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Run for Your Life

TV·1965–1968·3 seasons, 86 episodes·NBC·Drama·1h·Created by Roy Huggins

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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.

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Episodes by season

Season0130Episodes1965–66AiredSeason avg
  1. S01E01Run for Your Life S01E01The Cold, Cold War of Paul BryanSeptember 13, 1965After a brief romance with Laura Beaumont (Katherine Ross, Paul is guest of her father Phil (Stephen McNally) at an exclusive ski resort whe
  2. S01E02Run for Your Life S01E02The Girl Next Door Is a SpySeptember 20, 1965When Paul spots his childhood sweetheart on the street in Berlin, she seeks his support, but US agents appeal to Paul.s patriotism to find
  3. S01E03Run for Your Life S01E03Someone Who Makes Me Feel BeautifulSeptember 27, 1965In Mexico, Paul vies with charmer and con man Ramon de Vega (Fernando Lamas) for the affections of the wealthy Jessica Braden (Tippi Hedren)
  4. S01E04Run for Your Life S01E04How to Sell Your Soul for Fun and ProfitOctober 1, 1965When Paul makes a satirical toast behind the Iron Curtain, racing-car driver Janos Takacs (Eric Braeden) courteously joins in and finds hims
  5. S01E05Run for Your Life S01E05Never Pick Up a StrangerOctober 8, 1965When Paul makes a satirical toast behind the Iron Curtain, racing-car driver Janos Takacs (Eric Braeden) courteously joins in and finds hims
  6. S01E06Run for Your Life S01E06Our Man in LimboOctober 22, 1965When he meets American agent Mike Allen (Macdonald Carey) in Spain, Paul is asked to help determine whether a girl he knew in Berlin, Erica
  7. S01E07Run for Your Life S01E07Where Mystery BeginsOctober 29, 1965Paul successfully defends Louise Brode (Dana Wynter) on a charge of murdering her husband when her regular lawyer, Martin Shawe (Keith Ande
  8. S01E08Run for Your Life S01E08The Savage SeasonNovember 8, 1965Judy Collins (Jill Haworth) transports money for mobsters, but when she calls on Paul's assistance after $200,000 disappears, casino owner A
  9. S01E09Run for Your Life S01E09This Town for SaleNovember 15, 1965If tried in the town where the victim's father is the leading employer, Paul seems certain to face a long prison sentence after the young ma
  10. S01E10Run for Your Life S01E10A Girl Named SorrowNovember 22, 1965On their sail-planing vacation Paul remains in the dark about the actions of secret Israeli agent Lisa Sorrow (Ina Balin) as she tracks dow
  11. S01E11Run for Your Life S01E11The Voice of Gina MilanNovember 29, 1965Opera singer Gina Milan (Susan Strasberg) declares there can be no romantic commitment in her life, but allows for one moment of love with P
  12. S01E12Run for Your Life S01E12The Time of the SharksDecember 6, 1965Paul's shark fishing expedition with Hardie Rankin (Howard Keel) and his wife Elizabeth (Dolores Dorn-Helt) is suddenly turned into a test o
  13. S01E13Run for Your Life S01E13Make the Angels WeepDecember 13, 1965An old friend of Paul's is on the run, suspected of murdering his lover's husband, and Paul returns to his home town to investigate the case
  14. S01E14Run for Your Life S01E14Journey into YesterdayDecember 27, 1965When searching for a friend missing in the New Guinea jungle Paul and his guide Carl Hague (James Forrest) are captured by the Bosavis tribe
  15. S01E15Run for Your Life S01E15Strangers at the DoorJanuary 3, 1966Stranded in the middle of nowhere, Paul hops a freight and becomes companion of the enigmatic Brett (Robert Drivas) on a trek full of symbol
  16. S01E16Run for Your Life S01E16Carnival Ends at MidnightJanuary 10, 1966Paul is in Rio de Janeiro trying to trick Larry Carter (Peter Lawford) into returning to the US to face trial when Molly Pierce (Anne Helm),
  17. S01E17Run for Your Life S01E17The Rediscovery of Charlotte HydeJanuary 24, 1966In Monte Carlo Paul has to come to the rescue of gigolo Ramon de Vega (Fernando Lamas) when “sparrow” Charlotte Hyde (Gena Rowlands) doesn't
