*The actor that played the psycho killer (Bing Russell) was the father of actor Kurt Russell. Also, this was one of the few episodes where one of the handguns shown was an automatic pistol, rather than a revolver. Oh, yes: Rik Vollaerts, the man who wrote the script for this episode, also wrote the script for the original Star Trek episode, "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky", which guest starred Kate Woodville, who was the wife (at the time) of Patrick Macnee, star of the 60's British TV series, "The Avengers".*
My father said this show made him fall in love with the idea of flying. He joined the Air Force & promptly found out he has a terrible problem with air sickness but did have a long career designing missiles.
Yep, good old hu-1, didn't fly one but been In one a few times and didn't feal to safe In these noisy damn thing's 101 first Phu Bai, 1972, they went home, I went south to Phu Loi for a few more month's then home, hang In there brother, we are disappearing fast, only a memorie now. 👍
I remember this one as a 6 year old like I just saw it yesterday. Especially the scene where Dan Matt pretends to be the dad walking in with the firewood.
"Fly him back in the chopper"-??!! I think not. He could interfere with the pilot and make the chopper crash, or possibly bump/shove the other officer out. He is going down for 3 murders and has nothing to lose. No, u sit him down in the dirt and wait for a ground unit while watching him carefully.
Except it doesn't. It's true use is to stop fiends like him, just as Mathews and his men used revolvers. Another "feely" guy who can't use logic or think.
@@Sootaroot You're too ignorant to even know what a P-38 Walther is. That's why we look down on all you modern fan boys. You're nothing but 'feelings', completely clueless about history or even what is going on right now. Boring dolts.
@@JackGordone i certainly know what a P38 is. I have two of them. A 1943 Speerwerke CYQ code wartime produced piece, non-matching frame which was part of the reason I got it for $500. Not much collector value but in excellent shooting condition and functions perfectly. The other one is a 1970s era post war with hexagonal pin P1 designated piece also functions flawlessly. I have their design descendant piece in the Beretta 92F as well. I was born in 1980 so I'm barely outside the millennial generation, by one year.
At 14:57, the hostage with the box of groceries hears the chopper, but the "deranged" criminal inside the house doesn't. Must still be deaf from the 3 gunshots of the previous evening. Later, we see the lunatic killer is very neat; he puts his tie and coat on before dinner. Nice manners. And he certainly got his revenge on Mathews for capturing him, making him bend over to pick up that semi-auto he threw on the ground. That'll show 'em!
That's the only weakness in this episode. The gun on the ground posed no risk, and bending over to pick it up might have given the crook a chance to pull a second gun, which Dan couldn't have known Larkin didn't have. In fact, Larkin's surrender was suspiciously meek. I wouldn't trust him for a nano-second. Apart from that, this is a robust episode. Too many people here wax lyrical on how they would have behaved in a much bolder way than Dad, incapable of wearing Dad's shoes, and from the safety of their keyboards. Yes, if Dad HAD some martial training, he might have tried something in the various opportunities that the crook gave him, but an ordinary man (in 1957, to boot) would not dare risk his daughter's and wife's integrity, not to mention his own....
@ 10:57, WOW, a full side view of my dads 1957 4-door Chevy Impala Belair. Hopefully someday soon someone colorizes these Highway Patrol episodes so I can see if it's same turquoise blue as our old family car.
Nice, but it can't have been an Impala, they weren't made in 57. It likely was a Bel Air. Lower models were the 210 or 150, plus the Nomad station wagon.
The guy offered no danger: he was shackled with his hands behind him, was wounded, and the two guys left and right of him were professional cops, one of them with a gun. They were strapped to their seats, too, so "pushing them overboard", as some other poster suggested was out of the question.
The killer says "In my business you're either clever or you're dead." Then turns his back on the wife in a kitchen. She could have whacked him over the head with a frying pan.
I could have sworn the daughter was Connie Hines from "Mr. Ed", but her name was Suzan Stone. Her only IMDb acting credit was for "Highway Patrol". Connie Hines did star as a wife in another "Highway Patrol" officer.
I had no idea that Barbara Eden looked anything like Donna Douglas until seeing her in this video. Dress them up alike, and they really do look similar.
Every notice that cars on HP regularly show up being driven on the left side of highways and back roads 1:50 ? Must be a lot of Englishmen in the cast.
