REO trucks were all over the roads when I was kid in 50s. Super well built heavy duty hard working trucks and best of all made with pride in the USA like almost everything else. Miss that a lot.
@@glennso47 i miss hearing 2cycle diesel trucks and the whining of gears as they accelerated. I was born in the mid 70s, and there were still plenty of old classics rolling around the highways up until the early 90s.. but now theyre all gone.
What STYLE! We just thought the style was just getting started! Just like the fashion of the day also! Aside from these few criminals, people and decorum were wonderful also. What an ERA!
You mean SOME people were wonderful! How about all of that racial hatred which still exists in this country which was much worse in the late 1940s and into the 1950s when I was a youngster!
That would be a real hoot,it would be like that time the state police came in and took over the town for a manhunt and all their tools couldn't find him but Andy got him with his boat with a hole in it.Andy did get a new state map with magnets out of it
Fedora, Florsheim shoes, teletype, big maps, @ - @ action packed scene with the invincible Buick Interceptor. What's not to like......? Dan's The Man. The CHP use this as one of their main training films. However, aging those pristine beauties was almost as bad as murder.
I haven't watched this program since I was a kid, until yesterday and I thought to myself it seems like I do recall watching that episode, and how well written these shows were. Fast forward to the next day... going to watch another episode, and I feel like it's all coming back to me. It's getting to be a must have just like that morning cup of coffee...Not the soft soap stuff but the real McCoy!
This was one of the better shows showing real police work. Most shows, Dan just happens to have an idea of what could have happened, and like magic, it was what the crooks did. In this one used math, mileage lab results to solve the crime.
@@donnienicholson6062 I understand they didn't really do it their budget would never allow that. I'm surprised they got him a helicopter in a couple episodes.
A degree of realism here in that there really was a Chrysler plant in the Los Angeles area then. It closed in 1971. The REO diesel truck really has raw power and lets it rip. In that day only the companies with money had diesel rigs as more than half were still gasoline powered. Along with the trucks this show had some beautiful things on wheels.
Fyi: these old REO'S had the same Continental Red Seal gasoline engines that were used for their 5 ton 6x6 military trucks that were still around in the late 70's-early 80's which I had the pleasure of driving when I was in the 1438th Transportation company of the Indiana National Guards. Definitely not a Detriot Diesel in these old trucks...
But to drive a car you need to prove you can use one responsibly, pass a test, and get renewed at regular intervals. And if you prove to be irresponsible, there are consequences. Not sure why the same can’t be done for firearms.
I used to see those DeSoto's Dodges & Plymouths on the road when I was a kid in the 1960's. So futuristic & loved the dash mounted rear view mirrors. Instead of defacing & dismantling the new cars they could've sold them hot under retail value & still profit. Push button radios were a big deal then, my dad's new 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air didn't have push button. Push button was an option & let's not forget about tape recorders.
There were 'signal seeking' radios, as well.. Chrysler introduced Philco all transistor radios in 1955 (for 1956 models) which were available with a 'search bar' function as had been tube based models for several years prior. My 1962 Cadillac had a 'Wonder Bar' radio.
And he knew the cars did absolutely zero miles at the factory, no testing miles, no mileage transferring from storage to a train then to a car carrier.
Come on now.....WHY would any dealership have their brand new cars shipped down an old dusty road?? Even though the Freeway system hadn't been built yet, the regular State Hiways were FAR BETTER than this. I remember as a kid back then seeing all the "Burma Shave" signs along the nice CONCRETE and ASPHALTED roadways.
@Black Buick And that's a whopping big "maybe" methinks. The driver took dirty back roads inorder to get to dealerships? Drivers with that kind of desirable commodity had to take pre-determined routes inorder to not get hijacked (especially on back roads). Not to forget that the dealership being delivered to would have complained to the distributor that all the cars were continually being delivered dirty. Sorry.....I'm thinking that because this was a "low budget" TV series, they "made do" with what they had available to them.
To be fair, a lot of new cars were shipped by train back then as well, and were quite often covered with rail dust when they arrived. Cleaning them up was part of the "new car prep".
@@tacoheadmakenzie9311 Rail transport understood, and many times, the non-covered transport trucks drove through rain and snow and brought the cars to the dealerships dirty and had to be cleaned up. However large transport trucks didn't deliver cars over winding narrow dirt roads to dealerships out in the toolies....they took the main highways for many reasos. Can you imagine a car dealership in a spot-in-the-road town with only dirt roads going in and out? Anybody living in those tiny towns would go to the bigger city for a better deal, just like people in tiny towns do today just to buy their groceries.
***** The o e speed whirlwind! Buick more or less copied the Allison V-drive bus transmission from 1940...which made GM city coaches notoriously inefficient and VERY slow. At least it had an automatic low gear!
