Does every crook in the state use that same restaurant as a front for their evil doings? They also used it when they killed that guard, And they hid the Man in the basement, , And that time when they killed the owner, When he would not Sell it to them, They sold drugs from behind the counter, And then this episode, Cannot remember how many more, I like that place,
I was born in 49 so I remember some of those old cars etc. i remember when i was little my mother always wore a dress my dad always wore a hat. He was a farmer.
Yup, Greeley. I had a '56 Buick in 1967 when I was 17. That car was like a tank, and it had a lot of room in the back seat, if you know what I mean. Man, I loved that car.
These shows were written by some of the greatest crime writers of their time. The suspense in this episode had me on the edge of my seat. They just don’t make them like this anymore.
Can't say I was on the edge of my seat. Definitely was paying attention. I wanted to smack that horrible man for beating on the old guy and acting so righteous about it, like the little tap he gave him wasn't the cause of the man's death. Now, an unintentional death is called manslaughter.
I liked them too. Since the 1980s, the 1957-58 Plymouths are known as "Christines" due to the film. Too bad they rusted so prematurely unless you were from the southwest like I am. They also ruined the design in 1959 when they reversed the direction of the tail fins on the Furys.
Yep. I grew up in Wisconsin and remember the rot road salt did to them by the mid 1960s. Also to the 1958-1960 GM cars. I moved to Southern Nevada in 1985 and own a couple of solid “Forward Look” Mopars and a pair of X-frame Chevys. A 1959 Plymouth Suburban station wagon, a 1957 Chrysler Saratoga, a ‘59 Impala and a ‘64 Biscayne wagon. . The intense UV here is murder on soft parts, but that’s easier to deal with than rotted out sheet metal.
the beautiful Pamela Duncan was an American B-movie actress who starred in the 1957 Roger Corman cult science fiction film Attack of the Crab Monsters. One of her co-stars was Russell Johnson (aka, Professor from Gilligan's Island)
The building was used at least five times in this series, the first as a house in "Missing Witness" near the end of season one and the last as a diner in "Dan Hostage" in 1959.
I use to date a girl who was a dead ringer for Mattie, but her name was Kim. She was thin with dark hair and eyes just like mattie, and had the sweetest southern accent. She broke my heart. Even after all these years, I think about her often.
This show brings back memories of spending time with my Grandparents...I also (found) the show on a cable channel and watched every morning.I love the Older shows. OF course the actor's as well. BRODerRICK WAD A SUPER Star in my book..And thar voice would scare anyone I'm so HAPPY I found it(show) on TH-cam Wow Love,HighWay patrol,plus Law Enforcement runs on both sides of our families..It would be wonderful if they'd come up with a new show with The Kid's of the past Law Enforcement office, like the SONS,Grandsons. Think that would be awesome..
that's funny-- Gale drives up and parks across from the cops and they watch him get out -- then later they say 'Gale's office must be nearby, he walked here' hahaha!
I had a58 Chrysler, in 1975. Cost $150. Then a 57 Plymouth, for $100. In 1968, high school. I crashed my 55 dodge. Car cost $50. My dad sold cars, he bought cars for trade in value at his huge car lot, work. Ralph Williams ford. Encino, ca. 1960s.
@@susannewilson2258 Cars loose value quick in the US, as the poorer or younger section of the population could afford used cars, while the middle-class and the rich buy new cars to keep the sales going.
@@alphonsozorro7952 Any car in that show in good condition would be worth a fortune today. They no longer make real cars, just CTAs (Computerized Transportation Appliances) While I've always been a Mopar guy, at least through most of the '70s, my favorite car from that show was Crawfords '55 Buick Special.
@@MrShelly53 The 'Confidence man,' aka, Paulie Gale. Yeah Mattie, Pamela Duncan, I recall peeping that dark haired pillsbury frosting cake finger from Mike Hammer's "My gun is quick."
Anyone else notice that Mattie's Cafe was the same place as used in a previous episode, or maybe after this one? In that episode they had a juke box in the place and it may have been called Harold's Cafe, although don't quote me on that. That '58 Desoto 2 dr. hdtp. is one car I haven't seen in other episodes so far, though.
Pamela Duncan was an American B-movie actress who starred in the 1957 Roger Corman cult science fiction film Attack of the Crab Monsters ... good few frames @ 8:00 . she appeared on Perry Mason ... Pony Express, Highway Patrol, Maverick, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Colt .45, Tombstone Territory, Sea Hunt and Bat Masterson ...
