I am 72 years old and remember when the cops had revolvers, no bullet-proof vests, no AR-15s, no dashcams, no computers, and no bodycams. These guys now look like they are in the military, and they have to have all of this stuff. What a different and toxic world we live in today.
When there is an outdoor scene of any type, I notice how much bird singing and chirping is going on, especially compared to how it is today. I'm elderly and remember the 1950s and how much of just about every state was open area, with towns and farms here and there. The birds and other wildlife must have had a much better quality of life before so many people and all our motors began to interfere with their peacefulness.
@@PS-js9oh Many years ago I used to sing the chorus of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer when the names are sung "Cupid, Dancer and Vixen" as Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Nixon.😅
Gloria, be aware of how movies and TV shows were made back then. Good directional microphones were not available, nor were small mikes you could hide in clothing. What they did was shoot the film and the actors acted and spoke their lines. Because the mikes had to be kept out of the camera field of view, the voice pickup was usually poor, and with a lot of echo/reverb and extraneous noise. Later, back at the studio, the actors were shown the film and they re-recorded their lines synchronising themselves to the film. The re-recorded studio voice track was then added to the film along with sound effects produced by a sound effects artist. In low budget TV films like this one, you can, if you are alert, pick up that the sounds you hear are not genuine - tires squealing on gravel, sound of motors starting not synchronised with the video, etc etc. In this particular TV show, sound levels are all over the place - they didn't take much care. In other words, you heard birds because the sound artist thought there should be birds, or the directory wanted to reinforce that the scene was in a farming area, not because there were actual birds at the location.
Hello, this is the first time I have even heard of Highway Patrol! I’m 60 yo. Odd that Sweden didn’t get this show where I grew up. We Got the FBI and Twighlight Zone and I love Lucy, Mc Hales Navy, and my favourite, The Streets of San Francisco ! I love this this series! This episode is the first one I’ve ever seen! I will watch the entire series! lol I’m hooked after only one episode! 😂
When I was a kid growing about 8 or 9 years old I never missed Highway Patrol ! I would stay up late even on school nights to watch the adventures of Broderick Crawford and his crime fighting. I really loved the show and think it influenced me to go into law enforcement after leaving the military in the early 70's. I retired after 35 years as a Deputy Sheriff and enjoyed most of it LOL Retirement is much better
These bring back so many memories; I used to watch this series sitting on my now late WWII vet father's lap. Even that old-style motel brings back memories of the 1950s-1960s Florida vacations we used to take as a family. What a different and wonderful place America was back then. RIP Pop, sure miss you.
It may have been wonderful to you, but probably not so wonderful to minorities living under Jim Crow laws, lynchings and blatant discrimination. Or to those draftees who fought and died in the Korean War. Or to women who were shut out of careers or who suffered publicly tolerated domestic abuse. But cheers to you!
@@kenbob1071 Drear bleeding heart liberal, I know you can't see me, but I am a Black man, and my comment stands! So sorry you are a bitter person looking to be a victim. Your comment is null and void.
When we first had commercial TV in England back in the 50s there were lots of American TV shows like this, as a boy I loved 'em. Plus shows like Dragnet, I Love Lucy, Wagon Train, Gun Law, Sugarfoot, Maverick, Bonanza, etc.
I used to watch this show every week as a kid. Loved it. Thanks for posting this. To borrow a quote: "What a different and wonderful place America was back then".
I agree and when a place is all white it's much better everyone knows that but is afraid to say it lol. If you were poor then it was because you were lazy. A working man back then could afford a house and his wife could stay home and raise the kids and keep house yes much better times and its proving to be true.
@@williamjackson5942 we were poor and did not know it. I grew up neat Tatumvill. Black and white kids got along fine. Yea there was That 1 percent. You are always going to have that. Blacks and white folks Get along with each other . How many years is it going to take to get over it. Get an education that's the way out.
Normally I'd disagree, but man, it actually would be refreshing to get away from all of today's technologies. And yeah, I know I'm saying this while typing on RUclips. Still. Ppl actually watched TV together back then, on ONE TV set.
@@BobChippewa Maybe. But it's straightforward and to the point. Viewed in its proper context, it is a great police show. As good as Dragnet (sometimes better).
@@UkOutreach and I suspect a lefty loon who comes on social media and plays dumb on the meaning of “woke” is being facetious . I have no doubt you live and promote the woke agenda everyday. Spare us the fake need for an explanation.
Really nice to see the old movies again, and Highway Patrol was a joy to find. I think of my late father who loved such series, including this one. Then you should be quiet if you wanted to be there to watch with him.
I'm 81 years old and I know for a fact that the 50's was the greatest decade in US history. We had it all, good jobs, affordable houses, great movies and TV, and good family life. Today is like living in some weird zoo.
