The formula was primarily self-contained stories. Other long-running series of the time simply went away quietly without tying up loose ends.Įven with its recurring stories involving Gerard, the one-armed man and Kimble’s family, “The Fugitive” was not a serialized drama. But Huggins was not involved in the show beyond selling the idea. “We hadn’t planned on ending it.”Įd Robertson, author of “The Fugitive Recaptured,” said the show’s creator Roy Huggins envisioned a conclusion to the cat-and-mouse triangle of Kimble, Gerard and Johnson. “I said, ‘Well, it’s going to end - it will be over like all other television shows,’” recalled Goldberg, currently the executive producer of “Blue Bloods” on CBS. Once ABC announced in the winter of 1967 that “The Fugitive” was in its final season, Leonard Goldberg, a network programming executive at the time, remembered how friends would ask him how Kimble’s journey would wrap up. Even though the series was one of ABC’s most popular shows - scoring an outstanding drama series Emmy in 1966 - the actor made it known in the fourth season that he had enough of the drama’s grueling production schedule and desired a film career.
He was on screen nearly every minute, often in fight scenes and frequently on the run.
The role of Kimble made Janssen one of TV’s biggest stars. Kimble was also hell-bent on proving that Fred Johnson (Bill Raisch), the mysterious one-armed man he saw leaving his home on the night his wife, Helen, was murdered, was the culprit. Philip Gerard (Barry Morse), the obsessed detective whom Kimble escaped en route to his execution. For four seasons, “The Fugitive” found the hunted Kimble fleeing to a different city or town each week, adopting aliases and taking on menial jobs while eluding Lt.
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