Well, let me try to give a rundown. The ragtop was a '55 Dodge, and most likely had a 270 Hemi. That sounds small, but the '53s & '54s had a 241 Hemi. The coupe was a '55 Plymouth Belvedere, which would have been either a 241 or 260 Poly-head. The '55 Buicks were all 322 Nailheads. The ''55 Merc was a 292 Y-block. The '55 Nash was most likely the 196 ci Flathead 6. And, the boss man's '55 Lincoln sported a 341. Not sure what was in the truck, tho.
This episode touched my heart! I've worked in computers nearly all my life, I started back in the early 60's with the big IBM 1401, then came THE WONDER, the IBM 360. Seeing the "machine napping" of a computer that has to be loaded into a semi-trailer to move around sent me straight to the beginning of my career. Regards
+Connie Lewis Hi Connie! Yes, the first computers I worked with needed a huge room, dust free and fully air conditioned, and had around 1.000 times LESS computer power than the laptop I'm using at this very moment. Regards
Yes, the IBM 360 in its various configurations and memory sizes was the first computer which became common in industry and commerce. The IBM 1401 opened the market but the 360 conquered it. Regards
Trivia from this episode: Hotel Goodhap was at 208 S. Brand Blvd in San Fernando. The entire area was razed and became the San Fernando Mall at S. Brand Blvd and San Fernando Rd. The exterior of "Ferris Electronics" was also used in the "Desperate Men" episode.
I lived in San Fernando in the late 80's-90's, their police force was vigilant like Beverly Hills. My wife worked at a bank on San Fernando Mall, bank robberies all around, but rarely in San Fernando because of the great police force!! They are an incorporated city--about 2 miles square.
I drove trucks for many years and 90% of the time when leaving a plant, even with an empty trailer, the security guard always had me open the trailer doors to check if it was empty or not. And then there were a few instances that they did not check. One was Wal Mart distribution centers which never checked (as of before 2003) Nice assortment of cars here such as the 1955 Nash Ambassador, 1955 Lincoln and Mercury and the 1955 Dodge convertible near the end and all those beautiful Buicks. 1955 also brought the first V8 to Plymouths (the second getaway car) It was small, just 260 cubic inches but was a peppy little motor.
Yes, you're absolutely correct. After I retired I took a job in security and worked the gatehouse at one of the regional local pharmacy chains's main warehouses. I'm sure it would have been the case in this episode. At the warehouse where I worked, certain trucks were never opened except because these were the trucks which only carried highly controlled substances such as narcotics and were protected with locks that only the sending warehouse and receiving warehouse personnel had keys for. They also had a device on the back of the trailer near the lock on trucks which carried less desirable controlled substances like blood pressure medications, antibiotics, etc which kept track of the time, date and number of times that the trailer was opened. The driver up these trucks did carry keys to the lock on their trucks so that they could unlock their truck at each pharmacy that they made a delivery.
Even though I don't smoke anymore , it's like music to my ears when Dan asks, IN A RELAX NO BIG DEAL sort of way-"by the way, would you like a cigarette?" Things seemed so much more relaxed in the 5Os!
Another great story from highway patrol they don’t have shows like this anymore simple always a happy ending maybe not quite to the point of dragnet but still a great show
I've pulled old round front & 3 sided front trailers with dolly wheels in the landing gear skid plates but that dolly wheel that rode across the 5th wheel was quite interesting.Plus they didn't crank the landing gear up-------ALL UNITS LOOK FOR TRAILER DRAGGING IT'S LANDING GEAR DOWN THE HIGHWAY!!!!!!
And they took off the International emblem 😲. Super good trucks for the day..made more like a tractor as far as durability goes 👍🏼 I had a few and was very impressed ……but some only got 10 mpg though 😞. And the Semaphore turn signals ( manual ) very cool 😎 although unpractical 😁
"Yeh,they sure are crazy concoctions,I don't know what makes em' fly" The large trucks in every episode are all old International KB models.The front nameplate was painted out in this one.
"I don't know what makes them fly." I don't know what makes this program fly so well, but I'm not going to worry about figuring it out, just enjoy it. Hope you do, too.
Boy, the tires were a screeching, and the rubber was just a burning on those cars! Plus the bullets were just a flying! By Dinghies what an action packed episode!
The copter episodes were always enjoyable. As a small child, I loved warching this and Whirleybirds. I wonder how much the copter drove up the "per-episode" production costs. It was worth it, whatever it was.
Lots of great old cars in this episode, '56 Dodge cnvt., '55 Plymouth 2 dr. hdtp., '56 Mercury 2 dr. hdtp., '55 and '56 Buick 2 dr. sedans, '56 Packard on the street as well as the sort of ugly Nash. I even spotted my '30 Model A Coupe parked at the curb.
I owned a 1951 Nash Statesman but never drove it. A project that I never got to. They were actually rather 'advanced' for their day with independent suspension, unibody construction, but an antiquated (for the time) engine. The front seat folded back to make a bed.
This is another fantastic episode in that the criminals were extremely fastidious in their planning however not careful enough to circumvent excellent police procedures.
@@northdakotaham1752I paid around 36cents for hi-test about 1973 - I had a big Ford - bought it from my sister just before the oil crisis of ‘73 - sold my inexpensive Corvair!!!
interesting: In the 1950's and 1960's there was a real life US electronics company Ferris, who had a factory here in Australia as well. "Chum" Ferris ran the Australian operation. They made very nice radios - I had a Ferris transistor radio. They were a bit more innovative than the big firms like RCA or GE. In the 1970's they seem to have ceased manufacture. I very much doubt Ferris in the 1950's would have had any use for a mainframe computer - in electronic engineering back then a slide rule and graph paper was quite adequate. RCA bought an early IBM machine for use in designing vacuum tubes, which is beyond what you can do on a slide rule or mechanical calculator. They weren't very happy with it and developed their own computer, which they sold in small numbers.
