I found out the four holes in the side of the fenders for the Buick Roadmaster were inspired by a designer who flew a war plane in WWII. That plane had the holes in the side.
I’ve been watching these for several weeks and this is the first blood I have ever seen. A lot of difference in the blood and gore now on tv. Wish we could go back to those days. I was a little girl when these were made, very nostalgic
I was just a boy when these shows first aired; I remember sitting on my now-late father's lap as we watched. He would often have to calm me down whenever the bad guys were getting away with something. "Calm down son it's just a TV show" lol
This same industrial location was used at least three times in different episodes. Nuclear Industries Ltd, Jarmin Manufacturing Company and now Apex Plastics Corp.
First show I have watched with Dan in a General Motors "undercover car" The 56 Chevy 4 door looked nice! Also one of the few times he didn't scratch the map up with his pen,tacks used instead ! Roadblocks all around for sure.. Thanks for keeping these alive!!
I love it that one real actor, a bunch of extras posing as actors, some kid with a 16mm camera loaned out from his art school and a nice collection of classic cars can make such a great series.
It always amazes me the way people don't seem to be aware of their surroundings; to not notice they may be being watched, especially with a car just down the street.
Beautiful Emmaline Henry, who was also in Dream of Jeannie. Died of brain tumor in '79 at age 50.What a shame. Good episode. Old man said this aged him 10 years, which he really didnt need !
Today, the FBI would have railroaded this poor innocent guy straight into prison. Dan Matthews has integrity and honesty, like the police USED to have.
This scene has so much going for it. When she falls over as her ankles are being tied and gets back up on her butt, when she looks indignant at his demand to gag her. When she doesn't make a sound until she is gagged All great
I could hear the factory glass pack dual mufflers on that 1956 Ford convertible when the robber sped away from Apex Plastics. The Ford probably had the 292 Y-block V8. I had a 1956 Mercury convertible (in 1965) with the 312 Y-block V8 with dual factory glass pack muffler exhaust. I have no idea when Ford stopped installing glass pack mufflers on their cars. These weren't the bullet shaped hi-performance glass packed mufflers of later years, but a regular looking stock rectangular muffler that had glass packed stamped into the steel muffler shell. They had a very mellow sound.
Back in the day a lot of chicks use to hitchhike, great cooks, and innocent sweet it was an almost common activity hitchhiking, and I never heard of many getting harmed, again, the best days are passed!!
Maybe he was not familiar that - according to another commenter: "Back in the day a lot of chicks use to hitchhike... it was an almost common activity hitchhiking, and I never heard of many getting harmed.... the best days are passed!!"
hamburger, coke & fries at the local drive in was 60 cents around 1960 & stayed that way for quite a while. No big box stores back then, at least not where I lived.
Mass inflation started when they took us off the gold standard and accelerated when they quit making coins from silver. Actually inflation is a hidden tax... it devalues the government debt and makes the value of loans taken out by the government go down, stealing from people that loan the government money by buying savings bonds.
The International truck in the Apex lot shows up at the roadblock a few minutes later. The truck was used in many,many episodes painted various colors.Sometimes as the star of the show,
@@henryhorner3182 Sure, until they get caught, convicted and sent to prison. They they lose everything they ever worked for in life, not to mention their freedom. Is it worth the risk? You tell me. I don't think it is.
@@javiergilvidal1558 1956 Fords like the one in this video had at least one major improvement over all the previous years of Fords. For the '56 and later models the wiring and all electrical devices were 12 volt as opposed to 6 volt. As engines got larger and had closer tolerances they needed the extra battery cells to start the engine.
@@chuckster3629 Not denying that. I know nothing about mid-century American cars, and you obviously do. All I say is that the film is copyright 1955, so the "1956" model came early onto the market
Look closely at the scene when the criminals are eating at the diner. The guy eating at the table right behind them has been in tons of movies and TV shows. He always played bad guys or monsters, he has that condition where his hands and ears grow out of control
I love watching this old Highway Patrol series, because it shows the early days of LA's beauty, before it was riddled with gangs, graffiti, and violence.
*Man at table behind the 'plotters'at 21:42 is 'Angel' (something, can't remember) from the 30's to the '50's...he was in at least a 100-movies, always playing the 'heavy' or a 'monster' of some kind, or a wrestler*
$28000 was a lot of money in 1955. Good buildup and payoff here in a good episode ie solid writing. The talented Emmaline Henry does a good job in a dramatic role but she was better known for comedy. Shirley O'Hara (payroll clerk) had a long career. RIP Both.
