Only the immature minded, would compare a good quality mass-production TV series made by professional actors and producers to art-school production of amateurs!
Don@Alphonso Zorro: He(?) does not compare it to ... but with .. - and the result of his comparison is that it's "just a few degrees better". Nicely said, methinks. And he even concludes by calling it "just a fantastic show", nonetheless. Less kind people would perhaps call it formula TV or even chewing gum for the eyes of the undemanding. (And I keep wondering why this is about the sixth or seventh episode that I myself have watched.)
I emigrated to the US in 1975 right at the end of 'old school' America when Detroit was king and gas was around 45 cents a gallon. Loved the episodes. Thank you so much
Got to love the good old days. You get shot a couple of times and they simply put you on the couch with a good blanket. No hospital bills, no health insurance.
+drewzifer Medical technology back then (they were lucky to get a Dr. to make a house call ASAP) - take 2 of these and call me in the AM if your not feeling better!
Well, John Shaft got stitched across his chest with several .45s from a tommy gun, and all he needed was a bandage and the "love of a good woman" to recover back to fighting trim in like 3 days..
Before the days of Dr. Kelly Brackett, Dr. Joe Early, Dixie McCall, R.N., John Gage, and Roy DeSoto. At least he'd have gotten "2mg's of M.S." (morphine), and "D5W - at a K.V.O. rate" (Dextrose 5%, in water - keep vein open) in 1972. Back then, 1957(?), all that he got was shot, then bitched at - by all concerned.
In this black and white case of shooting and being shot your right but, just cause it saves money is no reason to deny people the right to a fair trial.
@@garyfrancis6193 You mean filling up for $4.00? Figure it out, gas as cheap as 25c a gallon, that's 16 gallons, would fill most cars. I bought gas at Gilmore serve yourself for around 20c a gallon for years and considered the 35c prices at Standard and Chevron outrageous.
I love watching these shows. They contain so many bloopers. The guy in the panel truck blocks the road so it is impassable. Then when the crook drives the station wagon away he has plenty of room to get thru.
Yeah, I noticed that too. There are several other continuity and other bloopers in this episode. Not the usual high standard I've come to expect from HP episodes.
@@drcurv HP was among the lowest-budget shows on TV at the time, which is why bloopers were so common. An encyclopedia could be written just about the re-takes they ignored with the cars alone! The '57 red Sunliner whose carburetor flooded just when the crooks were trying to make their escape - the 56 Buick that morphed between a Special 2-dooor sedan and a Roadmaster 4-door hardtop during a chase scene - Dan speeding off in a '58 Dodge and arriving in a '58 Buick - the bad guys driving a new, never-registered 1959 Chevrolet with California Manufacturer plates that were assigned to General Motors - the '58 Dodge with whitewalls and flipper wheel covers that sustained a bullet hole in the left rear tire, only to have it change to a blackwall with '57 wheel cover on close-up - cars that were used once, then never seen again, like the '55 Ford Mainline 4-door, the '54 Olds 88 2-door sedan and the '59 Ford Custom 300 4-door. Don't think I'd have wanted it any other way!
While Highway Patrol had technical and continuity flaws, it is still my favorite cop show. (I wish I still had my '54 & '55 Chevies and '57 Ford Fairlane 500.) Brings back memories watching it as a youngster. We all know that Brod had a booze problem but it still doesn't diminish his acting skills in HP and in such flicks as All The Kings Men, The Mob and Scandal Sheet to name just a few. Great innovations in technology, science and medicine have taken place since then. Socially, politics, etiquette and morality are in the dumpster. Although I was just a kid at the time, looking back, the 50's were cool.
corvettes Recall the episodes when Dan was the passenger, and not the driver? That was caused by the Calif. DMV who suspended his license for too many DUIs and he wasn't permitted to drive, even for filming.
My first was a '56 Ford Customline Ranch Wagon (2 door) with 'Thunderbird' 312. Second was a '53 Olds 88, then a 1959 Impala Sport Coupe with 348, factory air, Roman red... .
*Ron Foster, who played the lead, dark-haired uniformed officer, went on to appear in many Westerns, as well as an episode of The Twilight Zone. And Rayford Barnes, who played Garner, the blondish bad guy with the rifle, was in many, many shows of the 50's, 60's, and 70's, among them Combat!, Fantasy Island, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, and many, many others.*
+Barney Fife Most cars and light trucks were tubeless by 1957 but that still doesn't explain how they got it on the rim plus it would have to be balanced to go down the road at normal speeds.
@@notnotadev US Forces were in Charge in Western Germany for years after WW2. Even had their own licence plates. If they had them today ,It would make them a target for merkles new Germans.
I owned one of those cars. Mine was a Plymouth Fury. The salesman insisted that the fins help with stability at high speeds. Even then I chuckled, but it was a good story.
@@henryhorner3182 The lighter a car is the less potentially destructive it is to itself and others provided people don't take its acceleration capabilities to the max.
Drama rules for a lot of people these day's.especially kids it's almost like they love it and life isn't normal if there isn't any problems i find it exhausting.
It's great reading all your comments.....love the Fords !!! Just started my 57 fairlane project..a little slower than I used to be at 70 yrs old but when I see this show,,I get things moving.....Richie
In this day and for many years after, the only way to identify or verify a credit card was to make a call ( long distance from an area out in the sticks such as in this story) So easy to pass stolen credit cards back then. About the same thing as our modern identity theft, so nothing's really changed. Just the method
Lol, in my early working days, we had a book / newspaper like thing we looked in to check, and purchases over $75 we called the cc company. I feel old as dirt now.
I used to cringe when a credit card was used at my Gulf station attendant job. Fearing I'd have to call it in. But I only saw them on gas purchases. No machines to read them. Just a paper slip.
