Hunter S. Thompson and illustrator Ralph Steadman are the subjects of this 1978 BBC Omnibus film, directed by Nigel Finch and shot five years after Nixon's resignation. The cameras follow the two of them on a road trip to Hollywood, where Thompson is working on the script that becomes "Where the Buffalo Roam," and the film catches him half in character as the gonzo journalist and half just being himself. Around the thirty-two minute mark, former White House counsel John Dean sits down with Thompson to talk through his Watergate testimony, and Bill Murray turns up in a staged bit built around a mock "Re-Elect Nixon" campaign. The most unsettling scene has Thompson and Steadman sketching out plans for Thompson's memorial, including firing his ashes into the sky, decades before his family actually did exactly that at his funeral in 2005. Shot on the fly with none of the polish of a standard profile, the film plays like Thompson's own writing: loose, staged, and self-aware about the staging.