Watch those Buick cruisers bounce around. "Uncle" Tom McCahill's description in the day of a '50s era Buick's handling: "Like a fat matron trying to get out of a slippery bathtub".
I was born in 75, but I absolutely LOVE old black-and-white TV shows and movies from "Have Gun Will Travel" to the first season of "Gomer Pyle"!! TV shows nowadays are absolute crap...
@Jerry Nielsen I love Hwy Patrol .i also watch Andy Griffin. But Hwy Patrol episodes take place at different locations and I really enjoy The old gas stations, Restaurants, the old diesel trucks,And all the old cars And the 10-4 10-4. And the Prices on the grocery store windows.
@Jerry Nielsen me to.iam 75 in poor health and I enjoy listening to the 50s and 60s Music also. Especially sence I Figured out how to use my new phone. I really enjoy Google.
I used to Watch this show Faithfully when I was a little girl. I don't know why, but I really liked this show watching it on TV. I am So Glad to read the Very informative information the ViewerS have that I read that the ViewerS know. THAT FOR THE INFORMATION YOU HAVE ABOUT THE ACTORS AND ACTRESSES!☺😊😜😛🤓
I remember this show as a kid . I didn’t know Broderick Crawford was such an alcoholic . He had his drivers license taken away and had to shoot scenes on dirt roads and non major highways
That Dan Matthews could do it all...instead of calling in a lie detector expert, he administered the tests...must have taken a night or correspondent course...graduated with honors..
Don't ya just love all these cool 50's cars even the ones in the back ground. Best looking cars ever. Dangerous Dan & the rest ain't bad neither. Thanks for the post. Use to watch these with my old man. One of the top 50's shows 😎🔫
30 years ago I bought and restored a 1956 Chrysler Windsor Hardtop and it is still in my carport ready to take me everywhere. I got it cheap because the previous owner, a foreign diplomat, committed suicide inside.
That reminded me of this guy I use to work With, Robbed his own self of $600 dollars from a cash p/u for the company, bashed his own head in & claimed someone else robbed him! What an idiot! Next thing we knew was, "he no longer worked there"! Of course the police was called & I think after questioning him, they advised the company that he was lying! He was just pure stupid! SMH...
I was born in 1951, and not sure if I'd go back again if I could; life is hard, no matter when one is born; I do, however, miss the Roy Rogers cowboy boots I received every Christmas from Granny and Grandpa St. Pierre!
Hopefully you're not a minority or a woman because warping back to the 50s would suck for you. Oh, and if you do, make sure you're either too young or too old to be drafted into the Korean War.
@@garychesser5277 He sure didn't deviate in his delivery. I remember him as a bad guy in The Glenn Ford western "The Fastest Gun Alive". Pretty much the same character but in cowboy garb! 😁
Actually, he made some okay movies and he was pretty good at comedy. Bear in mind, by this point in his career he was gassed a lot of the time. Kinda got a soft spot for the big lug.
Hi lineshaft, sorry to give you some more boring old-timer info: if you only know Jack Webb from Dragnet you might sell him short. His best work was on radio in the 40's and 50's, where he was just superb in many series, including Jack Novack and Pete Kelly's Blues and also the spin-off, Jeff Reagan. I hope you try it; it's worth the effort. Old Geezer, signing out!
The evil nephew "Henry" is played by Gene Reynolds before he became the mega producer-director on shows like M*A*S*H, Lou Grant, Hogan's Heroes and many others.
MeTV has been airing this at 5 am for awhile. I never saw it until recently. It's very good. This has to be were Jack Webb got his ideas for dragnet. Documentary style police show. Jack then worked on his ideas for Adam 12 and Emergency. This show was definitely innovative.
I checked out his bio on Wikipedia and the CHP stopped sponsoring the show after 2 years because he was an embarrassment to them in real life with multiple arrests for DUI and other things. Pretty sad....
@@hertzair1186 He always had that fast talk and the radio communication was really stupid. Over/ bla bla bla / over while looking up and then down. RIDICULOUS
They violated rights back then thinking that everyone should comply with their requests even though the bad guys were in the wrong, it was not constitutional
I look at the dirt roads and farmland and think how valuable that real estate is today. Also, the nephew was played by Gene Reynolds, one of driving forces behind MASH and Lou Grant.
Marie Stoddard always plays the part of the bickering, nagging wife, the gossiping neighbor, and snatky aunt. She does it so well she was cast in Hitchcock film Suspect.
Yeah the 50s were great. Signs all over coffee shops and hotels in the south - Whites Only. Cars with horrible breaks and no seat belts that broke down all the time. I'm 100% sure you are white.
John A. Not unusual. Most long-running shows deteriorate as they go along. That is why Gleason did only 39 Honeymooners. He quit while he was ahead, which is what all successful gamblers do.
