Super sleuth Dan "boss" Matthews. Greatest crime solver of all time. Da GOAT! I've never seen an episode where someone else solves the crime. What a man🤣
Bill: Is it?? I haven't watched TV since 2007 . . . I watch all these golden oldies, lone ranger, HPatrol, Hitchcock Presents, oh ... too many to mention and I just LOVE those tailfins ❤
You had an entire generation of men who learned discipline in the military and served. They carried that discipline and professionalism into and throughout their lives. Look at how the Detroit Auto manufacturing fell apart when those guys started retiring from their manufacturing jobs. Just an example
@@wb6162 I agree a lot with what you say. But Detroit auto manufacturing was doomed as gas guzzlers had to go and Japan met that need. Conscription was a good thing overall. Sadly many of our politicians used any and all deferments and excuses to not serve, bone spurs and all. The all volunteer army not only took away discipline, it took away the fellowship of serving together. But, your point is well taken. I volunteered, had 1-A draft status and #6 draft lottery number. That was the last year of the draft lottery as Nixon and Watergate and the debacle in Vietnam all came together to end the draft. I'm not sure that was a good move.
Wife: "We were wrong, Jerry, about the police." Dan: "I wish you'd tell that to a few million other people!" Sounds like something someone might say today, eh?
@@INDYOSKARS, Only police brutality if you're a communist liberal and a member of antifa and blm. I'm 70 and in my lifetime the times I've been stop by the police for traffic violations the cops have been respectful and polite to me. That's because I show them respect so they show respect back. There's nothing better than been a good law abiding citizen contrary to what liberal teachers and professors teach.
The exteriors in this episode (the shootout) were shot in Bronson Canyon, in the Hollywood Hills not too far from the Hollywood sign. It seems like every show if it runs long enough shoots an episode up there. God knows how many Star Trek and Mission: Impossible episodes were shot up there. There's a tunnel up there that looks like a mine entrance at one end and a cave at the other.
Bob Sutton: I can't help but wonder what the place of the shoot-out looks like today. All built-up, I expect. Reminds me of the place in The Invasion Of The Body Snatchers where Miles Bennell and Becky Driscoll run into the cave.
Here in Australia for a policemen to discharge his firearm its an absolute last resort and only if the police officer's life is is dire straits. It cannot be used to stop a fleeing fugitive. It results in a suspension, sometimes for months as an enquiry takes place. So our police are very good at running and hand to hand fighting. Gun battles are almost unheard of here. Very few criminals are armed because even being in possession of a handgun results in 5 years jail time. It's the same for knives. So random stop and searches are used a lot. Police here do not have to show probable cause to do this. Same for traffic stops. They can take your car apart if they want to. And that's the way we like it. Random stop and searches nets a surprising number of villains.
The general laws of physics time & space, just don't seem to apply in the Highway Patrol world. Dan requests his wife to be brought to the mountains and in less than 60 seconds she arrives, like magic!
That's hilarious! In another episode Dan tells his sidekick to ride with him, so he climbs in with Dan, abandoning his own CHP car blocking half the roadway! Does anyone remember the bad guys in the '57 Ford that loses its left front wheel cover while being chased by the CHP? Apparently, the CHP was so slow, the bad guys had plenty of time to pull over, look for the wheel cover, put it back on the car, and still outrun the CHP! My gawd, this was a fun, wonderful show with all the great cars, but it was so terribly low budget, all the faux pas were as funny as any of the embarrassing quips Donald Trump comes up with.
I think the scriptwriter was aware of the problem. He had Mathews relax slightly and say "Mrs Singleton should be here now" in a way that suggests we were supposed to believe they were all up in the hills and rocks on a stand-off for a while. You can't have a stand-off in real time in a TV show - viewers will get bored and change channel.
yes I've always thought that was stupid-- I drove a number of old cars on dirt roads and it's impossible to make the tires squeal, you need a smooth, hard glass-like substance like asphalt to get the friction.
It was a California Highway Patrolman who arrested serial killer Harvey Murray Glatman. He was coming off patrol on his motorcycle and just happened to be in the right place at the right time. Glatman was in the process of trying to kill his fourth victim. She refused to submit meekly to having her hands bound and took his gun away from him. The gun went off in the struggle, getting the attention of the officer. The young woman was both plucky and lucky.
It was also a Highway Patrolman who raped & killed Cara Knott in Northern San Diego County along I-15 after a late night pull-over that wasn't called in to dispatch. Investigators tied him to other rapes using same M/O in the same spot along I-15, a dark secluded underpass, always at night. LedHed Steven 🎶 🎸 🎹 🎸 🎶
Mopars of the early 50s may have been well engineered but they didn't sell. They looked too much like early post-war cars. The 1955 Forward Look changed that. Notice how different the 1958 Dodges that the cops drove looked compared to Jerry's '53 Plymouth. Like night and day!
