@@ggeorge4144 I still work on them. I work in a restoration shop. I don't do bodywork just mechanical. I love the tail fins. A few were over done a bit, but they are still beautiful compared to anything made recently. The '70s was the last decade for nice looking cars. The trash they call car today is 100 times uglier than anything ever made back then. I also used to consider the '58 and '59 Chevys ugly, and they were, at least to me, after the beautiful '55, '56, and '57. But everything is relative. I would gladly take a '59 Chevy over anything made during the past 30+ years
I do, but here's another reason to tune in ... watch for the episode where Crawford falls out of the helicopter drunk and breaks his ankle Lol. Not sure if they left the fall in, but experts say the plaster cast and limp are visible in some episodes. "And remember ... leave your liquor receipts in your pocket ... and not out on the highway" 👀 😖 Lol 🙂 ...
Time is going too fast I made that statement 2 years ago I am showing my age I watch metv for shows like highway patrol matlock and the weather channel so nice to make it to 73 years young
The DeSoto was discontinued in 1961. The good looking woman in this episode was Lynn Cartwright. She was in Wasp Woman and A League of Their Own. She was married to Leo Gordon who played tough guys. Their only child was Tara Gordon.
Did you notice the officer with Broderick Crawford. William Boyett--Sargent on Adam 12. The WW2 generation was great. Designed those beautiful cars by hand not fancy CAD computer software. The good old days when your girl could sit next to you..
The girl - "Be careful about my (mink) coat !" Dan - "Don't worry, it'll be in cold storage too." I'd like to make a book with the last sentences of Dan Matthews. A delight. Thanks. Watched it twice, still very good.
I love to see how the Markets were in those days of the Highway Patrol show! My late aunt said that for $6.00 she would buy enough groceries to fill up all her kitchen cabinets! No wonder my family was so happy in those days! In photos, they all have big smiles on their faces! They bought new homes for like $10,000! The homes were not super fancy but very comfortable!
Kenny Scarborough well I started watching reruns in early 1970s after school , either channel 9 or. 11. ?? Anyways. Really. Digged the old cars and all! Any how. 2017 I'm still watching. Reruns on my. Tablet, that's my. Story,peace out kids!!!
I must have fallen asleep or didn't get to see HP when I was young. And I'm right behind ya as far as age. But tell me if ya still come here, that wavering background and other seasick oddities in the background, was that present in the original or does it have to do with the conversion to digital?
I don't recall watching this show as a kid but I'm sure glad I found them on TH-cam. Love the classic cars, the beautiful women, the great storylines and actors and of course Broderick. He was a no nonsense cop.
The excellent actor Broderick Crawford as Dan Matthews was a rapid talker, but I never had any problem understanding him! I was born in the late 1940s and this marvelous show was one of my very favorites in the 1950s! We kids just adored Broderick and his "10-4"!
@ John Allen It has been said that Crawford was very intelligent and had a photographic memory. He had the capacity to learn and remember his lines very, very quickly. Sadly however, it was also said that he had an alcohol problem. He was a great actor though!!!!!
Many intelligent people have addictions, Crawfor died at 74, not bad for a man who was overweight most of his life, by the way he was worth 34 million when he passed.
Just think, today, most of what are nice neighbourhoods back then in this and other old shows not shot on a set, are mostly the run down, old working poor parts of town today. So much for the American Dream. Sad a lot of Baby Boomers only got a taste of that,and those after not at all. I do remember those days and penny candy, coke for a nickle or a dime, candy bars for a nickle or dime. They were real, full size candy bars too. Someone bring me this tiny cog for my Time Machine and we'll all go back for a day or two. (Just kidding) haha Would be nice.
ask yourself what most of those formerly nice areas have in common now, forced integration is what ruined this country. yea yea yea i'm some evil mean old racist, but the truth and the facts aren't racist, they are just the facts.
1mrstutt - Love those cars and the powerful VRROOOMM when they start. I always drove what I called “ tank” size. You know, made of actual metal. Not plastic. Bench seat, the solid thud of the doors closing. And you didn’t have to disassemble everything under the hood to get to spark plugs, etc.; I miss the old-school mechanics who knew the problem without a computer!
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Anna: Yeah, in about 65 my dad took the old Ford to have a mechanic install seat belts for safety at highway speeds for vacations, because cars normally didn't come with seat belts. And for normal seat belts, there were no shoulder harnesses.
After '57 the DeSoto lost the Hemi Head engine due to cost cut backs inside the Chrysler Corp. They had the 383 big block wedge which was no slouch in performance but it wasn't the legendary hemi. In '59 DeSoto still had the Adventuer with its special gold grille, side trim, hub caps and interior as the top of the line. Great memories.
*I'm a 59 Melon. My Dad had a black 59 Chevy(;)* *I used to Love laying on the seat, and watch the Stars at night, as Dad drove us home. It was a cloud like ride(:)*
When I saw it I thought, "What would it be like to drive this car when it was BRAND NEW"? Restorations are not the same. Those materials no longer exist and the car will not smell as it should.
Crawford sounded unconvincing to me, as if he was just going through the motions and in a hurry to go somewhere else. By 1959 he was a heavy drinker and was out of major pictures like "Born Yesterday", so having to work for a crap cheapskate t.v. company like 'Ziv' (the owner's name) was really hurting him.
2:31 If a beautiful girl like that knocks on your door in a motel, smiles at you and asks for a light, the first thing that you should think of is -- IT'S A TRAP!!!
