There Is No Way This Series Wasn’t Inspired By The Running Man American Gladiators started airing in 1989…which was just two years after the theatrical release of The Running Man. While that ...

Created in 1989, American Gladiators pitted contestants against the show's in-house Gladiators (a stable of male and female athletes and bodybuilders with stage names like Nitro, Siren, and Laser ...