There are many "copter" episodes if HP, that is because in the 1950's helicopters were are new novelty for police departments to use--the latest tool against criminals.
In Highway Patrol, the copter always made its appearances in consecutive episodes. I heard that this was because it became available when filming of Whirlybirds had finished ahead of schedule, and they wrote the copter into the story, or even put a whole new episode together, judging by the thinness of the plots. The test of this is what useful part the copter actually plays in the stories, and the answer is little or none. Still, the sight of Brod cramming himself into the cabin with his right foot hanging out is priceless, but describing him as the latest tool against criminals is unkind. "New novelty" is a tautology.
Copters were such the NEW thing -- and then HP hugely popularized them with the folks that FUNDED police departments. Until then, copters were so expensive that departments would rather lay on ten more cars than opt for a flying patrol. It wasn't all that long before it was realized that copters were MUCH more effective WRT traffic... not just fleeing felons.
I was surprised that Larkin was neither wounded nor killed. Happened a lot in these episodes. The mother and daughter made one episode, this one. And never acted again.
A book dealing with the lives of actors like these two, and many others in HP and similar series, would make a fascinating read indeed! Very hard to research, though....
So, the guy with the gun has the Dad to pull over, then gets out of the car by himself and stands in the road. Perfect time for the Dad to tell the Mom and Daughter to get down then roar away while the crook is standing in the road. Folks take on a "Victim" mentality instead of thinking how to escape or overcome the bad guy. Can't let fear control you..it's hard but you gotta keep a cool head.
"Say a prayer that the Highway patrol doesn't get smart and tries to stop us" Who wrote these lines? Did the Highway Patrol in the 50s just call it a day whenever they encountered any criminal that took hostages? I love this show. ha ha.
All the shows I've seen that have undercover cars are all radio equiped. Funny thing is, they don't have a VHF-LO antenna on them. The black and white cars all have a 102 inch whip antennas on them. 🤔
8:14 Hey! That's littering! 11:06 You couldn't see the car from higher up, and you can not only see it now but identify the license plate? Okay then. And how does dispatch know the family is on vacation?
Astounding how people keep asking this foolish question, and many others by the same token. They seem to think that everything we take for granted now has existed ever since the Book of Genesis was written. Next question: "What, no drone?"
So many times, I think how Mathews and his guys would have been better served with a Browning HI Power. 13+1 rounds vs six and much faster reloads. Hard to believe that so many of us carried six shot revolvers for decades and felt adequately armed for whatever. Today, wouldn't be without my Glock 19.
Seems pretty obvious, the budget did not allow for a helicopter, as this is the 2nd or 3rd time when back to back episodes featured one. Just an interesting thing to note, is all 🐈⬛ PS> I ❤squealing tires on dirt roads... 😸
@11:04 Matthews found M*A*S*H 4077! 🤣 On another note, most libs nowadays would say how they got the bad guy was not legal. This show was ahead of its time.
You are right about what you said Amanda I'm from the Old-school days and buy me watching different shows learn me a lot from right and wrong i do right not wrong i saw your post so i said i would give you some feed back because it's only been 18 teen hours that your post was out may you have a beautiful day
I would have changed this episode so many times! When he got out of the car... just drive off! The axe to cut wood... attack the guy and cut off his his head. This is a lame episode.
Thought the same thing on both instances, then dropped the idea twice. This was an ordinary man on vacation, with no experience in dealing with such a danger, pitted against a desperado certified killer (younger than pap, to boot), and with two precious lives at stake. He would have to act very fast and with uncanny precision, without a second chance. Most people, including myself and you, would have played it meek as this guy did....
He would have definitely got a shot off at him if he tried to axe him. If they floored it as soon as he got out they might get away but he would get some shots off at the car and might hit them
I looked her up Susan Stone the daughter was an absolute beauty yet that's all she ever did Hollywood right and left and she would have been going to bed with everybody right and left what is nice at back then they stayed decent
*The actor that played the psycho killer (Bing Russell) was the father of actor Kurt Russell. Also, this was one of the few episodes where one of the handguns shown was an automatic pistol, rather than a revolver. Oh, yes: Rik Vollaerts, the man who wrote the script for this episode, also wrote the script for the original Star Trek episode, "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky", which guest starred Kate Woodville, who was the wife (at the time) of Patrick Macnee, star of the 60's British TV series, "The Avengers".*
How do you make the BOLD type?
