Highway Patrol: "Train Robbery" (Volume 1)
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- "Highway Patrol" spanned 4 seasons, and production ended in 1959. The part of Dan Mathews was played by Broderick Crawford, who ironically lost his driver's license after being arrested several times and convicted of DUI while "Highway Patrol" was in production.
The episode "Train Robbery" was produced in season 4.
During the first 2 seasons, the CHP (California Highway Patrol) offered technical assistance. The CHP withdrew its assistance because of unbelievable story lines, the lack of following standard police procedures, the fact that the show focused too heavily on violent crime instead of traffic enforcement, and Crawford's heavy drinking.
As an example of a ridiculously comical scene... note that after thwarting the train derailment and apparently killing one of the criminals, Mathews and Sgt. Williams simply walk away and leave with the uninjured criminal. No effort is made to secure the area, to perform an investigation, to check the deceased criminal's pulse, to take a statement from the victim, to gather evidence, to call an ambulance or the coroner, or to remove the deceased criminal's weapon.
Railroad enthusiasts will immediately notice that the Southern Pacific passenger train footage uses locomotives that switch from Alco PA's to GM F-Units.
The show's low budget ($25,000 per episode) meant that no vehicle crashes or wrecked cars would ever be shown.
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I remember seeing Broderick Crawford in Bombay India in the 50's when I was a schoolboy. He acted in a movie called (I think) 'three dark streets with Ruth Roman. I like his typical 'Yankee' manner and air of authority. A real personality.
Wow! Classic cars, trains, train stations, and police revolvers. Plus good plots and acting. What more could you want in TV?
What does a train entering into a long tunnel symbolize ??? 6/13/2020 SRC P.S. "Betty" is a "woman after my own heart" great trick the old "out to lunch" trick.
Why did the crooks set up 90 mins before the train was due? Wouldn't 10 mins have left less time for things to go wrong in?
" I'm a crook lady, what do I care about other people?."
Another point they never showed more then 2 police cars on camera at any one time
Don't you think this train station would have more than one person?.
Anybody notice the train tunnel? Just over the hills to the right was historic Spahn Ranch, home of Charlie Manson and his gang of slashers. What a cut up those kids were!
The tunnel is one mile long and comes out at the old HopeTown, famous for the "HopeTown Grand Prix" dirt bike races.
The tunnel is called the Santa Susana Pass tunnel as I remember. I grew up in Thousand Oaks and have messed around the tunnel and camped on the Simi side.
My brother and I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Manson in the summer of 1969. He ran us off at gun point from next to Spahn Ranch because we discovered a stash of Volkswagen bodies. I believe it had to have been after the murders but before the stolen car raid. We had no clue who he was until I read "The Family" by Ed Sanders in 1975. Every couple of years I think of "Poor Charlie" and send him a Christmas card.
+Yamaha SR650 Interesting. I lived on the Simi Valley side for a long time. Right across the street from Corriganville, I assume close to where you camped. And the station is probably the one there in Simi Valley. More a museum of things shot in Corriganville than a real station. I think Highway Patrol makes a couple of uses of Spahn Ranch as a setting. I think the Plane Crash episode is one. Just a quick easy and interesting backdrop, what, 30 minutes away from downtown Hollywood. Back then anyway. It took 1.5 hours to get from Culver City to Simi on bad days when that was my commute. Until I started using the canyon roads. Twistier but better than the Sepulveda Pass.
