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Run For Your Life
Starring Ben Gazzara
Episode:
Carol
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Synopsis: 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. With Ron Russell as Tom, Jana Taylor as Mary Kendall, Bill Quinn as Dr. McClellan, Clark Harren as Dr. James Anderson, John McCook as Buck, Frank Gardner as Willie, Booth Coleman as Doc, Yvonne White Mrs. Sherman, Daryle Ann Lindley as Cheryl, Jeanne Buckley as the 2nd Nurse, Charles Brewer as the Man
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Episode 84
Season 3 - #24
First broadcast on
March 6, 1968
Teleplay by Robert Foster
& Philip De Guere, Jr.
Story by Robert Foster
Directed by Ben Gazzara
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Creative Team
Producer
Robert Hamner
Supervising Producer
Jo Swerling Jr.
Associate Producer
Steve Heilpern
Music
Pete Rugolo
Director of Photography
William Margulies A.S.C.
Art Director
Henry Larreco
Film Editor
Unit Manager
Donald Baer
Assistant Director
Frank Lossee
Set Decorators
John McCartey &
Robert C. Bradfield
Sound
Earl Crain Jr.
Color Coordinator
Robert Brower
Color by Technicolor
Editorial Dept. Head
Richard Belding
Musical Supervisor
Stanley Wilson
Costume by Burton Miller
Makeup
Bud Westmore
Hair Stylist
Larry Germain
Links to Other Episodes
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Carol collapses on the train
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The Plot
Paul is chatting with a fellow passenger on a train in California when she suddenly faints in obvious pain. An ambulance is ordered to arrive at the next stop, and Paul accompanies the girl to a hospital, still not even knowing her name.
The doctor states that the pain was caused by a complication of pregnancy, and is nothing serious. 18-year-old Carol Sherman emerges from the emergency department to find Paul waiting for her. He's rented a car , and offers Carol a ride.
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They stop for a meal after leaving the hospital
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He takes her to a restaurant, and Carol explains that she's going to her husband, who is a student in Santa Cruz. They have recently married in Tijuana after she'd been visiting him on weekends in San Diego where he had a summer job, the wedding being a solution to Tom's wish to sleep with her, and Carol not wanting to do so before marriage.
Paul drops Carol off at the house Tom is sharing with other students, and eyebrows are raised when she announces herself there as his wife. Tom arrives later, and is disturbed when he learns her news.
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Tom tells Varol that their marriage was a fake
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Tom tells Carol that their marriage was a fake, and that he paid the clerk not to register their papers.
His solution to her situation is an abortion, and although he offers to arrange it, she wants to leave immediately, so he gives her $150, and she disappears into the night.
The next morning Carol is hitch hiking when Paul drives by and picks her up.
She shares her predicament, and he drives her to San Francisco. He tries to be helpful, but Carol says that everything will be fine.
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The doctor explains that an abortion is illegal
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Though she tells him it's near her home where she's asked to be dropped off, Paul notes that she walks in the direction of a hospital.
There she tries to obtain an abortion, but a kindly doctor explains that it is illegal. She goes back to the place she was living, and a house mate finds a friend who is able to arrange the abortion.
Concerned, Paul checks back at the hospital where he saw Carol go, and questions the doctor whom Carol spoke with.
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Paul asks Mary to take him to Carol
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He gives Paul the address that Carol filled in on her forms.
It is the home of her mother, but Mrs. Sherman hasn't had any contact wither daughter for a long time.
Though suspicious of Paul, when she learns that her daughter is pregnant, she gives Paul the address of the friend Carol was living with.
Housemate Mary Kendall arrives home after leaving Carol with the abortionist, and finds Paul waiting for her.
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Paul finds Carol near death
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He is angry, and threatens to report Mary to the police if she doesn't take him to the place she left Carol. Eventually her independent attitude turns to fear, and she takes him to the location.
When they arrive, Carol is alone and weak, and says that she's glad he found her.
Paul helps her down the stairs to his car , but she collapses outside.
Though immediately rushed to the hospital, the doctors are not able to stop her haemorrhaging, and she dies.
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Notes & Comments: The kind of vignette episode that Run For Your Life could have had more of. instead of the sort which feature Paul getting beat up, ones like Carol, giving some insight into his character would have added much more to the series' legacy.
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Kim Darby as
Carol Sherman
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Ron Russell
as Tom
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Jana Taylor as
Mary Kendall
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Bill Quinn as
Dr. McClellan
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Clark Harren as
Dr. James Anderson
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John McCook
as Buck
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Frank Gardner
as Willie
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Booth Coleman
as Doc
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Yvonne White
Mrs. Sherman
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Daryle Ann Lindley
as Cheryl
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Jeanne Buckley
as the 2nd Nurse
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