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 Untouchables (1959 TV series) ("Peter Gunn", "Richard Diamond", "M-Squad"). The series was spoofed in the 1963 Merrie Melodies cartoon short "The Unmentionables", with Bugs Bunny playing the role of Elegant Mess, a crime fighter who is assigned to infiltrate a black market ring operated by Rocky and Mugsy. The series was also spoofed on an episode of the 1961-62 ABC-TV/Hanna Barbara cartoon series "Top Cat" entitled "The Unscratchables". NBC's ""Saturday Night Live"" spoofed The Untouchables several times during the 1970s, with Dan Aykroyd playing Eliot Ness. In their 1988 book, "The Critics' Choice—The Best of Crime and Detective TV", authors Max Allan Collins and