Thanks for putting this great TV show on TH-cam. It's on of my all-time favorites and awfully entertaining. The picture and sound are first rate quality!
Thanks to mag track film days and they knew audio processing because it went on TV. Those days are gone forever with TV dialogue in the mud. Same with movies. Back in the good old ZiV TV & other syndication day, They had good limiter/compressing devices. And yet no hiss. Gawd, take me back!
Both show and these so called actors can't act worth a Shot. Mathew talks so fast is Ike watching someone being on drugs. He is not in anyway a actor let alone a good actor. He's fat, old, and a piss poor man & actor. The music Sucks, and always same actors good or bad is what we call. A show that was way below budget, and couldn't afford real actors to do this no good rating show. Thank God everyone on here are DEAD. INCLUDING MATHEWS. MUST HAVE HAD TO DIG A TRIPLE HOLE WIDE AND DEEPER TO HAUL HIS UGLY ASS INTO THE GROUND. MAN, GLAD HE'S DEAD, DEAD, DEAD, DEAD
The female escapees are very well-drawn characters who for all their nastiness display a greater complexity than their counterparts in other series.Highway Patrol was/is in a class of its own.
They couldn't shoot worth a damn, but interesting, well fleshed out characters. Both women were veteran character actresses (Carol Thurston had done a few films as well as Tv.) Both died young@49 & Joan Granville@45.
...but, enough complaining. The series is fabulous. I was a very li’l kid when it debuted. Now I get to enjoy it wholly. Well done, Mr. Crawford et al.!
This was a good series and a good straight cop show. It's accurate police work from mid-50s and not trying to pretend. Radio cars were obviously still new and many local agencies did not equip radio cars until 60s.
@@Kenika That was the only episode where Dan drove a Ford police car, with the exception of '56 and '57 Mercurys. Most police agencies drove Fords throughout the 50s.
I get my fix of at least one episode of HP every day. This is one of the best, for several reasons. The many anomalies are always amusing, and often can be put down to the low budget. But that doesn't excuse one of them here, where the bus driver is told clearly, at 16:46, to take the side road to the RIGHT - and then, after the police have overshot it and turn round and return to try it, they turn to the right also! You've got to love it!
Another funny thing is the bus traveling on the dirt road in the rain but each cut back to the patrol cars it isn't raining it's dry and dusty. No sign of rain or mud during the foot chase either.
I'm working through them numerically so I have yet to see the Clint Eastwood appearance lots of people have mentioned. I love backtracking to see the little errors that others pick up but I always miss, like the road turning. Most of all I enjoy reading and joining in the comments section where we can poke gentle fun at Dan/Brod, like what was that coat all about ?
4:14 A 1959 Buick. That one really stands out - even on this show. It was probably new. On the pilot episode of Adam 12 (about a decade later), they destroyed one of these in a car chase. What a difference a decade makes.
'59 Buick Invicta convertible. In the final season, this car gets used in several episodes. A beautiful car. The '59 Caddy had vertical fins, the '59 Chevy had horizontal fins, Buick went with 45 degrees. When cars, and ladies, had style.
Little before my time.but this classic America TV thanks for posting all of this. Now I have something to watch lol 😵💫 just think 1950s TV better than almost anything Hollywood is putting out today Now that's sad
Remember this show had to fit into a 30 minute time slot so they couldn't get too elaborate with the chase scene. This show is still better than all the BS cop shows on today.
That very distinctive, strident and dramatic Highway Patrol intro music was for schoolboy me back in the 1950s an alert for an immediate drop everything and "must watch". That was precisely why it was composed. Highway Patrol used some "Swell Broads" throughout the series. See, I'm nearly fluent in American.
So true, California has changed the most... I thought the two women made some stupid mistakes... They get a car, kill the driver, manage to get in town, get clothes , money, and guns, then decide to go back out on the highway, right away... why not lay low in the town, for awhile then leave after the road blocks are cleared ?
most comments miss the point of Highway Patrol the episodes are no less than an true slice of American history:Eisenhower years low budgets ensured authenticity; no sets no special effects; we can see what highways, motels, banks, homes, supermarkets etc really used to look like and what about those magnificent cars: Buicks, Chryslers, Mercurys etc ? some surprisingly sexy young women, yet never even a hint of hanky-panky! it was a touch of genius to get an Oscar winner like Broderick Crawford as star other police shows had forgettable second raters like Jack Webb or Roger Smith? half-hour format and little-known scriptwriters contributed to uncomplicated plots and down-to-earth emotional context
Female escapees huh? That reminds me of the Andy Griffith episode where 3 female escapees hold Barney & Floyd hostage in a cabin & Andy has to save their asses 😂
Another thing, they didn't take the man's ID that they killed . Easy to trace his car, then.Must be why they ended up in prison to start with. Wow! Dan's rough on that police car in this episode.That girl who was a cold blooded murderess sure cried like a baby when things didn't go her way.