@@melrose9252 They couldn't continue unless they had replaced the actor for Dan Mathews. Broderick Crawford was a serious alcoholic and wasn't permitted to drive more than about 100 feet in any episode because of drunk driving convictions. He often showed up for filming while under the influence. If you watch carefully, you can see when those occurred, when he just isn't "with it." Sometimes you can see his forehead with a big bruise on it.
Thanks for sharing these classic gems! OMG, this was my favorite show as a kid! It's just nuts to see old rural San Fernando Valley where most those episodes were filmed full of farms ranches road motels and some begins of the development to come, and it came fast, 😩. Actually to me, a local SoCal boy here all my life, it's sorta sad to see what San Fernando and Simi Valley have become today - it's just overkill. All that land you see in HP is now developed one way or the other. 😔 Here's a little trivia about those classic behemoth HP cars 👇 The 1955 Buick Century two-door sedans seen were built especially for the CHP and were never offered for sale to the public. Two-door sedans were adequate, because the real CHP rarely arrested anyone at that time, being involved more with accident investigations, enforcement, and auto thefts. However even if they did arrest those big girls had AMPLE room in the back! They're like floating livingrooms. LOL. But you kids that weren't around you missed out because those old American made cars were the most comfortable ever cars and actually a lot of fun to drive with big powerful V8 engines. Another triv about Buicks from that era (55-60) to start the engine you turned the ignition on then stepped all the way down on accelerator pedal that started the engine. Weird but true. 😁
My dad had a 1953 Buick straight 8 that was started like that. You would turn the ignition on and push the accelerator to the floor to start the engine.
Hello, this is the first time I have even heard of Highway Patrol! I’m 60 yo. Odd that Sweden didn’t get this show where I grew up. We Got the FBI and Twighlight Zone and I love Lucy, Mc Hales Navy, and my favourite, The Streets of San Francisco ! I love this series! This episode is the first one I’ve ever seen! I will watch the entire series! lol I’m hooked after only one episode! 😂
Pretty damn good show in the context of early TV and the times. Much rather watch this than the new PC crap fest that Hollywood regurgitates. Todays casting is the worst when it comes to reality.
Not often in this series did we get to see Crawford get physical like doing a karate kick, go Broderick! What cracked me up about the series is at the ending 24:44 they would play that majestic triumphant score, as if Crawford had just single-handedly won WW II.
Remember this as a favourite as a kid in the fifties in the UK. ITV had arrived and thankfully we now had many US shows. This show was one of the first and loved seeing the cars. 10/4 became a catch phrase.
It's proven every day in depositions and any courtroom, the same. Try to remember everything truthfully on the witness chair for 90 mins. You'll be amazed by how the prosecutor and or DA"S can break you down and confuse you into your self dought! Especially when you're in front of the jury and a full courtroom. Wear a diaper is my advice. REALLY!
They sure are. My oldest brother "robbed" a bus depot 150 miles from where he lived. Three eye witnesses. Problem was is that he was on vacation with all of our family three states away!!! We all said we would testify as well as that resort owner and his wife. Case closed. Lol
Yeah, they are, but lie detectors are fallible too. There's a good reason their results are not admissible. Several Forensic Files have suspects who fail lie detector tests who later turn out to be innocent.
+Barney Fife Well Barney .. we kind of knew it ... Not all the Taylors were like Andy. Oh by the way ... we still have 6 jars of Aunt Bea's pickles to get rid of ..any ideas? I was thinking of selling them to the military as some kind of new weapon ...
My uncle lived on a dirt road like the ones in this video, and the township use to take big tanker trucks with used motor oil and spray it on the dirt road to keep the dust down, it would last about 1/2 year
Interesting that only the 1955 episodes credit "Bernard R. Caldwell and the California Highway Patrol" in the opening. The rest of the series 1956-59, the opening credits more generically thank "Highway Patrols throughout the nation"
I am 72 years old and remember when the cops had revolvers, no bullet-proof vests, no AR-15s, no dashcams, no computers, and no bodycams. These guys now look like they are in the military, and they have to have all of this stuff. What a different and toxic world we live in today.
When there is an outdoor scene of any type, I notice how much bird singing and chirping is going on, especially compared to how it is today. I'm elderly and remember the 1950s and how much of just about every state was open area, with towns and farms here and there. The birds and other wildlife must have had a much better quality of life before so many people and all our motors began to interfere with their peacefulness.
Betcha all that open land is now covered with roof tops, strip malls, and Starbucks stores.