I used to operate IBM 360/1401 Era equipment as well. I recall the raised floor w/Plenty of cold Air, conditioned to cool the Huge Beast the size of a Large Room!
Love these HP episodes where one of two partners says "this is a bad idea" but they go through with it anyway. lol Looked like Clark Gable asking if they needed a hand. Matthews orders a radio to be installed in the guy's car, but then instructs him to leave immediately. Always inconsistencies on this show but fun nonetheless.
This show good love that droma music in the beginning of the show sounds scary movie I'm watching but In thees days tv was good to watch but not no more
@@Sootaroot Do some research. 1955 saw the first installation of the IBM 702, but most importantly, the official deployment of the MIT Whirlwind. The latter weighed in at 10 tons and used about 5,000 vacuum tubes. Transistors were still very new and considered not suitable for high-reliability projects. The 702 configuration massed about 12 tons, but one trailer would have not been sufficient to hold the CPU and the I/O (unit record) equipment. UNIVAC I systems were still very much in use at the time this episode was aired.
@@tubastuff I remember seeing the vacuum tube SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) air defense computer at McChord AFB ‘74-‘75. Thing was huge and awesome and it worked well coordinating intercepts for our F-106 fighter-interceptors. Fun times.
@@allen480 My project manager a half-century ago at Control Data spent some of his time as an operator on SAGE. He commented that a bag lunch could be warmed piping hot by placing it inside a couple of the units. He also said that one of the first trouble-shooting tasks in the AN/FSQ-7 was to turn the room lights out and look for a tube whose heaters had given up the ghost.
All of the officers are on the same frequency, so they can hear all of the radio traffic-but they act like they can't hear the others-lol-love these old shows-much better than today's offerings!
A really excellent episode, one of the very best in fact, and definitely in the top five overall. My one and only complaint is that there should have been something in that suitcase like a couple of phone books or something or perhaps even the money itself as they had the two crooks pretty well covered, and things could have gotten awfully nasty if they had opened it on the spot- which is what they should have done. There’s a nice shot of a ’55 Packard Clipper at 5:55 just as the truck is leaving the ZIV studios gate, and that shot of a ‘55 two door Mercury Montclair at 18:46 is nothing shot of mouth watering gorgeous. Those and a few other classic cars present in this episode could rightly be considered as being bonus material.
Mom had a 55 Packard Patrician. White & Turquoise. My folks sold it when there was no where left to get it fixed. Dad would get parts at wrecking yards but it was a pretty rare car by then. Her next car was a push button Rambler classic station wagon!
@@ZiziShaver-to8im Thanks for your reply. I hope that your parents got some good use out of the Packard Patrician, which is a pretty big car to drive around in. My parents bought a brand new '69 Rambler Ambassador Station wagon, it was a vast improvement over our previous car which was a 1961 Pontiac Tempest stationwagon tha tgave us nothing but trouble.
ZIV productions was the biggest producer of syndicated shows in the 50's and early 60's. None of Mr. Ziv's shows were regulars on network TV and disappeared in the 60's as the three networks begin to produce or contract for their own shows like Andy Griffith, The Virginian, Bonanza etc. And some of the ZIV productions are still on independent retro type channels, both locally and like FETV, METV and IND. Funny though that none are as good as this one. ZIV productions like Tombstone Territory, Sea Hunt, even the old Cisco Kid which I never cared for. Factoid though, the Cisco Kid began production in 1949 and was in color, the first made for TV program all in color. Factoid..Bonanza came on the air in 1959 and was from the beginning produced with multi camera and in color. Gunsmoke didnt switch to color until 1965, as did the Andy Griffith Show and others. Many, many other not until 1966..Wild Wild West, I Dream of Jeannie etc.
I really liked the Cisco Kid! It was filmed in color but we couldn’t see it because we all had B/W sets. I dint remember where, but years ago I came across at least one of those color episodes - very cool!!!
$100,000 was more than a million in today's money. A 1956 Buick cost between $2,000-$3,000 depending on the model. Today, a Buick Lacrosse starts at around $29,000 and goes up from there. Of course, back then, our coins had silver in them. The government, run by the Democrats, stole the silver out of our coins in 1965.
@ Only a few things were cheaper in the 1950s even adjusted for inflation: California & east coast real estate; medical care and a college education. And of course, there were fewer taxes, and water/sewer charges were lower. Most of the stuff we buy today; clothes, furniture, tools, electronic equipment is cheaper today because it's not made in the USA. Supermarket food is of better quality and variety than it was in the 1950. You couldn't get certain fruits and veggies in the winter. Anyone remember those huge green grapes that had seeds in them? Couldn't get seedless grapes in the winter. American cars were solidly built but not as reliable as the average cars you can get today. They rusted faster, handled badly and you were lucky to get 100,000 miles out of them. Remember drum brakes, vacuum assist wipers and non rack & pinion steering? I love today's radial tires. They last longer and rarely have blowouts. Radios, AC, power windows and tinted glass were options! Telephone service was expensive due to a government enforced monopoly. On the other hand, newspapers and magazines were far better in the 1950s than today. Airplane flights were far more expensive, but the price kept the riff raff off the planes. Stewardesses were far better looking than today's 'flight attendants'.
One of today's smart phones probably has several times the computing power of the $100,000 "giant computer" they machine napped at a very tiny fraction of the cost and size of this "giant computer".
5:32 The old manual turn signal arrows! 16:08 Hang up and drive! 22:30 Why didn't the cops stop the white convertible from entering the tunnel in the first place? That's why they call it a roadblock.
Great series, lovely to see those cars and the fashion of these days, so, we'll also take the somewhat pompous martial music, a bit similar in all those movies that glorify the FBI and its creator-president-director-for-life Hoover fighting the norty Commies and forgetting conveniently all about highly organised crime....
