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The Fugitive: Season 1

30 episodes Premiered Sep 17, 1963 Updated Jul 18, 2026

The first season of The Fugitive aired Tuesdays at 10:00-11:00 pm on ABC from September 17, 1963 to April 21, 1964. The first volume of the season was released on Region 1 DVD on August 14, 2007. Volume 2 was released on February 26, 2008.

Season overview

The first season of The Fugitive aired Tuesdays at 10:00-11:00 pm on ABC from September 17, 1963 to April 21, 1964. The first volume of the season was released on Region 1 DVD on August 14, 2007. Volume 2 was released on February 26, 2008.

Episodes

S1·E1

Fear in a Desert City

Sep 17, 1963 · 51 min

Richard Kimble rides into Tucson, Arizona under the name James Lincoln. He checks into a hotel and finds a job as a bartender at the Branding Iron. He meets Monica Welles (Vera M

S1·E2

The Witch

Sep 24, 1963 · 51 min

While working as a handyman in a backwater community in Missouri, Kimble has a few run-ins with a young girl named Jenny Ammory who is a pathological liar who speaks to a rag doll

S1·E3

The Other Side of the Mountain

Oct 1, 1963 · 51 min

In West Virginia, Kimble arrives at a local coal-mining town where he is roughed up by the redneck locals, and then chased by a sheriff's posse. Hiding in the mountains, Kimble mee

S1·E4

Never Wave Goodbye (1)

Oct 8, 1963 · 51 min

Kimble, working as an apprentice sailmaker in Santa Barbara, California, falls in love with Karen, the daughter of his stern but compassionate boss Lars Christian. But earns scorn

S1·E5

Never Wave Goodbye (2)

Oct 15, 1963 · 51 min

After finding that the one-armed man is not the same man he saw fleeing his house the night of Helen's murder, Kimble flees from Los Angeles, barely escaping Gerard's dragnet. Tire

S1·E6

Decision in the Ring

Oct 22, 1963 · 51 min

Kimble finds work as a cut man for boxer Joe Smith. Joe confides in Kimble that he wanted to be a doctor, but he chose boxing because he felt that being a black man would be an obs

S1·E7

Smoke Screen

Oct 29, 1963 · 51 min

A forest fire prevents access to a local hospital. Kimble, now a farm laborer, decides to risk blowing his cover when he elects to help deliver a woman's baby at the labor camp. W

S1·E8

See Hollywood and Die

Nov 5, 1963

While working as a gas station attendant in New Mexico, Kimble is taken hostage, along with customer Joanne, by two holdup men, named Miles and Vinnie. Once on the road, Kimble pre

S1·E9

Ticket to Alaska

Nov 12, 1963 · 51 min

On a small freighter, Kimble is traveling to Alaska when an FBI agent, named Paul Vale, arrives and begins questioning him and all the passengers in a search for a Korean War crimi

S1·E10

Fatso

Nov 19, 1963 · 51 min

After getting into a car accident in a rural Kentucky town, Kimble is put in jail by the redneck sheriff who hates outsiders. But Kimble manages to escape with his cellmate Davey "

S1·E11

Nightmare at Northoak

Nov 26, 1963 · 51 min

Kimble is injured while helping save some children from a fiery crash. While recuperating at a local home, he learns that his caretakers are the local sheriff and his wife. As if t

S1·E12

Glass Tightrope

Dec 3, 1963 · 51 min

Working as a stock clerk in a department store, Kimble witnesses his boss, Martin Rowland, accidentally kill a business associate in the parking lot after hours. When Kimble learns

S1·E13

Terror at High Point

Dec 17, 1963 · 51 min

While working at a construction site in Utah, Kimble convinces his supervisor, Buck Harmon, to hire Jamie, a mentally disabled but physically strong young man, to help out. Because

S1·E14

The Girl from Little Egypt

Dec 24, 1963 · 51 min

In San Francisco, Kimble is nearly run over by a car driven by Ruth Norton, a young flight attendant distraught over discovering that the man she has been dating for the past four

