Deep down, we all wish life could be this simple! All anyone wants is to love and be loved. Everything else is just to numb the pain of not feeling that love. To all who watch this, a big hug, and pass it on. Love to all.
Ruth Fitzwater , Life was this Simple at one time all the way up to the late 90’s, we all had the simple life. Then CORPORATISM AND FEMINISM REARED THEIR UGLY HEADS AND RUINED IT FOREVER.
@@billiebobbienorton2556 You need to recheck your statement, it's the democrats that have spread hate speech like wild fire. Besides, our old country has been going down hill long before Trump came along. The good thing now, Trump is actually getting our country turned around
Something about this storie, maybe it's because of Xmas, the little girl wandering off and finding the little dog, Santa or all this bring her parents closer, it get's you. Good writing and acting.
That hotel is still there in Brentwood on the corner of Sunset Blvd & Bundy Drive. My grandparents had a house near there in the 60's & 70's. It was a nice area back then.
@@jaminova_1969 You got it! The murders took place on S. Bundy Dr. south of Sunset Blvd. Sunset Blvd. delineates north from south in Los Angeles, for street addresses. I know someone that lives currently across the street from where that event occured.
Talk about "keeping it in the neighborhood". The "Highway Patrol Headquarters" is actually a fire station, across the street and two doors down. The final scene as Dan is driving out of the motel, you can see the top of the hose tower in the trees.
That motel owner was decorating on Christmas Eve. Boy, was he slow getting to it. But, then most people didn't decorate until just about Christmas Day. Tradition.
Yes, I noticed that. I'm thinking he spent time with the tree because his wife had, as he said, all kinds of ideas about how the motel should be run, and he's avoiding her and all of the work she's planned for him. Sooner or later, she'll catch on about his loitering around that tree, and then he'll get The Big Honey Do List.
I gotta' tell ya Ms. Shouse ... I like the way you read the depth of that Episode ... have you seen "Breath of a Child" ?? ... let me know if you can watch it without holding your nose close to the end !?!?!?
That was a wonderful episode. I love xmas and Xmas stories like this. And, hey ! Nobody got pistol whipped this time. I think this was the only time =) May all your Xmases be very happy !
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That's Christmas sonny, take the time to spel, it will ya? Merry christmas!
Yes, the crooks sure like to whack people in the head in these episodes, except this one, which is nice. Wouldn't want santa to get a headache on Christmas Eve. He'd not be able to drive his reindeer! Think of all of the toys which wouldn't get delivered!
This show is one of the few where I don't have to strain to hear. For some reason, a lot of movies and shows on TH-cam don't come loud enough to understand. This show, I have to turn the volume way down to almost nothing. Maybe it's just my computer?
I have a nice Christmas story, A friend of mine, back on 68 , 69 or 70, had his garbage piling up due to a garbage workers strike, right about Christmas. He put the garbage in boxes and gift wrapped them. He placed the gift wrapped boxes in that back seat of his car ( a big 4 door) and went Christmas shopping. Upon returning to the unlocked car, he found all his garbage taken away by thieves.
That was the woman. Back then the cars didnt have turn signals, so we used the hand. Straight out meant left turn and arm drooping maent slowing down. See ? I still know them =) Many Happy Xmases to you !
She's driving a DeSoto. Be sure to visit your DeSoto Plymouth Dealer tomorrow and when you do, tell them Groucho sent you. It's delightful, it's delovely , it's DeSoto!
What a pleasant story, and a happy ending. Today's tv writers would have written it to get the worst possible outcome, and make sure that it is all the man's fault.
If they tried to create an episode like this in 2022, the Salvation Army Santa would have been arrested and charged with kidnapping and pedophilia. In the 50s and 60s people looked after other people's kids like their own. People nowadays would be afraid to act responsibly fearing their actions would be misunderstood.
Sad, but true. People, especially men, are under suspicion for even looking at young children. I understand why. Too many children have, and are still being, abused. How to tell if someone is honestly trying to help the child?