The Dynaslush was a little better by 1957. I had a '55 Century that really moved along--well after I hit 25 lol. I had several in the straight 8 era and yes they were sluggish.
Such a Great program!! I dig the Huge Cars w/ the Fins!! What is Missing are the nicely dressed 50's Gals with fancy, well done Hair Styles! I suppose that ZIV was tightening the Budget!! ❤😮😊
I was a truck driver and those guys would have had the shock of their lives if they pulled out and stopped in front of me. I would have flattened them like a tin can. Some joker miffed at some incorrectly perceived misdeed jammed it from behind me, got in front and slammed on the brakes. Boy was his pants a mess when I not only didn't hit the brakes but slammed down on the fuel , I saw that car get smaller and smaller and just about disappear until he made like speedy gonzalez. I still don't know how I didn't hit him. I bet he won't do that again.
Mark, I did the same thing around 1993 some lady past me got about 200 yards ahead of me slammed on her brakes, I floored my truck. A 1990 GMC 300 Cummins I turned it up to run about 84 MPH she decided I wasn't going to stop and she took off. She was driving a Firebird about a 1985 I was so close I couldn't see the 3rd. Brake light in the rear glass. We went 36 miles at over 80 MPH before I backed off and let her go on. I thought if the crash doesnt kill you, I will!! I know not the correct aditutde for a professional truck driver. It just set me off
And had you hit that car and someone died, the charge would have been Murder in the First Degree, for hitting the gas would be "Gross Negligence" and that murder not manslaughter in many states. Hit the brakes so you can at least claim it was an accident based on simple negligence and not even vehicular homicide for you would have done every thing possible to avoid the accident.
Ever wonder why the HP bigshot does all the driving while patrolmen go along for the ride? And while at the crime scene Dan called into HQS and there was no "HQS bye." And worse, there was no "10-4" at the end of the conversation.
Guy takes a heavy object and beats on the rear fender of the Imperial. Later when they dump the car there is no sign of body damage on that side of the car.
I once saw a hydrant in the middle of a forest, nothing but trees in all directions. It was on a popular hiking trail. Turned out the hydrant was on a water line to a neighborhood. The area was to steep for housing but the water line ran right through that forest. That hydrant was there for decades on a hiking trail. A few years ago the water company replaced the line and took out the hydrant, but I still have a photo of that hydrant.
I also knew a farmer who had a fire hydrant by the entrance to his farm. The hydrant was NOT connected to anything, he just used it as a way to find the entrance at night.
Just listen to that Ol' REO truck screamin' along with it's (likely) Continental 'Gold Comet' engine just cranking out the power. Might be a dog by todays standards, but what a work horse back then.
Appreciate it for its distinction. Technology of the past was beautiful and elegant. Though superior in reliability, today’s cars, trucks and technologies are being transformed into boring, lifeless shapes.
4:20 I often wonder about the small moments in this show. Was Crawford blocked on purpose (script detail), or did they just get it wrong? 18:57 Darn it. I wanted Crawford to point to the blackboard and say "Set up roadblocks here and here. That lab must be the hardest working crime lab in the state. They're here, they're there, they're everywhere. And the results are always ready within an hour.
@@tomservo56954 that's a fact.i was born in 1956 and when I was 16 these were the only cars I could afford and by that time they were mostly junkyard rejects but I could get to work and back but I wouldn't take any of them on a long trip
@@booklover6753 I remember growing up seeing most of the Georgia highways were two lane dirt roads until you got near Atlanta where they were putting all the road money
Those two young guys really worked their nuts off to get those cars ready, and they didn’t mean for the driver to actually die. I do hope the Court shows some compassion, maybe put them on probation or something. It’s their first offence, after all.
It's interesting to note that just before production started on the Hiway Patrol series Broderick Crawford (along with Richard Basehart) starred in a Federico Fellini film called "Il Bidone" which can be seen on RUclips.
Notice that the DeSoto has single headlights, this was early 57' before detroit got four headlights legalized. Why does the DeSoto have a license plate on? Why does these cars still look so great 50 years later? Those Virgil Exner cars are always sooooo Koool!!!
Cars back then would start rusting and using oil by 50 thousand miles . Unless you kept carburetor adjusted and all that chrome had to be removed and flushed out and waxed . Not to mention the floorboards would be like a flintstone Mobile in a few years .
The car carrier sure looks flimsy compared to today's models. I hate driving near them and log trucks. The log trucks are the worst. They don't tie the logs down. They are loose on the back of the trucks being taken to the lumber mills. I have seen logs roll off onto cars. I try to steer clear when possible.
That's how they were back then, gasoline powered, low geared, maybe do 50 at the most. Sure wouldn't want to be down a 7 % grade with a full load on board. Plus most would only haul maybe 4 cars. They needed a lot of drivers I'm sure.