*The scene near the end where the criminal is running (shown from the helicopter's perspective) reminded me of the scene in "From Russia With Love" when James Bond is being pursued by the same kind of helicopter. But Highway Patrol did it first. That said, I can imagine Broderick Crawford saying at episode's end: "Remember: it isn't the car that kills - it's the Highway Patrol officer."*
@Nuclear Christian Let's hear it for all guinea pigs, especially our little guy Muffin who is battling all manner of problems right now. Now, guinea pigs: they are rotund, chubby-faced little fellows with a tendency to go overweight easily due to their love of eating, they are not built for running at speed, and they chatter incoherently. Does that remind us of anyone ?
Here's a funny ending : The guy shooting at the helicopter hits it and the copter loses power and comes down right on the car and crushes the two idiots, but the cop and Dan survive. That would have been a classic. The truck was a beauty, even had a wind out windshield. Not one right angle in the whole thing; even the windshield had rounded corners.
It was a low budget show and they probably could not afford to wreck anything. I watched another episode where somebody allegedly wrecked a car. All they showed was the car partially behind some landscaping. Great program though.
Ever notice the cars haven't had hood ornaments in a long time? I miss those among other things Freedom being one, women being home taking care of the home,husband and families first, working second, and whining crybabys we have today that everything offends we didn't tolerate those type back then and you know things were alot nicer, easier going (more relaxed) and the majority of people had respect for themselves and for one another. So many things I looked forward to growing up and doing, all but disappeared when I became an adult. One thing I refuse to tolerate are the whiners trying to take what little Freedoms we have left away. I tell them Only In A Perfect World, and We Do Not Live In A Perfect World So Grow Up and Stop Whining.
You sound as if you miss the good old days,..50's 60's,...well so do I,...I am sort of a traditionalist,..life was diff...family values was at the highest, respect and neighborly attitudes. that all has changed now...in the name of modernization and technology. Good days are gone forever.
walter condi Sigh, I regretfully agree with you my friend. Well, at least we were lucky enough to come up during those days. Can you imagine being a kid today. Smoking a cigarette was a Right of Passage, today, you go to Juvie Hall. A beer, the same, Juvie Hall. haha We just wanted to have fun, dance,listen to music, have fun with our friends,and spend a little time on Lover's Lane with our Honey watching the stars. Got caught with a beer or a little weed, they'd take it away and send us home. Now,these kids have no idea how to have fun. When it comes to hurting someone, spitting in their elders faces,wanting to kill and praising thugs, that is beyond sad and shameful, it's a sin. Yes, we were the last of the lucky ones. Plus, we got to talk to others who were alive to see the turn of the century from the 1800's to the 1900's, we got to hear stories from those who came from Europe during such horrible times. I'm 3rd generation here from Lithuania so I heard all the stories from the Bolshivic's to the Nazi's to the Communists,the good times and the bad times and the horrific times too. Today the only way the kids learn History is if parents teach it. My late Husband was 3rd generation from Germany and we both taught our Daughter where she came from. White kids today think they are white and boring. This is why they are trying to be other races,and acting crazy. If they knew where they came from, they may not be joining gangs along with the rest. Even those who were slaves and freed would be ashamed of the thugs acting like they are in the name of a slavery they have never learned about correctly let alone understand. If the Civil war had been strictly about Slavery, it would never have been fought. That was throw in with the rest. They also need to learn their own race waged war on tribes of their own race,but weaker,enslaved them in chains and sold them to the white slave trader for gold. Had they never done that, there wouldn't have been slavery here. What would the slave traders had to sell? No stock, no sale, no business.
themanshere74 I am registered to vote and Trump has had my support since he announced he was running. We need a business man in office. Everyone is yelling how is isn't a Politician and he doesn't know all that's needed. Well,that is what those advisers are there for. Every President has them. Ronald Reagan was not a Politician,and look how great he was. His legacy, the Star Wars Program. Clinton and Obama's legacy, high unemployment, high crime, on the edge of a race war, and all that is bad. We did so well in the 1990's when Bill Clinton was in office because of what Ronald Reagan set up. Bill Clinton signed NAFTA and handed our good paying jobs away to another Nation. China is in a boom and it's because of what they had handed to them, our jobs! Then we get shoddy workmanship and high prices in return.What we are dealing with today is what Bill Clinton started and obama has continued. Bush tried to get back what Clinton tossed away, and then ended up with terrorists and a mess he couldn't fix because it went too far. He had to get us into the mess in the Middle East. had he not, all we women would be wearing hajibs here. If I misspelled it I am sorry. We;d all be facing Mecca right about now too,or we'd be dead if we didn't, had Bush not stood up for what was done that horrible day in September 9/11/2001. Those undecided, remember this, Hillary can't keep ONE man happy and satisfied so how is she going to keep millions of men and women somewhat content? Not to mention she lies to Americans, and she lies to other leaders, and will have the whole world attacking us here on our own soil,and help push along the race war. I wonder if Trump will repeal this insane social experiment of using the public rest room of the gender you feel you are. His girls will NEVER have to worry, they have body guards, but we women and our daughters do have to worry. The attacks towards we females in the rest rooms have started. What about the dude who one day feels like a nut, one day he doesn''t and he gets a feeling while in there that oh, I feel like a guy and the fun begins? Men don't have to worry because I don't know of too many women who would attack and rape a man in the public rest room but there are plenty of men who would and have attacked women and little girls in them. If a man is attacked in the rest room,it's another man doing the attacking. Where are the feminists on this and all the crap the muslim extremists are pushing onto to us here in the USA? They lost their mouth and megaphones I guess. Anyone notice that they have been silent,even when they are raping 11 & 12 yr old girls here in the States in the name of their allah?
