The Fugitive

Name: The Fugitive
Genre: Drama

1963–1967ABCDrama

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William Conrad narrating a man's situation over a train at night — the template for every wrongly-accused-drifter series that followed.

One opening sequence is catalogued for The Fugitive, covering season 1.

It arrived on ABC in 1963, when The Bugs Bunny Show, ABC's Wide World of Sports and American Bandstand were also on the network.

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The opening titles

No usable clip kept. The available upload runs the opening and closing themes together rather than the opening alone.

No footage of this sequence has been found yet.

1960–ITVDrama

The longest-running television soap in the world, opening on rooftops and a cornet ever since 1960.

1965–NBCDrama

"Like sands through the hourglass" — the same sentence, over the same hourglass, for sixty years.

1964–1968NBCDrama

Sixties spy graphics and a brass chart, in the register every subsequent spy show either copied or reacted against.

1965–1969CBSDrama

An animated frontier vignette that pauses on four panels of a comic strip — a western opening built like a title card for a serial.

1962–1971NBCDrama

The first ninety-minute western on American television, and the third longest-running of them all.

1968–2012ABCDrama

Llanview, and the first American daytime serial written around class and ethnicity rather than around a hospital.