Another great episode. These shows are like time capsules. Always enjoy watching them. I had a wrist rocket when I was a kid and ran around the woods just like Tommy. Got pretty good at hitting things too.
It's funny the comments about the culpability of the mother and how she shouldn't have 'left him alone'. Only an over protective modern helicopter parent could take that angle.
Yup, it was most certainly a different time and place back then when kids weren't made of glass and were expected to be more self-sufficient like little Tommy.
Great use of your talking point! Fox News loves you. I was a kid then. I don't have enough fingers and toes to count all of the one-eyed kids, kids with bullet wounds, burn scars, missing fingers and more I knew. This is without mentioning the dead ones, most of whom were hit by cars.
I'm 72. Mainly watch this for the cars, the fashionable women and the early scenes of California in better times, when my home state was the golden state. Also, Crawford is a fav actor of mine. Saw him play a bad guy in a western. And that dude was BAD.
Have you noticed the lack of franchise motels and restaurants and hardware stores? Refreshing! Not that we shouldn't have some but now days so little private ownership of businesses. Lawn, field and curb appeal weren't so big in those days either. The days before 360 degree mowers. But I love the series !
That was Vinnie Harold in the "Fastest Gun Alive"!.....Broderick Crawdad is one of my faves also. If you get a chance see "a little Romance " (1979). Crawford has a HILARIOUS Cameo in it.....!
A male prehistoric Elly May Clampett! Check out Beverly Hillbillies "Jed Becomes A Banker" episode on RUclips! Especially when they're at the skeet shooting club! 😆😂😜
@@johnblackstock8669 - The RIGHT forked stick, and an old cut inner tube, with some fishing line to wrap the inner tube around the ends of the fork. Then it's just PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE....🎯
HP has more station wagons and convertibles from all makes than I every saw. I grew up in those days! We couldn't have had all those convertibles in the South!! Too much rain!
Thoroughly enjoyable, good acting and camera work true stories too things were so different back then and cops had peashooters compared to today's 16 shot mag handguns!
You don't need 16 shots if you're a good marksman. Revolvers are also inherently more accurate. Large magazines are good for spraying lead indescriminatly.
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Good thing tommy didn't listen to big dan, the kid saved his life.💥🔫
I'm just turning 65 and grew up in LA. After school TV choices were talk shows on the networks, and reruns on the local channels. Channel 52/UHF hadn't become the place for Little Rascals, etc. just yet so we never knew about KCET (public radio in LA on Channel 28) even if it existed then. So all's we had were Rifleman, Highway Patrol and Sea Hunt. Well, Mike Nelson from Sea Hunt told us right up front he worked for Marineland of the Pacific and even a little kid knew that was a real place down the coast in Palos Verdes. Then there was Highway Patrol. Dan Matthews was a Highway Patrol guy but he was always on dirt roads! That didn't make sense. Not to mention that Dan could hit a target with his snub-nose .38 revolver at 250 yards away. As an adult I came full circle and decided to watch to figure out where the show was filmed and it turns out to be all over LA county. I've seen episodes at the beach, in Saugus, Woodland Hills, the local desert, near and at their studio in Hollywood (the actual parking lot, not filming in a studio although I'm sure that's where their offices were). This episode was Griffith Park (speculation). And Tommy deserves the Medal of Honor for saving Dan's life. Otherwise they'd have cancelled the show right there!
Only, as of late, discovered this series -- found it looking for highway safety films from the 50s, and now I'm hooked. -- And yes, if I could quantum leap to the 1950s and be in my 40s, I think I would have the hots for Broderick Crawford.
Slingshots are illegal in Massachusetts as they probably are in California. Thank god that Massachusetts and California have laws against slingshots. it has helped keep the violent crime rate at the level that is currently in place.
People saying "why the kid is roaming around alone?"LOL in the countryside kids are usually free to play around, run in the woods, go with friends and usually go to school alone by foot or bycicle when they are 7-8 years old, i understand cities work different but sure people assume wrong things, I will sure will lock my kids if i happen to be in a city, atleast when they are under 11-12 Years old so i understand, but if you live in the countryside is unheard keeping kids at home when they are old and smart enough!i suddenly figure out why people people nowadays call 13 years old "kids" and not "teenagers" and treat them like infants! They have not grow up, LOL! let your kids live and play in the nature if you live in a safe area, BTW im from the italian Alps, but this applies even to rural America!
maybe in cities, kids here in the countryside are always free, they go play with others kids in the woods every time, how about if the kid was only coming back from school? i live in europe but in all the world works like that and if i lived in a city i will be the first to keep my kids home if under 11- 12 years old
Hell that was normal back then. My Mom would run me out of the house after breakfast and I'd only come home to eat and when it got dark. Back when a stick was everything from a bazooka to laser rifle or a machinegun.