Shizuka Mori: Yes. One time some really gourgous chick was smiling at me so enticingly I literally was looking behind me to see who she was smiling at, as NO woman looked at me like that except my girlfriend on occasion, much less a very beautiful one. Then it dawned on me. She'd seen the cash in my wallet when I just paid my bill, and was clearly a hooker. (Late night in a Waffle House in a Motel district). LOL
I want to go back. A time in America that will never be repeated. It's a good thing we didn't know then what was coming because it would have ruined our happiness.
@@Richard_K1630 I'd go back in an instant & I'm not just saying that because I don't know or care where Glendale is or what it has to do with anything...
That crook lady needs serious lessons for backing out of a driveway.Although that was a tiny driveway.Those are very nice old houses in that neighborhood. actually when you think about it, Dan Matthews looks a lot like a ground hog. lol I am so glad that they didn't kill the jewelry courier. he was top notch.
Donnie Nicholson my house was built in 1940. Telephone pole one foot from my driveway. AT&T replaced it last year with a new one. Now it is six inches from my driveway. Go figure.
The so-called "" Trans-Continental Train " Was in fact the Southern Pacific " Lark " From San Francisco to Los Angeles, Pulled by Black Widow F7 Units.
S.P. 'Black Widows' ("radio-equipped") built ca.1952 featured in the end-sequences of "Bad Day At Black Rock" made in 1954: their brief but impressive presence helped make the picture memorable, despite their anachronistic post-war paint-job that only railroad geeks would have noticed.
Thanks for the desription of the train. I'ts in black and white and knew this was filmed in California and it looked like the Southern Pacific passenger train but was not sure without the color. I had guessed the Sunset Limited East Coast to West Coast Southern Pacific train route. I'm from St. Louis and have ridden all the AMTRAK rail West of St. Louis as a way to see The West, and have enjoyed reading the history of those routes.
That train roaring across the desert in " Bad Day At Black Rock" was a sight to behold !!!! That movie was to my mine the best "film noir" movie ever with a dynamic cast !!!!! The scene where Spencer Tracy knocks Earnest Borgnine out of the bar was the "scene stealer" !!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Back in the day anyone could put a guy in the trunk in broad daylight on a neighborhood street. Luv this show when I was a kid, and still do....2150 bye.
This episode first ran on May 25, 1959. It would be one of the last of the series. Broderick Crawford said that they ran out of crimes to solve so it was time to end the series.
1959 was a very sunny carefree year as I remember it, before things started to go down hill family-wise/life-wise in the '60s : the year that the burned-out, washed-up Errol Flynn died, his last performance (aired posthumously) being in a feeble Red Skelton Show comedy sketch.
_"Broderick Crawford said that they ran out of crimes to solve so it was time to end the series."_ Or, the producers ran out of patience with Crawford's out-of-control drinking and pulled the plug. The debate rages on.
Born in 1953 I sure remember watching Highway Patrol. I remember having a toy police car with two policemen and barking out orders one to the other like Broderick Crawford. I see this was from 1959 and Broderick Crawford's partner is the one I remember seeing. Thanks for placing on TH-cam. I enjoyed seeing the Southern Pacific passenger train as I became a bit of a rail buff and have ridden all the AMTRAK rail routes west of St. Louis.
@@ralphquinteros7564 Yep, I had me one of those once. She'd get mad if I tipped a server. I had to explain that yes the girl had a job but tipping for good service was expected because they are paid around $2.00 an hour. She also made more than me so I wasn't good enough for her. My just getting out of the Navy after 10 years was not a valid excuse.
In my humble opinion, the absolute "highlight" of this episode, being the dazzling appearance, of this unforgettable and voluptuous brunette, who was the kidnappers accomplice, being non other than, actress, Lynn Cartwright. This statuesque lady, was also known, for two other notable appearances, during her rather modest acting career. Her most memorable moments, were in the film "Queen of Outer Space", circa 1958 as one of the Venucian patrol members, whom initially captured Eric Fleming's crew, speaking her only line in the film, and I quote here: "botchino! botchino!" end quote, occurring, early in the film, and, Lynn being seen, occasionally in the remainder of the proceedings. Her second major celluloid appearance, being in the film, "The Wasp Woman" circa 1959, playing the role of Miss Janice Starlin`s receptionist, and this time around, having a few more lines. And those lines, eloquently spoken, in a truly superb rendition of "Flatbush", quite a gal, indeed.........
Fantasy characters, no one is like that in real life. Its like expecting every man to be good looking, 99% of men are very, very far from attractive, its the rare 1% who are!
Ms Cartwright’s father was a U.S. Congressman, Wilburn Cartwright, Oklahoma, where she grew up. She also had the uncredited role in the academy award 1960 movie, "The Apartment" as the woman in the elevator with the clicker.
@@gatormangrove7295 YES, tiny mind. You missed the real GANGSTERS that aren’t afraid to stand up to an oppressed communist government. Your thinking is very small minded.
Broderick Crawford is one of my favorites! I read that on weekends he would get together with Lon Chaney Jr, and they would hit the bottle together. Crawford would be filmed on the show with bumps on his forehead once in a while!
Believe it or not! I saw an Italian film and Broderick Crawford was in it (50's or 60's)! It was around the time they were making Hercules spaghetti films! Broderick was kind of laughing in that film!
I agree, Paul Broderick Crawford!! LOL You're right, still good advice today. Today's drivers are sometime crazy on the freeways. They tailgate,sometimes within a half a car-length behind me. I wish the California Highway Patrol would give tickets to them all.
