My heart melted at 1:48 what a beautiful site 1950 Chevrolet, 1948 Buick, 1953 Ford, 1950 Mack truck?? Across the street I believe a 1951 Kaiser-Frazer?? LOVE THEM old cars when they were new!
More like a 1947-1949 Kaiser-Frazer. The '51 Model looks quite a bit different. Did you know that those cars are parked along the street right outside the ZIV Television Studios? That is where this and several other HWP episodes were filmed. A good way to save expenses I would say.
Highway Patrol is on it like stink on a skunk. I was born in '61 and never was aware of this show. I bet kids when this was on loved it. Their parents too. A simpler time. Love the dialog at the very end about the Trojan Horse, "I don't have much time to read" and then "you will". lol
"Highway Patrol'' was what was known as a ''syndicated'' TV show. That meant that it was not on any of the three major networks of the 1950s, CBS, NBC or ABC. Usually, it aired after the local and/or national news shows but before national network programming started. So before we got Robert Young and ''Father Knows Best,'' we got Broderick Crawford. 10-4.
At end of this episode, when Dan informs the ignorant prisoner about the Trojan Horse, the guy says he doesn’t get much of a chance to read: Dan quickly retorts; you will....priceless!!!!
I watch em because it makes me remember the times when my father and I used to watch the show together in the 50s I think. I was about 9 or so, and I remember my father used to get so mad at the show. He kept saying, "That;s not the way they'd do it in real life." It was funny watching yell at Broderick Crafford.
ME TOO...Only time my father and I didn't Argue. We were FOCUSED ON THE LAW & PROCEDURE or he'd brag about 'His Actor friends'...Women said he was better looking than Robert Redford and could have been an actor, in so many ways. Good, bad and ugly. He could certainly LIE well... He sold Meat for an Army buddy, MAURIE RATNER, in Las Vegas for 41 years. Great friendship kept a roof over his head! He died at age 61 of BRAIN CANCER. LYMPH NODES INVASION OF CANCER, Pathology showed.... His mother had Brain Cancer. My mom, age 62, On Kitchen floor for 8 days with Stomach Cancer. Brother 'Non Hodgkin Lymphoma' age 47. (I later became a Drug Investigator in the US Army, Germany reporting to General Al HAIG. NATO COMMAND 1975-79 --My Father was always drunk, chain smoking (I hated and rightly so, I never smoked in my life and today I am suffering from Throat Cancer. Esophagus, Voice Box, Lymph nodes at City of Hope Medical, Duarte, California -- Terminal Cancer 2019 (Thanks Dad). Doctors call it 'Cancer from SECOND HAND SMOKING' and GENETICS). He was also a 'US MARINE'. No Ex about it...They are right. Whoever, they are? lol Yes, watching Highway Patrol, DRAGNET, Columbo, The Fugitive with my dad's drinking/smoking buddy 'David Janssen' was amazing with the GOOD SIDE OF MY FATHER!!! 'Mission Impossible' with my business partner 'Martin Landau' in `1989' in Beverly Hills, CA and that lasted only one year. If I were lying I'd make up story about making Millions $$ With Martin and being friends for 40 years. NOT. I met Martin at my Birthday Party 1988 in Santa Monica at Jimmy Lennon home he rented to us after my Army stint... (Lennon was a Boxing announcer, as you know. Jimmy was great! Properties all over Santa Monica. Hundreds of UNITS & BLDGS.. I believe he was in ROCKY?). And my father's (decent man) Military buddy from VA Hospital they both got SHOT UP AT ANZIO was JAMES ARNESS (AURNESS) Weird because one was a US Marine and other US Army. Anzio must have been a hell hole and the devils haven where HITLER MEN TOOK THEIR LAST SHOT. Disgusting War! SS, NAZI'S, HITLER, others..THANK GOD WE KILLED THEM OFF! We need to do that in America! End them idiotic NAZI'S...). GUNSMOKE and James Arness. James Arness RT Foot hit with Machine Gun fire and messed up for LIFE. Mr. Arness lived in Horrific Pain daily. Sometimes missing whole days from CBS Set. Later he became EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, so could relax a little and re-work schedule/Filming. FILMING TOUGH SCENES, running, Hills, etc . In early mornings. First shoot. Then DODGE CITY SCENES, JAIL, MISS KITTY'S/THE LONG BRANCH, DOC ADAMS, Blacksmiths Shop (QUINT...Starring Burt Reynolds) PERRY MASON legal drama. Raymond Burr. ONE STEP BEYOND. TWILIGHT ZONE. McHale's Navy. Mayberry (?) Name of the show? I am getting old. lol Bless you. Take care, I believe we are the same age.65?
