TV Show The Fugitive

I think so. I think having to show your social security card only started in the 80s.

Bear in mind that the vast computer databases of today didn't exist then. With some resourcefulness it was possible. A guy named Jack Clouser hid from the FBI for almost ten years in that time.

Yes. Men could be grifters and drifters. My father worked in construction all his life and in the 70s he would sometimes bring over a coworker for barbecue on Sunday. Some of these guys had fascinating lives that couldn’t be lived today. Born in Iowa, in the Marines at 15 with a false birth cert, worked everywhere from nightclubs of Vegas to docks in Texas to ranches in Wyoming. These guys never even had a trade. My parents were Irish immigrants and back then Irish people could come over and start work the next day. No employer asked for papers or identification. I had female relatives who arrived on a Friday and a week later they were in domestic service for well to do families on the UES, no checks, no interviews, no references.

The other notable thing about The Fugitive was the amount of action he got. Every other episode he had a beautiful woman trying to save him and get him to settle down with her. That part was not so true to life! The guys my dad worked with were not beating the ladies off with a stick!

But did they look like David Jansen?

Had an affair with DL fav and 2 time Fugitive guest star Suzanne Pleshette. Also had an affair with Fugitive guest star Angie Dickinson.

Yes, it's true that guys could move around and get jobs and rent apartments with no ID or background checks in the early 1960s. Times were much different then.

Incidentally, The Fugitive is very loosely based on the infamous Doctor Sam Sheppard case. -- "Samuel Holmes "Sam" Sheppard (December 29, 1923 – April 6, 1970) was an American neurosurgeon. He was exonerated in 1966, having been convicted of the 1954 murder of his wife, Marilyn Reese Sheppard.[1] The case was controversial from the beginning, with extensive and prolonged nationwide media coverage."

I can remember my older brother getting his first job around 1986 or so and they wanted to see his social security card, which my parents kept locked away in a safe. I remember it being sort of a confusing thing and they didn't know if they should let him take it out and bring it to the place and they wondered why the place wanted it.

I'm guessing they had not had to ever show it before when they got jobs.

Like the the German DVD box set better, works also in the US with a dvd and maybe bluray player that runs the European region dvds; and on laptop it is easy, just switch the code of your player

good book to the series

The series had a good representation on imdb, with many reviews for the episodes.

Good book; the series was also cast anew in the early 2000s, with Tim Daly, the guy from Aviator and Connie Britton, the series I cannot find on DVD, nor on any video site; good series as well, just saw the pilot, but it looked good; I think it just ran for one season, no DVD or video play :(. Gay dad James Daly played in two episodes in the original series, politician and psychopath killer in other. The new series was kinda a continuation of the legend movie with Harrison Ford and Tommy Lee Jones (Academy Award).

David Janssen also was the narrator and played a local leader in the last episodes of the star-strutted mini-series Centennial, of James Michener, late 70s, telling the story of Colorado. William Conrad was the famed narrator in The Fugitive.

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Oh, dear!

"The Fugitive" airs on MeTV at 2AM on Sundays. (Actually early Monday morning.)

I remember it used to say “Act 1”, “Act 2”, “Act 3” and “Epilogue” on the screen. Another Quinn Martin produced show The Invaders did that too.

Decades TV shows "The Fugitive" weeknights at half past midnight.

On The Rockford Files, Jim Rockford had a wee letter press in his car, he'd pick out the letters, ink it, and make a fresh business card with any name or profession on it, for purposes of making contact and asking people questions to solve the mystery of the week. When I was a kid, I thought that letter press was the SHIT, way cooler than his stupid answering machine. Anyway, just another admittedly farfetched way somebody could claim any false identity they wanted, before the current age of varied forms of identification and extensive background checks.

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I'm watching it too; I loved this show back when I was in grade school. Janssen certainly earned his paycheck; in almost every episode, he has to run up or down some big hill, sometimes falling or rolling down one.

The two episode finale, where he finally tracks down the one armed man, was a ratings sensation when it originally aired. Can't wait to see this! I only have very fuzzy memories of what actually transpires.

I didn't discover it until the late 80s, but quickly fell for David Janssen's sexy hangdog look. I wanted him to turn up in my town.