Herbie Schwartz I'm 54 and a Baby Boomer,Flower Child. You know, true Hippie Flower Children used their talents and worked, and we had the bums in disguise too. Today, they are bums except for a few. The word tolerate is a word of a coward. My Daughter is 32 and made me proud today. She watched the 75th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor. I reminder her those survivors who were there.were anywhere from 16 to 21. She knows. Her Daddy and I made sure she learned History, the right way, not the watered down version.
No walkaround of a trailer tsk tsk. And when you pick up one shouldnt you have opened the doors to see if what you come to steal is in there? Hate to go through all that trouble for an empty trailer
These shows are almost as good as a Time Machine. Fabulous classic cars. Attractive, neatly dressed actresses. No piercing or tattoo freaks.
And 2 Door Cop Cars 🚔👍
And the men looked and acted like a Man 😒😒🧡🧡🙏
@@karenhill3970 WOW what a concept. IMAGINE THAT LOL
Not only all of the above, helicopters were considered crazy contraptions in the 1950s.
Yah!
Nice '55 Dodge Coronet convertible.
And the sound of those Buick V8's. Precious!
Possibly a 330 Hemi? The two door looked like a lafemme.
Well, let me try to give a rundown. The ragtop was a '55 Dodge, and most likely had a 270 Hemi. That sounds small, but the '53s & '54s had a 241 Hemi. The coupe was a '55 Plymouth Belvedere, which would have been either a 241 or 260 Poly-head. The '55 Buicks were all 322 Nailheads. The ''55 Merc was a 292 Y-block. The '55 Nash was most likely the 196 ci Flathead 6. And, the boss man's '55 Lincoln sported a 341. Not sure what was in the truck, tho.
Bill Descoteaux Thanks for the great information! I love cars from the 50s and early 60s.
@@billdescoteaux - You sure know your shit Bill.
How about that ford
This episode touched my heart! I've worked in computers nearly all my life, I started back in the early 60's with the big IBM 1401, then came THE WONDER, the IBM 360. Seeing the "machine napping" of a computer that has to be loaded into a semi-trailer to move around sent me straight to the beginning of my career. Regards
+Lazarus0357 I'm watching this on a Laptop ! Needing a Semi to haul 1 computer is rather amusing !
+Connie Lewis Hi Connie! Yes, the first computers I worked with needed a huge room, dust free and fully air conditioned, and had around 1.000 times LESS computer power than the laptop I'm using at this very moment. Regards
I'm an engineer...the first computer architecture course I took back in the early 70's used the 360 as one of the architectures to analyze.
Yes, the IBM 360 in its various configurations and memory sizes was the first computer which became common in industry and commerce. The IBM 1401 opened the market but the 360 conquered it. Regards
Lazarus0357 Here's a bit of 360 history I doubt you know...the original space shuttle computer architecture was a subset of the 360 architecture...
"Got it licked" and "Thanks a million" Two phrases my Dad used all the time that you just don't hear anymore.
Trivia from this episode:
Hotel Goodhap was at 208 S. Brand Blvd in San Fernando. The entire area was razed and became the San Fernando Mall at S. Brand Blvd and San Fernando Rd.
The exterior of "Ferris Electronics" was also used in the "Desperate Men" episode.
+SallySallySallySally love yer stuff, Thanks! @26:00, was that one of the Mulhulland tunnels? I don't remember any other tunnels around...
+rahkin rah You're a California man rahkin rah!
I lived in San Fernando in the late 80's-90's, their police force was vigilant like Beverly Hills. My wife worked at a bank on San Fernando Mall, bank robberies all around, but rarely in San Fernando because of the great police force!! They are an incorporated city--about 2 miles square.
Aha! Thanks Sally 4 Times.
David Maslow yes but California was great back then.....so was America.
Just look at all that open land back then. It really is sad the way developers overbuilt and ruined So Ca.
I drove trucks for many years and 90% of the time when leaving a plant, even with an empty trailer, the security guard always had me open the trailer doors to check if it was empty or not. And then there were a few instances that they did not check. One was Wal Mart distribution centers which never checked (as of before 2003)
Nice assortment of cars here such as the 1955 Nash Ambassador, 1955 Lincoln and Mercury and the 1955 Dodge convertible near the end and all those beautiful Buicks. 1955 also brought the first V8 to Plymouths (the second getaway car) It was small, just 260 cubic inches but was a peppy little motor.
Yes, you're absolutely correct. After I retired I took a job in security and worked the gatehouse at one of the regional local pharmacy chains's main warehouses. I'm sure it would have been the case in this episode. At the warehouse where I worked, certain trucks were never opened except because these were the trucks which only carried highly controlled substances such as narcotics and were protected with locks that only the sending warehouse and receiving warehouse personnel had keys for. They also had a device on the back of the trailer near the lock on trucks which carried less desirable controlled substances like blood pressure medications, antibiotics, etc which kept track of the time, date and number of times that the trailer was opened. The driver up these trucks did carry keys to the lock on their trucks so that they could unlock their truck at each pharmacy that they made a delivery.
Great episode! To think my phone that I am watching this show on can do much more than the computer in the episode.
You don't need a trailer to haul you phone.
And that computer costs $100k. My Android phone is only worth $190!
Actually your phone can do more than the super computer that sent the first rocket to the moon.
Those old coil springs back in the 50s just couldn't handle those sharp turns.lol
Hotel Goodhap. HAW.
Looks like a 1948 model truck. Used to haul grain with one.
Even though I don't smoke anymore , it's like music to my ears when Dan asks, IN A RELAX NO BIG DEAL sort of way-"by the way, would you like a cigarette?" Things seemed so much more relaxed in the 5Os!
But that's subjective...
Great show broderick crawford was a underated actor
How he won an Academy Award is beyond me
These episodes are the Greatest! yeah 5Os!
Love those beautiful old cars!!