+plazpastic I have a bunch of Highway Patrol episodes on DVD. I'll have to remember if I have the "Plane Crash" episode. I have a friend who lived near C-Ville, a "Rusty" and his wife, Veronica, about the mid-to late-1980's. Rusty pumped concrete. Their house was on the other side of Santa Susana Canyon Road from C-Ville on the last curve to the right as you came down the hill. Ever heard RocketDyne test running the Saturn V engines? Our windows in Thousand Oaks would rattle. There's that little strip mall next to C-Ville. Nice little burger joint. A buddy and I were sitting there eating in the 1980's when this "Hip-Trip" rode up on his Triumph motorcycle with his handlebars loose and in his hands. He just about "bit down". We were in my pal's 1954 Ford F-250 and he wanted a ride back to his "pad" in Box Canyon. We told him we didn't have a ramp and he saw a 4X8 plywood realtor sign and said: "How about that 'wood trip'?" We looked at each other both thinking: "wood trip?!" Funny. I use that term to this day. "Honey? Hand me that 'wood trip', would ya?" Well, we gave him and his bike a ride back. He sat on it to hold it up (no straps) and we pulled up to his "hippy pad", a plywood and tar paper shack but nice inside! He lived with other "Hip Trips" and they smoked some dope with us for thanks. I looked back thinking: "I wonder how many of them were 'Mansonites'." Cool people though. I also worked for (Billy) Payne Engineering (construction) and our equipment yard was right up on a level area behind Spahn Ranch. I was refueling my service truck and the old German dude who wanted to make a German "Dude Ranch" out of Spahn, with 2 German Shepard dogs. We talked for a bit. Manson wanted to "off the pig" but the dude wasn't scared of "Charlie" and the dogs kept the Manson Family from "creepy-crawling" his house that sat way up on the hill. Dude may have been a "retired cuckoo clock maker" from German WWII if you know what I mean. Also, just across and down from Spahn's entrance sat a boulder with "Charlie Is Love" spray painted on it. I got a picture of it at that time and 11 years later, (1997) drove by it on vacation from Oregon to show my wife but the boulder was gone! I mean, it had to weigh 6,000 pounds or so. The ultimate "Manson souvenir"? Where did it go? Did Charlie "levitate" it away? Billy Payne was an ex-Pro MX racer who helped test new dirt bikes for Dirt Bike Magazine back in the day. His wife, "Sherry" may or may not have been Manson's "Simi Valley Sherry" since they resided in nearby Chatsworth. I didn't have the balls to ask. Oh, about 5 or 6 years ago, up here in southern Oregon, a guy came in to have his mower repaired or some shit and I filled out a work order. His last name was "Spahn" and I asked him if he was related to George Spahn. "Yeah. He was my grandfather." Small world! Dan "Donkey Dick Dan" DeCarlo owned a gun store up here in Medford in the 1980's & early 90's (I think) and when I moved up here and found that out, I went to meet him and swap stories but he had moved on. I dated a broad who used to date him up here. Another "small world".
+Yamaha SR650 I'd go back to Simi Valley in a heartbeat. Except for Santa Anna winds I found it ideal. Box canyon was the first leg of my trip to Santa Monica / Culver City. Next step was crossing the 101 to 'old' topanga. which eventually turned back into topanga. I'd live there too.
Very interesting how much intersection you had with Manson. He was a chameleon hippy. Those were hippy times and that's what he was for the occasion.
Here's my old commute. add the triple w period in front of this and it should work. I assume youtube still doesn't allow posting links in comments. Also sub a period for dot.
youtube dot com/watch?v=V7Z9t2QGB4g
+plazpastic I've sent "Poor Charlie" Christmas cards but since I don't include "Juju's" (candy) or money, I never get a response. I'll try that site now...
+plazpastic It didn't come up. It died after ...watch?v=*****etc. Just go to my gmail: daviddaveinternational@gmail.com
13:07, a ZIV Sting.
Hwp on train heist? There is some trouble in Brazil that could use lawmen
Good episode. Thank you for uploading.
A 58 Plymouth Fury .
Notice that old maintenance of way crew dormitory spotted on the house track.
Govt? Get organized? Right!
Look at hoe many cars there were with that passenger train.
The firs
The map at 5:02 is actually of eastern Oregon. You can just barely make out John Day and Prairie City in the center.
The map says one thing, but it's actually Simi Valley California just outside the West San Fernando Valley where almost all of HP was filmed. The train can also be seen going through the tunnel in Santa Susana Pass, the location of a terrible crash in 2008 on the curve mentioned in the episode. I love watching these to see it as it was before the BOOM. Her's a photo of the station before it was chopped up into 3 pieces and moved, where it is now a museum. i.pinimg.com/564x/c0/03/18/c00318a4ba25fb61141136f91e5b96ec.jpg
@@nuqwestr A lot of the episodes were filmed in the Santa Clarita Valley
@@jonnychingas5757 and you see a lot of Glendale and Chavez Ravine where Dodger Stadium now stands.