@@johnbockelie3899 If the "bad guy" is still alive and believing it was never recovered as the police had never disclosed to the media that it had been.
If you're wondering why Chief Dan's speech at the end has nothing to do with the rest of the episode, it's because it's from a different episode (by coincidence the previous one I watched) entitled Reckless Driving.
@Brian Salomon Correct. His sayings were generally recycled in some random order, irregardless of the theme of the just-completed episode. I especially liked the one about the clowns at the circus . . . . .
ctranger I think it went like this: "The clowns at the circus, they're real funny, but on the highways they're murder! This is Broderick Crawford saying see you next week." Drops folder on desk or gets into a car.
Today a cop who shoots a criminal could end up in jail for a long time. Become a cop today, and learn to let the criminals get away, or you'll never collect that pension.
The same has always been true about self-defense.... especially if the person that that one is defending himself against IS a cop. Watch "Framed (1975)" starring Don Baker. Times have not changed as much as some would like to believe.....
Two guys I grew up with moved to Texas during the oil boom in the late 70's. They robbed the payroll office of $250,000. They got caught, but the police never found the money. The one guy pled guilty and got 5 yrs. The other went to trial and got off. Funny how they never found all that money. Hehehehe.
There was a woman who murdered her husband in 2005. She went to prison but was released in 2022. Her dead husband's insurance payout is still out there somewhere (Look up Amy Bosley. The case is profiled on Forensic Files) Also look up Claude Bellamy whom with his two brothers robbed some banks around Myrtle Beach some years back. The money still hasn't been found and one of the brothers is out now.
Although a hitchhiker does die in this episode, it begins with a plant robbery which S01E25 is titled but which is about an armored car robbery. Too bad this series wasn't produced stating the episode title at the beginning.
Some of you guys can't appreciate these classic shows showing that evil never ends up winning in the end. They may seem like simple themes but they certainly taught young people of days gone by a true morality of life that crime doesn't pay and truth will prevail. Oh that this nation might return to truth and righteousness.
***** Tony, no offense intended at all, but these programs were made in a day when this country had not integrated as far as the blacks and whites. And even as a boy growing up in the 70's the only time I heard of a Hispanic was a migrant worker. We are living in the 21st century now and I know things have changed and we can't go back to those days nor should we. I'm only speaking of the morality they are presenting that was once a true thing in this country. I wouldn't call the man a Jewish racist, it was a different day but is still a part of our nations history that should be appreciated for what it presented morals wise. I grew up going to school with black people and the thought of racism or prejudice never entered my mind. I had friends of different races even back then, but at the same time you didn't see interracial dating and marriages and even a girl getting pregnant out of wedlock in those days was a shame. I think people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have purposely tried to drive every wedge they could to cause division and racism in this country. Well I wasn't trying to preach a sermon only to bring about what I hope was a point that can be taken for the motive I intended to give it. Thanks for listening. Have a good day!
PALIN SMITH Allah is not a god at all. He's dead in a grave somewhere just like all the other false gods of history. There is only one God, the God of the Bible who ever liveth in Heaven, our loving heavenly Father.
Mark Wilson I like good vs evil, right vs wrong. I've lived that way most of my life. Allah was the freak Muhammad made up as his god. Muhammad was a better con man than Obama, Al Gore or Bill Clinton. .......and he did it entirely without newspapers or TV.
I can't believe that someone would paint a '56 Ford ragtop grey. Surely that's not a stock colour. Those cars look so beautiful when two toned in colours such yellow and black. At least they likely reused the same car to save money and didn't go out and rent a second battleship grey one.
this is filmed in black and white and that ford was another colour but looked grey in b & w. superman's suit was a different colour to look right in b & w.
This was the first episode I recall watching when I was just 6 in 1960. After that I remembered all of them thru the years. Great dialogue in this one. The makeup department did it right putting the blood mark on Stash. He took a bullet in the lung and later bled to death. The money must have been in small bills to take that many bags. But then it was rare in 1956 for anyone to have a $50 or a $100. The starter sounds on the '56 is likely actual as those Fords often the bendix jammed with the flywheel. I've owned several. John Close who played Stash died in a road accident in 1963, age 42. Emmaline Henry who also appeared in the 1957 episode "Lady Bandits" died in 1979 age 50.
