Another great episode! Even better the second time around. Gotta love Matthews. Smart, quick, articulate, well dressed. Oh wait, that's the script writer and wardrobe.
"Unparalleled Bungling", not to be surpassed until Prez (Goof-Ball) Trump tear-gassed *PEACEFUL* protesters, in order to do a photo-op in front of a church, where he used the Bible as a prop...*YEEEESH!!* www.npr.org/2020/06/05/870019283/poll-two-thirds-think-trump-made-racial-tensions-worse-after-george-floyds-death
Mr. Giles, it's a mathematical formula, "You take what you don't want to believe, add it to what you have to believe", you come up with amazing answers. No truer words were ever spoken, especially today.
@@alphonsozorro7952 **IT'S NOT NONSENSE ANY MORE!!** For example, under "What you DON'T WANT to believe", a US President authorizes tear-gassing *PEACEFUL* protesters in Washington, DC, just so he can do a Bible-toting photo op in front of a church. Then add-on "what you HAVE to believe", that Joe Biden is *FINALLY* ahead of Trump in Vegas betting odds: www.forbes.com/sites/zackjones/2020/06/04/2020-presidential-betting-odds-favor-biden-over-trump-for-first-time/#278927193963
@@CLASSICALFAN100 looks like another four years for the president will become the most likely election outcome www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/donald-trump-joe-biden-presidential-election-now-coin-flip-2109003/
Yes, that is true. The Zivs felt he was high maintenance as actors usually are. They also knew he was the show’s brand. Crawford was a presence in all the movies and shows that he was cast.
The size 10.5 universal key is always my favorite. I only got to use mine a few times in 20 years, but it was always good. Training has come a long way- now u never touch a suspect with your gun in hand, and everyone gets cuffed and stuffed before u move them. Love the 6" revolvers and swivel holsters. In one episode it looked like a clamshell
15:50 "There's a mathematical formula, you take what you don't want to believe and add it to what you have to believe and you come up with AMAZING answers"! What a classic statement.
Studebaker, I haven't seen one in decades. Too bad. I like those. Used to know someone who knew someone who worked on restoring Studebaker cars and pickups. Almost bought a pickup from him but he'd already had it sold to someone else and he hadn't even started working on it yet.
Payload on those pickups wasn't much. I doubt they rode as smooth as the big luxury cars. Wheel base was shorter. Who cares about a smooth ride when they're hauling stuff in the back?
👍I had a 1956 Ford Fairlane,4dr, automatic,blue over white,pd 110$ in 1968,just a beast...fast as heck...so dependable...sold 4 xs after me and still ran so we'll,in my 74 yrs,1 of BEST cars ever owned, Minnesota tough on cars,but not that 56,'fairlane👍👍
In all these fine episodes, there's only one actor missing: Glenn Ford! Then, we could reenact 'Fastest Gun Alive' from around the same era. Great performances all around, & many thanks for the upload 👍 😀.
I'm glad that they didn't really wreck cars in this series as with later cop shows. That '56 Ford Pickup obviously had to be saved for another episode with it being a low budget series.
Gilroy is closer to 300 miles north of Chatsworth as opposed to 62 miles as stated in this serial. Also, Matthews refers to "Turnpikes' early in the video. I do not think they ever called "freeways" in California by the "turnpike" name. Great shows nonetheless.
Quite comical watching Broderick Crawford closing the episode advising viewers to be "as good a driver as you think you are" when he himself got nailed for habitual drunk driving while the show was in production and had his license suspended by the real police.🚔🚨
Hi all! I'm definitely a child of the 50's! My Father always made us watch "Dragnet"! He thought that was the "top-cop" show! It (Dragnet) wasn't jack-nada compared to "Highway Patrol"! Officer Mathews always caught the bad guy(s)! Heady stuff for a seven year old! Roger and out!!!!
That Mills guy @ 14:00 sounds exactly like somebody else that's been on old shows. I'm thinking either an Andy Griffith or Leave it to Beaver, but he's not credited for either, so I guess he's got a voice twin.