@@denieledwards6893 The drivers are dangerous, not the cars. Just like a gun does not kill people, it's the criminal who shoots it. BTW, what do you know about handling those cars, snowflake?
@@ElCid48 WELL SNOW FLAKE I DRIVE VINTAGE CARS ALL THE TIME, AND THEY ARE DANGEROUS COMPARED TO THE CARS TODAY....NO SAFETY FEATURES PERIOD. FRUIT CAKE.
The metal creaking noise the doors make reminds me of my grandparents 1940's Chevy. It made the same noise. I was little but remember the doors being so heavy. Alot of good memories sitting next to Grandma in the car as she shifted gears on the steering column
I'm 32 and my son is 9 and we both are watching this episode now... Maybe my son will comment on remembering today when he becomes old while watching this episode.
These bring back memories. They were on reruns in the early 60's on the old channel 38 (?) after school. I was about 7 or so. They were fun then. They're fun now. Thanks for the posts.
The short crook and older brother Whitey Larkin looks a little like Cliff Clavin of Cheers fame, played by John Ratzenberger. This is one of my favorite episodes of Highway Patrol.
In the days when men were real men, not little boys playing online games with zero hope of ever meeting a real woman LOL I hear you and your hand will live happily ever after
I was gonna say something about how smoggy So. Cal. already was then (they show shots of the Valley constantly). We lived in Canoga Park then. My dad smoked a pipe, i can remember going to a tobacco shop to get his stuff... i was, like 6. Good job Dan!
dang ...remember now, mother sending me to the store for beer and kent cigarettes. Then my stepfather slapping upside the head for no reason. Ahh the good old days.
My dad left Pasadena in 1953, and it blew my mind when he told me in the early 1980's it was because the smog was unbearable. Looking back, and remembering how nasty the exhaust of cars was in the 70's, I now can understand it.
@@cornucopiaofcool2144for me it was in the 70's. One dollar. Paps Marlboro reds were 50 cents. A quarter for a candy bar, 20 cents for a coke. Turn the bottle back for the nickel, used the last quarter to pay the kiss pinball machine.
Car styles where so distinctive back then and changes so often. Seems like two years and a complete makeover. Even into the 60's. But I also remember besides the new car prices being much more affordable even with those low salaries that a five year old car was really cheap. A ten year old car could be bought for just a few hundred. My dad once bought a buick for $95 dollars. I think it was called a Buick special, not the full size one..maybe around 1961.
Wow, such dedication from the criminals in the crates in the back of the truck! 10.5 + hours bent over in a crate...let alone the time they spent driving to that destination. If that was me, I wouldn't be able to walk much less pull off a dangerous criminal act.
It strikes me funny in the beginning of the show that they thank the real Highway Patrol for helping them make the show authentic, but they walk around waving their gun all over the place not even taking aim, the criminals always stand still without a fight and I have seen in a few episodes where they don't even cuff the suspect but tell them to get in the car and the criminal walks around the front of the car and hops in uncuffed riding shotgun lol
LOL you caught that. Along with the gun butt to the shoulder blade instant TKO, that can also kill. People were way more fragile then, its amazing anyone survived.
The scripts may seem hilarious to other people also, Gerald, but those scripts were not saturated with profanity, nudity and filth as the TV and films are today! I was born in the late 40s and have fond memories of this show! Broderick Crawford as Dan Matthews was g-r-r-eat in my opinion! We loved him! I still do!
Yeah... he gave the program some real challenges.. He was an alcoholic for sure and gave the series problems. Crawford's drinking increased during the filming of Highway Patrol, eventually resulting in several arrests and stops for driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI), which eventually gained him a suspended driving license.Eventually the drinking strained the show's relationship with the CHP as well as Crawford's relationship with ZIV. Fellow actor Stuart Whitman became a close friend of Crawford. In an interview Whitman said they both clicked upon meeting when cast in an episode of Highway Patrol. According to Whitman, who was going through hard financial times, they became fast friends. Crawford would ask Whitman to play his character whenever he was low on cash, so that Whitman would do the dialogue while he was drinking. Whitman said that later down the line he helped to cast Crawford in The Decks Ran Red (1958). Whitman promised the production that Crawford would stay sober throughout the shoot, and he did
Mr Matthews is quite a stickler for the law. Eg, he wouldn't enter the shack to search but tricked them into coming out. And the Constable only shot when he was threatened with a gun. They merely cuffed the other man.
@@kathyflorcruz552 your rights when it comes to the fifth amendment have always been there. just cuz they don't read them to you doesn't mean you don't have them. it's your responsibility as a citizen to know and understand your rights.
