimble put together the warning signs with Sharon, and his need to get back to help her. I had missed most of that, and was fuzzy as to why he was taking the step (and the risk) of going back. As @Pearlee says, he is always stubbornly going to do what is right, no matter how it affects him...

That's an interesting insight into Sharon, @Tique -- makes sense, and she was young enough to sort of "receive" what she was told about nature's remedies, in an unexamined way, and as you say, just parrot it back... at first, I was thinking, wow, this is like a cult, almost, and they think that Kimble will absorb their views once he "understands" them. Not!

DJ's great expressions got a workout in this one-- his distaste for "honey everything" was quite clear, and almost comically so! Also, wow, if anyone caught his volatile expressions when he was unsuccessfully trying to start the engine with ailing Sharon beside him-- his frustration and urgency were palpably on display. It's easy to take his acting for granted sometimes, but gosh he was so good.

Yes, it was amusing that Marianne was so baldly available, and so sure, at first, that her advances would be well received! This seemed like yet another interesting variation on the Lady Macbeth scenarios we've seen-- weak, flawed man in Adams, combined with shrewd, mercenary, unscrupulous woman, toxic outcome.

Their farmhouse showed their relative prosperity-- it was a little too fussy, but had elements of comfort-- deep upholstery, fancy lamps, fresh flowers, and that aged Scotch that Marianne and Kimble chatted about! I was taken with that very wide staircase-- quite unusual in a house like that, you'd think.

I liked Mr. Weaver. Took everything as it came. Swigging his soda pop, encounters Kimble, chats him up, sees Kimble off on the bus, Kimble changes mind, cheerfully gives him a ride back to the Adams', no questions asked, it's "his pleasure". Cute codger.

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Pearlee — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 17:22:32 GMT

@Tique Those were very interesting comments about Sharon being a true believer --- or not. As for Josephus being villainous, well he certainly was a con man, snake oil salesman. He couldn't get into (or was it make it?) at med school so he found a tangential way to get rich. Yes he admitted to Kimble at the end that people died who could have lived. Until that admission, he may have convinced himself that what he was doing was A-OK. As he said "we all die" and he thought he helped people who were surely going to imminently die by offering them a remedy that was pleasant and made them happy (like the guy oznell mentioned who gave Kimble a ride back to the house) In the end Josephus did the right thing and proved himself to be a good man.

I though Josepheus was pretty blase about saying Marianne would be "gone of course" at the end.

@Oznell DJ's fine acting is certainly worth pointing out every now and then. And again, I don't think the show would have been as successful with anyone else in that role.

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Etoile308 — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 17:39:30 GMT

I also enjoyed this episode. Two weeks in a row Kimble was able to a degree practice his profession with life saving results. That has to bring some self satisfaction. Interesting to see him conflicted by his conscience and values as a doctor being pitted against the kindness shown him by Josephus and the family.

Josephus never referred to himself as a doctor, but he never corrected others when they did. I think it nagged at Sharon when Kimble mentioned the financial side of things, and the death of Mildred weighed on her, as did the comment about how an X-ray might have made a difference.

What to make of Marianne? First, I think Sheree North was one of those woman who could be beautiful one moment then, very unattractive the next. All depending on her eyes and whether or not she'd smile.

You have to wonder while looking at the newspaper, if she hadn't gotten a busy signal when she initially called, what would she have said? She reads that he's a convicted killer, but still makes a play for him. Even Josephus eventually caught on to this. I liked that he realized once his practice stopped and the money dried up then Marianne would be gone. I like that idea, because when they returned from the funeral and Marianne was admonishing Sharon that her behavior could cost Josephus patients, Marianne has said something about maybe her uncle would finally do something about it. I took it to mean Marianne wanted Josephus to consider other arrangements for Sharon, who would always be competition for male attention.

Kimble would never be interested in Marianne. Here was a woman with actual medical training who promoted a charlatan for money.

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twinsister — Mon, 19 Apr 2021 18:03:06 GMT

@Etoile308 - I never thought that Marianne would consider Sharon as competition, but I think you are right. It could also be the other way around. When Sharon got older, Marianne might be going after her dates!