Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

Kidskycom It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

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.

asajb2000 I have a DVD of four episodes of this series and it's quite entertaining. Bernie Kopell plays Buddy Overstreet's brother Albert. He appeared in Get Smart as well playing the head of KAOS. Leonard Stern also produced Get Smart. More similarities: David Ketchum, who appeared in Get Smart, also appeared in Run, Buddy Run. The very first episode was executive-produced by David Susskind but other episodes I have did not list him. The pill-taking Superhero was either Captain Nice or Mr. Terrific. These shows also include the network id (CBS) but did not include the original commercials. My copies were done from 16mm film. According to some information I have, Jack Sheldon is a musician and got his start in show-business as a musician and his son also is a musician now. When watching this, it reminded me of the naiveté of Will Ferrell's character in "Elf" and Jack Sheldon looked a little like Will Ferrell in that movie. Buddy Overstreet appears to be a simpleton.

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.