Everyone analyzing the show content. As a nine year old in the fifties I was completely enthralled and loved every minute as everything was fresh on tv but now over seventy, i found myself pretty much doing the same thing, a analyzing.
I'm loving watching all these episodes of Highway Patrol. I don't know how many I saw, but a big thank you for bringing back my childhood memories. 10-4!
Broderick Crawford: *Leave your blood at the Red Cross, not on the highway.* That speaks volumes in today's age not only in California, but everywhere else across America.
@@derekgaliee4351 I grew up with it. It's not so much that I don't like it--I am no fan of John Wayne, either--as that this is the backdrop of my life. Not sure why that disqualifies me from commenting on it, but g'head. Tell me.
Office Cline should have known he needed backup. Should have told the men some story about stopping to check on them. Then got in his car and went back to his headquarters and reported to the Highway Patrol main unit to set up a raid.
back at those days persons did haved way more respect for cops and too cops thought it they could just haved respect for that badge. It was a time ofed innocence being lost
the outside of those dumb crooks' place looked cool. I'd like to see it. i'm certain the "bad lady" was another bad lady in another episode. now I'm really laughing HA HA - that EVIDENCE! this show is GREAT! thank you!
The people at large viewing this show in 1957 had mostly never seen marijuana, and barely heard about it. You could show them anything, and they wouldn't ask (m)any questions
many comments entirely miss the point of watching Highway Patrol; hint, it's not about the "story" the episodes are no less than an true slice of American history:Eisenhower years low budgets ensured authenticity; no sets no special effects; we can see what highways, motels, banks, homes, supermarkets etc really used to look like and what about those magnificent cars: Buicks, Chryslers, Mercurys etc ? obviously, in that thrifty age, no producer in his right mind would crash, burn or explode a perfectly good vehicle I certainly wish an automotive expert could take the time to identify the makes and models in each episode some surprisingly sexy young women, yet never even a hint of hanky-panky! it was a touch of genius to get an Oscar winner like Broderick Crawford as star; details of his personal life are entirely irrelevant in any analysis of cinema art other police shows had forgettable second raters like Jack Webb or Roger Smith half-hour format and little-known scriptwriters contributed to uncomplicated plots and down-to-earth emotional context?
I can tell you something about the cars if you're still around. For instance, that was a '56 Plymouth wagon that Mathews pulled the engine wires off. Actually, he only needed to pull the coil wire.
Absolutely, O Lost King of Zembla. I watch series like this for the "unwitting testimony" rather than for the stories, which are stereotypical, routine stuff. They are fascinating socio-historical documents - little time capsules of the era in which they were made.
Dan "Boss" Matthews just happened to be in the vicinity of the crime. What a man.. #1 crimebuster of all time from super heroes Superman Batman and Spider-Man to super sleuths in history Eliot Ness to Columbo, Dan "The Man" is the GOAT👺🤣
Potter: Good name for a guy trafficking in marijuana. Getting in and out of cars so many times in so many episodes must have taken its toll on Crawford.
That reminds me of a time in my youth when a scene for Cannon, an early 1970s 'cop show' was shot at the end of my street. Actor William Conrad got into and out of a new Lincoln several times (reshoots) and was sweating profusely. I don't know if I felt worse for him or the car, though, as that brand new Lincoln seemed to dive to the bottom of its springs when he threw himself into it and sprung back with relief as he heaved himself out.
They must have been selling marijuana plants don't look like nothing was ready to process except for getting the dirt off of them. They could have done a little better than that. Looks like they was pulling turnip greens for a minute or beets
Humans keep destroying area after area. First LA. Then Bay Area. Then Seattle. Now Portland. Sprawl sprawl and more sprawl. We are over-populating and building over every nice area.
For everyone who claimed the wife played Dottie Hinson in a League of their own,I think you're wrong, Geena Davis isn't old enough to have been in this.
