Motorcycle A

Season 1 - Episode 27: Motorcycle A
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
Joe Keeley
John Compton
Nick West
Jack Edwards
Bernie Sills (Cafe Owner)
Paula Houston
Mrs. Sills (Cafe Owner's Wife)
Crew

Lambert Hillyer
Director
Don Brinkley
Screenplay