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re: On this day in 1967, 78 million people tuned in to watch the finale of The Fugitive

Posted on 3/10/25 at 8:06 pm to
Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 3/10/25 at 8:06 pm to






Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 3/27/25 at 10:00 pm to
Happy Birthday, David Janssen









Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 7/17/25 at 8:24 pm to
"Runner In The Dark"
s2 e27

Director: Alexander Singer
Writer: Robert Guy Barrows
Mar 30, 1965

Dr Kimble takes refuge in a home for the blind, unaware one resident is the town's former police chief

Solidly entertaining episode, with a great guest star in Ed Begley as the blind but suspicious cop, and a classic twist ending







Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 8/23/25 at 5:50 pm to
One of my favorite aspects of the GOAT drama series:















The Fugitive never falls back on the easy "framed and railroaded" cop out. When forced, Kinble will admit he had a fair trial.

But he was convicted anyway. And what could be more disturbingly alienating than that?
Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 8/24/25 at 7:54 pm to






Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 8/30/25 at 10:05 pm to
quote:

Happy Fugitive Day!

"August 29th. The Day The Running Stopped."

And this year I forgot

Just like I did last year



quote:



50 years before peak TV, ‘The Fugitive’ set a precedent for big series finales

"The Judgment": Act IV and Epilog


Posted by Madking
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Posted on 8/31/25 at 12:17 am to
“The Last of Us season 2 blows those numbers away by hundreds of millions”


Sincerely, Corinthians420
Posted by FredBear
Georgia
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Posted on 8/31/25 at 8:43 am to
I've recently bought The Most Wanted Edition DVD set of the series and it's really a solid show. That would be a hell of a way to have to live
Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 11/10/25 at 9:26 pm to








Posted by Aeolian Vocalion
Texas
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Posted on 11/10/25 at 10:38 pm to
Looks like good old I. Stanford Jolley in the fourth box, talking 'salvation.'

Always like seeing that guy. Played sleek villains in scores of b-westerns, before winding up in 'old man' bit parts in sixties tv.

Posted by Kafka
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Posted on 11/10/25 at 10:42 pm to
quote:

Looks like good old I. Stanford Jolley in the fourth box, talking 'salvation.'

Always like seeing that guy. Played sleek villains in scores of b-westerns, before winding up in 'old man' bit parts in sixties tv.
whoa!

I almost mentioned him but decided no one would care

ISJ shows up all the time in golden age tv westerns (pretty much all I watch these days)
Posted by JackDempsey
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Posted on 11/10/25 at 11:00 pm to
Janssen must have had good hearing.
Posted by Aeolian Vocalion
Texas
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Posted on 11/11/25 at 9:42 am to
Yep, in 60s tv, I. Stanford Jolley fit the bill for casting directors looking for a grizzled sort of dusty, rangy dirt-farmer or bum. But if they needed an even more grizzled and more seedy bum-like character, they'd probably go with William Fawcett. On the other side of the coin, if they needed a tad less grizzle, but still low-achieving and ornery type, they'd likely go with Trevor Bardette.

Love seeing the old-guard pros still around, doing their bits in 50s/60s television. Their presence is often a welcome tonic, perking up old shows, and offsetting the often overly-angsty method acting styles of the younger crop of performers who were flooding in from the East Coast.
Posted by LaLadyinTx
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Member since Nov 2018
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Posted on 11/11/25 at 11:08 am to
quote:

TVs had like 12 channels (2-13) Some cities only had 4-5. And you had to get off the couch to change it.

And half of those were nonsense channels.


4-5? You are significantly overestimating the number of channels in many areas. I was born in 1961. For all of my years at home in the country near Shreveport, we had 3. We had 3 (ABC), 6 (NBC), and 12 (CBS) and the NBC station wasn't always clear.

A lot of the time, the set of soap operas you grew up with (Cuz your momma and mamaw definitely watched them) depended on what station near you was the strongest.

FWIW, I remember hearing my mom talking about The Fugitive. The 2 shows I remember her talking about were The Fugitive and Peyton Place.
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