Run, Buddy, Run

1966

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7.8| NA| en| More Info
Released: 12 September 1966 Ended
Producted By: CBS Studios
Country: United States of America
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Run, Buddy, Run is an American situation comedy starring Jack Sheldon, which ran on CBS from September 12, 1966, until January 2, 1967.

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Wordiezett So much average
Marketic It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.
Sameer Callahan It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
Hattie I didn’t really have many expectations going into the movie (good or bad), but I actually really enjoyed it. I really liked the characters and the banter between them.
xrated1332000 I'm trying to find the complete 17 episodes of run buddy run..does anyone have it, or know where or how to acquire it?? Any help appreciated-And for the person who wanted to know about the theme song it was a calm monologue by Jr. ( Mr. D's son), detailing how Buddy overheard the words "chicken little", and the orders given by the head of the Syndicate, My dad (Jr.s add his association to the plot). Then the scene flashes to Mr. D pounding fist to desk screaming " kill him, kill him, kill him!!" The Rest was instrumental, and no words to my recollection-XNow to the webmaster for this site- why is it that if you type in capitals, you have to be screaming?? some of us no longer have the vision you younger people do.. And if you plan on blocking such, why don't you write that at the beginning, so a bad typer like me don't have to type everything twice??
theowinthrop A slightly better than average sit-com for it's period, RUN BUDDY RUN was a comic turn based on THE FUGITIVE. Instead of David Jannsen's Dr. Richard Kimble running from Barry Morse's Inspector Gerard on The Fugitive to clear himself of his wife's murder (and find the one armed man who did it), Buddy (Jack Sheldon) was running from the mob. In the opening episode we see that Buddy went into a steam room which was full of mobsters led by Bruce Gordon (an interesting choice: the actor who played Frank Nitti on THE UNTOUCHABLES, but here doing the part of mob boss for laughs). Buddy overhears a sinister plot involving "Chicken Little" and then is discovered by the others. He is chased out and he finds himself constantly in danger for the rest of the series.It was amusing. In one episode he goes to a psychiatrist for help and the mob decides to make him look like a madman by not doing anything to him for awhile. The shrink actually convinces Buddy that he's been imagining everything, until at the conclusion the shrink witnesses the mobsters dropping their pretense and chasing their prey again.My favorite moment of the show was Gordon's. In one episode he is having another high level dinner/meeting with his fellow capos. After discussing all sorts of skulduggery they are involved in, it's time to relax. One of his lieutenants says they have the motion picture room ready for the movies they'll show that night. Fine says Gordon, but nothing like LITTLE CAESAR please. It's too violent for his taste! The show only lasted one season. It would be certainly worth a second glance.
BobLib Produced and written by Leonard Stern, associate producer of "Get Smart," "Run, Buddy, Run" had many similarities to "Smart" in that it combined crime and comedy in equal proportions, with the one never getting in the way of the other. It had two top-drawer character men, Jack Sheldon and Bruce Gordon, as the leads, and it had a good spot on the schedule. Just about everyone I know who saw it, myself included, enjoyed it.Why, then, did it fail? There could be any number of reasons. The most likely of all, I think, was that too many shows with similar formats had established themselves by then, leaving "Buddy" with, literally, nowhere to run. Also, the somewhat offbeat premise didn't help much, either. Nowadays, such a show would have been given more time to build up an audience. In 1966, it was axed halfway through the season.Pity, as this was one of the most creative, funny shows to emerge from the Golden Age of Sitcoms.
yenlo Buddy Overstreet witnesses or hears (can't remember which) some mob goings on and the syndicate boys begin chasing him to silence him. Each episode was about Buddy's on going attempts to elude the mob. It was a comedy and the show was short lived but had it's moments of hilarity. Where is it today? Who knows. It would be fun to see the few episodes again. Bruce Gordon who portrayed Frank Nitti on the Untouchables was cast once again as a mobster.