Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.
Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.
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Richard Kimble rides into Tucson, Arizona under the name James Lincoln. He checks into a hotel and finds a job as a bartender at the Branding Iron. He meets Monica Welles (Vera Miles), the piano player who escaped from her stalking jealous husband (Ed Welles) played by Brian Keith.
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Directed by Walter GraumanWritten by Stanford WhitmoreGuest stars Vera Miles, Bryan O'Byrne, Harry Townes, Barney Phillips, Paul Birch, Brian Keith, Dabbs Greer, Donald Losby
While working as a handyman in a backwater community in Missouri, Kimble has a few run-ins with a young girl named Jenny Ammory who is a pathological liar who speaks to a rag doll she calls 'Nyet' which she keeps at a nearby pond. Jenny uses Kimble as an excuse when she's late for school when she claims that a man attacked her. When Kimble shows up making a routine delivery of supplies to the school, Jenny identifies him as the man who attacked her. As Jenny's teacher, Emily Norton, speaks to Kimble about Jenny's compulsive lying, Jenny runs home and tells her mother she saw her teacher and the local handyman making out in the barn. Kimble gets roughed up by his co-workers while Emily gets fired and both are advised to leave town. Kimble goes to a school hearing on Emily and tries to clear her by catching Jenny in a lie. But his plan backfires when the skeptic townspeople believe Jenny and decide to form a lynching party to track Kimble down.
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Directed by Andrew McCulloughWritten by William D. GordonGuest stars Pat Crowley, George Mitchell, Gina Gillespie, Ray Teal, Elisha Cook Jr., Madeleine Sherwood, Arch Johnson, Crahan Denton
In West Virginia, Kimble arrives at a local coal-mining town where he is roughed up by the redneck locals, and then chased by a sheriff's posse. Hiding in the mountains, Kimble meets Cassie, a young woman living in a remote cabin with her grandmother. Cassie tells Kimble she get him to safety because she knows the area, when she is really wanting to keep him around for her own selfish reasons. Meanwhile, Gerard flies to West Virginia after learning from the sheriff that Kimble has been spotted in the area and teams up with the posse to try to find Kimble.
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Directed by James SheldonWritten by Alan Caillou, Harry KronmanGuest stars Frank Sutton, Sandy Dennis, Ruth White, John Davis Chandler, Hugh Sanders, John Daheim, Bruce Dern, Paul Birch
Kimble, working as an apprentice sailmaker in Santa Barbara, California, falls in love with Karen, the daughter of his stern but compassionate boss Lars Christian. But earns scorn from Karen's jealous and overprotective brother Eric. When Lars suffers a heart attack his last wish on his deathbed is to implore Kimble to stay with Karen. Meanwhile, Gerard flies to nearby Los Angeles when he hears about the arrest of a one-armed man for armed robbery and lets the story hit the newspapers, hoping it will flush out Kimble.
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Directed by William A. GrahamWritten by Hank SearlsGuest stars Susan Oliver, Harry Bartell, Rachel Ames, Will Kuluva, Henry Beckman, Lee Philips, Edward Holmes, Robert Duvall
After finding that the one-armed man is not the same man he saw fleeing his house the night of Helen's murder, Kimble flees from Los Angeles, barely escaping Gerard's dragnet. Tired of running, Kimble hopes to lie low in Santa Barbara and finally confides his secret to Karen. But Gerard tracks Kimble to Santa Barbara from a single clue that Kimble leaves behind at the L.A. County Jail: a match with the word "SAILS" printed on it. When Kimble discovers that Gerard has arrived in town looking for him, with the assistance of Eric, Kimble and Karen flee by sailboat and hope to end the running by faking his and Karen's death in a sailboat accident during a storm at sea.
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Directed by William A. GrahamWritten by Hank SearlsGuest stars Susan Oliver, Bert Remsen, Lee Philips, Bill Zuckert, Robert Duvall, Lawrence Parke, Diana Bourbon, Tina Menard
Kimble finds work as a cut man for boxer Joe Smith. Joe confides in Kimble that he wanted to be a doctor, but he chose boxing because he felt that being a black man would be an obstacle in the world of medicine. When Kimble discovers that Joe is suffering from memory loss, both he and Joe's wife, Laura, fear that Joe might have brain damage from his boxing. Meanwhile, a police detective, named Henry Stone, goes undercover as a sports writer to investigate Joe's manager, Lou, for possible mob ties. But when a disgruntled boxing worker tips off Stone that someone might be wanting Joe to throw his next fight, the detective investigates Kimble.
