The Fugitive
This'll Kill You
TV Flash files “This'll Kill You” as hour 78 of 120 in the TV Flash guide — The Fugitive (1963–1967) on ABC, season 3, episode 18, aired 1966-01-18, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E18: listed hour 78 of 120 in the The Fugitive guide, hour 18 of 30 in season 3. It aired 1966-01-18 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Wife Killer” (S03E17). Next is “Echo of a Nightmare” (S03E19).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Kimble works as a laundryman for an amiable fellow named Charlie, who knows too much about the wrong people who are out to kill him. He has arranged for his girlfriend to come join him, not realizing she may bring the Mob with her.
Viewer FAQ
Where does This'll Kill You sit in the The Fugitive guide?
S03E18 is listed hour 78 of 120 — hour 18 of 30 in season 3, season 3 episode 18.
When did The Fugitive S03E18 air?
This'll Kill You aired 1966-01-18 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Do I have to watch all four seasons of The Fugitive?
No. The grammar is weekly: Kimble arrives, almost stays, runs. Sample strong hours, then watch the two-part finale if you want the civic ending the culture still cites.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Watch the long chase as form: Janssen's quiet, Morse's pressure, and a four-season manhunt that taught America to wait for a verdict. The finale is not a twist night so much as a civic appointment the later event-TV industry still tries to buy.
The running still matters more than the one-armed man as trivia. The Fugitive, 1963 on ABC, is a novel of pursuit told in weekly towns: Dr. Richard Kimble, convicted of a murder he did not commit, moving through other people's lives while Lt. Gerard moves through his. David Janssen plays exhaustion as craft — a face that does not beg the camera. Barry Morse plays Gerard as vocation, not cartoon. Bill Raisch's one-armed man is the rumor that structures four years. Serialized television did not invent the long game…
Filed against
- David Janssen as Dr. Richard Kimble
David Janssen ran for his life as Dr. Richard Kimble on The Fugitive — serialized manhunt TV that climaxed in a 1967 finale America treated like a holiday. Exhausted intensity made the one-armed-man myth feel real. On TV Flash he’s early…
- Barry Morse as Lt. Philip Gerard
Barry Morse hunted Richard Kimble as Lt. Philip Gerard on The Fugitive — relentless duty in serialized manhunt TV that climaxed like a national holiday. He made the law feel personal. TV Flash files him as the other half of early…
- Bill Raisch as The One-Armed Man
Bill Raisch was The Fugitive’s One-Armed Man — the myth that powered serialized manhunt TV and a finale that stopped America. Sparse appearances, permanent lore. TV Flash files him as the original appointment-drama MacGuffin with a body,…