The Fugitive
The Fugitive, sixty years after it first debuted, has strong name recognition which is commendable for a property that is not based on a comic book or classic novel. I was born in 1972 so my first point of reference was the 1993 film. My parents might think first of the 1960 series created by Roy Huggins. If the attempt to revive the TV series either in 2000 or in 2020 had caught on with the general public, younger generations might go first to one of those versions. When something is successful it breeds a lot of imitators. The format of the 1960s show was similar to the movie Shane. A stranger comes into a small town, solves the problems of the people he encounters, and then moves on, usually because he either has to run from the police who have discovered his presence, or because he might be closer to solving his own major problem. The Incredible Hulk and the A-Team followed a similar template. In the case of The Fugitive the protagonist is Dr. Richard Kimble, a pediatric