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The Fugitive Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
30 Episodes 1963 - 1964
Episode 1
Fear in a Desert City
Tue, Sep 17, 196351 mins
After being on the run for 6 months, Richard Kimble falls in love with a beautiful woman who has a young son. She also has a physically abusive, estranged husband, that wants Kimble out of town, or dead.
Episode 2
The Witch
Tue, Sep 24, 196351 mins
In rural Missouri Jenny Ammory is a young girl who lies compulsively. She neglects to do her homework and when sent to school against her wishes, she meets Richard Kimble - working as a delivery driver under the alias "Jim Fowler" - when she leaves her books by a dirt pathway to consult a rag doll she has named Nayet she keeps near a creek. Kimble/Fowler gives her back her books, she politely thanks him, and both go on. When she arrives at her school, however, she claims Kimble/Fowler attacked her to her teacher Emily Norton. Emily, however, has caught Jenny in lies before, and when Kimble/Fowler delivers some items to the school she talks to him, noting how she is persecuted by the wives of the fathers of her students because of her beauty that has attracted these men to her. When Jenny catches them talking, she is scolded by Emily but runs home and claims Kimble/Fowler and Emily Norton are having an illicit affair. This brings about a confrontation with Kimble/Fowler that threatens Kimble's life and leads to a showdown with Jenny at the creek as a town lynch mob closes in on Kimble.
Episode 3
The Other Side of the Mountain
Tue, Oct 1, 196351 mins
Dr. Kimble runs from the sheriff after he gets picked up for fighting. He escapes into the mountains of West Virginia where he encounters a young woman, Cassie. Cassie longs to escape herself. There's no future in this former coal mining town. Cassie knows a shortcut through an abandoned mine that cuts through the mountain and comes out on the other side. Cassie spends her days with her elderly grandmother, all the while dreaming of a better life in the city, but she's afraid to go it alone. Cassie asks Kimble to take her to the city with him so he can help her navigate city life, about which she knows nothing. Kimble helps her to find confidence in herself, without needing to lean on a man.
Episode 4
Never Wave Goodbye: Part 1
Tue, Oct 8, 196351 mins
Settled in Santa Barbara as an apprentice sail maker, Dr. Kimble falls for Karen, the niece of his boss. They become romantically involved. There's a lot that keeps him here. His boss likes him, Karen loves him, and even Karen's old flame likes him. The only one who resents his presence is Eric, another worker who was brought up by the boss since age 12. But Gerard and Kimble cross paths in Los Angeles, and while Kimble was able to elude him, he knows that Gerard is on his trail. He confides In Karen, and wonders whether he should keep running, or try to fool Gerard by staying in one place.
Episode 5
Never Wave Goodbye: Part 2
Tue, Oct 15, 196351 mins
Dr. Kimble still fleeing with the woman he loves, decides to fake their deaths at sea, hoping it will fool Lt. Gerard forever.
Episode 6
Decision in the Ring
Tue, Oct 22, 196351 mins
While working at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena as part of the janitorial staff, Dr. Kimble helps boxer Joe Smith stop the bleeding from a bad cut on his forehead after a fight. The next day, Joe's manager Lou hires Kimble to be his new cut man. Kimble goes to training camp with Joe and his wife, Lou, and others. Joe's wife Laura tells Kimble about some memory loss that Joe had experienced. Kimble fears the onset of brain damage and Joe fears it too because Joe once attended medical school and knows the symptoms. Meanwhile, Lou is being investigated by the boxing commission and because of that, everyone around Lou is also being checked out, including Kimble.
Episode 7
Smoke Screen
Tue, Oct 29, 196351 mins
Dr. Kimble, harvesting onions at an onion field, faces hostility from the other farm workers. A number of them are Mexican laborers who are suspicious about his presence - after all, he doesn't look like one of them. The workers are recruited to help fight a forest fire. When a pregnant woman starts to feel labor pains, the nurse discovers she can't have a natural delivery. They need an obstetrician to perform a cesarean section. But with fire all around them, and the roads blocked, it's impossible to get to a hospital in time.
Episode 8
See Hollywood and Die
Tue, Nov 5, 196351 mins
When bumbling robbers ice a gas station owner, the fugitive is seized as a hostage, along with carjacked motorist Joanne. Kimble, working at the desert stop as a gas jockey, now pretends to be an experienced crook planning a big heist, to distract Vinnie, the "brains" of the duo, so Kimble and Joanne have a chance to escape, before kill-crazy Miles carves 2 more notches on his beloved revolver - featuring their monikers. The young murderers are headed to Hollywood, to fry bigger fish.