@@shivanj1 Miranda rights, and the requirement to read them didn't take effect until June 1966. The cops before then didn't have anything to read to criminals
He isn't dead (yet), Dan's last line is "I'll call an ambulance". Otherwise he would have called the coroner. In every episode I have seen they never seem to be in a hurry to attend to the wounded, such as the watchman in this episode just left laying on the ground before the ambulance arrives.
the average family(married) in the 1950s had two children, a mother at home raising the children, one car in the driveway, and renting or buying a buying a home was a matter of choice. the rate of divorce was less then 9% for all ethnic groups. welfare was nit needed because people worked and were honest and 80% of American's attended church at least 2X monthly. The definition of family has been watered down, public schools no longer teach they indoctrinate and poison minds with the virtues of communism, health insurance is not affordable, the political party of slavery promotes racial division daily, America's predominate trade partner is an enemy of America and are communists, all societal problems today can be traced to the two charlatan political parties duping the public that they are looking out for you.
Yep. The dems who are the authors of it all and the repubs who pretend to be in opposition while stabbing their constituents in the back. Just like some perps who Dan Mathews would be hunting down.
You may be right generally speaking, but your are making a stupid anti-commie comment when you say, "virtues of communism". The US degenerate culture has nothing to do with a communist disciplinary society. US laws are made by statutory pimps pandering to teen recreational sex with it attendant teen abortion and teen mothers, and failing that, leads to irresponsible adults unable to hold a marriage or a relationship for long, as the increase in single mothers, divorcees, abortionists, bachelors, etc., prove. Only the most moronic anti-commie will ever compare US swine culture with "communism", which is on the opposite side, when it comes to social management. Besides, in the 50's, US families had more than two children, and church going began to decline a lot, albeit retaining social morality, partly inspired by religion.
02:58 "Hey I gott'a extra bed at my place. You can stay there if you wanna, OK? ... Oh you do still have those tight little silk jammies that you wore last time, don't you?"
The truck just conveniently gets back to the highway when Mathews shows up. Also the crates could have been dumped off the side of the road in a steep cliff area instead of taking them to the hideout.
Better yet, he says they had time to get 20-30 miles down the road, but he and his 2 cars happen to find them, that quickly???? And, there are only 5 safe crackers in the LA Area???🤣😂🤣😂
i have been watching these memories, memories....wow but i have to confess getting in and out on the passenger side (PSA SAFE DRIVING) really gets me. it was a thing in film, but i never NEVER saw it in life! love this series
@@Catquick1957 When I was a boy I believed that all you had to do to put someone quietly to sleep for a while was hit them on the head with something made of iron or steal.
I can imagine JIM MORRISON loving this show for the Cars, Ladies and the Villains. I caught myself humming RIDERS ON THE STORM during an episode about a homicidal hitchhiker THERE'S A KILLER ON THE ROAD/ HIS BRAIN SQUIRMING LIKE A TOAD I noticed the erratic cuts of these episodes is that how they were broadcast? The outdoor sound overwhelmed by the wind they weren't using a shield. .
I would like to have seen Dan Matthews work with Sam Girard in " The Fugitive". " Hey Dan, what are you doing? Well why don't you wrestle me a cup of coffee and one of those doughnuts with those sprinkly things on top. "
I note that ZIV saved money on the set: no real ambulance, just the sound if a siren. Cunning. BTW, I first came across HWP about 6 years ago while recovering from radio-chemotherapy. Fell in love with the show, but I thought I'd seen them all. Not so! So happy to see more fresh episodes.
The guy who played Whitey Larkin,Sam Buffington, committed suicide at age 28 in 1960. He doesn't look good in this episode. I was thinking mid to late 40's, at least. His IMDB picture looks rough. He did not age well at all. Must have been a boozer or druggie. GOD rest his soul.
Like to see how the patrolmen shove that revolver in their belt while cuffing a perp. I bet once CHP adopted semi-autos they ceased doing that. Family jewels and what have you.
Superman also used this office/warehouse location in the episode of The "Prince George Coat". Highway Patrol used it about 3 or so times. Wounder if it belonged to a studio?
These episodes are addictive..
they are and so many they are beginning to kinda repeat plots same with different people lol
Was thinking the same thing.
The ole .38 snubnose, endless ammo and accurate at 120 yards!!!
Dan cuts center every time from 100 yards with a 40mph wind and in a blizzard. Oh, and at night.
@@death2pc And after 6 beers.
That was from the hip... if he aimed carefully he was dead-eye to 500 yds.
Accurate in 120in!!
My heart melted at 1:48 what a beautiful site 1950 Chevrolet, 1948 Buick, 1953 Ford, 1950 Mack truck?? Across the street I believe a 1951 Kaiser-Frazer?? LOVE THEM old cars when they were new!
More like a 1947-1949 Kaiser-Frazer. The '51 Model looks quite a bit different. Did you know that those cars are parked along the street right outside the ZIV Television Studios? That is where this and several other HWP episodes were filmed. A good way to save expenses I would say.
