Dan Matthews, played by the great actor Broderick Crawford, was a hero to us kids, sort of like Roy Rogers or Gene Autry back in the mid 1950s when the show first aired! He was immensely popular and so was the show! "Ten-Four"!
that intro theme at the beginning was very catchy it gives me thrills just to hear it even today like I did when I was a kid, HP was a fun simple show.
Wow. The writers outdid themselves this time. The panel truck rolls onto the highway, and 28 seconds later a Highway Patrol car just happens to come onto the scene.
@@narvelancoleman3813 thank you for your response! I recalled awhile back it was early morning maybe like around 4am, I saw a couple walking their dog, man wearing a tuxedo and a lady wearing satin-fabric dress with high heels, lol
You sure that wasn't a Hollyweird Mooviee..LOL....they must've just come back from partying....and the poor dog just couldn't wait. OMG....the 'Agony of Defeet!'
10:40 they used the actual street names Plummer and Valley Circle in Chatsworth CA. Gas Station is on Topanga Canyon near Devonshire, and it's all houses now.
@@donhancock332It is very close. Spahn Ranch is in Santa Susanna Pass which runs from Simi Valley and ends at Topanga Canyon in Chatsworth. When I lived in Simi Valley before the freeway was built, I drove through Santa Susanna Pass quite often to get to the San Fernando Valley.
That actually kind of hints at where they were filming these. I thought the Palmdale/Lancaster area but the scenery doesn't look like the high desert. This region makes more sense.
California Highway Patrol wanted a tv show because Dragnet and the LAPD were getting all the attention. the van driver was Jesse White who became the Maytag man. funny how the ex con just gave in so easily.
The driver did look a lot like Jessie White, but it wasn't his voice. He wouldn't have played such a small role. He was an established character actor.
Even the Criminals wore suit & ties, well dressed, high heel with nice hair and even they formally introduce themselves. They were in class back then. Now these days are T-shirts, jeans with holes, long dirty hair, no make up, probably will never introduce themselves.
Ex-con lingo: When one has spent time in 'STIR', they are referring to an involuntary journeyman to advanced (while-incarcerated), 'State Training In Recidivism.'
It must have been quite a come-down for Brod to find himself doing run-of-the -mill t.v. stuff like this when he'd had the world at his feet only a few years back in top Hollywood productions. He was already a heavy drinker: maybe that had not a little to do with it.
Read the wiki article on his career. He was no dummy. After the Oscar - there's often the Oscar curse & careers plummet. TV & ad work kept them working & popular & very well off. Besides, people loved this show then & still do now - it seems - more than ever.
Broderick Crawford's salary consumed almost the entire budget of this show, he made over 2 million dollars for this series which was a LOT of money in the late 1950s when a new Cadillac was about $4500 bucks and a really, really nice house was $35,000.
I just looked it up. The average price of a home in 1959 was $12,000. $35,000 would buy a nice 4 bd room 4,000 sq foot brick ranch home surrounded by 2 acres of land AND with an attached garage.
@@kathyflorcruz552 I remember going on a family vacation in 1970 and being appalled that some resort area gas station was charging 34 cents per gallon.
Great episode, reminded me of how I used to rob gas stations like that back in the 50's. People were just more respectful back then and understanding about getting robbed. I miss those days, well time for lockdown...g'nite.
LOL, F Huber, and for those of us who HAD to wait for the next week, the show was always unusual because we had to WAIT 7 more days and forgot what the previous episode had been exactly about, ha ha ha!!! What a hoot! No binge watching in those days!
I guess these particular ex-cons never considered the importance of leaving fingerprints on everything incriminating and connected to robbery and first degree murder.
Trade schools were around. These criminals had bigger imaginations than their efforts. The female couldn't see past the end of her nose. The guy running the filling station was at least trying. I imagine his woman had a head on her shoulders. The gunsel here I think was gunsel on Untouchables Cooker in the Sky.
I think in the areas north and west of San Fernando around Castaic Junction, Calabasas, Val Verde and Buckhorn - this is a guess. I had thought Palmdale-Lancaster at first but the scenery doesn't look like the high desert.
i think all around the San fernando Valley, up to topanga canyon, on the coast north of LA sometimes, Mulholland Dr, lots on Lankershim Blvd sometimes / i think, not 100% sure
Could have been planned a little better. But i guess it worked out. One out of every few hundred cons goes straight i guess. Wonder how he got a loan to buy or start a business.
Did you people know Clint Eastwood made his very first TV role as a motorcyle dude, and that led to his career to many roles up to the Dirty Harry movies as ....well....a dirty cop, as you can see here how easy the guns are pulled out and Crawford has little regard for who or what he shot...I wonder.
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Starting to enjoy these episodes Better than reality crap shows of today
I agree 💯 %..
Oh those 1950s ladies!