@@PS-js9oh To each his own.😎 Hey! A bird left his calling card on your car hood while you were getting your whipped, honeyed and cinnamon latte.😱
@@PS-js9oh Many years ago I used to sing the chorus of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer when the names are sung "Cupid, Dancer and Vixen" as Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Nixon.😅
@@PS-js9oh Many years ago, during the Watergate hearings instead of "Cupid, Donner and Vixen" I sang "Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Nixon."😄
Gloria, be aware of how movies and TV shows were made back then. Good directional microphones were not available, nor were small mikes you could hide in clothing. What they did was shoot the film and the actors acted and spoke their lines. Because the mikes had to be kept out of the camera field of view, the voice pickup was usually poor, and with a lot of echo/reverb and extraneous noise. Later, back at the studio, the actors were shown the film and they re-recorded their lines synchronising themselves to the film. The re-recorded studio voice track was then added to the film along with sound effects produced by a sound effects artist.
In low budget TV films like this one, you can, if you are alert, pick up that the sounds you hear are not genuine - tires squealing on gravel, sound of motors starting not synchronised with the video, etc etc. In this particular TV show, sound levels are all over the place - they didn't take much care.
In other words, you heard birds because the sound artist thought there should be birds, or the directory wanted to reinforce that the scene was in a farming area, not because there were actual birds at the location.
Thankyou for uploading Highway patrol on u tube, they were the days, you must of made a few million people very happy to see this again, thankyou.
Hello, this is the first time I have even heard of Highway Patrol! I’m 60 yo. Odd that Sweden didn’t get this show where I grew up. We Got the FBI and Twighlight Zone and I love Lucy, Mc Hales Navy, and my favourite, The Streets of San Francisco ! I love this this series! This episode is the first one I’ve ever seen! I will watch the entire series! lol I’m hooked after only one episode! 😂
When I was a kid growing about 8 or 9 years old I never missed Highway Patrol ! I would stay up late even on school nights to watch the adventures of Broderick Crawford and his crime fighting. I really loved the show and think it influenced me to go into law enforcement after leaving the military in the early 70's. I retired after 35 years as a Deputy Sheriff and enjoyed most of it LOL Retirement is much better
“I didn’t trap you, kid. The truth did.” Television policing at its best!
What a man, big Dan is. Casually disarms the bad guy with a lightening fast, sweeping leg kick. James Bond didn't do it any better a decade later.
Agree!!👍
These bring back so many memories; I used to watch this series sitting on my now late WWII vet father's lap. Even that old-style motel brings back memories of the 1950s-1960s Florida vacations we used to take as a family. What a different and wonderful place America was back then. RIP Pop, sure miss you.
My dad was a WW2 vet also, we had a wonderful childhood, walking to school age 6, playing along the way. My dog even followed me to church.
@@marilynwillett804 Was your dog a protestant or catholic? (This is just humour).
It may have been wonderful to you, but probably not so wonderful to minorities living under Jim Crow laws, lynchings and blatant discrimination. Or to those draftees who fought and died in the Korean War. Or to women who were shut out of careers or who suffered publicly tolerated domestic abuse. But cheers to you!
@@kenbob1071 cry me a river.
@@kenbob1071 Drear bleeding heart liberal, I know you can't see me, but I am a Black man, and my comment stands! So sorry you are a bitter person looking to be a victim. Your comment is null and void.
When we first had commercial TV in England back in the 50s there were lots of American TV shows like this, as a boy I loved 'em.
Plus shows like Dragnet, I Love Lucy, Wagon Train, Gun Law, Sugarfoot, Maverick, Bonanza, etc.
the andy griffith show; walt disney presents; etc
Watched these wonderful programmes on our black and white TV, then with schoolfriend we would play Highway Patrol with our Dinky toys. Great days!!
Same here with the Dinkeys.
I used to watch this show every week as a kid. Loved it. Thanks for posting this. To borrow a quote: "What a different and wonderful place America was back then".
white
White men.
@@ronaldmayle1823 If you were poor or not white it wasn't so wonderful!
I agree and when a place is all white it's much better everyone knows that but is afraid to say it lol. If you were poor then it was because you were lazy. A working man back then could afford a house and his wife could stay home and raise the kids and keep house yes much better times and its proving to be true.
@@williamjackson5942 we were poor and did not know it.
I grew up neat Tatumvill.
Black and white kids got along fine. Yea there was
That 1 percent. You are always going to have that.
Blacks and white folks
Get along with each other .
How many years is it going to take to get over it.
Get an education that's the way out.
Great watching these old shows no nonsense special effects just good story good acting get rid these reality shows get back to basics
I'm only 51 but the shows from this era is all I watch now
52 here and I do the same thing
myself too....todays stuff is just PC crap@@paulday6875
Record and watch all the time. Such a cool classic show and the cars are awesome.
That was a pretty good leg sweep by Matthews.
Matthews apparently didnt have a problem with sweeping the leg.
Nothing from today compares to these old shows.
Normally I'd disagree, but man, it actually would be refreshing to get away from all of today's technologies. And yeah, I know I'm saying this while typing on RUclips. Still. Ppl actually watched TV together back then, on ONE TV set.
