Roy Huggins
Director
Run for Your Life (1965)
Season 2
Run for Your Life is an American television drama series starring Ben Gazzara as a man with only a short time to live. It ran on NBC from 1965 to 1968. The series was created by Roy Huggins, who had previously explored the "man on the move" concept with The Fugitive.
Released Sept. 13, 1965
Episode 60 min
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Genres: Drama
Keywords: tmdb.terminal-illness, tmdb.good-deed, awards.emmy-award-nominated, awards.golden-globe-nominated
Production Companies: Universal Television, Roncom Films
Network: NBC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S2E1 - The Day Time Stopped
Paul is no longer aware of his diagnosis after a tobogganing accident brings on amnesia, so he returns to his fiancée Kate Pierce (Carol Lawrence) in San Francisco to help him with the mystery of six missing months in his life.
Sept. 12, 1966, midnight
S2E2 - I Am the Late Diana Hays
Paul tries to protect Diana Hays (Diana Hyland) from her eccentric husband Julian Hays (Jack Palance) who was convicted of her murder when she mysteriously disappeared.
Sept. 19, 1966, midnight
S2E3 - The Borders of Barbarism
Paul becomes involved in a dangerous Yugoslavian adventure, seeking hidden diamonds and documents when Gillian Wales (Joan Collins) mistakes him for an underworld character.
Sept. 26, 1966, midnight
S2E4 - The Committee for the 25th
Susan Sinclair (Brooke Bundy), daughter of former San Francisco mayor Dwight Sinclair (Wendell Corey) has been addicted to drugs by Las Vegas mafia boss Carl Cappi (Edward Asner), and Paul uses the threat of a committee to amend the US Constitution to thwart him.
Oct. 3, 1966, midnight
S2E5 - The Dark Beyond the Door
Paul tries to solve the mystery of payments his friend Jim Carlson (Peter Greaves) is making that have led his wife Ellen (Delphi Lawrence) to turn to alcohol over fear of another woman.
Oct. 10, 1966, midnight
S2E6 - The Sex Object
Gigolo Ramon De Vega (Fernando Lamas) falls for fortune hunter Diana Murrow (Joan Hackett) at a posh Mexican resort.
Oct. 17, 1966, midnight
S2E7 - The Edge of the Volcano
Just before a government assault Paul aids Abby Powers (Katherine Crawford) to reach a Latin American rebel camp where her father is writing about the leader.
Oct. 24, 1966, midnight
S2E8 - Grotenberg Mask
There is a murder mystery to solve after Dena Fuller (Elizabeth Ashley) ends her ski romance with Johnny Cadell (Tom Simcox), and sails back to the US with Paul, finding Johnny's unpleasant brother Charles (Skip Homeier) on board - and his wife dead when they arrive in New York.
Oct. 31, 1966, midnight
S2E9 - The Treasure Seekers
Paul experiences friendliness turning to malice when he is oppressed with demands from all sides after winning a fortune in the sweepstakes.
Nov. 14, 1966, midnight
S2E10 - The Man Who Had No Enemies
As prime suspect in the murder of his sailing companion, Paul is held on the island of Bonaire while the real murderer is exposed by an old friend as three people from the same Arkansas city meet there.
Nov. 21, 1966, midnight
S2E11 - A Game of Violence
Paul's old friend Duke Smith (Sugar Ray Robinson) goes into a championship prize fight knowing he might collapse, so he places a bet against himself in Paul's name, leaving him to sort out the aftermath.
Nov. 28, 1966, midnight
S2E12 - Hang Down Your Head and Laugh
Traveling by bus across America Paul meets Tina (Kim Darby), a runaway teenager who alternately threatens him, then pleads with him to take her to Los Angeles.
Dec. 5, 1966, midnight
S2E13 - Tears from a Glass Eye
Offered $100,000 by Ralph Bronson (Gerald S. O'Loughlan) to marry his ex-wife Laura (Mary Ann Mobley), Paul believes the next man in her life, Collier Johnson (Donnelly Rhodes) to have ulterior motives.