@@conniewojahn6445There was the same amount of abusers and the same amount of good people back then as there is now. The difference is if you choose to be good nowadays, you are punished for that.
Of course, it's a Christmas story, but not without giving food for thought. They were all the same, the wives! They wanted a big house, a big car, a mink coat, jewelry and a social life, but it was not enough, the husband who worked hard to earn money for this kind of life, had to come home early, to take care of his wife and child. Only one child, of course, so as not to ruin the figure of the lady! And nowadays women dare to say that the male was a domestic tyrant. More often men were the victims, yes, victims of vindictive, demanding, never-satisfied, cold-in-bed wives. No wonder the guys died before they were sixty, leaving good life insurance for their widows... Anyway, thanks for sharing this great series.
On the early 1950's Buick's, there were chrome "portholes" on the front fenders. Three portholes meant it was a "Special" model, and four portholes meant it was a "Roadmaster" model. Special had a smaller engine than the Roadmaster.
The Super and Century models also had four portholes. Buicks of this era, until 1960, used gas pedal starting too. You depressed the gas pedal to the floor to start the car. It starts with a big flourish someimes, with all that gas. HP didn't use sound effects. You get the actual sound of the car starting too. Really great to hear.
Scratching my head over mom and daughter in night gowns in the afternoon. I know you had to get an early start the next day, but pretty early to be hitting the hay. (And, in December, the sun was setting pretty early, too.)
Another great short Christmas Movie. The best ones were made in the 1950's where they respected The Real Meaning of Christmas not the New Hollywood versions.
Notice how the narrator carefully describes how the Highway Patrol conducts an investigation. It's sort of like how Jack Webb did almost exactly the same thing when he played Sergeant Friday on "Dragnet." As a matter of fact, the background music in this episode sounds almost like the music on "Dragnet."
Dan: at 6:13 ¨So a kid is lost. What about this? Christmas time they get lost all the time in Department Stores.¨ I want some action! Give me a real case to work on! Growing up in the seventies, I took the bus downtown alone after kindergarten to my parents' business place because there was no one home otherwise. I was the last of 5 siblings, and it was only natural you had to fend for yourself after you started walking and talking. Nobody would even notice if you went missing. Those were the good old days when men were men, women were women, and kids had to figure it out for themselves.
When we stayed there it had become a motel, run by a Mr Bates. Norman, as he told us to call him, was so kind to me after my wife mysteriously disappeared.
@@murphynapoleon Thank you, Murphy. That was so sweet. I really appreciate your words. I am still alive, retired, and happily living in Thousand Palms, CA. Merry Christmas to you 🎅🏻❣️😘
@@michellemacris5765 🙂 This episode was on METV early this morning and I missed the ending so I watched the last 5 min on TH-cam. Broderick Crawford was a great actor and is the reason I love this old show. 🙂
WOW! A VERY long time ago when I was 6/7 years old ALL I wanted for Christmas was a dog! Got one for Christmas a wire hair fox terrier. Mitze. Brought TEARS to my eyes (and a few down my cheeks).
Everybody notice how clean places were no graffiti no baggy pants people dressed nice no rap. Lol. I could go on put me in a time machine when I die not a coffee !
The poor husband works so hard to make a better life for his wife and children and look how he’s treated. Wife didn’t pay for that pretty car… Disgraceful!
and Officer Dan Mathews' double take.. with expression of "Wait, he's got his own transportation" and quick glance just to check.. was subtle but very funny.
someone once caught the sound of a whistle @ an intersection (Dan was driving thru!), in the Nacotics ep? in this one, a copper has traffic stopped as Dan drives thru....Public Safety! Dan-o is on the road! later, funny - HP is out rounding up all the Santas! thank you fox-love 'em! oh and Merry Christmas to all!
This is my favorite Highway Patrol episode. It had me scared the first time I watched it though. I was about the age of the girl. Now, I just pretend I had never seen it any at all, and go right along for the ride. I wish every episode dealt with a Christmas theme. I also wish Santa brought me a time machine for Christmas 2023... maybe next year, well, if I'm good enough?