@@JohnTSmith-jw2gq Actually they were, Just not on this show, And maybe a few others, You can watch dragnet, And they will name the car , Dodge, Pontiac, Whatever it is
Engine directly attached to the frame. Thus in a crash the engine was pushed back into the passenger section. Modern cars have engines on "Blocks" that in a crash "fail" causing the engine to drop onto the road not into the passenger compartment. Another factor is the "roll bar", that prevents the passenger compartment from collapsing. Easy to install on sedans, but not coupes, hardtops or convertibles. Thus true coupes and hardtops died out in the 1970s do to this regulation. Convertibles, Trucks and SUVs did NOT come under that regulation and thus death traps in any roll over. Given lawsuits since the regulation was adopted, Convertibles all but died out (Air Conditioning was another factor). Trucks and SUVs started to have them installed after 2000. Jeep started to install and only sell Jeeps with a roll bar in the 1970s do to lawsuits do to the fact that rollbar can mean the difference between dead people crushed by their own vehicle in a roll over or those same people walking away from such a roll over. Another regulations adopted in the late 1960s was the collapsible sterring wheel column. In the 1950s, many people died when in an accident as the steering wheel crushed them against their own seat as the column itself was pushed backward. As to seatbelts, only required in 1967 model year, that regulation also required marking lights on the side of an automobile. Prior to that date not required. When I sold replacement glass for Automobiles my office had some very old books showing the glass sizes for cars since the 1920s. The newer books did not list glass parts for cars older then 30 years, thus my office kept some of the older books to find out what car took what glass. All of the older cars used flat glass, but the book had a comment under each glass that it had to be safety glass IN THOSE STATES THAT REQUIRED SAFETY GLASS. Till 1967 the regulation were set by each state, and some states had no regulations. Thus plate glass was legal in some states as late as 1967. You can cut Plate Glass and Laminated glass to size, but only Laminated glass will not shatter. Thus only laminated glass is a "Safety glass". Another problem with those old cars killed off by modern regulations is all metal gloveboxes of the 1950s. Such glove boxes, in an accident, would fail and open up cutting into whoever was behind the glove box. The Feds required all glove boxes to be designed to prevent it going flat when opened AND had a double latch so if one failed the other would still function (This regulation also appiled to all doors except trunks and rear door in a station wagon, SUV, van or other vehicle that had a door that passengers did not sit beside). The huge bodies of the 1950s and 1960s had to do more with air flow within the vehicle then safety. A vehicle with air flow, even when the windows are rolled up, is much more comfortable then a vehicle with no air flow. Thus cars of the 1950s and 1960s had huge air vents beside the leg compartments of the Driver and Passenger sides. You could shut the vents off but if the vehicle was moving and the vents were open you could be very comfortable even in high Tempertures. Stopped at a red light you roasted, but moving you were comfortable even with the windows up. Air Conditioning killed off the needs for such vents (in the 1960s in was recommended you buy after market Air Conditioning for with factory installed Air Conditioning the vents were sealed and could not be used, but with after market Air Conditioning you had a car with both vents and Air Conditioning). In the 1970s, cars started to be designed around Air Conditioning, thus the old vents were no longer designed into automobiles. Thus modern automobiles need Air Conditioning for they are designed around every one having Air Conditioning. This permitted automobiles to no longer needing the hugh baffles that permitted air flow into the passenger compartment. This permited the outside of the Vehicles to become smaller, as the interior room actually increased. The gas crisis of the 1970s accelerated this change, but the change predated the energy crisis of 1973. It was Air Conditioning that saw cars become smaller on the outside, but became larger inside. With Air Conditioning you no longer needed the huge baffles to get air flow inside the passenger compartment. Thus modern cars are smaller on the outside but with more interior room then the same size car of the 1950s. Furthermore modern cars are safer, get better fuel economy and as fast as cars of the 1950s.
@@paulmentzer7658" Thus modern cars are smaller on the outside but with more interior room then the same size car of the 1950s." All modern cars are sturdier than equivalently sized old cars. Modern cars have bigger and fatter tires too. Look at the Fiat 500s and VW beetles, how they have become bigger, though retaining the same name. Medium-sized cars of the 50's look flimsier than their modern homologues, as well. And what about those gas-guzzling SUV behemoths, making up 60% of US-registered cars? Even a car professional can have a wrong perception, as this one. The only things true about modern cars are: more safe, more fuel efficient, and more ergonomic with an electronic dashboard, , like a "glass cockpit" airliner.
this episode is one that bothers me a lot, I don't know why but maybe is a bothersome story I guess a killed police officer, weed pushers even in those days it was so prevalent!
Some states have such rules, mostly to avoid accusations of abuse of state property. Other states permit private use on the grounds having a patrol car being seen gives citizens an increased feeling of law enforcement. Some jurisdictions required officers to buy their patrol cars and reimburse them miliage, very rare nowadays but done in the 1950s. Such personal purchase of equipment was more common with firearms then cars. Such requirements on the decline since Congress outlawed buying new automatic weapons in 1986 (i.e. officers can no longer buy automatic firearms thus requiring them to do so makes acquiring such firearms impossible except if the actual police department obtain the weapons) and Reagan's change of the tax laws that made use of a Government vehicle for private use taxable income.
There was a resident officer and a CHP house on US395 just south of devil's gate. Used to see that guy driving his patrol car while he was out of uniform. Didn't look like he was on duty to me. I think the CHP has ended that program. At least I hear the devil's gate officer is gone and the CHP sold the house. Is just as well, there are popular hot springs a couple of miles from the house and I hear he used to dish out a lot of grief to the bathers that used the springs.
@@paulmentzer7658 ...When we first moved into our neighborhood, the guy next door was an officer and having his squad car there at night sure did make me feel safe. Too bad his wife kicked him out a few months later and divorced him.