Pizza 🍕
An absolute classic by the veteran actor Broadrick Crawford. The old hard boiled detective of the Highway Patrol.
The acting is terrible it is like high school acting
@@BobChippewa Maybe. But it's straightforward and to the point. Viewed in its proper context, it is a great police show.
As good as Dragnet (sometimes better).
Beats watching the "woke" crap that Hollywood pukes out today.@@BobChippewa
@@benniebarrow348what the heck is ‘woke’ crap meant to mean? As woke means something is good I suspect a righty loon speaks!
@@UkOutreach and I suspect a lefty loon who comes on social media and plays dumb on the meaning of “woke” is being facetious . I have no doubt you live and promote the woke agenda everyday. Spare us the fake need for an explanation.
I loved Dan's karate kick to disarm the perp! Broderick carried that off very well.
Yeah he did do that kick pretty good look like he was a little bit better shape in these old ones sound like he had a cold tho
Agree, that came out of the blue and was pretty impressive!😊👍😀
And then they walked out and left the perp's gun on the motel office floor.
Really nice to see the old movies again, and Highway Patrol was a joy to find. I think of my late father who loved such series, including this one. Then you should be quiet if you wanted to be there to watch with him.
I'm 81 years old and I know for a fact that the 50's was the greatest decade in US history. We had it all, good jobs, affordable houses, great movies and TV, and good family life. Today is like living in some weird zoo.
1950 s and 60 s were indeed the time in history to be a kid growing up feeling free and safe
And No Joe Biden
Love those other people at the motel hanging around outside and gawking at what was going on!
...and all of them in their pure white, motel bathrobes!!
@@bonniemoerdyk9809 And, they're all following Mathews.
In. Bathrobes. Johnny. Holmes. Motel
Two nice Betty's..................
And without cell phones !
Watch those Buick cruisers bounce around. "Uncle" Tom McCahill's description in the day of a '50s era Buick's handling: "Like a fat matron trying to get out of a slippery bathtub".
He had some good ones! Toyota Corona: It's got slanted headlights, but it's going to give the boys in Wolfsburg ulcers (VW)
LoL
I remember him in "Popular Mechanics" magazine...wore a tweed jacket and could really turn a phrase!
One of the most favorite TV series.
I was born in 75, but I absolutely LOVE old black-and-white TV shows and movies from "Have Gun Will Travel" to the first season of "Gomer Pyle"!! TV shows nowadays are absolute crap...
Who ever posted this great classic series,thank you again. Great quality for it's time
I had a 58' Buick Century in 1969.
Good one! Crawford plays such a great part on this show!. Always loved Highway Patrol tv series starring Broderick Crawford .
Matthews kicked the gun out of his hand like Chuck Norris! Awesome!
That was kool!
And then he gets a tune-up in the cells.
@Jerry Nielsen
I love Hwy Patrol .i also watch Andy
Griffin. But Hwy Patrol episodes take place at different locations and I really enjoy The old gas stations,
Restaurants, the old diesel trucks,And all the old cars
And the 10-4 10-4. And the
Prices on the grocery store windows.
@Jerry Nielsen me to.iam 75 in poor health and I enjoy listening to the 50s and 60s
Music also. Especially sence I
Figured out how to use my new phone. I really enjoy Google.
I used to Watch this show Faithfully when I was a little girl. I don't know why, but I really liked this show watching it on TV. I am So Glad to read the Very informative information the ViewerS have that I read that the ViewerS know. THAT FOR THE INFORMATION YOU HAVE ABOUT THE ACTORS AND ACTRESSES!☺😊😜😛🤓
I remember this show as a kid . I didn’t know Broderick Crawford was such an alcoholic . He had his drivers license taken away and had to shoot scenes on dirt roads and non major highways
Ironically his major sponsor was a beer company.
That Dan Matthews could do it all...instead of calling in a lie detector expert, he administered the tests...must have taken a night or correspondent course...graduated with honors..
Indeed, Dan Mathews always graduated with honors.
I'm sure its admissible evidence!
Plus the box only measured galvanic response and no printout. Four hours and five questions.
@@George50809 Dan graduated every school he ever went to in a little over a week.
At the 'patrol academy'
Don't ya just love all these cool 50's cars even the ones in the back ground. Best looking cars ever. Dangerous Dan & the rest ain't bad neither. Thanks for the post. Use to watch these with my old man. One of the top 50's shows
😎🔫
You could identify a car by its looks back then.
@@roysterfutrell8889 still can if you know what you're looking for
I sure miss real cars.
30 years ago I bought and restored a 1956 Chrysler Windsor Hardtop and it is still in my carport ready to take me everywhere. I got it cheap because the previous owner, a foreign diplomat, committed suicide inside.
Always loved Highway Patrol tv series starring Broderick Crawford 😊❤😊
Good one! Crawford plays such a great part on this show!