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Directed by Robert Ellis MillerWritten by Arthur WeissGuest stars James Dunn, Ed Kemmer, Ruby Dee, Hari Rhodes, James Edwards, Robert F. Simon, Harry Swoger
A forest fire prevents access to a local hospital. Kimble, now a farm laborer, decides to risk blowing his cover when he elects to help deliver a woman's baby at the labor camp. When the news of Kimble's charitable act is reported to the press, Gerard gets wind of it and believes that Kimball is the unnamed doctor.
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Directed by Claudio GuzmánWritten by John D.F. BlackGuest stars Pina Pellicer, Alejandro Rey, Beverly Garland, Barry Kelley, Peter Helm, Pepe Hern, John Milford, Mort Mills
While working as a gas station attendant in New Mexico, Kimble is taken hostage, along with customer Joanne, by two holdup men, named Miles and Vinnie. Once on the road, Kimble pretends that he is a criminal and is heading towards Los Angels for a "big job". At the same time, he lets Joanne know that he's on her side, but she's suspicious to his true motives. Arriving in L.A., Kimble decides to set up Miles and Vinnie to be arrested. But Miles, not trusting Kimble enough, wants him to kill Joanne to prove himself.
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Directed by Andrew McCulloughWritten by George EcksteinGuest stars Brenda Vaccaro, Jimmy Hawkins, Chris Robinson, Lou Antonio, J. Pat O'Malley, Melinda Casey
On a small freighter, Kimble is traveling to Alaska when an FBI agent, named Paul Vale, arrives and begins questioning him and all the passengers in a search for a Korean War criminal and traitor. Vale becomes most suspicious of Kimble, as well as passenger George Banning and his wife Adrienne who are embezzlers fleeing the States. When Vale is found murdered the next day, Captain Carraway interrogates all the suspects and when the captain discovers that Kimble's references are fake, Kimble becomes the chief suspect.
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Directed by Jerry HopperWritten by Oliver CrawfordGuest stars John Larkin, David White, Tim O'Connor, Geraldine Brooks, Murray Matheson, Tim O'Connor, June Dayton, Gail Kobe
After getting into a car accident in a rural Kentucky town, Kimble is put in jail by the redneck sheriff who hates outsiders. But Kimble manages to escape with his cellmate Davey "Fatso" Lambert. Hiding out at the Lambert ranch, Kimble sees that Davey's father and his brother, Frank, treat the slow-witted Davey badly, blaming him for a barn fire years earlier. Kimble tries to prove Davey's innocence as Gerard flies out to Kentucky after learning of Kimble's arrest and forms a posse to track him down.
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Directed by Ida LupinoWritten by Robert PiroshGuest stars Glenda Farrell, Burt Brinckerhoff, Jack Weston, Paul Langton, Vaughn Taylor, Henry Beckman, Garry Walberg, Paul Birch
Kimble is injured while helping save some children from a fiery crash. While recuperating at a local home, he learns that his caretakers are the local sheriff and his wife. As if this weren't bad enough, a news article describing Kimble's heroic deed goes nationwide. The all-seeing Lt. Gerard reads the article, and then goes to the small town to arrest Kimble.
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Directed by Christian NybyWritten by Stuart JeromeGuest stars Ian Wolfe, Frank Overton, Charles Herbert, Barbara Pepper, Doreen Lang, Nancy Wickwire, Paul Carr, Scott Lane
Working as a stock clerk in a department store, Kimble witnesses his boss, Martin Rowland, accidentally kill a business associate in the parking lot after hours. When Kimble learns that a local vagrant found near the crime scene is the prime suspect, Kimble anonymously phones Rowland to get him to confess to the murder. But Rowland and his wife, Ginny, thinking that the caller is blackmailing them, hires the store detective, Angstrom, to find the person "blackmailing" Rowland.
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Directed by Ida LupinoWritten by Robert C. Dennis, Barry TriversGuest stars Robert Quarry, Leslie Nielsen, Edward Binns, Diana Van der Vlis, Dort Clark, Jay Adler, Warren Parker, Jud Taylor
While working at a construction site in Utah, Kimble convinces his supervisor, Buck Harmon, to hire Jamie, a mentally disabled but physically strong young man, to help out. Because Jamie is an easy target for the taunts of the other work crew members, Kimble becomes Jamie's protector. When Jamie is accused of sexually assaulting Buck's wife, he becomes frightened and runs away. The crew foreman, Dan Pike, convinces Buck to organize a posse to hunt down Jamie and kill him.
