In his long radio and television career, ventriloquist Paul Winchell entertained millions of kids for close to 60 years. One of his shows was Runaround, a game show with children as contestants.

There were nine contestants in each game who would watch brief films then attempt to answer questions based on what they had just seen. A number of possible answers was laid out on the studio floor and the children would run to the one they thought was correct. To throw off the other contestants, the kids would run around on all of the answers until Winchell used his clicker to signal that time was up and anyone who knew the right answer should make their way to it.

Contestants who answered correctly advanced to the next round and the unlucky ones left the stage for a penalty box off to the side. For every correct answer, the children received tokens and the child with the most tokens by the end of the game earned prizes.  Throughout the show, Winchell would break out his dummy, Jerry Mahoney, and entertain the audience with songs and jokes.

The game show wasn't as successful as other Paul Winchell vehicles and it only aired for a year on the NBC Saturday morning lineup.