It's like extra candy. When people like Bing Russell and Clint Eastwood show up.
Awesome piece of movie history., thank you
@@jimsnider3852 Place an asterisk at the front of your text and at the back. Leave no spaces either. *Like THIS*
@@kenkendall1285
*I never knew that! Thanks!*
Just think... some the kids in the 1950s watching this Highway Patrol episode flew Hueys a few years later in Vietnam.
My father said this show made him fall in love with the idea of flying. He joined the Air Force & promptly found out he has a terrible problem with air sickness but did have a long career designing missiles.
@@shananagans5 How wonderful to be an influence for good in the world.
That is indeed a profound thought. The image of the helicopter changed forever.
@@shananagans5 pl
Yep, good old hu-1, didn't fly one but been In one a few times and didn't feal to safe In these noisy damn thing's 101 first Phu Bai, 1972, they went home, I went south to Phu Loi for a few more month's then home, hang In there brother, we are disappearing fast, only a memorie now. 👍
Thank you for the great shows that I grew up with !
I remember this one as a 6 year old like I just saw it yesterday. Especially the scene where Dan Matt pretends to be the dad walking in with the firewood.
That Dan Mathews was a brave guy 👍
So are you 7 now?
No wonder my parents wouldn't let us play on Mulholland Dr. where a lot of these episodes were filmed.
no way that chopper could get anywhere close to them without being heard hollywood
You see mistakes and it makes these old shows priceless.
Like that 57 Chevy
"Fly him back in the chopper"-??!! I think not. He could interfere with the pilot and make the chopper crash, or possibly bump/shove the other officer out. He is going down for 3 murders and has nothing to lose. No, u sit him down in the dirt and wait for a ground unit while watching him carefully.
I would have forced him into the open and let him run til he dropped, just for laughs. Nothing worse than a bad guy who threatens your family.
Get to the chopper!!!! Some will get this..ha
Maybe on the ride back he "accidentally" falls out.
@@AzarroFineArts No its.. GET TO THE CHOPPAH
Maybe they were going to take him up high and throw his murderous ass out! :)
The bad guys usually have revolvers in all these episodes, but this guy had a nice Walther P-38, a nice war souvenir.
Nice is a strange word to use for something that only ever causes harm, and to use it twice in the same sentence is perverse.
Except it doesn't. It's true use is to stop fiends like him, just as Mathews and his men used revolvers. Another "feely" guy who can't use logic or think.
@@Sootaroot You're too ignorant to even know what a P-38 Walther is. That's why we look down on all you modern fan boys. You're nothing but 'feelings', completely clueless about history or even what is going on right now. Boring dolts.
@@Sootaroot You didn't think that through.
@@JackGordone i certainly know what a P38 is. I have two of them. A 1943 Speerwerke CYQ code wartime produced piece, non-matching frame which was part of the reason I got it for $500. Not much collector value but in excellent shooting condition and functions perfectly. The other one is a 1970s era post war with hexagonal pin P1 designated piece also functions flawlessly. I have their design descendant piece in the Beretta 92F as well. I was born in 1980 so I'm barely outside the millennial generation, by one year.
Good thing the copter noise is unnoticed. (12:15).
haha
Any kin to Bing Crosby?
The bad guy is played by Bing Russell. Kurt Russell's father.
Looks like him
SledgeHammer WHY DID THE GUY HEAR THE CHOPPER ABOVE. IT WAS LOUD ENOUGH. FAKE IS SHIT
He wound up one of those actors who you saw everywhere but never knew his name.
How about that!
@@Catquick1957 ⁰⁰000⁰⁰000⁰⁰pp
At 14:57, the hostage with the box of groceries hears the chopper, but the "deranged" criminal inside the house doesn't. Must still be deaf from the 3 gunshots of the previous evening. Later, we see the lunatic killer is very neat; he puts his tie and coat on before dinner. Nice manners. And he certainly got his revenge on Mathews for capturing him, making him bend over to pick up that semi-auto he threw on the ground. That'll show 'em!
