- Johnny looks at rejected pilots. Charlton Heston (book "The Actor's Life", play "A Man for All Seasons"); Johnny Yune performs and is interviewed; Jack Douglas (book "Rubber Duck"); Blair Brown (Altered States (1980)).
- Ed comments on being the official starter for an annual collegiate canoe race between Southern California universities, held at Busch Gardens in Van Nuys (the park closed months later). Then Johnny reads through a list of pilots for the upcoming fall TV season, followed by photos depicting pilots that didn't make the cut. Johnny Yune performs a stand-up routine. During his interview, he talks about his own pilot, which was scheduled to air in January but got pre-empted by the response to the State of the Union address by the Senate minority leader; he jokes about being a minority who got bumped by another minority. He then talks about being a Korean stand-up comedian, and the restrictive attitudes toward comedy in his native country - because of both government censorship and the cultural attitude that it's rude to laugh at someone, regardless of the reason. Johnny notes that Yune has also been a successful singer, and Yune surprises him and the audience by performing "'O sole mio" in Italian. Charlton Heston comes out wearing a track suit, and explains that he's in between the afternoon matinee and the evening performance during previews of his play "A Man for All Seasons". He comments on the brilliance of the play, and also promotes his book "The Actor's Life" by recollecting various incidents in his career, both in movies and on stage. Blair Brown talks about her recent marriage to actor Richard Jordan, and the challenges of a marriage between two performers. She then discusses her upcoming movie "Altered States", and the complicated narrative which combines science fiction with a love story, recalling her own experience in a sensory deprivation tank. She also talks about being the daughter of a CIA officer, and her own initial hopes of pursuing a career more along the same lines. Jack Douglas talks about his upcoming book "Rubber Duck", which involves the problems he encountered years before when his housekeeper died accidentally after he had made repeated public comments about planning to kill her because of how much she irritated him. He then presents one of his typical compilations of odd film footage, connected by his satiric narration which presents it as a promotion for Palm Springs.
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