Lt. Gerard agrees to work with Kimble for 24 hours to prove his innocence, because someone who may have been there when his wife was killed, posted bail for the one-armed man.Lt. Gerard agrees to work with Kimble for 24 hours to prove his innocence, because someone who may have been there when his wife was killed, posted bail for the one-armed man.Lt. Gerard agrees to work with Kimble for 24 hours to prove his innocence, because someone who may have been there when his wife was killed, posted bail for the one-armed man.
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- TriviaDavid Janssen and Barry Morse for fun plotted out a spoof ending for the show - in the epilogue the camera focuses on a house at night, pans to the upper bedroom, where a man suddenly bolts awake, and it is Richard Kimble. Kimble shakes awake his companion - his wife Helen - and tells her, "Oh honey, I just had the worst nightmare." This plot device would later be used on the television series Dallas (1978) and also Newhart (1982).
- GoofsThe Taft's son, appearing only briefly in the show, is listed in the credits as Bobby Taft. Any time he is mentioned in the show, however, his name is given as Billy.
- Quotes
Dr. Richard Kimble: [Pounding a confession out of Fred Johnson] You killed her, didn't you! You killed my wife, didn't you? Didn't you? DIDN'T YOU? You killed...!
Fred Johnson: Yeah, yeah, yeah! I killed her!
Dr. Richard Kimble: Why?
Fred Johnson: 'Cause she wouldn't let me go! Liked to've clawed my eyes out! I didn't mean to hit her so hard.
[Kimble stands up, but Johnson seizes his gun]
Fred Johnson: Yeah, I killed her! Now I'm gonna kill YOU. Won't hafta worry about you again, no more!
[Johnson is, instead, shot dead by Lt. Gerard]
Lt. Philip Gerard: All right, you can relax now, Chandler. I just did your killing for you.
[Kimble climbs down to Gerard and Chandler]
Lt. Philip Gerard: You've had a great day, haven't you? I guess we both have. After all, for 4 years, now, we - BOTH of us - kept an innocent man in hell. But how are we going to end that? You can keep that man alive.
[Chandler says nothing]
Lt. Philip Gerard: But you won't, will you?
- Crazy creditsJohnny Jensen is credited on-screen with playing Kimble's nephew Bobby Taft, but the character is actually addressed in dialogue exclusively as "Billy". The same character was previously played by Clint Howard in the episode Home Is the Hunted (1964).
- ConnectionsFeatured in TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All-Time (1997)
- SoundtracksTheme from The Fugitive
Music by Pete Rugolo
We finally got to see what actually happened the night Helen Kimble was killed. And the one-armed man finally getting his due.
And it was a memorable experience. I remember narrator William Conrad's final words after the upbeat happy ending-- "August 29th, 1967--the day....the running.... STOPPED ! And the whole room applauded. I was undyingly loyal to this series.after I went away to college, it was the only weekly show I watched without fail. The highest rated Fugitive episode and in 1967, one of the highest rated TV shows of all time.
- Mikey48
- May 9, 2021
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- Runtime50 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1