You havent seen neither marihuana leaes or banana leaves. This isnt marihuana leaves, but it is leaves from a legal plant with extremely look- a like leaves, I just dont know what it is called in english!
Worst episode ever. This would have been better if the writers knew anything about the subject. But then it was the 60's and 'Reefer Madness' was forefront.
Wonder what ole Dan Matthews would say about marijuana being legal today. The rest of the Nation needs to catch up with the other half and legalize it in all 50 states,not just a few.
Matthew I don't have anything loaded on here. I have no idea how or I might. I am on facebook,and if you look, I am the Helen Kruse in Cassatt,South Carolina. You can write me at hkruse@bellsouth.net if you want. Maybe because I don't have anything loaded here you can't write I'm not sure. Either one I gave you I can be reached at. Hope you have a wonderful day my friend.
Matthew Could be. The entertainment community was known for feeding their head.Then it branched out as everything does. I doubt he smoked,but then again who knows. When I was younger,everyone was shocked to find I partied.haha I wore slacks,pant suits, heels, not a hair out of place,make~up on, and I am a Hippie from way back.haha To this day,I don't look like I would smoke weed,yet I do. :)
ZoneFighter1 Those who are bone idle are not that way from smoking a little pot. Our Nations Founding Fathers and the ones who wrote our United States Constitution ALL smoked marijuana. They all smoked it back then. For years it grew wild along the Potomac and it took the Feds a long time to irradicate it. So, were the men like George Washington, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and the rest drug addicted imbeciles? You tell me.
ZoneFighter1 Look it up. They ordered farmers to grow it too not just to smoke, but for the fibers too. When you find it and read it for yourself, let me know. It is true. Oh, my late Husband who was 45 when he passed from cancer in 2004 smoked it too. It also helped him with the chemo when the meds specifically for chemo nausea didn't. He was one of the BEST brickmasons in the Jacksonville,Florida quad county area,and thensome. We had a small masonry company, raised a daughter, helped out community, and our Daughter had A-B honour roll from K-12th grade never missing. We smoked,but didn't drink,and anyone doing any drugs were to stay away from us. Marijuana is a seed bearing herb given to us by Our Father, and given with His Blessing. It's ok to legalize same sex marriage when Our Father gave us marriage, and Our Father condemns that, but something He gave to us with His Blessing is against the law? I'm sorry but Our Father's Laws and Rules trump any of Man's laws.
Ok it may work for some people and for other's it may not that's what so wonderful about this country we live in I've tried cbd oil candy it didn't help me at all after the clerk told me what all it could do i was hopeful now it maybe different if people try it in other ways don't know and it might just not be for me too each there own but i did say lol that stands for laugh out loud i hope they do legalize it for the ones it may work for
Candace Gladden Not all medicines work for everyone. even drinking, I don't drink, I don't like the room spinning around. haha I will have an occasional glass of wine,but my thing is marijuana. It helps me relax, helps with my pain and helps me sleep when pain and pain meds keep me awake.
I have anklosing spondylitis,spinal stnosis,ddd,djd. Hell I'm falling apart at 47 I'm not knocking it just not my bag like i said the cbd oil candy maybe different then the real thing i just don't want to walk in the kitchen and forget what the hell i went in there for
Greed took over those thieves. If they would have waited 70 years they could have harvested and sold that weed legally in the medical and recreational marijuana market. That’s what impatience and going for the quick buck does.
This is a hybrid. This is a cross, ah, of Bluegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and Northern California Sinsemilla. The amazing stuff about this is, that you can play 36 holes on it in the afternoon, take it home and just get stoned to the bejeezus-belt that night on this stuff. - Carl Spackler
After Matthews steps out of the marijuana grow and then he calls headquarters "headquarters far out man!" "I'm waiting for Dave, also send me a box of cookies and and pizza, Headquarters- "need anything else?" Matthews- " yeah man tell them to bring their own water pipe man"
This episode is completely nuts! Mathews, by himself, puts two known dangerous & desperate crims in the back of his car. He doesn't even handcuff them. Highway Patrol shows always have a pretty girl as one of the crims - must be for eye candy for any dads watching with their young son. A rarity in real life back in the 1950's. The USA must be a funny place. A cop went hunting with a rifle on private property within sight of a farmhouse, without first checking with the residents. Harvesting the pot was weird. How times have changed. Nobody seems to care about marijuana now. Not the cops. Amphetamines are a much bigger problem for them - pot is a sedative, makes people harmless. Amphetamines make people violent.
It stinks and I'm allergic to the smell, the same as I am with cigarettes. That's all I know about pot. And so I guess I'd gladly help old Dan catch the pot peddlers, just so long as he didn't smoke in front of me.
If you pay attention towards the end, when he reads the trucks license plate number, he also gives another license plate number two different license plate numbers on the same vehicle
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Everyone analyzing the show content. As a nine year old in the fifties I was completely enthralled and loved every minute as everything was fresh on tv but now over seventy, i found myself pretty much doing the same thing, a analyzing.
