THE RUNNING MAN Literature 1982. Written by Stephen King.

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Total Records: 77 - Medium: LITERATURE

#	Record Name	Group	Category	Subcategory
BOGUS BUSINESS BUREAU
1	Blams	BBB	Tobacco	Cigarettes
	Blams Ben smokes Blams cigarettes.
2	Block Health Clinic	BBB	Healthcare	Hospitals
	Block Health Clinic Benjamin Stuart Reynolds immunized July 2023. Booster September 2023. Block Health Clinic.
3	The Blue Door	BBB	Travel	Lodging
	The Blue Door Old rooming house / hotel on State Street in Portland where Ben seeks shelter.
4	The Brant Hotel	BBB	Travel	Hotels
	The Brant Hotel Hotel in New York City: He went to earth in the Brant Hotel, a so-so establishment on the East Side. That part of the city had been gradually entering a new cycle of chic. Yet the Brant was less than a mile from Manhattan's own blighted inner city - also the largest in the world. As he checked in, he again thought of Dan Killian's parting words: Stay close to your own people.
5	Brickhill Manufacturing Company	BBB	Industrial Companies	Manufacturing
	Brickhill Manufacturing Company "There's a box of gummed mailing labels in your suitcase," he said. "That's in the trunk. The stickers say: After five days return to Brickhill Manufacturing Company, Manchester, N.H. Rich and another guy ran em off. They got a press at the Stabbers' headquarters on Boylston Street. Every day you send your two tapes to me in a box with one of those stickers. I'll mail em to Games from Boston. Send me the stuff Speed Delivery. That's one they'll never figure out."
6	Channel 1	BBB	Cinema	TV Stations
	Channel 1 He had a sudden raging urge to make this woman pull over: knock her sunglasses onto the gravel, drag her through the dirt, make her eat a stone, rape her, jump on her, knock her teeth into the air like startled digits, strip her nude and ask her if she was beginning to see the big picture, the one that runs twenty-four hours a day on channel one, where the national anthem never plays before the sign-off.
7	Dokes	BBB	Tobacco	Tobacco Products
	Dokes The drizzle had deepened into a steady rain by the time Richards hit the street. The big Smoke Dokes for Hallucinogenic Jokes thermometer across the street stood at fifty-one degrees. "Just the Right Temp to Stoke Up a Doke - High to the Nth Degree!" That might make it sixty in their apartment. And Cathy had the flu.
8	Dyna-Core	BBB	Goods	Hardware
	Dyna-Core "LISTEN TO ME CAREFULLY!" His voice boomed and rolled across the flat jetport acres. Police waited tensely. The crowd shuffled. "I AM CARRYING TWELVE POUNDS OF DYNA-CORE HI-IMPACT PLASTIC EXPLOSIVE IN MY COAT POCKET - THE VARIETY THEY CALL BLACK IRISH. TWELVE POUNDS IS ENOUGH TO TAKE OUT EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE WITHIN A THIRD OF A MILE AND PROBABLY ENOUGH TO EXPLODE THE JETPORT FUEL STORAGE TANKS. IF YOU DON'T FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS TO THE LETTER, I'LL BLOW YOU ALL TO HELL. A GENERAL ATOMICS IMPLODER RING IS SET INTO THE EXPLOSIVE. I HAVE IT PULLED OUT TO HALF-COCK. ONE JIGGLE AND YOU CAN ALL PUT YOUR HEADS BETWEEN YOUR LEGS AND KISS YOUR ASSES GOODBYE."
9	Echo Free-Vee Repair	BBB	Services	Repair Services
	Echo Free-Vee Repair Electronics repair service sign seen during the police chase. "Because you watch it, we won't botch it."
10	Frisco Push	BBB	Drugs	Narcotics
	Frisco Push Also known as San Francisco Push. syntheticamphetamine hallucinogen that goes for twenty oldbucks a tab.
11	Fun Guns	BBB	Television	TV Shows
	Fun Guns TV show: Now that his mind was made up, the Games bored him again. Most of the others, however, were watching Fun Guns with a dreadful fascination. Next week it might be them.
