by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Joe Cartwright and Candy head to Butlerville, there to help out Candy's old friend Jess Parker (Robert Pine). The town is run with an iron hand by Calvin Butler (Will Geer), who will stop at nothing to drive all "squatters" out of the territory. Having witnessed Butler's brutality first hand, Parker is prepared to testify against the despot in court-if he lives that long. Complicating matters are the fact that Butler is an old friend of Joe's father Ben, and that there is a long-standing romantic rivalry between Candy and Jess over Jess' wife Barbara. First broadcast on March 30, 1969, "The Running Man" was written by John and Ward Hawkins.
