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The Best Episodes of Run for Your Life

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The Best Episodes of Run for Your Life

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...

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  1. Background image for The Day Time Stopped
    9.2/10(15 votes)

    #1 - The Day Time Stopped

    S2:E1

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  2. Background image for The Man Who Had No Enemies
    9.2/10(12 votes)

    #2 - The Man Who Had No Enemies

    S2:E10

    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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  3. Background image for Down with Willy Hatch
    8.6/10(15 votes)

    #3 - Down with Willy Hatch

    S3:E8

    Paul 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 Hatch (Don Rickles) begin.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  4. Background image for The Killing Scene
    8.6/10(21 votes)

    #4 - The Killing Scene

    S3:E19

    With just hours left Paul, who prosecuted the case six years earlier, tries to save Lou Patterson (Tom Skerritt) from the gas chamber.

    Director:Ben Gazzara
    Writer:Unknown
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  5. Background image for Life Among the Meat Eaters
    8.6/10(9 votes)

    #5 - Life Among the Meat Eaters

    S3:E25

    A gambling syndicate considers Paul a threat to their getting a debt paid by Alejandro Orsini (Jacques Bergerac) who is about to marry wealthy Mona Morrison (Anne Baxter).

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  6. Background image for The Sadness of a Happy Time
    8.5/10(18 votes)

    #6 - The Sadness of a Happy Time

    S1:E30

    When Paul falls hopelessly in love with novelist Nicole Longet (Claudine Longet), he flees, but she interprets his action to mean that he is a spy colleague of Mike Allen (Stephen McNally) until the agent reveals Paul's secret.

    Director:Alf Kjellin
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for A Game of Violence
    8.4/10(13 votes)

    #7 - A Game of Violence

    S2:E11

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  9. Background image for The Treasure Seekers
    8.3/10(17 votes)

    #8 - The Treasure Seekers

    S2:E9

    Paul experiences friendliness turning to malice when he is oppressed with demands from all sides after winning a fortune in the sweepstakes.

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  10. Background image for Who's Watching the Fleshpot?
    8.2/10(18 votes)

    #9 - Who's Watching the Fleshpot?

    S1:E22

    Paul's college friend Mark Shepard (Bobby Darin) gets him to help out in his tourist business on the Riviera, and they become involved with smugglers when they earn a sports car for assisting May Huston (Eve Arden) and her daughter Marcia (Davey Davison).

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  11. Background image for I Am the Late Diana Hays
    8.2/10(13 votes)

    #10 - I Am the Late Diana Hays

    S2:E2

    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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  12. Background image for The Sex Object
    8.2/10(16 votes)

    #11 - The Sex Object

    S2:E6

    Gigolo Ramon De Vega (Fernando Lamas) falls for fortune hunter Diana Murrow (Joan Hackett) at a posh Mexican resort.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  13. Background image for Time and a Half on Christmas Eve
    8.1/10(16 votes)

    #12 - Time and a Half on Christmas Eve

    S2:E14

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  14. Background image for The Cruel Fountain
    8.0/10(10 votes)

    #13 - The Cruel Fountain

    S1:E26

    Paul's old friend Clara Mallory (Jan Sterling), whose hands are disabled, becomes interested in the treatment of Belle Frazer (Kathryn Hays) by Dr. Raphael (Murray Hamilton) a supposed quack.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  15. Background image for Hang Down Your Head and Laugh
    8.0/10(16 votes)

    #14 - Hang Down Your Head and Laugh

    S2:E12

    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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  16. Background image for Sara-Jane, You Never Whispered Again
    8.0/10(12 votes)

    #15 - Sara-Jane, You Never Whispered Again

    S3:E20

    As a favor to her father Paul searches the hippie enclaves of San Francisco and Los Angeles for Sara Prentice (Barbara Hershey), who writes erotic poems and charms all men.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  17. Background image for Never Pick Up a Stranger
    7.9/10(15 votes)

    #16 - Never Pick Up a Stranger

    S1:E5

    When Paul makes a satirical toast behind the Iron Curtain, racing-car driver Janos Takacs (Eric Braeden) courteously joins in and finds himself in prison. Paul tries to make up for his frivolous action by freeing him with the help of his sister Marika Takacs (Gia Scala) and former prisoner Istvan Zabor (Telly Savalas).

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  18. Background image for The Dark Beyond the Door
    7.9/10(14 votes)

    #17 - The Dark Beyond the Door

    S2:E5

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  19. Background image for The Word Would Be Goodbye
    7.9/10(14 votes)

    #18 - The Word Would Be Goodbye

    S2:E30

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  20. Background image for Three Passengers for the Lusitania
    7.9/10(10 votes)

    #19 - Three Passengers for the Lusitania

    S3:E3

    In Acapulco Paul meets a dare devil who seems to think he has nothing to lose when risking his life.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  21. Background image for Trip to the Far Side
    7.9/10(14 votes)

    #20 - Trip to the Far Side

    S3:E5

    A casual relationship with Paul is taken too seriously by Valerie Phillips (Marianna Hill) and her industrialist father Cal Phillips (Ralph Bellamy) when the couple join a safari after two weeks together in Rome.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  22. Background image for In Search of April
    7.8/10(16 votes)

    #21 - In Search of April

    S1:E20

    When April Martin (Carol Lynley) vanishes shortly after Paul meets her in New Orleans, he goes on a complex search that leads him to a surprising solution to the mystery of her disappearance and a threat to her life.

    Writer:Unknown
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  23. Background image for Someone Who Makes Me Feel Beautiful
    7.7/10(27 votes)

    #22 - Someone Who Makes Me Feel Beautiful

    S1:E3

    In Mexico, Paul vies with charmer and con man Ramon de Vega (Fernando Lamas) for the affections of the wealthy Jessica Braden (Tippi Hedren).

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  24. Background image for Make the Angels Weep
    7.7/10(19 votes)

    #23 - Make the Angels Weep

    S1:E13

    An 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.

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  25. Background image for Strangers at the Door
    7.7/10(10 votes)

    #24 - Strangers at the Door

    S1:E15

    Stranded in the middle of nowhere, Paul hops a freight and becomes companion of the enigmatic Brett (Robert Drivas) on a trek full of symbolism.

    Writer:Unknown
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  26. Background image for The Rediscovery of Charlotte Hyde
    7.7/10(13 votes)

    #25 - The Rediscovery of Charlotte Hyde

    S1:E17

    In Monte Carlo Paul has to come to the rescue of gigolo Ramon de Vega (Fernando Lamas) when “sparrow” Charlotte Hyde (Gena Rowlands) doesn't turn out as he bargained.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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Best Episodes Summary

"The Day Time Stopped" is the best rated episode of "Run for Your Life". It scored 9.2/10 based on 15 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/12/1966. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Man Who Had No Enemies".