@ 4:16, vehicle drives past a road sign which appears to read Paducah St. Based on old Chavez Ravine maps, vehicle is driving along Effie St. then turns onto Davis St. which would place this scene under a parking lot servicing Dodger Stadium. Beyond Davis St., there is a visible steep side slope cut in Effie St. that shows up in many other Highway Patrol shows, like the Hostage Officer Episode @21:47. @ 6:10, same #804 Centennial St. store front scene 12 minutes into the Lady Bandits Episode, corner of Centennial & Alpine.
Remember, this show was made for less than $25,000 per episode, including paying the actors. You have to take a lot of shortcuts when you have a budget like that. It's still a lot better than anything made today, no matter how much they spent on it.
Damn! How did those kids wander into the shoot? Oh well, filum is expensive so just leave them in. We gotta mov3 on to the next setup before the permit guys come around
Except for a few episodes I can't watch due to audio problems, I can now say I've finished 'em all. Thank you, Foxeema. I enjoyed it immensely! I'd like to know why eight episodes in particular appear to have no audio when I try to watch them on my desktop PC. I hear them just find on my smartphone. Very odd!
@@JohnPMitten A drunk is someone who can't handle the booze, obviously Broderick didn't let it interfere. Just because a person drinks doesn't mean they aren't of high moral character. Drinking was well accepted back in the day.
Main copper's dress code: dark hat, dark suit.... coupled with white socks and light beige loafers. Classy, but was it really authorized Highway Patrol standard issue? Those cars were something else.... huge and massive, built like a tank. A Tiger tank, not a Sherman.... You could pull up on a busy street, slide rightward and exit from the vehicle right to the curb. This design would save thousands of lives today.... instead of the dumb bucket seats and claustrophobic cockpits we are cursed with. Even in an overturn emergency, you cannot extricate yourself from behind the wheel towards the right front door.
That $5,000 would be about $50,000 today (2021). And as far as one more job, that is the storyline for so many of these type shown and numerous movies. Just one more job and we will be set. Lol
Modern acadamy courses teaches rather how to shoot suspects, mostly unarmed, handcuff their hands behind their back, and feel good how the pigs have protected themselves, taking no chances, even with a dead body.
Naughty lads, cheating the phone companies like that! Over this side of the pond a favourite trick was to use a ring-pull attached to a thin thread of cotton. Activate the phone, use the ring-pull to get a coin credit, and then pull the ring-pull out again with the thread, and repeat as many time as needed. I plead innocent to all charges, m'lud.
This 1958 Plymouth Fury had a 350 CID V-8, the only year Plymouth Fury had a 350 CID V-8. 1957 Fury had the 318 CID (called : V-800 Dual Fury) and the 361 CID in 1959. Both 1957 318 CID and 1959 361 CID are called the "Golden Commando Power"
If you have a beautiful car, you're afraid to drive it. If you have a beautiful girl your afraid to show it. Just put it in a case and eventually get board with it.
Please bring back these types of programing,these programs now days are nothing but trash.Bring back he older 1950s type programs.Please dont politicize programs.
This was a great show. But why is the picture intermittently pitching and rolling? Trying to defeat the algorithms used for detecting unauthorized uploading of copyrighted material?
This has to be the most implausible HP ever. An old man is hit on the chin, bangs his head and drops dead around the back of an isolated truck stop. No witnesses, no link to the cafe. But Dan magically guesses the local truckstop is the link, without a shred of evidence, even though it's run by a solitary woman with no record we know of, and no obvious link to any criminality. Matthews says, "Gus used to tell you a lot of things (evidence of that?) Did he ever mention any investments?" Ludicrous; it's a cafe where he got a snack! So, why is the con man so eager to dump the body in broad daylight, rather than wait till it's dark and go farther away? (Odd how, in such a wild environment, they don't just dig a hold and throw him in. he'd be there for ever.) Why do he and the woman think the police will be by with questions for them, given there's no evidence the old man was even there that day or had any connection with them save an odd cup of coffee. How likely is it the body will be dumped with the hat left carelessly at the road side. Why would a patrolman think an isolated old hat buried in the grass meant he'd be wise to stop, let alone that someone was down the slope? Why would the criminal hang around in the cafe with the police there. Some of the scripts hold together quite well. This sure ain't one of them.
There was another unbelievable one. Can't recall now. But you are right on this one. :) Oh yeah. there was one where the guy held up a cab. Had him stop at the bank and said don't move. I'm going to rob this bank. Then come back & you will be the undetected getaway car. So the cab driver WAITS! & the rest just follows.
It's the old question: why didn't the wolf eat Little Red Riding Hood when he met her in the wood, instead of rushing ahead to her grandmother's cottage ? Because then there would be no story.
