Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'The Runaways' from 1970-1982:
- Karen Machon as Karen Wingate (1978-1979)
- Michael Biehn as Mark Johnson (1978-1979)
- Robert Reed as David McKay (1978)
- Ruth Cox as Susan Donovan (1978)
- Alan Feinstein as Steve Arizzio (1979)
- James Callahan as Sgt. Hal Grady (1979)
- Patti Cohoon as Debbie Shaw (1979)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'The Runaways':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
W: William Robert Yates D: William Wiard
With James Olson (Burt Williams), Scott Baio (Tommy), Terri Nunn (Cathy / Barbara), Cecilia Hart (Carolyn Roberts), Felton Perry (Willie), Tom Troupe (Wilson). A psychologist tracks down a teenager whose dual personality has led her to become a call girl.
Season 1, episode 2
W: Gerald Sanford
With Robin Mattson (Melinda), Julie Adams (Mother), Patirck Culliton (Highway Patrolman). Two youngsters, resentful when their widowed mother remarries, run away and fall into bad company.
Season 1, episode 3
With Anthony Eisley (Paul Larkin), Vera Miles, Greg Evigan (Eddie Couch), Lonny Chapman (Ray Farris), Debra Clinger. A runaway wife encounters a young fugitive with a complusion for lying, which nearly proves fatal to both.
Season 1, episode 4
W: William Froug
With Alan Fudge (Captain), Jon Van Ness (Police Officer), Gary Imhoff (Danny). McKay mediates in an emotion-charged situation involving a pregnant teenager and her boyfriend who ran away when her parents insisted on an abortion.
May 29, 1979: Dark Side Of The Road
Season 2, episode 1
With Taylor Lacher (Sheriff Bates), Audrey Landers (Verna Kenton), Linda Marsh (Glenda Worsham), Susan Myers (Vicki Henderson), Hal England (Henderson). Psychologist Steve Arizzio, hired to find two teenage runaways, discovers the girls being imprisoned in a work camp by a corrupt sheriff.
Season 2, episode 2
With Hari Rhodes (Hackett), Talia Balsam (Diana Robinson), Roger Robinson (Chuck Bishop), Stuart K. Robinson (Andy Hackett). An ex-convict, trying to keep his runaway son from trouble with the law, joins forces with Steve Arizzio to find the boy.
Season 2, episode 3
With Denny Miller (Jimmy Joe), Billy Green Bush (Ace Colton), Donna Wilkes, Brendan Burns (Bob Parker), Ronee Blakley, Royce D. Applegate (Harper). Steve Arizzio is hired by the family of a teenager who has run away from home to follow the country singer she idolizes.
Season 2, episode 4
With Jason Evers (Randolph), Carol Rossen (Helen Randolph), Susan Richardson (Kathleen Randolph), Sandie Newton (Margaret Starrett), Alf Kjellin (Zimmerman). Steve Arizzio befriends a high school boy who is troubled with doubts about his masculinity.
Season 2, episode 5
With Rosanna Arquette (Sally), Ryan MacDonald (Larry Dobson), Alan Fudge (Scott), Martin Kove (Mike), Don Calfa (Sam). A young girl has heroic fantasies about her father, not knowing that her mother is concealing the truth about him.
Season 2, episode 6
W: Mark Rodgers
With Corinne Camacho (Ruth), Linden Chiles (Norlund), Stephanie Kramer (Lillian), Sean Roche (Dave). A boy's parents apply subtle pressure on him to live up to the achievements of his brother who was killed in Vietnam, forcing the teenager to the edge of a nervous breakdown.
Season 2, episode 7
W: D.C. Fontana
With Maureen McCormick (Janet), Nan Martin (Helen Rossmore), David Keith, Dennis Patrick (Tom Rossmore), Cooper Huckabee (Hank), Katherine Cannon (Patricia). A young girl, feeling rejected by her wealthy, older parents, turns to a baseball player for affection.
Season 2, episode 8
With Shelly Juttner (Cindy Adams), L.Q. Jones (Matthew Turner), Bill McKinney (Frank Bedsole). An adopted girl searches for her biological parents to learn why they gave her up.
Season 2, episode 9
W: Mark Rodgers
With Ann Doran (Marge), Michele Nichols (Kelly Burke), Christina Hart (Jeanne Norris), John Lisbon Wood (D.J.), Stephen Davies (Larry Haynes). A young girl who fled her hometown after witnessing a robbery turns to Steve's ward Mark for help.
Season 2, episode 10
With Barry Sullivan, Lynette Mettey (Barbara Mardsen), Mary Jackson (Martha Hendrix), Roy Poole (Bill Hawkins), Kario Salem (Henry Lewis). A retired merchant seaman launches a vendetta against juvenile hoods who are terrorizing the elderly in his neighborhood.
Season 2, episode 11
With Barry Sullivan, Lynette Mettey (Barbara Mardsen), Mary Jackson (Martha Hendrix), Roy Poole (Bill Hawkins), Kario Salem (Henry Lewis), Milton Selzer (Benson), Aneta Corsaut (Shirley Grady). An elderly man's use of vigilante tactics to clear the juvenile hoods out of his neighborhood triggers further problems.
Season 2, episode 12
With Philip Brown (Bob Chadway), Joanna Miles (Ann Brooks), Nicolas Coster (Mr. Chadway), Robin Strand (Larry Highland), Tony Monaco (Modesto). Steve befriends a high school student whose doubts about his masculinity are threatening his relationships with his friends and family.
Season 2, episode 13
With Charles Siebert (Avery), Mark Wheeler (Harley Green), Kelly Ward (Johnny), Kath Soucie (Linda Page). Steve learns that a runaway teenager in desperate need of surgery has been picked up hitchhiking by a neurotic former mental patient. (Last show of the series.)