I've watched three episodes in a row with women felons. I keep picturing them being caught and put in the Mayberry Jail, just until morning, with Barney on guard.
The description: 2 girls, in their late twenties....girls ? Also at the end, this experienced lawman approached a suspect, with BOTH hands concealed, idiocy 101. Really liked the 59 Buick convertible, rare case that it wasn't a Plymouth, it seems
I started watching this show because it was an old cop show. Now I watch it b/c I'm consistently amazed at how desolate California was back then. I wish I had a time machine.
I read somewhere that it’s never a good idea to tell your hostages their chances of survival are low. People start to think that if their going to die anyway might as well do it fighting.
Is it really necessary for someone to mention Crawford's drinking problem in the comments on every episode? Those of us who grew up when this show was airing were well aware of his problem. Can't we let Broderick Crawford rest in peace after all these years?
@@rathert3 in part I agree with you, But, he is dead and gone and nothing said in the comments is going to hurt him, HOWEVER, maybe someone will read how even this great actor and his strong positive image of law enforcement did not get a break driving drunk, might make someone think twice about not driving when they had too much to drink.
you just articulated why this country is in the state that it is, because most men see things the way you do, survival is capitulation of all values and truths.
Rule for 50"s TV. If you cave someone's head in with a rock on a rural road make sure you leave them in plain site even though there are trees and bushes everywhere.
How did the one inmate know that there was only one person in the car, from that distance? Also, how was she going to help dispose of the man's body with a big rock in her hand? LOL!
When a Star runs particularly short distance he needs to run slow for camera tracking and prancing is easiest and slowmo run would look bad on film. Jack Webb did same on dragnet.
I am glad I lived thru that time period. Compared what it look like now. There is such a big difference. Life was so much easier sometimes boring compared to what is life now.
I like the way at the end Crawford looks at the two women after their capture probably saying to himself something like, "These two broads killed multiple people??"
Great show. When the bus was leaving the highway, one of the escapees said turn right up ahead, When Dan was chasing them, they overshot the turn. When they returned they turned right as well. They still caught the ladies though.
Great show then & now it's timeless. These 2 women made some mistakes ditching the car & getting on a bus then getting off & on foot. Making it easy for their capture back in jail. The one woman busting in tears after Mathews grabs the gun away. Knowing the futility & hopelessness going back to the big house. Nothing worse than being in prison.
I couldn't even imagine being in prison, or even jail. I have a BA degree in Criminology and MA+1 in a related legal field. That's close enough for me!
Pretty decent episode -- the girls were pretty tough, but no match for Dan Mathews ! The brunette wasn't half bad, but she turned out to be a wimp ! The last 5 seconds were great ... Matthews looks at both of them with a sneer, but says NOT ONE WORD ! C o o L ....
I always liked this show, it was straight forward cop kind of show. Thanks for posting this. The picture is great looks like it came off a DVD. Notice it portrayed the women as really dumb. First they whack the Buick owner instead of convincing him to sneak them through. They don't hide his body, it is seen from the highway. Then they threaten the bus driver instead of just paying him for the ride. By not letting him pick up the normal passengers they made it suspicious. I guess it answers the question: "Are only criminals stupid, Or are only stupid people criminals?
It was very dumb of the chick to pull the gun on the bus driver. They had a pile of money. Could have paid and sat down with 25 other people, in separate seats and blend in. Might have at least had a chance.
And they didn't take the driver they killed's wallet either. They must be about as smart as the female escapees on Andy Griffith ("There's nobody here!!") LOL!
I was the whole episode wondering if at the end the cops were going to shoot the criminals, like it happens in most episodes. But back then cops didn't kill women, even if murderesses. Regards
All 50's tv shows never hurt or shot the women, they always got tied up and gagged. It makes me wonder if this is the reason why so many people have a rope kink?