Yes, those were great times then, the Eisenhower years. People were patriotic, religious, and law abiding. Millions of serviceman raised their families in brand new homes with the GI BILL, and they found good employment and a happy fruitful way of life.
@@nestanesta9366 People like you like to look at only the bad, why don't you look at the positives of the fact that America was learning, we humans are not perfect, instead of racism, we have Abortion, attitudes of White People are the only violent people and racists, Men committing suicide and being attacked for being men, a media that is hellbent on taking down a sitting President, families being torn apart, and runners for Presidential Candidacy running on Open Borders and Radical Healthcare plans. My point is every era has its problems and I think the problems we have today are as equal or worse than the problems of the 50's, Racism is wrong, no doubt in that but unfortunately it cannot be erased, as man never fully loses his tribal instinct. Just as you can't change the weather, you can't change instincts, you can teach how to deal with instincts through Church, but some will hold their beliefs no matter how much you shout at them, as long as you do no physical harm to someone, and incite no harm toward people you can't do anything to change them. Good day to you, and Merry Christmas.
@@20thCenturyManTrad "...we humans are not perfect, instead of racism, we have Abortion, ..." You humans, have recreational sex that leads to single mothers or abortion, tons of divorce, jubilant homosexuality, pedophilia, drug addiction, etc., all considered evil back then, but more or less encouraged or induced by modern US culture.
For the first time I can see where Broderick was sauced, LOL, they said the scenes where he was so drunk they didn’t let him drive the patrol car, I’ve been watching closely to see if I could catch him, I finally did, his speech is slurred a little too. What a cool dude from the city of brotherly love, I wanna be just like him. David Jannsen of the FUGITIVE was also a drunk on the show and you couldn’t tell.
Filmed in 1955 (no 1956 cars anywhere) but apparently not aired until well into the following year. Some HP episodes are in the human interest vein rather than about crimes and this is a good one. The man doesn't quite realize that his job has taken priority over his loving and precious family. A modern day version would have one just throwing in the towel and end up in divorce court. Initially Dan doesn't want to get involved but he does and pulls out all the stops as usual. It ends up well and the child gets her wish with a puppy. Laura drives an awesome 1955 DeSoto Fireflite convertible. Only 775 of those beauties were built (plus 625 Firedome models) Rare even when new.
Did anybody happen to notice that at about 15 minutes into the episode, Dan Matthews got in the patrol car on the passenger side and that the steering wheel was also on the passenger side? What is this, England?
*Southern California must preserve the 20th Century Architecture and notable places. They are representative of the State's, Film Industry, and World's History, particularly the early and MidCentury eras.*
Ted is driving a very cool Lincoln. You can kind of see the ,"self leveling", air shocks leveling the car out when it stops. That woman is crazy to run off from that guy. The little girl found the worst shedding dog in the world to adopt, Chihuahua.
I just love it when women stubbornly hide information from the police, but still expect them to find their child. Also she lies to her child because she knows the girl wouldn't want to go along with her plan if she knew the truth. I think she suspected the truth (kids are often not as dumb as their mothers think they are), that's why she ran away
Love the right hand turn signal. .......hand signal. Thats what I was taught in drivers ed in 1964
You'd figure by 1955 a Lincoln would have turn signals as a standard item.
I need to get a life I'm hooked on watching this. This was such a cute episode
Deep down, we all wish life could be this simple! All anyone wants is to love and be loved. Everything else is just to numb the pain of not feeling that love. To all who watch this, a big hug, and pass it on. Love to all.
Ruth Fitzwater , Life was this Simple at one time all the way up to the late 90’s, we all had the simple life.
Then CORPORATISM AND FEMINISM REARED THEIR UGLY HEADS AND RUINED IT FOREVER.
Undercover....you can thank donnie t rump for it.....hate speech and all!
Thanks Ruth love you back.
Relationship with Jesus Christ is the only gratification and satisfaction this world will have. All else is void vain or temporary.
@@billiebobbienorton2556
You need to recheck your statement, it's the democrats that have spread hate speech like wild fire.