Paul Broderick You do know that Crawford suffered from Alcoholism and during the run of the series, MOST of the time his OWN driver's license was revoked due to DWI. If you notice a LOT of the scenes where Crawford is actually driving it is on DIRT or Gravel roads. This was due to TWO things, one private roads were cheaper to rent and Crawford could drive ion them, but when they rented public streets sometimes he was NOT allowed to drive on them due to suspended or revoked licenses. But he is an interesting fellow, and the Film "All the Kinds Men" he of course won a very deserved Oscar. If you have never seen that film you should it is TIMELESS and very good. Also, very often Crawford was drunk by NOON (so I have read, I was not an eye witness). So scenes with Dialogue from HIM had to be shot in the morning when he was on a terror. also the HIRED people to WATCH him to try to keep him from drinking on the set. Crawford would bribe people to bring him booze. But who would turn down Broderick Crawford?? Also, his drinking Buddy was Lon Chaney Jr. also a Big man and a BIG drinker, when they were not working and heavily drinking they were known to go out to the studios and cause trouble. He was quite a rabble rouser. And it shows, some times I THINK I can tell he is Hung Over is the scenes. But he was GOOD, he was a great actor and "fit the times". It, to me is kind of sad he drank like that, he was blessed with a lot of talent, he had a lot going for him. It still holds up today. I remember seeing hosting Saturday Night Live once, that was really something to see. I was born in 1951 and remember my parents watching this show when it was on Prime time. BB
At 16:53 Matthews asks the clerk where the package is. Lo and behold! He gets it out from under the front desk! Didn't Dan tell the clerk to put that package where the crook couldn't find it? Maybe the clerk thought Dan said, "Put the packge where the armed and dangerous man CAN find it."
Anna Weathers: Yeah, as soon as he grabbed the package from right behind the front desk, I thought, "What HORRIBLE continuity". He also told the clerk the man was armed and dangerous and to stay out of the way, and there he was right up front. Like a house cat or an inattentive 8 year old.
Love that ending, guy gets hit on the shoulder, comes running right out "Don't shoot, Im hit !" What a pussy, didnt even put up a fight. Now, the women, OMG ! These have got to be the two most beautiful women in all the episodes. That one in the fur coat with all those dark features against that creamy colored skin and that amazing height, and the unlikely room attendant, so beautiful, with the nice manicure and all. I think I'd start with the room girl and leave the crook for desert !
axiomist: Yeah, if you got shot in the shoulder you'd be bench pressing 500 pounds and wrestling a bear. /s Shoulder injuries can hurt like HELL. I have intermittent inflammation problems in random joints, and shoulders are the WORST. When it's really bad in a shoulder sometimes I can't even find a position where I can BREATHE without the motion causing enough pain to prevent any chance of sleep. It's easy to pretend you're super tough if you're clueless.
@@owseichik: Interesting. I don't remember that. It's funny how as a kid you just didn't absorb lots of stuff. Or maybe by the time I would remember (say '65 or later), that had already changed.
The problem with law enforcement these days is officers talk too slow... Luckily, Dan Matthews was able to show us how it should be done. Time is money people!
I love the Chevy Impala or The Chevy Bel Air 1959. My kind of car. The thieves car was probabably a 1957 Plymouth Fury with Virgil Xner's hi fins design and had a 383 cubic inch motor! The Chevy Impala probably a 283 small block, with a three speed manual shift stick on the colomn.
Great cars, great acting, great messages !! As retired law enforcement...uhhh...not so good on the tactical stuff. You can't have everything. This was an awesome "good guys win" show however.
This Lynn Cartwright of the league of their own fame was one tall fine looking statuette, she basically tower almost all the cops including chief Mathews in This episode
Thanks for telling me her name , I've seen her in a couple of older movies I didn't know it was the same woman that was in a league of their Own. She played the older version of Geena Davis correct ?
Remember, what we think of as classic cars now were just the run of the mill family cars back then. Complete with a ride like a water bed. Comfy if you didn't try to corner it too fast. They must have rented that mink coat, that actress really seems to have been in love with it.
Interesting how the series focused on "crime" and not the other duties of CHP. They never pulled over a drunk as far as I know on the show although Broderick Crawford was drunk most every day and and was pulled over many times during the run of the show. Of course celebrities were rarely arrested back then.
Why do they always ask the operator to hurry? As if the operator would take their time plugging in the connection. 5:23 Dan writes the info down, leaves the paper on the desk, walks into the other room, and hands it to the radio guy. Ooops. Only to find out that the Railway Express Agent had switched boxes, and he's now on the way to Mexico.
I am here for the Classic cars who else love the cars ?
I like the Desoto but ‘59 Chevrolet is ugliest car ever made.
I love old cars except for the dorky tail fins.
@@ggeorge4144 I still work on them. I work in a restoration shop. I don't do bodywork just mechanical. I love the tail fins. A few were over done a bit, but they are still beautiful compared to anything made recently. The '70s was the last decade for nice looking cars. The trash they call car today is 100 times uglier than anything ever made back then. I also used to consider the '58 and '59 Chevys ugly, and they were, at least to me, after the beautiful '55, '56, and '57. But everything is relative. I would gladly take a '59 Chevy over anything made during the past 30+ years
I do, but here's another reason to tune in ... watch for the episode where Crawford falls out of the helicopter drunk and breaks his ankle Lol. Not sure if they left the fall in, but experts say the plaster cast and limp are visible in some episodes. "And remember ... leave your liquor receipts in your pocket ... and not out on the highway" 👀 😖 Lol 🙂 ...
