The Best Episodes of The Fugitive Season 4
Every episode of The Fugitive Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Fugitive Season 4!
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.
Season 4 Ratings Summary
The best episode of "The Fugitive" season 4 is "The Last Oasis", rated 7.3/10 from 173 user votes. It was directed by Gerald Mayer and written by Barry Oringer. "The Last Oasis" aired on 9/13/1966 and is rated 0.2 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Death is the Door Prize".
7.3/10 173 votes#1 - The Last Oasis
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1966
Injuring after being shot during a police chase, Kimble seeks refuge at an orphange near a Navajo Indian reservation in Puma County, Arizona. Annie Johnson, the head teacher (and herself an orphan), removes the bullet and offers Kimble work as a teacher. Meanwhile, while the local sheriff Prycer belives that Kimble has escaped, a determined and overzealous deputy, named Steel, belives Kimble is still in the area and suspects Annie of sheltering the fugitive.
Director: Gerald Mayer
Writer: Barry Oringer
7.5/10 163 votes#2 - Death is the Door Prize
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1966
Kimble visits an enclosed plaza in the heart of the city. Due to a misunderstanding, on-site security mistakes him for someone else and gives chase. Thinking they are on to him, Richard tries to jump a fence but is caught by a guard, and has to punch him out to get away. A lady working at a camera store lets him stay at her place (in the plaza), while he rests and heals. To complicate things more, Kimble's earlier visit to the video store was caught on video tape, and someone who sees the tape recognizes him. Kimble's visit also coincides with an accidental shooting inside of a storage room, so the police are at the plaza, investigating.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: Oliver Crawford
7.5/10 174 votes#3 - A Clean and Quiet Town
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1966
Kimble makes the mistake of going to Clark City, a corrupt gambling town. Fred Johnson (the one-armed man) is there as well, and has two corrupt cops beat up Kimble. When Richard survives the attack, Johnson then puts out a contract on him. Kimble eventually catches up with Johnson, beats the garbage out of him, and tries to turn him over to the police-who are working for a local mob figure. The small-town syndicate has to decide what to do with both troublemakers: dispose of them, or let them go?
Director: Mark Rydell
Writer: Howard Browne
7.0/10 161 votes#4 - The Sharp Edge of Chivalry
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/1966
Kimble, working as an apartment janitor in a nameless big city, becomes implicated in a murder when Roger Roland, a neighbor whom lives across the street, is a troubled young man and a part of Irish royalty, but he profanes his family history by dying his red hair black. Roger murders a neighbor woman in the building where Kimble lives by bludgeoning her to death with a marble statue after she refuses his advances. After a tenant reports seeing a figure run from the murder victim's apartment, the police arrive and suspect Kimble despite his alibi. Roger then hides the statue in Kimble's room and when Kimble finds it, he hides it in an air conditioning vent. Kimble thinks Roger is involved and tells his father, Edward, and Roger's younger sister Liz. But naturally, Edward Roland refuses to believe Kimble and unbelievably thinks Kimble is the killer and calls the police. Kimble escapes and tries, with Liz's help, to prove his innocence. Meanwhile, Gerard arrives in town after hearing the
Director: Gerald Mayer
Writer: Sam Ross
7.7/10 177 votes#5 - Ten Thousand Pieces of Silver
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/1966
Kimble finds work on Jake Lawrence's farm, where he develops a special friendship with Jake's autistic daughter, Cathy. But Kimble soon becomes nervous when the local sheriff, Mel Bailey, begins searching for Joe Burmas, a convicted murder having escaped from prison a few weeks before. Burmas attacks and nearly kills Kimble after trapping him inside a truck that crashes into a creek. Meanwhile, back in Stafford, Gerard has the local newspaper establish a $10,000 reward for Kimble's capture hoping someone will respond. A local storekeeper recognizes Kimble's face in the newspaper but decides to collect the money for himself. Kimble then tries to evade capture from a local posse, but he again runs into the murderous Burmas whom also takes Cathy hostage as well.
