The Fugitive (TV series 1963-1967)

The Fugitive is an American television series produced by QM Productions and United Artists Television that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1967. David Janssen played the lead role.

The series has four seasons with a total of 120 episodes. The first three seasons were shot in black and white, but the final season was in color.



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[hide] *1 Plot  ==Plot[ Edit] == The series revolves around Dr. Richard Kimble, a respected doctor from the fictional town of Stafford, Indiana. On a day he is wrongly convicted of murdering his wife because according to witnesses she and Kimble had a heavy quarrel the night before her death. Kimble is found guilty and get the death penalty imposed. On the way to death row derails train in which Kimble is carried, whereby he manages to escape.
 * 2 Cast
 * 3 Production
 * 4 Music
 * aftermath of the series 5
 * 5.1 Influence
 * 5.2 film adaptation
 * 5.3 Remake
 * 6 external links

From then on he is a fugitive who is hounded by the police, including the police inspector of Stafford, Philip Gerard. This is determined to arrest Kimble, but doubt deep down to its debts.

Kimble is trying with all his might to find the true murderer of his wife, a one-armed man named Fred Johnson, so he can clear his name. However, these used just like Kimble itself a lot of fake names to avoid the police.Although Kimble's search for the one-armed man forms the red thread in the story, comes this but in total in 10 episodes in image. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Production[ Edit] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The show was created by Roy Huggins and produced by Quinn Martin. The series is based on the true story of Sam Sheppard, a doctor from Ohio who was accused of the murder of his wife, but even after his conviction insisted that a "man with Shaggy hair" was the culprit. Huggins denied the series on Sheppards life based.
 * David Jackson -Dr. Richard Kimble
 * Barry Morse -Philip Gerard
 * Bill Raisch – the one-armed man
 * William Conrad -Narrator

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The plot of the series, an innocent man who because of false accusation of murder to the police should avoid and at the same time must find the real killer, finds its origin in a number of films: Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, Saboteur and North by Northwest .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The series turned out to be a great success. The series employed the same concept as other series on travelling protagonists, but gave the viewer a clearer why this protagonist is not permanently could settle somewhere or the police could catch up to the problems he encountered on the way to solve it. The choice to make a doctor Kimble, gave new opportunities. So one could discover that only a doctor could Kimble things know, such as symptoms of drug abuse.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">At the premiere The Fugitive was one of the most watched series in America. The series won several awards, including an Edgar Award. ==Music<span class="mw-editsection" len="352" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Pete Rugolo, who worked with composer Hans Zimmer on David Janssen's previous series Richard Diamond, Private Detective, composed the music for The Fugitive. The soundtrack consisted of only some general numbers; None of the episodes got a solo soundtrack.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="191" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [1]. the music was recorded in London, before the shooting of the series itself started.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Apart from the by Rugolo composed music, was also music from older television series and stock footage, such as The Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone .

<p lang="en" len="62" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">40 minutes of music from The Fugitive was released on cd:

==Aftermath of the series<span class="mw-editsection" len="366" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Influence<span class="mw-editsection" len="353" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The Fugitive had a profound influence on later television series. The idea of a man or group of people who are fleeing the authorities, and at the same time trying to purify their name, or others trying to help, is repeated several times in later series, including:
 * 1) Theme From The Fugitive (1: 18)
 * 2) The Kimbles (2: 48)
 * 3) Tragic Homecoming (3: 53)
 * 4) Under Arrest (1: 43)
 * 5) Lt. Gerard (1: 46)
 * 6) The Verdict/Train Wreck (2: 07)
 * 7) On The Run (1: 57)
 * 8) The Life Of A Fugitive (1: 27)
 * 9) Main Title Theme (: 39)
 * 10) Life On The Road (1: 35)
 * 11) Main Theme-Jazz Version (1: 30)
 * 12) The one-armed man's Name Is Fred Johnson (2: 38)
 * 13) Brass Interlude (2: 53)
 * 14) Sorrow (1: 03)
 * 15) Dreams Of The Past (1: 11)
 * 16) Youthful Innocence (1: 35)
 * 17) Back On The Road (1: 11)
 * 18) A New Love (2: 16)
 * 19) Family Reunion (2: 34)
 * 20) Watching And Waiting (1: 33)
 * 21) Kimble vs. The one-armed Man/Hand To Hand (5: 11)
 * 22) The Day The Running Stopped (2: 12)
 * 23) Freedom And final (: 43)
 * 24) End Credits (1: 09)

===Film Adaptation<span class="mw-editsection" len="356" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1993, a film based on the television series, also titled The Fugitive. Harrison Ford playing the role of Kimble. ===Remake<span class="mw-editsection" len="352" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2000 appeared a remake of the series with Tim Daly as Kimble. The series ran just one season of 22 episodes.
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