This show cost about ten dollars to make. That said, I respect the natural lighting, the outdoor locations, and the sense of Justice. Crawford is a gem. His acting ranges from a to b but he's totally believable. Love the loud narrator and the canned music. Love the cars too. 57 New Yorker 57 belvedere 57 custom, Marion cranes car 53 ford
William Boyett and Stuart Whitman...two great actors that were cast in multiple tv shows and movies. Boyett was in numerous Dragnet episodes and went on to play Sgt. "Mac" McDonald in Adam-12.
In fact, no one brought the dialogue like the best cop in tv history, the one and only Sgt. Joe Friday ! Joe would have kicked Matthews drunk butt off the force....just the facts ....
YEA...YOU JUST GOT TO 💘 LOVE THE 50's. Oh the heavy metal cars...and the ""JIM CROWNESS"" of it all. BACK WHEN AMERICA WAS GREAT...YES...SUPER HELL YES...LET's MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!????????
Most of these shows were filmed in the San Fernando Valley back in the 50's. I have the whole collection on DVD. I grew up in the valley as a kid, and I always get melon coly viewing the cleanliness & spar ness that is now crowded with ugly mini marts, drug abuse & traffic + much more !
Yes so BEAUTIFUL scenery i live looking at it while enjoying show....so e r sad though .lije killin that man fir his little cafe as a front HORRIBLE!! I wish theyd justa let him knock him out not kill HIM!😥then catch the criminal and little cafe owner has justice....well anyway Dan got him for him..!!! Sir maybe still beauty there San Fernando ....i know it is very sad to e our old hometowns though, run DOWN.i wanna cry 2😥😥😥part a Fort WORTH, Texas ..awful now...my town....
I remember watching this TV show when I was like 5 years old and this is the police partner I remember. I had a toy police car and two policemen barking out orders just like Broderick Crawford on the show. Thanks for placing the episode on TH-cam.
The episode featuring "special lunches to go out". (yeah they can keep the "sugar" !) Love the neon clock which was ever so common. The weathered '52 Ford convertible was in about 8 episodes. Remember seeing many old cars in that condition when I was a kid (& later owned a few)
That mystery car has been featured in at least half a dozen episodes and always has the same licence plate number: MUY 094. It must have belonged to one of the hot shots involved in production.
LOVE to see the filming locations all around the Los Angeles area. This was Chatsworth, CA, and it appeared to be De Soto Ave and Devonshire Street. Devonshire was Highway 118 before the freeway supplanted it in the 1980's.
So...Matt doesn't call for any backup, puts the criminal in the front seat(likely because no other cop to sit with him in the back seat, I get it..)right next to him, criminal doesn't even attempt to grab the wheel, run, or say "I'll beat the rap Coper! You ain't got nothin' on me!" And why, oh WHY does the woman turn the engine of her car off while she's waiting for her male friend to push the other car down the hill? And why do I keep watching this show? Because I love it :-)
Jenny Rollins is pretty smokin'. Highway Patrol hired several good looking actresses during their run. Thinking of compiling a collection of jpg's and calling it, "Women of Highway Patrol".
I was surprised Crawford was driving in this episode. We don't usually see him driving on anything but (private) dirt roads, it seems he enjoyed his adult beverages just a bit too much and the state of California decided it didn't want him driving on it's roads.
Indeed, Mr. Crawford suffered from alcoholism while he was starring in "Highway Patrol", but in spite of this, he was capable of playing convincing 'tough guy' characters.
The story of the "special lunches to go out---& don't forget the sugar". I like good dialogue like that! The '52 Ford convertible makes it's 7th appearance if I counted right (must have belonged to the studio and not a rental) Notice how cars started looking old after just 5 years. Would sure like to have it now.
strandwolf Why not. Might as well enjoy it before it ends up in the evidence safe. Besides, Brod probabably had the combo to that safe as well... Hah :)
Brod was the full monty. Prelude to drug sniffing dogs and staying on the trail after his personal it dope alright. Didnt come from the CIA or would have overdosed. A 5 tool cop for sure.
Retired CHP once told me he picked up Broderick Crawford on a DUI charge, and from the back seat of his cruiser, Crawford repeated, "10-4, 10-4, 10-4!" all the way back to booking.