Director: James Neilson
Writer: E. Arthur Kean
7.8/10 173 votes#6 - Joshua's Kingdom
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 10/18/1966
While working as a veterinarian assistant in a rural town in Utah, Kimble becomes aquainted with Ruth Simmons, an unwed teenage mother whom has a sickly infant. But her father, Joshua, is a Christian Scientist whose religion prohibits the use of medicine for any ailment. Kimble brings over antibiotics, but Joshua destroys the drugs. After determing that the baby is anemic, Kimble secretly arranges for a blood transfusion. Meanwhile, after stumbling upon Kimble's true idenity, a would-be deputy, named Pete, searches for the fugivtive with the aid of his two bloodhound dogs.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Lee Loeb
7.7/10 173 votes#7 - Second Sight
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 10/25/1966
While working in a film supply store as a photo developer, Kimble spots Fred Johnson, the one-armed man, in a photo. After tracking down the freelance photographer, Howie Keever, whom took the photo, Kimble learns that Johnson works at a nearby chemical warehouse. Kimble goes to the warehouse and suprises Johnson. During the scuffle, Johnson accidently ignites some chemicals, chreating an expostion which leaves him badly injured and Kimble blinded by the flash. Johnson manages to escape and once again reports Kimble to the police. Kimble manages to escape from the hospital before the police arrive and tries to get back to Howie's apartment to ask him to hide him. But the police question Howie and his uncle whom learn Kimble's true idenity, as well as the $10,000 reward.
Director: Robert Douglas
Writer: Daniel B. Ullman
7.3/10 162 votes#8 - Wine is a Traitor
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 11/1/1966
Carl Crandall is the wealthy and spoiled son of winery owner Pete Crandall. Carl stops a labor strike at the winery by killing the union leader and framing Morales, another worker, for it. Kimble happens by and witness Carl run from the scene of the crime, but he is unable to tell anyone because of his secret. Kimble tries to write an annoymous letter to the California District Attorney, but Carl's goons confiscate the letter. While Kimble tries to persuade Morales's wife, Elena, to help him report Carl to clear her husband, Pete suspects Carl of the murder and sends his two right hand men to keep an eye on Carl. But the two men are in league with Carl who orders them to murder Kimble.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Howard Dimsdale
7.0/10 171 votes#9 - Approach with Care
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1966
Kimble meets Willie Turner, a mentally disabled young man who is accused of hurting a child. Kimble reluctantly hides Willie at a carnival where Kimble now works. Kimble tries to persuade Willie to return to the hospital where his sister had him committed. But naturally, Willie is slow to understand what Kimble means and, on top of that, does not remember hitting the young boy he is accused of hurting. Willie's sister, Mary, as well as an attendant from the psycho ward at the local hospital, arrive searching for Willie and find him. But the attendant recognizes Kimble and calls the police. In trying to protect his new friend, Willie strikes the attendant, badly injuring him, and warns Kimble in which both men, now fugitives, take off in a stolen truck. Kimble hides out with Willie at a nearby auto wrecking lot, where he tries to persuade Willie to return to the hospital, while the sheriff and his men are already on their trail.
Director: William Hale
Writer: Lee Loeb
8.1/10 180 votes#10 - Nobody Loses All the Time
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 11/22/1966
After Kimble spots Fred Johnson at the scene of a fire, he gives chase-but stops to help a woman who has been hit by a vehicle. After Kimble helps her get to a hospital, he discovers that she is Johnson's girlfriend. Meanwhile, Johnson has contacted her and told her to contact the police. Eventually, Gerard arrives at the hospital, as a result of a tipoff, and tries to lay a trap for Kimble.
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Writer: E. Arthur Kean
7.3/10 158 votes#11 - Right in the Middle of the Season
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/1966
While working as a fishing crewman, Kimble becomes embroiled in a union strike which is orgainzed by Joe Donovan, the son of Kimble's employer, grizzled fisherman Tony Donovan. During a rally, Kimble, Tony and a few others are arrested. After being released, Kimble tries to leave town knowing his secret will be revealed, but he's prevented from doing so. When the police finally learn Kimble's idenity, they question Tony about his whereabouts, but the sympathic Tony claims not to know. He then offers to take Kimble to Mexico if he helps him out on his latest fishing trip. But Joe sees Tony smuggle Kimble on his boat and calls the authorities.
Director: Christian Nyby
Writer: Sam Ross
7.0/10 171 votes#12 - The Devil's Disciples
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/6/1966
While fleeing from a sheriff's dragnet, Kimble is rescued by a dangerous motorcycle gang called 'the Devil's Disciples, led by the brutal Hutch. As payback, Hutch and his gang want Kimble to help them avenge the death of a former gang member who robbed a gas filling station, where his father turned him in and as part of his sentence; he was drafted and sent to Vietnam where he was killed in action. When Kimble notices that the gang is not completly unified, he seeks help from Don, one of the members, and his girlfriend, Patty, to help him escape so he can warn the police to prevent the killing of the deseased gang member's father.