Dec. 12, 1966, midnight
S2E14 - Time and a Half on Christmas Eve
Paul is flying to San Francisco to spend Christmas with his former fiancee, but gets stranded when his plane makes an emergency landing. And he ends up spending Christmas Eve with Harry Martin (Ernest Borgnine), a garrulous cabdriver estranged from his family and laughing his way through a lonely life.
Dec. 19, 1966, midnight
S2E15 - The Shock of Recognition
Paul's romance with Anna Birrel (Marlyn Mason) in Spain hits a snag when her former fiancé, actor Charlie Harrod (Farley Granger) arrives to make a film and decides to try bull fighting.
Dec. 31, 1966, midnight
S2E16 - Flight from Tirana (1)
In Albania to act as counsel for accused spy Brad Capo (Mike Roads), Paul is housed with American defector Dave Corbett (Ossie Davis), and faced with conflicting instructions that could mean freedom or death.
Jan. 9, 1967, midnight
S2E17 - A Rage for Justice (2)
Paul's court martial defence of the man who helped him escape from Albania, ends up resting on a point of moral philosophy.
Jan. 16, 1967, midnight
S2E18 - The List of Alice McKenna
A friend from school days, Alice McKenna (Geraldine Brooks) causes talk in Paul's home town when she asks him to clear her name after serving seven years for murdering her husband
Jan. 23, 1967, midnight
S2E19 - The Face of the Antagonist
When Vince Murdoch (Aldo Ray) rescues Paul from an assault by teenagers, the discredited policeman must then rely on him as his witness on a murder charge, and then the teenagers too..
Jan. 30, 1967, midnight
S2E20 - Baby, the World's on Fire
Paul finds himself in deep trouble when he is mistaken for his old friend Harry Bevins (Jack Kelly) who is playing both ends against the middle in Tokyo.
Feb. 6, 1967, midnight
S2E21 - Rendezvous in Tokyo
Thoughts of his life as a Korean War airman - and a woman he once loved - come flooding back to Paul when he arrives at a Tokyo bar for a reunion with his flying comrades after 15 years.
Feb. 11, 1967, midnight
S2E22 - The Calculus of Chaos
Paul and racing star Nick Cooper (Pat Harrington Jr.) assist a Czech scientist escape his country with tragic results.
Feb. 19, 1967, midnight
S2E23 - The Assassin
Paul tries to stop another dying man who has nothing to lose by committing murder to revenge the college prank which crippled him.
Feb. 26, 1967, midnight
S2E24 - The Carpella Collection
Though only a pawn for the real thieves, Paul is suspected of stealing jewels worth many millions from wealthy financier Erich Krieger (Helmut Dantine).
March 6, 1967, midnight
S2E25 - A Very Small Injustice
Paul is taken hostage by escaped convict J.B. Flowers (Burr DeBenning) who flees from a posse led by Sheriff Hoag (Slim Pickens).
March 13, 1967, midnight
S2E26 - East of the Equator
When a picture appears in a New York gallery that could have been painted by the husband she thought dead, Carolyn Willins (Dina Merrill), obsessed by the role of a woman and her failure as a wife, goes to Brazil in search of the artist.
March 20, 1967, midnight
S2E27 - A Choice of Evils
Karen Mueller (Barbara Stanek) claims to be the illegitimate daughter of Paul's friend Spencer Holt (John Forsythe), and her appearance at the very end of his Gubernatorial campaign presents the candidate with a difficult choice.
April 3, 1967, midnight
S2E28 - Tell It to the Dead
When rebels in a breakaway Himalayan state hold Paul and two American women as espionage suspects, he finds himself the object of one's special plan for his immortality.
April 11, 1967, midnight
S2E29 - Better World Next Time
After fleeing a North Vietnamese prison camp, Paul's flying buddy from the Korean War, Colonel Mike Green (Martin Milner) escapes from a military hospital, believing he's still being pursued by the Viet Cong.
April 18, 1967, midnight
S2E30 - The Word Would Be Goodbye
A surprising encounter on the road brings Nicole Longet (Claudine Longet) back into Paul's life, complications in hers hindering their fragile attempts to let their love blossom again.
April 25, 1967, midnight
Network: NBC
Episode Runtime: 60 min.
Season Runtime: 5160 min.
Released: Sept. 13, 1965
Last Air Date: March 27, 1968, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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