This episode simply has too many coincidences for my liking. The bad guy Stash Erwin just happens to die shortly before arriving at a HWP roadblock. Then Mr. Warren Siddons, the guy who gets framed, just happens to have a gun in his hand when he is flagged down by an officer of the HWP. And he just happens to have a car that is the same year, make, model, and even color as the getaway car that Stash was driving, which is a ’56 Ford Sunliner Convertible. (Nice Car) And to boot, it even has the same exact license plate number on it, which is 3517106. Now try to figure that one out! And additionally, he just happens to work at the same plant that was robbed only he happened to leave early that day in order to go house hunting instead of doing it on a Saturday, and yet he just happened to be traveling down the same road near where the plant was located. And Stash Erwin, with a bullet lodged firmly in his back, just happens to be able to walk three whole miles before being picked up by a passing motorist and so his car and the money that Stash had stashed isn’t found immediately by members of the HWP searching the area where he had been picked up. And then the crook, Mr. Steadman, just happens to be dumb enough to want to plant some phony evidence at his place at work and even has his girlfriend put some suitcases inside his home filled with his clothes, which of course do not have any of his fingerprints on them. And then she is dumb enough to interview Mr. Siddons, naively believing that he may tell her something that he didn’t already tell the cops - while Dan Matthews the chief of the HWP has nothing better to do than to sit in an unmarked police car all day waiting for her imminent arrival - and who after being told some bogus information by Mr. Siddons then passes it on to her boyfriend who as a result takes the bait and promptly gets busted. I don’t buy it, I don’t buy it at all! And not explained is how anyone knew that Stash Erwin was driving a gray convertible as the guard immediately collapsed after getting shot, but whoever had seen it speeding away must have known that there was only one person riding in that car. And another thing, how did Stash Erwin get that Apex Plastic Gate Pass decal number 406 pasted onto the windshield of his car, as they were supposedly only given out to employees of the firm. Anyone have any ideas? I know its just silly 1950’s morality, but 60 years later it’s still a fun show to watch; so I’ve had my say, more than my say - to say the least!
Makes a deputy wonder.....they did't frisk or cuff Miss Burgess. They just let her sit behind them with no restraints. Almost as crazy as when I did the shakedown of the jail cell, and let the two crooks loose!
It was not the norm to let any prisoner sit in back alone in these shows....if you notice Matthews put her in the back seat, closed the door, then walked around behind the car to get in the back seat beside her.
Didn't Workers Get Paid With Checks Back Then .. I can see a company would have some cash on hand, but that much cash doesn't make sense even in the 50's.
Why don't the drivers exit from the drivers door instead of sliding across on the bench seat to get in and out of the passenger side door. Today with no bench seats you could never do this. Bench seats were great, the 55, 56 and 57 T birds had them, and they were the best idea ever. If Ford had made the new revised T-Bird with a bench seat it mighta sold better.
I think bench seats afforded it and that may have been the narrative in regards to safety. Also there was no chance of getting the driver-side car tore off by a passing car.... or causing a motorcyclist, to crash by opening said door into traffic.
@@kenlucas7025 Pull your head out of your ass Ken. Trump claimed that Obama left no vaccines on the shelf for us to use. The virus was identified in 2019. Vaccines can't be developed until after identifying the virus. Trump eliminated the white house's advisory committee on emergency response. This action hampered efforts to respond appropriately. He lied his ass off throughout the whole thing and you ate it up like an ignorant rube.
They Should Never Stop Showing These Classics Love Watching
Agree 💯!!👍👍
They are still on MeTv.
A good one this time!
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One of the best episodes with a few twists and turns but I just admit those gorgeous cars are a big reason that I watch.
I love it, Dan's the man oh what a great show it was and still is, I loved it as a kid and still love it as a 67-year-old, what do you know!
We Boomers had some of the finest programs to watch back in the 1950s and '60s!
Same here, I remembered 50s were good year.
@@MrMenefrego1 you are 100% correct!! They were the best! I'm proud to be a Boomer!😀👍🇺🇲
@@sarahshouse1890 Me too, Sarah, me too!
Right on, hughe I. Definitely agree with you!
Dan Matthews; the only man able to speak faster than the speed of sound!
i read he was a user of “Pep Pills “ legal speed of the day 🤷🏼♂️
@@heyoldman2003 2150, go!🤣🤣
Lol 😂
Yes , he does that and. He in real life was a boozer
@@heyoldman2003 "pep pills" were amphetamines and were available by Rx only.