Agree the Kaiser is older than '51. The Buick is a '47 and the Chevy is a '49.
I picked them out, too. You got the Kaiser-Frazer correct.
So do I that wen the moter was built back in the old days
@@stevenj8628 Yes, the Chevy is definitely a '49 and not a '50 model year. Good eye on catching that one as they look a lot alike.
Highway Patrol is on it like stink on a skunk. I was born in '61 and never was aware of this show. I bet kids when this was on loved it. Their parents too. A simpler time. Love the dialog at the very end about the Trojan Horse, "I don't have much time to read" and then "you will". lol
"Highway Patrol'' was what was known as a ''syndicated'' TV show. That meant that it was not on any of the three major networks of the 1950s, CBS, NBC or ABC. Usually, it aired after the local and/or national news shows but before national network programming started. So before we got Robert Young and ''Father Knows Best,'' we got Broderick Crawford. 10-4.
I enjoyed this show with my parents as a kid.
Explains why so many kids in the US grew up into gun-toting thugs. More dangerous than smoking.
At end of this episode, when Dan informs the ignorant prisoner about the Trojan Horse, the guy says he doesn’t get much of a chance to read: Dan quickly retorts; you will....priceless!!!!
I watch em because it makes me remember the times when my father and I used to watch the show together in the 50s I think. I was about 9 or so, and I remember my father used to get so mad at the show. He kept saying, "That;s not the way they'd do it in real life." It was funny watching yell at Broderick Crafford.
Your dad was right wanting to kick ass, especially watching Broderick drag his feet! I call the slobbering bastard, Officer Flop Foot.
@@thead10 nobody is perfect.
@@FSSRKeyno .. Agreed, @D Harris leave the poor man alone A-Hole .. .
ME TOO...Only time my father and I didn't Argue. We were FOCUSED ON THE LAW & PROCEDURE or he'd brag about 'His Actor friends'...Women said he was better looking than Robert Redford and could have been an actor, in so many ways. Good, bad and ugly. He could certainly LIE well... He sold Meat for an Army buddy, MAURIE RATNER, in Las Vegas for 41 years. Great friendship kept a roof over his head! He died at age 61 of BRAIN CANCER. LYMPH NODES INVASION OF CANCER, Pathology showed.... His mother had Brain Cancer. My mom, age 62, On Kitchen floor for 8 days with Stomach Cancer. Brother 'Non Hodgkin Lymphoma' age 47. (I later became a Drug Investigator in the US Army, Germany reporting to General Al HAIG. NATO COMMAND 1975-79 --My Father was always drunk, chain smoking (I hated and rightly so, I never smoked in my life and today I am suffering from Throat Cancer. Esophagus, Voice Box, Lymph nodes at City of Hope Medical, Duarte, California -- Terminal Cancer 2019 (Thanks Dad). Doctors call it 'Cancer from SECOND HAND SMOKING' and GENETICS). He was also a 'US MARINE'. No Ex about it...They are right. Whoever, they are? lol Yes, watching Highway Patrol, DRAGNET, Columbo, The Fugitive with my dad's drinking/smoking buddy 'David Janssen' was amazing with the GOOD SIDE OF MY FATHER!!! 'Mission Impossible' with my business partner 'Martin Landau' in `1989' in Beverly Hills, CA and that lasted only one year. If I were lying I'd make up story about making Millions $$ With Martin and being friends for 40 years. NOT. I met Martin at my Birthday Party 1988 in Santa Monica at Jimmy Lennon home he rented to us after my Army stint... (Lennon was a Boxing announcer, as you know. Jimmy was great! Properties all over Santa Monica. Hundreds of UNITS & BLDGS.. I believe he was in ROCKY?). And my father's (decent man) Military buddy from VA Hospital they both got SHOT UP AT ANZIO was JAMES ARNESS (AURNESS) Weird because one was a US Marine and other US Army. Anzio must have been a hell hole and the devils haven where HITLER MEN TOOK THEIR LAST SHOT. Disgusting War! SS, NAZI'S, HITLER, others..THANK GOD WE KILLED THEM OFF! We need to do that in America! End them idiotic NAZI'S...). GUNSMOKE and James Arness. James Arness RT Foot hit with Machine Gun fire and messed up for LIFE. Mr. Arness lived in Horrific Pain daily. Sometimes missing whole days from CBS Set. Later he became EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, so could relax a little and re-work schedule/Filming. FILMING TOUGH SCENES, running, Hills, etc . In early mornings. First shoot. Then DODGE CITY SCENES, JAIL, MISS KITTY'S/THE LONG BRANCH, DOC ADAMS, Blacksmiths Shop (QUINT...Starring Burt Reynolds) PERRY MASON legal drama. Raymond Burr. ONE STEP BEYOND. TWILIGHT ZONE. McHale's Navy. Mayberry (?) Name of the show? I am getting old. lol Bless you. Take care, I believe we are the same age.65?