That was true where I grew up, breakfast and out the door, back home for lunch, watch tv for an hour and get thrown out the house and told next time you come back that's it for the day. A few didn't come back though, knew a lad who drowned in a lake, another who got electrocuted messing around inside a sub power station, we learned through their mistakes.. It's far safer these days but everyone's got a phone, cctv everywhere, yet kids stay at home and talk to peados in chat rooms, or talk about killing themselves or whatever kids do these days
All those royalties from Highway patrol made him look very attractive. He wasn't paid a salary for HP. Since this was a syndicated show, not supported by a major network, the producers, trying to keep costs down, offered him an ownership share. Crawford accepted. While the show was running for four seasons, he made more than $500K a year. There's no telling how much more he made during the 60's when the show was a popular re-run. Remember, these were late 1950's-1960's dollars.
I never appreciated Crawford when he was alive. All you would hear was what a drunk he was. I do understand now that he was a classic Old Hollywood talent.
His mother was an actress! He looks exactly like her. Nose and all. He has the eyes but they don't make for masculine appeal! Look her up sometime!@@bobtis
Thank you for that. When they did some old Highway zPatrol interviews in those little towns in the valley in the 1950's they all said he was a real gentleman . Just too bad he was loaded by noon
Dan was pretty stupid where the little boy was concerned. Why didn't he get the address, tell the boy to stay indoors and lock the doors until they get their or his Mother got home. I mean that was pretty dumb even back in the late 1950's. He tells adults to stay out of it,and he tells this kid to wait at his mail box. Then the kid being a kid, is going to be the hero.
That is the day of Rural Delivery (RD) routes. Sometimes called RFD, Rural Free Delivery. These were NOT roads names or numbers, but Routes set up by the Post office to deliver mail on unnamed roads. RD routes would cover severals roads including cross streets. The number reflected the number of the route and the bkx number on that postal route. RD #1, Box 1 may be on a different road then RD #1, Box 2. Worse, RD #1, Box 1, could be next to RD #2, Box 1, depending on how the Post Office set up each rural route. Unless you knew the actual Postal Route, you could not use it to give directions. Since 2000 the old RD routes are now gone, replaced by 911 numbers. 911 required rural areas to give names to each road and to give numbers on each house on that road. Thus the old RD designations were all replaced but that is 50 years in the future from the time this program was made.
@NPCs Can't Laugh...Seems like you are the one sitting around smoking pot.....loser pot head! All because you don't see the logic in her comment! That kid's mother was neglectful....and yes....the HP was very negligent and irresponsible to ask this kid to help them!!
With little kids just say I will tell your mother and she will get mad at you. Well, that would have worked in the 1950s. The actor who played Tommy should be in his late 60s if he is still alive.
Are you kidding? He wouldn't even be able to stand up to go pee. And his pretty chest and arm would be all swollen and black and blue and hideous looking. I took a .22 to the thigh one time. Had me totally bedridden for a month.
When Mathews pretended to be the boy's uncle, he described him as "8 or 9 years old" but a real uncle would know his exact age. That was a cop's description and should have tipped off the perp.
The narrator opens the episode by saying something about strong gun laws, but the episode gives a pro gun message. If the kid hadn't disobeyed Dan, Dan would've been killed. Dan could at least have thanked the kid for saving his life. This was a subversive episode. It's a well known fact that slingshots are a gateway to guns. The episode implies that Tommy saved Dan's life by using the slingshot, just like an older person would have by using a gun. To put the icing on the cake, Broderick Crawford little message at the end says "it's not the car, it's the driver". Similar message to "guns don't kill people, people do".
RUBBISH & BOLLOCKS, through and through!!! Up until the 70's, healthy kids the world over played with slingshots, or threw stones at cans, or played cops'n'thieves, and that was no "gateway to guns" for most!
I would have loved to be there... I'd give Broderick a ticket for leaving his patrol car in the middle of the road when he and the uniformed highway patrol officer went off on foot to find the kid.
I Still watch this Show ..2 Dr. COP Cars ..And the 6 inch Sidewall × 4 inch Tread Bias Ply Tires ..I think Crawfords Favorite Car was the Buick .. But I noticed they kept the Rubber Burning down to a Very Minimum..Probably to not Influence the Youngins 🏆🇺🇲🇺🇲
Gunman: Are you Dr. Elliott? Doctor: Yes, I am. Gunman: Treat my pard here, Doc, he got shot. Doctor: B-but, I'm a cardiologist. I don't treat bullet wounds!!!
and the stupid "rigid controls" on firearms they speak of only controlled law abiding citizens. "rigid controls" make the criminal's job safer and easier.
