The Fugitive (TV series) was never credited, while a different voice announces the title of the episode and the names of the episode's guest stars in the opening teaser. This announcer (an uncredited Dick Wesson) also says, "The Fugitive" aloud at the end of the closing credits leading into studio sponsorships of the series ("'The Fugitive' has been brought to you by..."). "The Untouchables," which was Martin's first series as a producer, also contained both a narrator (Walter Winchell) and an announcer (Les Lampson), as did "The New Breed," the first series QM Productions ever produced, with Wesson as the announcer and Art Gilmore
The Fugitive (TV series) aliases as well as helping people around him. The character of Lt. Gerard, who hounds Kimble throughout the series, is also loosely inspired by a character from the same novel, a relentless police inspector named Javert, who is obsessed with capturing the fugitive. Other shows, such as "Route 66," had employed the same anthology-like premise of wanderers finding adventure in each new place they came to. "The Fugitive," however, answered two questions that had bedeviled many similar series--those of why the protagonist never settled down anywhere and of why the protagonist tried to solve these problems himself instead of calling