That's the only weakness in this episode. The gun on the ground posed no risk, and bending over to pick it up might have given the crook a chance to pull a second gun, which Dan couldn't have known Larkin didn't have. In fact, Larkin's surrender was suspiciously meek. I wouldn't trust him for a nano-second. Apart from that, this is a robust episode. Too many people here wax lyrical on how they would have behaved in a much bolder way than Dad, incapable of wearing Dad's shoes, and from the safety of their keyboards. Yes, if Dad HAD some martial training, he might have tried something in the various opportunities that the crook gave him, but an ordinary man (in 1957, to boot) would not dare risk his daughter's and wife's integrity, not to mention his own....
Highway Patrol: Season 3, Episode 6
Hostage Family Copter (11 Nov. 1957)
That Dad drives like he's had Indy 500 Race car experience!
I noticed that.
@ 10:57, WOW, a full side view of my dads 1957 4-door Chevy Impala Belair. Hopefully someday soon someone colorizes these Highway Patrol episodes so I can see if it's same turquoise blue as our old family car.
Nice, but it can't have been an Impala, they weren't made in 57. It likely was a Bel Air. Lower models were the 210 or 150, plus the Nomad station wagon.
Colorizing black-and-white movies and television series ruins them.
@@0x007AIn your opinion, obviously. But the epis they have colourised look brilliant.
Man what a nice car , that 57 Chevy .
man! that dad wasn't thinking. he could have just gunned the car and knocked the bad guy off balance with the door.
@Anna Weathers I was thinking the same, just punch it !!!
Uh….there wouldn’t be a show then.
@@garyfrancis6193True
That would be really risky though because he would probably get some shots off at the car as the drove away
Great Show😄 Thank You For Sharing 😄
Love this show.
The little blonde looks like Elly-Mae Clampett!
Suzan Stone. Very pretty.
@@allencrider It's actually Barbara Eden according to IMDB
SUZANE STONE in this one
HOSTAGE FAMILY COPTER.
BARBARA EDEN was in episode called.HOSTAGE COPTER.
Great show! Covered a lot of territory in California.
1:31
The blonde babe looks like she had an 18 inch waist
Aero scouts out! Search and radio rescue. Salute State Troopers, aero cavalry Brave Rifles
Hmm. At the end, sit a deranged killer next to the helicopter pilot? Definitely pre-TSA.
The guy offered no danger: he was shackled with his hands behind him, was wounded, and the two guys left and right of him were professional cops, one of them with a gun. They were strapped to their seats, too, so "pushing them overboard", as some other poster suggested was out of the question.
The killer says "In my business you're either clever or you're dead." Then turns his back on the wife in a kitchen. She could have whacked him over the head with a frying pan.
Ha! I was just thinking that.
A cast iron frying pan.
Comedy supreme ! This show is hilarious ! Watch it regularly for huge laughs !!
Anybody notice the restrictor plug in the bad guys' gun @2:16?
What is a restrictor plug??
@@stitchergary A plug to partially obstruct the barrel to allow a self loading firearm to cycle with blank rounds
I like the tv series highway patrol
I could have sworn the daughter was Connie Hines from "Mr. Ed", but her name was Suzan Stone. Her only IMDb acting credit was for "Highway Patrol". Connie Hines did star as a wife in another "Highway Patrol" officer.
I'm confused a little because Lt. Dan made it all happen without once consulting with his wall maps.
16-year-old blonde in the late 1950's... 17" waist..YIKES!!!😬
Euro 66 Saved.
Sunday, October 22 - 2023.
I had no idea that Barbara Eden looked anything like Donna Douglas until seeing her in this video. Dress them up alike, and they really do look similar.
That is not Barbara Eden her name is Suzan Stone
@@jeanbonhacher6016 thank you, I have already realize my mistake.
@@jeanbonhacher6016 According to IMDB, it is Barbara Eden.
But, the only listing for Suzan Stone is also the daughter in this episode. What gives?
@@sdckketcher NO WAY is that Barbara Eden.
There is no way those police radios will work without an antenna
The antenna is a metal loop encased in the body of the car.
@@garrysekelli6776 if it was it won't work
@@gulfy09 encased in plastic around the body of the car.
Wasn’t their radios VHF? Need a big whip right? Am a hro.
Actually, giving the dad a revolver probably would have been the least risky, most likely to succeed plan.
