 It originally aired as an "ABC Movie of the Week" on January 23, 1974.Sam Farragut is a sociopathic business executive in Southern California who forces a team of advertising agency employees, Warren Summerfield, Paul McIlvain, Terry Maxon to embark on a dangerous dirtbike trip to the Baja California desert in order to compete for his business.Warren Summerfield is a suicidal middle-aged ad executive who has been fired from the agency; the straightlaced Paul McIlvain is inattentive to his wife, and brash art designer, Maxon, feels suddenly trapped after his girlfriend announces she is pregnant.