Besides, our old country has been going down hill long before Trump came along. The good thing now, Trump is actually getting our country turned around
Very touching.... Almost like Miracle On 34th St.Too bad television programs of today don't touch you the way this episode touched me.
Every show wouldn't be complete without a Christmas episode.
The credits should read " Santa...... Him self ".
Something about this storie, maybe it's because of Xmas, the little girl wandering off and finding the little dog, Santa or all this bring her parents closer, it get's you. Good writing and acting.
That hotel is still there in Brentwood on the corner of Sunset Blvd & Bundy Drive. My grandparents had a house near there in the 60's & 70's. It was a nice area back then.
OJ's old stomping grounds?
@@jaminova_1969 You got it! The murders took place on S. Bundy Dr. south of Sunset Blvd. Sunset Blvd. delineates north from south in Los Angeles, for street addresses. I know someone that lives currently across the street from where that event occured.
What is it like now ? in 2020
@Black Buick he had to wash himself up somewhere
Talk about "keeping it in the neighborhood". The "Highway Patrol Headquarters" is actually a fire station, across the street and two doors down. The final scene as Dan is driving out of the motel, you can see the top of the hose tower in the trees.
Back in the day when Christmas decorations didn't come out until after Thanksgiving.
And NO black friday....
and, real trees
Today the Season starts the day after Labor Day. At least at Walmart Stores.
That motel owner was decorating on Christmas Eve. Boy, was he slow getting to it. But, then most people didn't decorate until just about Christmas Day. Tradition.
Ha ha, yes; so refreshing!
The motel owner certainly takes his time decorating the tree!
👍😅
Yes, I noticed that. I'm thinking he spent time with the tree because his wife had, as he said, all kinds of ideas about how the motel should be run, and he's avoiding her and all of the work she's planned for him. Sooner or later, she'll catch on about his loitering around that tree, and then he'll get The Big Honey Do List.
He will be out there decorating the tree about the 4th of July of next year.
🎄What a great snapshot in time...fun Christmas episode🎄
Woman shouldn't have put 2 and 2 together and just STAYED HOME.
The husband did come home , and found no one.Merry Christmas, happy 2022!!!.
absolutely beautiful, very touching strory.
I love this show so much
Same here! Wonderful show!!
@@sarahshouse1890 hey now...I can't think of another episode I've seen "Dan" smile so much !?!?!?!
@@murraymims120 Dan doesn't smile. This episode is a rarity.
"Round up all the Santa Clauses!" What a classic, timeless episode!
How do you road block a sleigh
Santa turned down a ride saying “I have my own mode of transportation. “ Love it! 😅
@@westerncivilsation7514 With another sleigh with red and blue lights flashing.
Everything is good for business according to the motel manager. 😅
No carols being sung at the motel. It’s bad for business. 😂 Not dignified or respectable.
Boy those cars was so big and beautiful!
Beautiful automobile gas wos cheap then .
Automobiles had character then. Today they all look alike.
@@johnblackstock8669 how about 32 cents a gallon.
Unfortunately, those cars were also big gas guzzlers.
@@michaelpalmieri7335 15 miles per gallon.
Amen to that all I want is love and to be loved that's all I want and that comes from Jesus Christ Alone
I have good memories of working for the Salvation Army ringing a bell at Xmas.
Best ending ever. Dan even smiled.
A wonderful episode! Very heartwarming!
Oh! Lord Sarah, this is an episode that'll put ya in a Christmas yule on the fourth of July...
@murraymims120 yes, so true!🎄🎁👍🇺🇸 Merry Christmas 🎅!
I gotta' tell ya Ms. Shouse ... I like the way you read the depth of that Episode ... have you seen "Breath of a Child" ?? ... let me know if you can watch it without holding your nose close to the end !?!?!?
@murraymims120 yes I've seen that episode!! Really gripping!! Merry Christmas to you and a very happy new year!!☃️🎄🎅
Dan is the best. Gruff, but a deep down sweet guy.
