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Dr. Richard Kimble is accused to be the murder of his wife. The night before his execution, he escapes. The only chance to prove his innocence is to find the man who killed hi wife. Kimble, persecuted by the Lt. Gerard, risks his life several times when he shows his identity to help other people out of trouble.
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #68530 in DVD
- Brand: Paramount
- Released on: 2012-10-23
- Rating: NR (Not Rated)
- Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 33
- Formats: Box set, Black & White, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
- Original language: English
- Dubbed in: English
- Running time: 6168 minutes
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27 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
By J. Gilbert
**As of November 15, 2012, the web site TV Shows On DVD has announced that CBS is offering replacement discs for 5 defective DVDs in this set. The 5 discs are the two Season 1 discs containing the audio issues in the episodes "Bloodline" and "Taps For a Dead War," the season two disc containing the episode "The Iron Maiden," which has music issues, the season three disc containing the episode "Three Cheers For Little Boy Blue," and the season three disc containing the two-part episode "Landscape With Running Figures." Those episodes had playback problems.
Here is the link to the web site explaining how to order your replacement discs:
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A reviewer named Richard H. Campbell posted a review on Amazon.com regarding some defective discs in the newly-reissued 2012 edition of this set. I don't intend to review the product as a whole at this point, but will comment on this defective disc issue.
According to Mr. Campbell, the set contains four defective discs. He identifies them as Season 1, Volume 2, discs 2 and 3; Season 3, Volume 1, discs 2 and 3. Mr. Campbell says that the lip sync is off in the Season 1 episodes "Bloodline" and "Taps For a Dead War." He says there are issues playing the Season 3 episodes "Three Cheers For Little Boy Blue" and the two-part "Landscape With Running Figures." I have not checked the Season 1 discs in my own set to see if those episodes suffer from the same problem, however there are some comments on hometheaterforum.com where reviewers are discussing exactly the same lip sync issue with both those episodes. I assume this is an issue with every set, and there must have been some error made in the sound mixing of those episodes.
As for the Season 3 discs, I did check mine, and there are huge problems. "Three Cheers For Little Boy Blue" skips and freezes up, and if you try to fast forward or skip to another chapter, you will often be taken to the wrong place in the episode. You cannot play the episode all the way through to the completion of the end theme. In "Landscape With Running Figures," there are also skipping and freezing issues. In that two-part episode, you cannot even fast forward, rewind, or skip to another chapter. Those functions simply do not work on those episodes.
Problems with a fifth disc in this set were also discovered sometime later. The season two episode "The Iron Maiden" contained some new substituted Mark Heyes music at certain points in the episode. The season two disc containing this episode is also part of the replacement program, and presumably, CBS is restoring the original soundtrack in that episode.
Now that CBS has announced this replacement disc program, I am satisfied that they have done everything they could to make this release the one the fans--and this legendary series--deserve.
Five stars. Perhaps we could have gotten more in the way of special features, but the quality of this series, perhaps the best dramatic TV series ever done, and the remastering put into the video and audio, still earn this release five stars.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
By R. Wall
I think "The Fugitive" may be the best drama if not the best TV show ever conceived.
What make this series so interesting...is the basic story. Doctor Richard Kimble is found guilty of murdering his wife after many loud and noisy arguments....after it is determined that the Kimbles can not have children naturally. Dr Kimble comforts his wife after the doctors delivers this news. Dr Kimble reassures his wife that they can adopt children but his wife, Helen, declares that would be living a lie. From this point...many arguments and fights take place.
After a particularly loud fight...Helen is shown drinking heavily...Dr Kimble angrily gets into his car and drives off to cool off. Later that evening...he returns home and as he approaches his driveway...a one armed man lunges out into the street from the Kimbles' yard and Dr Kimble has to slam on his brakes as he stares into the face of this one armed man leaning on the hood of his car. Dr Kimble pulls into the driveway and goes into the house only to find his wife dead from a blow to the head.
