Ever since the Hellenic Homer wrote The Odyssey , tales of travel and adventure have been an important component of western literature. By the late nineteen fifties two works of art captured the imagination of readers and viewers of television. The first was Jack Kerouac's popular beat novel On the Road (1957). Then, ten years later, in the late sixties, Jim Bronson played on television a forlorn newspaperman disillusioned after the suicide of his best friend and "working for the man."

In order to renew his soul he becomes a nomadic vagabond searching for the meaning of life and experience what life has to offer. In the process he shares his apparent noble values with the people he meets and lends a helping hand when he can. Our hero rides a Harley Sportster, and, as such, was viewed by many fans as a modern version of the solitary cowboy meandering the American west.

The television series began with a movie pilot on Monday, March 24, 1969. The series was green-lighted for one year and began its first run on September 17, 1969.

The introduction of the show was noteworthy. Bronson drives up to a red light and what seems to be a businessman in a car next to Bronson, says:

Driver: "Taking a trip?"
Bronson: "What's that?"
Driver: "Taking a trip?"
Bronson: "Yeah."
Driver: "Where to?"
Bronson: "Oh, I don't know. Wherever I end up, I guess."
Driver: "Pal, I wish I was you."
Bronson: "Really?"
Driver: "Yeah."
Bronson: "Well, hang in there."

With that memorable introduction began a television series that is fondly remembered by many fans who vicariously lived Bronson's life during the late sixties.


CAST:
Michael Parks - Jim Bronson

DISC 1
Then Came Bronson (pilot movie - 120 min)

DISC 2
1. The Runner
2. The Old Motorcycle Fiasco
3. A Famine Where Abundance Lies

DISC 3
4. The Circle of Time
5. Where Will the Trumpets Be?
6. Amid Splinters of the Thunderbolt

DISC 4
7. The 3:13 Arrives at Noon
8. Old Tigers Never Die--They Just Run Away
9. Your Love is Like a Demolition Derby in My Heart

DISC 5
10. Two Percent of Nothing
11. All The World And God
12. A Long Trip to Yesterday

DISC 6
13. The Spitball Kid
14. Against a Blank Cold Wall
15. Sibyl

DISC 7
16. A-Pickin' An' A-Singin'
17. The Gleam Of The Eagle Mind
18. That Undiscovered Country

DISC 8
19. Lucky Day
20. Mating Dance For Tender Grass
21. The Mountain

DISC 9
22. Still Waters
23. The Forest Primeval
24. The Ninety-Nine Mile Circle

DISC 10
25. The Mary R
26. What's an Ark Without Centaurs?


Complete 1-26 + pilot movie; 10 DVD's
Quality = 7 out of 10
Full Screen in English, no subtitles, no commercials.

Price $37.50USD