CTVA US Crime - "The Fugitve" (Quinn Martin/ ABC)(1963-67) starring David Janssen

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David Janssen series:
Richard Diamond (1957-60) - The Fugitive (1963-67)
-
O'Hara U.S. Treasury (1971-72) - Harry O (1974-76)

The Fugitive (1963-67)
 (German series title - "Auf der Flucht")
Episode Guide compiled by The Classic TV Archive
references:
Library of Congress (telnet://locis.loc.gov)
Internet Movie Database(https://us.imdb.com)
Additional information:
"The Fugitive Recaptured: the 30th Anniversary Companion to the Television
Classic", by Ed Robertson, introduction by Steven King, forward by Barry
Morse, Pomegranate Press Ltd, ISBN 0928817-34-5.

The Fugitive (season 1) (ABC) (1963-1964) (b-w)
The Fugitive (season 2) (ABC) (1964-1965) (b-w)
The Fugitive (season 3) (ABC) (1965-1966) (b-w)
The Fugitive (season 4) (ABC) (1966-1967) (color)
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THE FUGITIVE
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Quinn Martin production
United Artists Television, Inc
for
ABC (Tuesdays 10:00 PM ET)
Executive Producer Quinn Martin
assistant to the executive producer Arthur Fellows
Created by Roy Huggins
Producer Alan A. Armer (seasons 1-3)(1963-66)
Produced by Wilton Schiller (season 4)(1966-67)

US Crime Drama series 1963-67 4 seasons 120 episodes x 60 min
seasons 1-3 bw / season 4 color
starring
David Janssen as Dr. Richard Kimble
and Barry Morse as Lt. Philip Gerard

recurring stars
Jacqueline Scott as Donna Taft, Richard Kimble's sister
Bill Raisch as Fred Johnson, the One-Armed Man
(featured in episode 39
Paul Birch as Police Captain Carpenter

Narrated by William Conrad

season 1 opening narration (with moving action)
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"The Name - Doctor Richard Kimble.
The Destination - Death Row, State Prison.
The Irony - Richard Kimble is innocent.
Proved guilty, what Richard Kimble could NOT prove was that moments
before discovering his murdered wife's body, he saw a one-armed man
running from the vicinity of his home.
Richard Kimble ponders his fate as he looks at the world for the
last time and sees only darkness.
But in that darkness fate moves it's huge hand"

season 2 opening narration (with still captions)
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" Richard Kimble, an innocent victim of blind justice.
Falsely convicted for the murder of his wife.
Reprieved by fate when a train wreck freed him en route
to the death house.
Freed him to hide in lonely desperation. To change his identity.
To toil at many jobs.
Freed him to search for a one-armed man he saw leave the
scene of the crime.
Freed him to run before the relentless pursuit of the police
lieutenant obsessed with his capture. "


Loosely based on the real-life case of Dr. Sam Shephard accused of
murdering his wife in Cleveland, Ohio in 1954.

Directors of photography: (include) Meredith Nicholson, ASC

'The Fugitive' theme music by Pete Rugolo

The Fugitive: A Tribute

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From : Dan Wildt <dwildt@wi.rr.com> Sent : 27 December 2005
Hi from Wisconsin.
Fascinating bit of long-forgotten trivia for you - during the first season of the original
FUGITIVE, in an episode titled "Home is the Hunted," (episode 1-15) Richard Kimble sneaks
back to his hometown to visit his dying father. By the time that episode was re-broadcast
during the summer re-runs, a major piece of dialog was changed in the "Act I" narration.
William Conrad re-dubbed the line that cited "Stafford, Wisconsin" as Kimble's hometown
to "Stafford, Indiana" after viewers alerted producer Quinn Martin that Wisconsin has
no death penalty. Indiana then remained Kimble's home state for the remainder of the series.

Also on the FUGITIVE, second season episode "The Survivors" (episode 2-23), Kimble
visits his former in-laws. His mother-in-law, obsessed with her late daughter, Helen,
keeps replaying a tape (a sort of audio "letter") that Helen send to her before her murder.
The voice of that tape is Diane Brewster's, who portrayed Helen in the flashbacks and
the final episode. She was uncredited.

Thought you might be interested. Dan Wildt
Greenfield WI (Milwaukee suburb)

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