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The Rifleman: The Challenge (1959)
You're a mean one, Mr Pardee
North Fork is a magnet for crazed desperados, and here comes Jake Pardee, who is a murderer, a thief, a mug, pug, thug, bushwhacker, hornswaggler, backstabber, claim jumper, and numerous other nasty things. We know this by listening to his song, which plays for nearly the entire episode. Although most people seem to think the song was voiced by Thurl Ravenscroft, the show's credits credit Bill Lee as being the balladeer. Curiously, Lee and Ravenscroft were both in the Mellomen back in the day. Anyways, Pardee, played by war hero Adam Williams, takes Luke's squeeze Hattie and Micah hostage, just because be can. Micah picked a bad day to give up drinking. Pardee, who we are assured will either hang or die by violence one day according to the lyrics of the song, decides to challenge Lucas boy to a gun fight, just to add another verse to his legend. While everyone else in town hides under their bed, the two of them meet in the street. Luke aims his super rifle at Jake and has his hand ready to deliver the kill shot when he tells Pardee to draw. This doesn't seem like a fair fight and Jake realizes that as he starts crying like a baby. Pardee's fellow prison escapees then turn on each other, leaving the streets of North Fork safe for another week.
The Fugitive: Set Fire to a Straw Man (1965)
Stellaaaaaaa!
Diana Hyland basically reprises her role in When the Bough Breaks in this one. Again, she has lost her baby and again she thinks Dick is the baby daddy. Kimble is driving a truck and working in a warehouse. He is really skilled at making phony driver's licenses. Stella is the sister of Edward Binns, who owns the company. Ed warns Dick to stay away from his sister, but easier said than done, because she is throwing herself at him and she's hot. Joe Campanella works with Dick and he also tells him to stay away from her because she is nuts. Joe and his wife have a little tyke named Johnny, played by Clint Howard. Stella is fixated on Johnny, and we find out that she was impregnated by someone who worked there until her brother ran him out of town. And that offspring is Johnny, who was given to Joe and his wife as a sort of Christmas bonus by brother Ed. And now Stella is thinking that Dick is her old beau. Ed gives Dick an hour to scram, but Dick can't just leave this mess without trying to fix it. And now Stella is hiding the kid somewhere and Ed shows up ahead of the cops. Dick thinks fast and gets Stella to demonstrate how delusional she is. Ed acts surprised at how crazy his sister is, but really he should have known, especially since he is greatly responsible for it. And he helps Dick get away. Clint is found and taken back to the only parents he knows. So it's a happy ending for him, anyway. As for Stella, who knows?
The Fugitive: Run the Man Down (1967)
Everyone comes to the cabin
Desperate Dick is a step ahead of local and state cops as this one opens. He jumps out of a truck he's driving and runs through the woods. He happens upon a wounded man who wants Dick to take him to a cabin, and Dick agrees when the guy pulls out a gun. The cabin is occupied by a woman who went there for some solitude, but the place is soon to host a full house. The wounded guy's three cohorts show up. Seems the guy got shot during a robbery, and the loot got lost along with a lot of the guy's blood. Head baddie Ed Asner is not pleased to hear that, and soon there is more company as the sheriff, who happens to be the woman's boyfriend, comes by to check on her. So the bad guys get the drop on the sheriff, and doc is charged with treating the critically wounded guy, who is so bad off that not even super doc can save him. So Dick and the sheriff are in big trouble, but the sheriff says that Dick knows where the missing money is. They take the crooks on a tour of the woods and say the money is under a tree at the top of a huge pile of big rocks. The sheriff scrambles up the pile to his jeep where he grabs his rifle and kills the three baddies with just three shots. Kimble is especially glad to see Asner bite the dust since old Ed has made disparaging remarks about David Janssen's acting chops. The sheriff has Dick in his sights but his girlfriend stops him from pulling the trigger, because she knows Kimble is a good guy and the show isn't supposed to end yet.
The Fugitive: The Evil Men Do (1966)
A menace to no one but himself
At least, that's Gerard's lame excuse for shooting someone else at the end of this one. It starts off with Dick working in the Poconos for a rich guy. The guy, a former mafioso named Brame, welcomes his new, sleek horse, Khartoum. Brame is careless and the horse gets the drop on him and is about to trample him when Kimble runs up on him saying "ha, ha, ha". The horse doesn't know what's so funny and backs off while he ponders the joke. Brame now owes Kimble, and a hit man never forgets. Meanwhile, Gerard is checking out a witness ID and tracks Dick to the Brame mansion. Brame recognizes a way to pay his debt. He considers cutting off Khartoum's head and putting it in Gerard's bed as a way to intimidate him, but then decides to just kill Gerard instead. Kimble gets wind of the plan, and Dick is bound to save lives, even Gerard's. After all, he's saved his life numerous times before, so here he goes again. The three of them wind up at a warehouse in Pittsburgh, where Brame, missing his former life, is enjoying stalking Phil. Dick runs away while Gerard is dealing with Brame, and eventually shoots him dead. Now comes the part when Gerard explains to Brame's hirlfriend that he shot Brame because Kimble has probably done the only murder he'll ever do, and that he's a menace to no one but himself. Well, yeah, plus the fact that Brame was trying to kill him. Made it kinda easy to choose who to shoot. And yeah, Gerard is starting to realize that Dick is really a great guy, and maybe didn't really kill his wife, but that doesn't matter to him. He would have taken Dick in even after he knew that Lloyd Chandler witnessed Helen's murder if Chandler hadn't finally admitted that. So it's a good thing Brame was shooting at him, or this might have been the finale.
