The Fugitive
Dr. Richard Kimble is accused as the murderer of his wife, tried and convicted. On his way to be executed, he escapes. The only chance to prove his innocence is to find the man who killed his wife. Kimble, pursued by Lt. Gerard, risks his life several times when he shows his identity to help other people out of trouble.
- 1963-1967
- 4 seasons
- ABC
- Action & Adventure, Suspense, Drama
- TV-PG
Dr. Richard Kimble is accused as the murderer of his wife, tried and convicted. On his way to be executed, he escapes. The only chance to prove his innocence is to find the man who killed his wife. Kimble, pursued by Lt. Gerard, risks his life several times when he shows his identity to help other people out of trouble.
Season 4 Episode Guide
30 Episodes 1966 - 1967
Episode 1
The Last Oasis
Tue, Sep 13, 1966 51 mins
After Dr. Kimble recovers at an Indian reservation from a gunshot wound, a local deputy pursues him through the desert to make amends for a past mistake.
Episode 2
Death Is the Door Prize
Tue, Sep 20, 1966 51 mins
Kimble flees a hotel security guard who needs him as witness to testify he shot an unarmed burglar because he made a threatening move.
Episode 3
A Clean and Quiet Town
Tue, Sep 27, 1966 51 mins
In search of the one-armed man, Dr. Kimble finds himself in Clark City, a town controlled by violent policemen and a mysterious businessman who runs an illegal gambling operation.
Episode 4
The Sharp Edge of Chivalry
Tue, Oct 4, 1966 50 mins
Employed as a building super, Dr. Kimble befriends a troubled youth in the building who steals a key from him to attack a woman in her apartment.
Episode 5
Ten Thousand Pieces of Silver
Tue, Oct 11, 1966 51 mins
Dr. Kimble is working as a hired hand on a failing ranch while the local sheriff is looking for a recently escaped murderer. Meanwhile, back in Stafford, a national newspaper publisher offers a $10,000 reward for Kimble's capture.
Episode 6
Joshua's Kingdom
Tue, Oct 18, 1966 51 mins
While working for a small town veterinarian, Dr. Kimble comes across the sick baby of an unwed mother whose religious father doesn't believe in medicine. As Kimble secretly treats the baby, a jealous dismissed deputy discovers his true identity.
Episode 7
Second Sight
Tue, Oct 25, 1966 51 mins
Kimble duels the man with one arm, Bill, in a warehouse loaded with explosives. In Kimble's latest job as a developer in a photo lab, he spotted a snapshot including Bill. The teenage camera bug who took the shot ekes out a living as a small-time blackmailer, as he waits for his big break as a photographer. The childless Kimble needs the young lens-man's help in tracking Bill, and feels a fatherly concern about the budding photojournalist's cynicism and morality.
Episode 8
Wine Is a Traitor
Tue, Nov 1, 1966 51 mins
While driving through vineyards, Dr. Kimble and two passengers are shot by a sniper killing one who was a union organizer. Kimble can identify the sniper but the police and powerful owners of the town winery conspire to keep him quiet.
Episode 9
Approach with Care
Tue, Nov 15, 1966 51 mins
While working at a carnival, Dr. Kimble befriends a childlike mentally-disabled man who is wanted by the sheriff for fleeing before he could be sent to an institution.
Episode 10
Nobody Loses All the Time
Tue, Nov 22, 1966 48 mins
While working as a bartender, Dr. Kimble sees the one-armed man in a live news broadcast. After arriving on the scene Kimble chases the man which causes a woman to be hit by a car. While treating her at a hospital, he discovers she has had a relationship with the one-armed man and might be able to tell Kimble where he is.
Episode 11
Right in the Middle of the Season
Tue, Nov 29, 1966 46 mins
Dr. Kimble is arrested after a fight breaks out when the fishing boat he works on returns to a heated dockworkers' strike.
Episode 12
The Devil's Disciples
Tue, Dec 6, 1966 50 mins
As a posse of sheriff deputies pursue Dr. Kimble on foot in the desert, he is rescued by outlaw bikers who want to use him to settle a score with local law enforcement.
Episode 13
The Blessings of Liberty
Tue, Dec 20, 1966 50 mins
The police are looking for a young fugitive who was dating the daughter of a Hungarian family that Dr. Kimble is staying with. As the police stake out their residence, Dr. Kimble discovers her father is also running from a crime he was accused of.
Episode 14
The Evil Men Do
Tue, Dec 27, 1966 51 mins
Kimble saves his boss' life, garnering the ranch owner's powerful protection but Kimble doesn't want his favors, because the owner's a hit-man gone legit. With Lt. Gerard closing in, the wealthy retired assassin sends the detective in the opposite direction from the fugitive, into a trap where Gerard will be taken off the hunt for good.
Episode 15
Run the Man Down
Tue, Jan 3, 1967 51 mins
While fleeing the police through a forest, Dr. Kimble finds an armed criminal with a bullet wound. The criminal guides him to a cabin owned by a woman who is suspicious of their stories.
Episode 16
The Other Side of the Coin
Tue, Jan 10, 1967 51 mins
Police drag in Kimble when a co-worker robs the liquor store the fugitive's clerking in. Some police suspect Kimble's involved, but their chief knows he's not - because his alienated son is the stick-up man. To repair their relationship the desperate father needs to get his son off. Will he feed Kimble to his wolves to do so ?
Episode 17
The One That Got Away
Tue, Jan 17, 1967 51 mins
While working as a deck hand on a charter boat, a company believes the skipper left the country after embezzling cash and securities. The police decide to use an agent as the boat's replacement skipper since the next passenger is the embezzler's wife who intends to meet up with him in Mexico. The police also decide to investigate the mysterious deckhand since he has no background.