According to IMDB, Paul Harber, who played the older brother Phil, was 67(!) when this episode was released. He looks half the age of Broderick Crawford, who in fact was 21 years younger.
He does look very young for 67, especially then. He passed away only 2 years later at 69. Ironically, Broderick Crawford lived to be 75. However, I'm looking at the guy who played Phil again, and I am thinking that IMBD. got it wrong, as I can't see how this guy could have been 67 then, he looks way too young. IMBD also shows him with a credit for an episode of Hawaii Five-O in 1968. This would have been impossible if he died in 1959.
I quit Sunday School.They lied about Noah's Ark and his animals 2 X 2.....Genesis 7:2&3 says 7 of each animal.Good lord if they lied about the Bible why trust anything they said????
Sensible people grow out schooling when they turn adults; only those stuck in teenage would ever refer back to school teachings, for their dealings in adult life. Once out of school and parents' home, you are on your own and should think for yourself. Schools are not meant to teach you how to behave, but only basic things, mostly forgotten.
Noah took 7 "Clean" animals i.e. domesticated animals and then TWO of every "Unclean" animals, i.e. non domesticated animals. It is viewed the difference was to make It clear that our duties to fellow creatures on earth includes all animals, not just animals we can make money on.
I’d love to work with the police chief He’s direct and no bullshit Maybe if police were left to actually do there job without doing backflips to please the tree huggers and dooooooogooders we’d see more police work like this
Teach yourself homonyms and homophones, starting with "their", they're" and "there". "Maybe if police were left to actually do _their_ job", not _there_ job.
I noticed this as well. It appears Highway Patrol did most of their filming on dirt roads. Probably cheaper than having to pay the "City" for use of freeways and paved streets.
It took a week or more to cross the country by car. Eisenhower said this is terrible and started the Interstate Highways. That way if a war broke out and the Russians bombed the railroads and airports we could still move troops and supplies.
Word on the street is because Broderick was plastered in so many episodes and local law enforcement had given him the nickname "Ol Twenty-one Fifty," he wasn't allowed to drive on regular paved roads much. Look at how he tried to stay in control when walking in a hurry. Now, I'm not picking on Crawford, just commenting about the much use of back roads, unpaved roads.
It looks somewhat like the Santa Clara River Valley west of Santa Clarita (SR 126). Still very rural today, split between LA County and Ventura County.
Amazing how deserted the area is and Mathews says they could have shot him and no one heard, but yet you some youth hitchhiking and find the body in less than one hour.
I love these old %0's early 60's police shows; Mercury, Buick and Oldsmobile cop cars? Gives you an idea what a tax base (and lack of debt load) these communities had then! No more.....
Most police departments in 1957 drove the Ford Custom, which was the lowest priced Ford. Not much chrome and most didn't even have automatic transmissions. Usually 3 on the tree.
Filming the hold-up must have been fretting. The truck comes to a halt just inches from the van. And there doesn't seem to be any editing. They did it just like that! Pretty risky!
No time for re-do's > I've read that these ZIV productions were very low budget...12 -16 hr days for the actors and crew, and hurry hurry hurry. No wonder people burned down! and drank... so much for 'glamour' and 'celebrity'! haha
If even one of those tires tossed out of the back of that truck hit a car of today...Plastic would have exploded the whole front end ....that cop car took the beating from all of them that hit it...real cars from a real time in America.....I was 2 in 1955 ya I'm an old dude now just about had it with the world of today such a sad thing to watch America be destroyed from within...
Remember the Sunliner. I think maybe a few years later than the 1952 ones. They used Mercurys on that show too. My bro-in-law had an early '50s 2 dr Merc. What a car!
IMDB says the character Phil Hogan (stage name Paul Harber) was born 8 September 1890! I say baloney! No way was he 67 years old in this episode. Hell, Broderick Crawford was only 46.
Cars for the average joe were works of art back then.
REO trucks were all over the roads when I was kid in 50s. Super well built heavy duty hard working trucks and best of all made with pride in the USA like almost everything else. Miss that a lot.
Yes The REO Gold Comet was a popular model in those years.
Sounds like one awesome Detroit Diesel under the hood. I miss those sounds too.
They later merged with Diamond T and became Diamond REO. The company went out of business I think.
@@glennso47 i miss hearing 2cycle diesel trucks and the whining of gears as they accelerated. I was born in the mid 70s, and there were still plenty of old classics rolling around the highways up until the early 90s.. but now theyre all gone.
Ransom Eli Olds, a very generous man lots of videos exist 🙄
Dan did some damned fine detective work with the circles and figuring out where the barn was. That is why Dan always gets his man!
You want to render Dan powerless? Just take away his maps. 😀
not Chrysler, but Imperial
I love this Show. Never watched it as a kid. Discovered the series about ten years ago. What a wonderful show.
"We're farmers, not highjackers."
