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Status: Ended
First Aired: September 13, 1965
Seasons: 3
Episodes: 86
Networks: NBC
Genres: Drama

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Run for Your Life(1965)

TMDB Rating: 7.2 (6 votes)

Overview

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.

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Season 1

30 episodes • 1965

#	Episode	Air Date
1	The Cold, Cold War of Paul Bryan	Sep 13, 1965
2	The Girl Next Door Is a Spy	Sep 20, 1965
3	Someone Who Makes Me Feel Beautiful	Sep 27, 1965
4	How to Sell Your Soul for Fun and Profit	Oct 1, 1965
5	Never Pick Up a Stranger	Oct 8, 1965
6	Our Man in Limbo	Oct 22, 1965
7	Where Mystery Begins	Oct 29, 1965
8	The Savage Season	Nov 8, 1965
9	This Town for Sale	Nov 15, 1965
10	A Girl Named Sorrow	Nov 22, 1965
11	The Voice of Gina Milan	Nov 29, 1965
12	The Time of the Sharks	Dec 6, 1965
13	Make the Angels Weep	Dec 13, 1965
14	Journey into Yesterday	Dec 27, 1965
15	Strangers at the Door	Jan 3, 1966
16	Carnival Ends at Midnight	Jan 10, 1966
17	The Rediscovery of Charlotte Hyde	Jan 24, 1966
18	The Night of the Terror	Jan 31, 1966
19	Keep My Share of the World	Feb 7, 1966
20	In Search of April	Feb 14, 1966
21	Hoodlums on Wheels	Feb 21, 1966
22	Who's Watching the Fleshpot?	Mar 7, 1966
23	Sequestro (1)	Mar 14, 1966
24	Sequestro (2)	Mar 21, 1966
25	Don't Count on Tomorrow	Mar 28, 1966
26	The Cruel Fountain	Apr 4, 1966
27	Night Train from Chicago	Apr 11, 1966
28	The Last Safari	Apr 25, 1966
29	The Savage Machines	May 2, 1966
30	The Sadness of a Happy Time	May 16, 1966

Season 2

30 episodes • 1966

#	Episode	Air Date
1	The Day Time Stopped	Sep 12, 1966
2	I Am the Late Diana Hays	Sep 19, 1966
3	The Borders of Barbarism	Sep 26, 1966
4	The Committee for the 25th	Oct 3, 1966
5	The Dark Beyond the Door	Oct 10, 1966
6	The Sex Object	Oct 17, 1966
7	The Edge of the Volcano	Oct 24, 1966
8	Grotenberg Mask	Oct 31, 1966
9	The Treasure Seekers	Nov 14, 1966
10	The Man Who Had No Enemies	Nov 21, 1966
11	A Game of Violence	Nov 28, 1966
12	Hang Down Your Head and Laugh	Dec 5, 1966
13	Tears from a Glass Eye	Dec 12, 1966
14	Time and a Half on Christmas Eve	Dec 19, 1966
15	The Shock of Recognition	Dec 31, 1966
16	Flight from Tirana (1)	Jan 9, 1967
17	A Rage for Justice (2)	Jan 16, 1967
18	The List of Alice McKenna	Jan 23, 1967
19	The Face of the Antagonist	Jan 30, 1967
20	Baby, the World's on Fire	Feb 6, 1967
21	Rendezvous in Tokyo	Feb 11, 1967
22	The Calculus of Chaos	Feb 19, 1967
23	The Assassin	Feb 26, 1967
24	The Carpella Collection	Mar 6, 1967
25	A Very Small Injustice	Mar 13, 1967
26	East of the Equator	Mar 20, 1967
27	A Choice of Evils	Apr 3, 1967
28	Tell It to the Dead	Apr 11, 1967
29	Better World Next Time	Apr 18, 1967
30	The Word Would Be Goodbye	Apr 25, 1967

Season 3

26 episodes • 1967

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Who's Che Guevara?	Sep 13, 1967
2	The Inhuman Predicament	Sep 20, 1967
3	Three Passengers for the Lusitania	Sep 27, 1967
4	The Frozen Image	Oct 4, 1967
5	Trip to the Far Side	Oct 11, 1967
6	The Company of Scoundrels	Oct 18, 1967
7	At the End of the Rainbow There's Another Rainbow	Oct 25, 1967
8	Down with Willy Hatch	Oct 30, 1967
9	The Naked Half Truth	Nov 6, 1967
10	Tell It Like It Is	Nov 13, 1967
11	Cry Hard, Cry Fast (1)	Nov 20, 1967
12	Cry Hard, Cry Fast (2)	Nov 27, 1967
13	The Mustafa Embrace	Dec 1, 1967
14	It Could Only Happen in Rome	Dec 15, 1967
15	Fly by Night	Dec 22, 1967
16	A Dangerous Proposal	Jan 3, 1968
17	One Bad Turn	Jan 10, 1968
18	The Rape of Lucrece	Jan 17, 1968
19	The Killing Scene	Feb 1, 1968
20	Sara-Jane, You Never Whispered Again	Feb 8, 1968
21	Strategy of Terror	Feb 15, 1968
22	The Dead on Furlough	Feb 22, 1968
23	Beware My Love	Mar 2, 1968
24	Carol	Mar 9, 1968
25	Life Among the Meat Eaters	Mar 16, 1968
26	The Exchange	Mar 27, 1968

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