12	Games Commission	BBB	Organizations	Professional Organizations
	Games Commission Organization that oversees the Network's games.
13	General Atomics	BBB	Corporations	Technology Companies
	General Atomics Company where Ben Richards used to work.
14	General Atomics Imploder Ring	BBB	Goods	Hardware
	General Atomics Imploder Ring Gold ring about two inches in diameter that looks like a keyring with no keys in it. Attached to it is a slim rod like a mechanical pencil with a G-A trigger device attached to it. The trigger device looks like the eraser on the pencil.
15	Gilly's Town Line Store	BBB	Retail	Stores
	Gilly's Town Line Store Store that Ben mentions to the Rockland Newsie when he calls, telling them to send a photographer to capture him and his hostage.
16	Harding Catamounts	BBB	Sports	Baseball Teams
	Harding Catamounts He watched the six o'clock newsie restlessly - the fighting in Ecuador was worse, new cannibal riots had broken out in India, the Detroit Tigers had taken the Harding Catamounts by a score of 6-2 in an afternoon game - and when the first of the evening's big-money games came on at six-thirty, he went restlessly to the window and looked out.
17	Help Pills	BBB	Drugs	Medicine
	Help Pills What were they eating this morning? Help pills. Fake milk for the baby. A sudden feeling of desperation swelled over him. Christ when would they start seeing money? Today? Tomorrow? Next week?
18	The Hicksville Trooper	BBB	Technology Products	Robot Models
	The Hicksville Trooper He sounded like a well-programmed machine. General Atomics Model 6925-A9, Richards thought. The Hicksville Trooper. 16-psm Iridium Batteries included. Comes in White Only.
19	Jarrold's Store	BBB	Retail	Stores
	Jarrold's Store Location of a mailbox that Rolf mentions, where he'll drop the recorded tapes that Ben needs to send to the Network.
20	Killball	BBB	Sports	Sports
	Killball The inner office looked big enough to play killball in. It was dominated by a huge, one-wall picture window that looked west over the homes of the middle class, the dockside warehouses and oil tanks, and Harding Lake itself.
21	Molie's	BBB	Retail	Stores
	Molie's Molie ran a Dock Street hockshop where a fellow with enough bucks to spread around could buy a police-special move-along, a full-choke riot gun, a submachine gun, heroin, Push, cocaine, drag disguises, a styroflex pseudo-woman, a real whore if you were too strapped to afford styroflex, the current address of one of three floating crap-games, the current address of a swinging Perverto Club, or a hundred other illegal items. If Molie didn't have what you wanted, he would order it for you.
22	Move-along	BBB	Weapons	Guns
	Move-along Police gun.
23	Municipal Crematorium	BBB	Services	Funeral Homes
	Municipal Crematorium Where Ben's mother ended up after dying of syphilis, and his brother Todd after a newsie airtruck lost its emergency brake on a hill while Todd was loading it. The kids on the street called it either the Ash Factory or the Creamery, they were bitter but helpless, knowing that they themselves would most likely end up being belched out of the stacks and into the city's air.
24	The Network	BBB	Cinema	TV Stations
	The Network TV station that airs a whole other level of game shows.
25	The Pleasure of Serving	BBB	Literature	Novels
	The Pleasure of Serving Novel brought to Ben Richards in his room the night before The Running Man begins.
26	Raygon Chemicals	BBB	Industrial Companies	Chemical Companies
	Raygon Chemicals "I thought you'd enjoy the transformation, my good man," Bradley said with quiet dignity. "I'm the district manager for Raygon Chemicals, you know. We do a thriving business in this area. Fine city, Boston. Immensely convivial."
27	Rockland Newsie	BBB	Periodicals	Newspapers
	Rockland Newsie Free-Vee Tabloid Number 6943, newspaper that Ben Richards calls, telling them to send a photographer to capture him and his hostage.
28	Rooty-Toot	BBB	Beverage Products	Soft Drinks
	Rooty-Toot Soft drink that Killian serves Ben Richards.
29	Run for Your Guns	BBB	Television	TV Shows-Game Shows
	Run for Your Guns TV game show on The Network.