I'm loving watching all these episodes of Highway Patrol. I don't know how many I saw, but a big thank you for bringing back my childhood memories. 10-4!
_" 10 - 4 "_ to you 😚👌
"Joe WAS an awful good hunter..." Columbo would have noticed that.
One of the more 'fantastic' episodes. The harvesting scene is a gem.
Yeah. Those plants weren't very big.
They were rare dwarf pot plants.
Hahahahaha
It looked like fruit, like pears, or small Gourds. Lol
Broderick Crawford: *Leave your blood at the Red Cross, not on the highway.* That speaks volumes in today's age not only in California, but everywhere else across America.
Great show still watching thanks better then the shows today keep then coming
I enjoy watching all of these videos knowing how the Highway Patrol and police departments operate and how they can catch those criminals.
I don't think that there was enough pot leaves to make a joint after drying in that one box🤣
And to think it is legal in California now!
Hilarious episode ! Alcohol abuse is rampant in the 50's, but pot is "criminal" ! LOL !!
Matthews was streaked out. He had a 1 lb sirloin with lots of mushrooms and a bottle of A1 steak sauce
@ 25, "How do you sleep at night?" Easy, we smoked up on weed......
Yeah mon
This is the first time I've seen a guy with a mustache on HP who Wasn't a criminal
I thought Dirty Harry was good,Dan Mathews has raised the bar.
"Raised"?! This stuff is way cornier than Dirty Harry ever aspired to be. I was alive back then. I remember this crap.
@@haeuptlingaberja4927why are you watching if you don't like it ???
@@haeuptlingaberja4927you think today cop shows are better??? Tv shows have gotten like the movies Super Villain more Powerful than The Heros
@@derekgaliee4351
I grew up with it. It's not so much that I don't like it--I am no fan of John Wayne, either--as that this is the backdrop of my life. Not sure why that disqualifies me from commenting on it, but g'head. Tell me.
At the end he pats down the male suspect but assumes the female isn't armed, despite suspecting female fingerprints on the shotgun
Good fences make good neighbors -- especially fences which have a sign that says "NO HUNTING"
Police work and the work of the Highway Patrol is very interesting.
Office Cline is going to scared all the
pheasants off stomping around in the dry grass like he is.
In a situation like this I would always get backup before following someone.
Procedure would be to call in and report the find asap.
That's what you get for harvesting the Devil's Lettuce....
And that’s exactly what it looks like!
@@rosaamarillo2110 ... but is smells like sh*t.
Powerful binoculars!!!
Thanks for the video!
Office Cline should have known he needed backup. Should have told the men some story about stopping to check on them. Then got in his car and went back to his headquarters and reported to the Highway Patrol main unit to set up a raid.
back at those days persons did haved way more respect for cops and too cops thought it they could just haved respect for that badge. It was a time ofed innocence being lost
@@jacobsparry8525 Modern US cops are terrorists in uniform.
@@alphonsozorro7952 Next time you have to call a cop -- don't -- instead, call a liberal democrat!
@@alphonsozorro7952 if you listen and do as you are told, you will not have a problem
There would be no story then.
How can Dan hear the dispatcher reply when he still has the mike keyed? Hahaha. 19:15
ha good eyes!!!!
I was thinking the same thing. It was an obvious blooper that he repeats in numerous episodes.
A "hunting accident"? The officer was shot in the BACK with a PISTOL... give me a break!! (LoL)
Hollywood....
And didn't seem to bleed very much in the car, for the "few miles" trip up the road...🙄
the outside of those dumb crooks' place looked cool. I'd like to see it. i'm certain the "bad lady" was another bad lady in another episode. now I'm really laughing HA HA - that EVIDENCE! this show is GREAT! thank you!
+rahkin rah ooh, those guys got some CRAZY stuff man! looks more like Dan-o was standing in the plant! ha! Book 'em Dan-o!
Lynn Cartwright, very sexy.
Without a search warrant or probable cause I doubt that the drug arrest would hold up.
Not now but maybe back then.😊
They violate the Constitution every episode
"Without probable cause"???
Matthews is a badass good lawman. Respect.
Good episode. Thank you for uploading.
My guess is that the producers had no idea what marijuana looks like.....this stuff looks more like they're harvesting spinach!
And the "growers" put potatoes or rocks in the box! The St. Claire Buds!