Back then you could actually talk to a phone operator and get real help. Now it's all these electronic voices asking tons of questions and not understanding what you say to them half the time. Give me a live well trained helpful telephone operator any day.
No need for a phone operator, as the telephone system is fully computerized, at least in the US. If you need help, call 911 at your own risk, for any trouble at home. The "pigs" will show up, and chances are, they'll confuse you with the criminal and target you. It already happened.
I’ve had to call 911 on a couple of occasions...called on a drunk driver and again about a brush fire and they were professional AND genuinely concerned. Reaction time was remarkable. If it was Matthews, any evidence (liquor) from the drunk would have somehow disappeared.
I miss the telephone directory. How does one look up a telephone number? A great disadvantage of today's world. But an ideal world for criminals. So think again!! @@alphonsozorro7952
I miss the telephone directory book or access to one. Lack of one is a great disadvantage to the public today. But great for criminals because they can hide. No operators saved the telephone companies money during the transition to cell phones. So think again! If you were targeted by what you call pigs, did you have the appearance of the adolescent that never grew up? One difference on HP 99% of all the criminals wore suits. @@alphonsozorro7952
It would have been *GREAT* if the painting defaced by the crooks was an Andy Warhol tomato soup can...(ROFL); Here's more from the Museum of Modern Art website: www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/andy-warhol-campbells-soup-cans-1962/
01:48 Have you ever noticed how guys who have been "slugged from behind" with a pistol and knocked unconscious can somehow manage to still walk at they are being "dragged" away?
The truck driver is knocked cold, but he still manages to walk as the two bandidos "drag" him away. Must have been a small caliber revolver they slugged him with.
2023 medical examiners with all their high tech technology still take days to determine cause of death. They should take lessons from these old black & white shows 🤣🤣
I'm guessing Broderick was real eager to maintain this gig. I figure he talks so fast to minimize the static scenes to maximize the action scenes because people want to see movement. A very skilled actor. He would have had to be. Got a face like a bulldog.
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Enjoy viewing the telephones/police cars & equipment of that era-!!!🤗. Watched👀 Uncle Broderick portrayal of different characters other than the hy-way patrol series😉.
Back in the day when there’re pay phones you didn’t need a dime to call the operator. Or any AT&T phone number. Now at pay phones 911 works the same way.
Holy smokes, dapper Dan busted through that door awful fast. He barely gave anyone anytime to answer it. Supposing that man was visiting a sick aunt or something, then he would have gotten himself in a lot of trouble, maybe even been dealt a citation or something. I felt awfully sorry for that poor farmer. Such a sad look on his face. He was merely making a hay delivery and it ended up costing him his life. Was it really necessary to bump him off, as the panel truck driver saw at least one of the men so another knock on the head should have been sufficient. But Murder? This episode was a little bit too violent for my liking - a senseless death. 10-4
so the guy who played LENNY SMALL on BROADWAY did not get movie version, that went to LON CHANEY jr. the other guy won an OSCAR 9 picture deal at COLUMBIA own TV series MC GLENN MILLER WW2 LONDON CONCERTS ETC hey nice...
I know these plots are so ridiculous. But they are fun to watch. And I like the lesson of their trying to teach. If you follow in their footsteps you will be in the hands of a highway patrol. Very
This is why I would never do criminal business. They should have gotten cash up front. They were stupid to let those paintings go. What is the paintings is 70,000.
Rick: Episode 3 stated the Mercury Monterey as GREEN. The 5 choices are: 1- Grove, 2- Heath, 3- Verona, 4- Pinewood metallic and 5- Cambridge GREEN. You choose!
700 x 25 to get real 2019 cost = 17500. Never mind bogus inflation rate which will give a much lower figure. The multiplier 25 is based on car prices then and now. Average car price in the mid-50's, less than 2000. Average car price in 2019: less than 50000.
Darn good actor,Broderick Crawford!!!!!! Grew up watching this show,thank you for bringing it back to us.