Dr Kimble is arrested for the murder of his wife and the jury refuses to believe his story about a one armed man that he saw running from his house the night Helen Kimble was murdered. The jury believes Dr Kimble is guilty after hearing testimony from their neighbors of Stafford, Indiana about their volatile relationship.
The judge condemns Dr Kimble to death row. He will be escorted by and handcuffed to Stafford, Indiana police lieutenant, Phillip Gerard on a train headed to the state penitentiary to serve his death sentence. However, the train wrecks unexpectedly and Dr Kimble's handcuffs break loose from Lt Gerard. In the darkness...Dr Kimble escapes as a fugitive from justice to be relentlessly pursued by Lt Gerard while Kimble desperately searches for the one armed man. Hence...the plot for the series.
What makes the show so good is the stories that develop around the chase. Kimble roams the country with his head down taking menial jobs to stay alive while ducking constantly from the police. Kimble meets people of all walks of life. Some are good...some are obviously bad...some are deceptively bad...some wrestle with being good vs bad...and some find decency during the course of the drama. Kimble helps people in need...sometimes risking being caught and people help Kimble elude Gerard. Other people blackmail Kimble and yes...come within a hair from getting him caught by Gerard or the police. Kimble manages to find some good but albeit brief romances along the way.
The acting, writing, production and soundtrack are top notch.
Make sure that you buy "The Most Wanted Edition" which offers the entire run of the series into one single purchase. The series was released previously in season and part season editions that contain music that was NOT original to the series. Steer clear of these sets.
The best thing about this series is that for it's time period of production and setting of the 1960s is that the series has a finale...an outstanding one at that that bring the series to it's final conclusion...a series ending two part episode called "The Judgment".
I highly recommend this set as it was certainly was producer Quinn Martin's best TV show. Five Stars and then some.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
By K. Jordan
I ordered mine from Movies Unlimited and it arrived today. I watched "Man In A Chariot," the first episode of the Second Season, and all the original music seemed to be present - except possibly the background music playing at the club during the conversation between Richard Drivas and David Janssen. The video and audio quality are the best I've seen yet.
"Man In A Chariot" is one of the episodes that had a lot of the music replaced in the free Season Two "replacement set" that CBS sent to those of us who heard about the replacement program for Season Two, Part One, and applied to get the new versions with most of the music put back in. (These "replacement sets" were in substitution for the first Season Two, Part One, sets that were issued with ALL the original music replaced with some truly TERRIBLE synthesizer music.) And again, the video and audio quality are even better than the half-season episodes.
I can recommend this set. I'll write a follow-up if I find ANY music replaced, but my guess right now is that only background music in clubs, bars, etc., has been replaced.
UPDATE: I'm very happy to report, again, that I believe that all, or nearly all, the music cues have been restored to their original versions. I examined "The White Knight" in particular, using the excellent December 8, 2009, review posted by Robert Dahl for the 2009 release of Season 3, Volume 2. Mr. Dahl in that review stated that, "The White Knight is completely trashed with Heyes cues," and I certainly agree with his assessment of that 2009 version. Mr. Dahl also pinpointed the exact times where 19 of the Heyes replace cues began in the version of "The White Knight" contained in the Season 3, Volume 2 set issued in December 2009. I compared this prior version of the episode and the version of "The White Knight" just released in "The Fugitive - The Most Wanted Edition - Complete Series." I am happy to confirm that all Heyes replacement music In "The White Knight" is gone and what appear to me to be the original instrumental cues have been restored.
I also examined "The 2130," which Mr. Dahl also noted had a lot of Heyes cues, and these do appear to have all been deleted in favor of the original instrumental music.
While, as another reviewer has noted, the new set just released does note that "Some music has been replaced," I'd say if there is some replacement music, it is minimal. So if you are a fan of The Fugitive, I'd buy this set without hesitation. CBS deserves recognition for listening to the fans of this great 1960s TV series and doing it justice in this new complete series set, and the best way to do that is to buy this set.
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