Offered lead in a new TV series for Quinn Martin Productions called THE FUGITIVE.

Producer Quinn Martin: "Years ago, when I was a cutter at Universal I saw a lot of (Janssen). He struck me as a person who would never fade into the woodwork". Quinn selects him over actors like Anthony Franciosa, and James Franciscus and puts up his own money to buy him out of a pre- existing commitment with Paramount for the pilot.

On Janssen’s slowness to accept the offer: "I had doubts about the character--he was mostly negative-always running away. But we found ways to strengthen him."

Accomplished director Walter Grauman has been signed to direct the pilot episode which will begin shooting at the end of the month in Tuscon, Arizona. Janssen has a lunch with the director and producer in Los Angeles before they leave to begin filming.

Grauman recalls, "Musso & Franks Grill (in Hollywood) was Quinn (Martin)’s place. David was in the front seat with Quinn driving. I was in the back. David turned to me and said, "Wally, you’re really going to have to help me; I’ve been used to doing "Richard Diamond", all this shallow shit. There’s a lot of character here with Richard Kimble. I don’t know whether I can act it."

1st day of shooting on THE FUGITIVE pilot in Tuscon. Shoots the following:

EXT. TERMINAL LOADING (DAY) Bus arrives-Kimble enters station.
Scenes 4A, 7, 6, 8.

EXT. BUS TERMINAL ENTRANCE (DAY) Kimble walks up street. Scenes 13, 14.

INT. BUS TERMINAL (D) Kimble walks through station. Scenes 9, 9A, 10, 11,12.

INT. BUS TERMINAL (NIGHT) Kimble gets tickets, Welles (Brain Keith) follows. Scenes 150,151,152, 154, 155,156,157,159,160,162.

EXT. BUS TERMINAL ENTRANCE (NIGHT) Kimble arrives with Monica (Vera Miles) and Mark (Donald Losby). Scene 149.

EXT. TERMINAL LOADING (NIGHT) Welles is killed. Scenes 161, 163 to 170.

During the filming of the fight scenes at the bus station with Brian Keith, Janssen injured his ribs when thrown against the bus, but continues to work and finishes the scene.

9th day of shooting on THE FUGITIVE pilot. After shooting hotel room scenes in the studio all day (believed to be at ZIV studio not Goldwyn), the company moves off the studio lot at night to shoot scenes 177 to 179, the EXT. RR Yard.

This scene starts with Kimble stopping to feed a stray cat and ends with the image of Kimble walking away from camera in silhouette with suitcase in hand and the RR Xing sign in the foreground. A still frame from this shot is the recognizable image used under end credits during the 4-year run of the show. This scene is shot near the studio at the 7100 block of Willoughby between La Brea and Romaine in what is now the southern part of a full block shopping complex. The RR tracks were intact until the excavation for this project began in 2002.

The INT. Train scene 2, is shot this day which has Kimble’s gray-wigged refection seen looking out the window and pulling back to reveal him and Gerard together "on route to the death house." Again, a memorable image for FUGITIVE fans as it is used in the weekly opening montage sequence.

Janssen makeup artist Jack Wilson had to reuse the grey wig that had gotten wet on Friday night's filming and has quite a time getting it to fit.

"The Girl From Little Egypt" #4602 begins.

In this episode featuring heavy backstory sequences, Janssen had to wear the brush cut grey wig that he'd also worn in the pilot. The actress who played his slain wife, Diane Brewster, recalled it was traumatic for him to put it on as he hated this older look of himself. Janssen had experienced this before: a classmate recalled a simiilar reaction when David had to go grey for one of the plays he did in high school with the Stagelighters.

"Nightmare At Northoak" #4612 begins.

David got burned while filming the schoolbus sequence and was treated by the set medic and continued to work.

Second season episodes begin filming with “Nemesis” #4651. Part of the shooting is out-of-town on location in Running Springs, CA.

Actor Kid Chissell recalls them staying at Walter Huston's lodge and dining with Janssen who asked the group at the table if they'd ever had a bottle of a certain expensive wine. Dave ordered 2 bottles and charged it to the production and the production manager was up in arms the next day.

Emmy Awards night. David attends as a nominee with wife Ellie and is also a presenter. His seriousness and awkwardness over how to exit causes host Joey Bishop to comment, "Do you get the feeling David Janssen wasn't too happy to be here?".

For this years award Janssen's category has dramatic and comedy shows lumped together. He loses to Dick Van Dyke. The following year separate categories are established. One wonders if he would have won had they been established this year.

“Dark Corner” #4655 begins.

“When the Bough Breaks” #4659 begins.

“Fun and Games and Party Favors” #4663 begins. In an unbilled performance, a Carol Connors will have a small role in this episode. Her role in Janssen's life will unfold in 12 years.

"Look" magazine still photographer Earl Theisen is on set for this episode, and covers the actor generously over the next two months. Photos are taken during the filming of 3 other FUGITIVE shows, at his Beverly Hills home, and also at a taping of the Dinah Shore special which he does in October. It results in a photo essay on Janssen which does not get published until May 18, 1965.

Actor Robert Yuro and Janssen work together in front of a process screen at Stage 2 of Goldwyn Studios on "The End Is But the Beginning".

Neither is aware that a 22-year old ingenue in the early stages of her Hollywood career will be a significant romantic interest for both of them.

Rosemary Forsyth and Janssen work together on WHERE IT'S AT in 1968 and start a relationship lasting several years.

Yuro, who eventually segues from acting to a career in Los Angeles restaurant ownership, has had a long union with the stylish blond which continues into the present.

Like Rosemary, Yuro had a spirited romantic past. He was married to actress Deborah Winters in 1974, having worked with Forsyth on a "Mannix" episode just a few months earlier.

"Ballad For A Ghost" #4668 begins.

applies and is approved for membership at the Canyon Country Club near his new Palm Springs home. Is given member number 393.

“Nicest Fella You’d Ever Want to Meet” #4670 begins.

“Moon Child” #4673 begins.

“Wings of an Angel” #4701 begins. This is a 3rd season episode which gets filmed continuous to the 2nd season production schedule. After this episode the production begins a very short hiatus of 3-1/2 weeks before resuming filming on season 3.

"The End of the Line” #4717 begins.

Below, Janssen studies his script at the Goldwyn Studios during this episode.

“Stranger in the Mirror” #4718 begins.

“The Chinese Sunset” #4725 begins.

“The White Knight” #4728 begins.

“In a Plain Paper Wrapper” #4730 begins.

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“There Goes the Ballgame” #4770 begins.

Hör Zu magazine, a West German publication, votes Janssen the most popular foreign TV star of the year and invites Janssen and his wife to an Awards ceremony in Berlin on Jan 12. His Fugitive schedule does not permit the trip and he instead will have it presented to him on the set. (photo)

“Goodbye My Love” #4772 begins (estimate).

“The Judgment" #4779-80, the 2-part conclusion of 4 years of running, begins filming.

the day the running stopped filming.