The Fugitive: Right in the Middle of the Season (1966)
Once again, Dick is the one who got away
Deck hand Dick is working on the world's smallest tuna boat with the old man of the sea, Dean "Mick" Jagger. They bring their catch, 6 tons worth, back to shore. That must have been hard work, since they caught them one at a time. And The Minnow didn't look big enough to hold 6 tons of anything. But when the two man crew gets back, they find a strike going on, organized by Mick's son, Keith. With the price of tuna $325 a ton, no wonder there was a strike. But Mick doesn't care and starts unloading his catch, which starts a pier 6 brawl. Dick unleashes his fury to protect Mick and winds up being arrested on ten charges, fingerprinted and everything. So he's gotta get out of there, except the whole island is on lockdown. He gets surrounded by a bunch of big fishermen and jumps in the water when a fat one who resembles the skipper comes at him. He then swims back to Mick's place, where Mick has been made aware of who his little buddy really is. Mick believes in Dick though, and offers to take him to Mexico for another shot at the tuna before dropping him off. Dick agrees, and they barely elude the cops and Mick's son. Now, Mick has been taking nitro pills, so there's that. They catch a few flopping tuna before Mick has his inevitable heart attack. Mick's daughter, who of course loves Kimble, is somehow on the boat, which has eluded the approaching coast guard by making it into some friendly fog. Dick stays and tends to Mick until a plane lands on the ocean and Keith and the cops also get there, at which point he jumps into the ocean and hides. Keith sees him but decides to let bygones be bygones and says nothing. When everyone leaves, Dick swims to Mexico. In the Epilog we see that Mick has recovered and goes fishing with Keith, but just with a pole to catch one fish, at least at a time. Dick's world class swimming skill came in handy as he made it to Mexico, and apparently did not have to swim back.
The Fugitive: Goodbye My Love (1967)
A babe plays not only the piano, but Dick too
Dick is toiling as a parking attendant at a club where he is carrying on with the sexy piano player. Shades of the very first fuge. Unbeknownst to him, but knownst, to us, said piano player, Gale, is also fooling around with rich guy Bartlett. Dick must be parking cars when this is happening, because they don't hide it. Gale is in possession of a newspaper story about the price on Dick's head, which she must have been keeping in the event she would run into him some day. Bartlett sees the story and they hatch a scheme for Kimble to kill his poor crippled wife, or at least frame him for it. Actually the wife is not poor at all. She's the one with all the money. She was injured in a car accident and it seems like there is more to that story that will come out later, but it never does. Anyways, the plan is to get the servants out of the house and have Kimble be the only one there with her, since Bartlett had given Dick a cushy job in the house. The wife finds the Kimble reward story in a drawer in her house, with no explanation as to why it would be there. She thinks Dick has been sent to kill her, but he convinces her that her husband is the danger. Sure enough, the husband shows up and she gets up and pushes the wheelchair down the steps, breaking his leg. He implicates Gale and she gets arrested by a cop who resembles the emperor in Star Wars. Dick runs away, looking not only for the OAM, but for a woman who can help him forget the piano player.
The Fugitive: Concrete Evidence (1967)
Dick gets mixed up in other people's problems again
Dick, wearing the name of America's favorite serial killer, Dexter, applies for a job on a highway construction crew. For possibly the first time, Kimble doesn't lie about his qualifications and is turned away by Pearl, the sour faced co-owner of the outfit. But her partner, Pat, recognizes the doc and hires him. We later find out that Pat is dying and needs a personal doctor. This is nothing new for Dick, as he has gotten involved with umpteen dying people in his travels. And we find out that Pat and Pearl are married even though they've been estranged for ten years, ever since a theater Pat built collapsed and killed three children. There were allegations of sub standard materials used but not proven. Pat is in the process of building a luxury hotel in the same town, so the locals are up in arms. Now, it seems like a crazy idea to build a hotel where it's not needed, and the name of the hotel, St Jude's hotel for children, is very suspicious. Anyways, Pat ruffles Pearl's feathers by having Dick work in the office. Pearl tries to run him off, but she don't know Dick if she thinks she can boss him around. She eventually finds Dick's wanted poster, and the hair dye isn't fooling anyone. She gives him a hour to leave before calling the cops, but Dick goes to see Pat at the building site. Pearl decides not to wait the hour, and calls the law. Dick instantly recognizes the place as a hospital and Pat says it's a secret because if he said he was building a children's hospital it would be like an admission of guilt. Which somehow it wouldn't be when it was finished. Someone sets fire to the place and Pat falls into a death rattle trying to put it out. Pearl shows up and Pat tells her to finish the hospital with his dying breath. The cops then come and Pearl sends them on a wild goose chase as Kimble runs away, still.....a fugitive.
