The Fugitive
From Roy Huggins and Quinn Martin comes this classic tv show, The Fugitive (1963), an original edition of a popular show! Dr. Richard Kimble (David Janssen), wrongly accused of murdering his wife, escapes custody while on the road to prison and must elude the police to continue his quest to find the real killer, which will take ages until the finale. The original series aired from 1963-1967 (120 episodes) and inspired the 1993 movie, The Fugitive starring Tommy Lee Jones and 2000 tv series, The Fugitive starring Timothy Daly. Thanks to matthew02 for his valuable contribuions to this guide!
David Janssen | Dr. Richard Kimble | |
William Conrad | Narrator | |
Barry Morse | Lt. Philip Gerard | |
Dick Wesson | Introductory Narrator | |
Paul Birch | Captain Carpenter | |
Abie Bain | Observer at Scene | |
Bobby Gilbert | Executive Leaving Meeting | |
Robert Duvall | Eric Christian | |
Bruce Dern | Charley | |
R.G. Armstrong | Sheriff Bradley | |
James Sikking | Leonard Taft | |
J. Pat O'Malley | Ray | |
George DeNormand | Executive at Meeting | |
Ed Binns | Angstrom | |
Albert Salmi | Chuck | |
David Armstrong | Police Officer | |
Henry Beckman | Brown | |
Albert Cavens | Reporter | |
Eumenio Blanco | Newspaper Vendor | |
Bill Zuckert | Officer Henry Mesta | |
Ed Nelson | Steve Edson | |
Eileen Heckart | Sister Veronica | |
Ken Lynch | Lt. Craig | |
Lane Bradford | Sheriff Anderson | |
Chuck Hamilton | Courtroom Spectator |
After being on the run for 6 months, Richard Kimble falls in love with a beautiful woman who has a young son. She also has a physically abusive, estranged husband, that wants Kimble out of town, or dead.
A habitually lying little girl falsely accuses Kimble of chasing her through the woods, and it puts his life in greater danger.
A friendly country girl has a crush on Kimble and wants to help him escape on the condition she can go with him, as the Sheriff and Lt. Gerard close in on them.
Kimble flees Los Angeles with a woman who loves him after checking out a lead on some one-armed man, but Lt. Gerard is right on their trail.
Dr. Kimble still fleeing with the woman he loves, decides to fake their deaths at sea, hoping it will fool Lt. Gerard forever.
Richard Kimble helps a black boxer realize that he may have a brain injury that will kill him if he continues to box. Meanwhile, an undercover police Sgt. closes in on Kimble.
Kimble and a group of farm workers are surrounded in the hills by a huge fire and he must reveal that he's a doctor in order to save the life of a pregnant, illegal immigrant.
Kimble and a young woman are kidnapped by deadly robbers, so he pretends to be a crook to try and save her and himself.
Sailing from Seattle to Alaska, Dr. Kimble finds himself in the middle of a murder mystery. To prove his own innocence, he must play detective to figure out who the real killer is.
Kimble breaks jail with a friendly, slightly retarded young man, and finds out the man may have been falsely blamed for a crime he did not commit years ago.
After saving a busload of kids in an accident, Kimble is knocked unconscious and later identified as a fugitive. Gerard comes to this Massachusetts town to extradite him back to Indiana, much to the dismay of the town's grateful residents.
Kimble risks his own freedom and life to help an elderly transient who is wrongly accused of murder when he's caught stealing a dead man's wallet.
Working at a remote construction site, Dr. Kimble tries protect a coworker with a low I.Q. from being lynched when the caring married woman who's been teaching him to read, is assaulted by an unknown attacker.
A beautiful airline stewardess badly injuries Kimble in a traffic accident and in his delirium he admits who he is and she helps him. In turn, Kimble helps her realize the married man she's dating is not right for her.
Dr. Kimble returns to his hometown where he reunites with his father John, and his loving sister Donna, who absolutely believe in his innocence, but Kimble's brother Ray has serious doubts about him.
Dr. Kimble is in Connecticut working for a man who is conspiring with his mistress to murder his wife, and blame it on him.
Kimble is deputized to transport a suspected killer of a man and his wife, to the county seat, along with witnesses who want to lynch the prisoner.
Kimble works as lifeguard for a hotel casino owner whose wild, sexy adult daughter makes unwanted advances toward him to get back at her father.
Dr. Kimble spots the murderer of his wife in Chicago, but is unaware that the newspaper man helping him is under pressure by his editor to turn Kimble into the police, if they fail to catch him.
Dr. Kimble wants to expose a defect in the bloodline of a kennel owner's dog, but the son and daughter-in-law threaten to stop him.
A wounded robber is suspected of murder and forces Kimble to treat him, but Kimble doesn't believe he killed anyone.
After escaping a police dragnet in Lincoln City, Nevada, Kimble comes upon Sister Veronica and her broken-down truck on a road in the desert hills. She convinces him to accompany her on her trip to Sacramento, despite his protests that he's heading in another direction.
Kimble and Sister Veronica continue their journey, not realizing that each of them is hiding a secret. In Sister Veronica's case, she plans to renounce her vows when they reach their destination.
A man helps Kimble escapes from a Sheriff and is wounded. As he nurses him, he discovers the man is tortured by a very guilty conscience in connection with a murder rap he was acquitted of months before.
Richard Kimble meets an old army buddy who saved his life during an explosion in the Korean War, and got badly disfigured in the process. Filled with bitterness, this ex army person plots to either disfigure Kimble, or kill him.
Kimble's current boss, A warehouse owner with a terminal disease, wants to help Dr. Kimble by impersonating him, leading Lt. Gerald to the Country of Greece, and dying at sea.
A couple tricks Dr. Kimble into helping an injured young boy who is a hemophiliac (a bleeder), and whom they have kidnapped for a $200,000 ransom.
Dr. Kimble tries to protect a young woman from her evil stepmother who may be be trying to force her to have a second nervous breakdown over the dog mauling death a young boy a year before.
An attractive woman, along with her swindler boyfriend, recognizes Dr. Kimble and forces him to ferry them to an island in the Florida Keys during a hurricane.
A dragnet traps Dr. Kimble to within a few city blocks while he hides out in a house owned by two men. One of the men believes Kimble is innocent and the other does not, and wants to turn him over to the police.