He was asked to stay another year, but Peckinpah began working as a stagehand at KLAC-TV in the belief that television experience would eventually lead to work in films.
Zamolili su ga da ostane još godinu dana, ali Peckinpah je počeo raditi kao scenski radnik na KLAC-TV-u vjerujući da će mu iskustvo na televiziji pomoći u kasnijem filmskom poslu.