"The premise was that if Fred Johnson [were] found it would get Kimble a new trial."
Right, as I said.
"Which is why Kimble wanted to get a confession out of Fred Johnson - which he did in more than one episode."
True - in a private, one-on-one, confession, which he later irately repudiated to police. (His second confession to Kimble was made in the last episode, just before Lt. Gerard killed him with a rifle shot, thus precluding the chance of its being any help to Kimble.) Kimble's claim of Johnson having confessed would have been rejected as mere self-serving, uncorroborated hearsay, and would never have gotten him a new trial.
"Kimble's story was only bolstered when in the series finale it became evident there was another witness"
Right - that bizarre, cobbled-together scenario that had the brother-in-law arriving just in time to observe the murder, yet without his interceding, and without his being eliminated by Johnson, thus allowing the series to be neatly (if clumsily) wrapped up. (Actually, Kimble would've been lucky if the brother-in-law's convenient, belated confession were accepted as sufficient to justify a new trial, rather than rejected out-of-hand as an obvious ploy by a sympathetic in-law, similar to the proposed confession that Robert Cummings wanted Ray Milland to make, in "Dial M For Murder" to get Grace Kelly off the hook.)
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loughsprng
10 years ago
#1. It's not what you said,and
#2. It wasn't Kimble's brother-in-law who witnessed the murder.
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movies789
10 years ago
"#1. It's not what you said,and #2. It wasn't Kimble's brother-in-law who witnessed the murder."
#1. Oh yes it is, and #2. You left out that I got his shoe color wrong.
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gideonk
9 years ago
In one of the episodes that Suzanne Pleshette was in, Kimble was going to leave the country with her to go livein Brazil I think it was. She had convinced him that the one-armed man had died in a fire, so Kimble saw no reason to stay in the USA any more. In the end, she told him the truth, that the one-armed man who had died in the fire wasn't Fred Johnson but someone else. So, Kimble didn't go to Brazil with her. He was willing to, though, when he believed the one-armed man who killed Helen really had died. The episode is called World's End.
Ironically, in that episode Pleshette's character is named Ellie which was Janssen's then-real life wife's name. I say "ironically" because I've read several sources that said Janssen and Pleshette had an affair.
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