Don Medford Dies -- Prolific TV Director, The Fugitive, Dynasty,

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PAGE. Prolific television director Don Medford, who is perhaps best known for the two-episode finale of the 1960s drama _The Fugitive_, died December 12 at West Hills Hospital and Medical

Center in Los Angeles. He was 95. His family reported the death Wednesday. The 1967 conclusion of _Fugitive_, the popular series about a man falsely accused of murdering his wife (played by

David Janssen) and relentlessly pursued around the country by a determined detective (Barry Morse), was seen by a then-record of an estimated 78 million viewers — a milestone that stood

until the “Who Shot J.R.” episode of _Dallas_ drew an estimated 83 million in 1980. Medford’s TV career stretched from the early 1950s _Tales Of Tomorrow_ through the late ’80s _Jake And The

Fatman_. Among the many major and varied series he worked on were the anthologies _Alfred Hitchock Presents_ and _The Twilight Zone_, _The Untouchables_ with Robert Stack, _M Squad_ with

Lee Marvin, _The Rifleman_ with Chuck Connors, _Dr. Kildare_ with Richard Chamberlain and Raymond Massey, _The Invaders_ with Roy Thinnes, _The Fall Guy_ with Lee Majors, _Baretta with_

Robert Blake, plus numerous episodes of _12 O’Clock High_, _The FBI_, _Dynasty_ and a handful of episodes of its spinoff _The Colbys_. Medford also directed a handful of TV movies and the

features _The Organization_ with Sidney Poitier (the second sequel to _In The Heat Of The Night_) and _The Hunting Party_, a gritty Western that starred Oliver Reed, Gene Hackman and Candice

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