If this is a true story then he undoubtedly did return to prison, and for a good stretch. Even though it was caused by his misconceptions of his future, and being forced into the mess by the blackmailer, he nevertheless tried killing cops and also did a real holdup. Sad, but that's how it would be.
@@JohnSmith-bw8xv no doubt Jerry was made for prison, he's not a clear thinker and he's a cop hater, felon taking a gun of someone that he fought with and was shot with that same gun. the guy has only one posible future as a democrat politician lie and just keep lieing!
@@hemipower3308 his China connection, i.e. Feinstein, and how our trade with CHina has yeilded us so much, not. their our sworn enemies and so are democrats.
The last show that Broderick Crawford was in Chips. John and Ponch pulled him over. Ponch told John that Brodrick Crawford in the Briefing room Joe said any body that has Broderick Crawford's Gold pen return it back.
Crawford was in no fewer than 13 productions after the 1977 Chips role, the last being an episode of 'Simon & Simon' in 1982. He also hosted a Saturday Night Live in 1977.
Always liked this show. Straight forward, no nonsense. And the cars are awesome. My dad had a Plymouth just like the one in this movie. But I'm ancient born in 46. It pulled a trailer full of furniture from Texas all the way back to WI. No interstate yet, all state roads. Some hills were mighty steep. I remember dad shifting to second gear on some long hills. I could hear the car slowing down, then up would go the shifter to second gear till we reached the top and back to third. It didn't have lots of power but it was pretty rugged old car. Never broke down, never overheated even with four of us in the car and all our furniture in the trailer.
I wa a kid during this time in the fifties and it brings back memories of drivers getting out of the car on the passenger side. Those good old bench seats or were people too lazy to get out of the drivers side and walk around the car ?
I think you are full of it. Cars all had bench seats when I was a kid. And I never saw a single car driver enter or exit the vehicle from the passenger side. It's something Hollywood did to expedite filming. Cars were all rear wheel drive back then. And they had that hump in the floor that gave clearance for the driveshaft. You'd have to drag your legs over that to get in or out of the passenger side.
its a county issue once he left town, and highway patrol would have juisdiction. I get what your stating but the times they would not have over thought it as today with lawyers suing the police in every case as they do today. its all racism today. lawyers are the lowest as a meth dealer today.
Ha...I live in a little town of about 800...we have that many. An even smaller town about 12 miles from me, about 350 folks, had six..."6" units....all sitting somewhere on the four lane highway that passed through, all writing tickets until the attorney general started shutting down the speed traps. I dont consider these types real cops, most are sloppy fat and enjoy walking around with a duty belt on.
The moral of this episode is, the best way to deal with a felony record is not to get one in the first place. Don't ever commit a felonious crime. At worst, you'll end up dead (store owners shoot back); at best, you'll have a felony record dogging you all the remaining days of your life.
How come the cops don't wear their gunbelts in the office? Good episode. Jerry got an even break from Matthews [he's a square shooter]. By the way, the cae opening in Bronson Canyon was the exterior of the Batcave [the batmobile came out of it]. And Bronson Canyon was also used for some exteriors of The Adventures of Superman.
It's definitely a '58. The vent window is similar to the '57. For '59, the vent window changed to a more rounded curve at the top, which carried over into '60.
Final answer: Here we have a 1958 Mercury Park Lane convertible. Could have a 383 CID V8. Best would have been the Super Marauder V8 that is 430 CID and 400 BHP if it had the 3X2 barrels (six pack). The only year for that 400 HP engine.
I love these old shows. The people looked healthy (other than the smokers) and everyone was trim which was true in the general society. I especially love the cars but one thing young don’t realize about the old cars was they weren’t nearly as reliable as today’s vehicles. Rarely did you put over 100K miles on cars. It wasn’t unusual to get it your car and it not crank or if it did, it idled funny.
dan is funny. One episode he is ready to jail somebody for leaving the scene of an accident because they were scared, and in this one, he's ready to forgive a guy who just held up a drugstore and tried to kill him and his men.
How about, "I saw that! It was a black 4-door sedan with white sidewall tires!" in an earlier episode with a black '58 Chrysler 4-DHT. Oh, really? That should narrow it down! Garvey, get on the horn and broadcast all units to be on the lookout for a black 4-door sedan with white sidewall tires. They should be easy to spot in no time!
There was no 9-1-1. People had 'emergency numbers' displayed very close to (or on) their telephones and in every phone book. Rural residents knew who to call and for what. One could also dial (yes, dial) 'O' and get a live operator who knew which agencies covered which areas. No one asked 'Siri'.
Just got a good look at the .45 inside the drugstore. No threat. The hammer's down. How exactly Jerry arranged that is the only mystery in this episode.
Can anyone tell me why in the shows in the 50s and the early 60s they would get in the passenger side and slide over I have seen that on many shows I don't understand it
Bench seats, easy to get in and slide than go around. Also, when cars are parked on the street, the driver's side open into traffic. Safer to slide than get hit by a passing vehicle.