And then like the cop asked on th e phone- "do you ACCEPT credit cards?" so unlike today credit cards were not accepted all over at everything from the local supermarket to a used car dealer!
@@jan22150 Yes it was, and when I was about 6 or 7 in the mid 60s I did something that got me held after school at St Peters' I was locked in the classroom and the lights turned off, a few mins later the janitor came in and I snuck around the rolling blackboard and out, down the hallway and out the door. I soon wound up on the two lane highway out front and stuck out my thumb for a ride, a couple of cars passed me by but them a police car was coming up the hill and I made sure he saw my thumb as mom told me if you are even in trouble find a policeman, so there was my ride home I thought! Not exactly... he stopped and was very angry and after admonishing me he flagged down a passing public school bus that had older kids on it and made the driver take me on the bus to near my regular bus stop about 5 miles from school. That would never happen today, not any of that would play out like that, the school would have been sued, the cop never would have flagged down a passing bus etc.
Credit cards were new. My father was working as an Engineer in 1961 when he was given a credit card by the company. Only a few places honored it however. Family owned gas stations still existed in the 50s and early 60s but were largely gone by the 70s.
I worked a retail job in the late 1980s. Most of the time we swiped cards but when the system was down we had the old machine. You put the card in, laid the carbon form on top and then pulled a handle and had them sign.
And it wasn't until the 60's that the first general purpose cards usable at different locations, as opposed to just certain gas stations or restaurants (the Diners' Club) were brought out.
The woman gets car jacked, tied up and left in the woods. She frees herself. So not only is she much smarter than today's women she still looks better and much more classy than today's women dressed up for church! Love the 50's.
Speaking of solid car days in the old days. Bonnie and Clyde were driving a 1930s Ford and were hit by multiple rounds of 45 caliber bullets from a Thompson submachine gun but survived. Bullets just dented the Ford. Don't try that today. Cops went out and got a BAR (Browning Automatic Rifle) It fires 600 rounds a minute of 30 caliber bullets. I saw that on the Netflix version of the cops who chased Bonnie and Clyde. The best scene was when one of the cops went into a store and bought shotguns and a BAR and other guns without a background check.
Were they shot up twice? I only remember the last ambush and the cops were firing heavier stuff than a Thompson spews out, a BAR as you say, shotguns, and .35 Remingtons.
I didn't read the history. I saw the original movie and the Netflix show on the two Texas Rangers who caught up with them. I think they must have been shot at more than once.
+@@Horse237 Hi, Hoss. From the spoken blurb at the beginning of each episode, would I be right in thinking that the Texas Rangers wouldn't in the least object to being called the Highway Patrol?
+D. M. Bell That's interesting. Something must have malfunctioned with the camera. They needed an ending, so, they stuck in the nighttime scene to complete the episode. You can ever hear the crickets. Being able to watch these old shows and having the ability to reexamine a scene, you are able to see various screw ups.
The 58s sold very poorly , largely due to a recession that year. There was so much chrome on them and the critics ate them alive. As I remember the cars were quite reliable, a neighbor had a '58 convertible. That brightwork would cost a fortune to replate today if needed.
@@-oiiio-3993 I said NOTHING about sex.There were very strict standards in the movie industry until about the 50's.Morals and rules started to change about this time,and more emphasis was placed upon what women wore to "show-off" their body by the directors.Attractive bodies demand attention.You do not need sex itself to attract someone.Get it?
Well, those fellas weren't very nice! .... but that '57 finned Belvedere sure is classy! 'Um, but the Michigan plate is expired!! .... 1956!?! And Matthews has already graduated to a '58 Buick!! :-( "That's the way the odds are sometimes" ... LOVE IT!
The same is true of iron-clad Pentagon beasts taking on local combattants wearing no such paraphernalia in US-occupied countries. The "Men" species has moved East! Crawford says: "That's the way the odds are sometime.". To out-gunned Oriental fighters facing Pentagon beasts, that's the way the odds are ALL the time!
So the hunter near the end says "You not going after him with that revolver he's got a rifle" Crawford says " Sometimes that's the way the odds are stacked"! That must have been when men were men because today they'd have a SWAT team with armored vehicles there! Non of this mano a mano stuff!
The same is true of iron-clad Pentagon beasts taking on local combattants wearing no such paraphernalia in US-occupied countries. The "men" species has moved east! Crawford says: "That's the way odds are sometime.". To out-gunned Oriental fighters facing Pentagon beasts, that's the way odds are ALL the time!
The tall bandit (Keith Richards) looked 35, much younger than his real age. He was good looking too.Not usual for Americans, who tend to look older. As for women, yes, they tended to be more feminine and refined than modern US sluts.
Ever seen the film 'Johnny Dangerously'? There's a scene with the character 'Chocolate Mousse' letting loose with a submachine gun (full auto) on a huge gaggle of US dough-boys and Wehrmacht soldiers all scrapping together in a tight melee. Guess which lot fall down.
The tall bandit (Keith Richards) looked 35, much younger than his real age. He was good looking too.Not usual for Americans, who tend to look older. As for women, yes, they tended to be more feminine and refined than modern US sluts.
"I know this area pretty well and I'd like to help." , " OK, you supplied the bad guy with a high powered rifle, I think you've established your bona-fides."
I watched this mainly because of the words "credit card" in the title. I didn't realise credit cards went back that far. Here in Australia we didn't have credit cards until the 1970's, although some large department stores had their own store cards a few years before. If you had a company car, your employer usually had done a deal with one of the fuel companies, and when you got fuel you filled out a paper form with carbon copies and gave the top 2 copies to the servo attendant. They posted off one copy and in due course they got mailed back a cheque.
