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) ("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