That two tone Mercury sedan has also made many appearances in this series. It always is the bad guys transport. Seen that 52 Ford rag top in quite a few as well. They must have had a pool of cars for use in the show.
Cafe located at Desoto Ave. and Devonshire St. Devonshire St. was highway 118 until the Ronald Reagan freeway opened up in 1983, and became the new highway 118. I Lived just a few miles from here.
That '57 Merc hardtop -- the prettiest car of the year. Ladies dressing like ladies, not like they're trying to hide 50 lbs. of blubber are also a treat.
Those were the z Virgel Exxner designed forward look Chryslers which in the fall of 1956 forever changed the national experience for all Americans...I was there, I know...
That marching music sounds very impressive and menacing for all norty criminals, but all that the HP catches are schrimps, while the real whales are never to be seen. The Lucky Luciano's, the Meyer Lansky's and other Teflon Dons... But well, too many little schrimps can cause an indigestion too of course... The acting is a bit wooden, the stories probably too short to be developed sufficiently, but it sure is fun watching, not just for the cars but also the interiors, the clothes etc.
The old Ford Convertible was missing it's passenger side front wheel cover for most of the show, but suddenly appeared at the end of the show. Ooooppsss..... ;-)
With the amount Dan tasted of that "sugar" I am surprised he didn't open another one and make two lines on the dash and snort it up. Looking at the pusher, then say, "just making sure". LOL
This episode first aired June 10, 1957. Building of Los Angeles' freeway system had been underway for two decades by that time with many miles in daily use and the interstate highway system had begun construction: www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/las-first-freeways www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/history.cfm The reason most scenes of 'Highway Patrol' were shot in rural locales and on privately owned secondary roads is that Broderick Crawford, with his many DUIs, was not allowed to operate motor vehicles on public roads or highways during much of the show's run.
@@johnbockelie3899 The Batmobile was built on a 'one off' show car, the 1956 Lincoln Futura: www.rodauthority.com/features/car-features/the-great-sacrifice-lincoln-futura-morphs-into-barris-batmobile/
Those cars were built like TANKS back then. Check out those white wall tires too, Lmao! Just remember this, Dan Mathews will bust your ass if you fuck up, on his watch, Lol! (2150...OUT, Lol!)
One thing I like about these shows is the credits roll slow enough you can actually read them. Everything is so Damn fast today...even when you call a business. I've had to tell people whoa slow down I can hardly understand you I'm from the south.lol😄
AT 21:12, THE RIGHT FRONT HUBCAP ON THE OLD FORD CONVERTIBLE WAS MISSING. AT 22:48 THE HUB CAP IS ON.A MINOR CONTINUITY MISTAKE WHEN THEY FILMED THIS EPISODE. LOVE THESE SHOWS.THANKS FOR POSTING!!
A good episode of "Highway Patrol" from 1957. The viewer may want to take note of Stuart Whitman, later a featured actor in Hollywood films, in the role of the male, along with his wife, buying the roadside diner.
I love these old b&w shows from the 50's. Notice how cops didn't use two hands to hold their guns and even the crooked chicks wore appropriate clothing and didn't parade around with their tits hanging out. The 50's weren't perfect, but in many ways they were better than today.
Actually, like most other cars, the Edsel debut was a year behind the model year-in this case, they came out in late 1957. The car here was an early 1957 Mercury, made a little before they legalized quad headlights, such as what later models of Mercury had later in the year.
Once again the worlds most accurate,deadly .38 snubby barks and justice Dan style is meted out. The Ford convertible shows up in another episode sans right front hubcap...
Try 5 other episodes! See "Lie Detector", "Killer for Hire", "The Search", "The Safecracker", and "Hot Rod" where it is shown getting its front tire fixed.