30	The Running Man	BBB	Television	TV Shows
	The Running Man The network's biggest show, filled with chances for viewer participation, both vicarious and actual. The most lucrative and dangerous for the men involved.
31	Scag	BBB	Drugs	Narcotics
	Scag Recreational drug: Scag is twelve oldbucks a bag, Frisco Push goes for twenty a tab, but the Free-Vee will freak you for nothing.
32	South City Manual Trades	BBB	Education	Schools
	South City Manual Trades Ben's last school attended, from September of 2011 until December of 2013.
33	Southwest Food Depository	BBB	Food Stores	Grocery Stores
	Southwest Food Depository The great movements of the decade passed by him ignored, like ghosts to an unbeliever. He knew nothing of the Housewife Massacre in '24 until his wife told him about it three weeks later - two hundred police armed with tommy guns and high-powered move-alongs had turned back an army of women marching on the Southwest Food Depository. Sixty had been killed.
34	Sten Gun	BBB	Weapons	Guns
	Sten Gun Someone was halfway out of the passenger side of the police car, which was on its way again. A thick stuttering sound filled the dark. Sten gun. Bullets dug through the turf around him in a senseless pattern. Dirt struck his cheeks, pattered against his forehead.
35	Stockholm Restaurant	BBB	Dining	Restaurants
	Stockholm Restaurant Richards felt a coolness creep into his testicles. An old man in a threadbare black overcoat sauntered down the side of the street and leaned casually against the building. Two fellows in tartan jumpers got out of a taxi, talking animatedly, and began to study the menu in the window of the Stockholm Restaurant.
36	Super Pine Tree Mall	BBB	Retail	Shopping Centers
	Super Pine Tree Mall Shopping mall under construction that Ben enters during the police chase.
37	Swim the Crocodiles	BBB	Television	TV Shows-Game Shows
	Swim the Crocodiles TV game show on The Network.
38	Treadmill to Bucks	BBB	Television	TV Shows-Game Shows
	Treadmill to Bucks TV game show: Every minute the contestant could stay on the treadmill, keeping up a steady flow of chatter with the emcee, he won ten dollars. Every two minutes the emcee asked a Bonus Question in the contestant's category which was worth fifty dollars. If the contestant, dizzy, out of breath, heart doing fantastic rubber acrobatics in his chest, missed the question, fifty dollars was deducted from his winnings and the treadmill was speeded up.
39	Vendo-Spendo Company	BBB	Food Industries	Food Companies
	Vendo-Spendo Company The door opened, and Elton Parrakis walked in. He was immensely fat, and his lackluster blond hair was combed back in preposterous waves from his forehead to show a round baby face that held an element of perpetual puzzlement. He was wearing the blue and gold uniform of the Vendo-Spendo Company. He looked thoughtfully at Virginia Parrakis.
40	Voigt Airfield	BBB	Transportation	Airports
	Voigt Airfield The car crawled slowly down the four-lane access road between the parked police cars, between the ceaseless scream and babble of the crowd. A sign loomed over them: VOIGT AIRFIELD. The woman could see an electrified cyclone fence which crossed a marshy, worthless sort of field on both sides of the road. Straight ahead was a combination information booth and check-in point on a traffic island.
FICTITIOUS TIMELINE
41	August 8, 1997	Dates	20th Century: 90s	Birth Dates
	August 8, 1997 Benjamin Stuart Richards. Age twenty-eight, born August 8, 1997, city of Harding.
MAKE BELIEVE MAP
42	Boondocks, U.S.A.	Map	Urban Areas	Cities-Joke
	Boondocks, U.S.A. The police were deployed more heavily here, and more were coming all the time. Richards was not surprised at the swiftness and the heaviness of their crunch, despite the suddenness of his appearance. Even here, in Boondocks, U.S.A., the club and the gun were kept near to hand. The dogs were kept hungry in the kennel. The poor break into summer cottages closed for autumn and winter. The poor crash supermarts in subteen gangs. The poor have been known to soap badly spelled obscenities on shop windows.