Bank credit cards like BankAmericard (now Visa) may not have existed yet when this was filmed, but I think store and gas cards had been around for a while here in the States. Diners Club started in 1950 I think, but BankAmericard came out in the late '50s.
I loved this show as a kid. Broderick Crawford was smarter than Sherlock Holmes. I didn’t realize until now that they kill the criminal/criminals in almost every episode!
amerivet And remember, one scene when the CHP is chasing the '32 Ford hot rod and shooting at it at the same time! OMG! Talk about instant desk duty...
Don't worry, rahkin, we're with you here. It's great fun watching all these hot women - and the cars aren't bad either. A pity I don't recognise any of them (living on the other side of 'the pond' as I do).
They probably had a mounting machine in the truck. Also an air compressor for the mounting machine. Also a gas powered electrical generator for the air compressor. And a tire balancer. They might even have had a car lift in the truck. Those two guys were professionals.
best show for all the old cars in new or near new condition,those truely were the days of excess,even the street scenes with random cars parked here n there,you see a lot of obscure models.
Yes! 1957 Ford Country Sedan ... two tone paint. Can't tell the other color (it's B&W after all!) but one is Colonial White. My Mom's '57 was a Custom 300 Tudor in Colonial White and Willow Green.
Dennis Andry I must be older. . .my dad had a ‘53 Ford station wagon. On trips we kids’d crawl all over inside the car. Sometimes go lie down in the ‘way back’ if we got tired . . . no seat belts. Mom would have the baby on her lap up front. Living dangerously LOL!
Brodrick Crawford mostly played tough guys but was so charming. I think he is the reason these programs were so popular despite being pretty routine otherwise.
Those were the days of locally owned full service service stations. By full service I mean you knew the guy by name and they not only sold gas but tires. They changed the oil and did repairs on your car. Growing up, our neighbor owned a service station. Now you buy your gas at a convenience store and tires and repairs from a chain store.
Averaged .30 per gallon in the U.S. in 1958, $2.72 in today's $ per www.usinflationcalculator.com/: www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-915-march-7-2016-average-historical-annual-gasoline-pump-price-1929-2015
Credit Card thief dead. Today they sit home, steal your identity from your Microsoft made insecure laptop, and spend till the cows come home, and never get caught. This is real progress.
@@markmccarty1275 Oh yes! Don't remember if I ever used it or not, but the commercials were all over TV, radio, magazine ads & billboards, as I recall. Remember, "Just a little dab'll do ya!"
Jimmy was a dim bulb, trying to take the law into his own hands, especially after having been warned by the Highway Patrol. That's what Dan Mathews is for.
OK. I have a problem with 50s plot logic. This service station guy gets shot, and it's supposedly "bad, but he'll pull through". So why isn't this guy in a hospital instead of laying on his couch? They said they were going to call an ambulance, so why didn't it take him to a friggin hospital?
telephotousa People were very naive then, they would not notice such things. I remember when this was on Prime Time. I remember when there were no paramedics. If you were Dead or Wounded either way, they most often called the Funeral Home, as they operated the "Ambulance service" as well. If you were still alive, they took you to the Hospital. If DEAD, to the funeral Home or the Morgue (if they had one) and the cops would make that determination. Where I live in Texas we have no "morgue" to this day. We have no "Coroner". the JP does that, and my DOG can be elected JP in Texas. Now for every fender bender car wreck they have they send two ambulances and FIRE TRUCKS when there is no FIRE. They wear this multi-million dollar equipment out like there is a bottomless pit of money out there now. OVERKILL. Probably the results of Lawsuits. There is no common sense left in the USA. BB
+Bob Burnitt Yeah and back then they didn't block off a half square mile area around a simple accident, let along a crime scene. Now they close down an interstate highway, both directions all too often. Dumb.
+Bob Burnitt and I did ok without cell phones for much of my life. If I wasn't home, then try again later. Still don't have a smart phone or an Ipod, got plenty of other things to occupy my time
6:34 Eyebrows like a '59 Impala. Cute as usual with the gals on this show. "You let me worry about the gun and worry about that lunch." Imagine a boy these days saying such a thing? She'd dump the lunch on his head after shooting him.
I love the way the production value is just a few degrees better than a 16mm art school film, yet it's just a fantastic show.
Only the immature minded, would compare a good quality mass-production TV series made by professional actors and producers to art-school production of amateurs!
Don@Alphonso Zorro: He(?) does not compare it to ... but with .. - and the result of his comparison is that it's "just a few degrees better". Nicely said, methinks. And he even concludes by calling it "just a fantastic show", nonetheless. Less kind people would perhaps call it formula TV or even chewing gum for the eyes of the undemanding. (And I keep wondering why this is about the sixth or seventh episode that I myself have watched.)
@@alphonsozorro7952 you’re a clown, STFU!
@@againstallodds3300 I regard it as 'comfort food'.
@-oiiio- wrote: "I regard it as 'comfort food'". And who cannot use a bit lulling escapism every now and then? So, let's enjoy!
I emigrated to the US in 1975 right at the end of 'old school' America when Detroit was king and gas was around 45 cents a gallon. Loved the episodes. Thank you so much
Got to love the good old days. You get shot a couple of times and they simply put you on the couch with a good blanket. No hospital bills, no health insurance.
+drewzifer Medical technology back then (they were lucky to get a Dr. to make a house call ASAP) - take 2 of these and call me in the AM if your not feeling better!
+drewzifer Got that right, I was just going to write the same thing, good blanket, bandages and a pretty wife
Well, John Shaft got stitched across his chest with several .45s from a tommy gun, and all he needed was a bandage and the "love of a good woman" to recover back to fighting trim in like 3 days..
B4 Obamacare.