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Directed by Jerry HopperWritten by Harry Kronman, Peter B. GermanoGuest stars Richard Webb, Dick Wessel, James Best, Billy Halop, Jack Klugman, Elizabeth Allen, Buck Taylor, Russ Vincent
In San Francisco, Kimble is nearly run over by a car driven by Ruth Norton, a young flight attendant distraught over discovering that the man she has been dating for the past four months is married with two children. While recuperating in the hospital, a delirious Kimble flashes back to the months leading up to the night of Helen Kimble's murder and Kimble first seeing the one-armed man fleeing from his house; followed by Kimble's trial, sentence and escape from the train wreck. Ruth, who has been keeping vigil at Kimble's bedside, hears him mutter Helen's name. Thinking that he's in some kind of trouble, Ruth takes Kimble (now going by the alias George Browning) to her apartment to recover. Kimble then gives Ruth advice on her relationship with her boyfriend, Paul, and to put her life problems in perspective.
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Directed by Vincent McEveetyWritten by Stanford WhitmoreGuest stars Pamela Tiffin, Diane Brewster, Ed Nelson, Jerry Paris, June Dayton, Bernard Kates, Bing Russell, William Newell
Kimble returns to his home town in Illinois after learning that his father, John Kimble, has suffered a heart attack and has donated his medical library to the University of Wisconsin and in the process of selling the family house. While Kimble hides out at the home of his sister Donna and her sympathetic husband Leonard, Kimble blames himself for his father's condition, but is more troubled by his younger brother Ray, who believes Kimble is guilty and thinks he's to blame for ruining his life since people see Ray as "the brother of a killer". Meanwhile, Gerard arrives in town to search for Kimble and focuses on Donna and Leonard who try to shake off the relentless detective long enough for Kimble to get out of town before Gerard finds him.
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Directed by Jerry HopperWritten by Arthur WeissGuest stars Bill Mumy, Robert Keith, Andrew Prine, Jacqueline Scott, Clint Howard, James B. Sikking, James Nolan, Paul Birch
Kimble is working as the caretaker at a spacious ranch in Connecticut which is owned by newspaper heiress Ann Guthrie who lives with her husband Harlan and her sister Ruth. Ann and Ruth's late father founded the Westborne Clarion, the newspaper that Harlan currently runs. Although Ann is the sole benefactor of her father's estate, she believes Ruth is entitled to part of the fortune. But Ann is unaware that the greedy Ruth is having an affair with Harlan and they plot to murder Ann and claim everything. When Kimble suspects Ruth and Harlan's plan and informs Ann, the skeptic heiress refuses to believe Kimble. Knowing that Kimble knows, the crafty couple plot to frame him for Ann's murder.
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Directed by Ida LupinoWritten by Sheldon StarkGuest stars Pippa Scott, Peggy McCay, Robert Webber
While working as a farm hand in a small Nebraska town, Kimble witnesses the arrest of a local man, named Bellows, who is suspected of a double murder. Kimble finds himself 'deputized' by Deputy Bowers to help transport Bellows to the county jail, along with four witnesses who saw Bellows fleeing from a farm house which was the scene of the crime. Although Bellows convinces Kimble that he (like Kimble with his wife's murder) is an innocent victim of circumstantial evidence. But the townsmen remain unswayed. That night when the men get drunk and decide to lynch Bellows, Kimble helps him escape. But Kimble is betrayed when Bellows, who really did kill the farm couple, escapes and holds another farm couple hostage.
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Directed by László BenedekWritten by Perry Bleecker, Stanford WhitmoreGuest stars Randy Boone, Diane Ladd, Judson Pratt, David McLean, Robert Doyle, John Anderson, Russell Collins, Bruce Dern
While working as a hotel lifeguard in Reno, Nevada, Kimble is caught in the middle of a feud between the hotel owner Dan Polichek, and his spoiled and rambunctious teenage daughter Christine. 'Chris' believes her father drove away her mother who commited suicide years ago and she sets out to disgrace Mr. Polichek by provoking bar fights, humiliating herself, and goes too far when she pretends to be having an affair with the reluctant Kimble.