+carryclass actually criminals do very little shooting nowadays; it's the law-abiding NRA buffs, immigrants, drug addicts and other assorted nutcases who are responsible for most of the gun violence in this country
+Charles Kinbote Having worked all my life in analysis and design of computer systems I think I understand numbers well enough not to be fooled by the anti-gun lobby.-
+Lazarus0357 your professional background allows me to give a purely logical answer anti-gun lobby is made up of bleeding-heart liberals; ...maybe but surely the basic motivation is unquestionably altruistic, no one stands to make a single dollar pro-gun lobby is made up of second amendment defenders; ...maybe but the motivation is clearly profit-driven; gun and ammo manufacturers, gun stores, gun fairs etc are a multi-billion dollar business
What a delightful story! This is a future Untouchables actor! Using the sling shot rather than the chopper! Writers of HP series had a sense of appeal. Three or four stories using the shrewdness of young boys. Wonderful country we live in to develop the intellect and application of skill. Doctors are younger today or at least look younger. Wonder if any would ever go out on a police call?
I can't believe that young boy was out in the middle of nowhere all by himself even during that era when times were more innocent and safe. After all, he could have been bitten by a snake or had a bad fall. No way to get help.
When I was his age, I lived in fairly remote part of Ohio with 2 little brothers and 2 little sisters. Our mom worked and our dad was usually out drinking or passed out. We didn't have a phone and the nearest neighbor with a phone was about half a mile away. We grew up very self sufficient, independent. strong willed with a very tight bond. In today's society, we'd have ended up in foster care or something. Mom did the best she could back then. She eventually divorced my loser father and married a better guy. All 5 of us grew up and have had pretty good lives and are as close as ever.
Rather stupid of Matthews to attempt to apprehend two armed criminals all by himself, and to not think that one of them would circle around behind him, which would be what Matthews would have done if the locations were reversed.
12:35 The fact is, Mathews and Morris did take a wrong turn. Tommy ran off from the bad guys, but was caught along the trail, losing his hat. They took him back along the trail. Mathews and Morris find the hat while walking along the same trail. If they had been on the right track, they would have come across the bad guys before the hat.
They ALL must have been drunk on this episode-- man has bad wound for 24 hours and doesn't need a drop of blood; the police leave a car in the middle of the road without even 4-way flashers on; halfway through their walk thru the bush the second officer just disappears -- on a coffee break perhaps; they start out calling the kid Tommy, then the kid calls himself Timmy which makes Ed Nelson call him Tim (or was it Jim?), then right after that the Dr. calls him Tommy twice-- I can imagine Nelson was trying not to laugh... I know I was-- laughing, that is.
No. Already at 7:26, when Morris first reports the boy's call to Matthews, he says "Tommy Evans, 10 years old, ..." Before that, when Morris picks up the phone, he says "Tommy Evans", too.
@@Mid-American He DID appear on an episode of "Leave It to Beaver". On that note, his character, Tommy Evans, was 10 year old in this episode, so once he was old enough, it is possible that he would join the Highway Patrol, headed by Dan Mathews, of course.
I was thinking the same. One kick at the perp's busted arm and he'll fold up like an accordion. Then the doc could take his gun away and kill the other perp. But doctors are usually non-violent people.
This series is nothing less than a timeless classic.
These episodes will be watched with the utmost fascination by future generations.
Yes. Future generations will be fascinated people watched such rubbish.
softclay4thought
Why though is the patrol car driving in the middle of the road,
by the white line in the into? It makes no sense.
soslothful
Why is it rubbish?
@@JoseSanchez-bp7xz It's not a patrol car, it's a likely 'deuce' being stopped at a roadblock.
People will forever wonder about all the people Dan Matthews had to kill every day before cocktails, makes one's mind fragile.
Little Tommy saved Dan's life with his slingshot!!! Magnificent program, and a good thing the little boy was on the scene!!!
Try to buy a slingshot today in CA - Goliath wins !! We have no place for Davids !
Made us baby boomers feel important 🙏
Slingshot - interesting name. AKA catapults.
Right on!!!!! I was just watching it on MeTV... it's great to have these uploads in case you miss an episode for whatever reason!!!
