Young Runaways, The (television) Two-hour television movie, aired on May 28, 1978. Directed by Russ Mayberry. Uncaring parents leave two of their four children with foster parents as they leave for Alaska, but the children plot to get back together, in the meantime running into bank robbers. Stars Gary Collins, Anne Francis, Sharon Farrell, Robert Webber, Alicia Fleer, Chip Courtland, Tommy Crebbs, Pat Delany, Dick Bakalyan, Barbara Hale, Lucille Benson.