The Fugitive: Second Sight (1966)
A blind victim of innocent justice
Dick is toiling in a dark room developing pictures when he is stunned to see old pal Johnson in the background of one of them. He gets the name of the photographer and goes to see him. He's not there, but he gives a guy $2 to tell him where he is. The photographer, Howie, is a punkish yoot who gets by by blackmailing people in his pics. Dick saves him from a beating and Howie tells him that Fred is a night watchman at a chemical warehouse. Dick breaks in and they chase each other around until Johnson pushes a bunch of boxes on Kimble, which explode and cause a big fire. Good luck to Johnson getting a reference after that. Kimble is burned and blinded. He was shot 8 times, stabbed numerous times, run over, had amnesia, pneumonia, survived a train crash and lost his sense of smell during the course of the show. He suffered everything but impotence. And now he's blind! Fortunately, Dick heals like Wolverine. He's taken to a hospital where he's treated by Ted Baxter, who tells him that sometimes people regain their sight after such events. We can only hope. Meanwhile, Fred calls the cops and reports Kimble is in the hospital. Dick overhears a cop getting the message and gropes his way out of the hospital, groping a nurse on the way out. At least his record is intact of never paying a hospital bill. Dick continues his journey into seedy town, knocking over numerous trash cans along the way. He nearly gets electrocuted at a power station, which would have saved the state the trouble. He finds his way back to Howie's place, and even though Howie knows about the 10k on Dick's head, he doesn't turn him in. Dick is picked up and tells the cops to give Howie the reward, but just then his sight starts coming back, just as Dr Baxter said it might. Just one cop takes Dick out of the station, where Howie distracts him, enabling Dick to knock him out. The other cops are apparently preoccupied with coffee and donuts and don't see any of this. Howie takes Dick to a bus terminal and gives him a 10 spot as they say their goodbyes.
The Fugitive: Nobody Loses All the Time (1966)
Nobody loses all the time... except Gerard
Dick is toiling as a bartender when he sees a news report of a huge fire apparently close by. And standing there watching is one-arm Fred! Johnson, who was seldom seen the first three seasons, is now all over the place. It's open bar as Kimble runs out to catch him old one-arm. But Freddie doesn't get caught easy, and pushes his girlfriend into the path of an oncoming truck as he runs away. Dick is caught up by that pesky oath he took and has to care for FJ's squeeze, Maggie, instead of chasing the OAM. Dick poses as a doctor so he can stay with Maggie in the hope she will lead him to Fred. He even says he will sign for a private room for her, but of course he signs a made up name and has never paid a hospital bill anyway. He tells her he needs to get to Fred, and she owes him because he saved her life. But Fred is apparently fairly nice to her, and she doesn't want to lose him, so she calls him after Dick leaves. Fred pressures her to turn him in, which she does, not knowing he's under a death sentence. Dick barely escapes by stealing an ambulance (take note, Harrison Ford). Dick has an ally in the always lovely Joanna Moore, a seemingly lonely nurse. Meanwhile, Gerard, the coyote to Kimble's roadrunner, shows up and obnoxiously takes charge. But Dick and Joanna outsmart a hospital full of cops, and Gerard chases after a mortician he thinks is Kimble, while the real Richard Kimble slips away and remains.....a fugitive. And after all that, Fred dumps Maggie.
The Fugitive: The Ivy Maze (1967)
Gerard goes back to Stafford empty handed yet again
Dick's old frat brother Fritz is a college professor who notices a one-armed employee and notifies Donna with the news. Against all odds, this particular OAM is Fred Johnson, the guy who killed Helen. Dick shows up and IDs Lefty, but Fritz wants to get a confession by subjecting Fred to a dream deprivation study he's doing. Well, things look rosey, but there's just one thing. Fritz's wife, Caroline, spots Dick on campus and calls Gerard. Seems like Fritz was briefly engaged to Helen before she left him for the wonderful future Dr Kimble, and Caroline for some reason hates Dick for that. And she's not crazy about Fritz either. So Gerard, who no longer has to answer to captain Carpenter, is on his way to Wellington College. Carpenter is one of those characters who disappeared without explanation. It was assumed Gerard drove him to either early retirement or an insane asylum. Anyways, Caroline meets Dick and starts talking about old times, and instantly becomes besties with him. Johnson seems to be reminiscent of a student involved in Bill Murray's experiments in Ghostbusters, and soon starts talking about a Stafford job that went wrong, although his account of the murder differs greatly from what was shown in Judgement. Despite Caroline's best efforts, Gerard shows up on the scene and it's chaos. Johnson, groggy from lack of dreams, nevertheless overpowers everyone and grabs the tape with his confession and throws it into a convenient jug of acid. Johnson easily escapes as no one cares about him. Kimble's escape is more harrowing, but he is able to get into the equipment compartment of the bus carrying the football team, and he leaves in the rear with the gear. He later rolls out wearing a helmet in case anyone is shooting at him. And Fritz and Caroline are in a better place in their marriage thanks to Richard Kimble.....fugitive.