If you think Crawford is a good actor you need to rethink what a good actor is he’s terrible the show is good though
Love this show, always have. Just clean, suspense and a great show.
I love how Matthews kicked the door off the hinges at the end.
Another great episode! Even better the second time around. Gotta love Matthews. Smart, quick, articulate, well dressed. Oh wait, that's the script writer and wardrobe.
"The job you did for me Eddie was a masterpiece of unparalleled bungling." Nice line. I can use that one on a job site someday.
That is classic isn't it.
That WAS a nice line though! HAHAHAHAH! UNPARALLELED bungling!
"Unparalleled Bungling", not to be surpassed until Prez (Goof-Ball) Trump tear-gassed *PEACEFUL* protesters, in order to do a photo-op in front of a church, where he used the Bible as a prop...*YEEEESH!!* www.npr.org/2020/06/05/870019283/poll-two-thirds-think-trump-made-racial-tensions-worse-after-george-floyds-death
Good band name -- The Unparalleled Bunglers.
i probably wouldn't say that line to people i want to have a continued good rapport with
let's all thank foxeema!
+David Maslow Doo Dah!
+David Maslow yes, great series!! thanks foxeema!!
The 1955 Mercury Montclair 4 door sedan (driving by Mills) is the real art masterpiece I would pay for! !
Mr. Giles, it's a mathematical formula, "You take what you don't want to believe, add it to what you have to believe", you come up with amazing answers. No truer words were ever spoken, especially today.
Mathematical nonsense formula made in Hollywood.
@@alphonsozorro7952 No. Very complicated formula. Used by MIT professors to teach advanced nuclear physics to grad students.
@@alphonsozorro7952 **IT'S NOT NONSENSE ANY MORE!!** For example, under "What you DON'T WANT to believe", a US President authorizes tear-gassing *PEACEFUL* protesters in Washington, DC, just so he can do a Bible-toting photo op in front of a church. Then add-on "what you HAVE to believe", that Joe Biden is *FINALLY* ahead of Trump in Vegas betting odds: www.forbes.com/sites/zackjones/2020/06/04/2020-presidential-betting-odds-favor-biden-over-trump-for-first-time/#278927193963
@@CLASSICALFAN100 looks like another four years for the president will become the most likely election outcome www.reviewjournal.com/sports/betting/donald-trump-joe-biden-presidential-election-now-coin-flip-2109003/
@@jeffreymliss Those grad students probably don't understand it. We're all in big trouble!
Broderick Crawford was perfectly cast in this syndicated, early-TV series.
I agree, he's great!!
Yes, that is true. The Zivs felt he was high maintenance as actors usually are. They also knew he was the show’s brand. Crawford was a presence in all the movies and shows that he was cast.
The 1950's tv series Highway Patrol with Dan Mathews fast talking, fast thinking and fast action is entertaining.
see my comment above, lol
That's O A Dan Matthews
…plus all they great wise-cracks.
The size 10.5 universal key is always my favorite. I only got to use mine a few times in 20 years, but it was always good. Training has come a long way- now u never touch a suspect with your gun in hand, and everyone gets cuffed and stuffed before u move them. Love the 6" revolvers and swivel holsters. In one episode it looked like a clamshell
Loved the old school Detroit Iron! Always a half an hour well spent. Thank you.
15:50 "There's a mathematical formula, you take what you don't want to believe and add it to what you have to believe and you come up with AMAZING answers"! What a classic statement.
Rather obtuse, actually.
Rather American,,leave it,,
I live in S. Dakota. We got plenty of these old '50s Trucks out here on the Ranches. Even old Studebaker P.up trks. Still everyday drivers here.
But on videos, those 50's trucks don't show up at all , but only late-model SUV pick-ups. You must be hallucinating.
That speaks volumes to how well they were built. With oil changes and routine maintenance, they'll be around forever.