The people at large viewing this show in 1957 had mostly never seen marijuana, and barely heard about it. You could show them anything, and they wouldn't ask (m)any questions
Silly "guess". They just weren't allowed to show drugs on screen.
many comments entirely miss the point of watching Highway Patrol; hint, it's not about the "story"
the episodes are no less than an true slice of American history:Eisenhower years
low budgets ensured authenticity; no sets no special effects; we can see what highways, motels, banks, homes, supermarkets etc really used to look like
and what about those magnificent cars: Buicks, Chryslers, Mercurys etc ?
obviously, in that thrifty age, no producer in his right mind would crash, burn or explode a perfectly good vehicle
I certainly wish an automotive expert could take the time to identify the makes and models in each episode
some surprisingly sexy young women, yet never even a hint of hanky-panky!
it was a touch of genius to get an Oscar winner like Broderick Crawford as star; details of his personal life are entirely irrelevant in any analysis of cinema art
other police shows had forgettable second raters like Jack Webb or Roger Smith
half-hour format and little-known scriptwriters contributed to uncomplicated plots and down-to-earth emotional context?
+Charles Kinbote plus all the trash on the roadways
I can tell you something about the cars if you're still around. For instance, that was a '56 Plymouth wagon that Mathews pulled the engine wires off. Actually, he only needed to pull the coil wire.
Absolutely, O Lost King of Zembla. I watch series like this for the "unwitting testimony" rather than for the stories, which are stereotypical, routine stuff. They are fascinating socio-historical documents - little time capsules of the era in which they were made.
Charles Kinbote Jack Webb was good he did a fine job as well as smith and later Morgan.
@Nuclear Christian I remember "litter bags" that hung from your cigarette lighter knob.
Dan "Boss" Matthews just happened to be in the vicinity of the crime. What a man.. #1 crimebuster of all time from super heroes Superman Batman and Spider-Man to super sleuths in history Eliot Ness to Columbo, Dan "The Man" is the GOAT👺🤣
William Boyett was a cop here, Perry Mason and Adam 12.
Gotta love harvesting "Marijuana " that looked like radishes , squash & peppers being pulled up. LMAOOOOO Plus the skunk smell, er, uh, what?
REEFER MADNESS !, lolololol
Most leather jackets seen in this tv shows of the era were from ww2 fighter veterans .
"How do you sleep at night?" Uh, Ambien and a shot of bourbon...
I thought it you guys did just to plug ined at the walls sockets!
Ha! I've done THAT a time or two. LOL
Welcome to 2020 Dan , it's Legal now!!!!.
This guy drives.like he's suspicious some one is watching his every move.
Twin Forks. The TV series.
Wow, "harvesting" the pot had me ROTFLMAO!!! Guess that particular method cuts down on dry time haha...
Yeah, Marijuana plants were very short back then! The leaves were right on the ground. hehehe
"look domestic, will ya?"
There'd be a big demonstration in front of the studios from the women libbers. LOL.
😃😃😃😃😃😃
Harvesting time????....that field was dry and dead.
Mathews asked how do you sleep at night? I would have said "pretty good stoned"😁
Dan under cover with his suit and hat and tie
@ 17:49 Ol' Dan is standing up to his waist in marijuana !!!
What are you talking about? Didnt you see them picking "grass"? Big flat leaves with some big lumpy things, looked like beets. =)
The marijuana episode , these crooks should get life for this!!.
Wrong time and place, should of tried in the 21st century.
Sure looks like sensimilla to me!
I rolled up the wool and got all smoked up watching this episode.
Me toooooo
One would think if Matthews was standing in all those marijuana plants, he would get a contact buzz and slow his speech down!?
Potter: Good name for a guy trafficking in marijuana.
Getting in and out of cars so many times in so many episodes must have taken its toll on Crawford.
That reminds me of a time in my youth when a scene for Cannon, an early 1970s 'cop show' was shot at the end of my street. Actor William Conrad got into and out of a new Lincoln several times (reshoots) and was sweating profusely. I don't know if I felt worse for him or the car, though, as that brand new Lincoln seemed to dive to the bottom of its springs when he threw himself into it and sprung back with relief as he heaved himself out.
They must have been selling marijuana plants don't look like nothing was ready to process except for getting the dirt off of them. They could have done a little better than that. Looks like they was pulling turnip greens for a minute or beets
Mind boggling how much that area at the gas station has changed now. Houses everywhere and not a tree in sight 😢
Humans keep destroying area after area. First LA. Then Bay Area. Then Seattle. Now Portland. Sprawl sprawl and more sprawl. We are over-populating and building over every nice area.
@@AyeCarumba221 it’s that way here in southern Indiana too. Just 25 years ago we had a lot of rural areas now it’s all built up.
@@AyeCarumba221 Same in Britain. Poor old next generation.
That is what made this show so special the locations
@@AyeCarumba221 so sad im 67 and love to watch these old shows judt for the location
For everyone who claimed the wife played Dottie Hinson in a League of their own,I think you're wrong, Geena Davis isn't old enough to have been in this.
She played the older Dottie, seen in the beginning and end of the film.
Great description of a car. 1956 sedan.