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Directed by James SheldonWritten by Harry KronmanGuest stars Connie Gilchrist, Don Keefer, Telly Savalas, Joanna Frank, Maxine Stuart, Beverly Powers
Believing that the one-armed man is in Chicago, Kimble contacts Mike Decker, a newspaper columnist who defended Kimble during his trial. Kimble and Decker organize a city-wide search for the one-armed man. But things get complicated with the arrival of Decker's alcoholic wife, Paula, who gets nervous of Kimble's presence and falls off the wagon. Meanwhile, Gerard learns about Decker's search for a one-armed man and decides to use the writer to set a trap for Kimble.
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Directed by Jerry HopperWritten by Stuart JeromeGuest stars Addison Richards, Arthur Batanides, Pat Hingle, Nan Martin, Lewis Charles, Paul Picerni, I. Stanford Jolley, Bill Raisch
Kimble works as a kennel-man for Max Bodin, a breeder of prize-winning Irish Setter show dogs, and who is currently putting his kennel up for sale. Max's son, Johnny, and Johnny's wife Cora discover that one of the dogs has developed hip dysplasia which means all of the dogs in the bloodline will likely inherit the condition and be worthless as show dogs. But they keep the news from Max and plot to live off the sale. But when Kimble stumbles onto their plan, they have him investigated.
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Directed by John ErmanWritten by Harry Kronman, John HawkinsGuest stars George Voskovec, Nancy Malone, John Considine, Parley Baer, Dan Barton, Lew Brown
Herbie Grant, a second-rate hoodlum, is shot in the leg while trying to rob the liquor store where Kimble works. Herbie later takes Kimble hostage where Herbie claims that although he tried to rob the store, he is innocent of two other liquor store robberies in the other towns. Kimble agrees to help clear Herbie in which the hood lets the fugitive go. Kimble is summoned to the local police station to give his statement on the robbery where he is recognized by Herbie's sister, Lorna, who works at the local post office. She threatens to turn Kimble in unless he turns over her brother who she believes to be guilty of those other robberies. But at a local motel where Herbie is staying, he is recognized by a maid who calls the police and they arrest him. Thinking that Kimble double-crossed him, Herbie reports Kimble to the police.
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Directed by Jerry HopperWritten by William Wood, Sheldon StarkGuest stars Tommy Farrell, Warren Oates, Virginia Vincent, Malachi Throne, Glen Vernon, Stewart Bradley, Gerald Gordon, John Mayo
On the run from the Nevada State Police, Kimble hitches a ride with Sister Veronica, a nun traveling to Sacramento where she plans to renounce her vows. After fixing her car when it breaks down, Kimble agrees to travel with Veronica only to the nearest train station. But Veronica believes Kimble to be her savior and insists that he tag along with her all the way to Sacramento.
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Directed by Walter Grauman, Meredith M. NicholsonWritten by Al C. WardGuest stars Eileen Heckart, Albert Salmi, Percy Helton, Shary Marshall, Jason Wingreen, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Burt Douglas, Bill Zuckert
Kimble and Sister Veronica continue their journey to Sacramento, unaware that the Nevada State Police have put up a roadblock at the state line. While Kimble deals with a disgruntled ranch hand, named Chuck Mathers, who suspects his true identity, Sister Veronica accidently discovers Kimble's identity from a TV news report. But she does not tell Kimble about her knowledge of who he really is.
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Directed by Walter GraumanWritten by Al C. WardGuest stars Ruta Lee, Eileen Heckart, Albert Salmi, Lane Bradford, Sandy Kenyon, Ken Lynch, John Durren, Thomas Hasson
While working as a health club masseuse, Kimble is recognized by Sheriff Bray, a local lawman with policial aspirations. But Kimble manages to escape with the help of co-worker Steve Edson. After confiding his secret to Steve, Kimble learns that Steve is a fugitive of conscience: five months earlier, Steve was tried and acquitted for the murder of his girlfriend Linda's abusive brother, a murder that Steve actually committed and he apparently cannot live with the guilt over having gotten away with it. Kimble reluctantly lets Steve travel with him. But Steve begins leaving behind clues that soon puts Sheriff Bray back on their trail, including contacting Linda for help and letting her vengeful other brother, Joey, track them down.
