Amusing things I've noticed about the show

Men dressed more formally back when The Fugitive was in production ... Shoe clerks and office workers often wore jackets and ties back then

Those sure were the days! Customs of dress really sure have declined since then. Personally I do appreciate not having to wear a tie and sport jacket except on formal occasions. But it's gone too far the opposite extreme today.

You can go all the way back to the depression era of the 1930's, and men standing in soup lines were wearing suits. They might be soiled and perhaps frayed, but they still wore suits. This really didn't change until the 1970's, and has been increasingly going downhill since.

I too didn't know PBS aired "The Fugitive" at one time. I first discovered it in the early '90 on A&E.

Individual stations have the option of picking up off-network shows. The PBS affiliate in St Louis has shown reruns of "The Man From UNCLE", "The Outer Limits", and "Jack Benny" from time to time, as well as the Tom Baker run of "Doctor Who", "The Prisoner", and "Ernie Kovacs". The PBS affiliate out of Southern Illinois University is where I got to see "The Defenders" in the early 70s.

Individual stations have the option of picking up off-network shows. The PBS affiliate in St Louis has shown reruns of "The Man From UNCLE", "The Outer Limits", and "Jack Benny" from time to time, as well as the Tom Baker run of "Doctor Who", "The Prisoner", and "Ernie Kovacs". The PBS affiliate out of Southern Illinois University is where I got to see "The Defenders" in the early 70s.

Here's another thing: why is it that Kimble when captured is always telling people he's going to try and escape on them? I guess the idea is that he's so honest and aboveboard he feels the need to warn people, but still! Makes me laugh every time.

Very true today; and I wonder if it was truly more common for someone in Kimble's situation to get jobs and housing in the 1960s, small or larger towns.

Regardless of the job, one would think being paid by check would be difficult to cash without identity. Once in a while we see Kimble pull out ID for police in which it verifies his alias. I would think that this is a wallet he found (we can't imagine him stealing; or at best he could return the money...he is so honest, after all); and back in the day I guess driver's licenses did not include photographs; I have heard of that.

Some episodes do show him buying clothes in a thrift store (exchanging a chauffeur's uniform for street clothes). He goes through so many, and so many suitcases or bags that it's inconceivable he would acquire them anywhere except cheap second-hand stores. In eps where he has to run at the conclusion, and is not known to have any money on his person, getting more clothes, food, anything, tends to be a wonder.

Nonetheless, The Fugitive was an excellent show, and they hold up well today.

(and as I posted on another thread, the one amusing thing I have noticed consistently is the business telephones that do not light the active line; all the buttons are dark no matter what)

That's all true about the jobs, especially away from major cities. Why do a background check or laborer job in Sioux City or a desk clerk in Duluth? Now they probably would.

Also, many more businesses,--retailers especially--are chains now, thus a pharmacist's assistant, a good fit for Kimble, would as likely as not be in an independent drugstore, while most are now CVS. Osco, Rite Aid, Walgreen's or some other chain (or franchise). They'd do a check, and due to drugs being involved, a thorough one.

As to rooming houses, rooms to let, those were everywhere, even in big cities. I remember a lot of rooming houses in Boston as recently as  the 70s. Most had strict standards, though, the better ones, though there were skid row type places as well. Now there are no rooming houses and no skid rows.

When I was younger I lived with a family, babysat for their children, and in the city, too; but I knew them slightly through friends. For two years I lived with an extremely elderly old lady, was on call 24/7, paid no rent, managed to save over 10 grand during that period, but in both cases I'm going back many years.

BTW: in the 60s Don Knotts horror comedy The Ghost and Mr. Chicken, the eponymous Mr. Chicken lives in a very nice boarding house, complete with meals, but again...standards, standards. They'd watch the women coming and going like hawks, and I doubt a man was allowed to have a woman in his room with the door closed, let alone overnight.