Before the days of Dr. Kelly Brackett, Dr. Joe Early, Dixie McCall, R.N., John Gage, and Roy DeSoto. At least he'd have gotten "2mg's of M.S." (morphine), and "D5W - at a K.V.O. rate" (Dextrose 5%, in water - keep vein open) in 1972. Back then, 1957(?), all that he got was shot, then bitched at - by all concerned.
Can anyone imagine how much money that would have saved tax payers? No court, no jail, no medical, no food. Good job Highway Patrol
In this black and white case of shooting and being shot your right but, just cause it saves money is no reason to deny people the right to a fair trial.
@@michealzachary3888 farst we geev him trial then we poot boollitt een heem!😆
And $4 would fill up your car
What?
@@garyfrancis6193 You mean filling up for $4.00? Figure it out, gas as cheap as 25c a gallon, that's 16 gallons, would fill most cars. I bought gas at Gilmore serve yourself for around 20c a gallon for years and considered the 35c prices at Standard and Chevron outrageous.
I love watching these shows. They contain so many bloopers. The guy in the panel truck blocks the road so it is impassable. Then when the crook drives the station wagon away he has plenty of room to get thru.
Yeah, I noticed that too. There are several other continuity and other bloopers in this episode. Not the usual high standard I've come to expect from HP episodes.
@@drcurv nitpicking.
@@drcurv HP was among the lowest-budget shows on TV at the time, which is why bloopers were so common. An encyclopedia could be written just about the re-takes they ignored with the cars alone!
The '57 red Sunliner whose carburetor flooded just when the crooks were trying to make their escape - the 56 Buick that morphed between a Special 2-dooor sedan and a Roadmaster 4-door hardtop during a chase scene - Dan speeding off in a '58 Dodge and arriving in a '58 Buick - the bad guys driving a new, never-registered 1959 Chevrolet with California Manufacturer plates that were assigned to General Motors - the '58 Dodge with whitewalls and flipper wheel covers that sustained a bullet hole in the left rear tire, only to have it change to a blackwall with '57 wheel cover on close-up - cars that were used once, then never seen again, like the '55 Ford Mainline 4-door, the '54 Olds 88 2-door sedan and the '59 Ford Custom 300 4-door.
Don't think I'd have wanted it any other way!
Thank You for bringing this back on. I'm 67 and haven't watched this Program since I was a Kid.
Now I'm watching as many as I can.
Who cares if Brod drank a few, He was one of the best. Never to be replaced!!!
I always felt bad for him though, when you could see frequent bruises on his face in the episodes…
Love the old cars!!!
He lived his life how he wanted. 🥃
Your right!
Didn’t replace him.
Cancelled the Series!
@@renesagahon4477Nope, not if he’s an alcoholic. Talk to the booze, not the person.
When I was a kid my Dad loved this show. Watched it with him often.
+Dennis Morrison Me too!
Good memories of better times. I will always miss my dad and mom. Take care and thanks for sharing!!!!!
Same here
didn't have a dad but, still miss those days
Ditto again, and from THIS side of 'the pond'!
Take care, and have a great day.
While Highway Patrol had technical and continuity flaws, it is still my favorite cop show. (I wish I still had my '54 & '55 Chevies and '57 Ford Fairlane 500.) Brings back memories watching it as a youngster. We all know that Brod had a booze problem but it still doesn't diminish his acting skills in HP and in such flicks as All The Kings Men, The Mob and Scandal Sheet to name just a few. Great innovations in technology, science and medicine have taken place since then. Socially, politics, etiquette and morality are in the dumpster. Although I was just a kid at the time, looking back, the 50's were cool.
"We all know that Brod had a booze problem" Hahaha who didn't!
"Socially, politics, etiquette and morality are in the dumpster."
Well phrased, and true.
corvettes Recall the episodes when Dan was the passenger, and not the driver? That was caused by the Calif. DMV who suspended his license for too many DUIs and he wasn't permitted to drive, even for filming.
My first was a '56 Ford Customline Ranch Wagon (2 door) with 'Thunderbird' 312. Second was a '53 Olds 88, then a 1959 Impala Sport Coupe with 348, factory air, Roman red... .
@@TruAnRksT Me. I don't keep up with actors and their problems. I got my own.
*Ron Foster, who played the lead, dark-haired uniformed officer, went on to appear in many Westerns, as well as an episode of The Twilight Zone. And Rayford Barnes, who played Garner, the blondish bad guy with the rifle, was in many, many shows of the 50's, 60's, and 70's, among them Combat!, Fantasy Island, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, and many, many others.*
Thanks for the trivia, nice that someone remembers, and cares enough to share it.
Yes Ron Foster has a few films on YT around 1960, The Walking Target probably in your feed Now.
Rayford Barnes played in a Twilight Zone episode as a GI during WWII.
Thanks for that.
The lady is very attractive
Any one know what she went on to do?
more and more people are enjoying this wonderful series! Thanks foxeema!
^^^@David Maslow .. I'd never heard of the show until recently, Ha!!! :P] .v ..
I like how they were able to put a bald tire on a rim and air it up.
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They should have chosen to be gas station "miracle workers" and they would had made more money. LOL!
+Barney Fife Most cars and light trucks were tubeless by 1957 but that still doesn't explain how they got it on the rim plus it would have to be balanced to go down the road at normal speeds.
+boat king Hidden Hollywood secret
The days of saving taxpayers; no trial, no incarceration, no lawsuits!
A decade before the Miranda ruling.
Jami Nova I
@randall2020
How do you figure no law?
I love it when the good guys shoot and even kill the bad guys. No loss, whatsoever to humanity.
Just shoot em dead. No fat ass greedy lawyers.
When I was an MP in Germany we always used the 10-4,10-4,10-4 when answering a call, a mocking tribute to Broderick Crawford.
Larry Mickey you were a german MP?