I found out the four holes in the side of the fenders for the Buick Roadmaster were inspired by a designer who flew a war plane in WWII. That plane had the holes in the side.
I watch this series so that I can admire the beautiful classic cars.
I watched this show as a boy they weren't classics.
iheartscaryclowns that’s good,because you shouldn’t watch for quality.
Today's Detroit's "classics" have nothing to look forward to. They all look alike.
@@jameskoch7190 More quality than any ten shows on television today!
@@lesterhall5145 Yes. And that would be a 1956 Ford Sunliner convertible, 292 V8, automatic trans, complete with fender skirts.
The lovely blond was Emmaline Henry, who played Mrs. Bellows in I Dream of Jeannie.
Good information.
Yeah! She also died at 50 of a brain tumor. Wow!
She was also Sally in the episode 'Lady Bandits'
yep.
Very Sexy with all assets covered!!
I’ve been watching these for several weeks and this is the first blood I have ever seen. A lot of difference in the blood and gore now on tv. Wish we could go back to those days. I was a little girl when these were made, very nostalgic
I was just a boy when these shows first aired; I remember sitting on my now-late father's lap as we watched. He would often have to calm me down whenever the bad guys were getting away with something. "Calm down son it's just a TV show" lol
Thank you for bringing this to us. I love seeing the old cars.
This same industrial location was used at least three times in different episodes. Nuclear Industries Ltd, Jarmin Manufacturing Company and now Apex Plastics Corp.
On Santa Monica Blvd.
I thought it looked like the Jarmin location! lol I I love the simplicity of these old shows.
I wonder if it was the back of the studio. The Outer Limits series used the studio property for some exteriors.
Wow you are very observant. All I ever notice are the hot girls.
Don't. Forget. Charlie. Manson. Ranch
First show I have watched with Dan in a General Motors "undercover car" The 56 Chevy 4 door looked nice! Also one of the few times he didn't scratch the map up with his pen,tacks used instead ! Roadblocks all around for sure.. Thanks for keeping these alive!!
Yes a '56 Chevy doesn't have to be a Bel Air to be sharp.
Pretty tacky that Dan, if you ask me.
I love it that one real actor, a bunch of extras posing as actors, some kid with a 16mm camera loaned out from his art school and a nice collection of classic cars can make such a great series.
It always amazes me the way people don't seem to be aware of their surroundings; to not notice they may be being watched, especially with a car just down the street.
I was thinking the same thing lol!😊
Plenty of action in twenty six minutes and eleven seconds .
Beautiful Emmaline Henry, who was also in Dream of Jeannie. Died of brain tumor in '79 at age 50.What a shame. Good episode. Old man said this aged him 10 years, which he really didnt need !
Today, the FBI would have railroaded this poor innocent guy straight into prison. Dan Matthews has integrity and honesty, like the police USED to have.
Most cops today still have integrity...for the most part it's the bosses that fall short.
I agree with you, DoctorArtPhD! Frankly, most police would shoot the guy first and ask questions later in these days!
I Love this show Highway Patrol.
This scene has so much going for it. When she falls over as her ankles are being tied and gets back up on her butt, when she looks indignant at his demand to gag her. When she doesn't make a sound until she is gagged All great
Yeah, I love that scene, too.
I always liked how they would knock you out eith the butt of a .38
@@Scott-ly2nk He used his right hand while holding the gun with his left.
I could hear the factory glass pack dual mufflers on that 1956 Ford convertible when the robber sped away from Apex Plastics. The Ford probably had the 292 Y-block V8. I had a 1956 Mercury convertible (in 1965) with the 312 Y-block V8 with dual factory glass pack muffler exhaust. I have no idea when Ford stopped installing glass pack mufflers on their cars. These weren't the bullet shaped hi-performance glass packed mufflers of later years, but a regular looking stock rectangular muffler that had glass packed stamped into the steel muffler shell. They had a very mellow sound.
The '56 Ford lacks the thunderbird emblem on the front fenders which would indicate a 312.
The 50s when housewives cooked in the kitchen and were smoking the bedroom. Yeah baby !!!!
Roadblocks weren't exactly rare, growing-up... until Ike finished the Interstate Highway system. But they never seemed like a big deal, as a kid.
Beautiful cars used in the series, along with pretty actresses who look and dress like women.