Boy, they almost totally screwed this up!!! LOL!!! First they say "Everything looks normal, or these 2 are smooth as silk" after the waitress offers 2 hungry customers a muffin, and then the cook walks out wearing a $400 suit and $100 pair of shoes in 1959. Then only 2 undercover cops show up for surveillance of "A HUGE drug outfit", and 1 car. Dan then kicks the Narc out of the car to chase the known dealer and leaves the narc standing around without a car, when 2150 gets back, he leaves the foot cop to watch the vehicle with the dealer sitting in the front seat, along with the bag containing the dope that Dan just tossed on the seat to sit next to the guy he arrested for having it while he goes into the diner to check on the waitress after the "cook", already responsible for 1 murder takes the first victims best friend for a ride. I guess they assumed he would never hurt the old coot, or more likely, they were mad that he showed up and figured if he catches a bullet, he deserves it. But they were mad at him for going to the diner and they shouldn't have been because Dan never told the guy "Stay away from there...we are going to do some undercover work and these people are dangerous". Then the only way they catch them is the crooks are even more inept than the cops!!! The cook ditches the great running car to hop into jalopy only to find out the waitress had shut the engine off while fleeing the cops, I guess because the price of gas....then she floods the engine. Why she shut it off while running form the cops in the first place is a question that will never be answered. While often not quite believable, these episodes are fun to watch, and this one was great with so many things that would never happen in real life. I love this show!!!!!
Twenty-six minutes and nine seconds of programming time for a 30 minute program. That means less than 4 minutes of commercials when this first aired. How I hate today's TV. Just one commercial break (of which there are several) is probably over 3 minutes. They take the old '50s and '60s shows and hack them up to add commercials even though they are surely getting multiples more money per minute of ad time than they did back then.
Great episode! I think Skipper was the bottom. Yes, for $.60 a day i would be a junkie too. I love the field test for narcotics. Oh to be in law enforcement in the 50's!!
Matthews gets out of his '57 Ford unmarked to search for the lunch bag. He leaves the car running with the suspect seated in the front. Then Matthews determines the sugar is in fact heroin by tasting it! The only thing funnier was watching him try to run. Normally he just saunters, no matter what the emergency is.
This show cost about ten dollars to make. That said, I respect the natural lighting, the outdoor locations, and the sense of Justice.
Crawford is a gem. His acting ranges from a to b but he's totally believable. Love the loud narrator and the canned music. Love the cars too.
57 New Yorker
57 belvedere
57 custom, Marion cranes car
53 ford
He was great in the 1952 scandal sheet movie. A list acting in that one.
I used to watch this as a kid more than 60 years ago. My family had a ‘57 Ford just like that, white over blue two-tone.
William Boyett and Stuart Whitman...two great actors that were cast in multiple tv shows and movies. Boyett was in numerous Dragnet episodes and went on to play Sgt. "Mac" McDonald in Adam-12.
Highway Patrol I love. I could watch it every day. Especially in early morning.
My favorite show as a kid, nobody brings the dialogue like Crawford! Thanks!
Yep
In fact, no one brought the dialogue like the best cop in tv history, the one and only Sgt. Joe Friday ! Joe would have kicked Matthews drunk butt off the force....just the facts ....
I tell Yah,, I absolutely love this show.. The nostalgic 50's really fascinate's me.. How people conduct themselves back then, is so considerate..
I love the cars.,
YEA...YOU JUST GOT TO 💘 LOVE THE 50's. Oh the heavy metal cars...and the ""JIM CROWNESS"" of it all. BACK WHEN AMERICA WAS GREAT...YES...SUPER HELL YES...LET's MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!????????
They'd never suspect a sugar dispenser as the murder weapon.
Ya, not so many regulations and you only had to bribe one inspector to open a place.
@@henryhorner3182 As Maxwell Smart would say, "it's the old sugar dispenser murder method".
Mathews is so cool, he always gets his man....👍
And if women commit crimes, he always gets them also.
😊😊
Most of these shows were filmed in the San Fernando Valley back in the 50's. I have the whole collection on DVD. I grew up in the valley as a kid, and I always get melon coly viewing the cleanliness & spar ness that is now crowded with ugly mini marts, drug abuse & traffic + much more !
I was a kid in Canoga Park then.
Remember the" Valley Girls" 😉
Yes so BEAUTIFUL scenery i live looking at it while enjoying show....so e r sad though .lije killin that man fir his little cafe as a front HORRIBLE!! I wish theyd justa let him knock him out not kill HIM!😥then catch the criminal and little cafe owner has justice....well anyway Dan got him for him..!!! Sir maybe still beauty there San Fernando ....i know it is very sad to e our old hometowns though, run DOWN.i wanna cry 2😥😥😥part a Fort WORTH, Texas ..awful now...my town....
