Then Came Bronson

The complete collection on DVD

The pilot movie revolves around Jim Bronson, a young beat reporter in San Francisco. The opening scene has Bronson trying to talk his buddy Nick (played by a young Martin Sheen) out of jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. Nick is fed up with his dead end factory job and admires Bronson's life. At the last moment before his suicide, Nick bequeaths Bronson his Harley Sportster, the most precious possession he has. After Nick goes through with the jump, Bronson attempts to console his widow. Returning to the newsroom he is confronted by a verbally abusive editor who pushes him over the edge himself. Confiding to a detective from the SFPD that "There's got to be something more", Bronson packs in the job and packs up THE BIKE, heading out the Pacific Coast Highway              Quality is 7 out of 10