43	Co-Op City	Map	Urban Areas	Cities-U.S.
	Co-Op City City that stood in a radiating rat warren of parking lots, deserted shops, Urban Centers, and paved playgrounds. The cycle gangs were the law here, and all those newsie items about the intrepid Block Police of South City were nothing but a pile of warm crap.
44	Derry	Map	Urban Areas	Cities-U.S.
	Derry Town in Maine. Richards stared out wonderingly, unable to drink his fill, he had slept through the other flight as if in wait for this one. The sky had deepened to a shade that hung on the borderline between royal velvet and black. Stars poked through with hesitant brilliance. On the western horizon, the only remnant of the sun was a bitter orange line that illuminated the dark earth below not at all. There was a nestle of lights below he took to be Derry.
45	Dock Street	Map	Transit Routes	Streets
	Dock Street The kid who blinked a lot went into the inner sanctum. Richards and the man with the sour voice, whose name was Jimmy Laughlin, made wary conversation. Richards discovered that Laughlin lived only three blocks away from him, on Dock Street. He had held a part-time job until the year before as an engine wiper for General Atomics, and had then been fired for taking part in a sit-down strike protesting leaky radiation shields.
46	Drummond Street	Map	Transit Routes	Streets
	Drummond Street Street in Harding where the taxi driver drops Ben off.
47	Easy Street	Map	Transit Routes	Streets
	Easy Street Joke Bradley makes: As he and Bradley spoke together, the maddening aroma of simmering ground beef, vegetables, and tomato sauce began to fill the room, driving the cabbage back into the corners and making Richards realize how hungry he was. "I could turn you in, man. I could kill you an steal all that money. Turn in the body. Get a thousand more bucks and be on easy street."
48	Harding	Map	Urban Areas	Cities-U.S.
	Harding City where Ben Reynolds was born.
49	Harding Lake	Map	Water	Lakes
	Harding Lake The inner office looked big enough to play killball in. It was dominated by a huge, one-wall picture window that looked west over the homes of the middle class, the dockside warehouses and oil tanks, and Harding Lake itself.
50	The Lindsay Overway	Map	Transit Routes	Thoroughfares
	The Lindsay Overway They touched down at 3:06, and Richards deplaned and left the airport without incident. At 3:15 the cab was spiraling down the Lindsay Overway. They crossed Central Park on a diagonal, and at 3:20, Ben Richards disappeared into the largest city on the face of the earth.
51	Network Games Building	Map	Structures	Buildings
	Network Games Building He could see the skyscrapers rising into the clouds now, high and clean. The highest of all was the Network Games Building, one hundred stories, the top half buried in cloud and smog cover.
52	Nixon Memorial Park	Map	Nature	Parks
	Nixon Memorial Park Park in Harding near the Network building.
53	Rampart Street	Map	Transit Routes	Streets
	Rampart Street Street in Harding where Ben is escorted to when leaving the Network building.
54	Robard Street	Map	Transit Routes	Streets
	Robard Street Street in Harding that Ben gives to the taxi driver.
55	South City	Map	Urban Areas	Cities-U.S.
	South City Co-Op City stood in a radiating rat warren of parking lots, deserted shops, Urban Centers, and paved playgrounds. The cycle gangs were the law here, and all those newsie items about the intrepid Block Police of South City were nothing but a pile of warm crap.
56	Voigt Field	Map	Structures	Sports Fields
	Voigt Field You're my protection, Mrs. Williams. I have to get to Voigt Field, in a place called Derry. You're going to see that I get there.
57	West Sticksville	Map	Urban Areas	Cities-Joke
	West Sticksville Here on the right, folks, we have the summer people, Richards thought. Fat and sloppy but heavy with armor. On the left, weighing in at only a hundred and thirty - but a scrappy contender with a mean and rolling eyeball - we have the Hungry Honkies. Theirs are the politics of starvation, they'd roll Christ Himself for a pound of salami. Polarization comes to West Sticksville. Watch out for these two contenders, though. They don't stay in the ring, they have a tendency to fight in the ten-dollar seats. Can we find a goat to hang up for both of them?
OTHER
58	Ben Reynolds's middle name.	Other	Trivia	Name Game
	Ben Reynolds's middle name. Louis Stuart William
59	Ben Richards	Other	Quotes	Quotes
	Ben Richards Ben Richards: Get stuffed, maggot.
