Review of Runaway – Starring Tom Selleck, With Supporting Appearances by Mustache

It is the future. The not-too-distant future, but not like, next year, or something. Your clock radio has gone berserk. Caused you to stub your toe, or something equally unpleasant. Like one of those toe stubs that makes you draw in your breath and spin around for a minute in pain and--, well, you get the idea, it's very uncomfortable. Anyhow, only one mustache man can save us all.

Director: Michael Crichton

Writer: Michael Crichton

Release Date: December 14, 1984

In 1984, Tom Selleck was a bankable talent.  Magnum P.I. was 4 years into an 8-year run that saw solid fan support all the way to series end.  Lassiter, a middling remake of To Catch a Thief (1955) did pretty well at the box office.  The humiliations of Three Men and a Baby (1987) were still in the future.        Heck, Selleck had already turned down the role of Indiana Jones – clearly this icon of 80s masculinity had hitched his mustache to a star.