Plimpton! Shoot-Out at Rio Lobo
Plot: George Plimpton got a job playing one of the bad guys in the Howard Hawks-directed John Wayne Western "Rio Lobo. " In this special we see him talking to Hawks about whether he'll be killed off or not, to Wayne about how to cultivate a special walk to make oneself a star in movies and to himself as he attempts to rehearse his tiny part and while doing so is caught in the frame of a setup for another scene and chastised by Wayne

George Plimpton
Jack Elam
Victor French
Howard Hawks
David Huddleston
Joe Namath
John Wayne
William Kronick
Jules Brenner
Walter Scharf