9.2/1015 votesLoading...#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
9.2/1012 votesLoading...#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
8.6/1021 votesLoading...#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
8.5/1018 votesLoading...#4 - The Sadness of a Happy Time
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 5/16/1966
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: N/A
8.4/1013 votesLoading...#5 - 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
8.4/1014 votesLoading...#6 - 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
8.3/1017 votesLoading...#7 - 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
8.2/1018 votesLoading...#8 - Who's Watching the Fleshpot?
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/7/1966
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: N/A
8.2/1013 votesLoading...#9 - 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
8.2/1016 votesLoading...#10 - 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
8.1/1016 votesLoading...#11 - 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
8.0/1014 votesLoading...#12 - Never Pick Up a Stranger
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/8/1965
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).
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: Howard Browne
8.0/1010 votesLoading...#13 - The Cruel Fountain
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 4/4/1966
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/1016 votesLoading...#14 - 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
8.0/1012 votesLoading...#15 - 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
7.9/1014 votesLoading...#16 - 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
7.9/1014 votesLoading...#17 - 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
7.9/1010 votesLoading...#18 - 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
7.9/1014 votesLoading...#19 - 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
7.7/1026 votesLoading...#20 - Someone Who Makes Me Feel Beautiful
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/27/1965
In Mexico, Paul vies with charmer and con man Ramon de Vega (Fernando Lamas) for the affections of the wealthy Jessica Braden (Tippi Hedren).
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: N/A
7.7/1016 votesLoading...#21 - Where Mystery Begins
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1965
Paul successfully defends Louise Brode (Dana Wynter) on a charge of murdering her husband when her regular lawyer, Martin Shawe (Keith Andes), is injured, but Paul suspects Shawe's tactics, and feels compromised.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: N/A
7.7/1019 votesLoading...#22 - Make the Angels Weep
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/13/1965
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.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: N/A
7.7/1010 votesLoading...#23 - Strangers at the Door
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/3/1966
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: N/A
7.7/1013 votesLoading...#24 - The Rediscovery of Charlotte Hyde
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/24/1966
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/1012 votesLoading...#25 - 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
The Best Episodes of Run for Your Life
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...
Genre:Drama
Network:NBC
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".