Episode 9
Ticket to Alaska
Tue, Nov 12, 196351 mins
Kimble's in Alaska and on a ship making his way to his next destination. A man comes on board while the ship is in transit and reveals to the Captain he's a cop who's going to arrest one of the passengers but must first be sure. He is placed with Kimble. When the man is killed, the Captain has to find out who the killer is before they dock. And when Kimble is the last man who was with him before he was found, that they know of. And when the Captain has him checked out and tells him that they discovered that his identity is false, he tells Kimble that when they dock he will turn him over to the authorities. So Kimble has to find out who the killer is before then.
Episode 10
Fatso
Tue, Nov 19, 196351 mins
Richard Kimble is thrown in a local jail after minor traffic accident and his fingerprints are put out over the wire. Before Lt. Gerard arrives, Kimble breaks out of the jail with a friendly overweight young man. Kimble later finds out his new found friend may have been framed for a horrific crime he did not commit, years ago.
Episode 11
Nightmare at Northoak
Tue, Nov 26, 196351 mins
The location was new Hampshire, _ even though the narrator william Conrad, didn't say the state that dr.kimball, was in like he does. Look at the license plates you will see new Hampshire, on the vehicles. Even though the show was filmed in California. The location was new Hampshire.
Episode 12
Glass Tightrope
Tue, Dec 3, 196351 mins
Kimble witnesses his boss, Martin Rowland, punching out a man in a club parking lot. After Mr. Rowland leaves, the man collapses and dies. Kimble phones the police to report the accident and when the police get there, they arrest an old transient who was hiding nearby with a stolen watch and wallet. Rowland and Kimble have a mutual respect, but Kimble keeps trying to anonymously push Rowland to confess to the fight and clear the old transient of the murder charge. Rowland actually does want to "do the right thing" but Rowland's wife doesn't care that the innocent old man might go to prison for murder because she knows that the fight was over her and she doesn't want any negative publicity.
Episode 13
Terror at High Point
Tue, Dec 17, 196351 mins
Dr. Kimble is now working as a "timekeeper" at a Utah construction site. There's also a young man named Jamie working there as a "water boy" whom the heavy machinery operators make fun of and generally try to run out. They succeed. The boss fires Jamie, but Kimble tells Jamie that he should go say goodbye to the boss's wife before he leaves in the morning. That night, the boss's wife is attacked and Jamie is witnessed leaving her trailer immediately after the attack. Kimble tries to convince the boss and everyone else that they're accusing the wrong man.
Episode 14
The Girl from Little Egypt
Tue, Dec 24, 196351 mins
A pretty airline stewardess badly injures Kimble in a traffic accident, and in his delirium, he admits who he is and she helps him. In turn, Kimble helps her realize the married man she's dating is not right for her.
Episode 15
Home Is the Hunted
Tue, Jan 7, 196451 mins
Dr. Kimble returns to his hometown where he reunites with his father John, and his loving sister Donna, who absolutely believe in his innocence, but Kimble's brother Ray has serious doubts about him.
Episode 16
The Garden House
Tue, Jan 14, 196451 mins
Dr. Kimble works on a horse farm owned by a wealthy couple. Harlan Guthrie married his wife Ann for her money and is having an affair with Ann's sister Carol. Ann loves Carol, but Carol is jealous of Ann and wants everything she has. Harlan and Carol conspire to kill Ann and make it look like an accident. Once Carol, a photographer, discovers who Kimble is, the plan changes so that Ann will be murdered but it'll look like Kimble did it. Kimble tries to warn Ann, but she doesn't believe him because she loves her husband and sister.
Episode 17
Come Watch Me Die
Tue, Jan 21, 196451 mins
Kimble is deputized to transport a suspected killer of a man and his wife, to the county seat, along with witnesses who want to lynch the prisoner.
Episode 18
Where the Action Is
Tue, Jan 28, 196451 mins
Being where the action is, isn't a treat for Kimble, when he's ensnared between a wild daughter and her Reno casino-owner father. The fugitive's trying to lay low as a lifeguard, but sexy Chris' luring boys with free martinis causes a child to almost drown. That drags Kimble into a quick buy-off, to protect the senior Polichek from a threatened lawsuit. The father suspects Kimble is trysting by the pool with the much younger, flirty Chris, which could lead to louder hush money, which neither the casino nor the convicted killer want.
Episode 19
Search in a Windy City
Tue, Feb 4, 196451 mins
Richard Kimble ends up in the city of Chicago where the real killer of his wife is. He solicits the help of a struggling newspaper columnist to help find him, unaware the newspaper man is under pressure from his boss to either find the killer, or to turn Kimble over to the police to get a big story.