The "Heyday" of television along with "The Twilight Zone" Alfred Hitchcock,Thriller "and so many others I can't recall.
My three sons leave it to beaver and wagon train. Oh and maverick
Also Rawhide and Perry Mason.
California in the '50s was a great place to live. You had space to breathe.
Loved the bad guys Nash. They wont need it for a while so I will look after it for them.
Another great story from highway patrol they don’t have shows like this anymore simple always a happy ending maybe not quite to the point of dragnet but still a great show
Great acting. Great writing. What happern over the years to television shows like this. Bring back the Golden days of television.
Welcome to the trashy, untalented hip hop, era. Making America, great again. Need to add better television programs.
@@SammyVideoPlex not gonna happen Quantity over Quality
Probably one of the more pricey episodes to make with the helicopter. "Yeah they sure are crazy contraptions..."
And three different cameras to film the cars. The accountants were pulling their hair out.
I've pulled old round front & 3 sided front trailers with dolly wheels in the landing gear skid plates but that dolly wheel that rode across the 5th wheel was quite interesting.Plus they didn't crank the landing gear up-------ALL UNITS LOOK FOR TRAILER DRAGGING IT'S LANDING GEAR DOWN THE HIGHWAY!!!!!!
16:31 , Matthews talking with the mike at his ear. Also at 18:25, the bandits didn't check if the $100,000 were in the bag. Wow, love it.
Bill Brittman I don’t know how you picked that up but it sure was funny.
There's also an episode (I have to find it again) that shows him talking into the wrong side of the mic (the "hanger" side).
Good eye I missed that one OMG it's too funny
He can’t hear because of the helicopter. Also, he was talking to the pilot, not the cop. But yeah I noticed they didn’t check the bag until @19:57.
And they took off the International emblem 😲. Super good trucks for the day..made more like a tractor as far as durability goes 👍🏼 I had a few and was very impressed ……but some only got 10 mpg though 😞. And the Semaphore turn signals ( manual ) very cool 😎 although unpractical 😁
Crime, pursuit and capture in less than 20 minutes of air time. Man, that's efficiency.
Nice chopper! Bell 47D1, Registration number N937B, Year of manufacture, 1953, serial number 663.
"Yeh,they sure are crazy concoctions,I don't know what makes em' fly" The large trucks in every episode are all old International KB models.The front nameplate was painted out in this one.
"I don't know what makes them fly." I don't know what makes this program fly so well, but I'm not going to worry about figuring it out, just enjoy it. Hope you do, too.
GOOD EPISODE, BUT BEING A TRUCKER MYSELF, DID ANYONE NOTICE HE DID NOT ROLL UP THE LANDING GEARS
WHATSUP WITH THE CAPS? TWUCK DWIVER..
You mean he didn't dump the air in the air bags to scoot under the trailer?
@@williamdegnan4718 you can tell you are a new person to the trucking world, back in 1950's that wasn't common stuff.
Lol yeah I noticed that as a truck driver myself
@@ponyboy481 or check if king pin was locked and secure ..lol
I was worried there weren't going to be any roadblocks, but the tunnel blocking finally took care of that.
I had a feeling there was going to be a tunnel trick...
Boy, the tires were a screeching, and the rubber was just a burning on those cars! Plus the bullets were just a flying! By Dinghies what an action packed episode!
Dan has to squeal his tyres every time he drives off.
The copter episodes were always enjoyable. As a small child, I loved warching this and Whirleybirds. I wonder how much the copter drove up the "per-episode" production costs. It was worth it, whatever it was.
i never heard of this program before..I like it..
stitchergary it was in in the 50’s. Back then it was so exciting we couldn’t wait to see it.
Wow, a '55 Nash! You don't see those very often.
Lots of great old cars in this episode, '56 Dodge cnvt., '55 Plymouth 2 dr. hdtp., '56 Mercury 2 dr. hdtp., '55 and '56 Buick 2 dr. sedans, '56 Packard on the street as well as the sort of ugly Nash. I even spotted my '30 Model A Coupe parked at the curb.
I'm good!...........that's what I said before seeing your comment
I owned a 1951 Nash Statesman but never drove it. A project that I never got to. They were actually rather 'advanced' for their day with independent suspension, unibody construction, but an antiquated (for the time) engine.
The front seat folded back to make a bed.
This is another fantastic episode in that the criminals were extremely fastidious in their planning however not careful enough to circumvent excellent police procedures.
The series had a great cast.
fun stuff! I love seeing the "old"valley, and L.A. too - from when i barely remember...Dan-o was SO cool!
Ever notice the thick, suffocating layer of smog in these episodes?
@@MrShobar + MrShobar - Oh yeah!
@@MrShobar Yes
The gas bill for Buicks has to be atleast 275 dollars worth of Texaco skycheif premium feeding those thirsty 322 nail head v8s lmao
I think gas was about 24 cents a gallon in those days. I recall 26 cent gas in the early 60s....about five years after this show aired.
@@northdakotaham175220 cents for premium
@@northdakotaham1752I paid around 36cents for hi-test about 1973 - I had a big Ford - bought it from my sister just before the oil crisis of ‘73 - sold my inexpensive Corvair!!!
Another enjoyable episode. Enjoy listening to the orator. 🤗.
I'm restoring a 1957 Bel Air. They didn't have sway bars, that's why the old cars corner like they are out of control.
I’d love to have a 57 Bel Air but they are hard to find and very expensive when redone. I had a 55 Bel Air till someone torched it!
Brod’s girth led to a few falls getting out of the copter. Ended up with a broken ankle.
He might have had just a little bit too much to drink! He was known for that!!!
Lots of nice classic Buicks came out on this episode.
We had a 54 Buick Special.
interesting: In the 1950's and 1960's there was a real life US electronics company Ferris, who had a factory here in Australia as well. "Chum" Ferris ran the Australian operation. They made very nice radios - I had a Ferris transistor radio. They were a bit more innovative than the big firms like RCA or GE. In the 1970's they seem to have ceased manufacture.