@@notnotadev US Forces were in Charge in Western Germany for years after WW2. Even had their own licence plates. If they had them today ,It would make them a target for merkles new Germans.
@@Mercmad New Germans? New, sure, but Germans, no way. Allahu.....
Amies Raus!!!!
takes me back to the good old days when things were simple and people were different not like now.
When tail fins were king.
@Nuclear Christian Just for show I believe. Everyone wanted a rocket car during the Space race and GM followed the trend.
I owned one of those cars. Mine was a Plymouth Fury. The salesman insisted that the fins help with stability at high speeds. Even then I chuckled, but it was a good story.
@@IndependentBear Why not, they look like vertical stabilizers on a plane? May be you are the one to be chuckled at.
Tailfins, tailfins, gotta have those tailfins. But look at the 59 Chevy Impala. The fins were starting to look more like wings.
Rockets,moon shots,spend it on the have nots.
Those car doors sounded solid ..... unlike my 2014 ....
Probably a lot heavier too and any cars that hit you.
They were all metal -- not plastic, rubber and fiberglass. I was shocked when I realized how little steel went into my 2012
@@henryhorner3182 The lighter a car is the less potentially destructive it is to itself and others provided people don't take its acceleration capabilities to the max.
That's some serious heavy metal....
Which guy got to refill the tire with air?.
when adults dressed and acted like grownups....
today's culture is one of perpetual adolescence
Today women don't seem to care what they look like . They have their freedom and want to look like the males ,sloppy.
Torn jeans are rarely seen on people beyond 20, mind you.
Only some don't grow up.
Style and class are a thing of the past...just spend a day people watching at your local Walmart and see what some folks wear in public, no pride.
Drama rules for a lot of people these day's.especially kids it's almost like they love it and life isn't normal if there isn't any problems i find it exhausting.
That Ford station wagon must have had a Star over its door. It's been in a dozen of these episodes.
It's great reading all your comments.....love the Fords !!! Just started my 57 fairlane project..a little slower than I used to be at 70 yrs old but when I see this show,,I get things moving.....Richie
@@richardrotondo8545 I two/toned a 1957 Ford like in THUNDER-ROAD Loved it. I think a black@white in Highway Patrol colors would rock, Good luck,🤩👍💯
I like how dude is wounded bad but assumed by the cop that he'll probably be ok and just leave him on the couch full of lead.
Two rounds to the chest and lays on the couch, no blood on gauze , no plasma, and then hops up ! LMAO !!
It was just a flesh wound!
I remember watching HP as a kid in the early sixties. My dad would make us grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup. Good times and fond memories.
Ahhh GC and TS.
Sounds like heaven on Earth. I know what is for lunch today. Thanks!
That's a good memory all right. The only food my father could cook was scrambled eggs and he usually got those a tad bit overdone.
The way Crawford grabbed that guy's hair at the end, it looked like he was going to scalp him.
Did you noticed that he lifted his head to help?
In this day and for many years after, the only way to identify or verify a credit card was to make a call ( long distance from an area out in the sticks such as in this story) So easy to pass stolen credit cards back then. About the same thing as our modern identity theft, so nothing's really changed. Just the method
Lol, in my early working days, we had a book / newspaper like thing we looked in to check, and purchases over $75 we called the cc company. I feel old as dirt now.
I used to cringe when a credit card was used at my Gulf station attendant job. Fearing I'd have to call it in. But I only saw them on gas purchases. No machines to read them. Just a paper slip.
@Brian Salomon Even in 1956 a new set of tires was well over $50.
And then like the cop asked on th e phone- "do you ACCEPT credit cards?" so unlike today credit cards were not accepted all over at everything from the local supermarket to a used car dealer!
Don't give rides to strangers, lady.
...regardless of how good looking they are or how smooth they talk.A punk is a punk.
In those days hitchhiking was very popular.
@@jan22150 Yes it was, and when I was about 6 or 7 in the mid 60s I did something that got me held after school at St Peters' I was locked in the classroom and the lights turned off, a few mins later the janitor came in and I snuck around the rolling blackboard and out, down the hallway and out the door. I soon wound up on the two lane highway out front and stuck out my thumb for a ride, a couple of cars passed me by but them a police car was coming up the hill and I made sure he saw my thumb as mom told me if you are even in trouble find a policeman, so there was my ride home I thought!
Not exactly... he stopped and was very angry and after admonishing me he flagged down a passing public school bus that had older kids on it and made the driver take me on the bus to near my regular bus stop about 5 miles from school.
That would never happen today, not any of that would play out like that, the school would have been sued, the cop never would have flagged down a passing bus etc.
Credit cards were new. My father was working as an Engineer in 1961 when he was given a credit card by the company. Only a few places honored it however. Family owned gas stations still existed in the 50s and early 60s but were largely gone by the 70s.
How did he know that a gun wos in the car.
I worked a retail job in the late 1980s. Most of the time we swiped cards but when the system was down we had the old machine. You put the card in, laid the carbon form on top and then pulled a handle and had them sign.
And it wasn't until the 60's that the first general purpose cards usable at different locations, as opposed to just certain gas stations or restaurants (the Diners' Club) were brought out.
My father had the very early Dinner's Club card.
@@josephjames259 I remember that, when we had paper, which kids today probably know what it is.
2150 di a first rate job of interviewing the hysterical woman. Very professional.
The gas station in the opening scene was located at 1000 N Alvarado St. The building still standing as of May 2019 Google Street View.
"Forget about the new tires. I want a new stereo."
@@skydiverclassc2031 A car stereo in 1958?
Even Muntz didn't have them until the early 60s. Prior to that all were mono.
Still there in 2024.
