
THE FUGITIVE -- "Man In A Chariot" (September 15, 1964) One of my favorite moments from THE FUGITIVE -- a classic speech superbly delivered by the great character actor Ed Begley. Begley (1902-1970) had won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH about a year and a half before this episode. Today he's probably best remembered as Juror #10 in TWELVE ANGRY MEN. Backstory: Kimble sees law professor G. Stanley Lazer on television declaring that he could have gotten various people off, including Richard Kimble. Kimble travels to the university to see if Prof. Lazer can help him. Lazer agrees and reads transcripts, then decides to do a mock trial in his class (televised to the campus on closed-circuit TV) as a dry run, to prove that he can win acquittal from a jury of his students. Lazer is a crippled old man, bitter about losing his wife, his career as an attorney, and his ability to walk in an automobile accident 10 years earlier, which forced him against his will into the teaching profession. Although devoted to Kimble's cause, he unfairly browbeats his students. Newsmen, getting wind of the story, suspect Kimble is nearby, and contact the police. Kimble faces his usual life-and-death danger as police search the law school during Lazer's summation to the jury. Lazer, the students, and Kimble all learn important lessons, and Kimble of course makes one of his trademarked narrow escapes.
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