I very much doubt Ferris in the 1950's would have had any use for a mainframe computer - in electronic engineering back then a slide rule and graph paper was quite adequate. RCA bought an early IBM machine for use in designing vacuum tubes, which is beyond what you can do on a slide rule or mechanical calculator. They weren't very happy with it and developed their own computer, which they sold in small numbers.
These guys are unsung pioneers in ransomware.
I used to operate IBM 360/1401 Era equipment as well. I recall the raised
floor w/Plenty of cold Air, conditioned to
cool the Huge Beast the size of a Large
Room!
Love these HP episodes where one of two partners says "this is a bad idea" but they go through with it anyway. lol Looked like Clark Gable asking if they needed a hand. Matthews orders a radio to be installed in the guy's car, but then instructs him to leave immediately. Always inconsistencies on this show but fun nonetheless.
This show good love that droma music in the beginning of the show sounds scary movie I'm watching but In thees days tv was good to watch but not no more
50's may be the greatest decade of all time @David Maslow The cops could rough up the criminals in those days. The FIRST COMPUTER
The TUNNEL is in GRIFFITH PARK in the Hollywood Hills/Los Feliz area. The road they took after stealing the white car is now blocked to autos
I don't know what makes them fly--classic Dan Mathews.
His fawning, farewell-gaze at the chopper was unnecessary.
@@sablevision Totally. All that fuss over a stolen computer. I don't think so.
@@Sootaroot Do some research. 1955 saw the first installation of the IBM 702, but most importantly, the official deployment of the MIT Whirlwind. The latter weighed in at 10 tons and used about 5,000 vacuum tubes. Transistors were still very new and considered not suitable for high-reliability projects. The 702 configuration massed about 12 tons, but one trailer would have not been sufficient to hold the CPU and the I/O (unit record) equipment. UNIVAC I systems were still very much in use at the time this episode was aired.
@@tubastuff I remember seeing the vacuum tube SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment) air defense computer at McChord AFB ‘74-‘75. Thing was huge and awesome and it worked well coordinating intercepts for our F-106 fighter-interceptors. Fun times.
@@allen480 My project manager a half-century ago at Control Data spent some of his time as an operator on SAGE. He commented that a bag lunch could be warmed piping hot by placing it inside a couple of the units. He also said that one of the first trouble-shooting tasks in the AN/FSQ-7 was to turn the room lights out and look for a tube whose heaters had given up the ghost.
All of the officers are on the same frequency, so they can hear all of the radio traffic-but they act like they can't hear the others-lol-love these old shows-much better than today's offerings!
A really excellent episode, one of the very best in fact, and definitely in the top five overall. My one and only complaint is that there should have been something in that suitcase like a couple of phone books or something or perhaps even the money itself as they had the two crooks pretty well covered, and things could have gotten awfully nasty if they had opened it on the spot- which is what they should have done. There’s a nice shot of a ’55 Packard Clipper at 5:55 just as the truck is leaving the ZIV studios gate, and that shot of a ‘55 two door Mercury Montclair at 18:46 is nothing shot of mouth watering gorgeous. Those and a few other classic cars present in this episode could rightly be considered as being bonus material.
It looked like the mobile radio set took up all the space in the bag.
Mom had a 55 Packard Patrician. White & Turquoise. My folks sold it when there was no where left to get it fixed. Dad would get parts at wrecking yards but it was a pretty rare car by then. Her next car was a push button Rambler classic station wagon!
@@ZiziShaver-to8im Thanks for your reply. I hope that your parents got some good use out of the Packard Patrician, which is a pretty big car to drive around in. My parents bought a brand new '69 Rambler Ambassador Station wagon, it was a vast improvement over our previous car which was a 1961 Pontiac Tempest stationwagon tha tgave us nothing but trouble.
What was the first thing those criminals said when they got caught? "Don't shoot! Don't shoot!" Today, the first thing they say is "Call my lawyer!"
I was waiting for Broderick to jump out of the chopper and tackle that guy
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Who’d of thought, Dan Matthews dealing with primitive AI from this October 1955 episode.
Matthews has that smile when he spots the target vehicle that says "I might blow away someone today with my heater."
Imagine leaving your keys in the car. Try that in today's cities. See how long the car sits there.
ZIV productions was the biggest producer of syndicated shows in the 50's and early 60's. None of Mr. Ziv's shows were regulars on network TV and disappeared in the 60's as the three networks begin to produce or contract for their own shows like Andy Griffith, The Virginian, Bonanza etc. And some of the ZIV productions are still on independent retro type channels, both locally and like FETV, METV and IND. Funny though that none are as good as this one. ZIV productions like Tombstone Territory, Sea Hunt, even the old Cisco Kid which I never cared for. Factoid though, the Cisco Kid began production in 1949 and was in color, the first made for TV program all in color. Factoid..Bonanza came on the air in 1959 and was from the beginning produced with multi camera and in color. Gunsmoke didnt switch to color until 1965, as did the Andy Griffith Show and others. Many, many other not until 1966..Wild Wild West, I Dream of Jeannie etc.
I really liked the Cisco Kid! It was filmed in color but we couldn’t see it because we all had B/W sets. I dint remember where, but years ago I came across at least one of those color episodes - very cool!!!
Good Episode!!!!!
That tunnel was on Sierra Hwy in the Santa Clarita valley, Ca. It was gone a long time ago. They took it out and widened the road.
Gee, that was a good one ! Thanks.
$100,000 was more than a million in today's money. A 1956 Buick cost between $2,000-$3,000 depending on the model. Today, a Buick Lacrosse starts at around $29,000 and goes up from there. Of course, back then, our coins had silver in them. The government, run by the Democrats, stole the silver out of our coins in 1965.
