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Richard Kimble is a pediatrician from Stafford, Indiana. |
Richard Kimble is a vascular surgeon from Chicago, Illinois. |
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The one-armed man does not have a prosthetic arm. |
The one-armed man, Frederick Sykes, has a prosthetic arm which factors into Kimble tracking him down.
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Richard Kimble uses various aliases and works various jobs to prevent Gerard from finding him. |
Richard Kimble fully devotes his efforts to uncovering his wife's murderer. Except for briefly using the name of a hospital janitor, he does not use any fake names. |
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The events take place in the 1960s over a span of several years. |
The events take place in the span of a few months around 1992.
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Richard Kimble escapes from police custody after the train he is riding derails. |
Richard Kimble escapes from police custody after the bus he is riding crashes. |
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Richard Kimble previously served as an army doctor in Korea. |
Richard Kimble has no military experience.
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Richard Kimble has various love interests. |
Richard Kimble has no love interests, although his colleague Cathy was originally planned to be one. |
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The one-armed man, like Kimble, uses aliases and works odd jobs to avoid the police. |
The one-armed man, Frederick Sykes, continues to live normally working for a security company.
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Philip Gerard has a wife and son. |
It is unknown whether or not Samuel Gerard has a family. |
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The series takes place all over the United States. |
The movie takes place only in Illinois.
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The one-armed man falls to his death from a water tower. |
Frederick Sykes is arrested at the end of the film. |
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Richard Kimble sees the one-armed man running from his home before he goes inside to discover his wife's death. |
Richard Kimble enters his home as the one-armed man is killing his wife and struggles with him briefly before the one-armed man escapes.
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Before his wife's death, Richard Kimble was arguing with her about whether or not to have a child. |
Before his wife's death, Richard Kimble was coming home after performing surgery; his wife was in the midst of preparing a romantic evening. |
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Helen Kimble was killed during an attempted robbery done by the one-armed man. |
The one-armed man killed Helen Kimble during an assassination attempt on Richard.
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Richard Kimble is in his early to mid-30s. |
Richard Kimble is about 50 years old. |
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Richard Kimble is in his early to mid-30s. |
Richard Kimble is about 50 years old.
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Richard Kimble was not home when the one-armed man broke in because he was out drinking to cope with the stress of the fight he had with his wife. |
Richard Kimble was not home when the one-armed man broke in because he was called in to assist on an emergency surgery. |
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There is no pharmaceutical conspiracy. |
Pharmaceutical company Devlin MacGregor tries to assassinate Kimble after he finds issues with an experimental drug called Provasic.
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Philip Gerard is a police lieutenant. |
Samuel Gerard is a US Marshal. |
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Philip Gerard is with Kimble in the train when it derails. |
Samuel Gerard first meets Richard Kimble in the storm drain.
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Richard Kimble disguises himself with hair dye. He has no facial hair. |
Richard Kimble disguises himself with hair dye and by shaving his beard. |
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Richard Kimble has a retrial and is acquitted and the series ends with Kimble as a free man. |
Richard Kimble steps into the police car with Gerard, who now knows he is innocent.
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The jury convicted Richard Kimble for his wife's death because there was no other plausible culprit or witness known to them or Richard. |
The jury convicted Richard Kimble for his wife's death because she said his name while on the phone with 911. |
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Richard Kimble escapes from police custody after the train he is riding crashes. |
Richard Kimble escapes from police custody after the bus he is riding crashes through a guardrail, ending up on the railroad tracks, before being struck by an oncoming train.
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