Run for Your Life (1965)

Name: Run for Your Life
Genre: Drama
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Ben Gazzara

Drama

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 on NBC from 1965 to 1968. The series was created by Roy Huggins, who had previously explored the "man on the move" concept with The Fugitive.

IMDb rating: 7.6 (471 votes)
Seasons: 3
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Cast

Ben Gazzara Paul Bryan

Seasons

Season 1 (1965)

6.89 avg 30 episodes 6.7 → 7.9 60 min avg

Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Cold, Cold War of Paul Bryan	6.7	30
2	The Girl Next Door Is a Spy	6.4	25
3	Someone Who Makes Me Feel Beautiful	7.2	32
4	Never Pick Up a Stranger	7.6	30
5	How to Sell Your Soul for Fun and Profit	7.5	19
6	Our Man in Limbo	7.0	19
7	Where Mystery Begins	7.3	21
8	The Savage Season	7.1	22
9	This Town for Sale	6.6	16
10	A Girl Named Sorrow	7.2	21
11	The Voice of Gina Milan	6.7	17
12	The Time of the Sharks	6.9	18
13	Make the Angels Weep	7.6	22
14	Journey into Yesterday	6.4	14
15	Strangers at the Door	6.4	14
16	Carnival Ends at Midnight	7.2	16
17	The Rediscovery of Charlotte Hyde	6.7	17
18	The Night of the Terror	7.3	20
19	Keep My Share of the World	6.9	11
20	In Search of April	7.5	19
21	Hoodlums on Wheels	6.4	19
22	Who's Watching the Fleshpot?	7.1	23
23	Sequestro!: Part 1	5.6	15
24	Sequestro!: Part 2	6.8	13
25	Don't Count on Tomorrow	5.6	15
26	The Cruel Fountain	6.3	14
27	Night Train from Chicago	7.0	19
28	The Last Safari	6.7	21
29	The Savage Machines	7.0	15
30	The Sadness of a Happy Time	7.9	22

Season 2 (1966)

6.79 avg 30 episodes 7.8 → 6.8 60 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 2 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Day Time Stopped	7.8	18
2	I Am the Late Diana Hays	7.3	17
3	The Borders of Barbarism	6.7	14
4	The Committee for the 25th	5.7	14
5	The Dark Beyond the Door	7.3	17
6	The Sex Object	7.2	20
7	Edge of the Volcano	5.6	12
8	The Grotenberg Mask	6.9	15
9	The Treasure Seekers	7.3	21
10	The Man Who Had No Enemies	6.9	16
11	A Game of Violence	7.7	17
12	Hang Down Your Head and Laugh	7.6	19
13	Tears from a Glass Eye	6.1	11
14	Time and a Half on Christmas Eve	7.8	19
15	The Shock of Recognition	6.6	11
16	Flight from Tirana: Part 1	5.7	15
17	A Rage for Justice: Part 2	5.9	13
18	The List of Alice McKenna	7.4	12
19	The Face of the Antagonist	7.0	12
20	Baby, the World's on Fire	6.8	13
21	Rendezvous in Tokyo	6.4	14
22	The Calculus of Chaos	5.9	12
23	The Assassin	6.9	12
24	The Carpella Collection	7.3	12
25	A Very Small Injustice	6.9	12
26	East of the Equator	6.7	12
27	A Choice of Evils	6.5	15
28	Tell It to the Dead	6.6	14
29	Better World Next Time	6.4	15
30	The Word Would Be Goodbye	6.8	19

Season 3 (1967)

6.69 avg 24 episodes 6.3 → 7.1 60 min avg

Season 3 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Who's Che Guevara?	6.3	15
2	The Inhuman Predicament	6.0	16
3	Three Passengers for the Lusitania	6.7	13
4	The Frozen Image	7.2	16
5	Trip to the Far Side	6.8	17
6	The Company of Scoundrels	6.7	10
7	At the End of the Rainbow There's Another Rainbow	7.1	16
8	Down with Willy Hatch	7.9	17
9	The Naked Half-Truth	6.1	13
10	Tell It Like It Is	7.0	13
11	Cry Hard, Cry Fast: Part 1	5.5	9
13	The Mustafa Embrace	6.6	11
14	It Could Only Happen in Rome	5.5	13
15	Fly by Night	7.2	11
16	A Dangerous Proposal	6.6	14
17	One Bad Turn	7.7	10
18	The Rape of Lucrece	6.4	16
19	The Killing Scene	7.4	22
20	Saro-Jane, You Never Whispered Again	7.0	14
21	The Dead on Furlough	6.5	9
22	Beware My Love	5.9	15
23	Carol	6.8	10
24	Life Among the Meat-Eaters	6.6	11
25	The Exchange	7.1	11

Run for Your Life (1965)

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