Director: Jud Taylor
Writer: N/A
7.3/10 166 votes#13 - The Blessings of Liberty
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 12/20/1966
Kimble finds work at an upholstery store where the police are staking out the place in their search for an escaped killer, named Bowen. Kimble becomes aquainted with one worker, a Hungarian immigrant named Josef Karac, whom Kimble discovers that Josef is a doctor wanted by the police for an abortion that he performed years earlier. Meanwhile, the police stake out Dr. Karac's apartment where his wife, daughter and nephew live, while undercover cop, Jim Macklin, goes undercover as a worker at the shop where Bowen was last seen to investigate his girlfrend whom is Dr. Karac's daughter. But Macklin soon recongizes Kimble and begins a second investigation to try to capture him. In the meantime, Bowen returns and takes the Karac family hostage to force them to hide him from the police just next door.
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: Daniel B. Ullman
8.0/10 169 votes#14 - The Evil Men Do
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 12/27/1966
After Kimble saves his boss' life, the man (a former mobster), is determined to repay the debt to Kimble by killing Gerard. After he learns that Gerard has discovered Kimble's whereabouts, he leads the Lieutenant into a deadly trap. Can Kimble save Gerard in time?
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Writer: Walter Brough
7.5/10 166 votes#15 - Run the Man Down
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 1/3/1967
While hopping a freight train, Kimble meets a wounded criminal who demands to take him to a rendezvous point in the hills of Southern California. Kimble reluctantly does which is an isolated cabin in the deep woods where they are joined by three more men whom happen to be robbers of an armored car who demand from the criminal their loot. Not believing their accomplice's true story that he lost the money when it fell off the train due to his gunshot injury, the three robbers hold Kimble, a widow named Laura Craig, as well as a park ranger who happens by, while torturing the man for the location of the money.
Director: James Sheldon
Writer: N/A
7.5/10 165 votes#16 - The Other Side of the Coin
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 1/10/1967
While working as a clerk in a small grocery store in Ocean Grove, California, Kimble becomes embroiled in a conflict between his co-worker Larry Corby and his father Ben, who's the town sheriff. When Ben refuses to support Larry and his pregnant girlfriend, the boy dons a mask and robs the store. After being shot during the escape, Larry drives off while Ben gives chase. Larry runs off the road and Ben is shocked to find his son as the holdup man. Ben then hides Larry and after recognizing Kimble, makes a bargain: if Kimble can save his son's life, Ben will set him free.
Director: Lewis Allen
Writer: Sam Ross
7.7/10 183 votes#17 - The One That Got Away
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 1/17/1967
Ralph Schuyler is a government agent who goes undercover as a boat captain to spy on Felice Greer, the wife of an international embezzler hiding out in Mexico and she's presumably coming down to him with the stolen money. Kimble happens to be on the boat too as a hired deck hand. When Ralph learns that Kimble's identity is false, he takes Kimble's fingerprints and after an 'emergency' landing, the agent leaves the fingerprints with a local Mexican shopkeeper and notifies the authorities of Felice's whereabouts. But when Ralph is badly burned in a engine room fire, Kimble tries to save him and takes over the boat's steering to safely make it to their destination. But when Kimble intercepts a cable with the incriminating report on his fingerprints, Kimble is torn between fleeing or staying to help Ralph, while Kimble also discovers that Felice's husband is up to no good concerning the stolen money.
Director: Leo Penn
Writer: Harry Kronman, Philip Saltzman
7.6/10 160 votes#18 - Concrete Evidence
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 1/24/1967
Kimble finds work as a construction worker in Nebraska where he is recongized by building contract; the unscrupulous Alex ""Pat"" Patton, who once built a theater in his home town. But a wall of the theater collapsed due to faulty construction which killed three children. Although exonerated of manslaughter charges, the townspeople have been irate to him ever since. Now two years later, Pat's company faces financial ruin, yet Pat pours his own money into a mysterious ""motel"" his crew is now building. Pat approaches Kimble and tells him that he knows who he is from a wanted poster he keeps in his office. He tells Kimble about his plight and that he has one month to live because he's dying from a heart condition. Pat wants Kimble to keep him alive long enough to finish the ""motel"" and if Kimble refuses to do so or flees, Pat will turn him in to the local authorities.
