TV and Movies

[Pearlee]

"Death of a Very Small Killer" starring David Janssen, co starring Arthur Hill, Carol Lawrence. Carlos Romero.

To escape from police searching for him, Kimble  joins the crew of a small boat heading to Mexico. (I found it very strange in the opening scene that the man suggesting that Kimble join the boat as a crew member acts very suspiciously, as if he has something up his sleeve or an ulterior motive, but nothing ever comes of that!) Kimble starts to feel ill on the boat and then collapses at his Mexican hotel whereupon he is taken to a nearby clinic. 

The clinic is run by Arthur Hill's character, a doctor obsessed with finding a cure for the meningitis strain killing many in that Mexican province, and also  Carol Lawrence's character.  Hill recognizes  Kimble right away and blackmails him; if Kimble doesn't help Hill treat patients at the clinic so Hill has time to pursue his research and find a cure, he'll turn Kimble in to the police. So Kimble decides to stay. But Kimble then faces an ethical dilemma about how Hill is dispensing meds to treat the patients at the clinic, which gives rise to what you see in the epi's preview.

While there are certainly flaws in this episode, I do like it. 

Arthur Hill, with his distinctive voice, was in a lot of TV and movies in 1960s-1980s. I first saw him in Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law. He was in the 2-part pilot of Murder She Wrote as Jessica's publisher, Preston Giles and in a subsequent epi, The Return of Preston Giles. He was also Grandpa Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie.  He seems to raise his voice quite a bit in his acting style, almost shouting.

Carol Lawrence wears a couple of typical 1960s sheath dresses (the green one being a bit snug in the hips) and a hair piece to make  "Grecian" curls in her hair. I wore an almost identical hair piece to my sister's 1967 wedding (same year as this Fuge).

[Tique]

Epilog Picture

[Pearlee]

@Tique  Thanks for the photos. Big sigh 💘 at the Epilog photo.

Don't forget to set to record @twinsister .

[twinsister]

@Pearlee - My DVR is set.  I knew that Epilog picture would get you - LOL!!  Carol Lawrence wore those Grecian curl type hairpieces often.  She was in a few episodes of RFYL and her hair always looked the same.  In one of the Epilog pictures, DJ looks like he is wearing padding under his white outfit, but maybe it is the angle he is standing.

@Tique - Nice pictures.

[drizzellla]

Thanks for including this picture. I liked this scene. It was two against one that the poster looked like Dr. Kimble. Once again things worked out so that David Janssen was able to move on so he could appear in another episode.

[twinsister]

I thought this was a good episode.  The beginning was strange as @Pearlee said with that suspicious man helping Kimble.  Usually Kimble is helped by someone he knows even slightly, but this man didn't know him at all.

I didn't understand the policeman being so curious about why Kimble came to their village.  It's as if strangers never visited there.  It made no sense to me.

Dr. Howell helping Kimble at the end, even though it was for his daughter's benefit, was nice.  

[Group 5 minus 1]

Didn't care for this one,but did watch Dossier for a Diplomat. Ivan Dixon starred.

Well done and a little different from the usual Fug. More like a "cloak and dagger".

[Pearlee]

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@Group 5 minus 1 wrote:

Didn't care for this one,but did watch Dossier for a Diplomat. Ivan Dixon starred.

Well done and a little different from the usual Fug. More like a "cloak and dagger".

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@Group 5 minus 1  We will be discussing that one next week.

[Pearlee]

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@drizzellla wrote:

Thanks for including this picture. I liked this scene. It was two against one that the poster looked like Dr. Kimble. Once again things worked out so that David Janssen was able to move on so he could appear in another episode.

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@drizzellla   I like that scene also; glad you pointed it out.

[Pearlee]

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@twinsister wrote:

I thought this was a good episode.  The beginning was strange as @Pearlee said with that suspicious man helping Kimble.  Usually Kimble is helped by someone he knows even slightly, but this man didn't know him at all.

I didn't understand the policeman being so curious about why Kimble came to their village.  It's as if strangers never visited there.  It made no sense to me.

Dr. Howell helping Kimble at the end, even though it was for his daughter's benefit, was nice.  

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@twinsister   I'm glad you liked this epi also. 

I think Howell helped Kimble at the end as much to keep his end of the bargain he made with Kimble as for his daughter's benefit.  Speaking of whom, I thought that mini romance was pretty much gratuitous and unnecessary. I did like Carol's conduct though, not throwing herself at Kimble like Pleshette did in her first epi and not having a lot of angst when he left but calmly accepting that he had to go.

I'm not sure why that policeman was so suspicious of Kimble other than cops often go with "gut feelings" about people after years of experience in law enforcement.  Or perhaps he had seen a Wanted  poster and subconsciously it was ringing a bell. Throughout the series Kimble has looked out of place -- too well educated, refined and distinguished looking for a wanderer.

Perhaps because of Covid, I guffawed at Kimble and Carol and her father going into an isolation ward with not even a mask on!  It was also eyebrow raising how Kimble was just instantly accepted as anither doctor. Why didn't the suspicious policeman insist on checking his credentials? And when Kimble got sick, why didn't he make sure what the pills were someone gave him to take before swallowing them?  As I said in my OP there were flaws but I still liked this one. And DJ looks like a great kisser! No mere peck on the lady's head this time!