Motorcycle A

April 2, 1956
28 min
Season 1 - Episode 27: Motorcycle A

Season 1 - Episode 27: Motorcycle A

Motorcycle A - Episode 27

Overview

Two bikers (Clint Eastwood as 'Joe Keeley', John Compton as 'Nick West') ride stripped-down Harleys into town and stop at a cafe. They are shocked when the cafe owner (Jack Edwards as 'Bernie Sills') confronts them with a shotgun and orders them to leave. As his wife calls the Highway Patrol her husband provokes the bikers, until Nick takes the gun from Sills and punches him. The bikers jump on their bikes and roar out of town. When Sills learns his wife has called the law, he hides the gun and lies to the responding motorcycle cop, telling him the cyclists started the trouble. The cop takes off after the bikers, only to be struck and killed by a trucker who runs a red light. Broderick Crawford’s ‘Chief Dan Mathews’ quickly sorts truth from fiction and arrests the café owner for assaulting the bikers. A nice (albeit unlikely) twist on the ‘bad guy bikers’ trope!

Episode Information

TV Show

Highway Patrol

Season

Season 1

Episode Number

27

Air Date

April 2, 1956

Runtime

28 minutes

Guest Stars

Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood

Joe Keeley

J

John Compton

Nick West

J

Jack Edwards

Bernie Sills (Cafe Owner)

P

Paula Houston

Mrs. Sills (Cafe Owner's Wife)

Crew

Lambert Hillyer

Lambert Hillyer

Director

D

Don Brinkley

Screenplay