My elementary school teacher drove a car like that old Plymouth the ex-con was driving. It was red and several years old. One day she showed up in a blue car, just like the red one only a couple years newer but still pretty used. She seemed pretty proud of her...."new car". I think the grill was different.
Remember my dad and uncles on his side wearing those hats, thought it was so COOL to do that, so I asked fer one of my own and dad would let me wear his.......supervised of course!! Lol
I was around in the 1950's, It was considered bad manners to wear a hat inside. Perhaps it is supposed to convey Mathews' character as "I don't give a shit - I'm in charge here and I'm in a hurry. I give orders and you jump to it."
Nice guy, Jerry runs and leaves his wife to deal with the cops.Cops won't give an ex-con a break either. You just end up being on the top of the list, the first to be blamed. Self defense but he still got arrested and prosecuted.
I dont know for sure but a man that worked in production said it had a lot to do with early cameras used on TV sets with weight and focus limitations. If you notice, a lot of the 50's shows would remove the windshield glass because of the glare which could actually damage a camera. I worked in an educational station in the 60's and we couldnt wear anything that might have a bright reflection like a tie clip or badge. If it "flashed" reflected lights, very bright back then, it could burn something called a "vidicon tube" in the camera. And focusing was all manual and had to be practiced with instructions coming in your headphones like "pan left meaning just swivel the camera left or right , or truck left which was rolling the camera into a different position left, right, forward, backward....and focus in tight or focus out. The cameras by the way weighted a ton, or at least maybe a couple hundred pounds or more and hot as hell.
@@Theywaswrong Yeah and removed rear view mirrors, Like on the Andy Griffith show, They would scuff down, Or put on wax or something to the Paint on his cruiser, So it would not show the cameras and the reflection
An ex-con illegally carrying a gun, armed robbery at the pharmacy, shooting at the officers. Does it really matter that he did not kill the blackmailer? Not very fair to his wife, who remained incredibly loyal to him.
"Ken, if you were Singleton, what would you do?" Well, if I was Ken Singleton, I'd probably learn to hit from both sides of the plate, play in the majors for about fifteen years then become an announcer for about thirty more. 😋
@@michaelquarry7454 Close, no cigar: The original Batmobile was the 'Futura', a one - off 'dream car' built by Ghia in Italy for Lincoln to be shown on the 1955 car show circuit. Dean Jeffries was approached in 1965 to build a 'Batmobile' and had designed and begun work on a 1959 Cadillac derived version. When it became apparent that the Cadillac derived Batmobile would not be ready in time for the shooting schedule, George Barris got the job. Barris was already in possession of the 1955 Futura and had his team redesign and modify it. Barris patented the design. Three copies were made for stunt shoots, etc. on stretched (11") Ford Galaxy chassis with fiberglass bodies molded from #1.
Yes they did really put up road blocks. I was traveling with my aunt which had 9 kids we were stopped by a road block. They made every kid show their faces and remove all blankets to variety an escaped convict wasn’t in our car. The officers were very firm when they said LOCK ALL DOORS AND DO NOT PICK UP ANY HITCH HIKERS!
You said it, brother! I was born in 1952 but the spirit of the 50s lasted well into the early 60s and I feel privileged to have experienced that wonderful time even as a kid. Men were men, women were women and we all loved and were proud of this country.
Notice, also, he's been doing a lot of riding instead of driving. That's no coincidence. Crawford had so many DUIs, the DMV suspended his license and he was prohibited from driving on any public roadways, even during filming.
Dan Matthews remains to this day the undisputed king of roadblocks.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂!!!!!! Let's get a roadblock around this comment!!!!
And don't forget drawing wild circles and X's on a wall map..
By shear numbers, if not effectiveness.
Super sleuth Dan "boss" Matthews. Greatest crime solver of all time. Da GOAT! I've never seen an episode where someone else solves the crime. What a man🤣
Roadblocks that never cause a traffic jam!
This show is far and away better than the garbage on TV today.
Bill: Is it?? I haven't watched TV since 2007 . . . I watch all these golden oldies, lone ranger, HPatrol, Hitchcock Presents, oh ... too many to mention and I just LOVE those tailfins ❤
Wonderful show every time! 50's were awesome!
50’s were certainly awesome - that is when I was born!!!! 🥰🥰🥰
When I watch shows like these, I wonder if all the "advancements" and "technology" are worth everything we have given up as human beings. Great show.
bovnyccc operalover NO !
Seems like things were easier back then ,I say
life was better
You had an entire generation of men who learned discipline in the military and served. They carried that discipline and professionalism into and throughout their lives. Look at how the Detroit Auto manufacturing fell apart when those guys started retiring from their manufacturing jobs. Just an example
No computers or Google or servalance cameras needed here! Just telephones, radios, and maps! This is how we got along without them, using our brains!
