Anybody remember, Run Buddy Run?

Tom_mkfty · 03-28-2005, 12:21 AM

I have never seen that rerun.

Frank Anderson · 03-28-2005, 03:06 AM

I remember a show about a German Shephard named Run Joe Run.

Mark To · 03-28-2005, 10:49 AM

I have the first 8 or 9 shows from off film. I'm not sure but I believe TV Land may have run the pilot at some point in their early years. That would have been the only rebroadcast for the show in the US. They only made 16 of them. The story with that show is that the ratings started out poorly and the show was cancelled. Unlike the moronic way television networks are run today, when a show was cancelled they would still continue to air it until all of the shot episodes ran. So after CBS pulled the plug, they tore down the set. But then a funny thing happened. People discovered the show and the ratings began going up. CBS then decided to uncancel it but by then it was too late. Bruce Gordon is great in it, playing a spoof of his Frank Nitti character from The Untouchables. A good release for when the TV industry catches up with the music industry. Paramount handmade anyone?

Tom_mkfty · 03-28-2005, 11:00 PM

Run Buddy Run, ran for half a season, and then was cancelled.
Mr Terrific replaced it. I liked, Run Buddy Run, better.

Jon_Are · 03-29-2005, 06:55 PM

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Mr Terrific replaced it. I liked, Run Buddy Run, better.

Wow...these two shows are my very earliest TV memories, along with Captain Nice.

Jon

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docdoowop · 08-27-2006, 02:59 PM

Series lead, Jack Sheldon, also appears in the two-part episode "Songbird" contained in "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, Private Eye". (This is the terrific, overlooked 1996-'97 show starring Stacy Keach.) Sheldon's a trumpet player in this, and he's just great. The 26 episode, single season set from Tango can be found rather cheaply (I found mine for $7.99 at Menard's...a home-improvement store chain in the Midwest), but it's well worth whatever you pay,

Jeff# · 08-27-2006, 08:06 PM

I saw the pilot episode to Run, Buddy, Run rerun somewhere about 10 years ago. It wasn't funny, which explains why series star Jack Sheldon never made the big time. Although Bruce Gordon was a wonderful character actor, almost always being typecast in menacing roles.

Michael Alden · 08-27-2006, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeff#

I saw the pilot episode to Run, Buddy, Run rerun somewhere about 10 years ago. It wasn't funny, which explains why series star Jack Sheldon never made the big time. Although Bruce Gordon was a wonderful character actor, almost always being typecast in menacing roles.

In your opinion. While Sheldon wasn't really a good choice for the role, the show did have it's moments and one should never judge a series based on the pilot alone.

Mike Frezon · 08-27-2006, 10:15 PM

You guys are taking me back to all those Merv Griffin shows when Merv would pull Jack Sheldon out of the band (led by Mort Lindsey) and engage in idle banter.

From what I remember, Sheldon wasn't all that funny in those bits either!

Jeff# · 08-27-2006, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Michael Alden

In your opinion. While Sheldon wasn't really a good choice for the role, the show did have it's moments and one should never judge a series based on the pilot alone.

The writers are supposed to put their best foot forward with the pilot, as first impressions are very important with any TV series. The problem with Run, Buddy, Run is the premise: A man overhears some syndicate men in a turkish bath plotting a murder, but the only information he catches are the codewords "chicken little" which is meaningless to Buddy....who is then chased all over the country by Bruce Gordon and his men. What the sitcom was attempting was a semi-spoof of The Fugitive crossed with Get Smart!, but this inept-man-on-the-run series went nowhere.