  18. S01E18Run for Your Life S01E18The Night of the TerrorJanuary 31, 1966When Harry Blunt (Donnelly Rhodes) invites Paul and Jenny (Sharon Farrell) to his house, they find out how seriously disturbed he and his b
  19. S01E19Run for Your Life S01E19Keep My Share of the WorldFebruary 7, 1966A love triangle is revealed when Paul grabs the opportunity to make a world speed record for Greek magnate Alex Staphos (Rossano Brazzi), ca
  20. S01E20Run for Your Life S01E20In Search of AprilFebruary 14, 1966When April Martin (Carol Lynley) vanishes shortly after Paul meets her in New Orleans, he goes on a complex search that leads him to a surpr
  21. S01E21Run for Your Life S01E21Hoodlums on WheelsFebruary 21, 1966At a lake resort Paul's life is threatened when he is taken prisoner along with a mother and daughter by an outlaw bike gang responsible for
  22. S01E22Run for Your Life S01E22Who's Watching the Fleshpot?March 7, 1966Paul's college friend Mark Shepard (Bobby Darin) gets him to help out in his tourist business on the Riviera, and they become involved with
  23. S01E23Run for Your Life S01E23Sequestro (1)March 14, 1966In Sicily brothers Enzo (Harry Guardino) and Tonio (Sal Mineo) kidnap Paul in order to finance Enzo's marriage to Marta (Marianna Hill).
  24. S01E24Run for Your Life S01E24Sequestro (2)March 21, 1966Paul has been kidnapped by brothers Enzo (Harry Guardino) and Tonio (Sal Mineo), and everyone's life starts to unravel when Enzo's fiancée M
  25. S01E25Run for Your Life S01E25Don't Count on TomorrowMarch 28, 1966Tortured and falsely imprisoned for espionage by the KGB, Paul's escape is aided by cellmate Gyula Bogner (Roddy McDowall) whose fixation on
  26. S01E26Run for Your Life S01E26The Cruel FountainApril 4, 1966Paul's old friend Clara Mallory (Jan Sterling), whose hands are disabled, becomes interested in the treatment of Belle Frazer (Kathryn Hays)
  27. S01E27Run for Your Life S01E27Night Train from ChicagoApril 11, 1966Paul becomes involved with the mob when he meets Elizabeth (Louise Sorel) on a train, a woman in nun's garb, who suddenly disappears.
  28. S01E28Run for Your Life S01E28The Last SafariApril 25, 1966Paul joins Mark Foster (Leslie Nielsen) on safari in Africa to help his daughter Julie (Lesley-Ann Warren), a patient of his own doctor, com
  29. S01E29Run for Your Life S01E29The Savage MachinesMay 2, 1966Pete Gaffney (Jeremy Slate) and Paul form a racing partnership with Clive Darrell (Edward Mulhare), but his wife Rhona (Sally Ann Howes) is
  30. S01E30Run for Your Life S01E30The Sadness of a Happy TimeMay 16, 1966When Paul falls hopelessly in love with novelist Nicole Longet (Claudine Longet), he flees, but she interprets his action to mean that he is

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season0230Episodes1966–67AiredSeason avg
  1. S02E01Run for Your Life S02E01The Day Time StoppedSeptember 12, 1966Paul is no longer aware of his diagnosis after a tobogganing accident brings on amnesia, so he returns to his fiancée Kate Pierce (Carol Law
  2. S02E02Run for Your Life S02E02I Am the Late Diana HaysSeptember 19, 1966Paul tries to protect Diana Hays (Diana Hyland) from her eccentric husband Julian Hays (Jack Palance) who was convicted of her murder when s
  3. S02E03Run for Your Life S02E03The Borders of BarbarismSeptember 26, 1966Paul becomes involved in a dangerous Yugoslavian adventure, seeking hidden diamonds and documents when Gillian Wales (Joan Collins) mistakes
  4. S02E04Run for Your Life S02E04The Committee for the 25thOctober 3, 1966Susan Sinclair (Brooke Bundy), daughter of former San Francisco mayor Dwight Sinclair (Wendell Corey) has been addicted to drugs by Las Vega
  5. S02E05Run for Your Life S02E05The Dark Beyond the DoorOctober 10, 1966Paul tries to solve the mystery of payments his friend Jim Carlson (Peter Greaves) is making that have led his wife Ellen (Delphi Lawrence)
  6. S02E06Run for Your Life S02E06The Sex ObjectOctober 17, 1966Gigolo Ramon De Vega (Fernando Lamas) falls for fortune hunter Diana Murrow (Joan Hackett) at a posh Mexican resort.