Grew up in gardena. Aunt uncle and cousins from pacoima
Drug abuse...I guess things haven’t changed mulch since then.
Love these Highway Patrol shows!
Broderick Crawford was one of the great old time actors, won an Oscar for all the kings men.
I love Dragnet, and Highway Patrol.
They do a more in one show than some of do in 2 or 3 Shows
I love both of these shows and a Sea Hunt with Lloyd Bridges as well.
Thanks for the cool videos! I wish we were in the 50's again.
There's a reason they were "The Fabulous Fifties"!
I'm ordering the special lunch.
Yep. Heart disease and cancer were death sentences. The good old days. Lol
I remember watching this TV show when I was like 5 years old and this is the police partner I remember. I had a toy police car and two policemen barking out orders just like Broderick Crawford on the show. Thanks for placing the episode on TH-cam.
Double thanks for putting these shows on, Mathews is me dinner partner 🙂
I've said it once and I'll say it again. They sure packed a lot of story in under 30 mins.
looks like Jayne Johnson deleted her pathetic post
Oolllllllllllllll
High Paced
Good. Fuckn. Writer's
@@jefjef947comarmstrong5 Right on! Do you know that many of the 'Have Gun Will Travel' shows were written by Gene 'Star Trek' Roddenburry?
The episode featuring "special lunches to go out". (yeah they can keep the "sugar" !)
Love the neon clock which was ever so common. The weathered '52 Ford convertible was in about 8 episodes. Remember seeing many old cars in that condition when I was a kid (& later owned a few)
I love those hard-top no post 4 door cars!
One of my favourite old tv shows - a big 10 - 4 !!
The mystery car, 30 seconds into the show is a 57 Merc. I used to drive one of those. Good old car!!
That mystery car has been featured in at least half a dozen episodes and always has the same licence plate number: MUY 094. It must have belonged to one of the hot shots involved in production.
Love the old fashioned Root Beer Barrel dispenser behind the counter!
Somebody made a good living writing and producing this.
LOVE to see the filming locations all around the Los Angeles area. This was Chatsworth, CA, and it appeared to be De Soto Ave and Devonshire Street. Devonshire was Highway 118 before the freeway supplanted it in the 1980's.
So...Matt doesn't call for any backup, puts the criminal in the front seat(likely because no other cop to sit with him in the back seat, I get it..)right next to him, criminal doesn't even attempt to grab the wheel, run, or say "I'll beat the rap Coper! You ain't got nothin' on me!" And why, oh WHY does the woman turn the engine of her car off while she's waiting for her male friend to push the other car down the hill? And why do I keep watching this show? Because I love it :-)
Jenny Rollins is pretty smokin'. Highway Patrol hired several good looking actresses during their run. Thinking of compiling a collection of jpg's and calling it, "Women of Highway Patrol".
+stachelmax - yeah! Those dispatchers were HOT!
I was surprised Crawford was driving in this episode. We don't usually see him driving on anything but (private) dirt roads, it seems he enjoyed his adult beverages just a bit too much and the state of California decided it didn't want him driving on it's roads.
notice he got out of the cop car on private property
They called him ol' 502 for a reason haha
Indeed, Mr. Crawford suffered from alcoholism while he was starring in "Highway Patrol", but in spite of this, he was capable of playing convincing 'tough guy' characters.
The story of the "special lunches to go out---& don't forget the sugar". I like good dialogue like that! The '52 Ford convertible makes it's 7th appearance if I counted right (must have belonged to the studio and not a rental) Notice how cars started looking old after just 5 years. Would sure like to have it now.
But you didn't notice the missing wheel cover on the old Ford that suddenly reappeared back on the car at the end of the show. ;-)
Missing a wheel cover leaving the restaurant but in the next scene when they pull off the road the wheel cover is back on
@Brian Salomon Not surprised except when it suddenly and unexplainedly reappeared back on the car later in the show! ;-)
I think daniel san and mr miyagi used some of them cars.
@@dalebrion4876 Righteeooo, Dale!! ;-)
That guy doing the voice over on all the HP's was Art Gilmore , who sometimes appeared on Dragnet as a Lieutenant.
Great to see a full uncut version, with the concluding "message" from Broderick Crawford, so often cut on TV reruns.