Back then brand names were never used in movies or TV
@@JohnTSmith-jw2gq Actually they were, Just not on this show, And maybe a few others, You can watch dragnet, And they will name the car , Dodge, Pontiac, Whatever it is
So they kill officer Cline but spend the whole night doing nothing. They should have cleared out first thing in the morning.
They were passing the bong around, listening to Elvis..
1956. Drum brakes, soft suspensions, metal dashes, and no seat belts. Steering wheel/dash/winshield watch out!
@doctorwho0077 The deaths to Airbags are in single digits, not the thousands who died before Airbags.
Engine directly attached to the frame. Thus in a crash the engine was pushed back into the passenger section. Modern cars have engines on "Blocks" that in a crash "fail" causing the engine to drop onto the road not into the passenger compartment.
Another factor is the "roll bar", that prevents the passenger compartment from collapsing. Easy to install on sedans, but not coupes, hardtops or convertibles. Thus true coupes and hardtops died out in the 1970s do to this regulation. Convertibles, Trucks and SUVs did NOT come under that regulation and thus death traps in any roll over. Given lawsuits since the regulation was adopted, Convertibles all but died out (Air Conditioning was another factor). Trucks and SUVs started to have them installed after 2000. Jeep started to install and only sell Jeeps with a roll bar in the 1970s do to lawsuits do to the fact that rollbar can mean the difference between dead people crushed by their own vehicle in a roll over or those same people walking away from such a roll over.
Another regulations adopted in the late 1960s was the collapsible sterring wheel column. In the 1950s, many people died when in an accident as the steering wheel crushed them against their own seat as the column itself was pushed backward.
As to seatbelts, only required in 1967 model year, that regulation also required marking lights on the side of an automobile. Prior to that date not required.
When I sold replacement glass for Automobiles my office had some very old books showing the glass sizes for cars since the 1920s. The newer books did not list glass parts for cars older then 30 years, thus my office kept some of the older books to find out what car took what glass. All of the older cars used flat glass, but the book had a comment under each glass that it had to be safety glass IN THOSE STATES THAT REQUIRED SAFETY GLASS. Till 1967 the regulation were set by each state, and some states had no regulations. Thus plate glass was legal in some states as late as 1967. You can cut Plate Glass and Laminated glass to size, but only Laminated glass will not shatter. Thus only laminated glass is a "Safety glass".
Another problem with those old cars killed off by modern regulations is all metal gloveboxes of the 1950s. Such glove boxes, in an accident, would fail and open up cutting into whoever was behind the glove box. The Feds required all glove boxes to be designed to prevent it going flat when opened AND had a double latch so if one failed the other would still function (This regulation also appiled to all doors except trunks and rear door in a station wagon, SUV, van or other vehicle that had a door that passengers did not sit beside).
The huge bodies of the 1950s and 1960s had to do more with air flow within the vehicle then safety. A vehicle with air flow, even when the windows are rolled up, is much more comfortable then a vehicle with no air flow. Thus cars of the 1950s and 1960s had huge air vents beside the leg compartments of the Driver and Passenger sides. You could shut the vents off but if the vehicle was moving and the vents were open you could be very comfortable even in high Tempertures. Stopped at a red light you roasted, but moving you were comfortable even with the windows up. Air Conditioning killed off the needs for such vents (in the 1960s in was recommended you buy after market Air Conditioning for with factory installed Air Conditioning the vents were sealed and could not be used, but with after market Air Conditioning you had a car with both vents and Air Conditioning).
In the 1970s, cars started to be designed around Air Conditioning, thus the old vents were no longer designed into automobiles. Thus modern automobiles need Air Conditioning for they are designed around every one having Air Conditioning. This permitted automobiles to no longer needing the hugh baffles that permitted air flow into the passenger compartment. This permited the outside of the Vehicles to become smaller, as the interior room actually increased. The gas crisis of the 1970s accelerated this change, but the change predated the energy crisis of 1973. It was Air Conditioning that saw cars become smaller on the outside, but became larger inside. With Air Conditioning you no longer needed the huge baffles to get air flow inside the passenger compartment.
Thus modern cars are smaller on the outside but with more interior room then the same size car of the 1950s. Furthermore modern cars are safer, get better fuel economy and as fast as cars of the 1950s.
@@paulmentzer7658 Thousands die in car crashes now. Thousands and thousands.
Your a Dumb ASS
@@paulmentzer7658" Thus modern cars are smaller on the outside but with more interior room then the same size car of the 1950s."
All modern cars are sturdier than equivalently sized old cars. Modern cars have bigger and fatter tires too.
Look at the Fiat 500s and VW beetles, how they have become bigger, though retaining the same name. Medium-sized cars of the 50's look flimsier than their modern homologues, as well. And what about those gas-guzzling SUV behemoths, making up 60% of US-registered cars?
Even a car professional can have a wrong perception, as this one.
The only things true about modern cars are: more safe, more fuel efficient, and more ergonomic with an electronic dashboard, , like a "glass cockpit" airliner.