Studebaker, I haven't seen one in decades. Too bad. I like those. Used to know someone who knew someone who worked on restoring Studebaker cars and pickups. Almost bought a pickup from him but he'd already had it sold to someone else and he hadn't even started working on it yet.
Payload on those pickups wasn't much. I doubt they rode as smooth as the big luxury cars. Wheel base was shorter. Who cares about a smooth ride when they're hauling stuff in the back?
At 1:50, the driver is very cooperative, walking while unconscious.
I noticed that too. lol
He didn't want to scuff his shoes!
Notice how they place him on the ground and he is down and then up and then down again?
@@coolmoncur He came to and passed out again?
@@alphonsozorro7952 don't be dense. He played possum, until he got his chance.
only Brodwick Crawford could bust a door down like that...👍👍
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Man, I'd love to have that Panel Van or the Pickup Truck.
I like the pickups the best. Coming from a farm background, they're more useful than the showy "sunday" cars.
"Is this a hijacking?"
"Nah, it's a Cub Scout meeting."
:-)
Holy cow! Erich von Stroheim Jr. was an assistant director on this episode.
I'm thrilled, too. Wait 'til I tell my friends, they'll all want to see this episode.
WOW! Superman can't bust a door down that good! Lol
He could if it was a movie prop door,
Stavros from Kojak can do it. Must be a "mass thing".
😄😄😄😄😄😄😄😄
👍I had a 1956 Ford Fairlane,4dr, automatic,blue over white,pd 110$ in 1968,just a beast...fast as heck...so dependable...sold 4 xs after me and still ran so we'll,in my 74 yrs,1 of BEST cars ever owned, Minnesota tough on cars,but not that 56,'fairlane👍👍
Yes, we had a 1966 Fairlane. I agree with you.
I love how they knock the driver of the panel truck out and he still walks over to the side of the median LOL
LOVE Broderick Crawford. PERFECT casting!
Holy Cow! A real physical part of the show right at the end!..First one I have seen on Highway Patrol..Cool..real cool..
24:47 Holy Snot, he kicked that baby half way through the room. Hinges and all. That Mathews is a bad mo-skooter. lmao
He even opens doors faster than Chuck Norris.
Perhaps the show's set designer (Jack Collis) is to blame. Not much of a carpenter, in my opinion.
Crawford’s sarcasm is in top form in this episode - “amazing answers” 🤣
In all these fine episodes, there's only one actor missing: Glenn Ford! Then, we could reenact 'Fastest Gun Alive' from around the same era. Great performances all around, & many thanks for the upload 👍 😀.
I'm glad that they didn't really wreck cars in this series as with later cop shows. That '56 Ford Pickup obviously had to be saved for another episode with it being a low budget series.
@Greg Hamilton Recurring human and car actors.
I really enjoyed this series thank you so much for posting it
Gilroy is closer to 300 miles north of Chatsworth as opposed to 62 miles as stated in this serial. Also, Matthews refers to "Turnpikes' early in the video. I do not think they ever called "freeways" in California by the "turnpike" name. Great shows nonetheless.
watching Broderick Crawford act, I think he was formerly a cattle auctioneer,, he speaks so fast!!! LOL
9:39 doing his Bogart impression.
Eddie has a short fuse and gets hot under the collar easily. He's always blowing his top.
Video Number 4. Euro 4. Tuesday, August 8 - 2023.
Quite comical watching Broderick Crawford closing the episode advising viewers to be "as good a driver as you think you are" when he himself got nailed for habitual drunk driving while the show was in production and had his license suspended by the real police.🚔🚨
OMG that FLAG made him stop...must be a 50s thing.
I had a summer job with the highway department in the mid sixties. We used flags. I hated flagging traffic. Some people paid them no attention.
Hi all! I'm definitely a child of the 50's! My Father always made us watch "Dragnet"! He thought that was the "top-cop" show! It (Dragnet) wasn't jack-nada compared to "Highway Patrol"! Officer Mathews always caught the bad guy(s)! Heady stuff for a seven year old! Roger and out!!!!