A GREAT TV SHOW AND A GREAT ACTOR-BRODERICK CRAWFORD!
👍🇺🇸
Brod helped himself to a huge taste there.
strandwolf Why not. Might as well enjoy it before it ends up in the evidence safe. Besides, Brod probabably had the combo to that safe as well... Hah :)
+HJRD-he only turned in 7 of the 8.
He kept driving in hot pursuit after that gulp!
@@scottkeister4975 h
Brod was the full monty. Prelude to drug sniffing dogs and staying on the trail after his personal it dope alright. Didnt come from the CIA or would have overdosed. A 5 tool cop for sure.
These are all great.
Thanks for posting.
📻🙂
Retired CHP once told me he picked up Broderick Crawford on a DUI charge, and from the back seat of his cruiser, Crawford repeated, "10-4, 10-4, 10-4!" all the way back to booking.
That two tone Mercury sedan has also made many appearances in this series. It always is the bad guys transport. Seen that 52 Ford rag top in quite a few as well. They must have had a pool of cars for use in the show.
Wearing a suit. Even the crooks looked respectable back then.
Norman Wells
That older guy played on Gunsmoke.
@@JoseSanchez-bp7xz Moss Grimmick......owned the livery stable.
Love Gunsmoke !
Thank you so much for The Highway Patrol....
Cafe located at Desoto Ave. and Devonshire St. Devonshire St. was highway 118 until the Ronald Reagan freeway opened up in 1983, and became the new highway 118. I Lived just a few miles from here.
What business sits on the actual spot where the cafe was?
@@darrenconrad4685 I think its a gas station and McDonald's now unless I'm talking about the wrong corner.
Excellent episide !
I owned one 57 mercury like that 4 door sedan. Back in 85 loved it. Hmmm
That '57 Merc hardtop -- the prettiest car of the year. Ladies dressing like ladies, not like they're trying to hide 50 lbs. of blubber are also a treat.
I've said it once, I'll say it again...
Mathews runs like a girl...🤣🏃♀️🤣🏃♀️🤣
I'm glad they put the hubcap back on the passenger side front tire for the final scene! lol
The cars....The CARS! That Desoto convertible especially.
Those were the z Virgel Exxner designed forward look Chryslers which in the fall of 1956 forever changed the national experience for all Americans...I was there, I know...
That marching music sounds very impressive and menacing for all norty criminals, but all that the HP catches are schrimps, while the real whales are never to be seen. The Lucky Luciano's, the Meyer Lansky's and other Teflon Dons... But well, too many little schrimps can cause an indigestion too of course... The acting is a bit wooden, the stories probably too short to be developed sufficiently, but it sure is fun watching, not just for the cars but also the interiors, the clothes etc.
I love the cars and music
Great series! thanks.
im glad your back Foxeema
The old Ford Convertible was missing it's passenger side front wheel cover for most of the show, but suddenly appeared at the end of the show. Ooooppsss..... ;-)
1950’s
When the chrome was thick and the women were straight
And the WOMEN wore the earrings!!
@@danielboone72
Haha 👍
@@danielboone72...tee...hee...
Dan's a pretty good shot!
The old goat had a pretty pimped out Ford convertible. Left the diner missing a wheel-cover and gained it a minute later.
With the amount Dan tasted of that "sugar" I am surprised he didn't open another one and make two lines on the dash and snort it up. Looking at the pusher, then say, "just making sure". LOL
i always like this show.
At 11:57, the car stalls out before reaching the intersection and Dan has to re-start it!
I saw that.
At least his car restarted, the woman in the Merc was not so fortunate.
@@8176morgan Movie/TV cars; the director basically only cares if it'll run long enough for the shot. Band-aid, fabricate, jury-rig, whatever.
Carbs are easily flooded with fuel if one is in a hurry and depresses the accelerator too often. No such problem with fuel injection.
I thought it was just me. Thanks.
THIS GREAT SERIES IS FINALLY ON DVD. SEASONS 1 AND 4 ARE AVAILABLE NOW AND SEASONS 2 AND 3 WILL BE AVAILABLE ON JUNE 1ST!
Filmed before the interstate system was developed, the "highways" look more like side streets.
