The Fugitive: Season Three, Vol. 1

15 TOP-FLIGHT "FUGITIVE" ENTRIES, INCLUDING THE MAGNIFICENT TWO-PARTER, "LANDSCAPE WITH RUNNING FIGURES"
This CBS/Paramount DVD set, "THE FUGITIVE: SEASON 3, VOLUME 1", was made available on October 27, 2009, and it's a 4-Disc collection of 15 episodes that mirrors the other DVD sets in this series (in both packaging and image quality).

These fifteen black-and-white shows look absolutely beautiful on Digital Disc, thanks to the care and remastering effort put into these "Fugitive" releases by CBS/Paramount Home Entertainment. The clarity and crispness of the video we find on these discs is virtually perfect. And the Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono audio is quite good as well.

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ABOUT THE MUSIC:

I was very pleased to find that the vast majority of Pete Rugolo's and CBS' original background music from 1965 has been left untouched and is intact throughout this 15-episode DVD collection.

A little bit of "replacement" music can be heard in this set (which is never a good thing, in my view), but for the most part I'm quite...

Still has music issues but better than Season Two Volume Two
The Fugitive Season Three Volume One
On October 27th, CBS/Paramount continued their release of the greatest TV series ever made: The Fugitive!
This release was a much anticipated release for Fugitive fans all over. For months we sat and waited to see if Paramount/CBS would continue their previous mistakes from the Season Two release or if they really did put classic TV on a pedestal and gave Fugitive fans what they wanted and what this classic show deserved: a night of broadcast release with all of its original music intact.
The answer for the most part is actually no, they did not. But, as others have noted and I confer, this release was a much better attempt of making the replacement music at least sound like the original. I must admit that there were many places where music had been replaced that I did not even catch the first time I watched this release. This release actually feels like The Fugitive release from Season One. (For a more complete list of music...

Good, but not great
In my opinion, CBS has done a pretty good job of leaving the original music mostly intact. Here is my review of each episode.

"Wings Of An Angel" has a great deal of Heyes synth music, and only a handful of original Rugolo cues. It's the worst of the set, in terms of replaced music.

"Trial By Fire" has several instances of Heyes music that actually blend rather well, as they seem to have been reduced in volume. There are a few noticeable Heyes cues in Act 4.

"Conspiracy of Silence" has more Heyes than "Trial By Fire", some of which are pretty loud.

"Landscape With Running Figures part 1" has Heyes cues at 4:31 and 44:12.

"Landscape With Running Figures part 2" has no Heyes cues that I could hear, but there are stretches of silence where original music has been removed, e.g., background radio music in the first scene with the juvenile delinquents.

"Set Fire To A Straw Man" has loud Heyes cues at 2:26 and 4:00, with...

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