One of my favorite t.v. shows growing up
Great 1955 Buick Century patrol cars used in the first yr of the show here...what tanks they were....wow...
We has a 54 Buick Special. Big car.
In 1958, they used '58 Buicks; they were beautiful tanks.
Wow- Dan kicks the gun out of the perp's hand. Too funny!
"Whack the back of my head with that gun butt,and make it look good!" I guess brain damage wasn't a consideration.
Not when you know it's fake.
That reminded me of this guy I use to work With, Robbed his own self of $600 dollars from a cash p/u for the company, bashed his own head in & claimed someone else robbed him! What an idiot! Next thing we knew was, "he no longer worked there"! Of course the police was called & I think after questioning him, they advised the company that he was lying! He was just pure stupid! SMH...
@@t.c.3027 Was his name Jussie Smollett by any chance?
Harry .. err, Henry Carey sure trusted his partner. Guy could've really knocked his lights out permanently and taken all the money for himself.
@@axiomist1076 What 'd you mean fake?
I used to watch this show on TV now I can watch it on my phone and my tablet as well. A very interesting show, I enjoy watching all the episodes.
Thanks For Sharing A Classic Tv Show
Famous last words, “It’ll be a cinch."
Or Dan saying, "Hold my bourbon."
If I could time warp back to the 50's, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
I was born in 1951, and not sure if I'd go back again if I could; life is hard, no matter when one is born; I do, however, miss the Roy Rogers cowboy boots I received every Christmas from Granny and Grandpa St. Pierre!
You probably can't do that
However, if trump or desantis get elected in2025, you might get warped back to Italy circa 1930's
@@johnharrison3425 if it's in Sardinia,count me in.
Hopefully you're not a minority or a woman because warping back to the 50s would suck for you. Oh, and if you do, make sure you're either too young or too old to be drafted into the Korean War.
YES!
I love these old shows from the fifties it brings back great memories of my childhood. My dad had a car just like the police car they were driving.
You're Dad was a Highway Patrolman?
@@jonnychingas5757 No I meant the 60 Chevy. My dad was a deputy sheriff for a few years.
@@Greeley.d that car was a Buick special.
For a big fat guy, that kick out the gun thing was good.
Cat like reflexes!
Zinc Chameleon He thought it was a diet.
Dan's not that big.
Where do you think Walker learned all he knows?
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Another GREAT episode
Wish they could make them like that today.
I dont believe it. I found this. Used to watch it when I was 12. 60 years ago. MARVELOUS. THANK YOU..
It was 70 years ago for me, just like yesterday.
Wonder who told Broderick Crawford he could act? He makes Jack Webb seem like Shakespearian phenom.
True to his character.
@@garychesser5277 He sure didn't deviate in his delivery. I remember him as a bad guy in The Glenn Ford western "The Fastest Gun Alive". Pretty much the same character but in cowboy garb! 😁
Actually, he made some okay movies and he was pretty good at comedy. Bear in mind, by this point in his career he was gassed a lot of the time. Kinda got a soft spot for the big lug.
Hi lineshaft, sorry to give you some more boring old-timer info: if you only know Jack Webb from Dragnet you might sell him short.
His best work was on radio in the 40's and 50's, where he was just superb in many series, including Jack Novack and Pete Kelly's Blues and also the spin-off, Jeff Reagan. I hope you try it; it's worth the effort.
Old Geezer, signing out!
Mrs. Carey recognized Taylor's hat and coat, never saw his face, LOL!
The evil nephew "Henry" is played by Gene Reynolds before he became the mega producer-director on shows like M*A*S*H, Lou Grant, Hogan's Heroes and many others.
Dang, SSSS, what a stickler for trivia! You win!
Thanks for the info. I had to check him out to find he did a little bit of everything.
Glad he was able to turn his life around and become a solid citizen. ;)
@@LeeBlaske haha!
I knew he was the perp..little jerk.
Best episode ever ! ' I didn't trap him kid , thr truth did' !
I like how the grandson drove away in the car that was supposed to be broken
Lol. I noticed that also..
Well actually it was not.
-"You'd never trapped me without lying!"
-"I didn't trap you kid, the TRUTH DID!"
In those days, the truth could get criminals in prison. Now, not so much.
MeTV has been airing this at 5 am for awhile. I never saw it until recently. It's very good. This has to be were Jack Webb got his ideas for dragnet. Documentary style police show. Jack then worked on his ideas for Adam 12 and Emergency. This show was definitely innovative.
I watched this show religiously when I was a kid. Loved Broderick crawfard
Crawford..i never would have thought he was a functioning alcoholic. Love the series.
I checked out his bio on Wikipedia and the CHP stopped sponsoring the show after 2 years because he was an embarrassment to them in real life with multiple arrests for DUI and other things. Pretty sad....
