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) and "Most Wanted", "The Hat Squad", and the 1993 "The Untouchables" syndicated TV series. It also inspired the big-budget motion pictures "Al Capone" starring Rod Steiger, "The Untouchables" (with Kevin Costner), "Gangster Squad", "Mulholland Falls", and others. "The Untouchables" is one of two series from 1959, the other being "The Detectives", together credited with the concept of depicting a "group" of crime fighters. Previously, most TV crime dramas had followed one of two formats: either a duo composed of a stalwart police officer or detective and his trusty sidekick/partner ("Dragnet", "The Lineup"), or a lone-wolf private eye or police detective