@@wb6162 I agree a lot with what you say. But Detroit auto manufacturing was doomed as gas guzzlers had to go and Japan met that need. Conscription was a good thing overall. Sadly many of our politicians used any and all deferments and excuses to not serve, bone spurs and all. The all volunteer army not only took away discipline, it took away the fellowship of serving together. But, your point is well taken. I volunteered, had 1-A draft status and #6 draft lottery number. That was the last year of the draft lottery as Nixon and Watergate and the debacle in Vietnam all came together to end the draft. I'm not sure that was a good move.
Awww..the classic beautiful automobiles in those shows.. 😲 wow.
I love it when the good guys and bad guys are distinct.
Mathews having a good smoke. Imagine those days!
Even ritzy people smoked back then. It was considered elegant. Today only losers and deadbeats smoke.
Imagine Cancer
That and the alcohol and aphetimines tore ol brodrick up
@Scott-ly2nk, what was he taking the aphetimines for?
I just pray that those '58 Dodges are still in existence .. !! Can you just imagine??
Not even in a "junkyard", we're getting older every day, aren't we!
The Dodge would be rusted out by now. They had a serious rust issue back then.
First car I bought, but not my first car, was a 1959 Dodge Coronet four door, push button automatic of course and 4-60 air conditioning.
@@mdnealy4097 Yes, but NOT in California!
@Brian Salomon The '57 and '58 Dodges were identical. Only thing they did to the '58 was add that ugly damned grill.
Dave was heavy on the maps just like a 60s weather man on tv with that glass board and that marker pen
Wife: "We were wrong, Jerry, about the police."
Dan: "I wish you'd tell that to a few million other people!"
Sounds like something someone might say today, eh?
Thing is though.... you get good and bad people on both sides of law.
Lol, well the words ´police brutality´ came into my mind when she uttered those words.
INDY OSKARS What about criminal brutality? If everyone just obeyed the law there’d be no need for police.
@@INDYOSKARS, Only police brutality if you're a communist liberal and a member of antifa and blm. I'm 70 and in my lifetime the times I've been stop by the police for traffic violations the cops have been respectful and polite to me. That's because I show them respect so they show respect back. There's nothing better than been a good law abiding citizen contrary to what liberal teachers and professors teach.
@@INDYOSKARS How about criminal brutality? More of that; much more of that.
The exteriors in this episode (the shootout) were shot in Bronson Canyon, in the Hollywood Hills not too far from the Hollywood sign. It seems like every show if it runs long enough shoots an episode up there. God knows how many Star Trek and Mission: Impossible episodes were shot up there. There's a tunnel up there that looks like a mine entrance at one end and a cave at the other.
+Bob Sutton Glad I found your comment. I've been wondering about that location for years. Yes! So many shows, from so many series. thanks
Bob Sutton: I can't help but wonder what the place of the shoot-out looks like today. All built-up, I expect. Reminds me of the place in The Invasion Of The Body Snatchers where Miles Bennell and Becky Driscoll run into the cave.
I used to see, the tunnel near Griffith park from the movies I saw back in Chicago.(my home town),,and Hello Chicago.thx
they filmed from the cave mine in a HP episode called copter cave in
Another HWP episode called "The Prospector" was not only shot up there but in almost the same exact location.
They Also Use Chevy Bel Air Cop Cars Wow.I Grew Up In That Generation. My Favorite Car Till This Day.1955-1957❤
Crawford manages to eventually point his revolver at every actor on the set.
Lol
And yet... he killed fewer people than Alec Baldwin
It's perfectly safe. His guns are loaded with blanks LOL!!
As Alec Baldwin would say...
yes prior to alec baldwin !!!
Here in Australia for a policemen to discharge his firearm its an absolute last resort and only if the police officer's life is is dire straits. It cannot be used to stop a fleeing fugitive. It results in a suspension, sometimes for months as an enquiry takes place. So our police are very good at running and hand to hand fighting. Gun battles are almost unheard of here.
Very few criminals are armed because even being in possession of a handgun results in 5 years jail time. It's the same for knives. So random stop and searches are used a lot. Police here do not have to show probable cause to do this. Same for traffic stops. They can take your car apart if they want to. And that's the way we like it. Random stop and searches nets a surprising number of villains.
Can’t stop watching these
The general laws of physics time & space, just don't seem to apply in the Highway Patrol world. Dan requests his wife to be brought to the mountains and in less than 60 seconds she arrives, like magic!
That's hilarious!
In another episode Dan tells his sidekick to ride with him, so he climbs in with Dan, abandoning his own CHP car blocking half the roadway!
Does anyone remember the bad guys in the '57 Ford that loses its left front wheel cover while being chased by the CHP? Apparently, the CHP was so slow, the bad guys had plenty of time to pull over, look for the wheel cover, put it back on the car, and still outrun the CHP!