In that era, a dad was likely to be an ex-GI.
Surgeons don't operate on family -- emotions !
Ditto for civilian dads when their daughter is directly in danger.
@@davidhimmelsbach557Not in my neck of the woods.
Every notice that cars on HP regularly show up being driven on the left side of highways and back roads 1:50 ? Must be a lot of Englishmen in the cast.
Who was the blonde hair girl in the episode
At the end, was the idea to take the copper up to say 500 feet and then push the handcuffed crminal out? I hope so.
The blonde reminds me of Ellie Mae of the Beverly hillbillies, In that outfit minus the rope piece as a belt
There are many "copter" episodes if HP, that is because in the 1950's helicopters were are new novelty for police departments to use--the latest tool against criminals.
In Highway Patrol, the copter always made its appearances in consecutive episodes. I heard that this was because it became available when filming of Whirlybirds had finished ahead of schedule, and they wrote the copter into the story, or even put a whole new episode together, judging by the thinness of the plots. The test of this is what useful part the copter actually plays in the stories, and the answer is little or none. Still, the sight of Brod cramming himself into the cabin with his right foot hanging out is priceless, but describing him as the latest tool against criminals is unkind. "New novelty" is a tautology.
Copters were such the NEW thing -- and then HP hugely popularized them with the folks that FUNDED police departments.
Until then, copters were so expensive that departments would rather lay on ten more cars than opt for a flying patrol.
It wasn't all that long before it was realized that copters were MUCH more effective WRT traffic... not just fleeing felons.
At 18:51;
When Larkin tells the girls that he's going to tie them up, the daughter looks at the ropes like, "Ooohhh..." 😂
Instead of messing around with hiding the flashlight why didn't the guy tell family to duck and floor it?
I was surprised that Larkin was neither wounded nor killed. Happened a lot in these episodes.
The mother and daughter made one episode, this one. And never acted again.
He got shot in the shoulder. Mathews even said He got him. When he was cuffed you could see all the blood on his left shoulder.
A book dealing with the lives of actors like these two, and many others in HP and similar series, would make a fascinating read indeed! Very hard to research, though....
So, the guy with the gun has the Dad to pull over, then gets out of the car by himself and stands in the road. Perfect time for the Dad to tell the Mom and Daughter to get down then roar away while the crook is standing in the road. Folks take on a "Victim" mentality instead of thinking how to escape or overcome the bad guy. Can't let fear control you..it's hard but you gotta keep a cool head.
Anna Weathers I’m surprised dad didn’t have a gun or spare key to the car
It wasn’t in the script. If the dad took off he would have been fired and they would’ve replaced him with another whimpy Dad actor.
"Say a prayer that the Highway patrol doesn't get smart and tries to stop us" Who wrote these lines? Did the Highway Patrol in the 50s just call it a day whenever they encountered any criminal that took hostages? I love this show. ha ha.
At 13:40, the crook takes the car keys. He never gives them back so how can he drive everybody home?
He handed them back to the driver.
Is that an Ohio Highway Patrol emblem on the duty cap of Dan’s men?
I noticed that Ohio emblem too.
It must have been a long chase.
Pretty 57 chevy.
Mr Bing Russell was a very good 👍😊 Character Actor.
Who played the daughter
At 14:45 his revolver turns into an automatic then turns back later. He should have turned into a bird and flown away.
He had a spare gun.
All the shows I've seen that have undercover cars are all radio equiped. Funny thing is, they don't have a VHF-LO antenna on them. The black and white cars all have a 102 inch whip antennas on them. 🤔
Bing played a Reno cop in the Rockford Files. A short, funny bit.
loves his map.
If they were still doing this show, they would be first to use a police Drone -- or fleet of police drones. And they would make it exciting.
Nora/Union is common in all episodes.
so is the name "Larkin"
Toby Larkin to the hoosegow. Go Toby, go.
Dan needed vodka after that exertion.
I understand Mr. Crawford was quite a boozer 🍸👌
"Police In Helicopters"...John Holt.
Bears in the air
Pretty blond.
24:10 As Mathews bends over to pick up the Walther, the crook pulls out a backup gun from an ankle holster and shoots Mathews!!
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The bad guy runs and acts like he wasn't even shot by Matthews.
8:14 Hey! That's littering!