No tattoos
this was a really good one ..
goes to show you, don't think for a minute, your co-workers are your friends.
We can't take any chances. Lets set-up a roadblock.
Back in the day a lot of chicks use to hitchhike, great cooks, and innocent sweet it was an almost common activity hitchhiking, and I never heard of many getting harmed, again, the best days are passed!!
Amen to that!
You never do hear of the one's that got harmed.
They're buried in shallow graves somewhere.
Lol. Ivan Milat killed hitchikers all over Australia. And he wasn't the Lone Ranger.
The "best days" are over rated. Nobody ever talks about the bad things that happened in nostalgia... unless it's only in the movies.....
QUINN MARTIN from HIGHWAY PATROL to THE UNTOUCHABLES (executive producer) SHARP GUY!
I love the cars in these shows. They were each works of art unlike the soulless suv's of today
These shows are why my Dad says NEVER PICK UP A HITCHHIKER
He was right
Most hitchhikers just want a ride.
Sadly, it's a lost art.
I used to pick up hitchhikers. You dont see it much anymore.
Also “You’ll put your eye out” ( with a BB gun) All true!! 👍👍👍
Maybe he was not familiar that - according to another commenter: "Back in the day a lot of chicks use to hitchhike... it was an almost common activity hitchhiking, and I never heard of many getting harmed.... the best days are passed!!"
His haul of $28,000 was about (average) 4 years salary in 1956. of course the dollar was worth a helluva lot more back then
Steak dinner $1.30
hamburger, coke & fries at the local drive in was 60 cents around 1960 & stayed that way for quite a while. No big box stores back then, at least not where I lived.
Mass inflation started when they took us off the gold standard and accelerated when they quit making coins from silver.
Actually inflation is a hidden tax... it devalues the government debt and makes the value of loans taken out by the government go down, stealing from people that loan the government money by buying savings bonds.
That was in 1971 and by 1974 we had 12% inflation.
$3700 I believe was yr avg salary then, then chrome was thick and the women were straight!!!!!!!
Mrs. Bellows (Emmaline Henry) from I Dream of Jeannie.
She hasn't change a bit. Dominates her men..Col Bellows is proof!
She was a babe.
The International truck in the Apex lot shows up at the roadblock a few minutes later. The truck was used in many,many episodes painted various colors.Sometimes as the star of the show,
Life was a lot easier and simpler in those days. At least it seems that way in comparison to today.
Great episode -- a big TWIST to the plot in this one. Good writing!
Yes. I had to watch some portions over again.
NO ONE would mistake him for the Duke
5:40 ..................... Nice '56 Ford Sunliner convertible. Sure would like to have it in that condition.
Who says "crime doesn't pay" Amazing but the criminals live in nice homes and drive pricey cars.
@@henryhorner3182
Sure, until they get caught, convicted and sent to prison. They they lose everything they ever worked for in life, not to mention their freedom. Is it worth the risk? You tell me. I don't think it is.
The end credits say 1955, but maybe they called a car made in 1955 a "1956" model. Was usual practice back then....
@@javiergilvidal1558
1956 Fords like the one in this video had at least one major improvement over all the previous years of Fords. For the '56 and later models the wiring and all electrical devices were 12 volt as opposed to 6 volt.
As engines got larger and had closer tolerances they needed the extra battery cells to start the engine.
@@chuckster3629 Not denying that. I know nothing about mid-century American cars, and you obviously do. All I say is that the film is copyright 1955, so the "1956" model came early onto the market
Look closely at the scene when the criminals are eating at the diner. The guy eating at the table right behind them has been in tons of movies and TV shows. He always played bad guys or monsters, he has that condition where his hands and ears grow out of control
Really good episode. Thanks.
If someone hid Dan's push pins, he would really be up a creek!
Word on the street is next weeks episode is going to be a very exciting one.
always lol
Maybe an unusual one lol
Or is it an unusual one?
I might be late for watching it, have to leave some blood at the Red Cross.
i love the little do-gooder notice at the end of each episode.
Sadly though, people still drive like idiots, only there's more of them now.
I love watching this old Highway Patrol series, because it shows the early days of LA's beauty, before it was riddled with gangs, graffiti, and violence.
And Transvestites and freaks
Beautiful state. Used to be a great state. Maybe someone will invent an antibiotic that will clear out the infection.
And people..
