Run for Your Life
A successful lawyer (Ben Gazzara) is told by his doctor that he's terminally ill and will be dead in under two years. He decides to do all of the things for which he never had time. Each episode tells of the places he goes and the people he meets, from bums riding the rails to gigolos. He becomes a man with little fear of death, and everything but time.
- 1965-1968
- 3 seasons
- NBC
- Drama
A successful lawyer (Ben Gazzara) is told by his doctor that he's terminally ill and will be dead in under two years. He decides to do all of the things for which he never had time. Each episode tells of the places he goes and the people he meets, from bums riding the rails to gigolos. He becomes a man with little fear of death, and everything but time.
Season 3 Episode Guide
25 Episodes 1967 - 1968
Episode 1
Who's Che Guevara?
Wed, Sep 13, 1967 60 mins
Two Cuban exiles hijack a seaplane which Paul Bryan chartered, to bring back an anti-Castro leader. Paul was headed from Tampa to St. Andrew, to meet old buddies to fish for marlin. The exiles' loudly declaimed mission is to convey to Florida, Emilio Diaz, a leader with Castro in the 26th of July Movement, which overthrew Batista. Diaz was imprisoned by Castro for opposing Communism rule. The two exilio cubanos served time with Diaz, who they explain, escaped from prison 2 days before. His fellow 26th of July commander, Che Guevara, was executed in Bolivia 3 weeks after this episode aired originally. Paul, who was forced at gunpoint to go along, fought the Red menace in Korea and for the CIA, so he has empathy for the exiles' cause, and co-operates, to ensure his own survival.
Episode 2
The Inhuman Predicament
Wed, Sep 20, 1967 60 mins
Paul Bryan tags along on a cruise, with his gigolo pal Ramon and two beautiful women targeted by Ramon. Target number 1 on her royal yacht, is Princess Ingrid, immediately smitten with the irresistible dying attorney. The secondary mark, Rachel Pike, is repulsed by Paul's macho smugness. Paul discourages the vulnerable princess, who the sensitive Ramon agrees to let down easy, per his usual MO, pretending to be a wealthy Andorran sheep baron, who will suddenly have a cash crunch.
Episode 3
Three Passengers for the Lusitania
Wed, Sep 27, 1967 60 mins
A strange friendship forms between Paul and two men who seem to also have a short time to live.
Episode 4
The Frozen Image
Wed, Oct 4, 1967 60 mins
A married Las Vegas singer who avoids aging via teenage admirers and gambling tables hires Paul as a manager.
Episode 5
Trip to the Far Side
Wed, Oct 11, 1967 60 mins
Despite her industrialist father's warnings he is a playboy, a young women falls for Paul.
Episode 6
The Company of Scoundrels
Wed, Oct 18, 1967 60 mins
While leading a movement to constitutionally outlaw gambling Paul encounters mobsters.
Episode 7
At the End of the Rainbow There's Another Rainbow
Wed, Oct 25, 1967 60 mins
Alex Ryder (Bruce Dern) is in a car accident, survives but fakes his death. His wife, thinking he's dead, collects the insurance money. Paul arrives to console her.
Episode 8
Down with Willy Hatch
Wed, Nov 1, 1967 60 mins
A small town's criminal accusations against a former celebrity brings Paul to his old friends defense.
Episode 9
The Naked Half-Truth
Wed, Nov 8, 1967 60 mins
Paul and his friend Ramon work to free an American millionaire's daughter held captive in Andorra.
Episode 10
Tell It Like It Is
Wed, Nov 15, 1967 60 mins
Paul's former law partner, a revered judge, is humiliated in a TV interview.
Episode 11
Cry Hard, Cry Fast: Part 1
Wed, Nov 22, 1967 60 mins
A fatal car crash causes a bank robber to lose his loot.
Episode 12
Cry Hard, Cry Fast: Part 2
Wed, Nov 29, 1967 60 mins
A fatal car crash involving Paul causes a bank robber to lose his loot.
Episode 13
The Mustafa Embrace
Wed, Dec 6, 1967 60 mins
A woman wants her necklace back from her ex-husband, and enlists Paul's aid.
Episode 14
It Could Only Happen in Rome
Wed, Dec 20, 1967 60 mins
Paul meets a beautiful but mysterious and elusive woman in Rome.
Episode 15
Fly by Night
Wed, Dec 27, 1967 60 mins
Paul Bryan helps out a man unjustly accused of a grisly murder.
Episode 16
A Dangerous Proposal
Wed, Jan 3, 1968 60 mins
Paul gets involved in an international power struggle when he meets a pretty British girl at a vintage car show.
Episode 17
One Bad Turn
Wed, Jan 10, 1968 60 mins
After stopping for gas, Bryan is thrown in jail when he supposedly interferes with a rural sheriff's style of justice.
Episode 18
The Rape of Lucrece
Wed, Jan 17, 1968 60 mins
Paul is accused of attempted rape by an eccentric, troubled author. A Rashomon-like trial ensues.
Episode 19
The Killing Scene
Wed, Jan 31, 1968 60 mins
Bryan attempts to find a man and persuade the man to report his knowledge of a murder to save a death row inmate that Bryan helped convict but now believes is innocent.
Episode 20
Saro-Jane, You Never Whispered Again
Wed, Feb 7, 1968 60 mins
Paul follows a girl who wrote an allegedly obscene book to a court.
Episode 21
The Dead on Furlough
Wed, Feb 21, 1968 60 mins
A Middle East border war involves Paul when he accompanies an Israeli archaeological dig.
Episode 22
Beware My Love
Wed, Feb 28, 1968 60 mins
A mysterious scuba diver drags a beautiful woman underwater to her death, and Paul Bryan is asked by her twin sister to investigate, because the Milan polizia rule the death accidental, though the victim was a strong swimmer. Bryan poses as an insurance investigator, because the woman's policy has a double indemnity clause, and she was in the midst of a divorce, planning to wed an industrial titan. Her estranged husband, philandering playboy Chips Harley, claims they were going to reconcile, so it wasn't him, but he happened to also be in Milan that day.
Episode 23
Carol
Wed, Mar 6, 1968 60 mins
An expectant young Mother seeks surgery after she learns her husband won't honor their Mexican marriage.
Episode 24
Life Among the Meat-Eaters
Wed, Mar 13, 1968 60 mins
A playboy's marriage for money to a wealthy widow is endangered when the bride-to-be shows interest in Paul.
Episode 25
The Exchange
Wed, Mar 27, 1968 60 mins
Paul helps a woman free her millionaire husband from an Iron Curtain prison where he is held for espionage.