The weeds Mathews is hiding in looks like MOTA!
Incredible binoculars.
this episode is one that bothers me a lot, I don't know why but maybe is a bothersome story I guess a killed police officer, weed pushers even in those days it was so prevalent!
They never call for backup. Hmmm
I love the locations and the cars for a low budget they detailed good
On call 24 hours a day, but only use the squad for official duty?????
Some states have such rules, mostly to avoid accusations of abuse of state property. Other states permit private use on the grounds having a patrol car being seen gives citizens an increased feeling of law enforcement. Some jurisdictions required officers to buy their patrol cars and reimburse them miliage, very rare nowadays but done in the 1950s. Such personal purchase of equipment was more common with firearms then cars. Such requirements on the decline since Congress outlawed buying new automatic weapons in 1986 (i.e. officers can no longer buy automatic firearms thus requiring them to do so makes acquiring such firearms impossible except if the actual police department obtain the weapons) and Reagan's change of the tax laws that made use of a Government vehicle for private use taxable income.
There was a resident officer and a CHP house on US395 just south of devil's gate. Used to see that guy driving his patrol car while he was out of uniform. Didn't look like he was on duty to me.
I think the CHP has ended that program. At least I hear the devil's gate officer is gone and the CHP sold the house. Is just as well, there are popular hot springs a couple of miles from the house and I hear he used to dish out a lot of grief to the bathers that used the springs.
@@paulmentzer7658 ...When we first moved into our neighborhood, the guy next door was an officer and having his squad car there at night sure did make me feel safe. Too bad his wife kicked him out a few months later and divorced him.
GREAT Classic tv shows!
She was a cutie and she smoked pot
Everyone knows where the Klein farm is?
Far out, man !
Cool, daddy-o
Those marijuana leaves they were harvesting looked more like banana leaves.
You havent seen neither marihuana leaes or banana leaves. This isnt marihuana leaves, but it is leaves from a legal plant with extremely look- a like leaves, I just dont know what it is called in english!
@@milleberitaag2100 Sounds like you’ve been smoking too much of something
@@MrYeloot You gotta be some spesial kind of stupid.
Funniest looking marijuana I've ever seen!
Worst episode ever. This would have been better if the writers knew anything about the subject. But then it was the 60's and 'Reefer Madness' was forefront.
The wife was also Dottie Hinson in "A League of Their Own"
"It's too bad, he was a nice kid" -Bad guy #1 🙀
"ya, but nosey!" -Bad guy #2 🙀
"Git 'em, Dan!" -The Kitty 😾
Wonder what ole Dan Matthews would say about marijuana being legal today. The rest of the Nation needs to catch up with the other half and legalize it in all 50 states,not just a few.
Matthew I don't have anything loaded on here. I have no idea how or I might. I am on facebook,and if you look, I am the Helen Kruse in Cassatt,South Carolina. You can write me at hkruse@bellsouth.net if you want. Maybe because I don't have anything loaded here you can't write I'm not sure. Either one I gave you I can be reached at. Hope you have a wonderful day my friend.
+Helen Kruse You never know, he might fire one up after work to go with his scotch and soda
Matthew Could be. The entertainment community was known for feeding their head.Then it branched out as everything does. I doubt he smoked,but then again who knows. When I was younger,everyone was shocked to find I partied.haha I wore slacks,pant suits, heels, not a hair out of place,make~up on, and I am a Hippie from way back.haha To this day,I don't look like I would smoke weed,yet I do. :)
ZoneFighter1 Those who are bone idle are not that way from smoking a little pot. Our Nations Founding Fathers and the ones who wrote our United States Constitution ALL smoked marijuana. They all smoked it back then. For years it grew wild along the Potomac and it took the Feds a long time to irradicate it. So, were the men like George Washington, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and the rest drug addicted imbeciles? You tell me.
ZoneFighter1 Look it up. They ordered farmers to grow it too not just to smoke, but for the fibers too. When you find it and read it for yourself, let me know. It is true. Oh, my late Husband who was 45 when he passed from cancer in 2004 smoked it too. It also helped him with the chemo when the meds specifically for chemo nausea didn't. He was one of the BEST brickmasons in the Jacksonville,Florida quad county area,and thensome. We had a small masonry company, raised a daughter, helped out community, and our Daughter had A-B honour roll from K-12th grade never missing. We smoked,but didn't drink,and anyone doing any drugs were to stay away from us. Marijuana is a seed bearing herb given to us by Our Father, and given with His Blessing. It's ok to legalize same sex marriage when Our Father gave us marriage, and Our Father condemns that, but something He gave to us with His Blessing is against the law? I'm sorry but Our Father's Laws and Rules trump any of Man's laws.
This is a great show. If I was Matthews though I would have an eight cylinder Buick though, not a six.
