Don Knotts...What Might Have Been

Was on the imdb today, reading up on Don Knotts, checking out the entry for his 1976 Disney comedy No Deposit, No Return (co-starring, co-incidentally, Darren McGavin) whereupon I came across this fun fact:

Don Knotts said that one day, while he was filming scenes for this project in the San Francisco airport, a director approached him and said he would like to cast him in a dramatic film one day. Although it never happened, Knotts said he was flattered by the offer.

The director was Sam Peckinpah.

I like to think it would have been for The Osterman Weekend.

Now I want to find out more about Don Knotts' dramatic side.