60 minSeason 3 • Episode 26
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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.
Acting
Gazzara smolders through terminality like it's a tailored suit.
Direction
Huggins perfects the 'lonely man in motion' formula.
Creator
Roy Huggins
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This series helped invent the 'prestige antihero' decades before Tony Soprano, with a protagonist whose terminal diagnosis justified morally gray choices.
Roy Huggins essentially cloned his own Fugitive formula—both feature innocent men unable to settle, but here the pursuer is biological inevitability rather than the law.
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