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The Fugitive - Season Two, Vol. 1 |  | Directors: Abner Biberman, Alex March, Alexander Singer, Andrew McCullough, Christian Nyby
Actors: David Janssen, William Conrad, Barry Morse, Ruth White, Louise Sorel
Studio: Paramount Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $39.98
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Rating:  165 reviews
Sales Rank: 19496
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Discs: 4
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 771 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 097361327648
UPC: 097361327648
EAN: 0097361327648
ASIN: B0014FAIX4
Release Date: June 10, 2008
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Product Description
After being wrongly accused of murdering his wife, Dr. Richard Kimble escapes custody and sets out to find the real killer: a one-armed man.
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The relentless Lt. Gerard (Barry Morse) has always insisted that capturing fugitive Richard Kimble (David Janssen) was just "unfinished business." But in "The Nemesis," an essential episode that is one of the highlights of this half-season set, it's personal. An unwitting Kimble has stolen Girard's car to make a getaway, not knowing that it contains Girard's young son, Phil, Jr. (Kurt Russell). Phil Jr. is a chip off the old block (he cleverly leaves a trail of his precious football cards to point his father in the right direction), but a selfless act by Kimble raises doubts in the boy's mind. "You and dad can't both be right," he questions. This is just one of the compelling human dramas at the heart of one of television's Most Wanted series. Now in his second year on the run after escaping from the Death Row-bound train, Kimble is "tired of looking over his shoulder… tired of running." In "Escape Into Black," he visits a small-town diner and loses his memory after the gas stove explodes. In "When the Bough Breaks," he hops a freight car that also carries a traumatized woman who has abducted a baby. Until he can find the one-armed man (Bill Raisch) he witnessed running from his home the night his wife was killed, he will have to endure "another shabby room, another lonely night." Not that Kimble doesn't have his champions. In the season-opener, "Man in a Chariot," a college law professor, argues Kimble's case before his students in a mock trial. In "World's End," the daughter (Suzanne Pleshette) of his former defense attorney contacts Kimble with potentially devastating news about the ever-elusive one-armed man and schemes to run away with him. In "Escape into Black," a compassionate hospital welfare caseworker (Betty Garrett) tries to find the one-armed man while Kimble recovers. The episodes in this set maintain an unflagging pace, thanks to taut direction (the late Sydney Pollack directed "Man on a String," in which Kimble is a very reluctant witness in a murder case) and excellent scripts (George Eckstein, who wrote "Man in a Chariot" and "When the Bough Breaks" would co-write The Fugitive's final episode, a television benchmark). Among the great character actors who guest star in these episodes include Tuesday Weld as a manipulative and very twisted sister in "Dark Corner," Slim Pickens as a poacher in "Nemesis," and Ivan Dixon as a doctor who discovers Kimble's identity in "Escape Into Black." The Fugitive taps into the primal fear that was one of Hitchcock's favorite themes: What would you do if you were falsely accused? Janssen is unforgettable in his signature role as the man whose every instinct is to flee the scene and not get involved with the strangers whose paths he crosses. But we offer viewers the same advice the professor gives Kimble in "Chariot": "All I ask is that you stay around and see what happens." --Donald Liebenson
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 Still the same awful Hayes Synthesizer June 18, 2010
Franklin Crosby Brown (USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Here is my two-cents worth:
I purchased this dvd set on June 12, 2010 from Amazon, long after it was a known fact that CBS/Paramount intentionally changed all the original musical score with that awful synthesizer music and long after they attempted to make it right with outraged fans by issuing replacement discs with most of the original musical score in-tact.
I give "Fugitive - Season 2, Volume 1" one star, not for the series but because the dvd set that I received from Amazon still contains the synthesizer music. Apparently the replacement program was a limited time offer. I wish now that I had bought the series before the replacement offer expired so that I could have taken advantage of that offer. The cost of the dvds were still very expensive and I was waiting for the price to come down before buying.
I need not talk about the synthesizer music because there are plenty of other reviews out there which have covered that subject. This is the first time that I have viewed The Fugitive so I decided to take my chances, where I have never had a chance to hear the original music from season 2. Later, I decided to aquire a couple of VHS copies of the original season 2 Fugitive. Having now compared the original music to the cheesy synthesizer version, I can understand why many diehard fans of the series were so outraged.
CBS/Paramount should have done more than just offered replacement discs for a limited time. They should have issued a total recall to all retail and online stores to pull that garbage off the shelves and replace it with discs containing the original music.
 For Market Place Sellers April 4, 2010
Longview (Memphis)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Market place sellers might consider indicating if their copy for sale is one that has the original score restored. Some purchasers like myself will not buy this DVD without confirming that in advance.
GOOD TO SEE THE FUGITIVE AGAIN January 16, 2010
Donna Caponigro (New York,, NY United States)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
While it is not acceptable to have the original music removed it is good to be able to watch my favorite TV show again after 40 years. Let's keep the music real for future releases.
Don't waste your money on an altered product January 5, 2010
Howard Ragan (Drexel Hill, PA United States)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I just got around to watching some of this set over the holidays and I was very disappointed to find I have a set with the replacement scores. Initially, I thought it wouldn't be that big a deal, but I was surprised how annoying and distracting the episodes sound without the original music. They just don't sound right and this greatly diminished the enjoyment for me. Killed my interest in the show. I won't be buying any future sets (unless I can get them dirt cheap somewhere). A real crime to do this to the fans of the show.
Sorry music September 24, 2009
Thurman Colquet Speer (TX, United States)
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
I bought the Fugitive Vol.1 season 2 thinking the music score had been corrected, it has not. I also was under the impression that if I got a copy that was not correct I could send it back for replacement discs. That option is also not available the cut off date was Sept. 1 2009. I just got my copy the third week of Sept. so I can not get it replaced, whats even worse is I e-mailed the address on the form they had to see if they would still replace my copy and they did not even accept the e-mail I guess they closed down the site. If you are a fan of the original show you would probably not be pleased with this purchase.
Thurman Speer
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