My gawd, this was a fun, wonderful show with all the great cars, but it was so terribly low budget, all the faux pas were as funny as any of the embarrassing quips Donald Trump comes up with.
I think the scriptwriter was aware of the problem. He had Mathews relax slightly and say "Mrs Singleton should be here now" in a way that suggests we were supposed to believe they were all up in the hills and rocks on a stand-off for a while.
You can't have a stand-off in real time in a TV show - viewers will get bored and change channel.
Its tv 📺
I like how the tires squeal on the dirt roads..for the life of me, I can't make mine do that. Maybe I got the wrong tires.
Those old cars were different, Thay Would do that, They are also Tough, Like my car now, i wouldnt do those kind of things.
yes I've always thought that was stupid-- I drove a number of old cars on dirt roads and it's impossible to make the tires squeal, you need a smooth, hard glass-like substance like asphalt to get the friction.
Many car refinements in the next few years, including squealess dirt road tires, an option of course!!
@@fighterjock2 haha!
@@BETTERWORLDSGT Back then it was crossply tyres - not radials like we have now
Good episode. Thank you for uploading.
It was a California Highway Patrolman who arrested serial killer Harvey Murray Glatman. He was coming off patrol on his motorcycle and just happened to be in the right place at the right time. Glatman was in the process of trying to kill his fourth victim. She refused to submit meekly to having her hands bound and took his gun away from him. The gun went off in the struggle, getting the attention of the officer. The young woman was both plucky and lucky.
It was also a Highway Patrolman who raped & killed Cara Knott in Northern San Diego County along I-15 after a late night pull-over that wasn't called in to dispatch. Investigators tied him to other rapes using same M/O in the same spot along I-15, a dark secluded underpass, always at night.
LedHed Steven 🎶 🎸 🎹 🎸 🎶
A Pharmacist is just like a Doctor, here to help anyone ... wow how times have changed!
One of the few old cop shows that could be re made today.
I like that 53 Plymouth, my dad had one like that flathead 6, 3 speed on the column.
Not fast but good dependable transportation.
Mopars of the early 50s may have been well engineered but they didn't sell. They looked too much like early post-war cars. The 1955 Forward Look changed that. Notice how different the 1958 Dodges that the cops drove looked compared to Jerry's '53 Plymouth. Like night and day!
Really good episode--nice to see someone not have to go back to the pen.
+Steve K ehhhh I don't think he was trying to kill Broderick Crawford...let's make it 10-15 shall we??
If this is a true story then he undoubtedly did return to prison, and for a good stretch. Even though it was caused by his misconceptions of his future, and being forced into the mess by the blackmailer, he nevertheless tried killing cops and also did a real holdup. Sad, but that's how it would be.
@@JohnSmith-bw8xv no doubt Jerry was made for prison, he's not a clear thinker and he's a cop hater, felon taking a gun of someone that he fought with and was shot with that same gun. the guy has only one posible future as a democrat politician lie and just keep lieing!
Gary 37RN He probably spent 35 years in Congress and retired a multi millionaire from all the stealing and bribes.
@@hemipower3308 his China connection, i.e. Feinstein, and how our trade with CHina has yeilded us so much, not. their our sworn enemies and so are democrats.
Beautiful miss Jewell Lain.🥰
That first policeman that found Jerry's car must have been at least 75 years old.
where was the first policeman's car?
He did seem somewhat elderly.
and was supposed to hold position
EEOC! Don't knock it.
@@alexkije I don't think they had EEOC back then.
They love their roadblocks.
And maps.
This show was much better than Dragnet.
Equally good.. Glad both exist more variety.
10-4 to that....10-50 By.
I like Brod over Jack Webb.
Generally so, but Dragnet identified the car by make, model, color, and true Cali. license #
@@Glinkaism1 Cmon, they both are unique
Had a 2 door model of that Plymouth, the Cranbrook model. Some good time cruising VN Blvd. Also popular and used by Valley Cab in LA.
The last show that Broderick Crawford was in Chips. John and Ponch pulled him over. Ponch told John that Brodrick Crawford in the Briefing room Joe said any body that has Broderick Crawford's Gold pen return it back.
ruclips.net/video/Y5t-AKbX4Ks/видео.html
Crawford was in no fewer than 13 productions after the 1977 Chips role, the last being an episode of 'Simon & Simon' in 1982. He also hosted a Saturday Night Live in 1977.
Wonderful show.
This was a good episode
Always liked this show. Straight forward, no nonsense. And the cars are awesome.
My dad had a Plymouth just like the one in this movie. But I'm ancient born in 46. It pulled a trailer full of furniture from Texas all the way back to WI. No interstate yet, all state roads. Some hills were mighty steep. I remember dad shifting to second gear on some long hills. I could hear the car slowing down, then up would go the shifter to second gear till we reached the top and back to third. It didn't have lots of power but it was pretty rugged old car. Never broke down, never overheated even with four of us in the car and all our furniture in the trailer.