Time is going too fast I made that statement 2 years ago I am showing my age I watch metv for shows like highway patrol matlock and the weather channel so nice to make it to 73 years young
Fantastic show. Still better than anything that's come out of holly wood for decades.
The DeSoto was discontinued in 1961.
The good looking woman in this episode was Lynn Cartwright. She was in Wasp Woman and A League of Their Own. She was married to Leo Gordon who played tough guys. Their only child was Tara Gordon.
Leo Gordon had been a crook before going into pictures: he even wrote film-scripts when he wasn't playing heavies.
she passed 1/2/2004 at age 76 in la shes beautiful. RIP Lynn Cartwright
Thanks for that info. She was gorgeous. Is it just me or are there tons of beautiful women in these episodes? I thought even the maid was beautiful!
And this De Soto model is a 1959 Hardtop. Lovely to all those cars again.
Yeh, Horse 237...She played a remarkable older Geena Davis (Dottie) at the reunion in A-L-o-T-O...so believable in that character!
Did you notice the officer with Broderick Crawford. William Boyett--Sargent on Adam 12.
The WW2 generation was great. Designed those beautiful cars by hand not fancy CAD computer software. The good old days when your girl could sit next to you..
The girl - "Be careful about my (mink) coat !"
Dan - "Don't worry, it'll be in cold storage too."
I'd like to make a book with the last sentences of Dan Matthews. A delight.
Thanks. Watched it twice, still very good.
Yes, the most beautiful classic cars are used in Highway Patrol.
Simply beautiful.
I love to see how the Markets were in those days
of the Highway Patrol show! My late aunt said that for $6.00 she would buy enough groceries to fill up all her kitchen cabinets! No wonder my family was so happy in those days! In photos, they all have big smiles on their faces! They bought new homes for like $10,000! The homes were not super fancy but very comfortable!
Back when cars had style and grace and not run thru a wind-tunnel all looking the same
Linda: love those tails ❤
$6.00?! Are you sure? Probably $20.00 is a more reasonable figure.
And real women!!!!!!
Highway Patrol was my absolute favorite show when I was in grade school....and I am 63 today,
Kenny Scarborough well I started watching reruns in early 1970s after school , either channel 9 or. 11. ?? Anyways. Really. Digged the old cars and all! Any how. 2017 I'm still watching. Reruns on my. Tablet, that's my. Story,peace out kids!!!
me i am 67 i remember 2
I must have fallen asleep or didn't get to see HP when I was young. And I'm right behind ya as far as age. But tell me if ya still come here, that wavering background and other seasick oddities in the background, was that present in the original or does it have to do with the conversion to digital?
I don't recall watching this show as a kid but I'm sure glad I found them on TH-cam. Love the classic cars, the beautiful women, the great storylines and actors and of course Broderick. He was a no nonsense cop.
@@dannypatta7487 KHJ or KTTV?
CLASSIC CARS, CLASSIC PEOPLE, CLASSIC CALIFORNIA, BEFORE THE SMOG AND THE TROUBLES THAT ARE TO FOLLOW sadly it will never be as good...
We tried KOFA in the70's, "Keep Other Folks Away," It obviously didn't work, still a lot continue to exit CA. I did, 1993
They had smog in L.A. back in the '40s, but not so much of the human mess that's so evident there today.
Even with ALL WHITE murderers,thieves and crooks you Trunts make racist remarks.
@@donnienicholson6062 Being emotional doesn't disprove what was said.
There is no illegals on this show, the maid is English speaking
Attentive motel female employee. Well done! Love this series.
She had the number from when the guy checked in.He put it on the registration card
A honey bear.
The excellent actor Broderick Crawford as Dan Matthews was a rapid talker, but I never had any problem understanding him! I was born in the late 1940s and this marvelous show was one of my very favorites in the 1950s! We kids just adored Broderick and his "10-4"!
"21-50 by"
See the show with actor Ed Nelson in it! Man, Ed Nelson
was handsome!
As fast as Brodrick Crawford speaks this would be a 45 min. show with anybody else playing his part. LOL
@ John Allen
It has been said that Crawford was very intelligent and had a photographic memory. He had the capacity to learn and remember his lines very, very quickly. Sadly however, it was also said that he had an alcohol problem. He was a great actor though!!!!!
Many intelligent people have addictions, Crawfor died at 74, not bad for a man who was overweight most of his life, by the way he was worth 34 million when he passed.
" Be careful with my coat".
" Don't worry, it will be in cold storage too." Dan , the one liner.😂
Yeah, for about 10 years. It'll be right there until you get out.
Robbery and kidnapping in the 1950s
The penalty would be at least ten years.
That mink would be placed in police storage room and , not cold storage.
Just think, today, most of what are nice neighbourhoods back then in this and other old shows not shot on a set, are mostly the run down, old working poor parts of town today. So much for the American Dream. Sad a lot of Baby Boomers only got a taste of that,and those after not at all. I do remember those days and penny candy, coke for a nickle or a dime, candy bars for a nickle or dime. They were real, full size candy bars too. Someone bring me this tiny cog for my Time Machine and we'll all go back for a day or two. (Just kidding) haha Would be nice.
Maybe where YOU live, but in the San Fernando Valley, Towns like Burbank still have nice neighbourhoods and are not mostly rundown.
And all those large candy bars gave you diabetes.
