Burt Reynolds had a varied career, but enough of his movies were at least country-adjacent (think 1977's "Smokey and the Bandit" and 1972's "Deliverance") that it was almost inevitable his path would cross with one of the biggest country stars of all time. And it did, twice.

You might be a little disappointed, though. There's no outlaw buddy comedy or backroom-gambling caper on their shared resume, just a Rogers guest turn on Reynolds' early-'90s sitcom and a Reynolds cameo in Rogers' one and only big-screen feature.

Your best bet to scratch that itch is the episode of "Evening Shade," the sitcom that starred Reynolds as a high school football coach. It's not a western romp, but it does feature Rogers playing himself (always a fun sitcom scenario) trying to keep his visit to Reynolds' small Arkansas town a secret.

It meant, at least, that Reynolds and Rogers shared a fair bit of screen time. The same can't be said of their only other collaboration, the 1982 big-screen comedy "Six Pack," which starred Rogers as a down-and-out race driver paired with six streetwise kids as his sidekicks. Reynolds just does a brief, uncredited cameo in this.

It has a bit of a kick for Burt fans, though. He just does a walk-on bit, delivering a single, insignificant line of dialogue to Rogers' character. But he does it dressed very much like a character of his, known to most as Bandit, a very different kind of race driver. 

It was a fun little nod to a very famous movie, and "Smokey and the Bandit" (1977) and "Six Pack" share a similar disrespect for authority that characterizes so many of the great contemporary westerns.

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