A Choice of Evils

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With Wesley Lau as Carson, Coleen Gray as Sally Holt, Walter Mathews as the Reporter, Karl Bruck as  Stellig, Joan Bradley as the Stewardess, Clark Race as Clark, Horst Ebersberg as Heinz, Faith Christopher as the Secretary, Bud Haley as the TV Announcer, Larry Anthony as the TV Director</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Episode 57</div> <div> Season 2 - #27</div> <div> First broadcast on</div> <div> April 3, 1967</div> <div> Teleplay by Alvin Sargent & Rita Lakin</div> <div> Story by Rita Lakin</div> <div> Directed by  Ben Gazzara</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> SEE INDIVIDUAL PHOTOS OF ENTIRE CAST AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE</div> <bR> <div> Click the   <A HREF="http://www.run4.us/video/choicevideo.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.run4.us/video/choicevideo.htm"><IMG SRC="1dcd53120.jpg" border=0 width="83" height="18" ALT="video clip from Run For Your Life Starring Ben Gazzara" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A>   icon to watch a film 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HREF="exchange.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Exchange">The Exchange</A></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="819" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 348 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1e57902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Barbara Stanek and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Paul jokes with folk singer Karen Mueller</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> The Plot:</div> <bR> <div> Paul is enjoying Karen Mueller performing folk songs in a West Berlin cabaret, and after her set, he goes up to chat and joke  with her, and she invites him to a party organized by her fans since tomorrow will be her last night at the club. Paul walks her home afterwards, and makes a date for lunch the next day.</div> <bR> <div> In front of his hotel he is stopped by a detective who has been searching for Karen unsuccessfully, and Paul pays him off, saying that he's no longer looking for the girl.going to.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 328 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1e58902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Barbara Stanek and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Paul reveals that he knows about Karen</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Paul and Karen go walking in a park the next day, and he asks her about her escape from East Berlin and about her family. Then he invites her to go skiing with him in Switzerland, but she says she'll be leaving shortly for America.  He questions her about the trip, then suddenly guesses that she's going to see a relative in Emerson City, and tells her that he's a friend of the man she's traveling to see there. Paul says that the man is facing election for Governor of his state in a few days, and was upset to get a letter hearing that he had an illegitimate daughter. She challenges Paul that he was sent to see if she is lying, and he tells her that is correct.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 296 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1e73900e0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="270" ALT="Barbara Stanek and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Karen shows Paul her mother's letter  to Spencer</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Karen takes Paul to her home, and opens a box belonging to her mother.</div> <bR> <div> She shows him a photo of her mother with his friend Spencer Holt, then declares that  her mother nursed him to health during the War.</div> <bR> <div> Karen says that her mother only told her about the relationship when she was dying, and that she gave Karen a letter to Spencer which her mother wrote - but didn't send - telling him that she was expecting his child.  </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 326 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1e5a902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Barbara Stanek and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Karen says that she is determined to see her father now</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Determined to meet Spencer, Karen says that she will also hand him the ring he gave to her mother.</div> <div> Paul asks her if she knows what a scandal is, but Karen says that she does not wish to hurt her father. </div> <bR> <div> However, she is adamant, and goes on to declare that her arrangements have been made, and now is her time to go to him.</div> <bR> <div> She then gives Paul the letters to check out, but says that she really doesn't care what he thinks, and that he won't stop her from seeing her father.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 327 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1e5b902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="John Forsythe and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> </div> <div> The old friends nearly come to blows over Karen</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Paul and Karen fly to the United States, and he finds a cabin for her by a lake, then he goes to see Spencer Holt at his campaign headquarters. After running  tests on the letter, Paul believes that Karen may be telling the truth, but Spencer denies that it's possible she is his daughter, and questions her arrival at such a precarious time, with just four days to go until polling day.</div> <bR> <div> The discussion gets very hot between the old friends, and after it settles down, Paul believes Spencer who says that he'd like to meet the girl, and assess how much danger she might be to him.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 327 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1e5c902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="John Forsythe and Barbara Stanek in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Karen wonders if Spencer isn't happy to see her</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Aware that he may be watched, Spencer leaves his office from a back entrance where Paul picks him up and drops his friend at the lakeside cabin. Karen makes coffee and speaks about her mother, and Spencer asks some questions about her.</div> <bR> <div> When she asks if he isn't a little bit happy to see her, Spencer asks if she knew that he had a wife and child before he went to war, and has had another child since. Karen replies that she's aware of that, and he says that if some people knew about her mother and him, they wouldn't like him to be Governor.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 327 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1e61902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="John Forsythe in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Spencer asks his questions carefully</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Karen says that she wouldn't want that, and he turns and asks her exactly what it is that she wants. “A daughter wants to know her father,” she responds, and Spencer asks ponderously, “she told you I was your father?”Karen repeats the same story about learning this just before her mother's death.</div> <bR> <div> When Spencer asks her how long she intends to remain in America, Karen says that it wouldn't be long, and she is now sorry that she came. He also asks her about people she might know in the US, and Karen declares that she came only to see him, and doesn't want to hurt him.