The Fugitive - Season 1 - Eps 2: The Witch
While working as a handyman in a backwater community in Missouri, Kimble has a few run-ins with a young girl named Jenny Ammory whom is a pathological liar whom speaks to a rag doll she calls 'Nyet' which she keeps at a nearby pond. Jenny uses Kimble as an excuse when she's late for school when she claims that a man attacked her. When Kimble shows up making a routine delivery of supplies to the school, Jenny idetifies him as the man whom attacked her. As Jenny's teacher, Emily Norton, speaks to Kimble about Jenny's compulsive lying, Jenny runs home and tells her mother she saw her teacher and the local handyman making out in the barn. Kimble gets roughed up by his co-workers while Emily gets fired and both are advised to leave town. Kimble goes to a school hearing on Emily and tries to clear her by catching Jenny in a lie. But his plan backfires when the skeptic townspeople belive Jenny and decide to form a lynching party to track Kimble down.
About The Fugitive
Title: The Fugitive
First Air Date: 1963-09-17
Last Air Date: 1967-08-29
Status: Ended
Rating: 7.2/10 (from 56 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 5
Total Episodes: 120
Network: ABC
Genres: Action & Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Production Companies: United Artists Television
Synopsis
Richard Kimble is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death penalty. En route to death row, Kimble's train derails and crashes, allowing him to escape and begin a cross-country search for the real killer, a "one-armed man". At the same time, Dr. Kimble is hounded by the authorities, most notably dogged by Police Lieutenant Philip Gerard.
Cast
David Janssen
Richard Kimble
Barry Morse
Lieutenant Gerard
William Conrad
Narrator