It's not just LA sister, it's every city in the nation,,,,,"EVERY CITY". So sad.
@@herrunsinn774 Violence yes, but waaaay less than now. Look at the stats.
At 3:08 there's a great example of TV bondage, 50s style. Pretty dated, but it brings back pleasant memories.
what acting... love that guy that was framed.. "two hours and he''s not breaking"'
*Man at table behind the 'plotters'at 21:42 is 'Angel' (something, can't remember) from the 30's to the '50's...he was in at least a 100-movies, always playing the 'heavy' or a 'monster'
of some kind, or a wrestler*
This is when TV was real tv
Yeah. But today it's better. A half-hour of movie and 30 minutes of sickening commercials every hour.
Greed has trapped many....
They should have named this series "Roadblock".
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I just love that 54 ford fairlane convertible
I used to own one a long time ago.
It was a '56
$28000 was a lot of money in 1955. Good buildup and payoff here in a good episode ie solid writing. The talented Emmaline Henry does a good job in a dramatic role but she was better known for comedy. Shirley O'Hara (payroll clerk) had a long career. RIP Both.
So.mean while in 2020. That bag of money is.still in that culvert.
@@johnbockelie3899 If the "bad guy" is still alive and believing it was never recovered as the police had never disclosed to the media that it had been.
If you're wondering why Chief Dan's speech at the end has nothing to do with the rest of the episode, it's because it's from a different episode (by coincidence the previous one I watched) entitled Reckless Driving.
@Brian Salomon Thanks, I'm just starting to get that about this show. I wonder how few endings they actually shot.
@Brian Salomon Correct. His sayings were generally recycled in some random order, irregardless of the theme of the just-completed episode. I especially liked the one about the clowns at the circus . . . . .
ctranger I think it went like this: "The clowns at the circus, they're real funny, but on the highways they're murder! This is Broderick Crawford saying see you next week." Drops folder on desk or gets into a car.
Today a cop who shoots a criminal could end up in jail for a long time. Become a cop today, and learn to let the criminals get away, or you'll never collect that pension.
The same has always been true about self-defense.... especially if the person that that one is defending himself against IS a cop. Watch "Framed (1975)" starring Don Baker. Times have not changed as much as some would like to believe.....
Two guys I grew up with moved to Texas during the oil boom in the late 70's. They robbed the payroll office of $250,000. They got caught, but the police never found the money. The one guy pled guilty and got 5 yrs. The other went to trial and got off. Funny how they never found all that money. Hehehehe.
There was a woman who murdered her husband in 2005. She went to prison but was released in 2022. Her dead husband's insurance payout is still out there somewhere (Look up Amy Bosley. The case is profiled on Forensic Files) Also look up Claude Bellamy whom with his two brothers robbed some banks around Myrtle Beach some years back. The money still hasn't been found and one of the brothers is out now.
Excellent episode as always! 👍 Dan Matthews is my hero!😊😊😊
0:55 That of course are the ZIV Studios (formerly Eagle-Lion Studios) in West Hollywood (now demolished).
Although a hitchhiker does die in this episode, it begins with a plant robbery which S01E25 is titled but which is about an armored car robbery. Too bad this series wasn't produced stating the episode title at the beginning.
"Scapegoat" would have been a better title.
Incredible and double incredible!🇺🇸🇺🇸
Good one !! Thanks Foxeema !
Legend has it Crawford bribed co-workers to sneak in booze for him.
Some of you guys can't appreciate these classic shows showing that evil never ends up winning in the end. They may seem like simple themes but they certainly taught young people of days gone by a true morality of life that crime doesn't pay and truth will prevail. Oh that this nation might return to truth and righteousness.
***** Tony, no offense intended at all, but these programs were made in a day when this country had not integrated as far as the blacks and whites. And even as a boy growing up in the 70's the only time I heard of a Hispanic was a migrant worker. We are living in the 21st century now and I know things have changed and we can't go back to those days nor should we. I'm only speaking of the morality they are presenting that was once a true thing in this country. I wouldn't call the man a Jewish racist, it was a different day but is still a part of our nations history that should be appreciated for what it presented morals wise. I grew up going to school with black people and the thought of racism or prejudice never entered my mind. I had friends of different races even back then, but at the same time you didn't see interracial dating and marriages and even a girl getting pregnant out of wedlock in those days was a shame. I think people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have purposely tried to drive every wedge they could to cause division and racism in this country. Well I wasn't trying to preach a sermon only to bring about what I hope was a point that can be taken for the motive I intended to give it. Thanks for listening. Have a good day!
