Run for Your Life backdrop
Drama
Run for Your Life poster

The Best Episodes of Run for Your Life Season 2

Every episode of Run for Your Life Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Run for Your Life Season 2!

The Best Episodes of Run for Your Life Season 2

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...
Binge this in 1d 1h•Peaking at 9.3/10
NBC
BestEpisodes
WorstEpisodes
BestSeasons
AllEpisodes

Seasons3

All123

Episode Rankings

  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

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

    #2 - 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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  3. Run for Your Life Season 2 Episode 3 - The Borders of Barbarism
    7.3/10(11 votes)

    #3 - The Borders of Barbarism

    S2:E3

    Paul becomes involved in a dangerous Yugoslavian adventure, seeking hidden diamonds and documents when Gillian Wales (Joan Collins) mistakes him for an underworld character.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  4. Run for Your Life Season 2 Episode 4 - The Committee for the 25th
    7.5/10(9 votes)

    #4 - The Committee for the 25th

    S2:E4

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

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

    #5 - 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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

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

    #6 - 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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

    7. Trending NowTRENDING NOW

    The 20 BEST Episodes of Run for Your Life

    READ
  7. Run for Your Life Season 2 Episode 7 - The Edge of the Volcano
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #7 - The Edge of the Volcano

    S2:E7

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  8. Run for Your Life Season 2 Episode 8 - Grotenberg Mask
    7.6/10(12 votes)

    #8 - Grotenberg Mask

    S2:E8

    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.

    Director:Nicholas Colasanto
    Writer:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

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

    #9 - 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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

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

    #10 - 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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

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

    #11 - 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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

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

    #12 - 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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  13. Run for Your Life Season 2 Episode 13 - Tears from a Glass Eye
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #13 - Tears from a Glass Eye

    S2:E13

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  15. Run for Your Life Season 2 Episode 15 - The Shock of Recognition
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #15 - The Shock of Recognition

    S2:E15

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  16. Run for Your Life Season 2 Episode 16 - Flight from Tirana (1)
    7.2/10(10 votes)

    #16 - Flight from Tirana (1)

    S2:E16

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  17. Run for Your Life Season 2 Episode 17 - A Rage for Justice (2)
    7.0/10(9 votes)

    #17 - A Rage for Justice (2)

    S2:E17

    Paul's court martial defence of the man who helped him escape from Albania, ends up resting on a point of moral philosophy.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  18. Run for Your Life Season 2 Episode 18 - The List of Alice McKenna
    7.2/10(11 votes)

    #18 - The List of Alice McKenna

    S2:E18

    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

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

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

    #19 - 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

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  20. Run for Your Life Season 2 Episode 20 - Baby, the World's on Fire
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #20 - Baby, the World's on Fire

    S2:E20

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  21. Run for Your Life Season 2 Episode 21 - Rendezvous in Tokyo
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #21 - Rendezvous in Tokyo

    S2:E21

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  22. Run for Your Life Season 2 Episode 22 - The Calculus of Chaos
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #22 - The Calculus of Chaos

    S2:E22

    Paul and racing star Nick Cooper (Pat Harrington Jr.) assist a Czech scientist escape his country with tragic results.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  23. Run for Your Life Season 2 Episode 23 - The Assassin
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #23 - The Assassin

    S2:E23

    Paul tries to stop another dying man who has nothing to lose by committing murder to revenge the college prank which crippled him.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  24. Run for Your Life Season 2 Episode 24 - The Carpella Collection
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #24 - The Carpella Collection

    S2:E24

    Though only a pawn for the real thieves, Paul is suspected of stealing jewels worth many millions from wealthy financier Erich Krieger (Helmut Dantine).

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

  25. Run for Your Life Season 2 Episode 25 - A Very Small Injustice
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #25 - A Very Small Injustice

    S2:E25

    Paul is taken hostage by escaped convict J.B. Flowers (Burr DeBenning) who flees from a posse led by Sheriff Hoag (Slim Pickens).

    Director:Nicholas Colasanto
    Writer:Unknown

    Be the first to start the conversation for this episode

Season 2 Ratings Summary

"The Day Time Stopped" is the best rated episode of "Run for Your Life" season 2. It scored 9.3/10 based on 15 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/12/1966. This episode is rated 0.7 points higher than the second-best, "I Am the Late Diana Hays".