"Gonna try a brand new way to look for the US of A." ...ABC Movie of the Week starring Carl Betz, Vera Miles, Ruth McDevitt, Jeff Bridges, with guest stars Sal Mineo, Howard Duff. Also with Tyne Daly.
The Video Beat review: Mike convinces his family to re-examine their goals and join him on a cross-country odyssey in a 1928 Greyhound bus. Mom, Dad and even Grandma soon begin a mind-blowing adventure discovering America's hippie generation. The family comes upon a Woodstock-like festival [the actual Sky River Rock Festival]. There's lots of footage of real longhaired hippies dancing, grooving, and playing in the mud. They meet the love generation, including a pregnant hippie who plans to do natural childbirth in her cardboard box house. Sal Mineo is excellent as a hippie biker/stoner burnout. Grandma really gets into it; she wears peace sign earrings.
This film was a pilot for a series that never happened. (Maybe if this had become a series, Jeff Bridges wouldn't have been able to be in The Last PIcture Show, and would have been a TV teen heart throb instead.