Before I get to Today's Video Link, a word about Yesterday's Video Link: A lot of you have written to ask about why I ran an old Buster Keaton short comedy and didn't point out that, decades before Blazing Saddles, there was a character in there named Hedley Lamarr. I noticed that when I watched it and I'm kinda wondering why I didn't point that out myself.
On to Today's Video Link…
Here's a sitcom from the sixties that I vaguely remember. It's the first episode of Run, Buddy, Run! starring Jack Sheldon as a hapless guy who happens to overhear some mobsters planning some murders and then has to flee for his life. This first episode aired on September 12, 1966, the last episode (of sixteen) aired on January 2, 1967 and the next week, its time slot was filled by Mr. Terrific, a super-hero sitcom that I also vaguely remember.
The first and only issue of the Run, Buddy, Run! comic book published by Gold Key Comics came out on March 23, 1967, by which time everyone in America — including, probably, Jack Sheldon — had forgotten all about Run, Buddy, Run!
Some talented and experienced people were behind Run, Buddy, Run! but I don't think you'll have to watch a lot of it to wonder why it didn't go. You may be wondering why it even got picked up as a series at all…