The woman gets car jacked, tied up and left in the woods. She frees herself. So not only is she much smarter than today's women she still looks better and much more classy than today's women dressed up for church! Love the 50's.
And how!
Not hard to be more classy than today's Kardashian followers.
I think you've been hanging out with the wrong women (well, except for the dressed up part).
AND SHES NOT A FAT COW
There was a moment that I flashed on Betty Page. Just a thought.
What I love about Highway Patrol is the black and white morality message. And thanks again Foxeema for posting!
Vello Ruus OK, I'll bite: what's a "black and white morality message"?
You wrote it, so please explain it. I never heard of any such thing.
@@lancasterritzyescargotdine2602Didn't you know?
_Technicolor is the work of Satan!_
No kinescope with these episodes which preserves them perfectly.
Speaking of solid car days in the old days. Bonnie and Clyde were driving a 1930s Ford and were hit by multiple rounds of 45 caliber bullets from a Thompson submachine gun but survived. Bullets just dented the Ford. Don't try that today. Cops went out and got a BAR (Browning Automatic Rifle) It fires 600 rounds a minute of 30 caliber bullets.
I saw that on the Netflix version of the cops who chased Bonnie and Clyde. The best scene was when one of the cops went into a store and bought shotguns and a BAR and other guns without a background check.
They survived? Got to watch that movie again.
Were they shot up twice? I only remember the last ambush and the cops were firing heavier stuff than a Thompson spews out, a BAR as you say, shotguns, and .35 Remingtons.
I didn't read the history. I saw the original movie and the Netflix show on the two Texas Rangers who caught up with them. I think they must have been shot at more than once.
They survived earlier shootouts but not the final with the Texas Rangers in Louisiana.
+@@Horse237 Hi, Hoss. From the spoken blurb at the beginning of each episode, would I be right in thinking that the Texas Rangers wouldn't in the least object to being called the Highway Patrol?
Night sure fell in a hurry in that last scene. The bad guy's shot in broad daylight and it's pitch black when Brod walks up to him.
+D. M. Bell That's interesting. Something must have malfunctioned with the camera. They needed an ending, so, they stuck in the nighttime scene to complete the episode. You can ever hear the crickets. Being able to watch these old shows and having the ability to reexamine a scene, you are able to see various screw ups.
They are also supposed to be way out in the boonies, and yet the streets have curbs and there are power lines and fire hydrants.
nitpicking
When the chrome was thick and the women were straight
Anyone recognize the area where they dumped the lady? That would be Chavez Ravine, better known now as Dodger Stadium.
You really recognize one spot of trees out of billions of square miles of them ? Not bad.
Couldn't create their own franchise. They had to steal "da bums" from Brooklyn. I don't remember that but my Dad sure did.
So Dodger stadium is a good place to dump chicks?
@@bovnycccoperalover3579 You're right about that....Many Dodger fans have never forgiven them still for moving......
Where?
Mrs. Carlisle, the one in the white sweater, was one beautiful cougar in the making.
Hm, but still think the second wife was sexier. She could have made my breakfast ANY time she liked (and shared it in bed with me too).
For pervs.
Thank you for uploading this episode.
Love this series! So good! Love these old shows! Thank you for uploading this episode!
Dan was getting it ON in that 1958 Buick Super!!!! Sucker was spinnin' them tires UPHILL, for JUSTICE!!!
That's a Buick Century clearly spelled on the back of the trunk
This was a wonderful episode. Thanks.
Sky king
I will chase the bad guys through the woods BUT I will not now or ever unbutton my jacket!
Dan “let’s put up a roadblock “ Matthews. A great cop.
Ah of the days when men were men, and that 58 Buick cop car melts my butter!!
I want a model of that '58 Buick. AMT made it. Does anybody out there have one to sell or trade?
Better the real thing.
The 58s sold very poorly , largely due to a recession that year. There was so much chrome on them and the critics ate them alive. As I remember the cars were quite reliable, a neighbor had a '58 convertible. That brightwork would cost a fortune to replate today if needed.
At least a lot of the side trim was stainless steel on the cars, even for some of the grilles.
retroolschool And not one of em had A/C
I love this show
Ahhh yes, The late 50"s, when the female body was beginning to be used for it's beauty.Snug fitting sweaters and skirts. Magnifique.
Women were elegantly yet decently dressed, but not "used" for their body.
Sex existed before the 1950s.
@@-oiiio-3993 I said NOTHING about sex.There were very strict standards in the movie industry until about the 50's.Morals and rules started to change about this time,and more emphasis was placed upon what women wore to "show-off" their body by the directors.Attractive bodies demand attention.You do not need sex itself to attract someone.Get it?
@@davidbrown-xk8zl Buy a good dictionary.
@@davidbrown-xk8zl Watch: th-cam.com/video/FRqcZcrgPaU/w-d-xo.html
Robbers giving complete stories to victims!
Love a nice station wagon from the 50's!
My first car was a 1956 Ford Customline Ranch Wagon with 312 T-Bird V8.
Ranch Wagons were two door, I called it a 'poor man's Nomad'.
Fantastic olden days show
See no computers and they still did very good. All they needed was telephones and two way radios! Ohh, simpler days!
Roadblocks too.
Guess neither of the crooks was a boy scout - their knots stay tied.
This is why I wouldn’t think of picking up a hitchhiker or giving a stranger a ride
Well, those fellas weren't very nice! .... but that '57 finned Belvedere sure is classy! 'Um, but the Michigan plate is expired!! .... 1956!?! And Matthews has already graduated to a '58 Buick!! :-( "That's the way the odds are sometimes" ... LOVE IT!
That was a 1958 Plymouth. The '57 had tall red tail lights.
The same is true of iron-clad Pentagon beasts taking on local combattants wearing no such paraphernalia in US-occupied countries. The "Men" species has moved East! Crawford says: "That's the way the odds are sometime.".