Yes, agree!!
That was a wonderful episode. I love xmas and Xmas stories like this. And, hey ! Nobody got pistol whipped this time. I think this was the only time =) May all your Xmases be very happy !
That's Christmas sonny, take the time to spel, it will ya? Merry christmas!
CHRISTmas. Keep Christ -- God -- in Christmas.
@ I agree.
Don't you mean CHRISTmas, not Xmas???
Yes, the crooks sure like to whack people in the head in these episodes, except this one, which is nice. Wouldn't want santa to get a headache on Christmas Eve. He'd not be able to drive his reindeer! Think of all of the toys which wouldn't get delivered!
What a great story….And what a clear picture 😁 I didn’t even have to adjust the rabbit ears 👍🏼 Oh …and Merry Christmas 😊
This show is one of the few where I don't have to strain to hear. For some reason, a lot of movies and shows on TH-cam don't come loud enough to understand. This show, I have to turn the volume way down to almost nothing. Maybe it's just my computer?
Thank you Foxeema for posting all these episodes!
Another Highway Patrol classic.
I have a nice Christmas story, A friend of mine, back on 68 , 69 or 70, had his garbage piling up due to a garbage workers strike, right about Christmas. He put the garbage in boxes and gift wrapped them. He placed the gift wrapped boxes in that back seat of his car ( a big 4 door) and went Christmas shopping. Upon returning to the unlocked car, he found all his garbage taken away by thieves.
“I think Santa Claus is our man!” Love this one...
@ 5.10 I saw the driver in the Lincoln give a right hand turn signal with his arm, something you have never seen for 50 years !
Then follow me. I still give hand signals. Learned to drive in 1950!
Same here, I learned to drive at the same age as you.
Some people still give hand signals. Not turn signals though.
Young drivers don't know what they mean.
That was the woman. Back then the cars didnt have turn signals, so we used the hand. Straight out meant left turn and arm drooping maent slowing down. See ? I still know them =) Many Happy Xmases to you !
I like watching highway patrol.i like those shows
Actually, Broderick Crawford was a superb serious actor. Playing Willie Stark in "All The King's Men" is an excellent example.
He won an Oscar for that role.
he does have an Oscar. pretty good indicator of his talent
He also played J EDGER HOOVER 1977 The private files of J. EDGER HOOVER
My favorite of his films is Born Yesterday.
I liked "all the kings men "
That motel owner is still there today...decades later...placing ornaments on that tree...🎄
👍😁
It's good for business!
She's driving a DeSoto. Be sure to visit your DeSoto Plymouth Dealer tomorrow and when you do, tell them Groucho sent you. It's delightful, it's delovely , it's DeSoto!
You said the secret word, "DeSoto"! Pay him the $100, Fenniman!
You wouldn't be the Sammy Terry of Indianapolis Indiana..."The Sammy Terry Show" of the 60's...would you?
Absolutely beautiful.
What a pleasant story, and a happy ending. Today's tv writers would have written it to get the worst possible outcome, and make sure that it is all the man's fault.
....with Detective Olivia (Mariska Hargitay) on L&O/SVU putting the cuffs on him.
Love watching the production of everyone putting on overcoats but leaving the car windows rolled down.
Remember even though it's Christmas Eve in California.😎
@@altonpitts5303 California has temperature variations from north to south, and winter nights are cold, while day temperature can be cool.
Nice catch!
If they tried to create an episode like this in 2022, the Salvation Army Santa would have been arrested and charged with kidnapping and pedophilia. In the 50s and 60s people looked after other people's kids like their own. People nowadays would be afraid to act responsibly fearing their actions would be misunderstood.
Sad but true
Sad, but true. People, especially men, are under suspicion for even looking at young children. I understand why. Too many children have, and are still being, abused. How to tell if someone is honestly trying to help the child?
@@conniewojahn6445There was the same amount of abusers and the same amount of good people back then as there is now. The difference is if you choose to be good nowadays, you are punished for that.
No more little boys & girls sitting on Santa's lap in 2025.