That panel truck sure got some use in this series.
And I like the regular citizen's license plate on the Highway Patrol car, too. Just in case they had to use it for something else.
@ does anybody really use a panel truck these days?
@@JohnPMitten killers
@@JohnPMittenThey aren’t made like those old ones if they do. Vans were popular after panel trucks.
Love those old filling stations
@RAYNOND ST. PIERRE , did you get a jar of her pickles?
@RAYNOND ST. PIERRE ... I concur! Kosher dills are the best! No wonder everyone, including you, handed back the "free welcome to Mayberry gift"
@RAYNOND ST. PIERRE ...YUM!
@RAYNOND ST. PIERRE ...I just had a couple with dinner! Now I need to watch Casablanca again...Night!
And the price of the gasoline.
"Mrs. Baldwin you gotta good guy here, hang onto him".... that line just put a lump in my throat. These episodes just keep getting better and better.
Dan da “ Bullet “ Matthews 🔫🥃🍺🍸🥃🥃🥃👮🏼👮🏼♂👮🏽♀🍺🥃
Al had a real sweet lady. Mary Hennessey was a real beauty.
Dan Matthews, played by the great actor Broderick Crawford, was a hero to us kids, sort of like Roy Rogers or Gene Autry back in the mid 1950s when the show first aired! He was immensely popular and so was the show! "Ten-Four"!
Don’t forget Vic Morrow from “Combat”!
that intro theme at the beginning was very catchy it gives me thrills just to hear it even today like I did when I was a kid, HP was a fun simple show.
Thank you for Highway Patrol.
Sorry I asked if you are a weirdo. Maybe I shouldn't have asked if you're a democrat either. But I am curious about your views.
@@therealrubbertramp2151Thank you for Highway Patrol.
I like those shows where the bad guys got SHOT by the cops. Wish we were like that still today.
Sick barsteward.
Another great episode. Stuart Whitman as a patrol officer. Way ahead of anything on offer today.
I am old enough to remember when ladies and men didn't leave the house without wearing a hat.
And sometimes white gloves on the ladies.
Or a toupee.
And pearl necklaces.
@@Mikael5732 ZZ Top reminds us of that.
Wow. The writers outdid themselves this time. The panel truck rolls onto the highway, and 28 seconds later a Highway Patrol car just happens to come onto the scene.
And the grease monkey in the top hat.
Right! I saw that car coming and immediately thought, naw that can’t be a police car! Ha.
26 minute show-plot gotta move fast!
I think a passing motorist notified the Highway Patrol. Most likely by cellular device.
@@therealrubbertramp2151 I didn't realize there was cellular service in the 1950s
This was the time when everybody have class in their clothing, ladies wear high heels even in their own homes
Women wearing high heels in their own homes happened only in Hollywood movies/television and commercials!
@@narvelancoleman3813 thank you for your response! I recalled awhile back it was early morning maybe like around 4am, I saw a couple walking their dog, man wearing a tuxedo and a lady wearing satin-fabric dress with high heels, lol
You sure that wasn't a Hollyweird Mooviee..LOL....they must've just come back from partying....and the poor dog just couldn't wait. OMG....the 'Agony of Defeet!'
Quite possible
You're dreaming guy.
10:40 they used the actual street names Plummer and Valley Circle in Chatsworth CA. Gas Station is on Topanga Canyon near Devonshire, and it's all houses now.
Isn't that where Manson and his gang hung out?
@@donhancock332It is very close. Spahn Ranch is in Santa Susanna Pass which runs from Simi Valley and ends at Topanga Canyon in Chatsworth. When I lived in Simi Valley before the freeway was built, I drove through Santa Susanna Pass quite often to get to the San Fernando Valley.
That actually kind of hints at where they were filming these. I thought the Palmdale/Lancaster area but the scenery doesn't look like the high desert. This region makes more sense.
Topanga Canyon...doesn't she do the final show at the strip joint on Elm?
@@CowSaysMooMoo The blonde as a stripper? Yeah baby. I'd go to the bank and get 20 $1.00 bills!
California Highway Patrol wanted a tv show because Dragnet and the LAPD were getting all the attention. the van driver was Jesse White who became the Maytag man. funny how the ex con just gave in so easily.
The driver did look a lot like Jessie White, but it wasn't his voice. He wouldn't have played such a small role. He was an established character actor.
tom played the role of superman before george reeves
Great episode. Yes, the ex-con husband was a good guy.
Good an weak..he let those guys come in an push him around..i hate a weak man especially if his wife is involved
@@jamesvickers9476 , yeah, but didn't you see the end?
The May tag Man!
Nope, just looks like him, that's Sydney Mason
May or may not tag
Wonderful episode maybe some day someone will cherish me like that 💝😉
Man that ford panel is sweet
Even the Criminals wore suit & ties, well dressed, high heel with nice hair and even they formally introduce themselves. They were in class back then. Now these days are T-shirts, jeans with holes, long dirty hair, no make up, probably will never introduce themselves.