Love Thar Covetable In The Beginning Of Each Episode ❤
LOVE THE CARS !....////
1958 Buick Highway Patrol Car My Favorite ❤❤❤❤
My Dad Looked Like Dan Matthews Even Dressed Like That On His Day Off From Work❤❤❤❤❤
Another great episode. The glam blonde wife was a dead ringer for Janet Leigh. Maybe she was a stand in for the Psycho shower scene !! 🙋♂️👏👏🇬🇧
I wa a kid during this time in the fifties and it brings back memories of drivers getting out of the car on the passenger side.
Those good old bench seats or were people too lazy to get out of the drivers side and walk around the car ?
People weren't lazy in the 1950's
I think you are full of it. Cars all had bench seats when I was a kid. And I never saw a single car driver enter or exit the vehicle from the passenger side. It's something Hollywood did to expedite filming. Cars were all rear wheel drive back then. And they had that hump in the floor that gave clearance for the driveshaft. You'd have to drag your legs over that to get in or out of the passenger side.
It took 3 days to walk around those boats.
I think it was also done so as to not get out in traffic.
DMV rule was to get in and out on the passenger side for safety reasons. It's not for Hollywood reasons.
Jewell Lain was 27 here.87 now.
@24:54 "he's gonna be alright, he just lost lot's of blood"
Why Do they ask for Highway patrol instead of the Police..Well of course we wouldn't have a show if they called the police,but it's kind of funny..
its a county issue once he left town, and highway patrol would have juisdiction. I get what your stating but the times they would not have over thought it as today with lawyers suing the police in every case as they do today. its all racism today. lawyers are the lowest as a meth dealer today.
Gary 37RN Racism,tho one word lunatic liberals rely on.
Good point.
@@gary37rn84 What?
The highway patrol is the police so it shouldn’t matter
When I was working in the 80's we only had 3 units for the entire city of 25,000.
Ha...I live in a little town of about 800...we have that many. An even smaller town about 12 miles from me, about 350 folks, had six..."6" units....all sitting somewhere on the four lane highway that passed through, all writing tickets until the attorney general started shutting down the speed traps. I dont consider these types real cops, most are sloppy fat and enjoy walking around with a duty belt on.
Too bad Jerry is now guilty of attempted murder of a police officer with a deadly weapon.
Jerry is a dumb criminal and probably will do another 20yrs given the times.
@@gary37rn84 Yep he went back to the pen. Not a happy ending.
Jerry this is Marge........ARE YOU SURE IT'S YOU???? That would have been perfect.
Patrick Woulfe AGGBATTLEO with intent in my state.
They might write it off and refuse to charge him as he was such a bad shot that they could say he was trying to scare them away.
The moral of this episode is, the best way to deal with a felony record is not to get one in the first place. Don't ever commit a felonious crime. At worst, you'll end up dead (store owners shoot back); at best, you'll have a felony record dogging you all the remaining days of your life.
In Today's world, Jerry would have had more holes in him than Dan has Roadblocks.
This Broderick Crawford saying "It's not what you drink, It's how you drive when you drink it'
😁👌
His wife sure showed up at the final scene super quick !
She did? Who played her ?
Luckily she wasn't taking a bath 😂
She had planned her day around disposing of the body, after deciding to call the cops she had a few hours free.
They had to have her show up fast. It’s only a 30 minute show.
That’s also why Mathews talks so fast. So little time.
I liked Singleton’s car, different from all those large Sedan’s that kept seeing in HP.
The car from the first officer on the scene seems to have disappeared. If it is still out there, I want it.
How come the cops don't wear their gunbelts in the office? Good episode. Jerry got an even break from Matthews [he's a square shooter]. By the way, the cae opening in Bronson Canyon was the exterior of the Batcave [the batmobile came out of it]. And Bronson Canyon was also used for some exteriors of The Adventures of Superman.
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS--THE ORIGINAL
Good call!
5:47, this character actor appeared in the episode THE TRAIL GANG of Bonanza.
A '58 Mercury ragtop, I like it. Now that's the first time I've seen that car in this series.
I believe it's a 59, by the grill & tail light.
It's definitely a '58. The vent window is similar to the '57. For '59, the vent window changed to a more rounded curve at the top, which carried over into '60.
@@billdescoteaux Definitely a 58. The 59's were completely redesigned.
Not a Pontiac ❓
Final answer: Here we have a 1958 Mercury Park Lane convertible. Could have a 383 CID V8. Best would have been the Super Marauder V8 that is 430 CID and 400 BHP if it had the 3X2 barrels (six pack). The only year for that 400 HP engine.
24:54 "He's gonna be alright...he just lost a lot of blood..." They don't make Humans like that anymore ! 😆😆😆😆
I love these old shows. The people looked healthy (other than the smokers) and everyone was trim which was true in the general society.
