The Fugitive: Season 1
The Fugitive is an American crime drama television series created by Roy Huggins and produced by QM Productions and United Artists Television. The program aired on ABC for four seasons between 1963 and 1967. The first season premiered on September 17, 1963, and concluded on April 21, 1964, airing on Tuesdays from 10:00 to 11:00 pm. The narrative follows Dr. Richard Kimble, a man falsely convicted of his wife's murde
Season overview
The Fugitive is an American crime drama television series created by Roy Huggins and produced by QM Productions and United Artists Television. The program aired on ABC for four seasons between 1963 and 1967. The first season premiered on September 17, 1963, and concluded on April 21, 1964, airing on Tuesdays from 10:00 to 11:00 pm.
The narrative follows Dr. Richard Kimble, a man falsely convicted of his wife's murder and sentenced to death. While being transported to death row, the train carrying Kimble derails and crashes. This event allows him to escape custody and begin a cross-country search for the true perpetrator, whom he identifies as a one-armed man. Throughout his journey, Kimble is pursued by authorities who seek to return him to prison. The series is categorized under the genres of action, adventure, drama, mystery, and suspense. Home media releases for the first season were divided into two parts, with the first volume released on Region 1 DVD on August 14, 2007, and the second volume released on February 26, 2008. The series holds a TV-PG rating.
Episode Guide
Season 1 Progress Shield
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 "
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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