55 minutes
5/14/1976
Melissa and Jim Bryant live on an Iowa farm with their adult son Chuck, their adult daughter Karen, and their teenage son Wayne, who is a high school sophomore. Wayne is a talented singer and guitarist who dreams of country music stardom. Karen, newly separated from her husband, has recently rejoined the family with her own young son Tommy, who misses his father. This was a pilot film for a proposed television series that was not picked up.

Vera Miles
as Melissa Bryant

Tim O'Connor
as Jim Bryant

Mitch Vogel
as Wayne Bryant

Julie Cobb
as Karen

Dennis Redfield
as Chuck Bryant
Jeff Cotler
as Tommy

Linda Purl
as Bobbie Jean Shaw
W.T. Zacha
as Catfish McKay
Jack Garner
as Mr. Grant

Virginia Gregg
as Miss Detweiler
Harry Moses
as Ben Roper
Joel Stedman
as David Clemens

Ivor Francis
as Judge

Marc McClure
as Boy at Fair