This was a good show about detective work and playing mental chess with criminals. It is not a good one on tactics and safety. It gets me everytime they know they are going into a hot situation that nobody has a shotgun or tommy gun.
I've been watching these episodes for weeks sometimes 5 or 6 a day and I have never seen a woman shot, roughed up or abused in any manner. Even these two escaped convicts were apprehended without incident. I'm too young to have seen the original broadcast of Highway Patrol. In fact, I didn't even know what it was until I watchef one out of curiosity. Now I'm hooked. Seems to me as a younger person thst women were treated more respectfully back then. Is this correct?
I was a baby on 1955, I recall my father watched this episodes. But I never watched but when I did, I just loved them. I never forget the theme of the series, as music back then was more expressive and well made. But last month started to watch them. I recall Broderick Crawford actor name very well and after watching two movies from mid 30s with the actor and dancer Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (Top Hat 1935 & Swing Time 1936) I discovered Helen Broderick as a secondary actress, then I knew who was Broderick's mother. Broderick's first name was William but he took his mother last name as his for the acting career. When I find the complete episodes on TH-cam I got so impressed by this episodes that watch them anytime. So like you became hooked. This TV series might be remembered and watched as a reminder on how society changes when technology and population growth affect us significantly. Those years are what my parents lived to raise me and set the way they know how mould me. I respect them profoundly. Thank you very much to the good soul who uploaded them.
Women were certainly better respected than today. That's because in those days you did not have a president who spoke about women the way Trump does. You knew that when you voted for him. You have another chance in November. Are you going to make the same mistake again ?
So the bus had to turn right on the windy road to 302.... The police went too far and had to turn back... to get on the windy road to 302 they would turn left, but in the scene they turned right.... just a little detail....thanks for the video
Dark haired Carol Thurston appeared in a few films of late '40s & Tv shows into late '50s, early '60s while blonde Joan Granville was a Tv regular '50s into mid '60s. Sadly, both women would die relatively young@49 & 45.
Barney fife and Floyd the barber took care of three escaped women convicts in an episode of The Andy Griffith show. They could’ve handled those two dizzy broads and let Matthews relax at his desk
Carol Thurston played the brunette. In real life she was married and divorced 3 times had one child. Played sexy roles at the request of Cecile B DeMille in the 1940s. The blonde was played by Joan Granville married one man and never divorced. She had one child. She seems to have quit acting after becoming a mother. Both women died in their 40s.
Thank you for info. There are no credits so I do t know who most of these actors are. Information on actors is the only reason I read the comments....not to read repeated lines from the episode and the cars and the dumb statements....who cares? It’s the post like yours that’s appealing.
How can they set up road blocks with only two cars, most of the time sticking together, they could have used the County Sheriff’s Department to help in the search.
.......One of the best things is that they had a crime AND solved it in bout 25 minutes. I quit watching regular TV because of the commercials and subscribe to TH-cam Premium because of no ads. Would watch these just to see the old vehicles in their prime. Pretty dang cool.
I never get tired of this show. Thanks for bring it back.
So do I
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Thanks for putting this great TV show on TH-cam. It's on of my all-time favorites and awfully entertaining. The picture and sound are first rate quality!
Thanks to mag track film days and they knew audio processing because it went on TV. Those days are gone forever with TV dialogue in the mud. Same with movies. Back in the good old ZiV TV & other syndication day, They had good limiter/compressing devices. And yet no hiss. Gawd, take me back!
Both show and these so called actors can't act worth a Shot. Mathew talks so fast is Ike watching someone being on drugs. He is not in anyway a actor let alone a good actor. He's fat, old, and a piss poor man & actor. The music Sucks, and always same actors good or bad is what we call. A show that was way below budget, and couldn't afford real actors to do this no good rating show. Thank God everyone on here are DEAD.
INCLUDING MATHEWS. MUST HAVE HAD TO DIG A TRIPLE HOLE WIDE AND DEEPER TO HAUL HIS UGLY ASS INTO THE GROUND.
MAN, GLAD HE'S
DEAD, DEAD, DEAD, DEAD
one of the @@jaystarsky7271 greatest actors
@@jaystarsky7271 So you're saying he's dead.........
@@jacklaw7932 ,
The female escapees are very well-drawn characters who for all their nastiness display a greater complexity than their counterparts in other series.Highway Patrol was/is in a class of its own.
