The Fugitive (TV series) The Fugitive (TV series) The Fugitive is an American drama series created by Roy Huggins. It was produced by QM Productions and United Artists Television. It aired on ABC from September 1963 to August 1967. David Janssen starred as Dr. Richard Kimble, a physician who is wrongfully convicted of his wife's murder and sentenced to receive the death penalty. En route to death row, Dr. Richard Kimble's train derails over a switch, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man" (played by Bill Raisch). At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded
The X-Files sources and analogues Mulder draws elements from the 1960s TV series "The Avengers". Alongside many real-life documented cases dealing with the concepts of alien abduction, alien invasion and UFOs, "The X-Files" franchise also borrows these same themes from other TV shows that have also covered the subject. Such shows go back to the 1950s, 60s and 70s when such topics were popular and massively discussed in the American media. Television series of those times such as "The Quatermass Experiment" from the 1950s, "The Invaders" from the 1960s, "" from the 1970s, "V: The Final Battle" from the 1980s all served as inspirations. Prior