Another great episode. These shows are like time capsules. Always enjoy watching them. I had a wrist rocket when I was a kid and ran around the woods just like Tommy. Got pretty good at hitting things too.
We would build underground forts. Played cowboys/girls and Indians.
Those were fun times just playing carefree.
It's never nighttime in California, all crimes are solved between office hours, good going Highway Patrol.
Dan's office always seems to be close to all the action in California
Crawford was usually too inebriated to work after 12:00 so they had to complete filming as quickly as possible
What took Dan and that cop so long to find him ?.
Snub nose justice when 2150's on the case.
never go to sleep with unresolved issues !
By God! That was exciting! Broderick was pretty mobile for such a big guy.
i like the way they leave the car in the middle of the highway. I like these shows a lot.
I love these shows, thank you uploading. I enjoy seeing those cars again and the fact most of it is filmed outdoors. Thanks again.
Loved that '57 Ford wagon. I may just rush out and buy one. That little kid was a little too smart for his age. I'd be about the same age at the time.
I was thinking how much THAT car would be worth, never mind the fancier ones!!!!!
1950's: Kid with a slingshot saves the day. 2020: Kid with a slingshot arrested for interfering with police and possession of a deadly weapon.
2022, kids , 10 yrs removed from days with a slingshot, realizes automatic weapons are the way to go.
2022,kids too busy glued to computer games and internet to go outside and play in the woods.
Yeah shut up
Top show, as usual. Keep em coming.
It's funny the comments about the culpability of the mother and how she shouldn't have 'left him alone'. Only an over protective modern helicopter parent could take that angle.
He could shoot his eye out that slingshot.
Yup, it was most certainly a different time and place back then when kids weren't made of glass and were expected to be more self-sufficient like little Tommy.
Great use of your talking point! Fox News loves you. I was a kid then. I don't have enough fingers and toes to count all of the one-eyed kids, kids with bullet wounds, burn scars, missing fingers and more I knew. This is without mentioning the dead ones, most of whom were hit by cars.
@@James-cz5hf - Bull. Shit.
I'm 72. Mainly watch this for the cars, the fashionable women and the early scenes of California in better times, when my home state was the golden state. Also, Crawford is a fav actor of mine. Saw him play a bad guy in a western. And that dude was BAD.
Have you noticed the lack of franchise motels and restaurants and hardware stores? Refreshing! Not that we shouldn't
have some but now days so little private ownership of businesses.
Lawn, field and curb appeal weren't so big in those days either. The days before 360 degree mowers.
But I love the series !
5th largest economy in the world. Out of all states it easily makes the most gold.
That was Vinnie Harold in the "Fastest Gun Alive"!.....Broderick Crawdad is one of my faves also. If you get a chance see "a little Romance " (1979). Crawford has a HILARIOUS Cameo in it.....!
Good episode. Enjoyed.
Ha! THWAP! Kid's a real deadeye with the slingshot.
A slingshot---the low tech taser.
Exactly. He doesn't mind Dan Mathews orders, but they ended up friends.
Yes that's the way we did it in our days a slingshot.
A male prehistoric Elly May Clampett! Check out Beverly Hillbillies "Jed Becomes A Banker" episode on RUclips! Especially when they're at the skeet shooting club! 😆😂😜
@@johnblackstock8669 - The RIGHT forked stick, and an old cut inner tube, with some fishing line to wrap the inner tube around the ends of the fork. Then it's just PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE....🎯
Incredible and double incredible. rest in peace Steve Trevor🇺🇸🇮🇪
'56 Fairlane wagon? I was only 3, if that's so...Broderick was super!
+rahkin rah 57'
^^^@rahkin rah .. If this episode is from 1956, I was None yr old Ha!!! :P] .v ..
That's a '57.
HP has more station wagons and convertibles from all makes than I every saw. I grew up in those days!
We couldn't have had all those convertibles in the South!! Too much rain!
Thoroughly enjoyable, good acting and camera work true stories too things were so different back then and cops had peashooters compared to today's 16 shot mag handguns!
You don't need 16 shots if you're a good marksman. Revolvers are also inherently more accurate. Large magazines are good for spraying lead indescriminatly.
Good thing tommy didn't listen to big dan, the kid saved his life.💥🔫
Front shocks might be needing evaluation.
Another really good episode.