…that explains his grouchy demeanor…Wikipedia described his acting style as “studied rudeness”
@@hertzair1186 He always had that fast talk and the radio communication was really stupid. Over/ bla bla bla / over while looking up and then down. RIDICULOUS
They violated rights back then thinking that everyone should comply with their requests even though the bad guys were in the wrong, it was not constitutional
THESE SHOWS ARE REALLY INTERESTING I LIKE THE BIG GUY HE IS A GOOD ACTOR
I look at the dirt roads and farmland and think how valuable that real estate is today.
Also, the nephew was played by Gene Reynolds, one of driving forces behind MASH and Lou Grant.
Love the way everyone folows them in their night gowns
Marie Stoddard always plays the part of the bickering, nagging wife, the gossiping neighbor, and snatky aunt. She does it so well she was cast in Hitchcock film Suspect.
My favorite Broderick Crawford quote: " I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care."
That's Broderick for ya 😅
and he was married to Joan Tabor........smoke'n hot!
i'd love to be in the 1950's, a much simpler time.
No you wouldn't. I remember 1959. Everybody was nervous and anxious about something.
Yeah the 50s were great. Signs all over coffee shops and hotels in the south - Whites Only. Cars with horrible breaks and no seat belts that broke down all the time. I'm 100% sure you are white.
Until you got sick with something serious. Medical care is sooo much better and the drugs they have.
I guess you're neither black nor a woman.
No. Just as complicated as today, merely different issues.
For some reason the 1955 episodes are really good, the first year of the show.
John A. Not unusual. Most long-running shows deteriorate as they go along. That is why Gleason did only 39 Honeymooners. He quit while he was ahead, which is what all successful gamblers do.
Highway Patrol got better and should have ran for 10 more years.
@@melrose9252 They couldn't continue unless they had replaced the actor for Dan Mathews. Broderick Crawford was a serious alcoholic and wasn't permitted to drive more than about 100 feet in any episode because of drunk driving convictions. He often showed up for filming while under the influence. If you watch carefully, you can see when those occurred, when he just isn't "with it." Sometimes you can see his forehead with a big bruise on it.
There are no conventional lie detector test sessions lasting four hours. A four-hour interrogation session is considered borderline torture.
Seriously? I had no idea that a 30 minute TV police drama from 7 decades ago was not perfect!!
(The things one learns on RUclips are truly amazing!)
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The other residents following them around is hilarious!
I love the reference to "Clampett's Store" by the nephew.
Thanks for sharing these classic gems! OMG, this was my favorite show as a kid! It's just nuts to see old rural San Fernando Valley where most those episodes were filmed full of farms ranches road motels and some begins of the development to come, and it came fast, 😩. Actually to me, a local SoCal boy here all my life, it's sorta sad to see what San Fernando and Simi Valley have become today - it's just overkill. All that land you see in HP is now developed one way or the other. 😔
Here's a little trivia about those classic behemoth HP cars 👇
The 1955 Buick Century two-door sedans seen were built especially for the CHP and were never offered for sale to the public. Two-door sedans were adequate, because the real CHP rarely arrested anyone at that time, being involved more with accident investigations, enforcement, and auto thefts.
However even if they did arrest those big girls had AMPLE room in the back! They're like floating livingrooms. LOL. But you kids that weren't around you missed out because those old American made cars were the most comfortable ever cars and actually a lot of fun to drive with big powerful V8 engines. Another triv about Buicks from that era (55-60) to start the engine you turned the ignition on then stepped all the way down on accelerator pedal that started the engine. Weird but true. 😁
My dad had a 1953 Buick straight 8 that was started like that. You would turn the ignition on and push the accelerator to the floor to start the engine.
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Great Kung Fu move by Crawford at the end. The Scientology e meter is basically a crude small lie detector like in this show.
Little Charlie Norris was watching this one.
@Nuclear Christian Leah Remini's book "Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology" is a very revealing read.
Hello, this is the first time I have even heard of Highway Patrol! I’m 60 yo. Odd that Sweden didn’t get this show where I grew up. We Got the FBI and Twighlight Zone and I love Lucy, Mc Hales Navy, and my favourite, The Streets of San Francisco ! I love this series! This episode is the first one I’ve ever seen! I will watch the entire series! lol I’m hooked after only one episode! 😂
Amazing how the HIghway Patrol orchestra performs right on cue with these assults!!
When Dan arrests the guilty man - all of the residents must be sleeping. No busybodies at the end of episode. Good one!
If your never seen Mr Crawford in All The Kingsmen it's a must watch.
Comedy at its best !! Keep 'em comin' !! Love this series for the laughs and bad acting and mediocre scripts !!
They sure didn't splurge on any special effects, did they?
Pretty damn good show in the context of early TV and the times. Much rather watch this than the new PC crap fest that Hollywood regurgitates. Todays casting is the worst when it comes to reality.
