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THE FUGITIVE 12/3/1963 “Glass Tightrope”
Here Leslie Nielsen plays an executive with a department store who owes his position to his marriage but has worked hard at it. A fellow executive who has been drinking too much begins to mock him as someone who has had success handed to him and Nielsen decks him in a parking lot. The man hits his head against a car and dies. A panicky Nielsen drives away, leaving him there. Richard Kimble, who has a job as a delivery man, is a witness. He comes over to help the man but when he realizes he’s beyond help, he decides to leave to avoid the inevitable questions. A derelict comes upon the body and takes the guys’ wallet but is caught by the police He’s being held for what the police presume to be am murder. Kimble, feeling that he can’t turn his back on an innocent man accused of murder, starts making anonymous phone calls to Nielsen urging him to turn himself in and save the guy. Nielsen’s cynical wife figures out what has happened and urges Nielsen to let the derelict get blamed for the crime.
Another really good performance by Leslie Nielsen, who long before he became a comic figure in the “Airplane” and “Naked Gun” series, was one of the finest dramatic actors on television.
IMDB: "The Fugitive" Glass Tightrope (TV Episode 1963) - IMDb
You-Tube: (The full episode)
Here Leslie Nielsen plays an executive with a department store who owes his position to his marriage but has worked hard at it. A fellow executive who has been drinking too much begins to mock him as someone who has had success handed to him and Nielsen decks him in a parking lot. The man hits his head against a car and dies. A panicky Nielsen drives away, leaving him there. Richard Kimble, who has a job as a delivery man, is a witness. He comes over to help the man but when he realizes he’s beyond help, he decides to leave to avoid the inevitable questions. A derelict comes upon the body and takes the guys’ wallet but is caught by the police He’s being held for what the police presume to be am murder. Kimble, feeling that he can’t turn his back on an innocent man accused of murder, starts making anonymous phone calls to Nielsen urging him to turn himself in and save the guy. Nielsen’s cynical wife figures out what has happened and urges Nielsen to let the derelict get blamed for the crime.
Another really good performance by Leslie Nielsen, who long before he became a comic figure in the “Airplane” and “Naked Gun” series, was one of the finest dramatic actors on television.
IMDB: "The Fugitive" Glass Tightrope (TV Episode 1963) - IMDb
You-Tube: (The full episode)