60	Ben Richards	Other	Quotes	Quotes
	Ben Richards Ben Richards: Somebody's going to eat their own balls for that picture of my wife.
61	Ben Richards	Other	Quotes	Quotes
	Ben Richards Ben Richards: You can't see it, but I'm laughing at you shit eaters.
62	Ben Richards	Other	Quotes	Quotes
	Ben Richards Ben Richards: Hello, all you wonderful people out there in Free-Vee land. This is jovial Ben Richards, taking you on my annual nature hike. If you look closely you may see the fearless scarlet tanager or a great speckled cowbird. Perhaps even a yellow-bellied pig bird or two. They may let that part through, but not the rest. If you're deaf and read lips, remember what I'm saying. Tell a neighbor or a friend. Spread the word.
63	Ben Richards' fake name on the new walle...	Other	Trivia	Name Game
	Ben Richards' fake name on the new wallet cards he buys at Molie's hockshop. Jack Gavin Stewart John Griffen Springer Jason Gerald Sullivan
64	Dock Street hockshop owner Molie's last ...	Other	Trivia	Name Game
	Dock Street hockshop owner Molie's last name. Jennings Jackson Jernigan
65	Evan McCone	Other	Quotes	Quotes
	Evan McCone Evan McCone: Here it goes. Here is where I blow your fucking head off, Donkey.
66	Game Certificates	Other	Money	Currency
	Game Certificates Coupons issued by the Network, with one advantage over New Dollars - a reputable doctor will accept them as legal tender, while a quack will not.
67	Great Speckled Cowbird	Other	Living Things	Birds
	Great Speckled Cowbird Nonexistent bird, joke Ben Richards makes on one of the recorded tapes he sends to the Network.
68	New Credit Dollars	Other	Money	Currency
	New Credit Dollars Currency: The old G.A. sodium lights put up in the 70s busted with rocks and hunks of paving. No technico was going to replace them down here, they were on the New Credit Dollar.
69	New Dollars	Other	Money	Currency
	New Dollars Currency: The rules are simplicity themselves. You - or your surviving family - will win one hundred New Dollars for each hour you remain free. We stake you to forty-eight hundred dollars running money on the assumption that you will be able to fox the Hunters for forty-eight hours. The unspent balance refundable, of course, if you fall before the forty-eight hours are up. You're given a twelvehour head start. If you last thirty days, you win the Grand Prize. One billion New Dollars.
70	New Quarter	Other	Money	Currency
	New Quarter "Three minutes are up," the operator broke in. "If you wish to continue, please deposit one New Quarter or three old quarters."
71	Old Bucks	Other	Money	Currency
	Old Bucks Currency: Scag is twelve oldbucks a bag, Frisco Push goes for twenty a tab, but the Free-Vee will freak you for nothing.
72	Old Quarter	Other	Money	Currency
	Old Quarter "Three minutes are up," the operator broke in. "If you wish to continue, please deposit one New Quarter or three old quarters."
73	The Rudes	Other	Medical Conditions	Conditions
	The Rudes Joke Killian makes about Ben Richards: You'll have to make allowances for Mr. Richards. He seems afflicted with an extreme case of the rudes.
74	Scarlet Tanager	Other	Living Things	Animals
	Scarlet Tanager Nonexistent bird, joke Ben Richards makes on one of the recorded tapes he sends to the Network.
75	Untitled	Other	Themes	3-D
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76	Yellow-bellied Pig Bird	Other	Living Things	Birds
	Yellow-bellied Pig Bird Nonexistent bird, joke Ben Richards makes on one of the recorded tapes he sends to the Network.
77	Zapruder Award	Other	Recognition	Awards
	Zapruder Award Award Ben mentions to his hostage, Amelia Williams: It'll work. I think. There will be a dozen freelance cameramen around in no time, hoping to get some Games money or even the Zapruder Award itself. With that kind of publicity, they'll have to play it straight. Sorry you won't get to see us go out in a hail of bullets so they can talk about you sanctimoniously as Ben Richards's last victim.

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