@@thead10 You're under arrest for insulting a police officer.
I was born in 52 but I can remember
watching the shows from 56 and later.
Great viewing even then!
I'm a 52 myself
I was a young kid back then as well and only "now" can watch all the episodes! How about Clint Eastwood in Motorcycle A? LoL
All those beautiful old cars are making me drool
ONLY PROBLEM THEY WERE NOT SAFE AND HARD TO HANDLE NO SAFETY BELTS ETC...LOOK COOL BUT DANGEROUS.
@@denieledwards6893 The drivers are dangerous, not the cars. Just like a gun does not kill people, it's the criminal who shoots it. BTW, what do you know about handling those cars, snowflake?
@@ElCid48 WELL SNOW FLAKE I DRIVE VINTAGE CARS ALL THE TIME, AND THEY ARE DANGEROUS COMPARED TO THE CARS TODAY....NO SAFETY FEATURES PERIOD. FRUIT CAKE.
It's Buzz's leather jacket that I drool over
The metal creaking noise the doors make reminds me of my grandparents 1940's Chevy. It made the same noise. I was little but remember the doors being so heavy. Alot of good memories sitting next to Grandma in the car as she shifted gears on the steering column
I'm 32 and my son is 9 and we both are watching this episode now... Maybe my son will comment on remembering today when he becomes old while watching this episode.
These bring back memories. They were on reruns in the early 60's on the old channel 38 (?) after school. I was about 7 or so. They were fun then. They're fun now. Thanks for the posts.
Broderick Crawford: the man who made the term ‘ten four” famous.
Almost as famous as Linda Lovelace made 69.
That and “set up roadblocks”.
Great episode ! "I dont have much time to read" . . .Dan: "You will". Yeah, hell have 20 years to do plenty of reading ! =)
Dan cuts them all down to size always
The short crook and older brother Whitey Larkin looks a little like Cliff Clavin of Cheers fame, played by John Ratzenberger. This is one of my favorite episodes of Highway Patrol.
I thought the same thing. I looked him up thinking it might be his dad!
Mine too
I thought Whitey looked a lot like Tim Conway!
That's when T.V. was Good. The 50s
That truck could be carrying seed pods headed for Santa Mira. Better let Kevin McCarthy know his replacement is on the way.
Kevin says all is cool and he's good for 8 more years.
The story vary in quality but I watch it to see a slice of California Americana in the 1950s.
To me it's perfect quality. To see the land before everything was built on it
_"I was on the job last night" said the security guard, what a lucky man_ 👨🏻
🤣🤣
In the days when men were real men, not little boys playing online games with zero hope of ever meeting a real woman LOL I hear you and your hand will live happily ever after
Hearing Dan say 10-4 as if it was a question always makes me smile. Shouldn’t it be that Dan barks the order and the guy on the other end says “10-4”?
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10-4
Yes, they are using 10-4 wrong. But this is the 50's and most ppl did not know police 10 codes.
Great episode. Thank you for uploading.
I was gonna say something about how smoggy So. Cal. already was then (they show shots of the Valley constantly). We lived in Canoga Park then. My dad smoked a pipe, i can remember going to a tobacco shop to get his stuff... i was, like 6. Good job Dan!
I believe I read that that valley was somewhat smoggy naturally. Somehow. Even before cars and industry.
dang ...remember now, mother sending me to the store for beer and kent cigarettes. Then my stepfather slapping upside the head for no reason. Ahh the good old days.
My dad left Pasadena in 1953, and it blew my mind when he told me in the early 1980's it was because the smog was unbearable. Looking back, and remembering how nasty the exhaust of cars was in the 70's, I now can understand it.
Pops gave me a dime to get the evening paper it was a Nickel so I bought candy with the change Five easy pieces of Penny candy.
@@cornucopiaofcool2144for me it was in the 70's. One dollar. Paps Marlboro reds were 50 cents. A quarter for a candy bar, 20 cents for a coke. Turn the bottle back for the nickel, used the last quarter to pay the kiss pinball machine.
Such well-written scripts!
Car styles where so distinctive back then and changes so often. Seems like two years and a complete makeover. Even into the 60's. But I also remember besides the new car prices being much more affordable even with those low salaries that a five year old car was really cheap. A ten year old car could be bought for just a few hundred. My dad once bought a buick for $95 dollars. I think it was called a Buick special, not the full size one..maybe around 1961.
We had a 54 Special. Nice car.
