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The Fugitive: Season 3

30 episodes Premiered Sep 14, 1965
Previously on The Fugitive

Season 3 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The Fugitive Season 2.
  • Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Season 3 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 3: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (7): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (23): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S3·E1 Mytharc

Wings of an Angel

Sep 14, 1965

Kimble is riding on a bus when the police stop it, not to arrest Kimble, but to capture an escaped convict who takes a woman hostage. Kimble disarmes the man, but gets stabbed duri

S3·E2 Core

Middle of a Heat Wave

Sep 21, 1965

While dating a local woman named Laurel Harper, Kimble breaks off their romantic affair and she angrily storms out of the bar they are in and into the night. The next morning, Laur

S3·E3 Core

Crack in a Crystal Ball

Sep 28, 1965

A scam artist posing as a psychic goes on TV to prove that he knows where Kimble will appear next, with a little help from an accomplice who is traveling with Kimble.

S3·E4 Mytharc

Trial by Fire

Oct 5, 1965

Kimble's sister Donna summons him home with a possible break in the case: a letter from James Eckhardt, a former U.S. Army captain who also saw the one-armed man fleeing from the K

S3·E5 Core

Conspiracy of Silence

Oct 12, 1965

While working as a steward at a remote desert resort, Kimble is unaware that the area is a top-secret government test site for chemical weapons. Kimble tries to leave, but gets mis

S3·E6 Core

Three Cheers for Little Boy Blue

Oct 19, 1965

Kimble is working as a chauffeur for George Forster, a successful contractor who returns to his small Midwestern home town with big plans for the community. While Forster's homecom

S3·E7 Mytharc

All the Scared Rabbits

Oct 26, 1965

Kimble responds to a newspaper ad for a driver and is hired to drive a certain Peggy Franklin and her 10-year-old daughter, Nancy, to California. But Kimble doesn't realize that Pe

S3·E8 Mytharc

An Apple a Day

Nov 2, 1965

Running from the police, Kimble hides out at a farm owned by a local country doctor, named Josephus Adams, who treats his patients with little more than a dose of honey and a reass

S3·E9 Core

Landscape with Running Figures (1)

Nov 16, 1965

In Part 1 of a two-part story, Lt. Gerard and his wife are on a much-needed vacation. When Gerard rushes off to answer the call to duty, an angry Mrs. Gerard decides that enough is

S3·E10 Core

Landscape with Running Figures (2)

Nov 23, 1965

In the conclusion to Part 1 (from last week), Kimble accompanies a temporarily-blinded Mrs. Gerard to a place where she can phone her husband for help. Mrs. Gerard, who is as inqui

S3·E11 Core

Set Fire to a Straw Man

Nov 30, 1965

Kimble reluctantly becomes involved with Stella Savano, the sister of George Savano, a mobster who runs the trucking company where Kimble works. Stella is an emotionally disturbed

S3·E12 Core

Stranger in the Mirror

Dec 7, 1965

Kimble is working as a custodian for the Saturday Morning Camp, a weekend camp run by Tony and Carole Burnell. Things become complicated when two police officers are found beaten t

S3·E13 Core

The Good Guys and the Bad Guys

Dec 14, 1965

In the small town of Drover City, Montana, Kimble stumbles onto the annual ""vigilante roundup,"" a carnival of sorts where locals ""hunt"" down anybody not wearing Western cowboy

S3·E14 Core

End of the Line

Dec 21, 1965

After losing his wallet, Kimble steals another wallet to pay for his train fare. The wallet belongs to R.T. Unger, who owns a local dairy. Kimble finds work as dishwasher at a loca

S3·E15 Core

When the Wind Blows

Dec 28, 1965

In rural Wyoming, Kimble seeks refuge from the local constable at a small hotel run by Lois Carter, a young widow who hires him as a handyman. Kimble soon befriends Lois' son Kenny

S3·E16 Core

Not With a Whimper

Jan 4, 1966

Kimble arrives in the factory town of Hempstead Mills, West Virginia to assist Andrew McCallister, his longtime mentor who is dying from lung cancer which confines him to a wheelch

S3·E17 Mytharc

Wife Killer

Jan 11, 1966

Reporter Barbara Webb spots Fred Johnson, the one-armed man, in a police roundup of suspicious character during a murder investigation. Calling to mind the Kimble case with her pub

S3·E18 Core

This'll Kill You

Jan 18, 1966

Kimble finds work at a Laundromat owned by Charlie Paris, a former stand-up comic and mob bookie who hopes to go straight. But Kimble doesn't know that that the underworld has put

S3·E19 Core

Echo of a Nightmare

Jan 25, 1966

Jane Washburn, an undercover policewoman, witnesses three youths beat up and rob Kimble. She attends to him, but becomes suspicious after he declines to report his mugging to the p

S3·E20 Core

Stroke of Genius

Feb 1, 1966

Gary Keller, a promising art student, tests his new rifle by firing a random shot which instantly kills his mentor, the town minister, who happens to be driving on a road right in

S3·E21 Core

Shadow of the Swan

Feb 8, 1966

At a carnival, Kimble meets Tina Anderson, an attractive young woman who helps him get a job and introduces him to her uncle Harry, who is a retired police detective. But Harry soo

S3·E22 Core

Running Scared

Feb 22, 1966

After learning of the death of his father, Kimble contacts Donna and her husband Len Taft and wants to meet with them. Donna and Len drive to Fort Wayne, Indiana and check into a h

S3·E23 Core

The Chinese Sunset

Mar 1, 1966

Kimble is working as the "general factotum" in a swanky Beverly Hills hotel on Sunset Blvd. An undercover policeman, named Fred Bragin, checks into the hotel to surveille Eddie Sla

S3·E24 Core

Ill Wind

Mar 8, 1966

Gerard tracks Kimble to a migrant community in South Texas where he finally captures the fugitive who attempts to flee by train. But a violent hurricane strikes the area and forces

S3·E25 Core

With Strings Attached

Mar 15, 1966

Kimble is hired as a chauffeur by Geoffrey Martin, a 17-year-old violinist who has grown weary of his career and would like to stop playing professionally for a few years when he d

S3·E26 Core

The White Knight

Mar 22, 1966

After witnessing a small plane crash, Kimble rescues the pilot and two passengers, senatorial candidate Glenn Madison, and his assistant/secret lover, Pat Haynes. Glenn's PR man, R

S3·E27 Core

The 2130

Mar 29, 1966

While working as a chauffeur in Denver, Colorado, Kimble reluctantly covers for teenager Lauire Ryder after she dents her father's car. But Kimble flees after discovering that Laur

S3·E28 Core

A Taste of Tomorrow

Apr 12, 1966

Kimble meets Joe Tucker, another fugitive who claims that he was wrongly convicted for embezzlement four years earlier and wants to return to his hometown to kill the bank officer

S3·E29 Mytharc

In a Plain Paper Wrapper

Apr 19, 1966

Kimble, working as a bartender in a local diner, becomes involved with waitress Susan Cartwright. But their growing romance is complicated by the arrival of Susan's orphaned nephew

S3·E30 Mytharc

Coralee

Apr 26, 1966

After a diver dies in an underwater mishap, Kimble comes to the defense of the diver's girlfriend - whom the locals believe is a jinx. Kimble knows that the death may have been due