I have seen a few episode of Run for you Life from time to time and just recently saw one. I looked several places online trying to find out what ever happened to Paul Bryan. Did they have an official ending of the series were he either died or was cured? I can't find anything on the internet about it.
shareThere was never any resolution. The show died , thats it.
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There was never an official ending to the show, and most people concluded that because the show was on the bubble at the end of the 1967-68 season and was cancelled at the last minute, producers simply had no time to write and shoot a finale.
But in a conversation I had a few years ago with Ben Gazzara for a radio interview, I found out they were never going to write or produce a finale, no matter how long the show remained on the air.
Gazzara told me Universal had decided that the character of Paul Bryan was going to stay alive and on the run, neither sickening nor cured, his fate never resolved, all the way to the end no matter how long the series stayed on the air. Why? Because that would keep the show fresh in original network release, and keep up audience and local station interest in the show and the character if it lasted long enough to get into syndication. It wound up with 86 episodes in the can--14 short of the magic 100 needed for a syndication run--but if it had gone another 14 episodes, or another 114, Universal had decided that Run For Your Life was never going to give the character of Paul Bryan a finale one way or the other. Ben Gazzara was fine with that, by the way--he liked playing the character and thought it worked best if the question of Paul Bryan's survival or demise wasn't resolved.
Universal had decided that the character of Paul Bryan was going to stay alive and on the run ... his fate never resolved
Great collective work, people! So: Paul Bryan was cured by Dr. Richard Kimble by using Ben Richards' blood. From now on it will be my favorite explanation. If I only may add that the medical procedure was carried out in a hospital building designed by David Vincent (in the good sane days, before he became delusional about extraterrestrials...)
shareNot all shows always had 100 eps
"Please Don't Eat the Daisies" ran only 2 seasons & "Then Came Bronson" only one
both ran in syndication and I think this one did as well.
I recall PDETD being a pretty bad show, wasn't nuts about the film myself.
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Got a better one SUPERMAN cured him this is after the big guy read every medical bk
in order to help Lois after she became a mermaid and went to live with Aquaman.
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On a more serious note, I believe that the last episode aired (in the summer of 1968) in the original run of the series was a rerun of "The Word Would Be Goodbye" -- which had originally aired as the last episode (#30) of season 2. It featured the second appearance of Claudine Longet as Nicole, the woman with whom Paul had fallen in love in the last episode (again #30) of season 1, "The Sadness of a Happy Time". I thought that it provided a rather bittersweet and poignant end to the series, which was not inappropriate IMO. I think that's why they chose to run it.
shareHe runs into Don Draper in California, and Richard Kimble, and the three of them travel the country picking up women galore. Paul Bryan is cured when the other two just tell him to "man up". Here's the surprise ending: Bryan had no disease, it was a false positive.
shareHe died, in 2012.
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