Episode 18
Concrete Evidence
Tue, Jan 24, 1967 50 mins
A hated construction company owner, with a heart condition, recognizes Kimble and forces him to be his office assistant because of his doctor skills.
Episode 19
The Breaking of the Habit
Tue, Jan 31, 1967 51 mins
After being shot by police, Kimble flees to Sacramento where he is reunited with Sister Veronica from Season One's "Only Angels Travel on Lonely Roads" and asks for her help in tracking down a lead about the one-armed man. However, the sister's own troubles involving a troubled girl at the school where she teaches, her own failing health and the pursuing police may derail her attempts to help Kimble.
Episode 20
There Goes the Ball Game
Tue, Feb 7, 1967 51 mins
While attending a baseball game, a woman Dr. Kimble is sitting next to is told that she has a phone call and is kidnapped. As Kimble is the only one who saw the kidnapper, her rich father coerces him into helping find his daughter.
Episode 21
The Ivy Maze
Tue, Feb 21, 1967 48 mins
Dr. Kimble meets with a fraternity brother who is now a professor of sleep research at a university and has seen the one-armed man working there. The professor has an elaborate plan to extract proof from the man that he killed Kimble's wife.
Episode 22
Goodbye My Love
Tue, Feb 28, 1967 51 mins
A deadly love triangle sucks in Kimble as fall guy for a murder. An ambitious lounge singer romances the fugitive hoping to force the hand of her married lover into divorcing his rich, disabled wife Norma for the duplicitous songbird. When that scheme fails, the young mistress convinces the reluctant husband to use convicted killer Richard Kimble to permanently, and in a quite deadly way, remove Norma from standing, figuratively speaking, between the illicit couple and the wife's millions.
Episode 23
Passage to Helena
Tue, Mar 7, 1967 51 mins
While waiting to leave a small town in Montana, Dr. Kimble is spotted by the authorities and arrested. He is cleared for having stolen a truck but the sheriff decides to jail him for having resisted arrest and suspects he's not who he says he is. While Kimble is held in jail, another prisoner determines his true identity.
Episode 24
The Savage Street
Tue, Mar 14, 1967 50 mins
An immigrant cigar maker's son is accosted by neighborhood bullies and calls the police to put a stop to the harassment. The only witness to the incident is Dr. Kimble whose face seems oddly familiar to the officers.
Episode 25
Death of a Very Small Killer
Tue, Mar 21, 1967 51 mins
Kimble is blackmailed into slaving for a physician obsessed with curing a deadly strain of meningitis prevalent in a remote Mexican province. The fugitive put ashore in Mexico, after fleeing U.S. police, and swapping places with a departing sailor. The expatriate Dr. Howell will stop at nothing to wipe out his "tiny enemy," but Richard Kimble contests the ethics of Howell's fanatical methods, as a wily local police sergeant closes in on the convicted killer.
Episode 26
Dossier on a Diplomat
Tue, Mar 28, 1967 51 mins
A diplomat's slip lands Kimble in the only place he can't be re-captured: a Washington, D.C. embassy. Dr. Kimble ministers to the ambassador from a newly democratized African nation, when the emissary is almost flattened by a D.C. cab. Everything looks cozy for the fugitive, who's in town to court an appeal specialist - especially bunking down the hall from the legation's man-eater secretary.
Episode 27
The Walls of Night
Tue, Apr 4, 1967 51 mins
Kimble falls in love with a co-worker, but a secret she keeps prevents her from going out with him. An equally mysterious man visits Barbara each Friday afternoon at work. When Barbara says she can't go away for the weekend to a deserted, romantic getaway, Kimble is crushed. The radiant Barbara seems to love the fugitive too, but admits something holds her back. The lake resort is right on Kimble's Pacific Northwest truck route, so with nothing to do for the weekend he stops by without her. What's the relationship between enigmatic Barbara and her silent visitor ?
Episode 28
The Shattered Silence
Tue, Apr 11, 1967 51 mins
A lonely woman in a small town hires Dr. Kimble as a handyman but discovers his true identity when a radio announcement is made that he is in the area. She gives him her car to escape but is shot by a deputy. While staggering through the woods, he's found by a recluse who quickly determines Kimble was shot by a policeman.
Episode 29
The Judgment: Part I
Tue, Aug 22, 1967 50 mins
When the one-armed man Fred Johnson is arrested in LA for smashing up a bar, the news is flashed nationwide (courtesy of Lt. Gerard), and Richard Kimble learns of Johnson's arrest at a trucking firm in Tucson. Gerard is waiting in the wings for Kimble's arrival, but unknown to Gerard also working at LAPD headquarters is court stenographer Jean Carlisle, who is close to the Kimble family because they helped her cope with her father's arrest for embezzlement. Upon learning of Gerard's presence, Jean calls Richard's sister Donna and learns that Richard is probably headed for LA. After she meets Kimble and helps him escape a police dragnet, she helps him tail Fred Johnson, who has been unexpectedly bailed out of jail through seedy bondsman Art Howe. Howe and Johnson make a deal to blackmail his client out of $50,000, but after Johnson kills Howe, Richard and Jean learn the source of Johnson's bail - a source that devastates Kimble to the point that, despite arranging to get to Stafford with Jean, he is caught by Gerard and makes no effort to escape.
Episode 30
The Judgment: Part II
Tue, Aug 29, 1967 50 mins
On the train back to Indiana, Kimble convinces Girard to give him one day to track down the one-armed man. Someone in Stafford arranged to have the one-armed man bailed out of jail. It turns out that man was a local war hero who witnessed the killing of Mrs. Kimble. That witness now wants to try to kill the one-armed man. Kimble tries to get to the one-armed man first, hoping to end the running once and for all.