Shouldn't the city police be handling this sort of case instead of the Highway Patrol?
Wow, such dedication from the criminals in the crates in the back of the truck! 10.5 + hours bent over in a crate...let alone the time they spent driving to that destination. If that was me, I wouldn't be able to walk much less pull off a dangerous criminal act.
No time to pee😃😃
At age 64, that's what immediately struck me as well!
the small crook, whitey, looks like Mr. Tudball the Tim Conway character.
That had to be Tim Conway or his twin brother.
Or Tim Conway saw this show and copied the look....lol
You're right. Mrs Ah Wiggins?
Wonder why they didn't lock the safe after robbing it? They wouldn't be sure it was a robbery until the boss came in with the combo.
my thoughts too.
Safe cracking is an art.
they'd notice the night watchman lying on the floor next to the safe....so it doesnt matter whether they locked it or not
They could've closed the safe and put half a bottle of jack daniels in the guard's hand. Little sense of humor.
Good thinking
It strikes me funny in the beginning of the show that they thank the real Highway Patrol for helping them make the show authentic, but they walk around waving their gun all over the place not even taking aim, the criminals always stand still without a fight and I have seen in a few episodes where they don't even cuff the suspect but tell them to get in the car and the criminal walks around the front of the car and hops in uncuffed riding shotgun lol
And never pat down the woman.
Old guard was the police chief on the great gildersleeve radio show. Crook needs to get longer tie if he insists on being dapper
Nuevo , California is similar to the street scenes in Highway Patrol. It's a rural little city and it's kinda has a 1950s quality to it.
Got to love the "one shot-one kill" in this show. Doesn't matter if it's a snap shot, or aimed, everyone drops.
LOL you caught that. Along with the gun butt to the shoulder blade instant TKO, that can also kill. People were way more fragile then, its amazing anyone survived.
Most hilarious scripts on all of 50's tv !! Great laughs !
The scripts may seem hilarious to other people also, Gerald, but those scripts were not saturated with profanity, nudity and filth as the TV and films are today!
I was born in the late 40s and have fond memories of this show! Broderick Crawford as Dan Matthews was g-r-r-eat in my opinion! We loved him! I still do!
@@jayonnaj18No, just ‘saturated’ with people killing other people. No wonder the US is in a mess now.
Very good episode. Rickety old truck.
Interesting that Broderick Crawford's own driver's license had been suspended during production of the show for drunk driving.
Yeah... he gave the program some real challenges..
He was an alcoholic for sure and gave the series problems. Crawford's drinking increased during the filming of Highway Patrol, eventually resulting in several arrests and stops for driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI), which eventually gained him a suspended driving license.Eventually the drinking strained the show's relationship with the CHP as well as Crawford's relationship with ZIV.
Fellow actor Stuart Whitman became a close friend of Crawford. In an interview Whitman said they both clicked upon meeting when cast in an episode of Highway Patrol. According to Whitman, who was going through hard financial times, they became fast friends. Crawford would ask Whitman to play his character whenever he was low on cash, so that Whitman would do the dialogue while he was drinking. Whitman said that later down the line he helped to cast Crawford in The Decks Ran Red (1958). Whitman promised the production that Crawford would stay sober throughout the shoot, and he did
@@jonathanvogel8859 good background info - thanks
i was born in 63 and just found out about this show it got by me somehow i really like it
"I don't get much chance to read" -bad guy
"You will!" -Dan "Got His Man" Matthews 🐈
Honest to god i dunno why these criminals even tried this stuff with Broderick. I've watched 142 episode's and no 1 got away.
The windshield on that truck opened up from the bottom. Great until a bee blows in.
No ac. Got a lot of engine heat too. Just eat the bee if he blows in your mouth.
Such windshields were standard back then: maybe drivers were tough and could live with the flies and stuff.
Extra protein. 😎
Ahh the good old days, when an officer never even heard of the Miranda rights, only a good whallop on the noggin with a black jack!
They weren't in effect at that time.
Mr Matthews is quite a stickler for the law. Eg, he wouldn't enter the shack to search but tricked them into coming out. And the Constable only shot when he was threatened with a gun. They merely cuffed the other man.
@@kathyflorcruz552 your rights when it comes to the fifth amendment have always been there. just cuz they don't read them to you doesn't mean you don't have them. it's your responsibility as a citizen to know and understand your rights.
@@shivanj1
Miranda rights, and the requirement to read them didn't take effect until June 1966.
The cops before then didn't have anything to read to criminals
@@bertgrau9246 doesn't matter, the 5th has been around since the bill of rights was written. You always had the right to remain silent.
Thought ole Dan was gonna hide in one of those crates and jump out when the guys came back to move it.
So many good episodes!
And the constant message, crime does not pay. Old Broderick made go straight since '58.
