Picks and Pans Review: 24 Hours of the Rebel

UPDATED 08/31/1981 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 08/31/1981 at 01:00 AM EDT

NBC (9-11 p.m. ET)

A college football player becomes obsessed by the sudden death of his film idol. Richard Thomas stars in this solidly affecting 1978 movie first released as September 30, 1955, the day, as any '50s rebel knows, when James Dean died.