Drama                 Aired 1963-1967
 
 
 

Primary Characters
Dr. Richard Kimble -- A pediatrician falsely convicted for the murder of his wife.
Lt. Phil Gerard -- The police detective obsessed with Kimble's capture.
Premise
Innocent of the crime for which he was convicted and sentenced to death, Richard Kimble escapes execution when a train wreck frees him en route to the death house.  He embarks on a desperate search for the one-armed man he saw running from the house on the night of his wife's murder.  Lt. Gerard, meanwhile, relentlessly pursues Kimble across the country, convinced that the one-armed man is nothing more than the phantom creation of Kimble's imagination.

The final episode of The Fugitive, in which Kimble at long last caught up with the elusive one-armed man, set a record in its time for capturing the highest ratings of any single TV episode.  (Very few have surpassed it since.)  The blockbuster Harrison Ford/Tommy Lee Jones film of the same name was based on the TV series.
 
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