Run for Your Life Season 2, Episode 6: The Sex Object

1

The Day Time Stopped

Paul is no longer aware of his diagnosis after a tobogganing accident brings on amnesia, so he returns to his fiancée Kate Pierce (Carol Lawrence) in San Francisco to help him with the mystery of six missing months in his life.

60 min

2

I Am the Late Diana Hays

Paul tries to protect Diana Hays (Diana Hyland) from her eccentric husband Julian Hays (Jack Palance) who was convicted of her murder when she mysteriously disappeared.

60 min

3

The Borders of Barbarism

Paul becomes involved in a dangerous Yugoslavian adventure, seeking hidden diamonds and documents when Gillian Wales (Joan Collins) mistakes him for an underworld character.

60 min

4

The Committee for the 25th

Susan Sinclair (Brooke Bundy), daughter of former San Francisco mayor Dwight Sinclair (Wendell Corey) has been addicted to drugs by Las Vegas mafia boss Carl Cappi (Edward Asner), and Paul uses the threat of a committee to amend the US Constitution to thwart him.

60 min

5

The Dark Beyond the Door

Paul tries to solve the mystery of payments his friend Jim Carlson (Peter Greaves) is making that have led his wife Ellen (Delphi Lawrence) to turn to alcohol over fear of another woman.

60 min

6

The Sex Object

Gigolo Ramon De Vega (Fernando Lamas) falls for fortune hunter Diana Murrow (Joan Hackett) at a posh Mexican resort.

60 min

7

The Edge of the Volcano

Just before a government assault Paul aids Abby Powers (Katherine Crawford) to reach a Latin American rebel camp where her father is writing about the leader.

60 min

8

Grotenberg Mask

There is a murder mystery to solve after Dena Fuller (Elizabeth Ashley) ends her ski romance with Johnny Cadell (Tom Simcox), and sails back to the US with Paul, finding Johnny's unpleasant brother Charles (Skip Homeier) on board - and his wife dead when they arrive in New York.

60 min

9

The Treasure Seekers

Paul experiences friendliness turning to malice when he is oppressed with demands from all sides after winning a fortune in the sweepstakes.

60 min

10

The Man Who Had No Enemies

As prime suspect in the murder of his sailing companion, Paul is held on the island of Bonaire while the real murderer is exposed by an old friend as three people from the same Arkansas city meet there.

60 min

11

A Game of Violence

Paul's old friend Duke Smith (Sugar Ray Robinson) goes into a championship prize fight knowing he might collapse, so he places a bet against himself in Paul's name, leaving him to sort out the aftermath.

60 min

12

Hang Down Your Head and Laugh

Traveling by bus across America Paul meets Tina (Kim Darby), a runaway teenager who alternately threatens him, then pleads with him to take her to Los Angeles.

60 min

13

Tears from a Glass Eye

Offered $100,000 by Ralph Bronson (Gerald S. O'Loughlan) to marry his ex-wife Laura (Mary Ann Mobley), Paul believes the next man in her life, Collier Johnson (Donnelly Rhodes) to have ulterior motives.

60 min

14

Time and a Half on Christmas Eve

Paul is flying to San Francisco to spend Christmas with his former fiancee, but gets stranded when his plane makes an emergency landing. And he ends up spending Christmas Eve with Harry Martin (Ernest Borgnine), a garrulous cabdriver estranged from his family and laughing his way through a lonely life.

60 min

15

The Shock of Recognition

Paul's romance with Anna Birrel (Marlyn Mason) in Spain hits a snag when her former fiancé, actor Charlie Harrod (Farley Granger) arrives to make a film and decides to try bull fighting.

60 min

16

Flight from Tirana (1)

In Albania to act as counsel for accused spy Brad Capo (Mike Roads), Paul is housed with American defector Dave Corbett (Ossie Davis), and faced with conflicting instructions that could mean freedom or death.

60 min

17

A Rage for Justice (2)

Paul's court martial defence of the man who helped him escape from Albania, ends up resting on a point of moral philosophy.

60 min

18

The List of Alice McKenna

A friend from school days, Alice McKenna (Geraldine Brooks) causes talk in Paul's home town when she asks him to clear her name after serving seven years for murdering her husband

60 min

19

The Face of the Antagonist

When Vince Murdoch (Aldo Ray) rescues Paul from an assault by teenagers, the discredited policeman must then rely on him as his witness on a murder charge, and then the teenagers too..

60 min

20

Baby, the World's on Fire

Paul finds himself in deep trouble when he is mistaken for his old friend Harry Bevins (Jack Kelly) who is playing both ends against the middle in Tokyo.

60 min

21

Rendezvous in Tokyo

Thoughts of his life as a Korean War airman - and a woman he once loved - come flooding back to Paul when he arrives at a Tokyo bar for a reunion with his flying comrades after 15 years.

60 min

22

The Calculus of Chaos

Paul and racing star Nick Cooper (Pat Harrington Jr.) assist a Czech scientist escape his country with tragic results.

60 min

23

The Assassin

Paul tries to stop another dying man who has nothing to lose by committing murder to revenge the college prank which crippled him.

60 min

24

The Carpella Collection

Though only a pawn for the real thieves, Paul is suspected of stealing jewels worth many millions from wealthy financier Erich Krieger (Helmut Dantine).

60 min

25

A Very Small Injustice

Paul is taken hostage by escaped convict J.B. Flowers (Burr DeBenning) who flees from a posse led by Sheriff Hoag (Slim Pickens).

60 min

26

East of the Equator

When a picture appears in a New York gallery that could have been painted by the husband she thought dead, Carolyn Willins (Dina Merrill), obsessed by the role of a woman and her failure as a wife, goes to Brazil in search of the artist.

60 min

27

A Choice of Evils

Karen Mueller (Barbara Stanek) claims to be the illegitimate daughter of Paul's friend Spencer Holt (John Forsythe), and her appearance at the very end of his Gubernatorial campaign presents the candidate with a difficult choice.

60 min

28

Tell It to the Dead

When rebels in a breakaway Himalayan state hold Paul and two American women as espionage suspects, he finds himself the object of one's special plan for his immortality.

60 min

29

Better World Next Time

After fleeing a North Vietnamese prison camp, Paul's flying buddy from the Korean War, Colonel Mike Green (Martin Milner) escapes from a military hospital, believing he's still being pursued by the Viet Cong.

60 min

30

The Word Would Be Goodbye

A surprising encounter on the road brings Nicole Longet (Claudine Longet) back into Paul's life, complications in hers hindering their fragile attempts to let their love blossom again.

60 min