The Skipper? Why not checkout Gilligans. Island.
I like that. Batmobile towards the end.of the episode.
This episode first aired June 10, 1957.
Building of Los Angeles' freeway system had been underway for two decades by that time with many miles in daily use and the interstate highway system had begun construction: www.kcet.org/shows/lost-la/las-first-freeways
www.fhwa.dot.gov/interstate/history.cfm
The reason most scenes of 'Highway Patrol' were shot in rural locales and on privately owned secondary roads is that Broderick Crawford, with his many DUIs, was not allowed to operate motor vehicles on public roads or highways during much of the show's run.
@@johnbockelie3899 The Batmobile was built on a 'one off' show car, the 1956 Lincoln Futura: www.rodauthority.com/features/car-features/the-great-sacrifice-lincoln-futura-morphs-into-barris-batmobile/
@USAFsarge He also never told them to avoid any road on which he's driving.
They,Hollywood, could have learned a lot from this show but they didn't....
Lets park across the street....they'll never notice us.
Same here...lol. Pretty silly.
he sure does have an attitude for a old man.
As an "Old man" myself, if anybody deserves expressing an "attitude", it sure isn't you, sh.....d punk.
I would too if I was in his shoes lol
Yes they did love the show
Those cars were built like TANKS back then. Check out those white wall tires too, Lmao! Just remember this, Dan Mathews will bust your ass if you fuck up, on his watch, Lol! (2150...OUT, Lol!)
love the show thanks
"Where's the Skipper"?. " Go ask Gilligan".
1957 Chrysler New Yorker.
Haa love it. Tough boys. The voice. Great intro
One thing I like about these shows is the credits roll slow enough you can actually read them. Everything is so Damn fast today...even when you call a business. I've had to tell people whoa slow down I can hardly understand you I'm from the south.lol😄
Me TOO...!! I ask people all time ..hon, repeat what you just said..way too fast & mumbles
Did everybody wear suits and wear a hat back in the 1950s? It’s like 90° out
Yep all men dressed like that. It was a "rule" and if you didn't conform you could be an outcast.
Yes. I’m 64 years old and I wore a suit as a kid on the weekend.
not in the south..too hot and humid for suits....
It was a lot easier to get away with a crime such as murder back then
No AC in cars either.
Crawford rips open the packet, pours it out ,and takes a tastes.... "Hey!! What is this?? It really IS Sugar!!! You're free to go ,Sir!!"
the friend played on gunsmoke as the black smith
Moss Grimmick
AT 21:12, THE RIGHT FRONT HUBCAP ON THE OLD FORD CONVERTIBLE WAS MISSING. AT 22:48 THE HUB CAP IS ON.A MINOR CONTINUITY MISTAKE WHEN THEY FILMED THIS EPISODE. LOVE THESE SHOWS.THANKS FOR POSTING!!
JSG1951 maybe the old guy got him one through a J C Whitney catalog. They had ‘em then you know.
We'll deal dope from a broken down cafe on the Chisholm Trail.
This was a comedy of errors.....by the crooks and some great quips from Dan.(ls)
A good episode of "Highway Patrol" from 1957. The viewer may want to take note of Stuart Whitman, later a featured actor in Hollywood films, in the role of the male, along with his wife, buying the roadside diner.
EXCELLENT ENDING.
thanks again foxeema!
he may run funny but he looks like a real ballbuster cop.
I love these old b&w shows from the 50's. Notice how cops didn't use two hands to hold their guns and even the crooked chicks wore appropriate clothing and didn't parade around with their tits hanging out. The 50's weren't perfect, but in many ways they were better than today.
I agree w u sir...of coarse all but one word u said ...not nice to ladies reading this..
@Black Buick yes they were just this was a Nice show..alot nice & more respectable than you men talking......👎👎😰
Don't bother, You're not going anyplace!
Free sandwich with 6 gram purchase!
How about 6 grams free with the purchase of a sandwich?
@@rahkinrah1963
$60 for a sandwich?
Make more sense to get a free sandwich for the drugs
To HippyBoomer below: That was not an Edsel It was a 57 Mercury. Edsels didn't come out until '58.
