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The Best Episodes of Run for Your Life

Genre:Drama
Network:NBC

Every episode of Run for Your Life ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into 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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  • The Day Time Stopped
    9.2/10(15)
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    #1 - The Day Time Stopped

    Season 2 Episode 1

    Aired 9/12/1966

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Man Who Had No Enemies
    9.2/10(12)
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    #2 - The Man Who Had No Enemies

    Season 2 Episode 10

    Aired 11/21/1966

    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: N/A

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  • The Killing Scene
    8.6/10(21)
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    #3 - The Killing Scene

    Season 3 Episode 19

    Aired 2/1/1968

    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: N/A

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  • A Game of Violence
    8.4/10(13)
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    #4 - A Game of Violence

    Season 2 Episode 11

    Aired 11/28/1966

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Down with Willy Hatch
    8.4/10(14)
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    #5 - Down with Willy Hatch

    Season 3 Episode 8

    Aired 10/30/1967

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Treasure Seekers
    8.3/10(17)
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    #6 - The Treasure Seekers

    Season 2 Episode 9

    Aired 11/14/1966

    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: N/A

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  • I Am the Late Diana Hays
    8.2/10(13)
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    #7 - I Am the Late Diana Hays

    Season 2 Episode 2

    Aired 9/19/1966

    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: N/A

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  • The Sex Object
    8.2/10(16)
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    #8 - The Sex Object

    Season 2 Episode 6

    Aired 10/17/1966

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Time and a Half on Christmas Eve
    8.1/10(16)
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    #9 - Time and a Half on Christmas Eve

    Season 2 Episode 14

    Aired 12/19/1966

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Hang Down Your Head and Laugh
    8.0/10(16)
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    #10 - Hang Down Your Head and Laugh

    Season 2 Episode 12

    Aired 12/5/1966

    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: N/A

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  • Sara-Jane, You Never Whispered Again
    8.0/10(12)
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    #11 - Sara-Jane, You Never Whispered Again

    Season 3 Episode 20

    Aired 2/8/1968

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Dark Beyond the Door
    7.9/10(14)
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    #12 - The Dark Beyond the Door

    Season 2 Episode 5

    Aired 10/10/1966

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Word Would Be Goodbye
    7.9/10(14)
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    #13 - The Word Would Be Goodbye

    Season 2 Episode 30

    Aired 4/25/1967

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Three Passengers for the Lusitania
    7.9/10(10)
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    #14 - Three Passengers for the Lusitania

    Season 3 Episode 3

    Aired 9/27/1967

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Trip to the Far Side
    7.9/10(14)
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    #15 - Trip to the Far Side

    Season 3 Episode 5

    Aired 10/11/1967

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Inhuman Predicament
    7.7/10(12)
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    #16 - The Inhuman Predicament

    Season 3 Episode 2

    Aired 9/20/1967

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Naked Half Truth
    7.7/10(10)
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    #17 - The Naked Half Truth

    Season 3 Episode 9

    Aired 11/6/1967

    Multi-millionaire Andrew Dawson (Edward Andrews) asks Paul to track down a possibly long-lost daughter in Andorra, and with the help of Ramon de Vega (Fernando Lamas), he extracts her from two rival smuggling families there.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Mustafa Embrace
    7.7/10(9)
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    #18 - The Mustafa Embrace

    Season 3 Episode 13

    Aired 12/1/1967

    Lucia Van Vorst (Katherine Crawford) believes she should keep a valuable wedding present from her Moroccan husband Jamal Mustafa (Stanley Waxman) when he discards her, and Paul's initial assistance as a courier turns into full-blown cat burglary when he obtains it for her to get revenge on Ahmed Mustafa (Edmund Hashim).

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Fly by Night
    7.7/10(10)
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    #19 - Fly by Night

    Season 3 Episode 15

    Aired 12/22/1967

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Carol
    7.7/10(9)
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    #20 - Carol

    Season 3 Episode 24

    Aired 3/9/1968

    When 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 Paul to get an abortion.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Who's Che Guevara?
    7.6/10(12)
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    #21 - Who's Che Guevara?

    Season 3 Episode 1

    Aired 9/13/1967

    Paul's seaplane is hijacked and flown to Cuba, supposedly to bring out an enemy of the regime, but virtually everything told to him is untrue.

    Director: Michael Ritchie

    Writer: Philip DeGuere Jr.

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  • The Rape of Lucrece
    7.6/10(13)
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    #22 - The Rape of Lucrece

    Season 3 Episode 18

    Aired 1/17/1968

    Failing, possibly scheming, author Lucrece Lawrence (Julie Harris) accuses Paul of attempted rape when her mind misconstrues an unromantic dinner with him.

    Director: Larry Peerce

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Committee for the 25th
    7.5/10(9)
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    #23 - The Committee for the 25th

    Season 2 Episode 4

    Aired 10/3/1966

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Baby, the World's on Fire
    7.5/10(9)
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    #24 - Baby, the World's on Fire

    Season 2 Episode 20

    Aired 2/6/1967

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • The Frozen Image
    7.5/10(14)
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    #25 - The Frozen Image

    Season 3 Episode 4

    Aired 10/4/1967

    Middle-aged entertainer Jamey Burke (Mel Torme) feels a Peter Pan image is necessary for success, and when he fires his manager and picks Paul at random to replace him, a significant catalyst is introduced into his life.

    Director: Nicholas Colasanto

    Writer: N/A

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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 N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 9/12/1966. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Man Who Had No Enemies".