The Fugitive: Shadow of the Swan (1966)
Dick gets involved with another crazy woman
Dick is on vacation checking out a rag bag carnival. He wins a goldfish by displaying his 95 mph fastball and knocking over some cans. Having no use for the goldfish, he takes in to the pond and feeds it to some ducks. Also at the pond is Tina, the nut job who was moments ago flirting with some Carney trash. She befriends Dick and gets him a job at a vet's office. They then go back to the Carney, where the previously seen trash attempts to rape Tina. Dick, of course, defends her honor but is injured by trash guy. Tina takes Dick home where she lives with her uncle, retired cop hacksaw Andy Duggan. When Dick sees the guy's badge, he gets a very nervous, guilty look about him, so old hacksaw's cop senses get activated. He finds out who Dick really is and tells Tina, who lies about not knowing where he is. Tina then goes to see Dick and tells him her uncle knows, but Dick for some reason hangs around for a while. He finally gets on a bus but gets off at the carnival, where Tina has found out that trash man is married and sets fire to their trailer and locks them in. So her craziness has been taken up a notch. Kimble, Tina and hacksaw all wind up at the pond, where Tina blames everything on Dick, but hacksaw starts to realize that the fire that killed Tina's parents may not have been an accident. Hacksaw accidentally shoots Tina, in much the way he shot Barbara Barrie in The End is But The Beginning, except this shot is fatal. Dick walks away in the aftermath and remains.....a fugitive.
The Fugitive: Coralee (1966)
Dick falls for a jinxed woman
Coralee is a bad luck waitress who's blamed for the death of everyone she comes in contact with. But Dick is drawn to her, and even though he tells her he can't stay long, begins a torrid affair with her. It's this attraction that makes Dick stay longer than he should, as he discovers an accidental death of a diver on a boat he works on may be negligence. The captain is afraid Dick is going to blow the whistle on him at a hearing and turns the rest of the crew against him. Coralee gets wind that captain Joe may harm Kimble and tells the law to pick him up before any harm can come to him. See, Dick told her that he had to leave because of some trouble with the police, but she never imagined that he was the famous escaped wife killer, Dr Richard Kimble. So here come the cops just as Dick is being set up to have a fatal accident by captain Joe. Now, the previous accident was because of a faulty helmet, and now Dick is either wearing the same helmet or finds it on his dive, because when the cops pull Dick up, all they get is the helmet, which was thrown into the ocean by Joe after he realized Dick was wise to what happened. Either way, the helmet on the rope was far-fetched. Dick makes his escape with the help of Coralee, who may have been a better choice for Dick to hook up with at the end of the show than Diane Baker.
The Fugitive: The White Knight (1966)
Doc just can't have a quiet, uneventful day
Dick has still another job driving a truck when he sees a small plane go down. So, of course, he heroically rescues both people before the plane explodes. The woman is basically unharmed, but the guy has a broken leg and some internal injuries. Dick patches him up and disappears. The guy turns out to be a candidate for senator and the woman is the wife of his campaign manager. The grateful politician puts out a reward for the missing hero, and although Dick could use the money, he doesn't come forward. He also doesn't leave the area even though there is a sketch of his face on the front page. And this sketch causes the cops to ID the fugitive, but for some reason, Gerard is not notified. Anyways, the politician, Glenn, seems like a nice guy, but he is, after all, a politician. His wife has been driven to drink, his manager has no idea that Glenn is fooling around with his wife, and all of this has to hit the fan. Anyways, Glenn, in his sick bed, pushes his wife who bumps her head and dies. He sends Dick on his way in the middle of the night, and then tells his unsuspecting manager that Kimble killed the woman and manipulates him into taking off to kill him. So he eliminates his wife and manager and gets to keep his mistress. And his career. Meanwhile, Dick drives off without any sense of urgency for some reason, and the mistress, who is portrayed as a victim of the charming Glenn, calls the car's phone to warn Dick that her husband is coming with bad intentions. Good thing that car had a phone. Dick proceeds to wreck the car but fortunately is not at all injured. He gives the phone to the guy before the guy can shoot him, and peace is made. The marriage is apparently saved, Glenn is apparently ruined, and Richard Kimble is definitely still.....a fugitive.