Great show wish they made them today like that
I love this show!
I love the babes.
markmnorcal and all the babes had the most soothing meaningful voices that could melt ya.
+markmnorcal I love the babes too bro! Yummy eh?
+markmnorcal I wanted one of those 5Os women when I was a kid! I kid you not!
I watched Highway Patrol when I was a little boy this is my favorite episode
Little boys won't understand even half of the story line.
Thought it was the hotel owner. Then I remembered this is a 50’s show and not a 2020’s show.
I love seeing the humorous side of Dan for a change.
He thinks the same about you Ronnie.....
Ya wanna see him happy, give him a bottle.
Of course, it's a Christmas story, but not without giving food for thought.
They were all the same, the wives! They wanted a big house, a big car, a mink coat, jewelry and a social life, but it was not enough, the husband who worked hard to earn money for this kind of life, had to come home early, to take care of his wife and child. Only one child, of course, so as not to ruin the figure of the lady!
And nowadays women dare to say that the male was a domestic tyrant. More often men were the victims, yes, victims of vindictive, demanding, never-satisfied, cold-in-bed wives. No wonder the guys died before they were sixty, leaving good life insurance for their widows...
Anyway, thanks for sharing this great series.
Love the old cars reminds me of my childhood.
Love the location shots.
One look at that '56 Desoto ragtop and I was hooked on this episode. The old man's '54 Lincoln 4 dr. wasn't bad either.
That's a '55...the last year for the toothy grill (and the only year for a gear lever on the dashboard--note her hand movement)
55 Lincoln 4 door.
The man bought his wife the convertible and he drove the stodgy 4 door. What a horrible husband.
On the early 1950's Buick's, there were chrome "portholes" on the front fenders. Three portholes meant it was a "Special" model, and four portholes meant it was a "Roadmaster" model. Special had a smaller engine than the Roadmaster.
The Super and Century models also had four portholes. Buicks of this era, until 1960, used gas pedal starting too. You depressed the gas pedal to the floor to start the car. It starts with a big flourish someimes, with all that gas. HP didn't use sound effects. You get the actual sound of the car starting too. Really great to hear.
I had 2 Buicks and did not know this Huh ! interesting !
Ventiports.
we had a 54 special
That hotel is still there to this day
It's the Brentwood inn on sunset in Los Angeles a boutique hotel now
About 200 bucks a night
I had an alarm clock just like hers.
Scratching my head over mom and daughter in night gowns in the afternoon. I know you had to get an early start the next day, but pretty early to be hitting the hay. (And, in December, the sun was setting pretty early, too.)
Ever see the "Mother Daughter" videos where they are in their night gowns???
Pure entertainment! I was about the same age as that girl at that time! Great heartwarming story.
I love this show, old Broderick sure had to memorize a lot , so fast paced for only half hour , I may have seen this show when I was longggggg ago
He didn't memorize it he had notes stuck everywhere I seen it on an interview
Michelle Ducasse was born on 18 August 1947 in the USA. She is an actress, known for So This Is Paris (1954) and Highway Patrol (1955).
The Highway Patrol office is Los Angeles City Fire Station #19 on Sunset Blvd.
Cool!
thank you again
Another great short Christmas Movie. The best ones were made in the 1950's where they respected The Real Meaning of Christmas not the New Hollywood versions.
Notice how the narrator carefully describes how the Highway Patrol conducts an investigation. It's sort of like how Jack Webb did almost exactly the same thing when he played Sergeant Friday on "Dragnet." As a matter of fact, the background music in this episode sounds almost like the music on "Dragnet."
I never get tired of this one
Dan: at 6:13 ¨So a kid is lost. What about this? Christmas time they get lost all the time in Department Stores.¨ I want some action! Give me a real case to work on!
Growing up in the seventies, I took the bus downtown alone after kindergarten to my parents' business place because there was no one home otherwise. I was the last of 5 siblings, and it was only natural you had to fend for yourself after you started walking and talking. Nobody would even notice if you went missing. Those were the good old days when men were men, women were women, and kids had to figure it out for themselves.