They couldn't shoot worth a damn, but interesting, well fleshed out characters. Both women were veteran character actresses (Carol Thurston had done a few films as well as Tv.) Both died young@49 & Joan Granville@45.
It is so bad...it is GREAT
I love at the end when Dan looks at the two women and shakes his head!
"If you two knew how to cook & make babies you wouldn't be in this mess."
Jeezus, Trixie … have your bullets sorted next time.
@@savoirfaire3330 ; Joe Friday concurs.
In Disbelief and Disgust!!
Sums them up perfectly. haha
Thanks for the upload. I remember seeing reruns of Highway Patrol as a kid. Really liked it.
...but, enough complaining. The series is fabulous. I was a very li’l kid when it debuted. Now I get to enjoy it wholly. Well done, Mr. Crawford et al.!
I'm old enough to remember seeing those kind of cars driven around as a kid in Cleveland, Ohio.
They were great for Demolition Derby.
The Sgt is William Boyett who was Sgt MacDonald on Adam-12 and the narrator at the beginning is Art Gilmore who was Lt Moore also on Adam-12.
This was a good series and a good straight cop show. It's accurate police work from mid-50s and not trying to pretend. Radio cars were obviously still new and many local agencies did not equip radio cars until 60s.
Most police agencies in the 50s still used 2-door cars. Don't recall ever seeing a 4-door cop marked cop car on Highway Patrol.
@@frdjr2527 In TH-cam episode Hitchhiker2, Dan uses a 55 Ford 4 door.
@@Kenika That was the only episode where Dan drove a Ford police car, with the exception of '56 and '57 Mercurys. Most police agencies drove Fords throughout the 50s.
Remember watching this in 10th grade twice a month we had film day
back in 1973.
I get my fix of at least one episode of HP every day. This is one of the best, for several reasons.
The many anomalies are always amusing, and often can be put down to the low budget. But that doesn't excuse one of them here, where the bus driver is told clearly, at 16:46, to take the side road to the RIGHT - and then, after the police have overshot it and turn round and return to try it, they turn to the right also! You've got to love it!
Another funny thing is the bus traveling on the dirt road in the rain but each cut back to the patrol cars it isn't raining it's dry and dusty. No sign of rain or mud during the foot chase either.
I'm working through them numerically so I have yet to see the Clint Eastwood appearance lots of people have mentioned. I love backtracking to see the little errors that others pick up but I always miss, like the road turning. Most of all I enjoy reading and joining in the comments section where we can poke gentle fun at Dan/Brod, like what was that coat all about ?
Eastwood is a good motorcyclist in a good club not a gang
I love Highway patrol.🎁💛💛💛💛💛💛💛Thank you very much.
Quality of film and sound excellent great to see this again thank you
"21-50, be on the lookout for a coupla hard-case dames wit guns, 10-4?"
"Yeeaaah, 10-4."
I love this stuff.
Guy stops and figures he's going to get 'lucky". This is why men, don't ever stop for strange meat. It's a trap!
Crawford hunches🧐
🤣🤣🤣
I like these picturtres
I l❤ve strange meat. In fact, I just love meat.
It's worked out good for me in the past. $20 later we both were happy.
4:14 A 1959 Buick. That one really stands out - even on this show. It was probably new. On the pilot episode of Adam 12 (about a decade later), they destroyed one of these in a car chase. What a difference a decade makes.
'59 Buick Invicta convertible. In the final season, this car gets used in several episodes. A beautiful car. The '59 Caddy had vertical fins, the '59 Chevy had horizontal fins, Buick went with 45 degrees. When cars, and ladies, had style.
Little before my time.but this classic America TV thanks for posting all of this. Now I have something to watch lol 😵💫 just think 1950s TV better than almost anything Hollywood is putting out today Now that's sad
The blonde sure lived up to her hair color! LOL! 😂
1950s cars and ladies-perfect show!
How can a show this bad be so FREAKING good!!!???
It always amazes me how the cops know exactly where to look and how fast they catch up with the crooks.
Well it's only a half hour show. If the perps carry booze, Ole dan will flush them out.
Remember this show had to fit into a 30 minute time slot so they couldn't get too elaborate with the chase scene. This show is still better than all the BS cop shows on today.
And the road is always empty when the criminals are murdering a driver.
Too bad it was nevér that simple or quick.
Darn they never made it to Chicago lol
The woman escapee bursting out crying was very good. I even felt a bit sorry for her.