I'm just turning 65 and grew up in LA. After school TV choices were talk shows on the networks, and reruns on the local channels. Channel 52/UHF hadn't become the place for Little Rascals, etc. just yet so we never knew about KCET (public radio in LA on Channel 28) even if it existed then. So all's we had were Rifleman, Highway Patrol and Sea Hunt. Well, Mike Nelson from Sea Hunt told us right up front he worked for Marineland of the Pacific and even a little kid knew that was a real place down the coast in Palos Verdes. Then there was Highway Patrol. Dan Matthews was a Highway Patrol guy but he was always on dirt roads! That didn't make sense. Not to mention that Dan could hit a target with his snub-nose .38 revolver at 250 yards away. As an adult I came full circle and decided to watch to figure out where the show was filmed and it turns out to be all over LA county. I've seen episodes at the beach, in Saugus, Woodland Hills, the local desert, near and at their studio in Hollywood (the actual parking lot, not filming in a studio although I'm sure that's where their offices were). This episode was Griffith Park (speculation). And Tommy deserves the Medal of Honor for saving Dan's life. Otherwise they'd have cancelled the show right there!
PROBABLY, DAN HAD SILVER BULLETS SPECIALLY MADE for that SNUB-NOSE .38 REVOLVER!!!
I grew up in the Pomona Valley area. I remember the re-runs on channel 5 in the afternoons at 3:00. That was in the early 70's.
Only, as of late, discovered this series -- found it looking for highway safety films from the 50s, and now I'm hooked. -- And yes, if I could quantum leap to the 1950s and be in my 40s, I think I would have the hots for Broderick Crawford.
I cannot remember the movie. There was one film noire in the 40s that Crawford was cast, against type, as the leading man.
@@saulchapnick1566 A comedic role, horror movie... I just saw him in a Svengoolie movie on MeTV recently, at least part of it!!!
Ed Nelson, very good actor.
Yeah, he was in quite a few Gunsmoke and Laramie episodes, a couple Rifleman episodes too. He could play a good or bad guy.
@@mikeejay63 Dr Rossi in Peyton Place too, a real heart throb for the ladies of the time.
@@Mercmad Yes & someone uploaded all 500+ episodes of Peyton Place on RUclips if you care to watch Dr. Rossi!
Slingshots are illegal in Massachusetts as they probably are in California. Thank god that Massachusetts and California have laws against slingshots. it has helped keep the violent crime rate at the level that is currently in place.
People saying "why the kid is roaming around alone?"LOL in the countryside kids are usually free to play around, run in the woods, go with friends and usually go to school alone by foot or bycicle when they are 7-8 years old, i understand cities work different but sure people assume wrong things, I will sure will lock my kids if i happen to be in a city, atleast when they are under 11-12 Years old so i understand, but if you live in the countryside is unheard keeping kids at home when they are old and smart enough!i suddenly figure out why people people nowadays call 13 years old "kids" and not "teenagers" and treat them like infants! They have not grow up, LOL! let your kids live and play in the nature if you live in a safe area, BTW im from the italian Alps, but this applies even to rural America!
If it was now the mother would be in custody for child abandonment.
maybe in cities, kids here in the countryside are always free, they go play with others kids in the woods every time, how about if the kid was only coming back from school? i live in europe but in all the world works like that and if i lived in a city i will be the first to keep my kids home if under 11- 12 years old
Back when kids could play in the woods All day alone.
@@johnbockelie3899 yes, I sure did.
my dad had that same wagon....he installed a top-oiler on it. Green/White.
Yep, those year Fords had a problem with lifters and lubrication. We were always adjusting the lifters, had to or the engine would lose power.
No wonder Tommy's mom doesn't stay home much. He obeys like a billy goat would.
Time to ban all privately owned slingshots
This series is expensive on eBay. First started watching Highway Patrol in February of 2021 on MeTv.
That's a young Ed Nelson.
He's great. I just saw him in an episode of Boris Karloff's Thriller last night on RUclips.
He passed away at age 85 in 2014.Good actor.
Not only was Tommy out in the middle of nowhere by himself. He WAS by himself because his mom left him alone.
so? sure you are been a city kid lol! kids always plays alone in rural areas
Hell that was normal back then. My Mom would run me out of the house after breakfast and I'd only come home to eat and when it got dark. Back when a stick was everything from a bazooka to laser rifle or a machinegun.
@@markmccarty1275 - Same here! HOW very BLESSED we were!!!
That was true where I grew up, breakfast and out the door, back home for lunch, watch tv for an hour and get thrown out the house and told next time you come back that's it for the day.
A few didn't come back though, knew a lad who drowned in a lake, another who got electrocuted messing around inside a sub power station, we learned through their mistakes..
It's far safer these days but everyone's got a phone, cctv everywhere, yet kids stay at home and talk to peados in chat rooms, or talk about killing themselves or whatever kids do these days
@@gillespriod5509I did. I'm about 9 or 10 years younger than this kid, he is my brothers age.
