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Re: "Run For Your Life"
« Reply #15 on: June 23, 2018, 09:39:22 AM »
It has the same feel as one of my favorites "The Prisoner"

That show STILL amazes me.  Always a fan.

When I did the graphics on the Midget, I found the font on-line called "The Village", which was based on the font created and used by the production crew of the show, and in all signage in the Village.

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Re: "Run For Your Life"
« Reply #16 on: June 25, 2018, 11:21:37 PM »
If I remember correctly, one episode had him racing at Bonneville in Ermie Immerso's car.

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Re: "Run For Your Life"
« Reply #17 on: June 26, 2018, 12:56:52 AM »
According to: http://run4.us/runforyourlife10_12_66.htm it's "the salt flats in Libya":

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“Keep My Share of the World”  (Jeremy Slate, Rossano Brazi)     


Kate arranges VIP treatment for Paul to see the sights of Egypt, and there he's introduced to the former girlfriend of the Greek whose vehicle is going for the land speed record. Learning that Pete is driving, Paul accompanies the woman to the test site where the record is almost achieved, but there is a contretemps between the car's owner and Pete, who walks out on the opportunity.


That night Paul finally tells Pete about the diagnosis, and learns the driver suspected since the beginning. Paul takes the speed-record drive, only having to brake the car at the same place Pete did the previous day. With a week required before damage to the car can be repaired Paul sails to Malta on Staphos' yacht, and the Greek quizzes him over his lifestyle, Paul glad to disembark for a couple days in Zermatt.


When he arrives in Athens Staphos gives Paul a hard time, having had him investigated, and offering $100,000 if Paul ends the (nonexistent) relationship with Staphos' former mistress. Paul visits a doctor in Athens, the first ever he finds kindhearted. After spending some days with Kate in Zermatt, Paul returns to the salt flats in Libya, and breaks the world speed record - but unofficially.


Staphos asks him to be his right-hand man/successor in the business empire he believes will take Greece into the 21st century, and admits a wartime act which caused his lover to leave him and become his blackmailer. Paul tells him of the diagnosis, and believing the couple will get together again, departs for Rome to check arrangements for the wedding ceremony to take place when the symptoms come on - something Paul believes has begun.

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Re: "Run For Your Life"
« Reply #18 on: June 26, 2018, 11:58:26 AM »
  I still have My bong from the 60's and unlike Me, it still works with one hand... better with two..............  one run, out..................... :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Re: "Run For Your Life"
« Reply #19 on: June 26, 2018, 12:12:34 PM »
  I still have My bong from the 60's and unlike Me, it still works with one hand... better with two..............  one run, out..................... :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

Bong?? Whew, I thought you said "thong".   :-D

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Re: "Run For Your Life"
« Reply #20 on: June 26, 2018, 01:24:34 PM »
When I was but a wee little lass the word "thong" denoted a style of footwear, which always comes to mind when I head someone complaining about how uncomfortable a thong is - sticks in the butt crack.

I wonder just what the world is coming to. . . :?
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Re: "Run For Your Life"
« Reply #21 on: June 26, 2018, 02:44:55 PM »
When I was but a wee little lass the word "thong" denoted a style of footwear, which always comes to mind when I head someone complaining about how uncomfortable a thong is - sticks in the butt crack.

I wonder just what the world is coming to. . . :?

"lass"?   Out of the closet, Jon?  :-D

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Re: "Run For Your Life"
« Reply #22 on: June 27, 2018, 08:22:58 AM »
You read pretty well for an even-older-than-me fart, Neil.  I wuz just checkin' to see if anybody would notice. :cheers:
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Re: "Run For Your Life"
« Reply #23 on: June 27, 2018, 09:47:19 AM »
"Problems are almost always a sign of progress."  Harold Bettes
Well, I guess we're making a LOT of progress . . .  :roll:

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Re: "Run For Your Life"
« Reply #24 on: June 27, 2018, 11:55:31 AM »
Interesting strobe effects on the bass strings in this video, Chris.

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