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Directed by Jerry HopperWritten by Philip SaltzmanGuest stars Carroll O'Connor, Ed Nelson, Ellen Madison, Don Dubbins, Rudy Solari, Barry Russo, Guy Wilkerson, Kathleen O'Malley
While working as a roller-rink supervisor, Kimble is recognized by the horribly scarred Joe Hallop, a Korean War veteran who blames Kimble for his condition. Apparently back in the Korean War, Kimble was nearly killed in an enemy grenade explosion in which Joe shielded Kimble and got his face disfigured in the process. Knocked out, Kimble never knew who saved his life. Joe then plots to lure Kimble into a remote area and kill him by using one of his war mementos: a live grenade.
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Directed by William A. GrahamWritten by Harry Kronman, Merwin GerardGuest stars Flip Mark, Lee Grant, John Zaremba, Tim O'Connor, Noam Pitlik, Nick Nicholson
While working as a warehouse worker, Kimble is recognized by the Greek-born owner, Gus Priamos. Gus tells Kimble that he is dying from cancer and has only six months to live and hopes to aid the Fugitive with a scheme to make it look that Kimble has fled the country to Greece. But when Gus' jealous girlfriend Sophie learns Kimble's idenity from a magazine article, she contacts Gerard who gets a heads-up on Kimble and Gus' plan.
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Directed by Jerry HopperWritten by Robert C. DennisGuest stars Alan Baxter, Maura McGiveney, Paul Birch, Gilbert Roland, Madlyn Rhue, Peter Mamakos, Peter Coe, Robert Millar
While working as a migrant worker in New Mexico, Kimble becomes an unwilling party to the kidnapping of a young boy who is the son of his landowner boss. The boy, Jimmie, has been abducted by Ralph Simmons, a disgruntled former football player, along with his wife Helen and his cousin Dave. When Kimble discovers that Jimmie is a haemophiliac and that Ralph has bruised him during the abduction, Kimble must find a way to get the boy away from the kidnappers and to a hospital, or Jimmie will soon die from internal bleeding.
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Directed by William A. GrahamWritten by Sheldon StarkGuest stars Paul Comi, Peggy Stewart, Patrick McVey, Claude Akins, Joanna Moore, Wright King, Michel Petit, Buck Young
While working as a research technician for the wealthy Allan Pruitt, Kimble gets involved in the business of Allan's teenage daughter, Janice, who returns home after spending a year in a mental hospital recovering from a nervous breakdown after witnessing a young boy under her care get killed by two vicious stray dogs. But Allan's new wife, Dorina, does not take a liking to Janice and plots to drive her insane by hiring a neighbor to make his pet dogs bark in the nearby woods and convince Janice that the dogs are alive (they were captured and put to sleep by the local dog-catcher). But when Kimble claims that he has heard the dogs barking, Dorina asks the local sheriff to investigate Kimble to find any dirt on him.
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Directed by Jerry HopperWritten by Peter B. GermanoGuest stars Gloria Grahame, Richard Carlson, Walter Woolf King, Shirley Knight, Warren Vanders, Mary Jackson, James Griffith, Eddie Rosson
While working as a dock worker in Florida, Kimble is recognized by Marcie King, a young woman who five years earlier asked Kimble to perform an abortion for her (illegal at the time; pre-Roe Vs. Wade). Kimble refused due to his religious beliefs, and Marcie went to another second-rate doctor to have it done. But after the operation, because of complications, Marcie can no longer have children and she incredibly blames Kimble for it. When a hurricane hits the area, Marcie and her boyfriend Harry, an embezzler on the run from the law, approach Kimble and threaten to turn him in unless he drives them to safety from the hurricane and the police looking for them.
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Directed by William A. GrahamWritten by George EcksteinGuest stars Bethel Leslie, Dennis Patrick, Craig Duncan, Robert Fortier, Clay Tanner
A discarded photograph, with Kimble in the background, leads Gerard to Chicago where he assembles a team of detectives where they trap Kimble within an eight-block radius of the city. With Kimble wandering from place to place, and being recognized by whomever he comes into contact with, he flees from both policemen and local citizens, finding refuge in a small house which is the home of two middle-aged men, named Jake Devlin and Sam Reed, who have long argued over his innocence.
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Directed by Jerry HopperWritten by Stanford WhitmoreGuest stars Martine Bartlett, Chick Hearn, John Fiedler, Christopher Connelly, Stuart Margolin, John McGiver, Joseph Campanella, Lee Krieger
