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FEAR IN A DESERT CITY

scene: woods and stream near train wreck

original filming date: December 1962

location: Fern Dell section of Griffith Park, Los Angeles

1962

taken January 2002

FEAR IN A DESERT CITY

scene: epilog petting the cat

original filming date: December 1962

location: 7100 block of Romaine Street (between Formosa & LaBrea), West Hollywood. This was a very short distance from the Samuel Goldwyn Studios where the FUGITIVE studio work was done. This building is now demolished.

1962

taken December 2001

FEAR IN A DESERT CITY

scene: epilog railroad crossing

original filming date: December 1962

location: parking lot off Romaine Street (between Formosa & LaBrea), West Hollywood

Movie Magic: the choice of angle and use of night shooting and smoke made this shot appear lonely and rural. Eliminated were the tell-tale Hollywood hills and nearby industrial buildings. In the 2001 photo, the RR tracks are still visible beyond the chain link. When I returned in 2006 to retake the photo from a higher and more matching angle, the parking lot had been paved over, and the adjacent building used in the cat scene (see above) had been torn down! Luckily the director of this episode, Walter Grauman, came along on the earlier outing to help identify the spot where he created the classic FUGITIVE image 39 years earlier.

1962

BONUS PHOTO: director Walter Grauman revisits the location

taken December 2001

THE GIRL FROM LITTLE EGYPT

scene: Stafford home of Richard and Helen Kimble (murder night--one-armed man about to be caught in headlights)

original filming date: June 1963

location: 3848 Ethel Avenue, Studio City

taken 2001 ?

NEVER WAVE GOODBYE - part 1

scene: bus station where Kimble by is dropped off by Karen (Susan Oliver)

original filming date: August 1963

location: Carillo near Chapala, Santa Barbara

NEVER WAVE GOODBYE - part 1

scene: Karen heads to LA

original filming date: August 1963

location: Cabrillo Blvd. on-ramp to the 101 Freeway, Santa Barbara

NEVER WAVE GOODBYE - part 1

scene: epilog

original filming date: August 1963

location: Stearns Wharf, Santa Barbara. Fires and new construction have altered the pier substantially in the intervening years.

NEVER WAVE GOODBYE - part 2

scene: Karen and Kimble in the beach cave

original filming date: August 1963

location: below lifeguard tower 3, Leo Carrillo State Park, Malibu

NEVER WAVE GOODBYE - part 2

scene: Karen and Kimble exit the beach cave

original filming date: August 1963

location: below lifeguard tower 3, Leo Carrillo State Park, Malibu

NEVER WAVE GOODBYE - part 2

scene: Kimble leaves Karen and injured Gerard

original filming date: August 1963

location: below lifeguard tower 3, Leo Carrillo State Park, Malibu

NEVER WAVE GOODBYE - part 2

scene: epilog

original filming date: August 1963

location: beach side of Pacific Coast Hwy. near Puerco Canyon, Malibu (with Latigo Canyon and Point Dume in background)

NIGHTMARE AT NORTHOAK

scene: brick alley

original filming date: October 1963

location: Coppos Films, 118 N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles

NOTE: in the on-air image if you look carefully you can see the electrical cable run strung along the right wall and across the back of the tunnel. This was to get power to the lighting providing the dramatic backlighting.

1963

taken May 2006

NIGHTMARE AT NORTHOAK

scene: street outside brick alley

original filming date: October 1963

location: N. Larchmont Blvd., Los Angeles (N of alley)

1963

taken May 2006

HOME IS THE HUNTED

scene: Kimble's parents new home (Stafford, Indiana)

original filming date: November 1963

location: near the Paramount Ranch, Agoura

in progress

still looking!!

THE END GAME

scene: Kimble arrives at a house to hide in after his roadblock escape.

Alot has changed in this neighborhood with the original old dark wood house, and the building next to it both replaced with a stucco apartment building. If not for a few surviving buildings 2 doors away and down to block, this might have been impossible to find.

original filming date: March 1964

location: corner of Hill Street and 3rd, Ocean Park (Santa Monica)

THE END GAME

scene: Gerard drives down block where Kimble is hiding.

original filming date: March 1964

location: 3rd Street between Hill and Ashland, Ocean Park (Santa Monica)

THE END GAME

scene: Gerard investigates next door to the house where Kimble is hiding.

The house Gerard has just walked down from is also gone but the one dominating the background, at 2713 3rd, is still there as is the awning above the door where the cop stands facing away. Unfortunately foliage blocks it in this view.

original filming date: March 1964

location: 3rd Street near Hill, Ocean Park (Santa Monica)

CRY UNCLE

scene: EXT. Laundromat

original filming date: June 1964

location: Topanga Canyon Blvd. at Costanso, Woodland Hills

CRY UNCLE

scene: INT. Laundromat

This place of business is still a laundromat 45 years later!

original filming date: June 1964

location: Coin-Op Wash, 5360 Topanga Canyon Blvd., Woodland Hills

THE JUDGMENT - part 1

scene: Jean Carlisle apartment (day shot).

In a night scene at this same location Kimble is arrested ("Gerard for the first time I think I'm really close to something")

original filming date: March 1967

location: Sunsettia Spa, 1427 N. Poinsettia Place (nr. Sunset), Hollywood

1967

taken June 2006

THE JUDGMENT - part 2

scene: Stafford, Indiana house of Donna and Len Taft

(also seen first in the episode "Running Scared")

original filming date: March 1967

location: 1351 N. Genesee (at DeLongpre), West Hollywood

NOTE: the front door with the 3 panes of glass belonged to the production and would be hung on this house when the company shot outside here. Scenes taking place inside the house, which were done at the studio, utilized this same door providing a match in both places.

1967

taken June 2006

THE JUDGMENT - part 2

scene: amusement park showdown

original filming date: March 1967

location: Mr. Dolphin Ride, Pacific Ocean Park, Venice

NOTE: for practicality and safety part of the top of the ride was duplicated on a sound stage.

DEMOLISHED - read history

THE JUDGMENT - part 2

scene: Stafford, Indiana courthouse/epilog ("the day--the running--stopped")

original filming date: March 1967

location: Bancroft Junior High School, 929 N. Las Palmas (between Barton & Romaine), Los Angeles

1967

taken May 2006

THE SAMUEL GOLDWYN STUDIOS

1041 N. Formosa, West Hollywood

Its main gate, mill, small backlot, and other buildings often played roles in FUGITVE filming.

But stages 1 and 2 were the "home base" for the shooting of the series. Different interior sets were quickly put up and knocked down each week as this "on the run" show had nothing permanent.

On Xmas morning 1975, fire erupted on the studio lot and destroyed the 30,000 square foot building which housed these 2 stages. Quinn Martin was still a tenant there and his "Cannon" and "Barnaby Jones" TV series now occupied the stages. The fire destroyed not only those shows current sets but also business records stored in the building. 9 years of production information from "THE FBI" were housed there and lost; one wonders if "THE FUGITIVE" had its long term storage there as well.

The studio had had a larger fire in May of 1974 which had destroyed its stages 3, 4, and 5.

The stages have since been rebuilt and the studio is now independently owned and is called "The Lot". It had previously been under the control of Warner Brothers in the 80's and 90's.