I would have gotten me some of that before I took her back to jail
9:14 This was on Mulholland in Encino, next to where the fire station is now. Anyone remember what was there? The stone pillars are still there.
That very distinctive, strident and dramatic Highway Patrol intro music was for schoolboy me back in the 1950s an alert for an immediate drop everything and "must watch".
That was precisely why it was composed. Highway Patrol used some "Swell Broads" throughout the series. See, I'm nearly fluent in American.
Forty cents would have been cheap to avoid suspicion for a few more miles...
23:15
One thing I can't stand is a killer on a crying jag!
those two Bettys most be something in the prison showers
I remember guns for sale in hardware stores when I was a boy. Also sears catalogue.
They still do in the free parts of America. But the really free are reducing every day. :
Love those old mopars
So true, California has changed the most... I thought the two women made some stupid mistakes... They get a car, kill the driver, manage to get in town, get clothes , money, and guns, then decide to go back out on the highway, right away... why not lay low in the town, for awhile then leave after the road blocks are cleared ?
None of Dan's snub nose justice for female killers. A more chivalrous time.
I guess down south, years back, some kids used to take their rifles to high school with them, then go hunting after school.
Love that old bus!!!
Love This Show!! Thank u 4 Sharing:))
most comments miss the point of Highway Patrol
the episodes are no less than an true slice of American history:Eisenhower years
low budgets ensured authenticity; no sets no special effects; we can see what highways, motels, banks, homes, supermarkets etc really used to look like
and what about those magnificent cars: Buicks, Chryslers, Mercurys etc ?
some surprisingly sexy young women, yet never even a hint of hanky-panky!
it was a touch of genius to get an Oscar winner like Broderick Crawford as star
other police shows had forgettable second raters like Jack Webb or Roger Smith?
half-hour format and little-known scriptwriters contributed to uncomplicated plots and down-to-earth emotional context
More fun then.
@@lindaosika7648 still managing to have some fun now
Female escapees huh? That reminds me of the Andy Griffith episode where 3 female escapees hold Barney & Floyd hostage in a cabin & Andy has to save their asses 😂
According to the Mayberry Gazette, it was Local Barber Floyd Lawson that caught them.
All that open country but there is a cop behind every other tree or bush!
obivisiously they had beauty salons in women's prisons back in the day ..lol
Another thing, they didn't take the man's ID that they killed . Easy to trace his car, then.Must be why they ended up in prison to start with. Wow! Dan's rough on that police car in this episode.That girl who was a cold blooded murderess sure cried like a baby when things didn't go her way.
She was Driven To Tears... By the Police,
er, ah, The Highway Patrol!! Gal's not
gonna make it to Chicago!!
I've watched three episodes in a row with women felons. I keep picturing them being caught and put in the Mayberry Jail, just until morning, with Barney on guard.
…LOL…I remember that episode…Barney letting her out…and Andy going to see her and catching her escaping. Incidentally, did you fly the AJ-2?
@@hertzair1186 Not that old or lucky.
In the 1930’s you could buy a Thompson sub machine gun at a hardware store. That is where Al Capone and his buddies bought theirs.
You could buy them online too....
They were originally marketed to farmers for varmint control.
Broderick crawford has unparalleled tracking abilities.
yeah she's running he's walking and catches her easily...lol...like the mummy...lol
Crashing through the woods Making all kind of noise .
The ladies didn't hear him
Dan Matthews loves his maps !
The description: 2 girls, in their late twenties....girls ? Also at the end, this experienced lawman approached a suspect, with BOTH hands concealed, idiocy 101. Really liked the 59 Buick convertible, rare case that it wasn't a Plymouth, it seems
Will someone please tighten the power steering belt on that squad car
Pedant .. ;-))
lmao lmao lmao
Good catch-it was eating my mechanical brain.
I heard it too. This is a Mopar and very likely has the 383 Super Commando or the 383 Golden Lion!
Recaptured in less than half an hour .. now that's Policework!
@3:15 could that be top of Topanga looking down on San Fernando Valley? Wow if it is, look at all that land no houses.
I started watching this show because it was an old cop show. Now I watch it b/c I'm consistently amazed at how desolate California was back then. I wish I had a time machine.
I read somewhere that it’s never a good idea to tell your hostages their chances of survival are low. People start to think that if their going to die anyway might as well do it fighting.