:"Yeah. Well, everyone should have a hobby."
Yes, and that was the scared kid talking. After he slugged the guy, all of sudden he thought he was invincible. Then the radio announcement....
Not hardened crooks. "God a hot rod Ford and a 2 dollar bill. And I know place right over the hill."
Red clearly wasn't the brains of this operation... And use the word " brains" liberally..
What STYLE! We just thought the style was just getting started! Just like the fashion of the day also!
Aside from these few criminals, people and decorum were wonderful also. What an ERA!
Agreed! I wish I had been alive to experience it. As far as fashion and style are concerned, everything appears to have deteriorated since then.
You mean SOME people were wonderful! How about all of that racial hatred which still exists in this country which was much worse in the
late 1940s and into the 1950s when I was a youngster!
@@magx1000 0000p
A Chrysler, a Dodge and a DeSoto. Defacing them was the true crime.
Roy Dean I had a 55 dodge, red ram v8 eng, 3 speed on the column. Also a 58 Chrysler. Great cars...
Rest assured they never harmed one of these cars. This was a fairly low budget production.
@@Timewontletme And everything in the interior!
Thank god none of them were Plymouths.
You know what they say "Mopar dont go far" 14 mile radius? sounds about right xD
I'd like to see Dan Mathews meet Andy Taylor. Andy talks slow. I think Dan would explode, especially after meeting Barney.
That's funny shit Nota 🤣🤣😃
That would be a real hoot,it would be like that time the state police came in and took over the town for a manhunt and all their tools couldn't find him but Andy got him with his boat with a hole in it.Andy did get a new state map with magnets out of it
It will probably drive him to drink some Mayberry moonshine and wake up with Otis.
Matthews repeatedly remarked that it was a "professional job." But it was two farm boys who'd never pulled a caper before.
I love the last line "but they are professionals and they're going to be paid like professionals".
Fedora, Florsheim shoes, teletype, big maps, @ - @ action packed scene with the invincible Buick Interceptor. What's not to like......? Dan's The Man. The CHP use this as one of their main training films. However, aging those pristine beauties was almost as bad as murder.
I haven't watched this program since I was a kid, until yesterday and I thought to myself it seems like I do recall watching that episode, and how well written these shows were. Fast forward to the next day... going to watch another episode, and I feel like it's all coming back to me. It's getting to be a must have just like that morning cup of coffee...Not the soft soap stuff but the real McCoy!
Yeah Okay Dip Shit Moron
@Black Buick Thanks Black Buick now I'm watching Highway Patrol to night! I may be addicted...lol
Where is the disclaimer: "No cars were harmed in the making of this film."
lol
Brand new cars ... with ... uh .. license plates ... That is like seeing jet plane contrails in old western movies.
They were probably old dealer plates from.55 or 56 they just slapped on the cars for effect.. Love those old Mopars...
These grrreat old shows were terrific and Broderick Crawford was magnificent in his starring role as Dan Matthews!!! What fond memories!
Reminded me of The Little Rascals when he started throwing those tires out. LOL
This was one of the better shows showing real police work. Most shows, Dan just happens to have an idea of what could have happened, and like magic, it was what the crooks did. In this one used math, mileage lab results to solve the crime.
Right out of Sun Tzu.. know your enemy..🤔
I was eight years old when this came out. I distinctly remember cringing, when that guy was ready to start hammering on the Imperial. LOL!
They didn't hammer those car's You Tool. Moron !!!
@@jaystarsky7271 Ah yea he did at 10:01 what else do you think he's doing polishing the paint. He even you used a Tool you Moron !!!! LOL
They showed all 3 cars close up......not a scratch or dent.Just some fake looking soap film.
@@donnienicholson6062 I understand they didn't really do it their budget would never allow that. I'm surprised they got him a helicopter in a couple episodes.
@Jay Starsky Bud Spaulding was EIGHT years old back then and he tells us so. And you call him a moron. Now, how is the real moron here?
“He’s flatter than the tires”. I cracked up when I heard that comment after Dan checked on the dead criminal at the end of the show...
Dan should have a 'Thug life' meme... So should his. 38 snubby! 👌😊
love seeing those classic cars
Imperials and Desotas Fine Iron
5:53 background mountain view is same as Google Earth street view 6867 Valley Circle Blvd. West Hills, CA; Wow have things changed in 65 years!
Used to live there. Things did change quite a lot.
Great catch. I thought it was 6943.
A degree of realism here in that there really was a Chrysler plant in the Los Angeles area then. It closed in 1971.
The REO diesel truck really has raw power and lets it rip. In that day only the companies with money had diesel rigs as more than half were still gasoline powered. Along with the trucks this show had some beautiful things on wheels.
