I am currently watching The Fugitive for the first time and in order, and "Second Sight" ranks as the weakest episode to date.
That Kimble just happens to be working in a photo lab where film that that includes an accidental shot of Fred Johnson (The One Armed Man) is brought, sends the coincidence meter into the red-zone right at the start.
Then Kimball ineffectually blunders around in a warehouse pursuing Johnson and winds up blinded by a chemical explosion. While not in and of itself a bad idea (a blind Fugitive does hold some possibilities) it is totally bollixed by the writer(s) as we see Kimble stumbling around aimlessly in the midst of a city wide manhunt by the police.
After implausibly escaping capture (not to mention frying) while wandering blindly across town, Kimble arrives at the pad of a "friend" only to be quickly caught and imprisoned. He is then escorted by a single cop out a back door of the police station where he is able (his vision having returned) to clobber his escort and escape via a bus.
The script is awful. The "blind" scenes are painful. David Janssen was decidedly unconvincing with his portrayal of a blind man. He repeatedly reached for things that a blind man would not have known to reach for and in one scene he lowered his head before the officer escorting him told him to duck.
Tim Considine is somewhat edgy for mid-60s American TV and Stuart Lancaster is excellent as his malevolent and bleary eyed uncle. Ned Glass and Crahan Denton (who died six weeks after this episode originally aired) as a pair of drunks are also a highlight of this mainly forgettable episode.
That Kimble just happens to be working in a photo lab where film that that includes an accidental shot of Fred Johnson (The One Armed Man) is brought, sends the coincidence meter into the red-zone right at the start.
Then Kimball ineffectually blunders around in a warehouse pursuing Johnson and winds up blinded by a chemical explosion. While not in and of itself a bad idea (a blind Fugitive does hold some possibilities) it is totally bollixed by the writer(s) as we see Kimble stumbling around aimlessly in the midst of a city wide manhunt by the police.
After implausibly escaping capture (not to mention frying) while wandering blindly across town, Kimble arrives at the pad of a "friend" only to be quickly caught and imprisoned. He is then escorted by a single cop out a back door of the police station where he is able (his vision having returned) to clobber his escort and escape via a bus.
The script is awful. The "blind" scenes are painful. David Janssen was decidedly unconvincing with his portrayal of a blind man. He repeatedly reached for things that a blind man would not have known to reach for and in one scene he lowered his head before the officer escorting him told him to duck.
Tim Considine is somewhat edgy for mid-60s American TV and Stuart Lancaster is excellent as his malevolent and bleary eyed uncle. Ned Glass and Crahan Denton (who died six weeks after this episode originally aired) as a pair of drunks are also a highlight of this mainly forgettable episode.