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...remaining 24 movies of the week, since they will come from many different producers. Generally, they will run cheaper (all 25 cost $16 million) and shorter (80 minutes without commercials) than conventional features. Films specially made for TV can develop into series, witness last season's Then Came Bronson and Marcus Welby, M.D. TV fans who watch the TV flicks of 1969-70 will probably get a foretaste-and a forewarning...
...typical one-man itinerant series is . . . Then Came Bronson (NBC), a motorcycle version of Route 66. The star, Michael Parks, 31, has for several years been called Hollywood's next James Dean or next Marlon Brando, probably because he doesn't talk much. In the premiere, Parks laconically brought an autistic child to his senses in a scenic Wyoming camp for disturbed children and then varoomed off, presumably toward a less tearjerking episode...
THEN CAME BRONSON (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). His motorcycle takes Jim Bronson (Michael Parks) across the U.S. His temporary job at a camp for disturbed children is the opening sequence, with Mark Lester, Jack Klugman and Karen Huston. Premiere...
Among the sillier-sounding premieres will be NBC's . . . Then Came Bronson, with a peripatetic adventurer in love with his motorcycle; and ABC's The Brady Bunch, in which a widower with three sons marries a widow with three daughters. If that sounds like overpopulated plagiarism of My Three Sons, Fred MacMurray, the world's champion sitchcom widower, is getting married this season now that the boys are grown...
...eyes squinting tensely into the camera lens. The intent is operatic, but the effect is soporific. Stuck in this gluepot horse opera, such veteran range hands as Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale and Keenan Wynn struggle helplessly and often hysterically. But the picture, such as it is, belongs to Charles Bronson. A flinty character actor who has appeared in everything from The Great Escape to The Dirty Dozen, he plays his first important lead with commendable skill. Unfortunately, such an overblown and overbearing film as this is too great a weight for any one man. The only thing capable of carrying...