Fyi: these old REO'S had the same Continental Red Seal gasoline engines that were used for their 5 ton 6x6 military trucks that were still around in the late 70's-early 80's which I had the pleasure of driving when I was in the 1438th Transportation company of the Indiana National Guards. Definitely not a Detriot Diesel in these old trucks...
It's not the car that kills, it's the driver. Same with guns. It's the shooter, not the gun that kills.
... by using a gun. Idiot.
@@Zordboy Guns and cars don't have moral agency so think a bit before calling someone an idiot.
But some people think the gun does it all by itself
But to drive a car you need to prove you can use one responsibly, pass a test, and get renewed at regular intervals. And if you prove to be irresponsible, there are consequences. Not sure why the same can’t be done for firearms.
Murder, hijacking and grand theft? That takes talent.
Broderick Crawford was a fine actor. Drama, comedy, he could do it all. I've always enjoyed his work.
I used to see those DeSoto's Dodges & Plymouths on the road when I was a kid in the 1960's. So futuristic & loved the dash mounted rear view mirrors. Instead of defacing & dismantling the new cars they could've sold them hot under retail value & still profit.
Push button radios were a big deal then, my dad's new 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air didn't have push button. Push button was an option & let's not forget about tape recorders.
There were 'signal seeking' radios, as well..
Chrysler introduced Philco all transistor radios in 1955 (for 1956 models) which were available with a 'search bar' function as had been tube based models for several years prior.
My 1962 Cadillac had a 'Wonder Bar' radio.
@@-oiiio-3993 Yeah, ain't that something, Chrysler used Philco radios which was a division of FOMOCO in 50's, 60's and up into the 70's...
Push button automatic transmission on Chrysler products too.
7:34 Frantically wipes down steering wheel and door sill, then yanks door open by the inside handle...and leaves. Duhhhhh.
HAHAHHAHAHAH!
Yes and leaves the gear shifter with his prints on it. Later the prints were on the ramps they put back up on it
Every episode that happens next week is very unusual.
The De Soto justly tops them all! What a beaut. Sculpture!
Good mix of '57 cars, Mopar, FoMoCo, and GM
Luckily he drew everything to scale on that chalk board.
To the second.......................
Back when they took geometry classes seriously...👍
And he knew the cars did absolutely zero miles at the factory, no testing miles, no mileage transferring from storage to a train then to a car carrier.
Oh, that"s a great chase scene!
Come on now.....WHY would any dealership have their brand new cars shipped down an old dusty road?? Even though the Freeway system hadn't been built yet, the regular State Hiways were FAR BETTER than this. I remember as a kid back then seeing all the "Burma Shave" signs along the nice CONCRETE and ASPHALTED roadways.
@Black Buick And that's a whopping big "maybe" methinks. The driver took dirty back roads inorder to get to dealerships? Drivers with that kind of desirable commodity had to take pre-determined routes inorder to not get hijacked (especially on back roads). Not to forget that the dealership being delivered to would have complained to the distributor that all the cars were continually being delivered dirty. Sorry.....I'm thinking that because this was a "low budget" TV series, they "made do" with what they had available to them.
To be fair, a lot of new cars were shipped by train back then as well, and were quite often covered with rail dust when they arrived. Cleaning them up was part of the "new car prep".
@@tacoheadmakenzie9311 Rail transport understood, and many times, the non-covered transport trucks drove through rain and snow and brought the cars to the dealerships dirty and had to be cleaned up. However large transport trucks didn't deliver cars over winding narrow dirt roads to dealerships out in the toolies....they took the main highways for many reasos. Can you imagine a car dealership in a spot-in-the-road town with only dirt roads going in and out? Anybody living in those tiny towns would go to the bigger city for a better deal, just like people in tiny towns do today just to buy their groceries.
One of my friends parents had a 1959 Buick Century; it was a beautiful design.
no century for 59
@Black Buick You are both right. I was thinking of the 57.
@Black Buick This one had three beautiful rear split windows.
@Black Buick Those were beautiful, too.
@TooLooze The joke around Chrysler was that rear window on both Buick and Olds said "Suddenly it's 1949"
Listen to that Dynaflush in that '57 Buick "patrol car". What a slug!
***** The o e speed whirlwind! Buick more or less copied the Allison V-drive bus transmission from 1940...which made GM city coaches notoriously inefficient and VERY slow. At least it had an automatic low gear!
The Dynaslush was a little better by 1957. I had a '55 Century that really moved along--well after I hit 25 lol. I had several in the straight 8 era and yes they were sluggish.
True classic TV
They do not make good tv like this now
Good episode. Thank you for uploading.