Old Dan lives and breathes old maps, has one in every episode. Its a wonder he could find his way home after an all day drinking binge !
It's like he never heard of GPS lol.
Is it really necessary for someone to mention Crawford's drinking problem in the comments on every episode? Those of us who grew up when this show was airing were well aware of his problem. Can't we let Broderick Crawford rest in peace after all these years?
@@rathert3 in part I agree with you, But, he is dead and gone and nothing said in the comments is going to hurt him, HOWEVER, maybe someone will read how even this great actor and his strong positive image of law enforcement did not get a break driving drunk, might make someone think twice about not driving when they had too much to drink.
He's hell on roadblocks. He couldn't close an umbrella according to my favorite sherriff Buford T Justice.
@@locutusdborg126 They offered him a GPS but he couldn't scrawl big circles on it so he said no.
Let's go to the hardware store to get guns. Times were simpler back then. Imagine if home Depot had a barrel of old shotguns for sale
The dark-haired escapee (actress Carol Thurston) looks just like my wife. She's also the muscle in this episode. That figures.
MrShobar sleep with one eye open And watch your money
Hysterical comment shobar...well done!
you just articulated why this country is in the state that it is, because most men see things the way you do, survival is capitulation of all values and truths.
@@daniellack3559 I agree! My compliments MrShobar.
Ball havnt dropped yet?
Rule for 50"s TV. If you cave someone's head in with a rock on a rural road make sure you leave them in plain site even though there are trees and bushes everywhere.
😆😆
Some ladies ain't too bright, ya know!
Dan in a trenchcoat! That "Colombo Look" long before Colombo!
Those women don't have a chance. Dan broke out the map and ordered roadblocks.
Dan Mathews❤King of All Road Blocks😊Gimme That Map👁🔍🦅🦍🤡🤔📜
I wish we had police like this today
We didn't have police like that, then. This was '50s TV. In real life we have great cops and not so great cops in every era.
How did the one inmate know that there was only one person in the car, from that distance? Also, how was she going to help dispose of the man's body with a big rock in her hand? LOL!
Well...she was young,=good eyesight,only 1/4 mile away,and she had lots of practice 🤯🤯
@@blainenodes8182And it helps to be able to see around corners.
Dan's Dodge needed a power steering belt adjustment. The thing squealed every time he turned the wheel on startup.
Dan squeals his tyres every time he drives off.
any one else notice Crawford prances when he runs?
Like a little fucking princess. I wonder if Brod had some sugar in the tank
Crawford insisted on wearing high heals during filming, thats why they never show his feet.
Dan Cross:) good one
It would be perfect if they accentuated each step with a single piano key note "tink...tink ......tink, tink, tink"
When a Star runs particularly short distance he needs to run slow for camera tracking and prancing is easiest and slowmo run would look bad on film. Jack Webb did same on dragnet.
Seems like there were a lot of escaped convicts during this show. Did the prisons have screen doors back then?
Nope!
what nice cars love this show
Anyone know anything about that bus? Looks like it said Ford on the front. Looks like it was shot during a rainy period in the Valley.
I am glad I lived thru that time period. Compared what it look like now. There is such a big difference. Life was so much easier sometimes boring compared to what is life now.
Dan Mathews and HP are Never Boring!!
I like the way at the end Crawford looks at the two women after their capture probably saying to himself something like, "These two broads killed multiple people??"
Judging by the look, Dan had been hitting the bottle that day.
Has anyone noticed that in almost every episode there are songbirds singing in the background? I wonder if that was Broderick or someone else?
you gotta love those desoto's, they were such angry looking cars
Their not DeSotos,but Dodges
Dodges, but, still, great looking beasts.
The 59 Buick was a angry looking car as well
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Love the grills on those old buicks.
Yeah, a mean looking car for two mean escaped murderers
Of all the "grill's" 1950-1960 those Buicks were something,olds/Pontiacs/Lincoln's also the bomb👍
Great show. When the bus was leaving the highway, one of the escapees said turn right up ahead, When Dan was chasing them, they overshot the turn. When they returned they turned right as well. They still caught the ladies though.
Great show then & now it's timeless. These 2 women made some mistakes ditching the car & getting on a bus then getting off & on foot. Making it easy for their capture back in jail.
The one woman busting in tears after Mathews grabs the gun away. Knowing the futility & hopelessness going back to the big house.
Nothing worse than being in prison.