  7. S02E07Run for Your Life S02E07The Edge of the VolcanoOctober 24, 1966Just before a government assault Paul aids Abby Powers (Katherine Crawford) to reach a Latin American rebel camp where her father is writing
  8. S02E08Run for Your Life S02E08Grotenberg MaskOctober 31, 1966There is a murder mystery to solve after Dena Fuller (Elizabeth Ashley) ends her ski romance with Johnny Cadell (Tom Simcox), and sails back
  9. S02E09Run for Your Life S02E09The Treasure SeekersNovember 14, 1966Paul experiences friendliness turning to malice when he is oppressed with demands from all sides after winning a fortune in the sweepstakes.
  10. S02E10Run for Your Life S02E10The Man Who Had No EnemiesNovember 21, 1966As 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
  11. S02E11Run for Your Life S02E11A Game of ViolenceNovember 28, 1966Paul's old friend Duke Smith (Sugar Ray Robinson) goes into a championship prize fight knowing he might collapse, so he places a bet against
  12. S02E12Run for Your Life S02E12Hang Down Your Head and LaughDecember 5, 1966Traveling by bus across America Paul meets Tina (Kim Darby), a runaway teenager who alternately threatens him, then pleads with him to take
  13. S02E13Run for Your Life S02E13Tears from a Glass EyeDecember 12, 1966Offered $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 lif
  14. S02E14Run for Your Life S02E14Time and a Half on Christmas EveDecember 19, 1966Paul is flying to San Francisco to spend Christmas with his former fiancee, but gets stranded when his plane makes an emergency landing. And
  15. S02E15Run for Your Life S02E15The Shock of RecognitionDecember 31, 1966Paul's romance with Anna Birrel (Marlyn Mason) in Spain hits a snag when her former fiancé, actor Charlie Harrod (Farley Granger) arrives to
  16. S02E16Run for Your Life S02E16Flight from Tirana (1)January 9, 1967In Albania to act as counsel for accused spy Brad Capo (Mike Roads), Paul is housed with American defector Dave Corbett (Ossie Davis), and f
  17. S02E17Run for Your Life S02E17A Rage for Justice (2)January 16, 1967Paul's court martial defence of the man who helped him escape from Albania, ends up resting on a point of moral philosophy.
  18. S02E18Run for Your Life S02E18The List of Alice McKennaJanuary 23, 1967A friend from school days, Alice McKenna (Geraldine Brooks) causes talk in Paul's home town when she asks him to clear her name after servin
  19. S02E19Run for Your Life S02E19The Face of the AntagonistJanuary 30, 1967When Vince Murdoch (Aldo Ray) rescues Paul from an assault by teenagers, the discredited policeman must then rely on him as his witness on a
  20. S02E20Run for Your Life S02E20Baby, the World's on FireFebruary 6, 1967Paul finds himself in deep trouble when he is mistaken for his old friend Harry Bevins (Jack Kelly) who is playing both ends against the mid
  21. S02E21Run for Your Life S02E21Rendezvous in TokyoFebruary 11, 1967Thoughts 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 re
  22. S02E22Run for Your Life S02E22The Calculus of ChaosFebruary 19, 1967Paul and racing star Nick Cooper (Pat Harrington Jr.) assist a Czech scientist escape his country with tragic results.
