The Fugitive (TV series)

The Fugitive was an American network television dramatic series (ABC, 120 episodes from 17 September 1963 - 29 August 1967) starring David Janssen as Dr. Richard Kimble, an innocent man from the fictional town of Stafford, Indiana, who is falsely convicted for his wife's murder and sentenced to death. While headed to death row, he escapes custody following a train wreck and begins a cross-country search for a one-armed man (later revealed as Fred Johnson; played by Bill Raisch) he correctly believes to be the real killer. Like Kimble, Johnson uses other aliases while on the run.

Each week Kimble (with his grey hair died black) would turn up in a new identity and new job ("to toil at many jobs" as the narrator put it). He usually ended up helping people, even those who wanted to turn him in, often using his skills as a doctor (of medicine) to do so. Lieutenant Philip Gerard (played by Barry Morse) was the relentless force of law never more than one or two steps behind Kimble, often arriving in the front door as Kimble stepped out of the back. Jacqueline Scott played Donna Kimble Taft, Kimble's sister in a few episodes, and William Conrad was the narrator for the show. Seasons 1-3 were black and white, season 4 in colour.

Opening Narration

• "Then... Fate moved its huge hand."
  • Spoken by William Conrad, the unseen narrator, just before the train taking Kimble to be executed is sent off the track

Season 1

Fear in a Desert City [1.1]

Closing Narration: Now six months, two weeks, and another thousand miles a fugitive, this is Richard Kimble. And this is how it is with him.

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The Witch [1.2]

Closing Narration: This is Jim Fowler, about to die. He will last long enough to take the bus out of Hainesville, Missouri, and then a new identity must emerge, a new identity to hide the path of his flight, and the path of his search for the man whose crime has made Richard Kimble the Fugitive.

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The Other Side of the Mountain [1.3]

Closing Narration: Above the mountain, leaving it far below and behind him, Lieutenant Philip Gerard returns home without the man he had come to find and recapture. The other side of the mountain, of many mountains, a road twisting and turning into the future, without promise, without assurance for the man who must always go alone: Richard Kimble, fugitive.

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Never Wave Goodbye (Part 1) [1.4]

Closing Narration: Richard Kimble has seen the eyes of the hunter. He knows that for Gerard the chase will never end. But his bones ache from running and he needs the love of a girl. For sanctuary, he will risk a trap. For, in the long, long chase, he has lost everything but hope.

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Never Wave Goodbye (Part 2) [1.5]

Closing Narration: The road north, the road east. For the moment, to Richard Kimble, it makes no difference. The road ends nowhere.

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Decision in the Ring [1.6]

Closing Narration: This was Ray Miller, cut man. Before that, James Lincoln, bartender. And how many weary lonely, heart-breaking identities before that? Only if he succeeds in discovering the man who made him an outcast, can he again be Richard Kimble.

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Smoke Screen [1.7]

Closing Narration: There is no celebration for a fugitive. Richard Kimble moves on, his objective always the same: to find the man who alone can deliver him from execution.

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See Hollywood and Die [1.8]

Closing Narration: A city with ten million lights casts a hundred million shadows, each one only a passing refuge for a man on the run -- a man like the Fugitive.

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Ticket to Alaska [1.9]

Closing Narration: Larry Talman, freed from the suspicion of murder, leaves the Alaskan Star. But it is Richard Kimble, still under the sentence of death, that steps ashore. He will stay in this place as long as it is safe. Then he will move on. It is said there is no rest for the wicked -- nor, sometimes, for the innocent.

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Fatso [1.10]

Closing Narration: A letter from an old friend. No return address, no name. A fugitive has to watch his step. Every step he takes, every hour, every minute, every second, any moves he makes might lead to death row. There's no way of knowing in advance. There's never any way of knowing.

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Nightmare at Northoak [1.11]

Closing Narration: Another city, another identity. Help Wanted. Help, but there is none. Richard Kimble must live with his past and his future. His only consolation: that somewhere, perhaps here, there is a one-armed man who has nightmares of him.

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Glass Tightrope [1.12]

Closing Narration: When Martin Rowland accepted imprisonment for his crime, he set himself free from a prison of a guilty conscience and from a woman who had no conscience. Not so fortunate for Richard Kimble. His imprisonment remains unchanged.