64/65 I also walked home a lone for 3 blocks a quarter mile alone , in a town of 15,000 people no big deal .
I remember my grandpa always wearing a hat like those, and on Sunday morning, my grandma was wearing her hat for church
poor Santa had to skim the till to make a call.
Brentwood Hotel 4:02 on Sunset BL was still there last time I was in L.A. in 1999.
When we stayed there it had become a motel, run by a Mr Bates. Norman, as he told us to call him, was so kind to me after my wife mysteriously disappeared.
That little girl would be 70 years old right now in 2019
@@murphynapoleon Thank you, Murphy. That was so sweet. I really appreciate your words. I am still alive, retired, and happily living in Thousand Palms, CA.
Merry Christmas to you 🎅🏻❣️😘
@@michellemacris5765 🙂 This episode was on METV early this morning and I missed the ending so I watched the last 5 min on TH-cam. Broderick Crawford was a great actor and is the reason I love this old show. 🙂
The use of hand signals to indicate stops and turns.
AWESOME. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU ALL!!
🌲 ⛄🍭🍬
WOW! A VERY long time ago when I was 6/7 years old ALL I wanted for Christmas was a dog! Got one for Christmas a wire hair fox terrier. Mitze. Brought TEARS to my eyes (and a few down my cheeks).
This was filmed partly in my neighborhood when I was little. I recognize a few of the buildings. Fun!
This is when a K9 unit would be important for finding a child.
K9 unit also called dog.
Very good episode.
Everybody notice how clean places were no graffiti no baggy pants people dressed nice no rap. Lol. I could go on put me in a time machine when I die not a coffee !
Jim Crow agrees 100%.
It ISN'T the car 🚗 that KILLS, IT'S the DRIVER!
The poor husband works so hard to make a better life for his wife and children and look how he’s treated.
Wife didn’t pay for that pretty car…
Disgraceful!
Good episode. Merry Christmas
That Ford was in every episode.
I liked the BRENTWOOD MOTOR HOTEL sign, originally living at Brentwood in Essex here in the UK 🇬🇧.
I Got a Tear in my eye,!
24:52, "Merry Christmas!...how did that sound?"
Of course, Santa Claus has his own means of transportation.😉
and Officer Dan Mathews' double take.. with expression of "Wait, he's got his own transportation" and quick glance just to check.. was subtle but very funny.
GO SANTA!!!!!
There are a lot of holes in this plot.
7:06 ... 14 years in this one spot .... and still there at 12200 Sunset Blvd nearly 70 years later.
This is amazing!
someone once caught the sound of a whistle @ an intersection (Dan was driving thru!), in the Nacotics ep? in this one, a copper has traffic stopped as Dan drives thru....Public Safety! Dan-o is on the road! later, funny - HP is out rounding up all the Santas! thank you fox-love 'em! oh and Merry Christmas to all!
This is my favorite Highway Patrol episode. It had me scared the first time I watched it though. I was about the age of the girl. Now, I just pretend I had never seen it any at all, and go right along for the ride. I wish every episode dealt with a Christmas theme. I also wish Santa brought me a time machine for Christmas 2023... maybe next year, well, if I'm good enough?
Everything was so new and clean. 1956.
Yes, those were great times then, the Eisenhower years. People were patriotic, religious, and law abiding. Millions of serviceman raised their families in brand new homes with the GI BILL, and they found good employment and a happy fruitful way of life.
@@leecoffman2594 Yeah, Jim Crow, overt racism. Awesome times.
@@nestanesta9366 People like you like to look at only the bad, why don't you look at the positives of the fact that America was learning, we humans are not perfect, instead of racism, we have Abortion, attitudes of White People are the only violent people and racists, Men committing suicide and being attacked for being men, a media that is hellbent on taking down a sitting President, families being torn apart, and runners for Presidential Candidacy running on Open Borders and Radical Healthcare plans. My point is every era has its problems and I think the problems we have today are as equal or worse than the problems of the 50's, Racism is wrong, no doubt in that but unfortunately it cannot be erased, as man never fully loses his tribal instinct. Just as you can't change the weather, you can't change instincts, you can teach how to deal with instincts through Church, but some will hold their beliefs no matter how much you shout at them, as long as you do no physical harm to someone, and incite no harm toward people you can't do anything to change them. Good day to you, and Merry Christmas.