  23. S02E23Run for Your Life S02E23The AssassinFebruary 26, 1967Paul tries to stop another dying man who has nothing to lose by committing murder to revenge the college prank which crippled him.
  24. S02E24Run for Your Life S02E24The Carpella CollectionMarch 6, 1967Though only a pawn for the real thieves, Paul is suspected of stealing jewels worth many millions from wealthy financier Erich Krieger (Hel
  25. S02E25Run for Your Life S02E25A Very Small InjusticeMarch 13, 1967Paul is taken hostage by escaped convict J.B. Flowers (Burr DeBenning) who flees from a posse led by Sheriff Hoag (Slim Pickens).
  26. S02E26Run for Your Life S02E26East of the EquatorMarch 20, 1967When a picture appears in a New York gallery that could have been painted by the husband she thought dead, Carolyn Willins (Dina Merrill), o
  27. S02E27Run for Your Life S02E27A Choice of EvilsApril 3, 1967Karen Mueller (Barbara Stanek) claims to be the illegitimate daughter of Paul's friend Spencer Holt (John Forsythe), and her appearance at t
  28. S02E28Run for Your Life S02E28Tell It to the DeadApril 11, 1967When rebels in a breakaway Himalayan state hold Paul and two American women as espionage suspects, he finds himself the object of one's spec
  29. S02E29Run for Your Life S02E29Better World Next TimeApril 18, 1967After fleeing a North Vietnamese prison camp, Paul's flying buddy from the Korean War, Colonel Mike Green (Martin Milner) escapes from a mil
  30. S02E30Run for Your Life S02E30The Word Would Be GoodbyeApril 25, 1967A surprising encounter on the road brings Nicole Longet (Claudine Longet) back into Paul's life, complications in hers hindering their fragi

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

Season0326Episodes1967–68AiredSeason avg
  1. S03E01Run for Your Life S03E01Who's Che Guevara?September 13, 1967Paul's seaplane is hijacked and flown to Cuba, supposedly to bring out an enemy of the regime, but virtually everything told to him is untru
  2. S03E02Run for Your Life S03E02The Inhuman PredicamentSeptember 20, 1967Paul is romancing a princess on the lavish yacht of his friend Rachel Pike (Vera Miles) when pal Ramon de Vega (Fernando Lamas) inveigles hi
  3. S03E03Run for Your Life S03E03Three Passengers for the LusitaniaSeptember 27, 1967In Acapulco Paul meets a dare devil who seems to think he has nothing to lose when risking his life.
  4. S03E04Run for Your Life S03E04The Frozen ImageOctober 4, 1967Middle-aged entertainer Jamey Burke (Mel Torme) feels a Peter Pan image is necessary for success, and when he fires his manager and picks Pa
  5. S03E05Run for Your Life S03E05Trip to the Far SideOctober 11, 1967A casual relationship with Paul is taken too seriously by Valerie Phillips (Marianna Hill) and her industrialist father Cal Phillips (Ralph
  6. S03E06Run for Your Life S03E06The Company of ScoundrelsOctober 18, 1967Paul investigates the death of his friend who headed a committee for a Constitutional amendment to outlaw gambling.