Such a Great program!! I dig the
Huge Cars w/ the Fins!! What is
Missing are the nicely dressed 50's Gals with fancy, well done
Hair Styles! I suppose that ZIV
was tightening the Budget!! ❤😮😊
I was a truck driver and those guys would have had the shock of their lives if they pulled out and stopped in front of me. I would have flattened them like a tin can. Some joker miffed at some incorrectly perceived misdeed jammed it from behind me, got in front and slammed on the brakes. Boy was his pants a mess when I not only didn't hit the brakes but slammed down on the fuel , I saw that car get smaller and smaller and just about disappear until he made like speedy gonzalez. I still don't know how I didn't hit him. I bet he won't do that again.
Mark,
I did the same thing around 1993 some lady past me got about 200 yards ahead of me slammed on her brakes, I floored my truck. A 1990 GMC 300 Cummins I turned it up to run about 84 MPH she decided I wasn't going to stop and she took off. She was driving a Firebird about a 1985 I was so close I couldn't see the 3rd. Brake light in the rear glass. We went 36 miles at over 80 MPH before I backed off and let her go on.
I thought if the crash doesnt kill you, I will!!
I know not the correct aditutde for a professional truck driver. It just set me off
And had you hit that car and someone died, the charge would have been Murder in the First Degree, for hitting the gas would be "Gross Negligence" and that murder not manslaughter in many states. Hit the brakes so you can at least claim it was an accident based on simple negligence and not even vehicular homicide for you would have done every thing possible to avoid the accident.
most ins fraud people die messing with big rigs.
That's got to be the best driving Dan Mathews has ever done after going after his crooks!
Ever wonder why the HP bigshot does all the driving while patrolmen go along for the ride? And while at the crime scene Dan called into HQS and there was no "HQS bye." And worse, there was no "10-4" at the end of the conversation.
Broderick Crawford was usually loaded to the gills.
BC used to pay crew members to smuggle booze on set. Unless they kept an eye on him he would be boiled by noon
Sad. He was a fine actor .
DANG! 5:33 Seems he's making the KID do EVERYTHING! He's just supervising.
Guy takes a heavy object and beats on the rear fender of the Imperial. Later when they dump the car there is no sign of body damage on that side of the car.
Resilient metal
In some of the episodes, you'll see fire hydrants in the idle of nowhere. I'm betting they were future subdivisions.
+Thomas Coughran brush fires
I once saw a hydrant in the middle of a forest, nothing but trees in all directions. It was on a popular hiking trail.
Turned out the hydrant was on a water line to a neighborhood. The area was to steep for housing but the water line ran right through that forest. That hydrant was there for decades on a hiking trail. A few years ago the water company replaced the line and took out the hydrant, but I still have a photo of that hydrant.
I also knew a farmer who had a fire hydrant by the entrance to his farm. The hydrant was NOT connected to anything, he just used it as a way to find the entrance at night.
I notice that a lot of 60+ year old productions have paved streets with curbs also out in the middle of nowhere.
“Let’s see your gun Pete.”
Just listen to that Ol' REO truck screamin' along with it's (likely) Continental 'Gold Comet' engine just cranking out the power. Might be a dog by todays standards, but what a work horse back then.
Music ....Nice shifting too..
Appreciate it for its distinction. Technology of the past was beautiful and elegant. Though superior in reliability, today’s cars, trucks and technologies are being transformed into boring, lifeless shapes.
It was beautiful.
Dan loves those maps!
Notice the trailer hitch on the patrol car?
He loves to throw up a roadblock also.
This was a good episode. Just realized this was another episode with no beautiful dames!
Must have been the end of the month and no more budget for beautiful Babes
The old hit to the head, guaranteed to knock anyone out... Lol. Next week's show is always an unusual one.
TIME TO RE-TIRE TO THE PEN BOYS LOL
pour some oil on the engine LOL
Ooh, brand new 1957 cars. The story is fairly cheesy but I would take any of those cars when they were brand new.
When they were new I was an itty bitty baby
@@michaelmerck7576
Same here, I was born in October, 1956.
4:20 I often wonder about the small moments in this show. Was Crawford blocked on purpose (script detail), or did they just get it wrong?
18:57 Darn it. I wanted Crawford to point to the blackboard and say "Set up roadblocks here and here.
That lab must be the hardest working crime lab in the state. They're here, they're there, they're everywhere. And the results are always ready within an hour.
I wondered the same, about 4:20...🤣
Well dang, that tire disappeared when it hit the car.
The officer said there were skid marks on the road, "probably made by a transporter." How did he know that. Do transporters make special skid marks?
By the duel wheel skid marks .
The joke is there are no stripped cars in this episode, perhaps they couldn't get Chrysler to let them disassemble the all-new cars.
Funny thing is...those 1957 Chrysler models had such quality issues, they could have disassembled themselves.
@@tomservo56954 that's a fact.i was born in 1956 and when I was 16 these were the only cars I could afford and by that time they were mostly junkyard rejects but I could get to work and back but I wouldn't take any of them on a long trip
Farmers vs. the 'lab boys'... with Dan in the middle.
