About this season
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.
Episodes (30)
1. The Day Time Stopped
Aired 12 September 1966 • 60 min
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.
2. I Am the Late Diana Hays
Aired 19 September 1966 • 60 min
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.
3. The Borders of Barbarism
Aired 26 September 1966 • 60 min
Paul becomes involved in a dangerous Yugoslavian adventure, seeking hidden diamonds and documents when Gillian Wales (Joan Collins) mistakes him for an underworld character.
4. The Committee for the 25th
Aired 3 October 1966 • 60 min
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.
5. The Dark Beyond the Door
Aired 10 October 1966 • 60 min
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.
6. The Sex Object
Aired 17 October 1966 • 60 min
Gigolo Ramon De Vega (Fernando Lamas) falls for fortune hunter Diana Murrow (Joan Hackett) at a posh Mexican resort.
7. The Edge of the Volcano
Aired 24 October 1966 • 60 min
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.
8. Grotenberg Mask
Aired 31 October 1966 • 60 min
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.
9. The Treasure Seekers
Aired 14 November 1966 • 60 min
Paul experiences friendliness turning to malice when he is oppressed with demands from all sides after winning a fortune in the sweepstakes.
10. The Man Who Had No Enemies
Aired 21 November 1966 • 60 min
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.
11. A Game of Violence
Aired 28 November 1966 • 60 min
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.
12. Hang Down Your Head and Laugh
Aired 5 December 1966 • 60 min
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.
13. Tears from a Glass Eye
Aired 12 December 1966 • 60 min
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.
14. Time and a Half on Christmas Eve
Aired 19 December 1966 • 60 min
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.
15. The Shock of Recognition
Aired 31 December 1966 • 60 min
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.
16. Flight from Tirana (1)
Aired 9 January 1967 • 60 min
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.
17. A Rage for Justice (2)
Aired 16 January 1967 • 60 min
Paul's court martial defence of the man who helped him escape from Albania, ends up resting on a point of moral philosophy.
18. The List of Alice McKenna
Aired 23 January 1967 • 60 min
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
19. The Face of the Antagonist
Aired 30 January 1967 • 60 min
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..
20. Baby, the World's on Fire
Aired 6 February 1967 • 60 min
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.
21. Rendezvous in Tokyo
Aired 11 February 1967 • 60 min
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.
22. The Calculus of Chaos
Aired 19 February 1967 • 60 min
Paul and racing star Nick Cooper (Pat Harrington Jr.) assist a Czech scientist escape his country with tragic results.
23. The Assassin
Aired 26 February 1967 • 60 min
Paul tries to stop another dying man who has nothing to lose by committing murder to revenge the college prank which crippled him.
24. The Carpella Collection
Aired 6 March 1967 • 60 min
Though only a pawn for the real thieves, Paul is suspected of stealing jewels worth many millions from wealthy financier Erich Krieger (Helmut Dantine).
25. A Very Small Injustice
Aired 13 March 1967 • 60 min
Paul is taken hostage by escaped convict J.B. Flowers (Burr DeBenning) who flees from a posse led by Sheriff Hoag (Slim Pickens).
26. East of the Equator
Aired 20 March 1967 • 60 min
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.
27. A Choice of Evils
Aired 3 April 1967 • 60 min
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.
28. Tell It to the Dead
Aired 11 April 1967 • 60 min
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.
29. Better World Next Time
Aired 18 April 1967 • 60 min
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.
30. The Word Would Be Goodbye
Aired 25 April 1967 • 60 min
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.