Filthy whores!!!
White man the biggest criminals theives and murderers in human history
And hideous tattoos
Now the criminals have pink hair, wear dresses and have a big adams apple.
A lot of "Highway Patrol" episodes had women as villians.
Some women are villains, it’s not always the men, just saying being realistic.
@@williamwoodruff367Look at Eve.
OHMYGOD!!! They manhandled and arrested the blond girl on "International Women Day", how cheeky can you be! Regards
Wells became the Maytag Man!
Wrong! That's not Jessie White.
Thank you for this show ❤
There were several episodes of ex cons going straight. I like them.
Ex-con lingo:
When one has spent time in 'STIR', they are referring to an involuntary journeyman to advanced (while-incarcerated), 'State Training In Recidivism.'
So that's where that comes from - learned something new today thanks.
It's a little too convenient how Dan always guess the crooks plot correctly. But then it's only a half hour episode.
He's just that good.
Dan was a Swami .....!!!
He does not have to guess. The director gave him a copy of the script so he knows.
@@andrewbillingsley9377 Dang! You burst my bubble.
When he hides the money in the white car at the gas station it's a Plymouth sedan. When "Tom" gets in it to "escape" it's a white Ford.
The same thing happened on an episode of Adam 12.
Simple storyline and good acting 👏
@ 9:56 a1956 Buick, I owned one, great classy powerful car.
there were a lot of buicks featured in the series starting with 55
We had a 54 Buick Special. I was 3!
I had tears in my eyes when Cathy was waiting to be rescued, my girlfds name is Cathy
They were chivalrous in those days. So far, I haven't seen one female criminal get shot of killed.
Deflect,dominate and disarm…..good job man 👍🏼
Watching enjoying awesome highway patrol 👍😃😎♥️
That was a sweet ending I cried a little bit 🤗🤷♂️
Highway Patrol: Special 4 of 41.
Season 2. Episode 10. "Ex - Con".
Gold Episode 3.
Bad Woman: Lonie Blackman.
Wednesday - November 30 - 2022.
It must have been quite a come-down for Brod to find himself doing run-of-the -mill t.v. stuff like this when he'd had the world at his feet only a few years back in top Hollywood productions. He was already a heavy drinker: maybe that had not a little to do with it.
It was a nice payday tho for Brod...kept him in booze for many years
Read the wiki article on his career. He was no dummy. After the Oscar - there's often the Oscar curse & careers plummet. TV & ad work kept them working & popular & very well off. Besides, people loved this show then & still do now - it seems - more than ever.
He was getting $2000 an episode which was decent money back then and they were doing 2 episodes a week
All stars come down, age or death!
@@daniellack3559 burn
Listen to the blue jay at 18:18.
6:52 _the action part, all hell happen's_ 💯
Once again, Matthews solves the crime and gets the criminals. And, this time he also saved two people. Way to go Dan!
Highway Patrol - Ex con.
Moral of the story.
Keep a few loaded 45s in the gas station and in the house.
And leave your blood at the Red Cross not on the highway.
That Frank! Always up to something.
Euro 40 Saved.
Monday, September 25 - 2023.
Broderick Crawford's salary consumed almost the entire budget of this show, he made over 2 million dollars for this series which was a LOT of money in the late 1950s when a new Cadillac was about $4500 bucks and a really, really nice house was $35,000.
Too bad he couldn't stay sober while doing it.
I just looked it up. The average price of a home in 1959 was $12,000. $35,000 would buy a nice 4 bd room 4,000 sq foot brick ranch home surrounded by 2 acres of land AND with an attached garage.
@@frankney8284 His sobriety didn't affect the show. They just ran out of storylines according to Mr Ziv.
@@Brotherken1234exactly.
IT ISN'T the 🚗 THAT kills, IT'S THE driver!
It sounds like tap shoes when he runs
Back when people head self-respect always clean neat nicely dressed. What a shame those days have disappeared for so many people
Yeah, USA has fallen off of the cliff. Not even close to what it was 40 years ago.
Good 👍 show.
Did you notice that there was someone in the front to the panel van when it was moving downhill?
and left the keys in it
American Steel.
And, Lead.
I remember L.A.gas war regular gas 24.9cents a gal.1958 disney family vacation trip from Oakland Ca.i was 7 awesome time.
In about 1969 & 70 gas was still 25 cents a gallon. Cigarettes were 25 cents a pack too.
@@kathyflorcruz552 I remember going on a family vacation in 1970 and being appalled that some resort area gas station was charging 34 cents per gallon.
Hey! I saw Kathy's skirt/apron on one of the bad girls in another episode.😁
... shhh - don't tell Al !