The Fugitive: The Sharp Edge of Chivalry (1966)
A bit of an odd one
Dick is always super in anything he toils at, and this time he a super of some shabby apartment buildings in a shabby part of a shabby big city. He makes the acquaintance of the deConqueror family, descended from William himself. Dick befriends deeply troubled teen son Roger, played by Robert Drivas, who appears to have taken acting lessons from William Shatner. Roger and Dick are playing chess in Dick's shabby apartment when Roger notices a girl getting undressed behind a shade which leaves little to the imagination. Roger has a thing for this girl anyway and when Dick leaves for an emergency fuse replacement, he takes the girl's apartment key from Dick's collection and kills her when she screams. Dick sees a commotion after replacing the fuse and decides to split. Now, what's confusing is that Roger dyes his hair. The confusing part is that his hair is brown, but they say he dyes it black. So that is supposed to point to Kimble. This season is color, it's obvious his hair is not black. A witness to Roger's running away describes him as matching Kimble, who is not a brown haired teen. This rough description gets back to Gerard, who thinks this sounds like his guy. The local cop is Richard Anderson, the future last brother-in-law of Kimble. Everyone thinks Dick killed the girl, even Gerard, who should know better. He has previously come to realize that Kimble may have killed his wife, but he's no danger to anyone else. He has obviously forgotten about that. Anyways, Dick eludes the cops to make it back to the deConqueror apartment, where Roger is going full Shatner. The oldest daughter, who has her eye on Dick, tries to convince dad to turn in Roger and let go of the kid Charlemagne stuff. Dick seals the deal by convincing the old man that he's a decedent of Richard the Lionhearted. Kimble takes refuge in the apartment of Myrt Lesch, the old car thief played by Ellen Corby. She also has a thing for Kimble, and it's implied he has do a favor for her before he can leave. Gerard is frustrated again, but it's not the last time he will chase.....the fugitive.
The Fugitive: Echo of a Nightmare (1966)
Being handcuffed is not always fun
Dick is rolled by 4 punks who see him get paid in cash at a diner. The doc puts up a good fight, but his assailants run away when a cop approaches. Dick ditches the flatfoot, but the woman he was with follows Kimble and wants to know everything. Dick makes light of it and says it was only $10 or $12, and he has to catch a plane to Denver for a made-up job. She is really a cop herself and calls in to find out that they caught the punks, and it was $112. So she offers a ride to the airport, but handcuffs herself to him in the car. In better times, this could have been an interesting situation, but Dick has been conditioned to dislike cuffs. And then she throws the key away! So Dick has to drag her out of the car and they jump in a convenient slow moving freight. When they reach their stop and jump out, she breaks her ankle. Can it get worse? Well, kinda, because it seems that Jane was abducted at 15 and her father, a cop, found them and killed the guy. At least, he said he did, but Jane really killed him already. So she's having flashbacks, but she remembers a bulletin about an escaped Dr Kimble and thinks he's not so bad for a wife killer. They reach the rural home of the always abusive Arch Johnson, who is yelling at his family about wanting to go to some boxing matches. They think it would be nice to watch other people fight for a change, but change their mind soon after getting there, so they come home unexpectedly. They have a who's sleeping in my bed moment when they see Jane. Arch figures out who everyone is, and he and Janssen's stunt double have quite a Donnybrook. Arch sends the family out to the nearest neighbor who has a phone and round 2 begins. Dick lands a punch which sends Arch into some furniture and he comically hits his head and loses consciousness. Dick then leaves as Jane can't bring herself to shoot him. In the end, Jane remains on the force and Dick, once again, has left the situation in better shape than it was before he got there. Such is the life of..... a fugitive.
The Fugitive: The Breaking of the Habit (1967)
The return of Sister Veronica
Dick takes a slug in the leg as this one starts. Being shot is his hardest habit to break. This wound seems to come and go. After being hit, Kimble hops on the back of a convenient truck. Even more conveniently, this truck is headed to Sacramento, where his old friend, Sister Veronica, heads a church school for troubled girls. See, Dick has saved up enough money to buy a picture of the one-armed man. Apparently, there are people who sell such pictures. Old Fred is a numbers runner in Tarlton, about 100 miles away. Dick is pushy about asking for help, but it's understandable. One of the girls comes onto him, and calls the cops when he rebuffs her and she sees his picture in the paper. Sometimes you gotta take one for the team, Dick. So now the cops are all over the place. Dick wants the sister to go to Tarlton and ID the OAM, since he's not well enough to go himself. If it's really him, Veronica should call the cops and have him picked up, and then Dick will turn himself in. But then Dick decides to go with her by hiding in the trunk. He says he can't stay at the school because his prints will come back and his identity will be revealed, but everyone already knows who he is. His picture is all over the front page. Now, Kimble has been shot 8 times on the show, and apparently digs the lead out himself most times, but this time the bullet seems to be still in his leg, alternating between being a serious wound and not bothering him at all. They have some close calls with the police, as Dick has moved into the front seat. The sister finds out that Johnson was indeed there, but he has now gone. No worries, since Fred becomes almost a regular in season four. The sister, who has a terminal brain tumor, returns to the school where one of the wayward girls has returned. Richard Kimble's leg apparently heals, and he continues to be......a fugitive.
