The Fugitive (TV series) shows him. Gerard, on the other hand, was portrayed externally as a man like Javert, but internally as more of a thinking man who could balance justice and duty. According to some of those who worked on the show, these parallels were not coincidental. Stanford Whitmore, who wrote the pilot episode "Fear in a Desert City", says that he deliberately gave Kimble's nemesis a similar-sounding name to see if anyone would recognize the similarity between "Gerard" and "Javert". One who recognized the similarity was Morse; he pointed out the connection to Quinn Martin, who admitted that "The Fugitive" was a
The Untouchables (1959 TV series) (from "The Big Train"), and "The Gun of Zangara" (from "Unhired Assassin"). On November 10, 1991, NBC ran the two-hour movie "The Return of Eliot Ness", with Robert Stack as Ness. It was set in 1947, after Capone's death, and depicted Ness investigating the death of an Untouchables agent named Labine. "The Untouchables" was a landmark television series, that has spawned numerous imitators over the decades, such as "S.W.A.T.", "The F.B.I.", "Crime Story", the original "Hawaii Five-O" (Five-O's creator and executive producer, Leonard Freeman, served as executive producer on "The Untouchables" final season), Robert Stack's two later series, "Strike Force"