Steve McQueen is a great movie star. He was a good actor when he kept within his wheelhouse, and didn't try too hard, and right off the bat, this was the perfect series for him... he was cool, he was vulnerable, he was tough, he was sparse and simple...
And he was also a primadonna right off the bat, firing people off the set as if he were a veteran actor with all the money in the world... and yet somehow he managed to allow Wright King to basically co-star on nine entire episodes of the series...
Wright's not a bad actor, and he's not a great actor... he just kind of fills space, and always has, from the minute he got a kiss from Vivian Leigh in Streetcar... he stands there and simply exists...
And here he's a punk wannabe bounty hunter named Jason, hanging around Josh and usually getting him into trouble... or rather, more trouble than usual... and he has a pet dog... which is a double stress since pets don't fit this show, and god forbid the dog dies...
Anyhow, what's cool, and ironic while speaking of sidekicks, is that McQueen's most faithful future sidekick Don Gordon, from Bullitt to Towering Inferno, plays a bad guy... or, you know, the token lowlife scum-bag, and it's nice seeing them together, and fighting this time... "Drink your orange juice and shut up Delgetti."
But the boy and his dog get in the way, as usual, and the plot is both complicated and sluggish... but it's not a bad episode, just kinda filler... then again so are all the Scrappy Doo/Boo Boo episodes with Wright King's Jason... a shame, since Season 2 is much better than Season 3, by which time he's gone...
Funny too, because King would have fit better in the last season than this one.