***** Get right with God.
***** Allah is not a benevolent god.
PALIN SMITH Allah is not a god at all. He's dead in a grave somewhere just like all the other false gods of history. There is only one God, the God of the Bible who ever liveth in Heaven, our loving heavenly Father.
Mark Wilson I like good vs evil, right vs wrong. I've lived that way most of my life. Allah was the freak Muhammad made up as his god. Muhammad was a better con man than Obama, Al Gore or Bill Clinton. .......and he did it entirely without newspapers or TV.
1956 chevy sedan.
cost then 1850.00
1956 chevy sedan
cost now 35.000.00
The rubber mask that robber wore resembled John Wayne to me, LOL!!!
Crawfrick Brodford, was primo in this role.
Matthews puts the girl in the car in the back seat, uncuffed, and doesn't even check her handbag. perfect for a head shot at both cops!
In those days, chivalry was still commonplace.
I watch this series so I can watch the beautiful classic women.
I can't believe that someone would paint a '56 Ford ragtop grey. Surely that's not a stock colour. Those cars look so beautiful when two toned in colours such yellow and black. At least they likely reused the same car to save money and didn't go out and rent a second battleship grey one.
redtail
this is filmed in black and white and that ford was another colour but looked grey in b & w. superman's suit was a different colour to look right in b & w.
Hard to tell what color it was in black & white!
Platinum Grey was on Ford's color codes for 1956. Not the best choice but that's how it is!
2:20 ............................ All that money on the desk and they don't have their office door locked? They were just asking to be robbed. LOL!
Apex Plastics Co. had very poor security for all that cash.
Robberies don't happen in the "good o' days" remember. Someone threw a wrench in the works. Probably someone from 1985 traveling back in time.... LOL
@@jrtej9575 Greed has trapped a lot of people.....
Somebody should tell Mathews that those are just pushpins and not roadblocks.
Excellent struggling by the bound and gagged woman (played by actress Shirley O’Hara).
This was the first episode I recall watching when I was just 6 in 1960. After that I remembered all of them thru the years. Great dialogue in this one.
The makeup department did it right putting the blood mark on Stash. He took a bullet in the lung and later bled to death.
The money must have been in small bills to take that many bags. But then it was rare in 1956 for anyone to have a $50 or a $100. The starter sounds on the '56 is likely actual as those Fords often the bendix jammed with the flywheel. I've owned several.
John Close who played Stash died in a road accident in 1963, age 42. Emmaline Henry who also appeared in the 1957 episode "Lady Bandits" died in 1979 age 50.
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Great scene @ 2:40. Loved the struggle !!!
Cough like that in a stranger's car today and watch all hell break loose.
He should have gone to the drugstore and bought the hitchhiker some cough drops.
This episode simply has too many coincidences for my liking. The bad guy Stash Erwin just happens to die shortly before arriving at a HWP roadblock. Then Mr. Warren Siddons, the guy who gets framed, just happens to have a gun in his hand when he is flagged down by an officer of the HWP. And he just happens to have a car that is the same year, make, model, and even color as the getaway car that Stash was driving, which is a ’56 Ford Sunliner Convertible. (Nice Car) And to boot, it even has the same exact license plate number on it, which is 3517106. Now try to figure that one out! And additionally, he just happens to work at the same plant that was robbed only he happened to leave early that day in order to go house hunting instead of doing it on a Saturday, and yet he just happened to be traveling down the same road near where the plant was located. And Stash Erwin, with a bullet lodged firmly in his back, just happens to be able to walk three whole miles before being picked up by a passing motorist and so his car and the money that Stash had stashed isn’t found immediately by members of the HWP searching the area where he had been picked up. And then the crook, Mr. Steadman, just happens to be dumb enough to want to plant some phony evidence at his place at work and even has his girlfriend put some suitcases inside his home filled with his clothes, which of course do not have any of his fingerprints on them. And then she is dumb enough to interview Mr. Siddons, naively believing that he may tell her something that he didn’t already tell the cops - while Dan Matthews the chief of the HWP has nothing better to do than to sit in an unmarked police car all day waiting for her imminent arrival - and who after being told some bogus information by Mr. Siddons then passes it on to her boyfriend who as a result takes the bait and promptly gets busted. I don’t buy it, I don’t buy it at all!