Folks were well dressed back in the 1950's.
Big Dan was married 3 times, his second wife passed on in 1967. She was very young and pretty.
All those royalties from Highway patrol made him look very attractive. He wasn't paid a salary for HP. Since this was a syndicated show, not supported by a major network, the producers, trying to keep costs down, offered him an ownership share. Crawford accepted. While the show was running for four seasons, he made more than $500K a year. There's no telling how much more he made during the 60's when the show was a popular re-run. Remember, these were late 1950's-1960's dollars.
I never appreciated Crawford when he was alive. All you would hear was what a drunk he was. I do understand now that he was a classic Old Hollywood talent.
@@Mid-American So true he was a great actor and handsome man. Check out his films from the 1940's Academy Award winner too
His mother was an actress! He looks exactly like her. Nose and all. He has the eyes but they don't make for masculine appeal!
Look her up sometime!@@bobtis
Thank you for that. When they did some old Highway zPatrol interviews in those little towns in the valley in the 1950's they all said he was a real gentleman . Just too bad he was loaded by noon
Ha, ha--I thought I heard oneof the crooks say, "Oh shit" !
Man, that ol merc stops on a dime.
Tommy was thinking smart every step of the way (almost). I wish I had been as smart as he at his age.
That was one unathletic boy. When I was 10 I could out run an adult.
That station wagon was also in the " Deaf mute" episode.
he walks like he was just cured of Polio..
The perp had a gun and Tommy knew it. All the perp had to do was shout " Stop or I shoot "!
What a great Episode .... Tommy was awright ! But where did he get that HAT ?!?!? haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I had a similar hat...
I’m running out of episodes to watch. I love the cars.
Dan was pretty stupid where the little boy was concerned. Why didn't he get the address, tell the boy to stay indoors and lock the doors until they get their or his Mother got home. I mean that was pretty dumb even back in the late 1950's. He tells adults to stay out of it,and he tells this kid to wait at his mail box. Then the kid being a kid, is going to be the hero.
I don't think the kid knew the address based on how I remembered the phone conversation. He asked him to wait outside so that he could find his place.
That is the day of Rural Delivery (RD) routes. Sometimes called RFD, Rural Free Delivery. These were NOT roads names or numbers, but Routes set up by the Post office to deliver mail on unnamed roads. RD routes would cover severals roads including cross streets. The number reflected the number of the route and the bkx number on that postal route. RD #1, Box 1 may be on a different road then RD #1, Box 2. Worse, RD #1, Box 1, could be next to RD #2, Box 1, depending on how the Post Office set up each rural route. Unless you knew the actual Postal Route, you could not use it to give directions.
Since 2000 the old RD routes are now gone, replaced by 911 numbers. 911 required rural areas to give names to each road and to give numbers on each house on that road. Thus the old RD designations were all replaced but that is 50 years in the future from the time this program was made.
@NPCs Can't Laugh...Seems like you are the one sitting around smoking pot.....loser pot head! All because you don't see the logic in her comment! That kid's mother was neglectful....and yes....the HP was very negligent and irresponsible to ask this kid to help them!!
The kid saved the day with Dan’s made a good job of apprehending the thug - well done Dan.
Wow, when is the last time you saw a ten year old playing in the woods,without a cell phone,,and a slingshot.
Times have changed…..James
Dan Matthews was really huffing and puffing on that trail.
19:20 Had a good laugh...Go on now ..get!!!
IT ISN'T THE 🚗 THAT kills, IT'S THE driver! #mgmlion #roar
Damn, Dan had to hike about 2 hours outta-town and miss happy hour for this episode!
Correct, there are no bars out in the woods. lol
In reality back in the 50's Dan would have taken a switch to the kid for disobeying him.
With little kids just say I will tell your mother and she will get mad at you. Well, that would have worked in the 1950s. The actor who played Tommy should be in his late 60s if he is still alive.
NPCs U Can’t Laugh _____ Bahahaha lol
Back then it used to be "wait until your father gets home"!
The shot thug shows amazingly little blood loss having a bullet in him for 24 hours. The magically appearing map was a nice touch.
Are you kidding? He wouldn't even be able to stand up to go pee. And his pretty chest and arm would be all swollen and black and blue and hideous looking. I took a .22 to the thigh one time. Had me totally bedridden for a month.