Uh-oh, maybe it was a Cadillac. LOL
Actually, like most other cars, the Edsel debut was a year behind the model year-in this case, they came out in late 1957. The car here was an early 1957 Mercury, made a little before they legalized quad headlights, such as what later models of Mercury had later in the year.
Apparently, William Boyett left the Highway Patrol to join the LAPD...LOL
Once again the worlds most accurate,deadly .38 snubby barks and justice Dan style is meted out. The Ford convertible shows up in another episode sans right front hubcap...
Try 5 other episodes! See "Lie Detector", "Killer for Hire", "The Search", "The Safecracker", and "Hot Rod" where it is shown getting its front tire fixed.
A hunter who hunts for game in a culvert?
I liked when they used those old Nash cars.
Broad was so old that during the fights they had to speed up the film to make it normal.
Or maybe he was Sauced, or had a hangover.
I wanted to say "if only they picked the right getaway car," but there's no running from Broderick Crawford!
Boy, they almost totally screwed this up!!! LOL!!! First they say "Everything looks normal, or these 2 are smooth as silk" after the waitress offers 2 hungry customers a muffin, and then the cook walks out wearing a $400 suit and $100 pair of shoes in 1959. Then only 2 undercover cops show up for surveillance of "A HUGE drug outfit", and 1 car. Dan then kicks the Narc out of the car to chase the known dealer and leaves the narc standing around without a car, when 2150 gets back, he leaves the foot cop to watch the vehicle with the dealer sitting in the front seat, along with the bag containing the dope that Dan just tossed on the seat to sit next to the guy he arrested for having it while he goes into the diner to check on the waitress after the "cook", already responsible for 1 murder takes the first victims best friend for a ride. I guess they assumed he would never hurt the old coot, or more likely, they were mad that he showed up and figured if he catches a bullet, he deserves it. But they were mad at him for going to the diner and they shouldn't have been because Dan never told the guy "Stay away from there...we are going to do some undercover work and these people are dangerous". Then the only way they catch them is the crooks are even more inept than the cops!!! The cook ditches the great running car to hop into jalopy only to find out the waitress had shut the engine off while fleeing the cops, I guess because the price of gas....then she floods the engine. Why she shut it off while running form the cops in the first place is a question that will never be answered.
While often not quite believable, these episodes are fun to watch, and this one was great with so many things that would never happen in real life.
I love this show!!!!!
The moral of this story... If you are a dope peddling city slicker don't mess with an old country codger.
LEAVE YOUR blood AT THE RED Cross, NOT ON THE HIGHWAY! #mgmlion #roar
I liked how Dan Mathews used the murder weapon, the sugar dispenser, for his coffee.
One lump or two?
I missed that....funny!
Goddam the pusherman beering bup beering bup beering' bup beering'
Twenty-six minutes and nine seconds of programming time for a 30 minute program. That means less than 4 minutes of commercials when this first aired.
How I hate today's TV. Just one commercial break (of which there are several) is probably over 3 minutes. They take the old '50s and '60s shows and hack them up to add commercials even though they are surely getting multiples more money per minute of ad time than they did back then.
Highway Patrol Matthews when you throw the packaging to the sugar out of your window you are breaking the law
Great episode! I think Skipper was the bottom. Yes, for $.60 a day i would be a junkie too. I love the field test for narcotics. Oh to be in law enforcement in the 50's!!
Wow...that woman was COLDDD...Broderick Crawford short her boyfriend 5 times and she was STILL trying to start the car and get away...lol
WOW I LOVE THIS
Me too💚💙❤
STUART WITMAN - AS THE 2ND COP, EARLY ON IN HIS CAREER...
@ 20:41 haha....Mathews throws his trash right in the street.
Yeah, he threw the trash away and kept the junk.
That was the way it was in California back then.
Damn. That old man was a busy body
great show love the cars
aah for the days dealers wore suits and showed a nice clean white pair of cuffs
seen old man crawford on night gallery getting his beat by a lady robot.or it may of been a blow up robot.
May I have a Reuben sandwich a pickle in a cup of coffee perhaps a chocolate shake to go
Matthews gets out of his '57 Ford unmarked to search for the lunch bag. He leaves the car running with the suspect seated in the front. Then Matthews determines the sugar is in fact heroin by tasting it! The only thing funnier was watching him try to run. Normally he just saunters, no matter what the emergency is.