I especially love the cars but one thing young don’t realize about the old cars was they weren’t nearly as reliable as today’s vehicles. Rarely did you put over 100K miles on cars. It wasn’t unusual to get it your car and it not crank or if it did, it idled funny.
That's a lovely 1953 Plymouth Cranbrook
Dan Always Gets His Man❤
All The cop Cars Are Different Makes And Years.1958 Split Windows ❤
dan is funny. One episode he is ready to jail somebody for leaving the scene of an accident because they were scared, and in this one, he's ready to forgive a guy who just held up a drugstore and tried to kill him and his men.
He did not hold up the drugstore. He left the pharmacist what he owed the pharmacist.
Back then drivers liked getting in and out using the passenger side door!
It ISN'T WHAT you DRIVE, but HOW YOU DRIVE THAT COUNTS!
I like how when they identify the car as a four door sedan black in color. Never mentioning the make or model.
How about, "I saw that! It was a black 4-door sedan with white sidewall tires!" in an earlier episode with a black '58 Chrysler 4-DHT.
Oh, really? That should narrow it down! Garvey, get on the horn and broadcast all units to be on the lookout for a black 4-door sedan with white sidewall tires. They should be easy to spot in no time!
I wonder how many times, during an emergency, somebody called the operator and said "Get me the highway patrol"?...It has to be few or next to none.
In those good old days we called the Chips.
There was no 9-1-1. People had 'emergency numbers' displayed very close to (or on) their telephones and in every phone book. Rural residents knew who to call and for what. One could also dial (yes, dial) 'O' and get a live operator who knew which agencies covered which areas.
No one asked 'Siri'.
Back then, you could call the real CHP from anywhere in Cali by dialing or asking the "O" operator for ZEnith 1-2000.
Jerry may be stupid, but he's brave. Did you see how he stuffed that cocked .45 Browning 1911 in his pants? No fear, Cahuna!
Just got a good look at the .45 inside the drugstore. No threat. The hammer's down. How exactly Jerry arranged that is the only mystery in this episode.
Great show. But how do you make a cop show continuously in the middle of nowhere? 🤣
Ken is the son that Broderick never had. He is a combination apprentice/protege. Instead of barking out orders, Broderick asks Ken for his opinion.
“Hey, I probably oughta call my work and let them know I’ll be a few hours late…”
Hate those nosy Pharmacist's always asking questions prying into your business, just give him some sulfa for Christ sakes!!
Why did she ask for the Highway patrol and not the police? This did not happen on any highway.
53 Plymouth, very interesting..
We had 1 in 1954
Can anyone tell me why in the shows in the 50s and the early 60s they would get in the passenger side and slide over I have seen that on many shows I don't understand it
Bench seats, easy to get in and slide than go around. Also, when cars are parked on the street, the driver's side open into traffic. Safer to slide than get hit by a passing vehicle.
Check out the old Frigidaire in the background at 8:00.
"show you want to surrender by firing two shots" - That will not work today but maybe 1956!
Cops are AFRAID of shooting the bad guys today. Afraid of being sued or serving a longer sentence than the baddie.
1958.
They used the same car for the guy who found the car and the one Mathews came in with. No officer car in the background. Budget,ha ha.
My elementary school teacher drove a car like that old Plymouth the ex-con was driving. It was red and several years old. One day she showed up in a blue car, just like the red one only a couple years newer but still pretty used. She seemed pretty proud of her...."new car". I think the grill was different.
Love how Crawford is working in his office while still wearing his fedora.
Remember my dad and uncles on his side wearing those hats, thought it was so COOL to do that, so I asked fer one of my own and dad would let me wear his.......supervised of course!! Lol
Men looked great in fedoras, it beats the hell out of backward baseball caps.
He looks silly.
I was around in the 1950's, It was considered bad manners to wear a hat inside. Perhaps it is supposed to convey Mathews' character as "I don't give a shit - I'm in charge here and I'm in a hurry. I give orders and you jump to it."
Lots of dusty roads in those hills. Houses all over those hills now, and hard materials on the roads.
I find it interesting that they (the driver), gets in the car on the passenger side.
Why do so many film shootings shoot into the stomach instead of the chest?
Depends on where the actor being shot clutches himself.
Nice guy, Jerry runs and leaves his wife to deal with the cops.Cops won't give an ex-con a break either. You just end up being on the top of the list, the first to be blamed. Self defense but he still got arrested and prosecuted.
Probably because he took the gun and ran, then engaged in a shootout with the cops...
Left wife with the dead body.
Why are all the cruisers coupes?
I don’t remember as a kid growing up in the 50’s drivers getting in cars from the passenger side like shown in this series...