I watched growing up. Things so different then
" I dont get much chance to read."
MATTHEWS : "You will"
Great line .
4:27 He ought to get 3 to 5 in state prison for wearing that tie.
That tie was the highlight of the episode. It would be too short for a 6 year old, couldn't take my eyes off of it
HAHAHHAHA! RIGHT! That tie was horrible.
Ties as short as that used to be quite common: I can't fathom-out why anyone would wear one, unless he wanted to look stupid.
lol
2150 to 2114, we spotted the truck on a side road. Meet us. 10-4? 10-4!
I'm beginning to think that every other Highway Patrol crime is payroll related.
They were when companis paid emplyees in cash.
The crook with the mustache looks like Tim Conway as “Mr, Wiggins” Carol Burnet show,
@@rollinsdet8229 you are correct . Carol was Miss Wiggins, sorry.🙃
Watched them with grandpa. Now we have reality TV and the Cardashians.
The telephone book goes like this ,
Police, Sheriff, bounty hunters, ........
HIGHWAY PATROL .( they always call the last number only.)
24:22
I loved the dramatic music build up and then the Tim Conway looking guy gets killed!
He isn't dead (yet), Dan's last line is "I'll call an ambulance". Otherwise he would have called the coroner.
In every episode I have seen they never seem to be in a hurry to attend to the wounded, such as the watchman in this episode just left laying on the ground before the ambulance arrives.
the average family(married) in the 1950s had two children, a mother at home raising the children, one car in the driveway, and renting or buying a buying a home was a matter of choice. the rate of divorce was less then 9% for all ethnic groups. welfare was nit needed because people worked and were honest and 80% of American's attended church at least 2X monthly. The definition of family has been watered down, public schools no longer teach they indoctrinate and poison minds with the virtues of communism, health insurance is not affordable, the political party of slavery promotes racial division daily, America's predominate trade partner is an enemy of America and are communists, all societal problems today can be traced to the two charlatan political parties duping the public that they are looking out for you.
Yep. The dems who are the authors of it all and the repubs who pretend to be in opposition while stabbing their constituents in the back. Just like some perps who Dan Mathews would be hunting down.
Exactly
As Dan Mathews would say " A big 10-4 on that"
Don't forget that the church no longer teaches from the bible
You may be right generally speaking, but your are making a stupid anti-commie comment when you say, "virtues of communism".
The US degenerate culture has nothing to do with a communist disciplinary society. US laws are made by statutory pimps pandering to teen recreational sex with it attendant teen abortion and teen mothers, and failing that, leads to irresponsible adults unable to hold a marriage or a relationship for long, as the increase in single mothers, divorcees, abortionists, bachelors, etc., prove.
Only the most moronic anti-commie will ever compare US swine culture with "communism", which is on the opposite side, when it comes to social management.
Besides, in the 50's, US families had more than two children, and church going began to decline a lot, albeit retaining social morality, partly inspired by religion.
Great stuff
Keep up the good work!
Ya stick with him they going a long way 20yrs long thanks for posting
Awesome show!
Love the short argyle necktie. What a beaut!
Wouldn't you think those thieves hiding in the crates would have had to pee at some point? I know, it's TV, but that is still a long time.
They already pee 'd before hiding in the crates. And maybe they had iron kidneys.
I'm peeing in my pants reading all the comments lol
They did but that's another episode.
02:58 "Hey I gott'a extra bed at my place. You can stay there if you wanna, OK? ... Oh you do still have those tight little silk jammies that you wore last time, don't you?"
The truck just conveniently gets back to the highway when Mathews shows up. Also the crates could have been dumped off the side of the road in a steep cliff area instead of taking them to the hideout.
If the truck had been a few seconds late, Matthews would've just passed him by!!
Better yet, he says they had time to get 20-30 miles down the road, but he and his 2 cars happen to find them, that quickly???? And, there are only 5 safe crackers in the LA Area???🤣😂🤣😂
THANK YOU Foxeema!
i have been watching these memories, memories....wow
but i have to confess getting in and out on the passenger side (PSA SAFE DRIVING) really gets me. it was a thing in film, but i never NEVER saw it in life!
love this series
Wow,they deal out pistol whipping in almost every show.Pretty hazardous to be a guard,clerk or general goof,you are getting a good clubbing in H.P.
No one ever starts screaming and running around bleed ing all over the place. It's always a knock out blow.
@@Catquick1957 When I was a boy I believed that all you had to do to put someone quietly to sleep for a while was hit them on the head with something made of iron or steal.
@@roysterfutrell8889 I did not know how hard to hit him before I killed him.
Lol. You are right Robert Walton! In HP, pistol whipping is KING!!