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Terror at High Point [1.13]

Closing Narration: Most men have some secret fear. Most manage to live with it, to walk in the world with others and live a quiet, normal life. For one man, that is impossible: Richard Kimble, fugitive.

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The Girl from Little Egypt [1.14]

Closing Narration: The outbound bus for from San Francisco -- destination: known. George Browning -- destination: unknown. His only companion: hope. Hope for the day when he can once again become Richard Kimble.

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Home Is the Hunted [1.15]

Closing Narration: Home is the sailor, home from the sea. And the hunter, home from the hill. But for Richard Kimble, not yet. Not yet.

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The Garden House [1.16]

Closing Narration: Tomorrow, the Westborne Clarion will have a new editor. One of the paper's first editorials will be a plea for innocent men pursued by the Furies -- men such as Richard Kimble, the Fugitive.

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Come Watch Me Die [1.17]

Bellows: Why? Why are you doing this?

Kimble: Cause if I'm not against you, I'm for you. And if I'm for you, I'm lost.

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Closing Narration: A walk toward the horizon. A hope that it will lead to the man with one arm. Only then will the search be over for the Fugitive.

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Where the Action Is [1.18]

Closing Narration: Some six hundred passengers will depart the Reno airport today. Some are flying on business, some for pleasure, some for urgent personal reasons. One man, as always, is flying for his life: Richard Kimble, fugitive.

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Bloodine [1.20]

Closing Narration: You took a chance for someone and it worked out for him. Someday, perhaps, it will work out for you -- somewhere in some far off city, at some far off time. But this is now and you are still running. You are a fugitive.

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Rat in a Corner [1.21]

Closing Narration: Somewhere, a destination for this truck. But for Richard Kimble, no destiny. And, even asleep, there are shadows, shadows that haunt a man on the run -- a fugitive.

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Angels Travel on Lonely Roads (Part 1) [1.22]

Sister Veronica: Nick Walker you said?

Kimble: That's right, Sister.

Sister Veronica: Well, Mr. Walker, you are a splendid mechanic. This car has not run so well since I left the convent.

Kimble: This car isn't running, Sister. It's looking for a quiet place to die.

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Kimble: I don't suppose you made financial provisions for the trip?

Sister Veronica: Of course...(looks in her purse) $20.35.

Kimble: Good.

Sister Veronica: That's what I had when I stared out. My balance now is $1.45.

Kimble: A dollar fou...that isn't even going to get us to the top of the next hill!

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Closing Narration: Two fugitives: one who has lost faith in her strength to cross a mountain, the other who must cross it in order to live. Sister Veronica turns to Richard Kimble for help. But the road is long and the mountain is high.

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Angels Travel on Lonely Roads (Part 2) [1.23]

Closing Narration: Two fugitives: one having found a resting place, the other continuing to step off his inches on the scale of life. For him, the future will be no less precarious. But, somehow, he won't feel quite so alone.

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Flight from the Final Demon [1.24]

Closing Narration: For almost two years, Richard Kimble has lived the life of a fugitive. How many times in his despair has he thought he would gladly trade places with any man on earth. Now, Richard Kimble knows: any man, except one.

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Taps for a Dead War [1.25]

Closing Narration: For Richard Kimble, it must always be this way. Until he finds the man with one arm, the one man in the world who can help him walk in the light again, Richard Kimble must find his way in the dark -- a fugitive.

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Somebody to Remember [1.26]

Closing Narration: The past two years have been an endless procession of names, most of them forgotten. But one name will be remembered. For a fugitive is a lonely man, and Gus Priamos has been a friend.

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Never Stop Running [1.27]

Closing Narration: Another path, another road. Roads that twist and wind and lead nowhere. Richard Kimble, fugitive.

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The Home Coming [1.28]

Closing Narration: Someday, someday, Richard Kimble will be settled, when he can take his own name again, when he finds the man who killed his wife. Until then, he must be what he is now: a fugitive.

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External links

• The Fugitive quotes at the Internet Movie Database
• The Fugitive at TV.com
• Fan website