I couldn't even imagine being in prison, or even jail. I have a BA degree in Criminology and MA+1 in a related legal field. That's close enough for me!
Robert, I bought my first gun in a hardware store in 1968
Pretty decent episode -- the girls were pretty tough, but no match for Dan Mathews ! The brunette wasn't half bad, but she turned out to be a wimp ! The last 5 seconds were great ... Matthews looks at both of them with a sneer, but says NOT ONE WORD ! C o o L ....
I always liked this show, it was straight forward cop kind of show. Thanks for posting this. The picture is great looks like it came off a DVD.
Notice it portrayed the women as really dumb. First they whack the Buick owner instead of convincing him to sneak them through.
They don't hide his body, it is seen from the highway.
Then they threaten the bus driver instead of just paying him for the ride.
By not letting him pick up the normal passengers they made it suspicious.
I guess it answers the question:
"Are only criminals stupid,
Or are only stupid people criminals?
yep, times were different. Constitutional rights? Another great episode! These two "girls" got Dumber and Dumber as the show went! Thank you!
Miranda wasnt instituted till June 13, 1966.
It was very dumb of the chick to pull the gun on the bus driver. They had a pile of money. Could have paid and sat down with 25 other people, in separate seats and blend in. Might have at least had a chance.
This is when they lost their chance.
And they didn't take the driver they killed's wallet either. They must be about as smart as the female escapees on Andy Griffith ("There's nobody here!!") LOL!
I just assumed that's what they had in mind. To get away. When they pulled the guns on the bus driver i was like "what the...?"
@@BeingRomans829ed That was a good episode of Any Griffith too.
@ 40 cents thats highway robbery
I was the whole episode wondering if at the end the cops were going to shoot the criminals, like it happens in most episodes. But back then cops didn't kill women, even if murderesses. Regards
+Lazarus0357 Never shoot women on TV back then.
+Robert Tiscione No, of course! Regards
It's the patriarchy. That's why.
Wow I notice that, I also notice that all the criminals on this show put up little or no resistance when they about get handcuffed
All 50's tv shows never hurt or shot the women, they always got tied up and gagged. It makes me wonder if this is the reason why so many people have a rope kink?
That officer at the end needs a good chewing out. You NEVER approach a suspect when you cannot see their hands.
His chewing out, was serving many years with that drug addict Jack Webb, on Adam 12! "... puff,puff, cough, puff......."
I was thinking rhe same thing her hands in her pockets she could have blown him away
This was a good show about detective work and playing mental chess with criminals. It is not a good one on tactics and safety. It gets me everytime they know they are going into a hot situation that nobody has a shotgun or tommy gun.
You couldn't see Dan's hands for most of this episode. Just what was going on inside that trench coat ? Fully buttoned up the whole time. Weird.
@@Sootaroot
Probably cold
I've been watching these episodes for weeks sometimes 5 or 6 a day and I have never seen a woman shot, roughed up or abused in any manner. Even these two escaped convicts were apprehended without incident. I'm too young to have seen the original broadcast of Highway Patrol. In fact, I didn't even know what it was until I watchef one out of curiosity. Now I'm hooked. Seems to me as a younger person thst women were treated more respectfully back then. Is this correct?
You're right
I was a baby on 1955, I recall my father watched this episodes. But I never watched but when I did, I just loved them. I never forget the theme of the series, as music back then was more expressive and well made. But last month started to watch them. I recall Broderick Crawford actor name very well and after watching two movies from mid 30s with the actor and dancer Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (Top Hat 1935 & Swing Time 1936) I discovered Helen Broderick as a secondary actress, then I knew who was Broderick's mother. Broderick's first name was William but he took his mother last name as his for the acting career. When I find the complete episodes on TH-cam I got so impressed by this episodes that watch them anytime. So like you became hooked. This TV series might be remembered and watched as a reminder on how society changes when technology and population growth affect us significantly. Those years are what my parents lived to raise me and set the way they know how mould me. I respect them profoundly. Thank you very much to the good soul who uploaded them.
yes , gender differences were respected , not denied ; people were living in reality .
Women were certainly better respected than today. That's because in those days you did not have a president who spoke about women the way Trump does. You knew that when you voted for him. You have another chance in November. Are you going to make the same mistake again ?
@@Sootaroot YES!
