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The Best Episodes of Run for Your Life

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Run for Your Life Season 2 Episode 1 - The Day Time Stopped
    9.3/10(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. Run for Your Life Season 1 Episode 30 - The Sadness of a Happy Time
    9.0/10(18 votes)

    #2 - 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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  3. Run for Your Life Season 2 Episode 10 - The Man Who Had No Enemies
    9.0/10(12 votes)

    #3 - 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.

    Director:Michael Ritchie
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Run for Your Life Season 2 Episode 11 - A Game of Violence
    8.7/10(13 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. Run for Your Life Season 2 Episode 2 - I Am the Late Diana Hays
    8.6/10(13 votes)

    #5 - 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.

    Director:Michael Ritchie
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Run for Your Life Season 2 Episode 9 - The Treasure Seekers
    8.6/10(17 votes)

    #6 - 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.

    Director:Nicholas Colasanto
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Run for Your Life Season 3 Episode 8 - Down with Willy Hatch
    8.6/10(15 votes)

    #7 - 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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  8. Run for Your Life Season 3 Episode 25 - Life Among the Meat Eaters
    8.6/10(9 votes)

    #8 - 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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  9. Run for Your Life Season 3 Episode 3 - Three Passengers for the Lusitania
    8.5/10(10 votes)

    #9 - 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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  10. Run for Your Life Season 3 Episode 19 - The Killing Scene
    8.5/10(21 votes)

    #10 - 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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  11. Run for Your Life Season 1 Episode 22 - Who's Watching the Fleshpot?
    8.4/10(18 votes)

    #11 - 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).

    Director:Leslie H. Martinson
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Run for Your Life Season 3 Episode 15 - Fly by Night
    8.4/10(10 votes)

    #12 - Fly by Night

    S3:E15

    Paul acts as a catalyst to expose the killers responsible for the murder his friend Garrett Hamilton (Jason Evers) is suspected of.

    Director:Richard Benedict
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Run for Your Life Season 2 Episode 6 - The Sex Object
    8.3/10(16 votes)

    #13 - 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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  14. Run for Your Life Season 2 Episode 14 - Time and a Half on Christmas Eve
    8.3/10(16 votes)

    #14 - 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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  15. Run for Your Life Season 2 Episode 30 - The Word Would Be Goodbye
    8.3/10(14 votes)

    #15 - 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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  16. Run for Your Life Season 1 Episode 15 - Strangers at the Door
    8.2/10(10 votes)

    #16 - 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.

    Director:Stuart Rosenberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Run for Your Life Season 2 Episode 12 - Hang Down Your Head and Laugh
    8.2/10(16 votes)

    #17 - 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.

    Director:Michael Ritchie
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Run for Your Life Season 1 Episode 17 - The Rediscovery of Charlotte Hyde
    8.1/10(13 votes)

    #18 - 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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  19. Run for Your Life Season 3 Episode 2 - The Inhuman Predicament
    8.1/10(12 votes)

    #19 - The Inhuman Predicament

    S3:E2

    Paul is romancing a princess on the lavish yacht of his friend Rachel Pike (Vera Miles) when pal Ramon de Vega (Fernando Lamas) inveigles him into arranging an introduction to the financier, but Rachel is too much of a match for the gigolo.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Run for Your Life Season 3 Episode 5 - Trip to the Far Side
    8.1/10(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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  21. Run for Your Life Season 1 Episode 16 - Carnival Ends at Midnight
    8.0/10(13 votes)

    #21 - Carnival Ends at Midnight

    S1:E16

    Paul 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), daughter of his victim, makes an attempt on the murderer's life.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Run for Your Life Season 1 Episode 20 - In Search of April
    8.0/10(16 votes)

    #22 - 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.

    Director:Stuart Rosenberg
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Run for Your Life Season 1 Episode 26 - The Cruel Fountain
    8.0/10(10 votes)

    #23 - 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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  24. Run for Your Life Season 2 Episode 5 - The Dark Beyond the Door
    8.0/10(14 votes)

    #24 - 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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  25. Run for Your Life Season 2 Episode 19 - The Face of the Antagonist
    8.0/10(9 votes)

    #25 - The Face of the Antagonist

    S2:E19

    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..

    Director:Nicholas Colasanto
    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 9.3/10 based on 15 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/12/1966. This episode scored 0.3 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Sadness of a Happy Time".