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Fugitive Tidbits Dr. RIchard Kimble (David Janssen) and his
wife Helen (Diane Brewster) are having an argument over whether or not to adopt
a child. (Kimble is in favor) Kimble storms out of the house. Helen invites her
neighbor Lloyd Chandler (J.D.Cannon) over to discuss the
situation.
Enter the one-armed man. He bashes Helen over the head and
seeing the cowardly Lloyd, dashes out of the house. Kimble returns home and
sees this man in his headlights. Lloyd is embarrassed about his failure to help
Helen and so denies having seen the one-armed man.
Kimble is convicted
of Helen's murder but as he is being transported to death row, a train wreck
allows his escape.
Richard Kimble dyes his hair and begins the quest to
find the one-armed man, becoming a fugitive. He is relentlessly pursued by Lt.
Philip Gerard (Barry Morse).
Unique for its time, the Fugitive resolved
their storyline at the conclusion of the series. The two parter called
"Judgement" (see box below, right) was the highest rated television show until
1967 and captured a whopping 72% audience share.
The Fugitive is one of
the few classic TV shows successfully translated to the movie screen. In 1993
Harrison Ford played Dr. Richard Kimble to Tommy Lee Jones' Lt.
Gerard.
An attempt was made to revive the series in 2000 with Timothy
Daly as Kimble but it met with little success.
Passings David Janssen died in 1980 of a heart attack, Bill
Raisch in 1984 of lung cancer, Diane Brewster in 1991 of heart failure, and
William Conrad in 1994 of a heart attack. Barry Morse died in 2008.
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