Wow, 12 thousand dollars back then wasn't worth risking.
so many years ago 62! wow! compare that to Chips or T J HOOKER CALI such a food basket farm land as far as eye could see...
It appears to be a basket-case now, reading all the complaints about the mess that's L.A., in particular.
12 grand my my how times have changed
I love it when the bad guys get caught. bwahahahahaha
Great episode, reminded me of how I used to rob gas stations like that back in the 50's. People were just more respectful back then and understanding about getting robbed. I miss those days, well time for lockdown...g'nite.
Another "real gem." Nothing but DEAD SILENCE on the soundtrack. Thanks, really.
I had sound for the whole show. I think your computer has an issue.
Turn your hearing aid on, Frank.
I watch all of these on my phone. Perfect sound
Unmute
Season 2, Episode 10
Ex Con (Dec. 1956)
Thanks Santa!
_This was when the woman got dressed up just to do the cooking_ 👀
"Next week" is always going to "be a very unusual one"
And then its another classic style formula show
LOL, F Huber, and for those of us who HAD to wait for the next week, the show was always unusual because we had to WAIT 7 more days and forgot what the previous episode had been exactly about, ha ha ha!!! What a hoot! No binge watching in those days!
I guess these particular ex-cons never considered the importance of leaving fingerprints on everything incriminating and connected to robbery and first degree murder.
That one cop is Stuart Whitman.
Seen the officer in some movies later on in color. Played lead, but can't think of his name. Reminded me of David Jansen, but it's not.
Yes, let's make sure we put all the fingerprints we have over the panel truck. Dim bulbs.
10:26,12:04>Stuart Whitman. Not so sure that was Jesse White as the van driver.
love these old nostalgia TV shows. more realistic and good old American class. not like the crap you see now!!!
Stuart Whitman was so fine!
They have no need for computers. The local cop is the criminal history of everybody in the county.
That’s one way of doing it
Only my dog can hear this.
Trade schools were around. These criminals had bigger imaginations than their efforts. The female couldn't see past the end of her nose.
The guy running the filling station was at least trying. I imagine his woman had a head on her shoulders.
The gunsel here I think was gunsel on Untouchables Cooker in the Sky.
I think the chief thug used to play Frank Nitti in The Untouchables.
That's not Bruce Gordon.
Does anyone know what location they filmed Hwy. Patrol?
I think in the areas north and west of San Fernando around Castaic Junction, Calabasas, Val Verde and Buckhorn - this is a guess. I had thought Palmdale-Lancaster at first but the scenery doesn't look like the high desert.
i think all around the San fernando Valley, up to topanga canyon, on the coast north of LA sometimes, Mulholland Dr, lots on Lankershim Blvd sometimes / i think, not 100% sure
Could have been planned a little better. But i guess it worked out. One out of every few hundred cons goes straight i guess. Wonder how he got a loan to buy or start a business.
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All the audio is on the right channel. What is all that noise on the audio. Are they filming right near a huge freeway.??
It was probably recorded in monologue, if you play in stereo you'll only get one channel, you might have a setting.
i always hear lots of noise on these shows, from real highway traffic, construction equipment etc
It’s all about cash payroll. Those days are gone. Thankfully.
23:42 How did that deputy get the keys to the bad guy's car?
Anyways, it sure was a lucky thing that the car was unlocked and the key in the ignition.
You always hang the car keys up in the shop. There's a special hook. Sometimes a tag is attached.
Left audio channel dread
Season 2/Episode 10
Next week's episode is an unusual one. And remember it's not how many drinks you've had, it's how many they think you had.
Burn
Isn't every ex- con named Al?
The guy on Home Improvement was named Al (Borland)
@13:23 "get a grin on your face and act natural"
Maybe pick up a guitar and pick and grin. 😊
I was kind of hoping that Dan would put two in the babe's back,but they wouldn't kill a woman on TV in the 50's.
eliot ness (stack) killed a few but he was sweet on elizabeth montgomery
Sgt Stuart Whitman
Matthews is the Chief. Why isn't the officer driving him around?
He still had his licence until the D.U.I.
Control freak?
AND AGAI NO SOUND
turn on your speakers
Dead
L
Well, I remember when the men were men and the women.... were too!
Layla by the kinks.
Did you people know Clint Eastwood made his very first TV role as a motorcyle dude, and that led to his career to many roles up to the Dirty Harry movies as ....well....a dirty cop, as you can see here how easy the guns are pulled out and Crawford has little regard for who or what he shot...I wonder.
+Ron M ...yes, episode 144 'motorcycle revenge' on the video list.
"dirty Harry" wasn't a dirty cop... he was the cop that got all the crap assignments.
How about Rawhide episodes he was in?
Dirty harry was NOT a dirty cop. He got every DIRTY job. i.e. dangerous thankless....
The writing makes no sense. The plot is absurd