I agree, the contempt in Mr. Matthews voice, when he asks, "how do you sleep, at night?"
The Pheasants said, Now you know what it feels like to get shot
That was awful...shooting Hm.....💔😳
"A real hunting accident" . . . Really? With two holes and two different caliber slugs in his back?
Support the right to arm bears!
That old ford probably a 312 y block
Suspect leave enough fingerprints on the 55 ford to start a fingerprints factory
That was a hyper realistic looking marijuana plantation.
Drivin’ my Dynaflo!
That's not drugs that's medicine at lease that's what their calling it now day's lol
+Candace Gladden Yes it is, and if you don't believe it the joke is on you.
+Candace Gladden Well marijuana, It's not just for Hippies anymore. haha I believe it needs to be legalized in all 50 states.
Ok it may work for some people and for other's it may not that's what so wonderful about this country we live in I've tried cbd oil candy it didn't help me at all after the clerk told me what all it could do i was hopeful now it maybe different if people try it in other ways don't know and it might just not be for me too each there own but i did say lol that stands for laugh out loud i hope they do legalize it for the ones it may work for
Candace Gladden Not all medicines work for everyone. even drinking, I don't drink, I don't like the room spinning around. haha I will have an occasional glass of wine,but my thing is marijuana. It helps me relax, helps with my pain and helps me sleep when pain and pain meds keep me awake.
I have anklosing spondylitis,spinal stnosis,ddd,djd. Hell I'm falling apart at 47 I'm not knocking it just not my bag like i said the cbd oil candy maybe different then the real thing i just don't want to walk in the kitchen and forget what the hell i went in there for
LEAVE YOUR blood AT THE RED Cross, NOT ON THE HIGHWAY!
"A real hunting accident"? LOL Body obviously dumped in the gutter is not a hunting accident.
Too funny! Every episode is solved in one day...unbelievable! :)
Oh that dangerous marijuana! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!
It not what you drive it's how you drive thanks Dan
The Cars Make The Episodes ❤
radio chatter, slamming car doors, spinning tires, the bad guys would never hear that racket. LOL
It's always the dame with the common sense.
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Ahhh, so that's what marijuana looks like. Lord have mercy.
Yeah, and apparently they give fruit or something. They were throwing big lumps, looked like beets. =)
Greed took over those thieves. If they would have waited 70 years they could have harvested and sold that weed legally in the medical and recreational marijuana market. That’s what impatience and going for the quick buck does.
The pot must have been some strange ground covering species
This is a hybrid. This is a cross, ah, of Bluegrass, Kentucky Bluegrass, Featherbed Bent, and Northern California Sinsemilla. The amazing stuff about this is, that you can play 36 holes on it in the afternoon, take it home and just get stoned to the bejeezus-belt that night on this stuff. - Carl Spackler
I always wonder why i never used bloodhounds in episodes
The wife was also Dottie Hinson in "A League of Their Own"
Twin forks, a mile from Twin Peaks.
Pick those beets , er, Marijuana .
What did they do with the body?.
Burn the fields!!!.
Nelson Potter pitched for the Browns and Braves in the World Series in the 40's...
A murder because of a God given plant...
It is a form of _pharmakeia_ drugs.
Like poison ivy, belladonna, sumac....
After Matthews steps out of the marijuana grow and then he calls headquarters "headquarters far out man!" "I'm waiting for Dave, also send me a box of cookies and and pizza, Headquarters- "need anything else?" Matthews- " yeah man tell them to bring their own water pipe man"
That was so funny
The filling station gives stamps.
We used to collect and redeem them in the books they provided.
This episode is completely nuts! Mathews, by himself, puts two known dangerous & desperate crims in the back of his car. He doesn't even handcuff them.
Highway Patrol shows always have a pretty girl as one of the crims - must be for eye candy for any dads watching with their young son. A rarity in real life back in the 1950's.
The USA must be a funny place. A cop went hunting with a rifle on private property within sight of a farmhouse, without first checking with the residents. Harvesting the pot was weird.
How times have changed. Nobody seems to care about marijuana now. Not the cops. Amphetamines are a much bigger problem for them - pot is a sedative, makes people harmless. Amphetamines make people violent.
It stinks and I'm allergic to the smell, the same as I am with cigarettes. That's all I know about pot. And so I guess I'd gladly help old Dan catch the pot peddlers, just so long as he didn't smoke in front of me.
This is back in the old days. Before Marijuana growers wore tie-dye.
If you pay attention towards the end, when he reads the trucks license plate number, he also gives another license plate number two different license plate numbers on the same vehicle
One was for the civilian car the patrolman in plainclothes was driving to follow the truck.
Are you _slow?_
@@samuelluria4744 I’m slow enough to know what I hear
@@truerushblast - Well then you should already know that you hadn't paid close enough attention...
DAN MATHEWS creeping up and about sneaking is like bear at a picnic site