An NBC-TV Saturday morning Children's game show was an in-house NBC developed program. The network gave the NBC Burbank Staff Art Department, (Milt Altman - Dept. Mgr.; Art Directors: Ed Flesh, John Shrum, Hub Braden) the task of creating a game; providing a game board floor for the game to be played upon by children-contestants. Several game concepts were presented to the Network chiefs. Braden's game concept won the lottery. After the successful TV show was on air, the network sold the game board package marketed as a home-toy-play game. No residual nor profit from the TV show, nor from the home game sales, was shared with the NBC art department game designers.
Sad to say, "Runaround" - although MGM still owns the rights to the title and the format - is *lost forever.* Around mid-1975, NBC "wiped" (erased) the tapes of all 13 episodes to use for other programs, and therefore - unless perhaps Paul Winchell's estate owns any archival copies - *no* surviving record of "Runaround" exists.