That Mills guy @ 14:00 sounds exactly like somebody else that's been on old shows. I'm thinking either an Andy Griffith or Leave it to Beaver, but he's not credited for either, so I guess he's got a voice twin.
No show had more pistol whippings than Highway Patrol. A lost art: as today's shows end up with a dead victim rather than an unconscious one.
Gunsmoke. LedHed Steven 🎸 🎹 🎸 🎸
Blood and gore sells advertising space.
They could rename this series "The evolution of automobile design 1955 to 1959".
My opinion, too.
Back then you could actually talk to a phone operator and get real help. Now it's all these electronic voices asking tons of questions and not understanding what you say to them half the time. Give me a live well trained helpful telephone operator any day.
No need for a phone operator, as the telephone system is fully computerized, at least in the US. If you need help, call 911 at your own risk, for any trouble at home. The "pigs" will show up, and chances are, they'll confuse you with the criminal and target you. It already happened.
I’ve had to call 911 on a couple of occasions...called on a drunk driver and again about a brush fire and they were professional AND genuinely concerned. Reaction time was remarkable.
If it was Matthews, any evidence (liquor) from the drunk would have somehow disappeared.
I miss the telephone directory. How does one look up a telephone number? A great disadvantage of today's world. But an ideal world for
criminals. So think again!! @@alphonsozorro7952
I miss the telephone directory book or access to one. Lack of one is a great disadvantage to the public today.
But great for criminals because they can hide. No operators saved the telephone companies money during the
transition to cell phones. So think again! If you were targeted by what you call pigs, did you have the appearance
of the adolescent that never grew up? One difference on HP 99% of all the criminals wore suits.
@@alphonsozorro7952
"You know something...I think that I'm going to get interested in art"
It would have been *GREAT* if the painting defaced by the crooks was an Andy Warhol tomato soup can...(ROFL); Here's more from the Museum of Modern Art website: www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/andy-warhol-campbells-soup-cans-1962/
i WISH THIS SHOWS STILL COME ON TELEVISION
As of 2020, it's on Me-TV , but it's on in the morning.
An art collector living in that kind of house can come up with some pretty good cash
Get me the Highway Patrol!
1:37 - "Naaah, it's a Cub Scout meeting."
Try TO BE AS GOOD a driver AS YOU THINK YOU ARE!
Good episode.
The essence of straight-to-syndication ZIV-TV production. Exactly four interior sets used on this episode, with a cast of eight people.
01:48 Have you ever noticed how guys who have been "slugged from behind" with a pistol and knocked unconscious can somehow manage to still walk at they are being "dragged" away?
Mr. Mills--what a creep.
Mr Mills was driving the same car as the criminal from the previous week, so Mr Mills was hanging out with the wrong crew
The truck driver is knocked cold, but he still manages to walk as the two bandidos "drag" him away. Must have been a small caliber revolver they slugged him with.
Small or big caliber, handguns have grips the same size, to fit in the average male hand.
Crawford has everything as an actor a real powerhouse !
That panel truck driver has a cool monobrow.
2023 medical examiners with all their high tech technology still take days to determine cause of death. They should take lessons from these old black & white shows 🤣🤣
those cars bounced a lot. i think shocks were to tuned to bumpier roads
The hijackers are sportin' some dandy A2 jackets.
I'm guessing Broderick was real eager to maintain this gig. I figure he talks so fast to minimize the static scenes to maximize the action scenes because people want to see movement. A very skilled actor. He would have had to be. Got a face like a bulldog.
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Enjoy viewing the telephones/police cars & equipment of that era-!!!🤗. Watched👀 Uncle Broderick portrayal of different characters other than the hy-way patrol series😉.
Head of the Highway Patrol is always right there when something happens....
Sounds suspicious to me.
They only focus on the headline cases - not the run of the mill traffic enforcement, accidents or traffic control.
How times have changed. Over 65 years ago I thought Broderick Crawford was fat. Now he would almost be on the slim side of average.