I agree, there was something so special about those neighborhoods, so sad to see what they became.😟
I guess there is a cloud behind every silver lining, eh?
ask yourself what most of those formerly nice areas have in common now, forced integration is what ruined this country. yea yea yea i'm some evil mean old racist, but the truth and the facts aren't racist, they are just the facts.
"Don't worry, it'll be in cold storage too".
Love this show, remember from my youth. Seeing all the great old cars is just icing on the cake!
1mrstutt - Love those cars and the powerful VRROOOMM when they start. I always drove what I called “ tank” size. You know, made of actual metal. Not plastic. Bench seat, the solid thud of the doors closing. And you didn’t have to disassemble everything under the hood to get to spark plugs, etc.; I miss the old-school mechanics who knew the problem without a computer!
@@Charlotte-wp9rf Hey
Someone stole your engine, Anfield the engine compartment up with plastic boxes
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Those were the good old days alright
Down like a sack of flour. Simmer down. What snappy dialogue
No seat belts. That maid would be a good police woman. Broderick talks so fast that you'd need an interpreter to know what he just said.
They need to have subtitles in the show to translate from English to English.
Wouldn't want to have to take dictation. And I once qualified for court reporting -- 140 wpm.
He must have been jonesing for a drink
@@Scott-ly2nk How profound.
Anna: Yeah, in about 65 my dad took the old Ford to have a mechanic install seat belts for safety at highway speeds for vacations, because cars normally didn't come with seat belts. And for normal seat belts, there were no shoulder harnesses.
After '57 the DeSoto lost the Hemi Head engine due to cost cut backs inside the Chrysler Corp. They had the 383 big block wedge which was no slouch in performance but it wasn't the legendary hemi. In '59 DeSoto still had the Adventuer with its special gold grille, side trim, hub caps and interior as the top of the line. Great memories.
A '59 Chevrolet and a '59 DeSoto - two beautiful finned cars.
You've got that right! My Dad had a 59 Chevy. Great car.
First car I ever owned.
The "bizarrely" styled '59 Chevy was a sales disaster they cleaned up the styling in 1960
*I'm a 59 Melon. My Dad had a black 59 Chevy(;)*
*I used to Love laying on the seat, and watch the Stars at night, as Dad drove us home. It was a cloud like ride(:)*
I had one too!
This is a fantastic show from the 50s!! Crawford was an incredible actor!
59 DeSoto one of the most beautiful cars ever.
They really were into the space race back then. All the fins on the cars. Very much "The Jetsons".
When I saw it I thought, "What would it be like to drive this car when it was BRAND NEW"? Restorations are not the same. Those materials no longer exist and the car will not smell as it should.
@@CarsandCats Right nothing would be the same. Even the air from 1957 would smell different
Nice to look at, but it didn't handle too well.
@@donkeyslayer4661 None from that era did. Straight line and even they would get a little twitchy. Machining was not very exact in the 1950's.
17:07, the only map in any episode of "Highway Patrol" that Dan didn't draw circles on.
I love that cleaning woman!
I wonder what kind of cigarettes Dan smoked? Looks to me like Chesterfield or Pall Mall. Ex-smoker here so we wonder about those things LOL.
Maybe Camels?
I am here for the beautiful Dames. Who else is here for the beautiful Dames? 😃
I don't want to say anything about women drivers, but she couldn't even back up in a straight line.
Of course not. She's crooked!
sometimes Dan talks so fast you really have to pay attention...lol...👍
Crawford sounded unconvincing to me, as if he was just going through the motions and in a hurry to go somewhere else. By 1959 he was a heavy drinker and was out of major pictures like "Born Yesterday", so having to work for a crap cheapskate t.v. company like 'Ziv' (the owner's name) was really hurting him.
I don't think he talks fast.
Me too! LOVE these cars..!!!& The acting ! & Love the houses ...and Broderick Crawford!!!..really like
"Get in the car but don't leave ,get ready to come out shoot'n" 😂👍🏻
2:31 If a beautiful girl like that knocks on your door in a motel, smiles at you and asks for a light, the first thing that you should think of is -- IT'S A TRAP!!!
Sorry lady, I don't smoke, but you're so hot it should light itself.
@NotaVampyre111 that was good I love it. She is so hot it could lit itself.
If it seems too good to be true it probably is.
Shizuka Mori: Yes. One time some really gourgous chick was smiling at me so enticingly I literally was looking behind me to see who she was smiling at, as NO woman looked at me like that except my girlfriend on occasion, much less a very beautiful one. Then it dawned on me. She'd seen the cash in my wallet when I just paid my bill, and was clearly a hooker. (Late night in a Waffle House in a Motel district). LOL
Love those beautiful cars
I was like 7 back then and I still remember those wonderful American cars!
The Southern Pacific Glendale Station again.
thank you
Notice NO GRAFFITI anywhere? No Cholos.
"Don't forget the tell the lab boys our prints are on that phone!" LOL
I want to go back. A time in America that will never be repeated. It's a good thing we didn't know then what was coming because it would have ruined our happiness.
Sure buddy, whatever. Glendale CA was once a Sundown Town. And you want to go back.
@@Richard_K1630 I'd go back in an instant & I'm not just saying that because I don't know or care where Glendale is or what it has to do with anything...
You are clearly correct and we have a senile socialist in power.
He always had some famous last words fb or the crooks loved that, "font worry itll be in cold storage too.
You'd be ancient now if you lived during this time.