To out-gunned Oriental fighters facing Pentagon beasts, that's the way the odds are ALL the time!
14:20..."He's wounded, pretty serious, Doc says he'll pull through"....so they leave him on the couch ? LMAO !!!
Those were the days!! In many ways I much prefer life back then to today.
So the hunter near the end says "You not going after him with that revolver he's got a rifle" Crawford says " Sometimes that's the way the odds are stacked"! That must have been when men were men because today they'd have a SWAT team with armored vehicles there! Non of this mano a mano stuff!
You are so right!
You do know that this is a tv show and not a documentary, right?
@@dfsengineer Exactly, and this show didn't exactly strive for accuracy. If you want that you need to watch Dragnet.
The same is true of iron-clad Pentagon beasts taking on local combattants wearing no such paraphernalia in US-occupied countries. The "men" species has moved east! Crawford says: "That's the way odds are sometime.".
To out-gunned Oriental fighters facing Pentagon beasts, that's the way odds are ALL the time!
"That's the way the odds are sometime.".
So many players on this show later became stars. And all of the women are very attractive.
The tall bandit (Keith Richards) looked 35, much younger than his real age. He was good looking too.Not usual for Americans, who tend to look older.
As for women, yes, they tended to be more feminine and refined than modern US sluts.
Remember...Credit Card fraud is the death penalty.
I liked how the bad guys could shoot at Matthews with a machine gun and miss but one shot from his revolver and 3 guys fall down.
Ever seen the film 'Johnny Dangerously'? There's a scene with the character 'Chocolate Mousse' letting loose with a submachine gun (full auto) on a huge gaggle of US dough-boys and Wehrmacht soldiers all scrapping together in a tight melee. Guess which lot fall down.
@ 09:20 when women were awesome and men ate home-cooked meals nothing is better than the fifties and sixties!!!
The tall bandit (Keith Richards) looked 35, much younger than his real age. He was good looking too.Not usual for Americans, who tend to look older.
As for women, yes, they tended to be more feminine and refined than modern US sluts.
I would add never heard the f word in those days.
"I know this area pretty well and I'd like to help." , " OK, you supplied the bad guy with a high powered rifle, I think you've established your bona-fides."
one thing about this episode I thought was odd, the panel truck that blocked the old man, no one ever thought about moving it back out of the highway
I watched this mainly because of the words "credit card" in the title. I didn't realise credit cards went back that far. Here in Australia we didn't have credit cards until the 1970's, although some large department stores had their own store cards a few years before.
If you had a company car, your employer usually had done a deal with one of the fuel companies, and when you got fuel you filled out a paper form with carbon copies and gave the top 2 copies to the servo attendant. They posted off one copy and in due course they got mailed back a cheque.
Bank credit cards like BankAmericard (now Visa) may not have existed yet when this was filmed, but I think store and gas cards had been around for a while here in the States. Diners Club started in 1950 I think, but BankAmericard came out in the late '50s.
In the country where I live, credit card theft is so common, it's SOP for stores to ask for a valid ID card before they'd accept a credit card.
I'm surprised, if you are talking about Japan!.
I loved this show as a kid. Broderick Crawford was smarter than Sherlock Holmes. I didn’t realize until now that they kill the criminal/criminals in almost every episode!
amerivet And remember, one scene when the CHP is chasing the '32 Ford hot rod and shooting at it at the same time! OMG! Talk about instant desk duty...
yea, this is where it's different from Dragnet. Much more violent.
What Jimmy needs is some lunch and he'll be good as new.
@Terry Peterson
...and wife should use her head for more than a hat rack.
Gun in drawer at home = husband unprotected at business location.
Jimmy’s got the gun at the house for a reason.. Jimmy’s gonna have an ‘accident’
Jimmy's gettin' upset !!!
Tailfins! Tailfins! Tailfins!
Vertical stabilizers.
Grand old show from 1955, I watched every episode with my Dad when I was just 13. Great memories my friend! 🥴
Nobody was driving 1958 Buicks and 1957 Fords in 1955.
The Classic cars are from an Era gone by yet Harley Davidsons have hardly changed since 1958 ...
They got electric start in 65, new heads in 66 and 85, more gears, fuel injection , more displacement, etc.
Great to see all these viewers! Thanks again! I get some laughs w/ each episode!
a bunch of old geezers, like myself, enjoying the memories and one of the best shows on TV in those years!
Don't worry, rahkin, we're with you here. It's great fun watching all these hot women - and the cars aren't bad either. A pity I don't recognise any of them (living on the other side of 'the pond' as I do).
They probably had a mounting machine in the truck. Also an air compressor for the mounting machine. Also a gas powered electrical generator for the air compressor. And a tire balancer. They might even have had a car lift in the truck. Those two guys were professionals.
best show for all the old cars in new or near new condition,those truely were the days of excess,even the street scenes with random cars parked here n there,you see a lot of obscure models.
17:30 They use that station wagon almost every episode
The panel truck got some use too!
Yes! 1957 Ford Country Sedan ... two tone paint. Can't tell the other color (it's B&W after all!) but one is Colonial White. My Mom's '57 was a Custom 300 Tudor in Colonial White and Willow Green.
My dad had 2 Ford wagons, 64 Red, 66 light blue Country Squires !!
Dennis Andry I must be older. . .my dad had a ‘53 Ford station wagon. On trips we kids’d crawl all over inside the car. Sometimes go lie down in the ‘way back’ if we got tired . . . no seat belts. Mom would have the baby on her lap up front. Living dangerously LOL!
@@keywestjj I thought it was a Ford, thanks.
I love Broderick Crawford. I'm going to start telling my friends and acquaintances to: Hey, leave your blood at the Red Cross, not on the highway bud!