I gotta like the car Henry's aunt owned. Looks like a '54 Ford ragtop with a continental kit. That car must be in other episodes.
52 was in lots of flicks...
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Great show I love it thank you very much from Sydney Australia
I just love those cop cars... so cool!
Nearly all Buicks...
For a minute I thought Dan started taking his lunch to work in a pail...
That so funny ha ha😝😛😄😜
Thats his iPad! Ha
@@johnandrew1727 The box should have a picture of Roy Rogers, the Lone Stranger, even Broderick Crawford!😁
Sit in that electric chair. It’s electrifying!
One surprising thing: I did not know that a 1955 Buick Century, the high performance model, was available as a two-door sedan.
A good one. For sure. Love these old episodes. 💓
20:32 Wow that broke down car started like a new one! Coincidence hun?
Robert S. Hun ? We haven’t even been introduced yet.
Question from cops: Why did you stop the car here in the middle of nowhere?
A 4-hour lie-detector exam.. ?
Yes it can take that long.. the police ask the same questions in many ways and repeatedly try to ensure you’re telling the truth.
@@alreeeser, dealing with a major crime can take, in segments, all the time they see fit!
Given how fast Dan talks, it should have been over in about 10 minutes.
Not often in this series did we get to see Crawford get physical like doing a karate kick, go Broderick! What cracked me up about the series is at the ending 24:44 they would play that majestic triumphant score, as if Crawford had just single-handedly won WW II.
The lie detector was still fairly new back then but already they knew it could not be relied enough to be used in court. Interesting.
Loved this in 1950s. Shown in UK. 10 4 became a catch phrase.
At 18.00 in just as they pull off the road you can hear a piston radial aircraft engine in the background. Those were the days.
Remember this as a favourite as a kid in the fifties in the UK. ITV had arrived and thankfully we now had many US shows. This show was one of the first and loved seeing the cars. 10/4 became a catch phrase.
Broderick talks super fast & moves as strange as the cars they used. My favorite episode is the attempted train derailment.
Thanks for sharing this episode. I grew up watching these!
Eye witness accounts are so fallable.
It's proven every day in depositions and any courtroom, the same. Try to remember everything truthfully on the witness chair for 90 mins. You'll be amazed by how the prosecutor and or DA"S can break you down and confuse you into your self dought! Especially when you're in front of the jury and a full courtroom. Wear a diaper is my advice. REALLY!
They sure are. My oldest brother "robbed" a bus depot 150 miles from where he lived. Three eye witnesses. Problem was is that he was on vacation with all of our family three states away!!! We all said we would testify as well as that resort owner and his wife. Case closed. Lol
Yep, like all of them in the bible.
@@TerryUniGeezerPeterson God still loves you Terry, even though you despise him. I pray you change your mind.
Yeah, they are, but lie detectors are fallible too. There's a good reason their results are not admissible. Several Forensic Files have suspects who fail lie detector tests who later turn out to be innocent.
Absolutely love watching these.
This cop even knows what's going to happen next week😂
THANK YOU FOR THE ORIGINAL BROADCAST QUALITY. GREAT VIEWING, SHARP PICTURE !!
'Taylor' was the mortitian/TV repairman on The Andy Griffith Show.
+Barney Fife Well Barney .. we kind of knew it ... Not all the Taylors were like Andy. Oh by the way ... we still have 6 jars of Aunt Bea's pickles to get rid of ..any ideas? I was thinking of selling them to the military as some kind of new weapon ...
Cliff Fischer That's where the Weapons of Mass Destruction ended up. You're under arrest!
***** No, (hehehe) citizen's arrest .... citizen's arrest!
I love that TV show. Every couple of years I watch them all again.
+Barney Fife............ I am 62 it's shows like this that made the 50's special
Long live the great Brodereick Crawford
+Cliff Fischer lolz
can't get that voice outs my head now!
I Always Liked This Show Watched It When I Was Very Young IAM 68 Years Old 😊😊😊
I watch this show most weekday mornings before Dragnet
Dan Matthews is a human lie detector.
LOL
My uncle lived on a dirt road like the ones in this video, and the township use to take big tanker trucks with used motor oil and spray it on the dirt road to keep the dust down, it would last about 1/2 year
Interesting that only the 1955 episodes credit "Bernard R. Caldwell and the California Highway Patrol" in the opening.
The rest of the series 1956-59, the opening credits more generically thank "Highway Patrols throughout the nation"
The CHIP stopped supporting the show at some point, because of Crawford's drinking and DUI arrests.
I just love this stuff: ten-four, over and out.
These shows are some of Ed Wood's finest work.
one of my top 3 shows to watch when i was a kid in the 60/70's.
I remember his saying at the end of the show, went something like, if your going to give blood dont leave it on the highway.