Director: Murray Golden
Writer: Jack Turley
7.7/10 174 votes#19 - The Breaking of the Habit
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 1/31/1967
After fleeing a police roadblock where he gets shot in the leg, Kimble hops on a truck headed toward Sacramento where he meets Sister Veronica (the nun whom he drove from Nevada to Sacramento in the 'Angels Travel on Lonely Roads' episodes) whom is now the principal of the St. Mary Magdalene School for girls. Kimble asks Sister Veronica to drive him to Tarlton, where the one-armed man supposedly works as a numbers runner for a local racketeer. But a 'bad-girl' student recognizes Kimble and calls the police, forcing Kimble to hide on the roof of a building despite his injury. Meanwhile, Sister Veronica (whom is suffering from a brain tumor) learns that another delinquent student has run away, and is torn between driving after the girl or staying to help Kimble.
Director: John Meredyth Lucas
Writer: John Meredyth Lucas
7.3/10 162 votes#20 - There Goes the Ballgame
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 2/7/1967
While attending a minor league baseball game, Kimble unwittingly witnesses a man walk away with a woman whom is later revealed to be the daughter of newspaper publisher Andy Newark. After discovering that Kimble witnessed the proceedings, Newmark summons Kimble to his office where he tells him that the woman is his daughter and she has been kidnapped. Her abductors want a $200,000 ransom. When word leaks out, reporters surround the Newmark household and Kimble is unable to slip away. Meanwhile, the kidnappers, a former baseball player and a friend, realize that Kimble witnessed them. So, they plot to have Kimble deliver the ransom money so they can kill him.
Director: Gerald Mayer, John Meredyth Lucas
Writer: Oliver Crawford
8.2/10 180 votes#21 - The Ivy Maze
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 2/21/1967
Fritz Simmons is a college professor doing research on sleep depervation. One of his patients is the one-armed man Fred Johnson, whom works as a groundskeeper at Wellington College. When Johnson begins talking in his sleep about having killed a woman, Fritz contacts Kimble. When Kimble arrives, he verifies that it is indeed Johnson, and he and Fritz realize that by recording Johnson's confession will prove Kimble's innocence. Meanwhile, Gerard has found out about the experiments from Fritz's wife Caroline, and believes that Kimble may be on the premises. Gerard's arrival at the facility leads to an incredible confrontation between himself, Kimble and the one-armed man.
Director: John Meredyth Lucas
Writer: Edward Hume
7.8/10 168 votes#22 - Goodbye My Love
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 2/28/1967
Kimble becomes romantically involved with former recording star Gail Martin, unaware that she know his secret, and the $10,000 reward for his capture. Gail and her other lover, Alan Bartlet, are plotting to kill Alan's wealthy wife Norma, a former golf pro now confided to a wheelchair, and put the blame on Kimble so they can capture him and collect the reward money, and Norma's vast wealth.
Director: Lewis Allen
Writer: Lee Loeb
7.9/10 165 votes#23 - Passage to Helena
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 3/7/1967
After being arrested in a small Montana town for a minor loitering charge, Kimble is put in jail next to a suspect in a race-related killing. A determined black deputy becomes determined to transport Kimble and the racist murderer to the state capital for arraignment. But their journey is filled with adventure and danger when they are ambushed by the killer's accomplices and are now forced to travel on foot through hostile territory.
Director: Richard Benedict
Writer: Barry Oringer
6.9/10 161 votes#24 - The Savage Street
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 3/14/1967
Kimble is working at a cigar-making store owned by Jose Anza, and becomes close friends with his son Jimmy. Jimmy is caught between the expectations of his demanding father who wants him to play the violin and the harassment Jimmy receives from three street punks. When Kimble is shot in the leg after the police discover him, Jimmy hides the fugitive from both his father, and his uncle Miguel, a police officer determined to capture the fugitive.
Director: Gerald Mayer
Writer: Mario Alcalde
7.1/10 152 votes#25 - Death of a Very Small Killer
Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 3/21/1967
Fleeing to Mexico, Kimble somehow contracts pnenmonia and seeks refuge at a local hospital where he is recognized by Dr. Howell, an ambitious American doctor whom is conducting reseach on menigitis. After Kimble recovers, Dr. Howell blackmails him into assisting with his research in exchange for protection from the local state police. While working with Howell's assistant, the attractive Reina Morales, Kimble soon discovers that several of the patients are being unwittingly infected and sacrificed for Howell's research purposes. Meanwhile, a persistent police sergeant, named Rodriguez, begins investigating Kimble's true idenity.
Director: John Meredyth Lucas
Writer: Barry Oringer