Police Stations Etc.

Richard Kimble spent a fair amount of time in police stations, sheriff's offices and the like on The Fugitive; and it seems that nearly always, if he's spent more than a minute or two in one, it's easy to see a wanted picture" (I hesitate to call them posters) of Kimble on the wall, as happened even in the first episode, which I've just finished watching.

He's nearly always pictured with gray hair, which one might have thought would have been darkened over time by LE, as Kimble was always dark haired on the series aside from the opening scenes in the first season. Kimble in fact always looked younger on the show than in pics seen in shows in later seasons!

Another oddity,--and I like the show very much--but seriously, why the F should there be Kimble pictures in police stations in Montana, Idaho, Arizona, Missouri, upstate New York, the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and the Florida panhandle? It's not like Kimble was a notorious criminal, a bank robber, a serial killer or anything that would make him a truly dangerous character.

The guy was a pediatrician from Indiana tried and convicted for the murder of his wife who by a sheer stroke of luck gained freedom as the result of a train wreck. Even his nemesis, Lt. Gerard, once said that Kimble wasn't truly dangerous, not a criminal by nature. Yet Gerard himself went after Kimble like he was Adolf Eichmann!