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 326 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1e63902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="John Forsythe and Barbara Stanek in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Karen brings out her mother's letters</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> There are long silences between them, and Karen volunteers to show her mother's letters to him. He says that he didn't believe that her mother could write in English or even speak the language very well, and for the first time, anger suddenly breaks into his even demeanor.</div> <bR> <div> Karen retorts that her mother spoke English from childhood, but Spencer looks at her intently and with a certain amount of resentment.</div> <bR> <div> “You're testing me,” she challenges, and adds that she didn't come to be tested.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 326 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1e62902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="John Forsythe and Barbara Stanek in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Spencer looks at the letters from Eva Mueller</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> But when he asks if she could blame him for his suspicion, she quietly replies no. He asks to see her mother's letters, and after giving them to him, adds accusingly, “here is your ring. Do you remember it? She remembered it. She kept it all those years.” </div> <bR> <div> Through every exchange, both remain inscrutable, making it impossible to be sure which one is speaking the truth.</div> <bR> <div> All the while  a reporter from the opposition newspaper has been watching from just below the cabin window, having followed Paul's car from the headquarters.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 327 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1e64902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="John Forsythe and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Spencer tells Paul this of his uncertainty</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Driving back in the car, when Paul asks Spencer's verdict, he says that he liked Karen, and thinks she believes that he is her father. He adds that it would probably be impossible to convince her otherwise, and he did not tell her that he wasn't, believing Karen to be vulnerable.</div> <bR> <div> Concerned about how little she has, Spencer says that he'd like to give her $5000 through Paul. When Paul's reaction is shock, he writes a check to him for $2,500 instead. But he admits that he's not really sure how he's going to handle this new challenge.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 326 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1e65902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Wesley Lau and John Forsythe in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Spencer and his campaign manager talk on the TV set</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> The reporter calls The Bulletin, and asks for massive backup to cover the scandal he's uncovered at the lake.</div> <bR> <div> Paul returns to the cabin, and says he'll take Karen to California before she goes back to Europe.</div> <bR> <div> That evening, just as he is about to go on television to make a major live address, Spencer's campaign manager tells him that the opposition newspaper, The Bulletin, is about to print the story about his illegitimate daughter. They sit down in the middle of chaos to discuss the situation.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 327 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1e66902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Wesley Lau and John Forsythe in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Spencer says that it's his problem now</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Carson says he's the best campaign manager in the business, and angrily asks why Spencer didn't tell him about this scandal when he'd given the last 16 months trying to get the candidate elected. Even his ultimate skills won't achieve that goal now, he says.</div> <bR> <div> “It's my problem now,” Spencer replies grimly as the TV stage bustles with constant activity and interruptions to their intimate conversation . Then, with only minutes to go until he is on live television, Spencer asks Carlson to find a private room where he can phone his wife.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 326 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1e7b902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="John Forsythe in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Spencer changes his proposed TV talk</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Paul and Karen await the TV address eagerly at the cabin, and clown around with a guitar in a light mood. But it is in sombre tones that Spencer tells the man who is going to introduce him to do so with a minimum of words, not the planned fanfare.</div> <bR> <div> Karen and Paul watch the broadcast, and hear Spencer announce that he has put aside his proposed talk to speak on a matter of importance.</div> <bR> <div> He says that he's campaigned on the issues, and made a point to avoid personal and personality matters.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 326 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1e67902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Barbara Stanek and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Karen and Paul watch in disbelief</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> But with his opponent's approval, a story will appear in tomorrow's newspaper about something that happened 20 years ago in his life.</div> <bR> <div> He says that he was wounded and treated in a German hospital, and a daughter was born to a nurse who treated him. “That girl is now in this country to visit her father,” Spencer states, “I am that man she came to see.”  </div> <bR> <div> When Karen hears this, she jumps up and runs outside. Paul follows her, but then goes in to answer the telephone. After the call he goes out to speak to Karen.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 327 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1e68902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Barbara Stanek and Coleen Gray in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Sally Holt greets Karen warmly</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> He tells her that they are going to her father's lodge, and that he wants her to meet his wife.When Karen asks if Spencer will lose now, Paul replies that he wouldn't take any bets on it. “I want to go home,” she says, and Paul tells her, “that's where you're going - home.”  When they arrive at the lodge, Spencer introduces Karen to his wife who greets her warmly. </div> <bR> <div> There is an awkward silence for a while, then Sally Holt proposes that the men have a drink while she shows Karen around the modern-day version of an American log cabin.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 305 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1e7490180.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="280" ALT="Barbara Stanek and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Paul asks Karen how she feels now</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> The next day Paul goes down to Karen who is sitting miserably by the river. He tells her that she doesn't seem very happy to see Spencer, but she counters that the politician isn't happy to see her either.</div> <bR> <div> Paul suggests that it may just be that Spencer feels guilty about doubting Karen, who breaks down and says that she doesn't know what to do about Spencer and the way she feels.</div> <bR> <div> “Exactly how do you feel?” asks Paul, “guilty?”