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If you were a kid in the 1960s, the very first episode of a very popular TV series began

with this voiceover.

The name, Dr. Richard Kimble, the destination, death row state prison, the irony.

Richard Kimble is innocent.

Proved guilty, what Richard Kimble could not prove was the moments before discovering

his murdered wife's body, he saw a one-armed man running from the vicinity of his home.

Richard Kimble ponders his fate as he looks at the world for the last time, and he sees

only darkness.

But in the darkness, fate moves its huge hand.

That's the opening scene of the very first episode of The Fugitive, which aired from

1963 to 1967.

And the show told the story of a doctor wrongfully convicted of his wife's murder.

He escapes from custody and searches for the real killer, a mysterious one-armed man.

And the show was allegedly inspired by a true life story, the trial of Dr. Sam Shepard.

Now Shepard was accused of having murdered his pregnant wife, Marilyn Shepard, in their

home in Ohio on July 4th, 1954.

Shepard told the police that he had struggled with a stranger he'd discovered in their

bedroom, and according to Shepard, the stranger escaped.

But the police always considered Shepard the prime suspect.

And while the TV series focused on the fugitives' pursuit of the mysterious one-armed man, in

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