  7. S03E07Run for Your Life S03E07At the End of the Rainbow There's Another RainbowOctober 25, 1967When Alex Ryder (Bruce Dern) availed of the opportunity to fake his death and collect substantial insurance money, his wife Molly (Anne Helm
  8. S03E08Run for Your Life S03E08Down with Willy HatchOctober 30, 1967Paul goes to the aid of an old friend who's been arrested on a trumped-up morals charge, but finds that's only where the problems of Willy H
  9. S03E09Run for Your Life S03E09The Naked Half TruthNovember 6, 1967Multi-millionaire Andrew Dawson (Edward Andrews) asks Paul to track down a possibly long-lost daughter in Andorra, and with the help of Ramo
  10. S03E10Run for Your Life S03E10Tell It Like It IsNovember 13, 1967Against Paul's advice, distinguished jurist Taliaferro Wilson (Franchot Tone) goes on the sensationalist talk show of scandal-monger host Je
  11. S03E11Run for Your Life S03E11Cry Hard, Cry Fast (1)November 20, 1967A horrific crash killing four people occurs when Paul's car stalls on a highway.
  12. S03E12Run for Your Life S03E12Cry Hard, Cry Fast (2)November 27, 1967As Frank Frazer (James Farentino) schemes to recover the money he stole from a bank, other survivors of the crash caused by Paul's car deal
  13. S03E13Run for Your Life S03E13The Mustafa EmbraceDecember 1, 1967Lucia Van Vorst (Katherine Crawford) believes she should keep a valuable wedding present from her Moroccan husband Jamal Mustafa (Stanley Wa
  14. S03E14Run for Your Life S03E14It Could Only Happen in RomeDecember 15, 1967Trying to find his way past the ever-changing smoke screen she creates. Paul becomes enchanted by Tia (Tisha Sterling), a girl he meets sing
  15. S03E15Run for Your Life S03E15Fly by NightDecember 22, 1967Paul acts as a catalyst to expose the killers responsible for the murder his friend Garrett Hamilton (Jason Evers) is suspected of.
  16. S03E16Run for Your Life S03E16A Dangerous ProposalJanuary 3, 1968Paul is asked to purchase a rare car for industrialist Sir Harry Hiller (Albert Dekker), but the real objective is something quite different
  17. S03E17Run for Your Life S03E17One Bad TurnJanuary 10, 1968A casual remark to Deputy Sheriff Potter (Warren Oates) in a small American town leads Paul facing a certain 15-year prison sentence.
  18. S03E18Run for Your Life S03E18The Rape of LucreceJanuary 17, 1968Failing, possibly scheming, author Lucrece Lawrence (Julie Harris) accuses Paul of attempted rape when her mind misconstrues an unromantic
  19. S03E19Run for Your Life S03E19The Killing SceneFebruary 1, 1968With just hours left Paul, who prosecuted the case six years earlier, tries to save Lou Patterson (Tom Skerritt) from the gas chamber.
  20. S03E20Run for Your Life S03E20Sara-Jane, You Never Whispered AgainFebruary 8, 1968As a favor to her father Paul searches the hippie enclaves of San Francisco and Los Angeles for Sara Prentice (Barbara Hershey), who writes
  21. S03E21Run for Your Life S03E21Strategy of TerrorFebruary 15, 1968A calculating position.
  22. S03E22Run for Your Life S03E22The Dead on FurloughFebruary 22, 1968Paul accompanies Lisa Sorrow (Ina Balin) on the archaeological dig of her former lover David Navan (Hans Gudegast) in Israel, but jubilation
  23. S03E23Run for Your Life S03E23Beware My LoveMarch 2, 1968Paul helps Barbara Sherwood (Susan Trustman) investigate what she believes to be the suspicious drowning of her sister in Italy.
  24. S03E24Run for Your Life S03E24CarolMarch 9, 1968When the boy she thought she married tells her that the wedding was a fake, Carol Sherman (Kim Darby) accepts a ride to San Francisco from P
  25. S03E25Run for Your Life S03E25Life Among the Meat EatersMarch 16, 1968A gambling syndicate considers Paul a threat to their getting a debt paid by Alejandro Orsini (Jacques Bergerac) who is about to marry wealt
  26. S03E26Run for Your Life S03E26The ExchangeMarch 27, 1968Paul is asked to be a go-between to exchange the husband of Alicia Stuyvesant (Janice Rule) for an East German agent being held in the US.

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