They must have used that Ford station wagon in many episodes. It was the 'go to' car for many of the criminals.
Every woman n man on here love each other n r happy being married
Sure, but it was in the late 50's. Not anymore.
Brodrick Crawford mostly played tough guys but was so charming. I think he is the reason these programs were so popular despite being pretty routine otherwise.
Those were the days of locally owned full service service stations. By full service I mean you knew the guy by name and they not only sold gas but tires. They changed the oil and did repairs on your car. Growing up, our neighbor owned a service station. Now you buy your gas at a convenience store and tires and repairs from a chain store.
{last scene dialog}DAN: "That's one I.O.U.!" Thats our Dan 'the Man' Matthews! =D
Grabs the corpse by the hair and gives it a shake....
👍 great show.
In 1960 they invented surgery and emergency rooms.
Stupid, surgery goes back to WW I.
Gas must have cost .19 a gallon back in those days.
Averaged .30 per gallon in the U.S. in 1958, $2.72 in today's $ per www.usinflationcalculator.com/: www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles/fact-915-march-7-2016-average-historical-annual-gasoline-pump-price-1929-2015
I remember in 1965 it was 32 cents a gallon.
Credit Card thief dead. Today they sit home, steal your identity from your Microsoft made insecure laptop, and spend till the cows come home, and never get caught. This is real progress.
Not if you have life lock. They will put the stops to it very fast.
Breakfast or lunch .. I'm thinking afternoon delight with that woman.
@ 8:30 +? I'd eat that for ANY meal!
^^^@blueticecho .. You guy's are funny Ha!!! :P] .v ..
Yup, she's a real sweetie. Such a lovely face to come home to after a day's work and find her smiling at you, with dinner nearly ready.
Means you are a frustrated perv.
Great acting for the year never get fed up keep going
Dan smoking on the job. First time I've seen that. Maybe it was to hide the whiskey on his breath?
Keith Richards, who played Garner's accomplice, looked a lot different back then.
This was before he came a Rolling Stone, and all of the drugs he used. 😊😊
That’s what you get Lady when you pick-up strange men at a Truck Stop. 🥴
At least they didn't rape the box off the woman in the bushes as they probably would these days. Even criminals set a good example in movies at least.
Dig the dispatcher with the shiny vacu-form hair. Unreal!
Vacu-form. I had one of those.
Remember brylcreem?
@@markmccarty1275 Oh yes! Don't remember if I ever used it or not, but the commercials were all over TV, radio, magazine ads & billboards, as I recall. Remember, "Just a little dab'll do ya!"
@@markmccarty1275 + Vitalis Hair Tonic + Wildroot Cream oil
@@markmccarty1275 A little dab'll do ya!
In today's world of 2023 one would not find a woman (even a man!) driving a complete stranger anywhere!!!
Unless it was at the wrong end of a "44" -!!!😳.
Broderick Crawford could've played Tony Soprano.
No he couldn't have dude he died in the 70s what are you talking about
Women in calf-length dresses and skirts, without nose rings, purple or green hair, who looked and acted like women should. Those were the days.
The 60s changed everything.
I like how George the Animal Steele's dad was a policeman. Or is this Lobo from "Ed Wood" after the speech surgery? Don't mess with the MoPar.
The great moral of this series was "listen to your wife, partner, brother sister before doing anything foolish.
today there'll be 20 thousand ambulance chasers like vultures to take him to the hospital😂!
Jimmy was a dim bulb, trying to take the law into his own hands, especially after having been warned by the Highway Patrol. That's what Dan Mathews is for.
Jimmy wanted to be a cop, but Jimmy’s stuck in a gas station,…. Jimmy’s been listening to ‘nag,nag,nag’ all day… but now, Jimmy’s got a gun…
Guy got knocked out but knew what way the car went lol.
OK. I have a problem with 50s plot logic. This service station guy gets shot, and it's supposedly "bad, but he'll pull through". So why isn't this guy in a hospital instead of laying on his couch? They said they were going to call an ambulance, so why didn't it take him to a friggin hospital?
telephotousa Pre Obama care.
telephotousa People were very naive then, they would not notice such things. I remember when this was on Prime Time.
I remember when there were no paramedics. If you were Dead or Wounded either way, they most often called the Funeral Home, as they operated the "Ambulance service" as well. If you were still alive, they took you to the Hospital. If DEAD, to the funeral Home or the Morgue (if they had one) and the cops would make that determination. Where I live in Texas we have no "morgue" to this day. We have no "Coroner". the JP does that, and my DOG can be elected JP in Texas.
Now for every fender bender car wreck they have they send two ambulances and FIRE TRUCKS when there is no FIRE. They wear this multi-million dollar equipment out like there is a bottomless pit of money out there now. OVERKILL. Probably the results of Lawsuits. There is no common sense left in the USA. BB
+Bob Burnitt Yeah and back then they didn't block off a half square mile area around a simple accident, let along a crime scene. Now they close down an interstate highway, both directions all too often. Dumb.
Mark Muffs The whole country has lost its common sense. BB
+Bob Burnitt and I did ok without cell phones for much of my life. If I wasn't home, then try again later. Still don't have a smart phone or an Ipod, got plenty of other things to occupy my time
Season 3, Episode 29 (21 Apr. 1958)
6:34 Eyebrows like a '59 Impala. Cute as usual with the gals on this show.
"You let me worry about the gun and worry about that lunch."
Imagine a boy these days saying such a thing? She'd dump the lunch on his head after shooting him.
I once owned a '59 Impala Sport Coupe - Roman Red, 348, factory air, rear mounted antenna... .
What a lady! Beautiful, and an escape artist too.
She did pretty good.
One of the best episodes, thanks !