Nice episode, but the real star of it is the De Soto coupe, a masterpiece ! Thanks
One of my classmates' father would drop him off at school in a DeSoto just like that. For some reason, despite their size, they never looked overdone
That crook lady needs serious lessons for backing out of a driveway.Although that was a tiny driveway.Those are very nice old houses in that neighborhood. actually when you think about it, Dan Matthews looks a lot like a ground hog. lol I am so glad that they didn't kill the jewelry courier. he was top notch.
Damn near crunched the right quarter panel on that telephone pole too.That was the scariest part of this episode
Notice the engineers were the same back then.Put a power pole touching the driveway.
Donnie Nicholson my house was built in 1940. Telephone pole one foot from my driveway. AT&T replaced it last year with a new one. Now it is six inches from my driveway. Go figure.
Drives like a dame. . . . .
@@jeffmayo2439 I probably would've scraped the telephone pole.
The so-called "" Trans-Continental Train " Was in fact the Southern Pacific " Lark " From San Francisco to Los Angeles, Pulled by Black Widow F7 Units.
S.P. 'Black Widows' ("radio-equipped") built ca.1952 featured in the end-sequences of "Bad Day At Black Rock" made in 1954: their brief but impressive presence helped make the picture memorable, despite their anachronistic post-war paint-job that only railroad geeks would have noticed.
I love those streamliner EMD's. They were icon's of the 1950's.
Thanks for the desription of the train. I'ts in black and white and knew this was filmed in California and it looked like the Southern Pacific passenger train but was not sure without the color. I had guessed the Sunset Limited East Coast to West Coast Southern Pacific train route. I'm from St. Louis and have ridden all the AMTRAK rail West of St. Louis as a way to see The West, and have enjoyed reading the history of those routes.
@@murphynapoleon Makes it pretty realistic.
That train roaring across the desert in " Bad Day At Black Rock" was a sight to behold !!!! That movie was to my mine the best "film noir" movie ever with a dynamic cast !!!!! The scene where Spencer Tracy knocks Earnest Borgnine out of the bar was the "scene stealer" !!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Broderick Crawford would have made a great gangster.
Watch "Born Yesterday".
Those words of wisdom from Broderik at the end always help to make this show seem so realistic.
"Get ready to come out shootin' " LOL. They don't write 'em like that anymore.
Another classic episode. Bravo.
Liked the one liner”don’t worry it will be in cold storage too”
I read that the real police were mad a Crawford as he was caught drunk driving, probably more than once!
The bad guy drove a cool Desoto car. Hope this did not contribute to the demise of the Desoto!!!
The DeSoto's ran 1928 to 1960, it was discontinued after that.
@@daleschneider7689 In 1961 they built 911 2-dr and 2,123 4--dr. Then Good-Bye DeSoto.
Ahhh, the 4-60 air conditioner for 50s cars. Four widows down going sixty miles an hour.
I remember that saying and my Dad using it on our car with no air conditioning LOL.
Really good series! Love the cars of that period in time!
Back in the day anyone could put a guy in the trunk in broad daylight on a neighborhood street. Luv this show when I was a kid, and still do....2150 bye.
i love this show and i just turned 65!
Very good writing in this episode.I truly enjoyed it very much.Thanks for posting these episidoes.
This episode first ran on May 25, 1959. It would be one of the last of the series. Broderick Crawford said that they ran out of crimes to solve so it was time to end the series.
Exactly two months before I was born
1959 was a very sunny carefree year as I remember it, before things started to go down hill family-wise/life-wise in the '60s : the year that the burned-out, washed-up Errol Flynn died, his last performance (aired posthumously) being in a feeble Red Skelton Show comedy sketch.
According to the Goltz book, there were five episodes after this one. The last episode was "Bank Messenger."
_"Broderick Crawford said that they ran out of crimes to solve so it was time to end the series."_ Or, the producers ran out of patience with Crawford's out-of-control drinking and pulled the plug. The debate rages on.
The diamond courier said he and diamonds never travel on the same plane. He came by train. OOPS!
And they came from across the ocean first.
@@RustyOpel Yep, this was before they built the rail to Europe thanks to the New Green Deal.
Have always liked this show - and Broderick Crawford could sure chew up and spit out the dialogue.
Born in 1953 I sure remember watching Highway Patrol. I remember having a toy police car with two policemen and barking out orders one to the other like Broderick Crawford. I see this was from 1959 and Broderick Crawford's partner is the one I remember seeing. Thanks for placing on TH-cam. I enjoyed seeing the Southern Pacific passenger train as I became a bit of a rail buff and have ridden all the AMTRAK rail routes west of St. Louis.
Great program great memories
That partner is the late 'William Boyt' who can be seen playing the Sargent on numerous episodes of 'Adam 12'.
@@superduper3728 Thanks!
That one girl looks kind of like Jane Russell.
So THAT was a Desoto!! Wow..BEAUTIFUL
It's a coincidence he solves every case in 26 minutes...
Because all the perps were white folk...in a hurry
He drives a buick therefore is is invinsable!
And while drunk.
He didn't have much choice.
Call it editing. Wish we could see all the discarded clips! Back in the day bloopers weren't kept for fun, either.
@24:15 Mathews Cat-like response brings the criminals to heel.
Crime was not necessary in those days . Most things were cheap and everybody had jobs.
It's always disheartening to see gorgeous women as lowlife crooks.
ROGER2095: Lots of gorgeous women in modern times are stuck up or very materialistic. Big pass for me.
