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The Best Episodes of The Fugitive Season 2

Every episode of The Fugitive Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Fugitive Season 2!

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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

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Fugitive Season 2 Episode 9 - Escape Into Black
    8.7/10(247 votes)

    S2:E9

    On the verge of closing in on the shadowy one-armed man, Kimble is rendered amnesiac after a freak gas explosion at a roadside diner. While the Fugitive fights to regain his memory, a struggle ensues at the local hospital between Margaret Ruskin, a sympathetic social worker who recognizes Kimble and believes him to be innocent, while a local physician, named Dr. Towne, believes Kimble to be guilty. Meanwhile, the one-armed man slips away, but not before he makes an anonymous phone call to the police and Gerard about Kimble's whereabouts.

    Director:Jerry Hopper
    Writer:Larry Cohen

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  2. The Fugitive Season 2 Episode 17 - The End is But the Beginning
    8.5/10(234 votes)

    S2:E17

    Kimball takes advantage of a deadly car accident as a way to try and convince Gerard that he is now dead.

    Director:Walter Grauman
    Writer:George Fass

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  3. The Fugitive Season 2 Episode 25 - May God Have Mercy
    8.4/10(219 votes)

    S2:E25

    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.

    Director:Don Medford
    Writer:Don Brinkley

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  4. The Fugitive Season 2 Episode 18 - Nicest Fella You'd Ever Want to Meet
    8.3/10(222 votes)

    S2:E18

    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.

    Director:Sutton Roley
    Writer:Jack Turley

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  5. The Fugitive Season 2 Episode 23 - The Survivors
    8.3/10(214 votes)

    S2:E23

    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.

    Director:Don Medford
    Writer:George Eckstein

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  6. The Fugitive Season 2 Episode 5 - Nemesis
    8.2/10(275 votes)

    S2:E5

    Kimble escapes from his workplace at a hatchery just as Gerard and the local sheriff come to arrest him. As Kimble drives off in the sheriff's car, he discovers that Gerard's son is hiding in the backseat.

    Director:Jerry Hopper
    Writer:Harry Kronman

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  7. The Fugitive Season 2 Episode 13 - The Iron Maiden
    8.2/10(226 votes)

    S2:E13

    An industrial accident traps Kimble and some government workers underground. A member of the trapped group wants to turn Kimble in as soon as they are rescued. To add to Richard's problems, Lt. Gerard is waiting above at the only exit.

    Director:Walter Grauman
    Writers:Peter R. Brooke, Paul Lucey

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  8. The Fugitive Season 2 Episode 21 - Corner of Hell
    8.2/10(234 votes)

    S2:E21

    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.

    Director:Robert Butler
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Fugitive Season 2 Episode 3 - Man on a String
    8.1/10(246 votes)

    S2:E3

    While walking on the road late at night, Kimble comes to the aid of Lucey Russell after her car has broken down. As a gratitude, she provides him her place to stay for the night. But the next morning, the police find the dead body of Lars Adams (a married man who Lucey has been having an affair with) only a few feet where her car broke down. As a result, Lucey is arrested for Lars' murder. Lars' wife, Amy, realizes that her husband was killed accidentally, but after learning of his philandering with Lucey, Amy decides that Lucey should take the rap. Kimble realizes that he can prove Lucey's innocence, but testifying for her could jeopardize his own freedom.

    Director:Sydney Pollack
    Writers:Milton Merlin, Barbara Merlin, Harry Kronman

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  10. The Fugitive Season 2 Episode 15 - Ballad for a Ghost
    8.1/10(230 votes)

    S2:E15

    Kimble finds himself working with Hallie, a woman who bears a strong resemblance to his late wife. Hallie knows of the resemblance, and Kimble's danger is increased when Hallie's husband becomes jealous.

    Director:Walter Grauman
    Writer:George Eckstein

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  11. The Fugitive Season 2 Episode 1 - Man in a Chariot
    8.0/10(251 votes)

    S2:E1

    Kimble happens to watch a TV debate in which a once-renowned attorney, named G. Stanley Lazer, claims that he could reverse Kimble's criminal conviction if the case went back to trial. Lazer once a respected lawyer, had his license revoked after getting into a car accident years before while driving drunk in which his wife was killed. Lazer now spends his days teaching law at a small college in Harrisburg. Kimble travels to Pennsylvania and meets with Lazer and his assistant, Nancy Gilman, to enlist their help. To prove his theory, Lazer decides to conduct a mock trial with his students playing the prosecutor, defense lawyer, and jury in front of a live TV audience. But while the mock trial continues, Kimble becomes aware that Lazer is really putting himself on trial for his past misdeeds.

    Director:Robert Butler
    Writer:George Eckstein

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  12. The Fugitive Season 2 Episode 7 - Tug of War
    8.0/10(220 votes)

    S2:E7

    Kimble is working on a farm when he is captured by a sheriff and his deputy. The two men start fighting about how and when to turn Kimble over to the authorities-and one of them will go to any lengths to make sure he gets the credit for the capture.

    Director:Abner Biberman
    Writer:Daniel B. Ullman

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  13. The Fugitive Season 2 Episode 2 - World's End
    7.9/10(250 votes)

    S2:E2

    Kimble answers a classified ad from a certain Ellie Burnett, the daughter of his former defense attorney. They arrange to meet in Kansas City to discuss the information she received about a one-armed man from a private detective hired by her father. But Gerard sees the ad and knows who wrote it because he and Ellie's father were close friends and that Ellie may be in love with Kimble. While Gerard has Ellie investigated, she and Kimble find out that the one-armed man was killed in a fire only a week before. Kimble is devastated, but vows to confirm it. A little later, Ellie's private detective informs her that the one-armed man who died in a fire was actually in prison at the time of Helen Kimble's murder. But Ellie withholds this news from Kimble and convinces him that they should leave the country, realizing that this may be her only chance at a life with him.