Compared to a lot of "cops" (who spend most of their time in a donut shop), Crawford is skinny
Men wore their pants belted at the waist!
Nice Trick to pit the bad guys against each other ! Quite sophisticated for 1950 TV !
Back in the day when there’re pay phones you didn’t need a dime to call the operator. Or any AT&T phone number. Now at pay phones 911 works the same way.
Holy smokes, dapper Dan busted through that door awful fast. He barely gave anyone anytime to answer it. Supposing that man was visiting a sick aunt or something, then he would have gotten himself in a lot of trouble, maybe even been dealt a citation or something. I felt awfully sorry for that poor farmer. Such a sad look on his face. He was merely making a hay delivery and it ended up costing him his life. Was it really necessary to bump him off, as the panel truck driver saw at least one of the men so another knock on the head should have been sufficient. But Murder? This episode was a little bit too violent for my liking - a senseless death. 10-4
Hey is this a hijacking? No it's a Cub scout meeting!
@ 22:39, I was gonna say "moola".
so the guy who played LENNY SMALL on BROADWAY did not get movie version, that went to LON CHANEY jr. the other guy won an OSCAR 9 picture deal at COLUMBIA own TV series MC GLENN MILLER WW2 LONDON CONCERTS ETC hey nice...
I know these plots are so ridiculous. But they are fun to watch. And I like the lesson of their trying to teach. If you follow in their footsteps you will be in the hands of a highway patrol. Very
Great shows
15:49 - Dere's a mattemattical fawmuly! "You come up wit amazing answers."
Dan and a few officers and a few people are all that existed in LA ghost town ?
The ice cream vendor gave up first.
i wonder what color that yellow truck was??
Is the opening shot from Sunset west or Mulholland drive...early with no population!
Broderick Crawford starring in Highway Patrol..as Columbo pulls up to the barrier
This is why I would never do criminal business. They should have gotten cash up front. They were stupid to let those paintings go. What is the paintings is 70,000.
that's the same merc they used in episode 3, would like to know the colors.
Rick: Episode 3 stated the Mercury Monterey as GREEN. The 5 choices are: 1- Grove, 2- Heath, 3- Verona, 4- Pinewood metallic and 5- Cambridge GREEN. You choose!
"Looks like murder!" No. He died from too much sun!
Man that station wagon has a hot engine!!!
We want our Heyday for that art😎
How many officers are named Dorsey? That looks like Griffith Park
This is what Richard and Gilbert got up to after highschool.
Never trust your CPA
great shows and if you stop and think that back in the mid 50s the budget was probably only $700 per episode
700 x 25 to get real 2019 cost = 17500. Never mind bogus inflation rate which will give a much lower figure. The multiplier 25 is based on car prices then and now.
Average car price in the mid-50's, less than 2000. Average car price in 2019: less than 50000.
According to information from the studio, each episode was $25,000, with Crawford getting $2500.
Hilarious ! They knock the guy out, but he WALKS !! HILARIOUS !!
Perfecta!
Hay truck was transporting pot in another episode.
Why did the one bandit open the painting box, say, "This is worth $70,000 bucks", then proceed to slash it?
No hinges on that door when Mathews kicked it in 😮
"LOOKS like murder" NO KIDDING Sherlock! No kidding!
No handcuffs on those punks??
How many died fro smoking I wonder?
Watched as a child been a while
Paying to contact the operator?? I never had to . Today you don't pay to dial 911. 🎈🎈
911 is an emergency number. Otherwise, you pay for any phone service.
In those day the dime would be returned if you dialed the operator "0" thus free.
2:37 nice package.
Saw this on TV late last night, October 18. Thought I was the only one that noticed that "nice package" - nice to see I wasn't.
Jake
Dan Mathews was a one man SWAT team years before SWAT teams were invented.
I Love how the majority of the roadways are usually deserted during the crimes.😊
Pretty flimsy door ...
It's nice to be able to watch the early ones.
@13:54 "Unparalleled Bungling".