This was the first series to feature a "final episode" in which all the plot lines were resolved, and all questions answered. The Fugitive finale ranked for decades as the highest-rated TV episode of all time.
Richard Kimble was originally fleeing his hometown in Wisconsin, until the producers discovered that Wisconsin did not execute murderers. The locale was quickly changed to Indiana.
According to Barry Morse after completing the first show he was walking up the road with David Janssen and he said, "Do you think we will get more than a couple of weeks work out of this?"
Barry Morse (Lieutenant Philip Gerard) recalls that he was in a London restaurant when a waiter handed him a note. It read, "Kimble is in the kitchen."
At times, guest actresses would try to flatter Bill Raisch by speaking about how special effects allowed him to fake missing an arm, unaware that Raisch actually only had one arm.