Excellent episode.
Dan: It not the car that kills, but me the drunk BEHIND the wheel.
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The so called highways in this show remind me of the back roads through the desert in Nevada. Not like highways of today.
Many unimproved roads were highways in those days.
@@booklover6753 I remember growing up seeing most of the Georgia highways were two lane dirt roads until you got near Atlanta where they were putting all the road money
Those two young guys really worked their nuts off to get those cars ready, and they didn’t mean for the driver to actually die. I do hope the Court shows some compassion, maybe put them on probation or something. It’s their first offence, after all.
It's interesting to note that just before production started on the Hiway Patrol series Broderick Crawford (along with Richard Basehart) starred in a Federico Fellini film called "Il Bidone" which can be seen on RUclips.
Good luck lifting a car from under the bumper with a bottle jack that's already fully extended!
Right. Where's the bumper jack which came as standard equipment with new cars? One use and you scratch the chrome and maybe twist the bumper.
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"More circles?" 🤣
Why would new cars fresh from the factory have license plates?
Now I know where " barn finds" come from! 👍
I told them to drive that first car further down that side road. Damned fools!
Wow, gorgeous cars.
Notice that the DeSoto has single headlights, this was early 57' before detroit got four headlights legalized. Why does the DeSoto have a license plate on?
Why does these cars still look so great 50 years later?
Those Virgil Exner cars are always sooooo Koool!!!
They hadn't been legalized in all states by the fall of 1956...you could order them in states that did.
Same with the Imperial. Yes, these were probably early '57 models. Dodges, however, never got quads until '58.
How to make a brand new car look stolen.. smear on it with your hands. Dan says "It's a real professional job too" hehehe
Why was a car carrier going down a country dirt road?
Back in the 50s most highways back then were two lane.
Or dirt. 45 to 55 MPH.
That should have been a capital offense destroying those beautiful cars.
Wow.... they need a new jack. The one guy keeps on pumping the handle, but the car doesn't lift up. And he doesn't seem to care.
Cars back then would start rusting and using oil by 50 thousand miles . Unless you kept carburetor adjusted and all that chrome had to be removed and flushed out and waxed . Not to mention the floorboards would be like a flintstone Mobile in a few years .
"Planned obsolescence": it's not a bug, it's a feature.
Every older car I ever had as a teenager was check the gas and filler up with oil,you got an oil change every month by adding it every week
The car carrier sure looks flimsy compared to today's models. I hate driving near them and log trucks. The log trucks are the worst. They don't tie the logs down. They are loose on the back of the trucks being taken to the lumber mills. I have seen logs roll off onto cars. I try to steer clear when possible.
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B654321 What?
That's how they were back then, gasoline powered, low geared, maybe do 50 at the most. Sure wouldn't want to be down a 7 % grade with a full load on board. Plus most would only haul maybe 4 cars. They needed a lot of drivers I'm sure.
You're right. True story - Two state troopers in NH were killed a few years ago when a logging truck turned over on their cruiser.
Helen Kruse me too I’m on motorcycles. Still alive at 67. Be safe.
Amazing that Ford one ton spinning the wheels when he took off.
Those brothers should have sold the farm and went into the shoe business.
All they had to do to solve this crime is trace the VIN numbers on the cars from the factory and do a fine sweep of fingerprints .
I noticed license plates on the cars, new cars do not have license plates !
You guys notice a lot more stuff than I do. Good job.
This is the only police show I've ever seen that use real call signs like we had with the police dept.
According to IMDB, Paul Harber, who played the older brother Phil, was 67(!) when this episode was released. He looks half the age of Broderick Crawford, who in fact was 21 years younger.
I've heard Broderick was a drinker...that and smoking ages a person hugely.
He does look very young for 67, especially then. He passed away only 2 years later at 69. Ironically, Broderick Crawford lived to be 75.
However, I'm looking at the guy who played Phil again, and I am thinking that IMBD. got it wrong, as I can't see how this guy could have been 67 then, he looks way too young. IMBD also shows him with a credit for an episode of Hawaii Five-O in 1968. This would have been impossible if he died in 1959.
@@kennethsouthard6042 Especially for back then. Get ahold of a mid 1950s high school yearbook and look at the senior pictures...they look 40 already!
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They have no idea whatsoever what they got into, do they? Zero. Should've paid attention in Sunday School, if they ever went.
Amen to that one. That's how I went straight.
Your a what we call
A DIP SHIT
I quit Sunday School.They lied about Noah's Ark and his animals 2 X 2.....Genesis 7:2&3 says 7 of each animal.Good lord if they lied about the Bible why trust anything they said????
Sensible people grow out schooling when they turn adults; only those stuck in teenage would ever refer back to school teachings, for their dealings in adult life.