And not explained is how anyone knew that Stash Erwin was driving a gray convertible as the guard immediately collapsed after getting shot, but whoever had seen it speeding away must have known that there was only one person riding in that car. And another thing, how did Stash Erwin get that Apex Plastic Gate Pass decal number 406 pasted onto the windshield of his car, as they were supposedly only given out to employees of the firm. Anyone have any ideas? I know its just silly 1950’s morality, but 60 years later it’s still a fun show to watch; so I’ve had my say, more than my say - to say the least!
My daughter always says 'Just watch the movie Dad, don't be looking for faults. lol
@@ghmaguire7557 Sometimes that's hard to do!
Don't like coincidences, stay away from Charles Dickens.
@@randyhutton9371 I'll take your advice. Never read anything by him except for Christmas Carol.
$28,000. cash, but the 56 Ford Sunliner conv. cost $3,000 approximately then. Today that car could fetch $100,000!
How big was the plant and how many employees?
Nothing beats the sound of a hemi v8.
What a great episode !
It's nice to see all the old cars, Plymouth and Buicks
They love roadblocks in this show.
The CARELESS driver ISN'T DRIVING his car 🚗, he's AIMING IT!
...so if you care to aim, aim with care....
great episode this one
“Ms Burgess, you,re under arrest..don’t worry about your boyfriend….we’ll keep your date for ya”😂😂😂😂😂
The Buick Roadmaster was the last great American car. Both John Close and Shirley O'Hara had long careers as did Emmiline Henry.
It makes me chuckle that every car description only states color and body style, never include make and model.
This is the same bad guy that was in the police woman episode. He survived in the other episode although Mathews beat the pulp out of him.
Makes a deputy wonder.....they did't frisk or cuff Miss Burgess. They just let her sit behind them with no restraints. Almost as crazy as when I did the shakedown of the jail cell, and let the two crooks loose!
+Barney Fife Admittedly this show had some nice looking lady criminals on it thru its run.
It was not the norm to let any prisoner sit in back alone in these shows....if you notice Matthews put her in the back seat, closed the door, then walked around behind the car to get in the back seat beside her.
As long as your bullet didn't fall out of your shirt pocket.
Excellent episode with Amanda Bellows from "I dream of Jeannie"...
I only made $6,200 in 1972 working 40hours a week. 😔
28 grand divided by 6 grand equals 4.67. I think there were a few more employees than 4....
Didn't Workers Get Paid With Checks Back Then .. I can see a company would have some cash on hand, but that much cash doesn't make sense even in the 50's.
🔵NEVER THOUGHT JOHN WAYNE COULD BE A BANK ROBBER.🔴
nice convert ford...love how they float over the ground...lead sleds
Why don't the drivers exit from the drivers door instead of sliding across on the bench seat to get in and out of the passenger side door. Today with no bench seats you could never do this. Bench seats were great, the 55, 56 and 57 T birds had them, and they were the best idea ever. If Ford had made the new revised T-Bird with a bench seat it mighta sold better.
The safety message of getting in and out curbside had just about run out gas.
I think it has something to do with the camera shots they go that on alot of shows
I think bench seats afforded it and that may have been the narrative in regards to safety. Also there was no chance of getting the driver-side car tore off by a passing car.... or causing a motorcyclist, to crash by opening said door into traffic.
Notice they put her in the car without handcuffs.
I knew John Wayne needed more money. Did not make enough back then.😛
Income tax on high earners was much higher back then. That changed with Reagan.
at highway patrol headquarters Matthews water cooler is filled with beer!
mark Wilson, you made a great post.
Its a fact.
Very good one!
gray convertible - first time they got the vehicle color correct!
the blonde was emaline henry........she played Dr. Bellows wife in I dream of Jeannie and that 56 Chev was a beauty!!
Did they have a virus going around back then? I noticed that one gentleman had on a mask and gloves.
They did have a deadly virus going around and it was Obama's fault!
@@kenlucas7025 It was even nastier than that, it was the Trump STD!
Trump's fault
@@kenlucas7025 Pull your head out of your ass Ken. Trump claimed that Obama left no vaccines on the shelf for us to use. The virus was identified in 2019. Vaccines can't be developed until after identifying the virus. Trump eliminated the white house's advisory committee on emergency response. This action hampered efforts to respond appropriately. He lied his ass off throughout the whole thing and you ate it up like an ignorant rube.
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