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.
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.