S1·E15

Home is the Hunted

Jan 7, 1964 · 51 min

Kimble returns to his home town in Illinois after learning that his father, John Kimble, has suffered a heart attack and has donated his medical library to the University of Wiscon

S1·E16

The Garden House

Jan 14, 1964

Kimble is working as the caretaker at a spacious ranch in Connecticut which is owned by newspaper heiress Ann Guthrie who lives with her husband Harlan and her sister Ruth. Ann and

S1·E17

Come Watch Me Die

Jan 21, 1964 · 51 min

While working as a farm hand in a small Nebraska town, Kimble witnesses the arrest of a local man, named Bellows, who is suspected of a double murder. Kimble finds himself 'deputiz

S1·E18

Where the Action Is

Jan 28, 1964 · 51 min

While working as a hotel lifeguard in Reno, Nevada, Kimble is caught in the middle of a feud between the hotel owner Dan Polichek, and his spoiled and rambunctious teenage daughter

S1·E19

Search in a Windy City

Feb 4, 1964 · 51 min

Believing that the one-armed man is in Chicago, Kimble contacts Mike Decker, a newspaper columnist who defended Kimble during his trial. Kimble and Decker organize a city-wide sear

S1·E20

Bloodline

Feb 11, 1964 · 51 min

Kimble works as a kennel-man for Max Bodin, a breeder of prize-winning Irish Setter show dogs, and who is currently putting his kennel up for sale. Max's son, Johnny, and Johnny's

S1·E21

Rat in a Corner

Feb 18, 1964 · 51 min

Herbie Grant, a second-rate hoodlum, is shot in the leg while trying to rob the liquor store where Kimble works. Herbie later takes Kimble hostage where Herbie claims that although

S1·E22

Angels Travel on Lonely Roads (1)

Feb 25, 1964 · 51 min

On the run from the Nevada State Police, Kimble hitches a ride with Sister Veronica, a nun traveling to Sacramento where she plans to renounce her vows. After fixing her car when i

S1·E23

Angels Travel on Lonely Roads (2)

Mar 3, 1964 · 51 min

Kimble and Sister Veronica continue their journey to Sacramento, unaware that the Nevada State Police have put up a roadblock at the state line. While Kimble deals with a disgruntl

S1·E24

Flight from the Final Demon

Mar 10, 1964 · 51 min

While working as a health club masseuse, Kimble is recognized by Sheriff Bray, a local lawman with policial aspirations. But Kimble manages to escape with the help of co-worker Ste

S1·E25

Taps for a Dead War

Mar 17, 1964 · 51 min

While working as a roller-rink supervisor, Kimble is recognized by the horribly scarred Joe Hallop, a Korean War veteran who blames Kimble for his condition. Apparently back in the

S1·E26

Somebody to Remember

Mar 24, 1964 · 51 min

While working as a warehouse worker, Kimble is recognized by the Greek-born owner, Gus Priamos. Gus tells Kimble that he is dying from cancer and has only six months to live and ho

S1·E27

Never Stop Running

Mar 31, 1964 · 51 min

While working as a migrant worker in New Mexico, Kimble becomes an unwilling party to the kidnapping of a young boy who is the son of his landowner boss. The boy, Jimmie, has been

S1·E28

The Homecoming

Apr 7, 1964 · 51 min

While working as a research technician for the wealthy Allan Pruitt, Kimble gets involved in the business of Allan's teenage daughter, Janice, who returns home after spending a yea

S1·E29

Storm Center

Apr 14, 1964 · 51 min

While working as a dock worker in Florida, Kimble is recognized by Marcie King, a young woman who five years earlier asked Kimble to perform an abortion for her (illegal at the tim

S1·E30

The End Game

Apr 21, 1964 · 51 min

A discarded photograph, with Kimble in the background, leads Gerard to Chicago where he assembles a team of detectives where they trap Kimble within an eight-block radius of the ci