In Search of America is a 1971 American television pilot directed by Paul Bogart[1] that was broadcast as an ABC Movie of the Week.
[2] Mike Olson informs his family that he wishes to drop out of university in order to find himself by travelling through the United States.
He convinces his mother, father and grandmother, but not his sister, to come along with him in a 1920s bus converted into a mobile home.
Their first stop is a rock festival where Mike falls in love with the mysterious Kathy who is not what she seems.
At the last minute, the key element in the screenplay, the death of one of the leads was disapproved by the ABC network.