<P> The Fugitive, a QM Production...starring David Janssen as Dr. Richard Kimble, an innocent victim of blind justice . Falsely convicted for the murder of his wife...reprieved by fate when a train wreck freed him en route to the death house...freed him to hide in lonely desperation...to change his identity...to toil at many jobs...freed him to search for a one - armed man he saw leave the scene of the crime...freed him to run before the relentless pursuit of the police lieutenant obsessed with his capture . </P> <P> It was not until episode 14, "The Girl from Little Egypt", that viewers were offered the full details of Richard Kimble's plight . A series of flashbacks reveals the fateful night of Helen Kimble's death, and for the first time offers a glimpse of the "One - Armed Man". </P> <P> The show's lead, and the only character seen in all 120 episodes, was Dr. Richard David Kimble (David Janssen), based in part on the story of Sam Sheppard . </P> <P> Though Dr. Richard Kimble was a respected pediatrician in the fictional small town of Stafford, Indiana, it was generally known that he and his wife Helen had been having arguments prior to her death . Helen's pregnancy had ended in a stillborn birth of a son, and surgery to save her life had also rendered her infertile . The couple was devastated, but Helen refused to consider adopting children as Richard wanted . On the night of Helen's murder, the Kimbles had been heard, earlier the same day, arguing heatedly over this topic by their neighbors . Richard later went out for a drive to cool off; as he was returning home, he nearly struck, with his car, a man with only one arm, who was seen fleeing five blocks away from the house . Richard then found that Helen had been killed . But no one had seen or heard Richard go out for his drive, or seen him while he was out, and so he was unjustly convicted of Helen's murder and sentenced to death in the electric chair . </P>

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