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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!

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

Season 2 Ratings Summary

"The Day Time Stopped" is the best rated episode of "Run for Your Life" season 2. 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 is rated 1.0 points higher than the second-best, "I Am the Late Diana Hays".

  • The Day Time Stopped
    9.2/1015 votes

    #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

  • I Am the Late Diana Hays
    8.2/1013 votes

    #2 - 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

  • The Borders of Barbarism
    7.4/1011 votes

    #3 - The Borders of Barbarism

    Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/26/1966

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Committee for the 25th
    7.5/109 votes

    #4 - 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

  • The Dark Beyond the Door
    7.9/1014 votes

    #5 - 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

  • The Sex Object
    8.2/1016 votes

    #6 - 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

  • The Edge of the Volcano
    6.8/108 votes

    #7 - The Edge of the Volcano

    Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/24/1966

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Grotenberg Mask
    7.2/1012 votes

    #8 - Grotenberg Mask

    Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 10/31/1966

    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: N/A

  • The Treasure Seekers
    8.3/1017 votes

    #9 - 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

  • The Man Who Had No Enemies
    9.2/1012 votes

    #10 - 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

  • A Game of Violence
    8.4/1013 votes

    #11 - 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

  • Hang Down Your Head and Laugh
    8.0/1016 votes

    #12 - 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

  • Tears from a Glass Eye
    NaN/100 votes

    #13 - Tears from a Glass Eye

    Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/12/1966

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Time and a Half on Christmas Eve
    8.1/1016 votes

    #14 - 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

  • The Shock of Recognition
    NaN/100 votes

    #15 - The Shock of Recognition

    Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/31/1966

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Flight from Tirana (1)
    6.7/1010 votes

    #16 - Flight from Tirana (1)

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/9/1967

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Rage for Justice (2)
    6.7/109 votes

    #17 - A Rage for Justice (2)

    Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/16/1967

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The List of Alice McKenna
    7.0/1011 votes

    #18 - The List of Alice McKenna

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/23/1967

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Face of the Antagonist
    7.3/109 votes

    #19 - The Face of the Antagonist

    Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/30/1967

    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: N/A

  • Baby, the World's on Fire
    7.5/109 votes

    #20 - 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

  • Rendezvous in Tokyo
    7.2/1010 votes

    #21 - Rendezvous in Tokyo

    Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/11/1967

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Calculus of Chaos
    NaN/100 votes

    #22 - The Calculus of Chaos

    Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/19/1967

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Assassin
    NaN/100 votes

    #23 - The Assassin

    Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 2/26/1967

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Carpella Collection
    7.2/109 votes

    #24 - The Carpella Collection

    Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 3/6/1967

    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: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • A Very Small Injustice
    6.7/109 votes

    #25 - A Very Small Injustice

    Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/13/1967

    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: N/A