Product Description

Dr. Richard Kimble is accused to be the murder of his wife. The night before his execution he escapes. The only chance to prove his innocence is to find the man who killed hi wife. Kimble persecuted by the Lt. Gerard risks his life several times when he shows his identity to help other people out of trouble.System Requirements:TRT: 760 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 097361227245 Manufacturer No: 122724

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5958 in DVD
• Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
• Released on: 2007-08-14
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Box set, Color, Digital Sound, Subtitled
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 4
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 760 minutes

Amazon.com
The hunt for one of DVD's Most Wanted TV series is over! The Fugitive, ranked by TV Guide among the top 40 shows of all time, is just as gripping as when the falsely convicted Dr. Richard Kimble's "twisting and turning" odyssey to find his slain wife's real killer began nearly 45 years ago. David Janssen's Kimble is a TV icon (No. 22 on Bravo's list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters), the haunted, hunted man desperately trying to find the elusive one-armed man he witnessed fleeing his home on the night of the murder before the relentless Lt. Philip Gerard (Barry Morse) finds Kimble. But at the heart of these 15 inaugural black-and-white episodes is not so much the chase, but instead the compelling human dramas that convey "how it is" with Kimble, who moves from town to town, taking odd jobs, and reluctantly becoming involved in the lives of troubled strangers he meets. His presence is usually greeted with suspicion and hostility as in the episode "The Other Side of the Mountain," in which he no sooner enters a bar in a rundown mining town then the locals (led by a pre-Gomer Pyle Frank Sutton) rough him up.

The Fugitive has a palpable noir sensibility. In the first episode, an upstanding citizen (guest star Brian Keith) is actually an abusive husband, whose wife (Vera Miles) Kimble is compelled to protect. Acting at the husband's behest, two cops lean on Kimble to leave town. "Why would the average man be scared of the police?" one of them taunts Kimble. In "The Witch," Kimble nearly falls prey to mob justice after false accusations from a young girl. There are several Kimble-Gerard near misses, the most memorable occurring in the two-parter "Never Wave Goodbye," in which Kimble, tired of running, puts down roots as an apprentice sailmaker in Santa Barbara. In the storm-tossed climax, Kimble must decide whether to let Gerard drown or save his life. Essential to The Fugitive mythology is "The Girl from Little Egypt," in which Kimble, recuperating after being hit by a car, flashes back to the events preceding his wife's murder and his subsequent trial, conviction and escape from a Death Row-bound train. We also get our first, harrowing glimpse of the one-armed man (Bert Raisch). Another benchmark episode is "Home Is the Hunted," in which Kimble returns home following his father's heart attack and gets a less than warm welcome from his embittered brother (look for young Billy Mumy and Clint Howard as Kimble's nephews). The change of scenery in each episode allows for appearances by an impressive gallery of character actors, several at the beginning of their careers, including Sandy Dennis, Bruce Dern, Robert Duvall, Jack Klugman, and Jack Weston. No collector of classic TV can afford to let The Fugitive get away. --Donald Liebenson

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Customer Reviews

Still entertaining, if you appreciate the era
Watched them, liked them. B&W, 4 discs.

The menu is a little odd/old(?)/simple, but works. You can play each episode by moving the arrow, or 'play all'... each episode has the same intro, which takes a few moments before you see the title announced.

TV At Its Finest
This show has a great reputation that is well deserved. The plots are gripping, the scripts are products of intelligent design, and the acting is some of the best the viewer will see from many very familiar faces. I just finished volume two of season one and the quality is consistent from beginning to end. There are no extras (no interviews - -no suprise, the key players have been dead for years). So what. The real meat is well done. The transfer of sound and picture to DVD is crisp and clean and that's what really counts. I can't wait for season two.

Worst Case Scenario
You already know that The Fugitive is the greatest dramatic TV series of all time and an absolute must-own on DVD. You also know that it stinks that the show is being released in half season sets instead of full season sets. But, did you know that the Fugitive discs come packaged in one of the most poorly designed DVD cases in history?

In an effort to save shelf space, the environment, or perhaps both, all four Fuge DVDs come to you crammed into a single plastic "keepcase" (a misnomer, as this case is not worth keeping). Disc 1 is on one side, disc 4 is on the other, and discs 2 and 3 are on a hinged flap in the middle. When I received my first Fuge set via UPS, I heard the sickening sound of rattling bits of hard plastic before I even opened it up, despite the fact that there was no visible damage to the exterior of the case, or to the Amazon box the set was shipped in. I soon learned that the rattling was due to the fact that virtually all of the tiny plastic tabs that hold discs 1 and 4 were broken clean off and the DVDs were on the loose, much like Dr. Richard Kimble. I assumed this was an anomaly, so I wrote to the nice folks at Amazon and they very speedily sent a replacement. Well, as you've probably already guessed, the replacement set was no different than the original. Ergo, I either have the worst luck in the world (which is probably true) or most--if not all--Fugitive Season One Volume One sets come in broken cases.

The moral of my boring story is: if you want The Fugitive on DVD, but you don't want the discs to fall to the floor every time you open the case, you'll need to buy some spare cases to store your Fuge discs in. 5 stars for Dr. Kimble, ZERO stars for Paramount's ridiculously fragile cases.