Run for Your Life: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Run for Your Life Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
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Who's Che Guevara?
Sep 13, 1967 · 60 min
Paul's seaplane is hijacked and flown to Cuba, supposedly to bring out an enemy of the regime, but virtually everything told to him is untrue.
The Inhuman Predicament
Sep 20, 1967 · 60 min
Paul is romancing a princess on the lavish yacht of his friend Rachel Pike (Vera Miles) when pal Ramon de Vega (Fernando Lamas) inveigles him into arranging an introduction to the
Three Passengers for the Lusitania
Sep 27, 1967 · 60 min
In Acapulco Paul meets a dare devil who seems to think he has nothing to lose when risking his life.
The Frozen Image
Oct 4, 1967 · 60 min
Middle-aged entertainer Jamey Burke (Mel Torme) feels a Peter Pan image is necessary for success, and when he fires his manager and picks Paul at random to replace him, a significa
Trip to the Far Side
Oct 11, 1967 · 60 min
A casual relationship with Paul is taken too seriously by Valerie Phillips (Marianna Hill) and her industrialist father Cal Phillips (Ralph Bellamy) when the couple join a safari a
The Company of Scoundrels
Oct 18, 1967 · 60 min
Paul investigates the death of his friend who headed a committee for a Constitutional amendment to outlaw gambling.
At the End of the Rainbow There's Another Rainbow
Oct 25, 1967 · 60 min
When Alex Ryder (Bruce Dern) availed of the opportunity to fake his death and collect substantial insurance money, his wife Molly (Anne Helm) turns to Paul for help.
Down with Willy Hatch
Oct 30, 1967 · 60 min
Paul goes to the aid of an old friend who's been arrested on a trumped-up morals charge, but finds that's only where the problems of Willy Hatch (Don Rickles) begin.
The Naked Half Truth
Nov 6, 1967 · 60 min
Multi-millionaire Andrew Dawson (Edward Andrews) asks Paul to track down a possibly long-lost daughter in Andorra, and with the help of Ramon de Vega (Fernando Lamas), he extracts
Tell It Like It Is
Nov 13, 1967 · 60 min
Against Paul's advice, distinguished jurist Taliaferro Wilson (Franchot Tone) goes on the sensationalist talk show of scandal-monger host Jerry Haines (James Daly) with horrendous
Cry Hard, Cry Fast (1)
Nov 20, 1967 · 60 min
A horrific crash killing four people occurs when Paul's car stalls on a highway.
Cry Hard, Cry Fast (2)
Nov 27, 1967 · 60 min
As Frank Frazer (James Farentino) schemes to recover the money he stole from a bank, other survivors of the crash caused by Paul's car deal with insurance matters and their futures
The Mustafa Embrace
Dec 1, 1967 · 60 min
Lucia Van Vorst (Katherine Crawford) believes she should keep a valuable wedding present from her Moroccan husband Jamal Mustafa (Stanley Waxman) when he discards her, and Paul's i
It Could Only Happen in Rome
Dec 15, 1967 · 60 min
Trying to find his way past the ever-changing smoke screen she creates. Paul becomes enchanted by Tia (Tisha Sterling), a girl he meets singing in a café on his Christmas sojourn i
Fly by Night
Dec 22, 1967 · 60 min
Paul acts as a catalyst to expose the killers responsible for the murder his friend Garrett Hamilton (Jason Evers) is suspected of.
A Dangerous Proposal
Jan 3, 1968 · 60 min
Paul is asked to purchase a rare car for industrialist Sir Harry Hiller (Albert Dekker), but the real objective is something quite different.
One Bad Turn
Jan 10, 1968 · 60 min
A casual remark to Deputy Sheriff Potter (Warren Oates) in a small American town leads Paul facing a certain 15-year prison sentence.
The Rape of Lucrece
Jan 17, 1968 · 60 min
Failing, possibly scheming, author Lucrece Lawrence (Julie Harris) accuses Paul of attempted rape when her mind misconstrues an unromantic dinner with him.
The Killing Scene
Feb 1, 1968 · 60 min
With just hours left Paul, who prosecuted the case six years earlier, tries to save Lou Patterson (Tom Skerritt) from the gas chamber.
Sara-Jane, You Never Whispered Again
Feb 8, 1968 · 60 min
As a favor to her father Paul searches the hippie enclaves of San Francisco and Los Angeles for Sara Prentice (Barbara Hershey), who writes erotic poems and charms all men.
The Dead on Furlough
Feb 22, 1968 · 60 min
Paul accompanies Lisa Sorrow (Ina Balin) on the archaeological dig of her former lover David Navan (Hans Gudegast) in Israel, but jubilation over a find turns into sorrow for every
Beware My Love
Mar 2, 1968 · 60 min
Paul helps Barbara Sherwood (Susan Trustman) investigate what she believes to be the suspicious drowning of her sister in Italy.
Carol
Mar 9, 1968 · 60 min
When the boy she thought she married tells her that the wedding was a fake, Carol Sherman (Kim Darby) accepts a ride to San Francisco from Paul to get an abortion.
Life Among the Meat Eaters
Mar 16, 1968 · 60 min
A gambling syndicate considers Paul a threat to their getting a debt paid by Alejandro Orsini (Jacques Bergerac) who is about to marry wealthy Mona Morrison (Anne Baxter).
The Exchange
Mar 27, 1968 · 60 min
Paul is asked to be a go-between to exchange the husband of Alicia Stuyvesant (Janice Rule) for an East German agent being held in the US.