@ Only a few things were cheaper in the 1950s even adjusted for inflation: California & east coast real estate; medical care and a college education. And of course, there were fewer taxes, and water/sewer charges were lower. Most of the stuff we buy today; clothes, furniture, tools, electronic equipment is cheaper today because it's not made in the USA. Supermarket food is of better quality and variety than it was in the 1950. You couldn't get certain fruits and veggies in the winter. Anyone remember those huge green grapes that had seeds in them? Couldn't get seedless grapes in the winter. American cars were solidly built but not as reliable as the average cars you can get today. They rusted faster, handled badly and you were lucky to get 100,000 miles out of them. Remember drum brakes, vacuum assist wipers and non rack & pinion steering? I love today's radial tires. They last longer and rarely have blowouts. Radios, AC, power windows and tinted glass were options! Telephone service was expensive due to a government enforced monopoly. On the other hand, newspapers and magazines were far better in the 1950s than today. Airplane flights were far more expensive, but the price kept the riff raff off the planes. Stewardesses were far better looking than today's 'flight attendants'.
That “ARTIFICIAL BRAIN” probably had less than a few hundred kilobytes.😂
Dan the Man! 1950’s cool!
That helicopter pilot nneded to consult his weight-and-balance data before he allowed Brod to get aboard. It must be over the gross weight limitation.
Brod stepped on to a speak-your-weight machine and it said, "One at a time, please".
With the emphasis on gross.
One of today's smart phones probably has several times the computing power of the $100,000 "giant computer" they machine napped at a very tiny fraction of the cost and size of this "giant computer".
Climatic scene takes place in Griffith Park
" I'll lose them in this wide open field... that's a great plan- it'll fool them "
I believe on one adventure they teamed up with Whirly Birds members. I can't wait to see it again.
Remember: IT'S NOT the 🚗 THAT kills, IT'S THE driver!
Kind of like "it's not the gun that kills but the person pulling the trigger".
Oh, those cars killed. They may have looked awesome, but they were death traps
@@saulchapnick1566 They were probably ok if driven at a reasonable speed. Even today....SPEED KILLS.
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5:32 The old manual turn signal arrows!
16:08 Hang up and drive!
22:30 Why didn't the cops stop the white convertible from entering the tunnel in the first place? That's why they call it a roadblock.
Our cars still have turn signals - it’s just that so many y people don’t use them!
I can't believe how many of those cars didn't have any outside mirror! 🙀
Can't outrun a Motorola.
Wow, mobile phones in the 1950's !!
The good old days. when Americans drove American cars.
ROAD WARRIOR When America was worth caring about.
Robin Sattahip and broke down on the highway. Cars w ere garbage cans
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Nuclear Christian Drop dead troll.
Great episode 😄 Thank You For Sharing 😄
Think I saw these guys workin' at "Geek Squad" at Best Buys recently?
He’s yelling don’t shoot after emptying his gun at the helicopter.
what boneheaded criminals for not checking inside the bag.
+Hot80s Really! that was funny! Another couple of "masterminds"!
+rahkin rah for a good laugh see the clip here where ChiPs pull over Crawford! Its hilarious.
+rahkin rah Yeah, you always choose the best! The best is Dan!
CHiPs for Kids meets Broderick Crawford
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$100,000 in 1955 is around $1.17 million today.
The gate guard at "Ferris Electronics," is "Trooper Duffy from , "F Troop."
Great series, lovely to see those cars and the fashion of these days, so, we'll also take the somewhat pompous martial music, a bit similar in all those movies that glorify the FBI and its creator-president-director-for-life Hoover fighting the norty Commies and forgetting conveniently all about highly organised crime....
A big truck to carry a computer! Funny! Nowadays you’d get more capacity in the size of a dot on a piece of paper! LOL😂
For a while there at the end, it looked like an L.A. news chopper following a high speed chase through Chatsworth, Reseda, Long Beach or whatever.
I wanted to see the computer.
In those days the computer would fill the size of two rooms or more. www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1950/
I wanted to see the dispatchers.
Me too
we'd never heard of computers when this episode was filmed!
Traffic was murder! LA! Some things never change!
“You go to LA on a dare, and you go it alone “
Broderik Crawford was a machoe man,sort of like James Gondiffini of Spopranos
TED THOMPSON Apt Comparison.
17:35-That helicopter looks dangerous...!
Use to see them go over our house as a kid in the mid 60s we called them whorly birds. They roared and looked dangerous ! Lol
*The scene near the end where the criminal is running (shown from the helicopter's perspective) reminded me of the scene in "From Russia With Love" when James Bond is being pursued by the same kind of helicopter. But Highway Patrol did it first. That said, I can imagine Broderick Crawford saying at episode's end: "Remember: it isn't the car that kills - it's the Highway Patrol officer."*
Hey, that computer was in the same lot as the Apex Plastics Industry which was shown in a different episode. That place of business has no luck.
Wait a minute , if Stewart runs west into the next state ,..... that would be into the Pacific Ocean .... w d f .
Hawaii
This series is not real big on logical accuracies. part of the fun really
2:40, in the ‘50’s it might have took a year, but today it only takes a few hours!
All those trees and he runs away from a helicopter into a hay field.
It was hardly North By Northwest. Another contrived plot to make use of a copter that became available at short notice.
@Nuclear Christian Let's hear it for all guinea pigs, especially our little guy Muffin who is battling all manner of problems right now. Now, guinea pigs: they are rotund, chubby-faced little fellows with a tendency to go overweight easily due to their love of eating, they are not built for running at speed, and they chatter incoherently. Does that remind us of anyone ?
AxleNuts - he’s a dumb ass
@Nuclear Christian Praise JESUS Forevermore.
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Good for you Helen Kruse, God bless!