I can imagine JIM MORRISON loving this show for the Cars, Ladies and the Villains. I caught myself humming RIDERS ON THE STORM during an episode about a homicidal hitchhiker THERE'S A KILLER ON THE ROAD/ HIS BRAIN SQUIRMING LIKE A TOAD I noticed the erratic cuts of these episodes is that how they were broadcast? The outdoor sound overwhelmed by the wind they weren't using a shield. .
A little la women i see you hair is burning
@@Scott-ly2nkMr mojo rising
Thanks for posting remember seeing her his as a kid.
That ol merc started good like it had the timing bumped up
First episode with dramatic music!
I remember the actor who played "Whitey" in this episode was on Whispering Smith quite a few times. I believe he died young in the early 60's.
I was a kid when this was on TV Now, I'm an old man of 75 now
The crooks left transfer DNA all over that room with the safe....oh, wait....wrong decade.
Smoke da sh*t bro
Think the nite watchman was ken christy, the police chief on great gildersleeve radio show
Dan Mathews fast talking and fast to get into action!.
Thieves thought it was a cinch. Sneak in, bop the guard and sneak out. Then Dan Mathews shows up. Then they find out different.
That cargo truck had 4-40 air conditioning, 4 windows open at 40 mph.
Excellent!!
Love these episodes. Dan's car sound like it's choking on lung butter.
Get a girl to believe you?
Even the closed Captions thought it was beloved. I think it was relieve though.
I would like to have seen Dan Matthews work with Sam Girard in " The Fugitive". " Hey Dan, what are you doing? Well why don't you wrestle me a cup of coffee and one of those doughnuts with those sprinkly things on top. "
01:18 "In early September, a truck driver named Buzz Larkin".... Great name! It predates "Buzz Lightyear".
Crawford: "Caught him right in the middle of eating(and didn't save any for me!)"
$27,000 in 1958 is worth $252,500 today. That's about a ten time increase, hard to believe.
I watched this with Grandma back in the day. She always complained that Dan talked too fast.
Thanks foxeema!
I KNOW Wondrful cars & acting!!...
The guy who opened the safe looks like Tim Conway {Ensign Parker] from McHales navy.
It has to be: same receding hair. Hunch over stance. And he would have been the right age.
@@westerncivilsation7514 it's not conway
That truck has double wheels on the rear axle. Even with a flat, the driver can still keep on driving.
Took that ambulance a longgg time!
I note that ZIV saved money on the set: no real ambulance, just the sound if a siren. Cunning.
BTW, I first came across HWP about 6 years ago while recovering from radio-chemotherapy. Fell in love with the show, but I thought I'd seen them all. Not so! So happy to see more fresh episodes.
Amazing how fast they caught up to that truck.
Broadrick is driving his kitty cat car! Notice the eyes!
Great Show!!
@23:43 they both slam their car doors before sneaking in
The guy who played Whitey Larkin,Sam Buffington, committed suicide at age 28 in 1960. He doesn't look good in this episode. I was thinking mid to late 40's, at least. His IMDB picture looks rough. He did not age well at all. Must have been a boozer or druggie. GOD rest his soul.
sam played a doctor on peter gunn,wow what a job he did!!
I love to know what the actors did after these shows and what they did with the rest of their career. Thanks for trivia that’s sad he killed himself.
yeah sam was a awesome actor,28 offed himself,had a wife,5 years,was gay,looked 60 when he was in late 20's,a damend shame
@@sthompson4049 Wow he doesn't look that young here.
28. I would have guessed 45 maybe.
Like to see how the patrolmen shove that revolver in their belt while cuffing a perp. I bet once CHP adopted semi-autos they ceased doing that. Family jewels and what have you.
It was a stake truck. I haven't heard that description in a long time.
That Dan is a sneaky cop. Crooks don't have a change against him!
Nah. He is though. Clever. And a man with a Map.
Feel kinda cheated...no road blocks, no maps, no hot dames.
How coincidental he is pulling up to the side road the same time the truck is coming out,
Don't like coincidences? Stay away from Charles Dickens.
the car rocks 3 times when door is closed
Not bad I'll watch a few more Ep
You are right Robert Walton! In HP, pistol whipping is KING!!!!
Gosh, the beautiful days where the acronym "M.O." wasn't generally known by the public.The good old days, eh?
Dan Matthews: Drive with care: could be me drunk BEHIND the wheel.
I read an article about him that said they had to shoot the dialogue before noon because he was too smashed after that to do the dialogue
@Daniel Pearce He probably is still juiced after all these years
You shouldn't watch the show. You make fun of Broderick. Alcoholism isn't fun.
Superman also used this office/warehouse location in the episode of The "Prince George Coat". Highway Patrol used it about 3 or so times. Wounder if it belonged to a studio?