I dont know for sure but a man that worked in production said it had a lot to do with early cameras used on TV sets with weight and focus limitations. If you notice, a lot of the 50's shows would remove the windshield glass because of the glare which could actually damage a camera. I worked in an educational station in the 60's and we couldnt wear anything that might have a bright reflection like a tie clip or badge. If it "flashed" reflected lights, very bright back then, it could burn something called a "vidicon tube" in the camera. And focusing was all manual and had to be practiced with instructions coming in your headphones like "pan left meaning just swivel the camera left or right , or truck left which was rolling the camera into a different position left, right, forward, backward....and focus in tight or focus out. The cameras by the way weighted a ton, or at least maybe a couple hundred pounds or more and hot as hell.
@@Theywaswrong Yeah and removed rear view mirrors, Like on the Andy Griffith show, They would scuff down, Or put on wax or something to the Paint on his cruiser, So it would not show the cameras and the reflection
That was common in films going back to the 1930s. I have never seen anyone do that in real time, either.
"He'll be okay.....he just lost a lot of blood."
As long as no one got hurt
But people can die from blood loss.
Awww he can walk it off
Husband is wrong. Stick around an fight it. Only then you’ll be truly free
An ex-con illegally carrying a gun, armed robbery at the pharmacy, shooting at the officers. Does it really matter that he did not kill the blackmailer? Not very fair to his wife, who remained incredibly loyal to him.
It's her own fault for hanging around or getting married to a thug.
I like the hold up guy say I want to pay for it I am in enough trouble already lol
"Ken, if you were Singleton, what would you do?" Well, if I was Ken Singleton, I'd probably learn to hit from both sides of the plate, play in the majors for about fifteen years then become an announcer for about thirty more. 😋
You've got plans?
wasnt that the batmobile flying down that road?
? ?? batmobile was a 1956 Lincoln.
@@michaelquarry7454 Close, no cigar:
The original Batmobile was the 'Futura', a one - off 'dream car' built by Ghia in Italy for Lincoln to be shown on the 1955 car show circuit.
Dean Jeffries was approached in 1965 to build a 'Batmobile' and had designed and begun work on a 1959 Cadillac derived version.
When it became apparent that the Cadillac derived Batmobile would not be ready in time for the shooting schedule, George Barris got the job. Barris was already in possession of the 1955 Futura and had his team redesign and modify it. Barris patented the design.
Three copies were made for stunt shoots, etc. on stretched (11") Ford Galaxy chassis with fiberglass bodies molded from #1.
My only observation is that these episodes are totally sanitized and unrealistic. The crooks wear suits, and there is never any clutter or blood
Only ever 20 seconds away from radio report to arrival on scene.
Can any old timer tell me if they really used road blocks back then like they do in this show!?
Back then I only saw road blocks during the Christmas and New Year season, and that was to catch drunk drivers.
LoveAddict69 They still Do here in California,checking for impaired drivers.
Yes they did really put up road blocks. I was traveling with my aunt which had 9 kids we were stopped by a road block. They made every kid show their faces and remove all blankets to variety an escaped convict wasn’t in our car. The officers were very firm when they said LOCK ALL DOORS AND DO NOT PICK UP ANY HITCH HIKERS!
Yea they used them often as a perimeter after a crime was committed.
Yes, they did. In fact they had CHP doing roadblocks right up until 1970.
Why do the always enter from the passenger side?
The wife could be Dan's assitance, saying fire 2 shots in the air and throw the gun away.
It would have been funny if he only had one shot left.
Notice they only describe a car as sedan, coupe, 2 door, 4 door, etc the color and sometimes the year. Never make and model.
Man those were the days... sparse traffic, every child had mom and dad, people went to church, it was alright to smoke, and mostly white people.
You said it, brother! I was born in 1952 but the spirit of the 50s lasted well into the early 60s and I feel privileged to have experienced that wonderful time even as a kid. Men were men, women were women and we all loved and were proud of this country.
It was 100% white people on Highway Patrol.
Too many white people, where is everybody else? Matthew's lambasting everybody.2150-1004.👮🎥🚔
Why is the always an entry or exit on the passenger side!!!!!!! Steve
Why do these wives always tell the criminal that they are calling the police. They don't have to give the criminal that info. Just call the police!
19: 50 Where did 2342's car go and isn't time to retire, he looks as if he's approaching 75 years of age.
Starting at 19:20 is where the elderly policeman finds Jerry's car.
Don’t run, call police.
Dan Mathews never takes off his hat in this episode, he was covering up something on his forehead.👮🚓
Notice, also, he's been doing a lot of riding instead of driving. That's no coincidence. Crawford had so many DUIs, the DMV suspended his license and he was prohibited from driving on any public roadways, even during filming.
@@lancasterritzyescargotdine2602 Getting SO tired of About Brod's issues with the Bottle!
He was drunk and fell in his ass
Dan weres a cast on his foot in some of the episodes he fell out of a helicopter as it was landing
@@Scott-ly2nk Fell IN his ass?