Directed by George Schaefer and written by James Costigan, this has a pretty fun cast. There’s Richard Chamberlain as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Blythe Danner as Zelda Fitzgerald, Susan Sarandon (a year before The Great Waldo Pepper and The Rocky Horror Picture Show) as Ailie Calhoun, David Huffman (who died way too young as he was stabbed by a criminal while outside the Old Globe Theater in San Francisco) as Andy McKennam, Ernest Thompson (the writer of On Golden Pond) as Earl Shoen, Richard Hatch (Battlestar Galactica) as Bill Knowles and Planet of the Apes TV show cast member James Naughton as Captain John Haines. And Brooke Adams!

This is the story of how Fitzgerlad met his wife. I worked with Blythe Danner a bunch on health care commercials and I always got her after she’d been through twelve other agencies, so she was exhausted and would turn a :30 second commercial into a :90. I purposefully watched the time she hosted SNL and told her. After nearly years of us barely interacting, she sparkled and said, “Was I any good?” It wasn’t a great episode, the kind of one that aired in 1982 when the show was finding its way back. It was the kind of SNL where the music guest — Rickie Lee Jones — did three songs instead of two. But I told her, “Your monologue was perfect.”

Don’t have the box set? You can watch this on YouTube.