@@nestanesta9366 Bad sides existed, but White middle-class Americans had a good life.
@@20thCenturyManTrad "...we humans are not perfect, instead of racism, we have Abortion, ..."
You humans, have recreational sex that leads to single mothers or abortion, tons of divorce, jubilant homosexuality, pedophilia, drug addiction, etc., all considered evil back then, but more or less encouraged or induced by modern US culture.
4:32, "we call them cottages, it sounds more dignified and respectable."
Creepy! I thought for sure the motel owner was a suspect!
Yeah, "cabins" sounds too toxic masculine - His wife must have his gonads in her purse. Ha ha!!!
@@jaminova_1969 w/ bodies buried under the dignified and respectable Christmas tree. 🎄
For the first time I can see where Broderick was sauced, LOL, they said the scenes where he was so drunk they didn’t let him drive the patrol car, I’ve been watching closely to see if I could catch him, I finally did, his speech is slurred a little too.
What a cool dude from the city of brotherly love, I wanna be just like him.
David Jannsen of the FUGITIVE was also a drunk on the show and you couldn’t tell.
I know he was a heavy drinker, i didn't notice anything here
Awesome light-hearted story. Sub-title should be: "Dan Mathews - Marriage Counselor".
Ah, the simpler time, of the half-hour melodrama.
vw beetle at the end,parked outside of the motel
On the other side of the street.
Filmed in 1955 (no 1956 cars anywhere) but apparently not aired until well into the following year.
Some HP episodes are in the human interest vein rather than about crimes and this is a good one. The man doesn't quite realize that his job has taken priority over his loving and precious family. A modern day version would have one just throwing in the towel and end up in divorce court.
Initially Dan doesn't want to get involved but he does and pulls out all the stops as usual. It ends up well and the child gets her wish with a puppy.
Laura drives an awesome 1955 DeSoto Fireflite convertible. Only 775 of those beauties were built (plus 625 Firedome models) Rare even when new.
The DeSoto was probably rusted out by 1959.
❤Groucho Marx Said that There Were Over 3000 Desoto Dealers Across America😊🎉💪😎📣💥👁👍
@@sludge8506 If it moved to the rust belt states, then yes. I'm from Arizona and '50s cars were often in daily use well into the 1970s and even later.
@@muffs55mercury61 Yes, great point! The rust belt winters were brutal on automobiles. 🚗
Who doesn't love those big telephones
Excellent television series.
A sweet episode.
Did anybody happen to notice that at about 15 minutes into the episode, Dan Matthews got in the patrol car on the passenger side and that the steering wheel was also on the passenger side? What is this, England?
OOPS, MY BAD! SHOULD HAVE HAD MY GLASSES ON. SORRY ABOUT THAT!
The sergeant was also an investigator with Intertect on the first season of Mannix .
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Ted is driving a very cool Lincoln. You can kind of see the ,"self leveling", air shocks leveling the car out when it stops. That woman is crazy to run off from that guy. The little girl found the worst shedding dog in the world to adopt, Chihuahua.
Why was a Christmas episode broadcast on 6/25/56? I've heard of "Christmas in July" BUT June?? 🤔
The hotel manager sure seemed to spend a lot of time decorating the tree.
This was a good,
Merry Christmas 2150, whereever your 10-20!
"21-50, bye"
An portrait of an different time?
She said , maybe daddy will miss us "this time' so evidently she took the girl and ran off on him before. Terrible
I just love it when women stubbornly hide information from the police, but still expect them to find their child. Also she lies to her child because she knows the girl wouldn't want to go along with her plan if she knew the truth. I think she suspected the truth (kids are often not as dumb as their mothers think they are), that's why she ran away
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