Incredible and double incredible!.🇮🇪🇮🇪🇺🇸
I remember if you got a play cops and robbers play to the end don't play at all.💪🏽👍🏽🙋🏽♂️😊😎.
So the bus had to turn right on the windy road to 302.... The police went too far and had to turn back... to get on the windy road to 302 they would turn left, but in the scene they turned right.... just a little detail....thanks for the video
Dark haired Carol Thurston appeared in a few films of late '40s & Tv shows into late '50s, early '60s while blonde Joan Granville was a Tv regular '50s into mid '60s. Sadly, both women would die relatively young@49 & 45.
4:39 - "Say, that dress you're wearing... Isn't it a bit dowdy?"
Barney fife and Floyd the barber took care of three escaped women convicts in an episode of The Andy Griffith show. They could’ve handled those two dizzy broads and let Matthews relax at his desk
Ol dan had a hell of a time staring that coronet ? Needed to bump the distributor
Today, they would both have buzzcuts, multiple tattoos, and answer to the name "Butch".
Love this show ❤ 💕 great acting love the ⚫ and white nice job 👍 still watching 2022
Older version of Thelma and Louise, but these two are really rotten.
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The first lesson of this series is : Never stop for a hitchhicker, male or female ! ... Too bad for the good ones...
Fun to time travel to circa 1955 in this series...
greanfinisher ya saw that later in the credits
This episode was 1959, one of the last of the series.
Carol Thurston played the brunette. In real life she was married and divorced 3 times had one child. Played sexy roles at the request of Cecile B DeMille in the 1940s.
The blonde was played by Joan Granville married one man and never divorced. She had one child. She seems to have quit acting after becoming a mother.
Both women died in their 40s.
Wow, they died young.
That's sad.
Thank you for info. There are no credits so I do t know who most of these actors are. Information on actors is the only reason I read the comments....not to read repeated lines from the episode and the cars and the dumb statements....who cares? It’s the post like yours that’s appealing.
DAYUM..AND THOUGHT WORKING IN A FACTORY WAS BAD....lol
One last look at sun and hearing the birds chirp. Good end
This is my favorite episode, that`s a big 10-4 for 2150.
How can they set up road blocks with only two cars, most of the time sticking together, they could have used the County Sheriff’s Department to help in the search.
"Guns, we gotta get guns " she says, America never changed.
When the girls got on the bus, why wouldn't they just pay the fare?
eatmyskids lesbions are by nature psychopathic as are most people that drive the subaru forrester or wear birkenstocks
@@zzyzxzee6374 It's good that you avoided stereotyping.
Maybe all they had was in $ 100 bills.
23:13😂 everythings going to plan until it isnt😂😢
Good episode!
Now that's what every guy needs, two hot babes in a '59 Buick ragtop, so long as they're not carrying guns or big rocks.
Nah, these chixks are too nasty. Theres no softness in them.
@@axiomist1076 .. Oh there's a softness alright! .. Between them leg's Ha!!! :P] .v ..
@@splash5150izy Wow?! Lol
You mean a blood covered rock but not a drop on the guy's head???
Why is the main character wearing an overcoat out in the desert?
A pessimist always prepares for EVERYTHING.
Bottles in hidden deep pockets,,,,,,duh, hokay!
It's hard to see but I think it was raining off and on during this episode. The dirt road was wet. Or Dan was imitating Dick Tracey again.
It may have been cool the girls took coats from the laundry
Because he's Dan Matthews!
It's cold enough to wear an overcoat, but Dan has his window down.
Dan was really getting fat then-- a real beeaholic !!
You're an observant man Barney F, but you gotta admit he does look kinda cool in that big white overcoat.
In one shot it looked like his car had no front or back side windows. Like playing freeze out
Dan likes to waft his aroma, marking with his scent wherever he roams............
'59 Dodges always looked like a '58 Oldsmobile that got punched in the face to me.
.......One of the best things is that they had a crime AND solved it in bout 25 minutes. I quit watching regular TV because of the commercials and subscribe to TH-cam Premium because of no ads. Would watch these just to see the old vehicles in their prime. Pretty dang cool.
That dispatcher plays the grocer on Andy Griffith show, he gits a manicure from Barbara Eden too.
...and, as Dan slaps the cuffs on the sobbing brunette, he says, "I'LL GIVE YOU SOMETHING TO CRY ABOUT!".
10:51 new 59 dodge and the power steering belt sounds like it's going to fly off 😂