When Mathews pretended to be the boy's uncle, he described him as "8 or 9 years old" but a real uncle would know his exact age. That was a cop's description and should have tipped off the perp.
i love this show and the guy matthews
I can't wait for the episode about the cars dealer who keep selling that ford station wagon to crooks, and direct them to Don's territory.
HOSPITAL???? Guys are in critical condition in most episodes and the Doc leaves them on the couch at their house.
these are Great!
I think Peter Burnett (below) just like to gripe. Peter remember no one is forcing you to watch these.
+Santa Dan Keen He's miserable, and just likes to share it with others.
***** Yeah, he does the same thing on most of the "Sea Hunt" episodes as well. Must be one lonely dude.
+Barney Fife ha ha Barney!
Here's the appeal. For me. Of the character Dan. He's snarky with, other cops. Criminals. Citizens.
Even 10 year olds.
I don't recall vehicles being this noisy. I do recall they put out stinky exhaust. Don't miss the noise or the smell.
The little Evan should always listen to Uncle Dan😉
He probably had many uncles, so he knew the drill...
"He looks harmless." Haven't they seen the show?
Parked the car in the middle of the road?
The narrator opens the episode by saying something about strong gun laws, but the episode gives a pro gun message. If the kid hadn't disobeyed Dan, Dan would've been killed. Dan could at least have thanked the kid for saving his life. This was a subversive episode. It's a well known fact that slingshots are a gateway to guns. The episode implies that Tommy saved Dan's life by using the slingshot, just like an older person would have by using a gun. To put the icing on the cake, Broderick Crawford little message at the end says "it's not the car, it's the driver". Similar message to "guns don't kill people, people do".
Guns dont kill people the bullet does
Excellent words. The narrator refers to the need for rigid control of firearms. Then and now, the response has to be, "When are you going to start ?"
RUBBISH & BOLLOCKS, through and through!!! Up until the 70's, healthy kids the world over played with slingshots, or threw stones at cans, or played cops'n'thieves, and that was no "gateway to guns" for most!
I would have loved to be there... I'd give Broderick a ticket for leaving his patrol car in the middle of the road when he and the uniformed highway patrol officer went off on foot to find the kid.
The 1950/s. Little kid playing with 3 grown men strangers no problem. Nothing to see here.
is it Tommy or Timmy
Little Tommy looks like Broderick Crawfordsville boy.
Have you seen him , a kid about 8 or 9 - meanwhile hes one station wagon length away with the other 2 guys but they cant be seen......sheeeeeesh.!
I love Crawford! But usually, he's not so bright. Though, he knows how to go with the flow.
I Still watch this Show ..2 Dr. COP Cars ..And the 6 inch Sidewall × 4 inch Tread Bias Ply Tires ..I think Crawfords Favorite Car was the Buick .. But I noticed they kept the Rubber Burning down to a Very Minimum..Probably to not Influence the Youngins 🏆🇺🇲🇺🇲
Pretty implausible ending!
The little smart
Smartas
Lol
That '57 Ford station wagon could use some fresh sparkplugs.
So they call him Tommy but the kid calls himself Timmy??
Maybe he forgot his name in the script.
Timmy was burning the California greenbud.
“You’re a SNITCH Tommy…one lesson that you probably have learned later on in life is that SNITCHES GET STITCHES”.
Gunman: Are you Dr. Elliott?
Doctor: Yes, I am.
Gunman: Treat my pard here,
Doc, he got shot.
Doctor: B-but, I'm a
cardiologist. I don't treat
bullet wounds!!!
Dan needed a better duty weapon.
Has any character EVER used an automatic pistol in this whole series?
That slingshot's a semiautomatic.
I have seen episodes where the bad guy had a 1911.
@@northdakotaham1752 There are two episodes where the perp used a Walther P38
@@thomasjones8015 Always wanted one of those ...plus also the Luger.
and the stupid "rigid controls" on firearms they speak of only controlled law abiding citizens. "rigid controls" make the criminal's job safer and easier.
+carryclass actually criminals do very little shooting nowadays; it's the law-abiding NRA buffs, immigrants, drug addicts and other assorted nutcases who are responsible for most of the gun violence in this country
+Norbert Gruberger You display the tipical anti gun mentality, you poor bugger!
+Lazarus0357 if you know how to read, statistics speak for them selves; and yes you will also need to understand numbers
+Charles Kinbote Having worked all my life in analysis and design of computer systems I think I understand numbers well enough not to be fooled by the anti-gun lobby.-
+Lazarus0357 your professional background allows me to give a purely logical answer
anti-gun lobby is made up of bleeding-heart liberals; ...maybe
but surely the basic motivation is unquestionably altruistic, no one stands to make a single dollar
pro-gun lobby is made up of second amendment defenders; ...maybe
but the motivation is clearly profit-driven; gun and ammo manufacturers, gun stores, gun fairs etc are a multi-billion dollar business
What a delightful story! This is a future Untouchables actor! Using the sling shot rather than the chopper!
