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Thursday, June 29, 2023
THE LIFE OF YOUR RUN
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE
NBC 1965-1968
THE LIFE OF YOUR RUIN
MAD #110, April 1967
w: Dick DeBartolo
a: Mort Drucker
“Man on the run”/”semi-anthology” show similar to yesterday's Route 66, centering on the guest cast that week. It was about Paul Bryan (Ben Gazzara), given 9-18 months to live (I've only seen a couple episodes. I don't know how they justified the premise after two seasons) and each week was a different episode about him traveling the world and living life to the fullest.
The billboard in the last panel refers to both Jantzen bathing suits and David Janssen, star of the similar show The Fugitive.
From TV Scenes Worth Waiting For, art by Luis Gomes Zegarra (Lugoze) in Cracked #74, January 1969
From Sneaky TV Cigarette Commercials, art by John Severin. In Cracked #91, March 1971. It was around this time that ads for cigarettes were banned from television and this article was about how shows would work their way around it.
Sick did a whole story about the show in issue #44. Not a parody, but an extended sketch about how TV executives might have come up with the premise.
ReplyDeleteWhoops - I meant issue #45.
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