The Fugitive: Ten Thousand Pieces of Silver (1966)
A busy episode
A lot of interesting stuff going on here. For one, two of the three Len Tafts are in this one, and since Richard Anderson was playing various characters until The Judgement, Donna must have been married to yet another Len at this time. Also, the Moon Child is back, although she has a different identity in this one but is still the same persona. And the sheriff is sure he's seen Kimble before, and he's not buying the Clark Gable story. There is also a $10,000 reward being offered by the Stafford Chronicle, which looks like a bigger paper than the twice a week rag mentioned in Landscape. And there's another killer on the loose, a real baddie named Burmas. For some reason, the Stafford reward has become front page news in whatever town Kimble is in now, and the guy who owns the newsstand hides the papers so he can collect the reward. So he calls Stafford, and the editor tells Gerard that all he has to do is go pick him up. Of course, the brilliant lawman is totally incapable of doing this, as he has flubbed numerous chances in the past. Well, during all this, Dick is working on a farm, where both the farmer's daughters are crazy about him. One is the moon child, who loves her "uncle" Dick, and the other is nice enough and wants a more grown up relationship. Dick's fugey senses tell him to leave now, and good thing because the sheriff has finally seen the paper. Then the real killer, Burmas, shows up and things get dicey. The bad guy gets shot, moon child gets rescued, Gerard gets disappointed and Kimble gets away.
The Fugitive: A Taste of Tomorrow (1966)
Dick meets another fugitive
Dick is running from the cops again, but unbeknownst to him, they are looking for someone else. In finding a place to hide, Dick meets Fritz Weaver, a convicted embezzler on the run. Fritz starts telling Dick his story, and it sounds hauntingly familiar. And Fritz isn't feeling well, which Dick determines as mountain fever. He takes Fritz's truck into town for medicine and is stopped by the police who are looking for the truck. They ask Kimble for his name and Dick appears to just make up a name, not the one he's using, but produces a driver's license with that name. Dick is amazing. The cops take him in and fingerprint him. They bring Fritz's daughter in and explain that Fritz is innocent. The President of the company made a death bed confession. Kimble escapes as the prints come back with his real identity, and goes to tell Fritz what's up. Fritz thinks it's all a lie to get him, and he's going to kill the owner's son, who he thinks really embezzled the money. Everyone winds up at the son's home, and Dabbs Greer is the son. Dabbs says dad really was the embezzler, he made him lie on the witness stand, and now Dabbs is going to be tried for perjury. Fritz finally starts to believe that this is true. The cops show up, Dabbs says that Fritz came alone, and Fritz gets the help he needs and is welcomed back as an old friend. Richard Kimble, on the other hand, remains.....a fugitive.
The Fugitive: Crack in a Crystal Ball (1965)
I can see Kimble getting away
Dick is working at a gas station, where his world class mechanic skills are put to good use. He stays at a boarding house, also the home of the cantankerous old codger J Pat O'Malley. Con man psychic Larry Blyden comes into town, stops at the gas station and then goes to the police station to offer his services in solving some robberies. That case has been solved, but he notices Dick's wanted poster on the way out. He's more observant than the cops. He comes up with a scheme to take advantage of this. It requires the help of his wife, the always adorable Joanna Moore. She's not keen on doing it, but she acquiesces. She sends a message to Dick saying she recognizes him and has seen one-arm Fred. Dick's fugey senses are on alert, but he goes along to where she says she saw him. Meanwhile, Blyden is convincing the cops he is getting vibrations from Kimble's poster and they are leading to where his wife is taking him. The news is picked up by TV and is seen at the boarding house, where J Pat at first says he knew something wasn't right with Dick. Eventually, he comes to realize that Dick is really a good guy and couldn't have killed anyone. Funny how many people reach that same conclusion. He puts things together and realizes Dick is being set up and calls to warn him, but Joanna gets the message and tears it up. She than takes the suspicious Kimble to where she says Fred is, but Dick finds out there was a message he didn't get. The place is crawling with undercover cops and although he sees them, they don't notice him, although they are looking for him. Unlike Blyden's fake ESP, Kimble's cloaking device is real. He calls J Pat, who tells him to get out of there, which Dick should have known by then anyway. So he does. Joanna is happy that Dick has eluded the cops and is still.....a fugitive.
