diff --git a/course_discovery/apps/api/v1/tests/test_views/test_course_runs.py b/course_discovery/apps/api/v1/tests/test_views/test_course_runs.py
index a541ebed46..ec6439b0d1 100644
--- a/course_discovery/apps/api/v1/tests/test_views/test_course_runs.py
+++ b/course_discovery/apps/api/v1/tests/test_views/test_course_runs.py
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 
 
 @ddt.ddt
+@pytest.mark.usefixtures('django_cache')
 class CourseRunViewSetTests(SerializationMixin, ElasticsearchTestMixin, OAuth2Mixin, APITestCase):
     def setUp(self):
         super().setUp()
diff --git a/course_discovery/apps/api/v1/views/course_runs.py b/course_discovery/apps/api/v1/views/course_runs.py
index fb202c7f7f..32476fa0a6 100644
--- a/course_discovery/apps/api/v1/views/course_runs.py
+++ b/course_discovery/apps/api/v1/views/course_runs.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 from rest_framework.response import Response
 
 from course_discovery.apps.api import filters, serializers
+from course_discovery.apps.api.cache import CompressedCacheResponseMixin
 from course_discovery.apps.api.mixins import ValidElasticSearchQueryRequiredMixin
 from course_discovery.apps.api.pagination import ProxiedPagination
 from course_discovery.apps.api.permissions import IsCourseRunEditorOrDjangoOrReadOnly
@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ def inner(*args, **kwargs):
 
 
 # pylint: disable=useless-super-delegation
-class CourseRunViewSet(ValidElasticSearchQueryRequiredMixin, viewsets.ModelViewSet):
+class CourseRunViewSet(CompressedCacheResponseMixin, ValidElasticSearchQueryRequiredMixin, viewsets.ModelViewSet):
     """ CourseRun resource. """
     filter_backends = (DjangoFilterBackend, OrderingFilter)
     filterset_class = filters.CourseRunFilter