Good concept, poorly executed.

Expected more

Excellent but underrated film

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

The writer commented he could not remember ifBuddy overheard or witnessed something that gothim into trouble with the mob.The answer is that while minding his own business in a sauna when some mob members come in and startdiscussing a recent hit...unaware anyone else was there because of all the steam...It was interesting noticing how the actor playing Buddy visibly lost weight during the course of its one season...from all the running I suppose...

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.

I remember a show from childhood in which the protagonist takes a huge pill and gets 20 or 30 seconds of super power, just enough to beat the bad guys. Was this show Run Buddy Run? (I can't imagine why I remember a show that only ran 16 episodes when I was 5.)

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.