History Trivia / TheFugitive

* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: The movie was largely made this way, on the fly—although one would never suspect by watching it, as it ''looks'' very carefully planned. About 70% of the dialogue (especially between Gerard and the other Marshals) is improvised.

* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: The movie was largely made this way, on the fly—although one would never suspect by watching it, as it ''looks'' very carefully planned.

* TrollingCreator: David Janssen and Creator/BarryMorse concerning the series's ending. A few examples:

** Barry Morse and David Janssen also made up an alternate epilogue to the finale for fun: In it, Kimble wakes up in bed next to his wife, saying that he just had the most horrible nightmare.
** There's a persistent rumour that an alternate ending, revealing Kimble with a false arm and therefore as the real killer, had actually been planned. In "The Fugitive Recaptured", Barry Morse suggests that this may stem from a plan he and Janssen had to pull some kind of false-arm gag at public appearances, even though they never went through with it. Either that or...

* DVDCommentary: The commentary with Andrew Davis and Creator/TommyLeeJones is probably one of the most disappointing ever. Davis spends most of the time simply talking about shooting locations and praising ever actor on screen while Jones' is quiet most of the time and when he does speak his comments amount to things like "I liked this part" and "it was cold that day".

* CastTheExpert: Joseph F. Kasala, who played Detective Rosetti, is a retired Chicago police detective. He helped script the interrogation scene based off of his experiences.

* NamesTheSame: Looking at all the aliases Kimble had, he posed as some pretty interesting people...he was Florida-based soul singer Paul Kelly in "Tug of War", famous newspaper columnist Jack Anderson in "Second Sight", Fugs co-founder Ed Sanders in "Death is the Door Prize", ''My Little Margie'' co-star Charlie Farrell in "Dossier on a Diplomat" and, if Richard Clark went by the nickname 'Dick', then Kimble posed as him as well in "Nicest Fella You'd Ever Want to Meet".
** Patricia Smith played a character named Creator/AmyAdams in the episode "Man On a String".
** Wright King played a character named Joe Penny in the episode "Running Scared". Unfortunately, Creator/WilliamConrad does not have any scenes with him.

** Patricia Smith played a character named Amy Adams in the episode "Man On a String".

* SimilarlyTitledWorks: The Series/TheTwilightZone1959 featured an episode entitled "The Fugitive" that had absolutely nothing to do with this series, except for the star of the TZ episode, J. Pat O'Malley, who guest-starred three times on The Fugitive.

* FakeBrit: "No Strings Attached" sees American Rex Thompson as virtuoso violinist Geoffrey Martin. It's especially noticeable when he's in a scene with Creator/DonaldPleasance (as his manager).

* DisabledCharacterDisabledActor: Bill Raisch, who played the One-Armed Man, had lost his right arm in World War II.

** [[FakeAmerican Lt. Gerard]] was played by the English-born Canadian Creator/BarryMorse. A good thing, too, since any time a person on the street got too threatening to him for [[IAmNotSpock being mean to Kimble]], he could switch to his native accent and say, "Blimey, guv, I ain't who you think I am! Must be that bloke on the telly who looks like me."

** "Shadow of the Swan" catches British-born Joanna Pettet early in her decades-long run playing [[FakeAmerican Fake Americans]] on TV.
** "No Strings Attached" sees American Rex Thompson plays a FakeBrit as virtuoso violinist Geoffrey Martin. It's especially noticeable when he's in a scene with Donald Pleasance (as his manager).

* SpiritualAdaptation: The series shares several plot and thematic elements with the novel and film ''Film/DarkPassage'', to the point where the novel's author (unsuccessfully) sued the show's producers for copyright infringement.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/RobertStack turned down the role of Richard Kimble.

** Also Gerard's wife. She appeared briefly in two episodes, each time played by a different bit actress (one of them was even uncredited). The one time she had a major role to play was in a rare two-parter where she was played by Special Guest Star Barbara Rush.

* AbandonedSet: The crashed train was left there in Sylva, North Carolina after filming wrapped. It still stands, and can still be visited today, though considering it was crashed and abandoned on the side of a hill, it is very downgraded.

* SerendipityWritesThePlot: The chase through the St. Patrick's Day parade only happened because the parade was occurring at the same time as filming.