Here's a funny ending : The guy shooting at the helicopter hits it and the copter loses power and comes down right on the car and crushes the two idiots, but the cop and Dan survive. That would have been a classic. The truck was a beauty, even had a wind out windshield. Not one right angle in the whole thing; even the windshield had rounded corners.
It was a low budget show and they probably could not afford to wreck anything. I watched another episode where somebody allegedly wrecked a car. All they showed was the car partially behind some landscaping. Great program though.
Ever notice the cars haven't had hood ornaments in a long time? I miss those among other things Freedom being one, women being home taking care of the home,husband and families first, working second, and whining crybabys we have today that everything offends we didn't tolerate those type back then and you know things were alot nicer, easier going (more relaxed) and the majority of people had respect for themselves and for one another. So many things I looked forward to growing up and doing, all but disappeared when I became an adult. One thing I refuse to tolerate are the whiners trying to take what little Freedoms we have left away. I tell them Only In A Perfect World, and We Do Not Live In A Perfect World So Grow Up and Stop Whining.
You sound as if you miss the good old days,..50's 60's,...well so do I,...I am sort of a traditionalist,..life was diff...family values was at the highest, respect and neighborly attitudes. that all has changed now...in the name of modernization and technology. Good days are gone forever.
walter condi Sigh, I regretfully agree with you my friend. Well, at least we were lucky enough to come up during those days. Can you imagine being a kid today. Smoking a cigarette was a Right of Passage, today, you go to Juvie Hall. A beer, the same, Juvie Hall. haha We just wanted to have fun, dance,listen to music, have fun with our friends,and spend a little time on Lover's Lane with our Honey watching the stars. Got caught with a beer or a little weed, they'd take it away and send us home. Now,these kids have no idea how to have fun. When it comes to hurting someone, spitting in their elders faces,wanting to kill and praising thugs, that is beyond sad and shameful, it's a sin. Yes, we were the last of the lucky ones. Plus, we got to talk to others who were alive to see the turn of the century from the 1800's to the 1900's, we got to hear stories from those who came from Europe during such horrible times. I'm 3rd generation here from Lithuania so I heard all the stories from the Bolshivic's to the Nazi's to the Communists,the good times and the bad times and the horrific times too. Today the only way the kids learn History is if parents teach it. My late Husband was 3rd generation from Germany and we both taught our Daughter where she came from. White kids today think they are white and boring. This is why they are trying to be other races,and acting crazy. If they knew where they came from, they may not be joining gangs along with the rest. Even those who were slaves and freed would be ashamed of the thugs acting like they are in the name of a slavery they have never learned about correctly let alone understand. If the Civil war had been strictly about Slavery, it would never have been fought. That was throw in with the rest. They also need to learn their own race waged war on tribes of their own race,but weaker,enslaved them in chains and sold them to the white slave trader for gold. Had they never done that, there wouldn't have been slavery here. What would the slave traders had to sell? No stock, no sale, no business.
In Nov vote !!! And get everyone you know to vote. We need to make America great again. TRUMP 2016!!!! God bless.
themanshere74 I am registered to vote and Trump has had my support since he announced he was running. We need a business man in office. Everyone is yelling how is isn't a Politician and he doesn't know all that's needed. Well,that is what those advisers are there for. Every President has them. Ronald Reagan was not a Politician,and look how great he was. His legacy, the Star Wars Program. Clinton and Obama's legacy, high unemployment, high crime, on the edge of a race war, and all that is bad. We did so well in the 1990's when Bill Clinton was in office because of what Ronald Reagan set up. Bill Clinton signed NAFTA and handed our good paying jobs away to another Nation. China is in a boom and it's because of what they had handed to them, our jobs! Then we get shoddy workmanship and high prices in return.What we are dealing with today is what Bill Clinton started and obama has continued. Bush tried to get back what Clinton tossed away, and then ended up with terrorists and a mess he couldn't fix because it went too far. He had to get us into the mess in the Middle East. had he not, all we women would be wearing hajibs here. If I misspelled it I am sorry. We;d all be facing Mecca right about now too,or we'd be dead if we didn't, had Bush not stood up for what was done that horrible day in September 9/11/2001. Those undecided, remember this, Hillary can't keep ONE man happy and satisfied so how is she going to keep millions of men and women somewhat content? Not to mention she lies to Americans, and she lies to other leaders, and will have the whole world attacking us here on our own soil,and help push along the race war. I wonder if Trump will repeal this insane social experiment of using the public rest room of the gender you feel you are. His girls will NEVER have to worry, they have body guards, but we women and our daughters do have to worry. The attacks towards we females in the rest rooms have started. What about the dude who one day feels like a nut, one day he doesn''t and he gets a feeling while in there that oh, I feel like a guy and the fun begins? Men don't have to worry because I don't know of too many women who would attack and rape a man in the public rest room but there are plenty of men who would and have attacked women and little girls in them. If a man is attacked in the rest room,it's another man doing the attacking. Where are the feminists on this and all the crap the muslim extremists are pushing onto to us here in the USA? They lost their mouth and megaphones I guess. Anyone notice that they have been silent,even when they are raping 11 & 12 yr old girls here in the States in the name of their allah?
Herbie Schwartz I'm 54 and a Baby Boomer,Flower Child. You know, true Hippie Flower Children used their talents and worked, and we had the bums in disguise too. Today, they are bums except for a few. The word tolerate is a word of a coward. My Daughter is 32 and made me proud today. She watched the 75th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor. I reminder her those survivors who were there.were anywhere from 16 to 21. She knows. Her Daddy and I made sure she learned History, the right way, not the watered down version.
You would have thought he checked the bag for the money
I like paying it your way much better Dan...
He never rolled up the landing gear,
No walkaround of a trailer tsk tsk. And when you pick up one shouldnt you have opened the doors to see if what you come to steal is in there? Hate to go through all that trouble for an empty trailer