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13 September 1965 (USA) more
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Ben Gazzara plays a successful lawyer who is told in the first episode is told by his doctor that he will die in one to two years... more
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Nominated for 4 Golden Globes. Another 7 nominations more
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Jason Statham, Sandwich Boy?
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This Life Will Self-Destruct In 3 Years? more (8 total)

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Ben Gazzara ... Paul Bryan (86 episodes, 1965-1968)
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60 min (86 episodes)
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4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful.
This Life Will Self-Destruct In 3 Years?, 14 June 2006
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Author: animal_8_5 from Dundalk, Canada

This was a very clever concept. A lawyer, Paul Bryan, has been diagnosed with an incurable disease and has been told he has just two to three years to live. The idea put this lead character in the position of living life to the fullest and the most responsible. There is a message in that for all of us somewhere, isn't there?

While somewhat morbid straight off the top, the concept made for interesting viewing from my perspective. Ben Gazzara played the main character and each week he would resolve other people's problems, but at the end of the show he would still be facing the anguish of a limited time on this earth. One of an unnamed genre of shows like "The Fugitive" and "The Incredible Hulk", "Run for Your Life" was set in locales all over the world, but probably filmed on studio back-lots, renovated to look like the French Riviera, Hawaii and Rio. The idea was that Bryan was seeing the world with what little time and resources he had left. Each episode he would engage in new relationships, involving himself in new circumstances, resulting in high action and adventure.

This wasn't a great show, but was certainly a product of its time. Always reminded us of our own mortality, which all of us need occasional reminders of in life.

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