The woman is heading to jail on serious charges and she's worried about her coat Lol
Not ever her coat! lol
When you live in a fantasy the real world means nothing. lololololol That's some funny stuff.
Her stolen coat. Hubby said it was stolen.
You want to stay away from those too materialistic types of women.
@@ralphquinteros7564 Yep, I had me one of those once. She'd get mad if I tipped a server. I had to explain that yes the girl had a job but tipping for good service was expected because they are paid around $2.00 an hour. She also made more than me so I wasn't good enough for her. My just getting out of the Navy after 10 years was not a valid excuse.
Really good series.
In my humble opinion, the absolute "highlight" of this episode, being the dazzling appearance, of this unforgettable and voluptuous brunette, who was the kidnappers accomplice, being non other than, actress, Lynn Cartwright. This statuesque lady, was also known, for two other notable appearances, during her rather modest acting career. Her most memorable moments, were in the film "Queen of Outer Space", circa 1958 as one of the Venucian patrol members, whom initially captured Eric Fleming's crew, speaking her only line in the film, and I quote here: "botchino! botchino!" end quote, occurring, early in the film, and, Lynn being seen, occasionally in the remainder of the proceedings. Her second major celluloid appearance, being in the film, "The Wasp Woman" circa 1959, playing the role of Miss Janice Starlin`s receptionist, and this time around, having a few more lines. And those lines, eloquently spoken, in a truly superb rendition of "Flatbush", quite a gal, indeed.........
Yeah she's outstanding! I could only wish for that.....
@@claytonheydukejr1136 If you look like Paul Newman then ok, otherwise dream on!
Fantasy characters, no one is like that in real life. Its like expecting every man to be good looking, 99% of men are very, very far from attractive, its the rare 1% who are!
Ms Cartwright’s father was a U.S. Congressman, Wilburn Cartwright, Oklahoma, where she grew up. She also had the uncredited role in the academy award 1960 movie, "The Apartment" as the woman in the elevator with the clicker.
love the location shots,
I always wonder if all the people driving in the background knew they'd be on TV.
My Uncle used to do that for a living...Jeweler Courier. He carried 2 enormous trunks on wheels though....not such a tiny little case.
...costume jewelry takes up a lot of space.
For some reason watching this Cop 👮♀️ show , I’m always rooting for the Cops!!!
Who do you usually root for. The gang bangers? Or maybe the cartel? Serial killers? Child rapist? Terrorist? Did I miss anything?
@@gatormangrove7295 YES, tiny mind.
You missed the real GANGSTERS that aren’t afraid to stand up to an oppressed communist government.
Your thinking is very small minded.
💯 same here.
The actor playing the currier also appeared in one of my favorite Sea Hunt episodes about unit training to rescue his character's wife
Broaderick Crawford is an expert actor in all areas of acting....There has never been another actor quite like Broaderick Crawford.. truly number 1.
Broderick Crawford is one of my favorites! I read that on weekends he would get together with Lon Chaney Jr, and they would hit the bottle together. Crawford would be filmed on the show with bumps on his forehead once in a while!
Believe it or not! I saw an Italian film and Broderick Crawford was in it (50's or 60's)! It was around the time they were making Hercules spaghetti films! Broderick was kind of laughing in that film!
The 59 chevy indicates this was the final year of HIghway Patrol, as they wrapped up after 4 great seasons...
Such a gorgeous car.
At 12:03 the lady needs to learn how to back out of a driveway!
Woman driver. What'd you expect??
@@shizukamori6755 ...to be contemporary, you must refer to her not as a woman, but a "dame."
$200,000 in 1959 Yikes. That was a lot of money
Heck Yeah!
@RUFUS T. FIREFLY $200,000 in 1959 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $1,763,374.57 in 2019, a difference of $1,563,374.57 over 60 years.
@@savecolaclibrarynow $1.7 unreal
fazt talking Dan Matthews...always a pleasure...👍👍
Love the motoring advice at the end of each episode. Still true , today!
I agree, Paul Broderick Crawford!! LOL You're right, still good advice today. Today's drivers are sometime crazy on the freeways. They tailgate,sometimes within a half a car-length behind me. I wish the California Highway Patrol would give tickets to them all.
Paul Broderick You do know that Crawford suffered from Alcoholism and during the run of the series, MOST of the time his OWN driver's license was revoked due to DWI. If you notice a LOT of the scenes where Crawford is actually driving it is on DIRT or Gravel roads. This was due to TWO things, one private roads were cheaper to rent and Crawford could drive ion them, but when they rented public streets sometimes he was NOT allowed to drive on them due to suspended or revoked licenses.
But he is an interesting fellow, and the Film "All the Kinds Men" he of course won a very deserved Oscar. If you have never seen that film you should it is TIMELESS and very good.
Also, very often Crawford was drunk by NOON (so I have read, I was not an eye witness). So scenes with Dialogue from HIM had to be shot in the morning when he was on a terror. also the HIRED people to WATCH him to try to keep him from drinking on the set. Crawford would bribe people to bring him booze. But who would turn down Broderick Crawford?? Also, his drinking Buddy was Lon Chaney Jr. also a Big man and a BIG drinker, when they were not working and heavily drinking they were known to go out to the studios and cause trouble. He was quite a rabble rouser. And it shows, some times I THINK I can tell he is Hung Over is the scenes. But he was GOOD, he was a great actor and "fit the times".
