Episode
The Fugitive: Runner in the Dark
Overview
A woman calls the police after she recognizes Kimble's picture on a TV quiz show and in the ensuing manhunt, Kimble hides out in a home for the blind. Kimble becomes acquainted with some of the residents, including the attractive Claire Whittaker whom he assists, as well as Pete Haskell whom Kimble discovers is not really blind and was actually temporarily blinded in a school bus accident months earlier which Pete blames himself for, since he was driving drunk at the time. But one of the residents is a certain Dan Brady, a veteran lawman who was blinded in the line of duty and has now been put out to pasture. Brady remains bitter for having lost his position as the town's sheriff to the younger, more educated, but less experienced, Barney Vilattic. When Brady suspects Kimble's true identity, he sees an opportunity to capture the fugitive to reclaim his former job.
Details
- Series
- The Fugitive
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 27
- Air date
- 1965-03-30
- Runtime
- 51 min
Episode context
Runner in the Dark is Episode 27 in Season 2 of The Fugitive. It aired on 1965-03-30. The runtime is 51 min.
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Episode 26: Masquerade
While traveling through a small Oklahoma town, Kimble is arrested, not because the police recognize him, but because they've mistaken him for Leonard Hull, a former numbers runner about to testify against a big-time racketeer, who has run away from a witness relocation program in that very town. Kimble is taken to a motel where Leonard's wife, Mavis (who knows he's not Leonard) is staying. Kimble asks for her help to get away from the police, and a local hit man pursuing them.
Episode 28: A.P.B.
Kimble hops onto a freight train and finds himself in the company of three escaped convicts (two of whom are wounded during their escape). One of the convicts dies from his wounds while the second one, a brutal murderer named Neil Pinkerton, forces Kimble to treat his leg wound. Pinkerton decides to keep Kimble as a hostage as a safeguard against the police. Pinkerton, Kimble, and the other prisoner, named Matt Mooney, seek refuge in a farm house owned by widow Mona Ross and her mother who recognize all of them and treat Kimble, Mooney and Pinkerton as their celebrity guests.
More episodes from this season
Episode 25: May God Have Mercy
While working as a hospital orderly, Kimble is recognized by Victor Leonetti and his wife Anne who hold Kimble responsible for the death of their daughter. Kimble tries to flee, but gets shot and is forced to undergo surgery for the gunshot wounds. But when Victor learns that Kimble was trying to contact a specialist at the time of the girl's death, he tries to make amends by confessing to Gerard, who arrives at the hospital, that he was the one who murdered Helen Kimble.
Episode 29: The Old Man Picked a Lemon
While working as a ranch hand on a California citrus farm, the owner, Leland Hagerman, suddenly dies in an accident and the man's racist and sadistic son, Blaine, arrives to stake his claim to the place and sees everyone as expendable, including Kimble whom must find a way to quietly slip away with the help of the Hispanic workers before Blaine stumbles upon his true identity.
Episode 24: Everybody Gets Hit in the Mouth Sometime
While working as a truck driver for a small freight company, Kimble discovers that his angry and bitter boss, Gus Hendrick, is being blackmailed by Lucia Mayfield, the wife of his late business partner, into paying her bills and for child support since Mr. Mayfield was killed a year earlier in a driving accident. But Kimble later learns that with Hendrick strapped for money, and Lucia merely squandering the blackmail money for her own selfish purposes, Hendrick plans to hijack one of his own trucks to collect an insurance settlement.
Episode 30: Last Second of a Big Dream
Barry Craft figures he'll get some publicity by arranging to have Kimble captured at his wild animal show.
Episode 23: The Survivors
Richard Kimble returns home when he learns his wife's family is in financial trouble. The complications are that his mother-in-law hates him, his sister-in-law loves him, and his father-in-law is being questioned by the police.
Episode 22: Moon Child
Kimble arrives in a small town where women are being murdered by an unknown serial killer and a vigilante mob mistakes Kimble (a stranger in town) of being the killer. Kimble hides out with a young woman with learning difficulties named Joanne Mercer, a 'moon child' befriends Kimble and hides him in the basement of her house which is connected by a underground tunnel to a closed-down textile factory where the real killer is hiding out.
Episode 21: Corner of Hell
On the run from Gerard, Kimball stumbles onto private property belonging to a family of moonshiners. When Gerard gives chase on foot, he too is caught by the backwoods family, and is accused of attacking one of the girls in the family. Kimball has to decide whether or not to keep the family from killing Gerard.
Episode 20: Scapegoat
A man who knew Kimble during one of his disguises, meets him again. He tells him that on one of his hurried, silent departures from a town, he left behind evidence which indicated he was dead and an innocent man is being held for his murder.
Episode 19: Fun and Games and Party Favors
While working as a chauffeur for a wealthy family, Kimble learns that the teenage daughter of the family is dating the pool cleaner. While chaperoning a party for the daughter's friends, Kimble throws out a unruly young man who crashes the party. But Kimble is soon faced with a little blackmail when the man turns out to be a crime buff and recongizes Kimble from a police magazine.
Episode 18: Nicest Fella You'd Ever Want to Meet
While traveling though a small town in Arizona, Kimble is arrested by the brutal and sadistic Sheriff Jo Bob Sims whom has political ambitions. Sheriff Sims (unaware of Kimble's true identity) subjects him to slave labor with a group of other vagrants he arrests on a daily basis for no reason other than to torture or humiliate them. When Kimble witnesses Sims murder another prisoner and has the equally corrupt mayor and town council cover it up to look like an accident, Kimble becomes aware that his own life is in danger.