What started as a desperate expedient adopted by a man on the run, soon became a major '60s fashion statement: The Fugitive Look, that slicked-back, jet-black hairstyle sported by Richard Kimble week after week to conceal his true identity. In flashbacks, Kimble's natural hair color is seen to be floury grey, though he is supposedly somewhere in his mid-30s at the time of his wife's murder.

By the time the fugitive finally manages to clear his name, four years later, the look he has pioneered has become so popular that he decides to keep on using the hair dye, even though he is no longer one of America's Most Wanted. And why shouldn't he? If nothing else, Richard Kimble's ordeal has taught him how to make himself look marvelous. And considering Kimble's generous nature, it would only be logical to assume that he will share his grooming secrets with Lieutenant Gerard now that they're no longer nemeses. Indeed, perhaps Kimble, in his capacity as a physician, will at last help Gerard lose that unflattering comb-over of his by writing him a prescription for monoxydil.

Over the years, the fickle finger of fashion has moved on to newer and bolder coiffures, but at least one prominent figure remained true to the perennial allure of the Fugitive 'Do — our beloved ex-President Ronald Reagan, whose immutable lavish tint job was a clear testament to his enduring fondness for the bon ton of that famous running man of yore. Or could it just be that he, too, had a secret past identity to hide . . . ?

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