The Fugitive: All the Scared Rabbits (1965)
Dick's doctoring skill comes in handy
Dick, wearing the name Joe Taft, answers an add to drive Suzanne Pleschette to California. Suzanne is a bit flighty, but not in the same way as Kimble. She is recovering from a nervous breakdown caused by the death of her father. They were very close and he was badly injured and eventually died from an accident when she was driving. So she has a phobia about driving, hence the add. She lost custody of her daughter to her X, a research scientist. She picks up her daughter for the weekend, which she can do, but she can't take her to California. So Dick, unknowingly a part of this, drives her old beater. Oh, and just before they leave, the girl takes a cute little bunny from daddy's lab. Unbeknownst to her, but knownst to us, the rabbit has been injected with meningitis. And the rabbit dies, which is news that Dick has heard before, but under different circumstances. Dick finds out about what is going on and takes the girl to a doctor, but the doc, who is the only doc within 100 miles, is out and won't be back for hours. And there's no medicine in the office. So Dick breaks into a nearby drugstore and is spotted by sheriff RG Armstrong and deputy Robert Sorrells, who would go on to be a murderer in real life. Anyways, they go to see the girl and Dick saves her life with penicillin. RG knows that Dick is a doctor on the run, but he lets Dick go because he saved the girl. And maybe because he remembers him from Corner of Hell and knows he's really a good guy. Dick kisses Suzanne goodbye, she gets over her phobia, and Richard Kimble remains..... a fugitive.
The Fugitive: Middle of a Heat Wave (1965)
A rather confusing episode
Dick is trying to dump his casual girlfriend Laurel when this one starts. Laurel, played by fuge familiar face Carol Rossen, responds by clawing his face and driving off. Laurel goes missing and the sheriff, JD Cannon, aka the coward Lloyd Chandler from the finale, brings Dick in for questioning. Laurel's sister and brother-in-law are also involved. The sister never wanted Laurel to date Dick, who she thought was a worthless drifter. Anyways, Laurel is found and it's implied she was raped by doctor Jimmy Doohan. That is, Doohan was the one who implied it. She claimed she can't remember anything. Dick is arrested and fingerprinted, so he knows he has to clear himself before the prints get back. He gets the cops to let him talk to Laurel, but she still unconvincingly claims amnesia. Meanwhile, the sister has somehow figured out that her husband was the one who raped Laurel, and he starts feeling guilty about it. She tells him to shut up and let Kimble take the rap, since the prints came back and he is, after all, a convicted murderer anyway. By this time, Dick has been handcuffed but escapes by hilariously knocking a deputy over a railing. He is running around the grounds of the sister's impressive estate and it really looks like the end is near for him, when the sister for some unknown reason decides to help him. She hides him in the basement but then reluctantly tells the cops where he is. Confusing. When the cops run to the basement, they see a window open and the brother-in-law standing there. So he also, for whatever reason, is motivated to help Kimble. Also strange is the fact that on the hottest day of the year, Dick continues to wear his sport jacket. Laurel then says that she was mad at Dick for dumping her, so she picked up the first man she saw and asked for it, and then it was too late to stop. So the brother-in-law was apparently walking around that part of town late at night when this happened. He seemingly doesn't face any consequences for the rape or for letting Kimble escape, and Richard Kimble somehow frees himself from handcuffs that restrained his hands behind his back to remain.....a fugitive.
The Fugitive: Detour on a Road Going Nowhere (1964)
Dick encounters an odd group on a bus
Dick is toiling as a clerk at Indian Lake Lodge, a scene you should make with your little one. He chases away a punk robbing from cars, and you know we haven't seen the last of the punk. Anyways, the safe is robbed, according to the hard drinking office manager. Eventually, the guy finds the money he failed to put in the safe while he was loaded, but too late to stop the drama. Everyone is fingerprinted, so Dick has to leave like now. He flags down a bus taking some vacationers into town. These are an odd assortment of folks, soon to be joined by the previously seen punk. Well, a landslide brings the bus down, along with a broken axle. And the radio interrupts the regularly scheduled music for a bulletin about Richard Kimble. There's an attractive woman who had her sights on Kimble the night before when he shot her down. She's still mad and slaps him in the face. There's a guy having a midlife crisis, chasing the bunnies at the lodge in front of his humiliated wife. And there's the punk, mad at Kimble because he thought Dick reported him to the police. The punk speaks in comical 60's slang. Middle age ties up Kimble and holds a gun on him. Attractive apologizes and her hate quickly turns to something resembling love. And punk suddenly decides to help Dick escape. So they work together and Dick escapes, but he gives the gun to the middle age wife so she can protect herself from the punk, who has not entirely seen the light, daddy. The police soon get there and say they're going to have the woods filled with cops with flashlights looking for Kimble, but evidently they don't find him, because Richard Kimble, in the end, remains......a fugitive.
The Fugitive: Three Cheers for Little Boy Blue (1965)
With friends like these, who needs enemies?