Episode 20
Bloodline
Tue, Feb 11, 196451 mins
Working as a kennel assistant for a family's show-dog breeding business, Kimble finds it's the family that needs the physician's care more. The father Max's obsessed with success, so he's too hard on his son, and Kimble discovers that daughter-in-law Cora intentionally let their top Red Setter bitch run off. The fugitive's struggling to keep a low profile, but his principles won't let him shoot the runaway bitch because she appears readily savable, though Cora icily orders Kimble to kill the Irish Setter. The scared dog was injured on the estate's barbed wire, used to keep thieves out, not the highly-trained canines in. This live-in job provides a safe hiding place for the fugitive physician, who worries what Cora's up to.
Episode 21
Rat in a Corner
Tue, Feb 18, 196451 mins
Dr. Kimble's clerking at a store, while police dragnet for a robber who's killed 2 package goods workers already. The fugitive's liquor shop gets hit, but Kimble's boss plugs this easily-foiled robber. The inept Herbie's too reluctant to shoot, to be the wanted man. He's hiding in the store's vehicle when Kimble jumps in to make a delivery. Kimble patches up his fellow fugitive's light wound and gets Herbie to set out on foot. Kimble's concerned that testifying against Herbie will reveal the wanted physician's true identity, plus get the small-time hood hung for murders he didn't commit, as Kimble was. But Herbie the rat sticks to the inventive Kimble like a parasite.
Episode 22
Angels Travel on Lonely Roads: Part 1
Tue, Feb 25, 196451 mins
After escaping a police dragnet in Lincoln City, Nevada, Kimble comes upon Sister Veronica and her broken-down truck on a road in the desert hills. She convinces him to accompany her on her trip to Sacramento, despite his protests that he's heading in another direction.
Episode 23
Angels Travel on Lonely Roads: Part 2
Tue, Mar 3, 196451 mins
Kimble and Sister Veronica continue their journey, not realizing that each of them is hiding a secret. In Sister Veronica's case, she plans to renounce her vows when they reach their destination.
Episode 24
Flight from the Final Demon
Tue, Mar 10, 196451 mins
A man helps Kimble escapes from a Sheriff and is wounded. As he nurses him, he discovers the man is tortured by a very guilty conscience in connection with a murder rap he was acquitted of months before.
Episode 25
Taps for a Dead War
Tue, Mar 17, 196451 mins
Richard Kimble meets an old army buddy who saved his life during an explosion in the Korean War, and got badly disfigured in the process. Filled with bitterness, this ex army person plots to either disfigure Kimble, or kill him.
Episode 26
Somebody to Remember
Tue, Mar 24, 196451 mins
Kimble's current boss, A warehouse owner with a terminal disease, wants to help Dr. Kimble by impersonating him, leading Lt. Gerald to the Country of Greece, and dying at sea.
Episode 27
Never Stop Running
Tue, Mar 31, 196451 mins
On his way out of town after finishing a stint as a migrant farm worker, Dr. Kimble is prevailed upon to help a couple who claims their son needs a doctor. Though Kimble says he's not a doctor, that he just knows first aid, the couple are desperate. No one else is around who can help. Once Kimble arrives at the cabin, he finds out that things are not as they were presented to him. It turns out that the child is a kidnap victim who sustained some bruising when he was snatched. As a hemophiliac, there's a danger of internal bleeding. When Kimble can't convince the kidnappers to take the child to a hospital, he asks them to go to a pharmacy for vitamin K, a coagulant that would promote blood clotting. But the pharmacy won't dispense it without a prescription. Kimble must come up with a way to save the child.
Episode 28
The Homecoming
Tue, Apr 7, 196451 mins
Dr. Kimble tries to protect a young woman from her evil stepmother who may be be trying to force her to have a second nervous breakdown over the dog mauling death a young boy a year before.
Episode 29
Storm Center
Tue, Apr 14, 196451 mins
A woman from Dr. Kimble's past recognizes him and blackmails him into helping her and her boyfriend escape from the authorities. Five years, prior, Marcie had gone to Dr. Kimble's office seeking an abortion. Since it was illegal, he refused. She got the abortion from another place, but was left without the ability to have future children. Because of that, Marcie holds a grudge against Dr. Kimble. When Marcie sees Dr. Kimble in Florida, she subtly threatens to expose him unless he takes her and her boyfriend out to her house in the Florida Keys during the middle of a hurricane. The boyfriend gets swept overboard, but Dr. Kimble and Marcie make it to the house, where they spend an eventful night. During the night, to gain Dr. Kimble's sympathy, Marcie pretends to be someone she's not. They eventually come to a kind of truce. But Marcie can't help her scheming, and radios the Coast Guard to get word to the local sheriff that Dr. Richard Kimble is hiding out with her. Dr. Kimble finds out. Marcie has a change of heart and helps hatch a plan to help Dr. Kimble escape capture.
Episode 30
The End Game
Tue, Apr 21, 196451 mins
A dragnet traps Dr. Kimble to within a few city blocks while he hides out in a house owned by two men. One of the men believes Kimble is innocent and the other does not, and wants to turn him over to the police.