    Director:Robert Butler
    Writer:Stuart Jerome

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  14. The Fugitive Season 2 Episode 8 - Dark Corner
    7.9/10(249 votes)

    S2:E8

    Kimble finds refuge from the police in a rural farm house, where he meets Mattie Braydon, a sculptress who suffers from hysterical blindness who lives with her older sister and their uncle. Mattie protects Kimble and while hiring him as a farmhand, she also begins using him as a model for her clay sculptures see keeps in the barn. But Kimble soon finds out that the sweet and innocent Mattie is in fact a possessive and manipulative sociopath who wants Kimble for herself and will do anything, including committing murder, to ensure her dark secrets of her past never get revealed.

    Director:Jerry Hopper
    Writer:Harry Kronman

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  15. The Fugitive Season 2 Episode 16 - Brass Ring
    7.9/10(242 votes)

    S2:E16

    In Santa Monica, California, Kimble is hired by Norma Sessions to help care for her invalid brother Leslie, who was crippled in a car accident. Kimble doesn't realize that Norma, with her boyfriend Lars, are plotting to murder Leslie to collect his insurance money. When Norma suspects Kimble is hiding from the police, she plots to frame him for Leslie's murder.

    Director:Abner Biberman
    Writer:Leonard Kantor

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  16. The Fugitive Season 2 Episode 28 - A.P.B.
    7.9/10(185 votes)

    S2:E28

    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.

    Director:William D. Gordon
    Writer:Daniel B. Ullman

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  17. The Fugitive Season 2 Episode 27 - Runner in the Dark
    7.7/10(188 votes)

    S2:E27

    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.

    Director:Alexander Singer
    Writer:Robert Guy Barrows

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  18. The Fugitive Season 2 Episode 4 - When the Bough Breaks
    7.6/10(223 votes)

    S2:E4

    While hopping freight trains, Kimble meets a young woman named Carol Hollister with her baby with whom she is traveling to meet her husband. But Kimble doesn't know that Carol is a mentally disturbed young woman whose newborn baby died a year earlier and she has abducted another baby. Soon, Carol becomes so far gone that she mistakes Kimble as her late husband. Kimble must find a way to get the baby away from Carol and return it to it's rightful parents while avoiding the police looking for her.

    Director:Ralph Senensky
    Writer:George Eckstein

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  19. The Fugitive Season 2 Episode 11 - Cry Uncle
    7.6/10(237 votes)

    S2:E11

    After finding refuge in an orphanage, Kimble becomes entwined in the plight of a troubled teenage boy who passes him off as his uncle.

    Director:James Goldstone
    Writer:Philip Saltzman

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  20. The Fugitive Season 2 Episode 22 - Moon Child
    7.6/10(207 votes)

    S2:E22

    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.

    Director:Alexander Singer
    Writer:Daniel B. Ullman

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  21. The Fugitive Season 2 Episode 29 - The Old Man Picked a Lemon
    7.6/10(193 votes)

    S2:E29

    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.

    Director:Alexander Singer
    Writer:Jack Turley

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  22. The Fugitive Season 2 Episode 6 - Tiger Left, Tiger Right
    7.5/10(214 votes)

    S2:E6

    While working as a gardener on the estate of a wealthy couple, Mike and Laura Pryor, Kimble is mistakenly abducted by Harold and Irene Cheyney. Harold is a Korean war veteran and former factory worker who lost the use of his legs after a truck owned by the Pryor's company hit him. After writing several letters to Mike Pryor asking about work and disability compensation, none of the letters were answered, so Harold decides to kidnap Mike for a $100,000 ransom. But since Harold and Irene have never met or seen Mike Pryor they happened to abduct Kimble instead after seeing Mike's son, Glenn, give more affection to Kimble than his distant father.

    Director:James Goldstone
    Writers:William Link, Richard Levinson

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  23. The Fugitive Season 2 Episode 24 - Everybody Gets Hit in the Mouth Sometime
    7.5/10(193 votes)

    S2:E24

    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.

    Director:Alexander Singer
    Writer:Jack Turley

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  24. The Fugitive Season 2 Episode 26 - Masquerade
    7.5/10(179 votes)

    S2:E26

    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.

    Director:Abner Biberman
    Writer:Philip Saltzman

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  25. The Fugitive Season 2 Episode 12 - Detour on a Road Going Nowhere
    7.4/10(212 votes)

    S2:E12

    While working as a hotel steward in Wyoming, Kimble is forced to run after learning that another hotel employee has stolen hotel funds, and Kimble becomes the suspect. Kimble escapes on a tour bus containing a bickering couple called the Langners, a visiting spinster named Louanne, a local guy named Sandy Baird, and the bus driver. But Kimble becomes trapped when the bus breaks down on a back road, and all the passengers discover his secret when his identity is revealed over the radio. Held at gunpoint, Kimble must find a way to escape by emotionally getting between his various captors before the bus driver returns with the police.

    Director:Ralph Senensky
    Writer:Philip Saltzman

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Escape Into Black" is the best rated episode of "The Fugitive" season 2. It scored 8.7/10 based on 247 votes. Directed by Jerry Hopper and written by Larry Cohen, it aired on 11/17/1964. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "The End is But the Beginning".