Once out of school and parents' home, you are on your own and should think for yourself. Schools are not meant to teach you how to behave, but only basic things, mostly forgotten.
Noah took 7 "Clean" animals i.e. domesticated animals and then TWO of every "Unclean" animals, i.e. non domesticated animals.
It is viewed the difference was to make It clear that our duties to fellow creatures on earth includes all animals, not just animals we can make money on.
I’d love to work with the police chief
He’s direct and no bullshit
Maybe if police were left to actually do there job without doing backflips to please the tree huggers and dooooooogooders we’d see more police work like this
That's right. Pursuing a car and shooting a suspect without even attempting to take them into custody.
Teach yourself homonyms and homophones, starting with "their", they're" and "there". "Maybe if police were left to actually do _their_ job", not _there_ job.
@@coloradostrong always a schoolmarm in the crowd.
@@markmccarty1275 He's pointing out that apple muffin is illiterate, thus explaining the idiotic nature of the comment.
@@skydiverclassc2031 cheaper to bury them than feed them
They sure had primitive "highways" back in that day.
I noticed this as well. It appears Highway Patrol did most of their filming on dirt roads. Probably cheaper than having to pay the "City" for use of freeways and paved streets.
"freeways" were still being built. They started in '55 I think.
lady day2000 Also, Crawford had lost his license due to DUI's, so they had to use back roads so he could drive.
It took a week or more to cross the country by car. Eisenhower said this is terrible and started the Interstate Highways. That way if a war broke out and the Russians bombed the railroads and airports we could still move troops and supplies.
Word on the street is because Broderick was plastered in so many episodes and local law enforcement had given him the nickname "Ol Twenty-one Fifty," he wasn't allowed to drive on regular paved roads much. Look at how he tried to stay in control when walking in a hurry. Now, I'm not picking on Crawford, just commenting about the much use of back roads, unpaved roads.
Murder, hijacking and grand theft - that takes talent!
TALENT......Professionals.......accidentally killing the driver,parking the truck on a road.At least they didn't glue their pictures to the dash.
nowadays idiots like that post everything on social media
Why don’t the cops or the bad guys aim their guns? No sight picture, just low hip shots. However, they never miss.... nicely done.
It's a fine time to lose me loose wheel🤓
3 cars in a barn that I started to steal...
Too bad they can't get the location of those country road shots today, see what the population density looks like.
It looks somewhat like the Santa Clara River Valley west of Santa Clarita (SR 126). Still very rural today, split between LA County and Ventura County.
Very interesting video !
Amazing how deserted the area is and Mathews says they could have shot him and no one heard, but yet you some youth hitchhiking and find the body in less than one hour.
Don't worry ,Lassie will find them in the well
The production team couldn't afford a sign for the side of the car hauler.
An old Diamond Reo truck......I remember them well. My uncle had them before he switched to Kenworths......
REO. Premerger with Diamond T ( merger was in 1967) .
@@roguedalek900 Thanks.....interesting. REO/Diamond T's were beautiful.
I love these old %0's early 60's police shows; Mercury, Buick and Oldsmobile cop cars? Gives you an idea what a tax base (and lack of debt load) these communities had then!
No more.....
really? I see cops now driving $40,000 Ford Explorers
Most police departments in 1957 drove the Ford Custom, which was the lowest priced Ford. Not much chrome and most didn't even have automatic transmissions. Usually 3 on the tree.
Filming the hold-up must have been fretting. The truck comes to a halt just inches from the van. And there doesn't seem to be any editing. They did it just like that! Pretty risky!
No time for re-do's > I've read that these ZIV productions were very low budget...12 -16 hr days for the actors and crew, and hurry hurry hurry. No wonder people burned down! and drank... so much for 'glamour' and 'celebrity'! haha
If even one of those tires tossed out of the back of that truck hit a car of today...Plastic would have exploded the whole front end ....that cop car took the beating from all of them that hit it...real cars from a real time in America.....I was 2 in 1955 ya I'm an old dude now just about had it with the world of today such a sad thing to watch America be destroyed from within...
I'm with you, buddy. But don't give it up - God is faithful and can be trusted > are we willing to get on His program?! (wish I knew)
They must've had to change that wall map in the office daily, lol
Three beautiful 57 Chrysler products on the carrier
I'd take a Chrysler Imperial any day! Love this show because it's great, but what a treat also for a car nut like me.
Remember the Sunliner. I think maybe a few years later than the 1952 ones. They used Mercurys on that show too. My bro-in-law had an early '50s 2 dr Merc. What a car!
Steel 3 brand new cars and make 'em look like they're old and worn out? But they're current models!
Those cares look like they are a mile long,funny I don’t remember them looking that way.
IMDB says the character Phil Hogan (stage name Paul Harber) was born 8 September 1890! I say baloney! No way was he 67 years old in this episode. Hell, Broderick Crawford was only 46.