</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 326 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1e6d902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Barbara Stanek and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Karen breaks down and tells her story</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> “Of course!” she replies, since now Spencer won't win the election, and it is her fault. But Paul counters that she didn't come to America to hurt Spencer, she only came because she's his daughter. “You can't be blamed for that, can you?” he asks, adding, “after all a daughter has a right to know her father no matter what his life …..”</div> <bR> <div> But Karen breaks into him, screaming, “all right!” again and again.</div> <bR> <div> “All right, what?” asks Paul with concern, and tearfully, Karen says that she was adopted by Eva Mueller at the age of five.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 328 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1e6e902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Barbara Stanek in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Karen sobs out her story</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> One of thousands of children from across Europe brought to Allied Relocation Centers, she heard that she came from Poland. Karen says that Eva Mueller did love an American soldier, and had written letters to him she never sent, only revealing his name close to her death. But the one saying that she was pregnant was written by Karen, and forged on a piece of paper she got from an old tablet.  “What have you been after?” Paul asks gently, and Karen answers, “I don't know,” then adds that she thought she could have a father and a place for herself so that she wouldn't have to worry for her life.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 327 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1e70902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Barbara Stanek, Coleen Gray and John Forsythe in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Spencer says he always knew he wasn't Karen's father</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Karen and Paul go back into the lodge, and with difficulty, Karen starts to confess her guilt, but Spencer stops her, saying he knows what she's going to say, explaining that he did know her mother who nursed him back to health, but he was never once alone with her. “So I've known that you couldn't be my daughter. I've known that all along,” he says.</div> <bR> <div> Paul is outraged, saying that Spencer then lied on the air that Karen was his daughter, but his friend points out that he didn't say that exactly. Paul is confused, and asks why Spencer didn't deny the charge.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 328 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1e71902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="John Forsythe in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Spencer explains his strategy to Paul</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> “The Bulletin had what looked like irrefutable evidence,” he answers, and points out that if he'd denied the allegation, the voters would think that he was a coward in addition to a liar. By the time he'd proven Karen's story was untrue, the election would be over, and he would have lost. Paul says that it is lost anyway, but Sally declares, “Spencer doesn't think so.” The candidate himself expresses optimism, but says that he never wants to have to make such a choice of evils again - to tell the absolute truth, and hand the state over to another term for the present corrupt Governor - or to tell a half truth / half lie to hold on to the slim hope of winning.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 326 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1e6f902c0.jpg" border=0 width="400" height="300" ALT="Barbara Stanek and Ben Gazzara in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Karen and Paul celebrate Spencer's victory</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="401"><div> Karen tells Spencer that she is sorry for what she did, but he replies that she may just have won the election for him.</div> <bR> <div> He refers to a similar situation involving President Cleveland who admitted paternity, and was nevertheless elected because the voters decided the matter never should have been made an issue.</div> <bR> <div> Paul and Karen fly to Europe on election day, and while in the air, Paul receives an update on results, stating that with half the vote counted, Spencer Holt had a commanding lead.</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="287281e0.gif" border=0 width="40" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="287281e0.gif" border=0 width="40" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><IMG SRC="287281e0.gif" border=0 width="40" height="30" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Notes & Comments: This is Ben Gazzara's Run For Your Life directing debut, and he has obtained fine performances from his cast.</div> <bR> <div> An oft-used storyline is given an extra life, and the script - enhanced substantially by the canny performances - maintains suspense and interest to the end.</div> <bR> <div> Bravo to Ben Gazzara, John Forsythe and Barbara Stanek!</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="894" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 272 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1e7aa5dc0.jpg" border=0 width="165" height="220" ALT="John Forsythe in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> John Forsythe</div> <div> as Spencer Holt</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1e78b2dc0.jpg" border=0 width="178" height="220" ALT="Barbara Stanek in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Barbara Stanek</div> <div> as Karen Mueller </div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="168"><div> <IMG SRC="1e76a1dc0.jpg" border=0 width="161" height="220" ALT="Wesley Lau in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Wesley Lau as Carson</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1e75acdc0.jpg" border=0 width="172" height="220" ALT="Coleen Gray in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Coleen Gray</div> <div> as Sally Holt</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1e77acdc0.jpg" border=0 width="172" height="220" ALT="Walter Mathews in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Walter Mathews</div> <div> as the Reporter</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="728" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 270 ><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1e79a9dc0.jpg" border=0 width="169" height="220" ALT="Karl Bruck in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Karl Bruck</div> <div> as Stellig</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1e7eb2dc0.jpg" border=0 width="178" height="220" ALT="Clark Race in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Clark Race</div> <div> as Clark</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1e7da8dc0.jpg" border=0 width="168" height="220" ALT="Faith Christopher in Run For Your Life" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Faith Christopher</div> <div> as the Secretary</div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <IMG SRC="1e7cabdc0.jpg" border=0 width="171" height="220" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> Bud Haley as</div> <div> the TV Announcer</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Next Episode:  <A HREF="tellittothedead.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tell It to the Dead">Tell It to the Dead</A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="0dc96450.png" border=0 width="150" height="69" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>