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The Fugitive
Season 1, Episode 1 (17 Sep. 1963): “Fear in a Desert City”
by Roy Huggins, Stanford Whitmore, Walter Grauman

The Fugitive - Season 1, Episode 1

Title: “Fear in a Desert City”

Medium: television series episode

Original airdate: 17 Sep. 1963

Publisher: ABC QM Productions United Artists
Written by: Roy Huggins, Stanford Whitmore
Directed by: Walter Grauman


13 characters in this story:

Character
(Click links for info about character
and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)
Religious
Affiliation
Team(s)
[Notes]
Pub. #
app.
The Fugitive The Fugitive (Richard Kimble)
(lead character)
hero
  [pediatrician wrongly accused of murdering his wife] ABC QM Productions, etc. 138
Philip Gerard Philip Gerard supporting character
  [tasked with capturing fugitive Richard Kimble] ABC QM Productions, etc. 140
Monica Welles supporting character
CBR Scale: I Protestant
[bar pianist Richard Kimble fell in love with] ABC QM Productions, etc. 1
Edward Welles villain
CBR Scale: I Protestant
[abused his wife; probably mentally ill] ABC QM Productions, etc. 1
Mark Welles supporting character
CBR Scale: I Protestant
[young son of woman abused by rich husband] ABC QM Productions, etc. 1
Sergeant Burden supporting character
 indeterminate  [police] ABC QM Productions, etc. 1
Captain Carpenter supporting character
  [superior of Lt. Gerard, who hunted figitive Richard Kimble] ABC QM Productions, etc. 12
Evelyn supporting character
 indeterminate  [briefly worked alongside RIchard Kimble in a bar] ABC QM Productions, etc. 1
Sergeant Fairfield supporting character
 indeterminate  [helped run Richard Kimble out of town] ABC QM Productions, etc. 1
Cleve Brown supporting character
 indeterminate  [Richard Kimble briefly worked for him] ABC QM Productions, etc. 1
unnamed bus passenger supporting character
 indeterminate  [] ABC QM Productions, etc. 1
unnamed ticket agent supporting character
 indeterminate  [ticket agent] ABC QM Productions, etc. 1
The One-Armed Man The One-Armed Man (Fred Johnson)
(mentioned in standard series opening credits)
villain
  [wanderer] ABC QM Productions, etc. 10