6.8/10165 votesLoading...#1 - Not With a Whimper
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/4/1966
Kimble arrives in the factory town of Hempstead Mills, West Virginia to assist Andrew McCallister, his longtime mentor whom is dying from lung cancer which he is confined to a wheelchair. McCallister's vigorous anti-smog campaign has earned him a reputation as a local crackpot. But the old man plans to go out with a bang; by having a bomb hidden in a package where he has Kimble deliver to the local factory. But when McCallister discovers that a group of school children will be inside the factory during a school tour at the time of the explosion, he dispatches Kimble to evacuate the building and deactivate the bomb before time runs out.
Director: Alexander Singer
Writer: Norman Lessing
6.9/10168 votesLoading...#2 - Fun and Games and Party Favors
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/26/1965
While working as a chauffeur for a wealthy family, Kimble learns that the teenage daughter of the family is dating the pool cleaner. While chaperoning a party for the daughter's friends, Kimble throws out a unruly young man who crashes the party. But Kimble is soon faced with a little blackmail when the man turns out to be a crime buff and recongizes Kimble from a police magazine.
Director: Abner Biberman
Writer: Arthur Weiss
6.9/10163 votesLoading...#3 - 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
7.0/10153 votesLoading...#4 - Set Fire to a Straw Man
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/30/1965
Kimble reluctantly becomes involved with Stella Savano, the sister of George Savano, a mobster who runs the trucking company where Kimble works. Stella is an emotionally disturbed women with a dangerous attraction to Johnny, the adopted eight-year-old son of Jesse Stangel, Kimble's co-worker. Kimble learns that Stella is actually Johnny's mother. But Stella becomes so delusional that she thinks that Kimble is Johnny's father.
Director: Don Medford
Writer: Jack Turley
7.0/10163 votesLoading...#5 - 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
7.0/10174 votesLoading...#6 - 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
7.0/10175 votesLoading...#7 - 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
7.1/10173 votesLoading...#8 - Scapegoat
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/2/1965
A man who knew Kimble during one of his disguises, meets him again. He tells him that on one of his hurried, silent departures from a town, he left behind evidence which indicated he was dead and an innocent man is being held for his murder.
Director: Alexander Singer
Writer: William D. Gordon
7.1/10153 votesLoading...#9 - 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
7.2/10215 votesLoading...#10 - The Homecoming
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/7/1964
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.
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: Peter B. Germano
7.2/10219 votesLoading...#11 - Storm Center
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/14/1964
While working as a dock worker in Florida, Kimble is recognized by Marcie King, a young woman whom 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.
Director: William A. Graham
Writer: George Eckstein
7.2/10193 votesLoading...#12 - The Cage
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/24/1964
While working as a handyman in the predominantly Hispanic fishing village of Puerto Viejo, Kimble becomes aware that the area is beset with a plague epidemic and he's forced to call the state health inspector to have the entire area quarantined. But he soon finds himself trapped when the local doctor suspects his true identity and the irate villagers set out to find him.
Director: Walter Grauman
Writer: Sheldon Stark
7.2/10152 votesLoading...#13 - Last Second of a Big Dream
Season 2 Episode 30 - Aired 4/20/1965
Barry Craft figures he'll get some publicity by arranging to have Kimble captured at his wild-animal show.
Director: Robert Butler
Writer: George Eckstein
7.3/10327 votesLoading...#14 - The Witch
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1963
While working as a handyman in a backwater community in Missouri, Kimble has a few run-ins with a young girl named Jenny Ammory whom is a pathological liar whom 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 idetifies him as the man whom 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 belive Jenny and decide to form a lynching party to track Kimble down.
Director: Andrew McCullough
Writer: William D. Gordon
7.3/10163 votesLoading...#15 - Middle of a Heat Wave
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1965
While dating a local woman named Laurel Harper, Kimble breaks off their romantic affair and she angrily storms out of the bar they are in and into the night. The next morning, Laurel is found on an abandoned road unconscious and badly beaten. While she is taken to a hospital for treatment, Laurel's paranoid and suspicious sister, Sheila, convinces the police to hold Kimble for questioning.
Director: Alexander Singer
Writer: Robert Hamner
7.3/10158 votesLoading...#16 - Coralee
Season 3 Episode 30 - Aired 4/26/1966
After a diver dies in an underwater mishap, Kimball comes to the defense of the diver's girlfriend-whom the locals believe is a jinx. Kimball knows that the death may have been due to negligence- knowledge that puts him in jeopardy.
Director: Jerry Hopper
Writer: Joy Dexter
7.3/10174 votesLoading...#17 - 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
7.3/10165 votesLoading...#18 - 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
7.3/10160 votesLoading...#19 - 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
7.3/10169 votesLoading...#20 - 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
7.3/10165 votesLoading...#21 - 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
7.3/10168 votesLoading...#22 - The Shattered Silence
Season 4 Episode 28 - Aired 4/11/1967
In the hills of Oregon, a young sculptor, named Andrea, hides Kimble from a local deputy, named Howe. But when the lawman finds him, Kimble retreats deeper into the mountains where he finds refuge in the home of John Mallory, a former scholar who cut himself off from civilization 14 years earlier and his only companions are two vicious German Shepherd dogs. Despite being aware that Kimble is a fugitive from the law, Mallory takes a liking to Kimble and forbids him to leave. Kimble is compelled to help the ailing Mallory as Deputy Howe closes in on their location.
Director: Barry Morse
Writer: N/A
7.4/10208 votesLoading...#23 - Bloodline
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/11/1964
Kimble works as a kennel man for Max Bodin, a breeder of prize-winning Irish Setter show dogs, and whom 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.
Director: John Erman
Writer: Harry Kronman
7.4/10194 votesLoading...#24 - Tiger Left, Tiger Right
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1964
While working as a gardener on the estate of a wealthy couple, Mike and Laura Pryor, Kimble is mistakenly abducted by Harold and Irene Cheyney. Harold is a Korean war veteran and former factory worker whom lost the use of his legs after a truck owned by the Pryor's company hit him. After writing several letters to Mike Pryor asking about work and disability compensation, none of the letters were answered, so Harold decides to kidnap Mike for a $100,000 ransom. But since Harold and Irene have never met or seen Mike Pryor they happedned to abduct Kimble instead after seeing Mike's son, Glenn, give more affection to Kimble than his distant father.
Director: James Goldstone
Writer: William Link, Richard Levinson
7.4/10203 votesLoading...#25 - Cry Uncle
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 12/1/1964
After finding refuge in an orphanage, Kimble becomes entwined in the plight of a troubled teenage boy who passes him off as his uncle.
Director: James Goldstone
Writer: Philip Saltzman
The Worst Episodes of The Fugitive
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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...
Genres:Action & AdventureDramaMystery
Network:ABC
Worst Episodes Summary
"Not With a Whimper" is the worst rated episode of "The Fugitive". It scored 6.8/10 based on 165 votes. Directed by Alexander Singer and written by Norman Lessing, it aired on 1/4/1966. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Fun and Games and Party Favors".