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The Fugitive: Season 4

30 episodes Premiered Sep 13, 1966
Previously on The Fugitive

Season 4 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 3.
  • 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 4 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 4: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
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S4·E1 Mytharc

The Last Oasis

Sep 13, 1966

Injured after being shot during a police chase, Kimble seeks refuge at an orphanage near a Navajo Indian reservation in Puma County, Arizona. Annie Johnson, the head teacher (and h

S4·E2 Core

Death is the Door Prize

Sep 20, 1966

Kimble visits an enclosed plaza in the heart of the city. Due to a misunderstanding, on-site security mistakes him for someone else and gives chase. Thinking they are on to him, Ri

S4·E3 Core

A Clean and Quiet Town

Sep 27, 1966

Kimble makes the mistake of going to Clark City, a corrupt gambling town. Fred Johnson (the one-armed man) is there as well, and has two corrupt cops beat up Kimble. When Richard s

S4·E4 Core

The Sharp Edge of Chivalry

Oct 4, 1966

Kimble, working as an apartment janitor in a nameless big city, becomes implicated in a murder when Roger Roland, a neighbor whom lives across the street, is a troubled young man a

S4·E5 Core

Ten Thousand Pieces of Silver

Oct 11, 1966

Kimble finds work on Jake Lawrence's farm, where he develops a special friendship with Jake's autistic daughter, Cathy. But Kimble soon becomes nervous when the local sheriff, Mel

S4·E6 Core

Joshua's Kingdom

Oct 18, 1966

While working as a veterinarian assistant in a rural town in Utah, Kimble becomes aquainted with Ruth Simmons, an unwed teenage mother whom has a sickly infant. But her father, Jos

S4·E7 Core

Second Sight

Oct 25, 1966

While working in a film supply store as a photo developer, Kimble spots Fred Johnson, the one-armed man, in a photo. After tracking down the freelance photographer, Howie Keever, w

S4·E8 Core

Wine is a Traitor

Nov 1, 1966

Carl Crandall is the wealthy and spoiled son of winery owner Pete Crandall. Carl stops a labor strike at the winery by killing the union leader and framing Morales, another worker,

S4·E9 Core

Approach with Care

Nov 15, 1966

Kimble meets Willie Turner, a mentally disabled young man who is accused of hurting a child. Kimble reluctantly hides Willie at a carnival where Kimble now works. Kimble tries to p

S4·E10 Core

Nobody Loses All the Time

Nov 22, 1966

After Kimble spots Fred Johnson at the scene of a fire, he gives chase-but stops to help a woman who has been hit by a vehicle. After Kimble helps her get to a hospital, he discove

S4·E11 Core

Right in the Middle of the Season

Nov 29, 1966

While working as a fishing crewman, Kimble becomes embroiled in a union strike which is orgainzed by Joe Donovan, the son of Kimble's employer, grizzled fisherman Tony Donovan. Dur

S4·E12 Core

The Devil's Disciples

Dec 6, 1966

While fleeing from a sheriff's dragnet, Kimble is rescued by a dangerous motorcycle gang called 'the Devil's Disciples, led by the brutal Hutch. As payback, Hutch and his gang want

S4·E13 Core

The Blessings of Liberty

Dec 20, 1966

Kimble finds work at an upholstery store where the police are staking out the place in their search for an escaped killer, named Bowen. Kimble becomes aquainted with one worker, a

S4·E14 Core

The Evil Men Do

Dec 27, 1966

After Kimble saves his boss' life, the man (a former mobster), is determined to repay the debt to Kimble by killing Gerard. After he learns that Gerard has discovered Kimble's wher

S4·E15 Core

Run the Man Down

Jan 3, 1967

While hopping a freight train, Kimble meets a wounded criminal who demands to take him to a rendezvous point in the hills of Southern California. Kimble reluctantly does which is a

S4·E16 Core

The Other Side of the Coin

Jan 10, 1967

While working as a clerk in a small grocery store in Ocean Grove, California, Kimble becomes embroiled in a conflict between his co-worker Larry Corby and his father Ben, who's the

S4·E17 Core

The One That Got Away

Jan 17, 1967

Ralph Schuyler is a government agent who goes undercover as a boat captain to spy on Felice Greer, the wife of an international embezzler hiding out in Mexico and she's presumably

S4·E18 Core

Concrete Evidence

Jan 24, 1967

Kimble finds work as a construction worker in Nebraska where he is recongized by building contract; the unscrupulous Alex ""Pat"" Patton, who once built a theater in his home town.

S4·E19 Core

The Breaking of the Habit

Jan 31, 1967

After fleeing a police roadblock where he gets shot in the leg, Kimble hops on a truck headed toward Sacramento where he meets Sister Veronica (the nun whom he drove from Nevada to

S4·E20 Core

There Goes the Ballgame

Feb 7, 1967

While attending a minor league baseball game, Kimble unwittingly witnesses a man walk away with a woman whom is later revealed to be the daughter of newspaper publisher Andy Newark

S4·E21 Core

The Ivy Maze

Feb 21, 1967

Fritz Simmons is a college professor doing research on sleep depervation. One of his patients is the one-armed man Fred Johnson, whom works as a groundskeeper at Wellington College

S4·E22 Core

Goodbye My Love

Feb 28, 1967

Kimble becomes romantically involved with former recording star Gail Martin, unaware that she know his secret, and the $10,000 reward for his capture. Gail and her other lover, Ala

S4·E23 Core

Passage to Helena

Mar 7, 1967

After being arrested in a small Montana town for a minor loitering charge, Kimble is put in jail next to a suspect in a race-related killing. A determined black deputy becomes dete

S4·E24 Core

The Savage Street

Mar 14, 1967

Kimble is working at a cigar-making store owned by Jose Anza, and becomes close friends with his son Jimmy. Jimmy is caught between the expectations of his demanding father who wan

S4·E25 Core

Death of a Very Small Killer

Mar 21, 1967

Fleeing to Mexico, Kimble somehow contracts pnenmonia and seeks refuge at a local hospital where he is recognized by Dr. Howell, an ambitious American doctor whom is conducting res

S4·E26 Core

Dossier on a Diplomat

Mar 28, 1967

Kimble travels to Washington D.C. to meet with a lawyer, named Frank Hobart, whom wrote a book titled 'Unjustly Convicted' which states that Kimble was convicted without the benefi

S4·E27 Core

The Walls of Night

Apr 4, 1967

Kimble, working as a truck driver out of Portland, Oregon, becomes romantically involved with the radio dispatcher Barbara Wells, unaware that she is a convicted embezzler on loan

S4·E28 Core

The Shattered Silence

Apr 11, 1967

In the hills of Oregon, a young sculptor, named Andrea, hides Kimble from a local deputy, named Howe. But when the lawman finds him, Kimble retreats deeper into the mountains where

S4·E29 Mytharc

The Judgment (1)

Aug 22, 1967

This was the series finale. In the first part, the one-armed man whom Kimble has been pursuing has been arrested for a minor crime. Lt. Gerard tries to use this to lure Kimble out

S4·E30 Mytharc

The Judgment (2)

Aug 29, 1967

In the continuation of this story Kimble and Gerard are on a train for his hometown in Indiana. And Kimble then reveals that the person who sent the bail money is his brother-in-la