11:06 You couldn't see the car from higher up, and you can not only see it now but identify the license plate? Okay then. And how does dispatch know the family is on vacation?
They might have called someone in their area once they found out who they were
your hostages are your ticket out of town, so you threaten to shoot them? Brilliant !!from 15:03 to 15:32 you hear airplane noise instead of chopper
Again major distraction with the vintage 50s automobiles 😊 in every scene. If they only knew what they had.
Must be a hot day….wing windows WIDE open 😎
No seat belts?
@Nuclear Christian Mandatory? They didn't even exist back then.
Only in helicopters
Astounding how people keep asking this foolish question, and many others by the same token. They seem to think that everything we take for granted now has existed ever since the Book of Genesis was written. Next question: "What, no drone?"
They have safety belts in the helicopter you can even see them buckling them. Most cars did not have them until the 60s
He said he would meet you in an unmarked hydraulic excavator.
So many times, I think how Mathews and his guys would have been better served with a Browning HI Power. 13+1 rounds vs six and much faster reloads. Hard to believe that so many of us carried six shot revolvers for decades and felt adequately armed for whatever. Today, wouldn't be without my Glock 19.
You should be kept away from other people, preferably behind bars.
@@UkOutreach
Hopefully, you stay in the UK.
@@grigorirasputin5020 Maybe because they didn't need to spray dozens of rounds at someone with a plastic knife back then?
Seems pretty obvious, the budget did not allow for a helicopter, as this is the 2nd or 3rd time when back to back episodes featured one. Just an interesting thing to note, is all 🐈⬛
PS> I ❤squealing tires on dirt roads... 😸
The daughter was smoking
Bell 47 civilian, the first civilian helicopter in the world.
@11:04 Matthews found M*A*S*H 4077! 🤣 On another note, most libs nowadays would say how they got the bad guy was not legal. This show was ahead of its time.
You are right about what you said Amanda I'm from the Old-school days and buy me watching different shows learn me a lot from right and wrong i do right not wrong i saw your post so i said i would give you some feed back because it's only been 18 teen hours that your post was out may you have a beautiful day
To J and A; B***S***. And no one with any brains cares what you think.
Some of the kids.. I'm sorry for the typo error.
Take the groceries with you. You paid for them!
Why did he draw on Dan before he saw it was Dan? No logical reason at all. Biiiiiig blooper!
He saw Dan's face in the mirror
Saw his face in the mirror
I sorry i going back for my groceries.😅😅
Auto rotation? That’s only when the engine fails.
Yeah this was a pretty lame episode. A lot of stuff made no sense. But yes that daughter was cute.
Season 3/Episode 6
Who is the little blond hottie?
Suzan Stone.
The guy’s got a feeling.
You can always tell when the acting is bad, the ones not speaking just sort of hang around, waiting for their cues.
The crook is better dressed than his hostages.
6:07 "He could have taken any three of them [roads]." Huh?
Sure fancied Suzan Stone who played the daughter
1957 Chev Bel Air.
Bing Russell with a P-38
Dirty Dan, does it again.
the only place Dan likes to walk is to the liquor store!
No one seems drunk in this episode. ( Perhaps you should put away your slingshot and have a sobering cup of coffee?).
Tee Carr -lighten up Francis
Watch him in 'Christmas Story". You can TELL he's been drinking something there.
NOT 2 gd director, first thing CHP should do take police hat off before shirt off, dum bas.
I would have changed this episode so many times! When he got out of the car... just drive off! The axe to cut wood... attack the guy and cut off his his head. This is a lame episode.
David,
Why not start your own show and then do it your way?
Thought the same thing on both instances, then dropped the idea twice. This was an ordinary man on vacation, with no experience in dealing with such a danger, pitted against a desperado certified killer (younger than pap, to boot), and with two precious lives at stake. He would have to act very fast and with uncanny precision, without a second chance. Most people, including myself and you, would have played it meek as this guy did....
@@javiergilvidal1558 I’d have probably fainted. 😢
He would have definitely got a shot off at him if he tried to axe him. If they floored it as soon as he got out they might get away but he would get some shots off at the car and might hit them
I looked her up Susan Stone the daughter was an absolute beauty yet that's all she ever did Hollywood right and left and she would have been going to bed with everybody right and left what is nice at back then they stayed decent