rated programs on network television. was broadcast. The The Fugitive’s Final Season Fugitive was so Now Available On DVD Television viewers took Kimble’s search skillfully produced and for his wife’s killer seriously. The 120th popular that TV Guide rom 1963 to 1967 large numbers of and final episode of The Fugitive, titled honored it in 1993 as Ftelevision viewers tuned in weekly to “Judgment,” was broadcast on August 29, the Best Dramatic The Fugitive to see the latest episode of Dr. 1967. Four decades haven’t diminished the series of the 1960s. Richard Kimble’s quest to find the one- gripping drama of that episode as Kimble Best-selling author armed man who either murdered his wife or finally cornered the one-armed man. Stephen King wrote, knew who did so he could overturn his “The Fugitive ... was murder conviction and death sentence. Almost 3/4ths of the U.S.’s television absolutely the best viewers saw The Fugitive’s finale, and it was series done on American television. There Kimble, played by David Janssen, was the the highest rated program in TV history up to was nothing better than The Fugitive – it just ultimate underdog. He was a homeless, that time. Forty-four years later, and after turned everything on its head.” penniless, hunted man who more than sixty years of had to spend his hours awake regular TV broadcasts, it Now for the first time the final episode of the looking over his shoulder and remains the third highest rated The Fugitive is available on DVD. The sleep with one eye open to episode of a television series in Fugitive’s Final Season Volume Two was stay ahead of Lieutenant history: Only the final episode released on DVD on February 15, 2011. It Philip Gerard who was of M*A*S*H (1983) and the consists of four disks with 772 minutes of hunting Kimble after he Who Shot JR? (1980) episode episodes. The list price is $39.98, but its dis- escaped from the train that of Dallas outrank it. By count price is about $29 from Amazon.com was taking him to Indiana’s audience share The Fugitive’s and other online retailers. As of June 30, 2011 death row. final episode remains the fifth the DVD is Amazon.com’s #1 seller in the most viewed broadcast in U.S. television crime drama category. The series was unusual for its television history. time in that it was filmed on Read Justice Denied’s Issue 35 articles about location across the country The Fugitive’s unique place in actor David Janssen and The Fugitive at, from Washington to Florida, television history continues to www.justicedenied.org/issue/issue_35/lost from Maine to California, and be recognized by those with a _days_of_the_fugitive_jd_issue_35.pdf it was one of the more highly memory of the time when it

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