It, to me is kind of sad he drank like that, he was blessed with a lot of talent, he had a lot going for him. It still holds up today. I remember seeing hosting Saturday Night Live once, that was really something to see. I was born in 1951 and remember my parents watching this show when it was on Prime time. BB
Thanks for the comment's, Bob. Crawford led a thought provoking life.
Bob Burnitt
OK, we know. How many times are you going to repeat the story?
ElCid48 Only mentioned it once in this thread, BB
At 16:53 Matthews asks the clerk where the package is. Lo and behold! He gets it out from under the front desk! Didn't Dan tell the clerk to put that package where the crook couldn't find it? Maybe the clerk thought Dan said, "Put the packge where the armed and dangerous man CAN find it."
Anna Weathers: Yeah, as soon as he grabbed the package from right behind the front desk, I thought, "What HORRIBLE continuity". He also told the clerk the man was armed and dangerous and to stay out of the way, and there he was right up front.
Like a house cat or an inattentive 8 year old.
"Book him Dano!" Opps..sorry wrong show! Great show!
Love that ending, guy gets hit on the shoulder, comes running right out "Don't shoot, Im hit !" What a pussy, didnt even put up a fight. Now, the women, OMG ! These have got to be the two most beautiful women in all the episodes. That one in the fur coat with all those dark features against that creamy colored skin and that amazing height, and the unlikely room attendant, so beautiful, with the nice manicure and all. I think I'd start with the room girl and leave the crook for desert !
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axiomist: Yeah, if you got shot in the shoulder you'd be bench pressing 500 pounds and wrestling a bear. /s
Shoulder injuries can hurt like HELL. I have intermittent inflammation problems in random joints, and shoulders are the WORST. When it's really bad in a shoulder sometimes I can't even find a position where I can BREATHE without the motion causing enough pain to prevent any chance of sleep.
It's easy to pretend you're super tough if you're clueless.
20:34 ........................ Stupid place for a telephone pole. Wonder how many times it's been scraped over the years.
@ Same with MS13NBC.
It's there so after you hit it you can use the phone book to call the wrecker. 😂
Funny how this TV show used 2-door police cars.
Many state police cars were 2 doors. Less cost and persons could not get out easily if under arrest.
@@owseichik: Interesting. I don't remember that. It's funny how as a kid you just didn't absorb lots of stuff. Or maybe by the time I would remember (say '65 or later), that had already changed.
Crawford's main officer was the Capt in the old 60's Dragnet serials with Jack Webb and his partner Henry ?
I remember him as Mack, the sergeant on Adam 12. He might have been on Dragnet too, I didn't watch that show much
I remember all these old cars so well!
Brodericks the man. So much Mopar too.!
The problem with law enforcement these days is officers talk too slow... Luckily, Dan Matthews was able to show us how it should be done.
Time is money people!
To me he doesn't talk fast at all.
So you want the plate numbers, Ok . But you dont want the plate numbers for the crooks car?
Kent is Dan's right hand man, he needs Kent as much as he needs his 38 snubb nose.
11:58
50s broad backing up lol
I wonder how many takes that took to get it so straight
+Hot80s and often times they stall it!
+Hot80s Embarassing. Looked like my old grandmother backing up.
+rahkin rah Still watching Highway Patrol?
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i remember when the girl would sit close in the car
You can't do that now, there's a console in the way. Today's cars are not made for romance.
12:10 - women drivers!! 😂
I love the Chevy Impala or The Chevy Bel Air 1959. My kind of car. The thieves car was probabably a 1957 Plymouth Fury with Virgil Xner's hi fins design and had a 383 cubic inch motor! The Chevy Impala probably a 283 small block, with a three speed manual shift stick on the colomn.
1959 Chevrolet Belair
I like every episodes even the Ford cars and station wagons and panel trucks .the DeSoto cars too
Great cars, great acting, great messages !! As retired law enforcement...uhhh...not so good on the tactical stuff. You can't have everything. This was an awesome "good guys win" show however.
This Lynn Cartwright of the league of their own fame was one tall fine looking statuette, she basically tower almost all the cops including chief Mathews in This episode
Thanks for telling me her name , I've seen her in a couple of older movies I didn't know it was the same woman that was in a league of their Own. She played the older version of Geena Davis correct ?
Remember, what we think of as classic cars now were just the run of the mill family cars back then. Complete with a ride like a water bed. Comfy if you didn't try to corner it too fast.
They must have rented that mink coat, that actress really seems to have been in love with it.
Interesting how the series focused on "crime" and not the other duties of CHP. They never pulled over a drunk as far as I know on the show although Broderick Crawford was drunk most every day and and was pulled over many times during the run of the show. Of course celebrities were rarely arrested back then.
Brodrick would drink with Lon Chainey Jr. on weekends!
Once again, Matthews gets the bad guys. Good job, Highway Patrol. I can always count on you.
Crawford moves pretty Good for a Heavy Guy ,and ,Yes ,Love the Cars ,almost Never saw Real Cops driving 2 door sedans ,
Gotta Love the scenes in this show including all the other vehicles, trucks on the road!
I love to see the stores of that time! So clean!
I wanted to see the looks on their faces when they opened that package.
I want to know how long it took them to find the rental car.
Why do they always ask the operator to hurry? As if the operator would take their time plugging in the connection.
5:23 Dan writes the info down, leaves the paper on the desk, walks into the other room, and hands it to the radio guy. Ooops.
Only to find out that the Railway Express Agent had switched boxes, and he's now on the way to Mexico.
That's why I only eat once a day, because Broderick told me , "No Breakfast Driving". I'll eat Lunch occasionally.
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