Dick is a chauffeur, complete with cap, for Richard Anderson, who would later be the last actor to play his brother-in-law, Len Taft. There was a rumored spinoff, My Three Lens, which never came to be. Anyways, Anderson is a rich and nice guy who is going to build a factory in his old small hometown. There is going to be a party for him given by his old friends, but Dick overhears a death threat over the phone. The voice sounds just like Ed Asner, and sure enough, there's Ed among a group of Anderson's old friends. It turns out that all of these old chums hate Anderson because he left the crummy town and became somebody. They blame him for stuff that he really didn't do. Kind of like his chauffeur. Interesting that Leonard 'bones' McCoy shows up after having had a few too many and says "dammit Dick, you're a doctor. Not a chauffeur." Dick's identity becomes known when the sheriff gives him a gun to guard Anderson against any death threats and then fingerprints him. This is the most important man in town, but don't waste the cops time looking out for him. Just give his chauffeur a gun. They tell Dick they won't send the prints in until the show is over, but they then decide to send the prints in as soon as he leaves the room. So the cops show up and Dick barely escapes, but he doesn't leave until he finds out that Asner is the threat, which was obvious all along. He prevents Asner from shooting Anderson and gets a ride to the bus stop. It's uncertain if Anderson ever builds the factory after the way his old "friends" treated him, but it is certain that Richard Kimble remains....a fugitive.
The Fugitive: A.P.B. (1965)
The boxcar Willie thing never works
Dick is being chased as this one opens, so he hops in to a convenient box car. Since nothing good ever happened to the doc in a box car, it's no surprise that there are 3 escaped criminals in the same box car, one dead, one wounded and one unscathed. Kimble is a doctor, so he treats the head baddie, Paul Richards as pinky. The other live one is Lou Antonio as Terry Malloy, an ex boxer. Dick says he read about him, how he was a middleweight contender. Malloy says he coulda been a contender, "instead of a bum, which is what I am. Let's face it." He hit a longshoreman and killed him. Manslaughter. They get off the train and go to a woman's house. Pinky is polite and tells her not to worry, but she's too pilled up to care about anything. Her grown daughter comes home and she doesn't seem worried either. Pinky is just that calm and reassuring. It turns out that mama knows just who everyone is, including Dr Richard Kimble. Pinky comes up with a plan to get out of there which features Kimble wearing the daughter's dead husband's army uniform. As they're leaving, they see the housekeeper arriving at the house. They go back, but not before the housekeeper finds mama's dead body. See, pinky is a stone killer. So she calls the cops and then everyone comes in and pinky pushes the housekeeper and she disappears for the rest of the episode. Terry , at the urging of Kimble, turns himself in and Dick drives away, still wearing an officer's uniform and not having money to buy civilian clothes. But no matter what he's wearing, Richard Kimble remains.....a fugitive.
The Fugitive: Wings of an Angel (1965)
Dick always does the right thing, no matter what
Dick gets stabbed by an escaped prisoner while heroically saving a young woman from the crook on a bus. This is somewhat of a change for the doc, who was shot a total of 8 times on the show, but was seldom stabbed. Cops shoot and kill the fleeing criminal and take Kimble to the prison hospital, the last place he wants to go. He's recognized by two cons who hatch a plan to blackmail him into smuggling morphine out of the hospital. There's a trustee who looks like Jackie Chiles Sr who picks up on Dick's nervousness but is upbeat because his parole hearing is coming up. He passes Kimble a note telling him to get the drugs or else. And then he distracts the nurse so Dick can get the morphine and put it in a laundry bag. It's not known how Morris got involved in this, and why would he insert himself into the situation when he is so close to his hearing? Anyways, Dick breaks the seal on the bottle, for reasons that will be revealed later. Doc is pressuring everyone to let him go, he feels all better. He does have amazing recuperative powers, but he just came in that day. The morphine is found, and Jackie Sr is blamed for it. He doesn't rat on doc. Nobody in prison likes a snitch, and he did have a part in it anyway. But Dick can't let guy take the rap, so before he leaves he writes a note to the warden explaining everything apparently, including the fact that he is Richard Kimble, because when the warden reads it, he knows. So it's real tense at the gate, as Dick is trying to get out of there before the guard gets the word and in a huge piece of luck, the girl he saved comes to the gate at that moment. Almost as unbelievable is the fact that she has not fallen in love with him and does not want to run away with him. He jumps in her car and drives off in a hail of gunfire. The girl is a bit confused about why the cops are shooting at them, but she's not upset about it. Dick tells her to drive to the bus station and tell the cops he got a ticket to anywhere. She's not sure what state that's in, but it works out. And about Dick opening the morphine bottle, he flushed the morphine and filled the bottle with water. Because Dick would never smuggle drugs. His conscience is clean, but Richard Kimble remains......a fugitive.