Writers of HP series had a sense of appeal. Three or four stories using the shrewdness of young boys.
Wonderful country we live in to develop the intellect and application of skill.
Doctors are younger today or at least look younger. Wonder if any would ever go out on a police call?
LOL Sloppy Dan saw the address/mailbox on the wrong side of the car, he shouda have been lookin on the drivers side.
10:02 That mailbox looks a little wobbly. The props people didn't make it sturdy enough.
Are you with me doctor, can you hear me doctor, are you with me doctor
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Close !
Are you crazy, are you high, or just an ordinary guy.
Have you done all you can do.
Are you with me doctor. 👍
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0:58 "rigid controls are exerted ... of firearms" :D
I can't believe that young boy was out in the middle of nowhere all by himself even during that era when times were more innocent and safe. After all, he could have been bitten by a snake or had a bad fall. No way to get help.
When I was his age, I lived in fairly remote part of Ohio with 2 little brothers and 2 little sisters. Our mom worked and our dad was usually out drinking or passed out. We didn't have a phone and the nearest neighbor with a phone was about half a mile away.
We grew up very self sufficient, independent. strong willed with a very tight bond. In today's society, we'd have ended up in foster care or something. Mom did the best she could back then. She eventually divorced my loser father and married a better guy. All 5 of us grew up and have had pretty good lives and are as close as ever.
How bullets did Dan have in his gun?
nothing like an overweight alcoholic to the rescue! Still, Crawford was an excellent actor.
+David Maslow don't underestimate. ive known a few "overweight" guys in my life that you would not want to mess with.
Rather stupid of Matthews to attempt to apprehend two armed criminals all by himself, and to not think that one of them would circle around behind him, which would be what Matthews would have done if the locations were reversed.
12:35 The fact is, Mathews and Morris did take a wrong turn. Tommy ran off from the bad guys, but was caught along the trail, losing his hat. They took him back along the trail. Mathews and Morris find the hat while walking along the same trail. If they had been on the right track, they would have come across the bad guys before the hat.
They ALL must have been drunk on this episode-- man has bad wound for 24 hours and doesn't need a drop of blood; the police leave a car in the middle of the road without even 4-way flashers on; halfway through their walk thru the bush the second officer just disappears -- on a coffee break perhaps; they start out calling the kid Tommy, then the kid calls himself Timmy which makes Ed Nelson call him Tim (or was it Jim?), then right after that the Dr. calls him Tommy twice-- I can imagine Nelson was trying not to laugh... I know I was-- laughing, that is.
No. Already at 7:26, when Morris first reports the boy's call to Matthews, he says "Tommy Evans, 10 years old, ..." Before that, when Morris picks up the phone, he says "Tommy Evans", too.
How about surgery in the back of the station wagon ? ??? ?
Did the kid appear on The Andy Griffith Show? He looks familiar let me know take care
Kinda looks like Beaver Cleaver
@@Mid-American He DID appear on an episode of "Leave It to Beaver". On that note, his character, Tommy Evans, was 10 year old in this episode, so once he was old enough, it is possible that he would join the Highway Patrol, headed by Dan Mathews, of course.
"rigid controls are exerted over the possession and use of firearms" ... tell that to the schoolkids shot dead every year in the USA.
I saw this in an old Western movie,'re make I guess?
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I agree with Santa!
+David Maslow ditto, David. I think he harped on "Sea Hunt" also. I'll have to re-watch them
+rahkin rah It's fun to talk to you about Highway Patrol.Happy New Year!
Why didn't the Doc make a run for it when the crook was chasing little Tommy?
I was thinking the same. One kick at the perp's busted arm and he'll fold up like an accordion.
Then the doc could take his gun away and kill the other perp.
But doctors are usually non-violent people.
@7:11 Dan Matthews getting interrupted by a crime while asking the clerk out on a date, if he had the time.
Season 2/Episode 33
That Timmy Evans… ain’t he the little dickens !!!
26:09
Or is it Tommy ?
Kidnapping 25 years in the big house ! Not very fun !
They should have arrested the kid's mother too (neglectful parent) going shopping and leaving the kid all alone.
Actually, Tommy is 9-10. It's permissible to leave him home for a few hours at a time if necessary. That would not be considered neglect