This kind of thing is going on to this day. My mom is 91 and has been receiving false charges from Walmart and also Xfinity. I went to the dentist and they quoted $1100 and then when I go in they had me sign for $1384. I really needed it done then, so I relinquished. Some time ago I took my car in to get an estimate, he calls me back and said he had it apart and I had to pay $900 more than originally discussed.( He was trying to extort me.) I told him to put it in a bag and I'd put the car in my back yard. He finally agreed to the original price. This is standard American business, of which the government is totally behind. Someday these people will run out of victims.
+markmnorcal The cops always shoot .38 Special revolvers, a caliber considered marginal for defense today. But The Man, shooting from the hip, brings down the crims with one or a maximum of two bullets! Regards
I'm noticing a pattern here,,,,,they should have burned down that diner. every other episode somebody's using it to commit crime. Different owners and names. could have wiped out half the crime in an instant lol
In answer to Bert Grau , definitely true! All of the new safety equipment on the new cars gives the drivers a false impression that everything is okay and they don't need to keep alert, wear seatbelts, and stop texting on the phone while driving! Don't get me wrong, cellphones are a good invention but for driving and keeping your concentration on the road and what's around you, they're not.
@@dp.oennismaurer205 People drive their Escalades on the icy roads of I-70 thinking that they are invincible and the other people will be doing the dying. I love to see "them" upside-down on the side of the highway.
This movie couldn't have been made today, because with today's cars having consoles in the middle of the seat, they couldn't have got in the car on the passenger side and slide across to the drivers side. Sure had some pretty women back then though.
Some of those pretty women nowadays would be riding shotgun with a Dan Mathews-type, not just on dispatch, but upholding the law. I hope they never get the idea of relaunching "Dragnet" with a woman portraying Jack Webb's old role. Mariska Hargitay is great as Olivia in L&O-SVU, but let's not push it, Hollywood, okay?
@@nostalgia6578 Just like most Dr Who Fans have not accepted the Female version. Plus it would be like Archie Bunker becoming a Georgia Sherrif, or Ed O'Neil from Married with Children playing "Friday" he must have gotten that as a US Marshal Protected Witness job?
Oral statement from Mattie to Dan, as witnessed by Sgt. Williams: "Yes, OK Officer Matthews, I admit I did it. I came on to old Gus as I was feeling sorry for him, but the poor old chap just had a heart attack and popped his clogs right in front of me. But I never committed no murder".
Dan wearing house slippers. Old man is tommy Jackson who played cop in many films. I think the punk was the mimosa guy stuck in a cave in great film Ace in the hole.
Many and various, hot looking "dispatch" women, who probably didn't even get paid and had to do the director. I am more interested in the cars and seeing the olden days.
Correction: Broderick Crawford talks "rapid-fire" 'cause he has only 26 minutes to apprehend or kill the perp, and then he has to forfeit 4 minutes for beer ads. LOL!
The end of the story has two loose ends. SPOILER - Did Mike get his $10 for getting the car? And it might be irrelevant that Gus dies of a heart attack if the heart attack was brought about by the stress of being assaulted. The man would still be guilty of murder if the heart attack was stress-induced by the con man.
+snowden67 Mike gets his tenner before he goes out to get the baddie's car, and of course the heart attack was caused by the strees of being punched in the nose, so it is clearly murder. Regards
Hitting someone to death, doesn't mean murder but manslaughter. Even those who killed people using knives, got away with manslaughter charges. So, why not a hardhitting thug? Besides, he threw the money to the old man, thinking he simply passed out.
@@lamarjr56 And yet Dan said he died from a heart attack. That's the way I want to go out with several death throws. Heart attack from a hookers hummer, driving too fast on a windy mountain road , cops shooting at me, high on a heroin OD. I'm old enough where cause of death would be "natural".
Those older cars had excellent shocks. No seat belts.Matthews asks Mr. gale, "What are you going to do Gale, kill everything you see?" Shouldn't that be everyone you see?
For sex-craving US males, any actress is "beautiful", regardless of her features. This one was ugly, with her thick-set nose and lips. And not prime, at 33!
17:17 Check Dan's shoes as he's crossing the street. Those are NOT the shoes of a plain clothes state police officer. They look comfortable and possibly expensive. Probably the sensible shoes "Big Brody" wore to the set that day! Somebody help me here. Did I find a "BLOOPER"?
I love seeing the 50s brought back to life!
Me too! But, did they have to bring back those FAKE (I'M ALWAYS CONCERNED) eyebrows?!? L0L
Not for Gus...
Mattie's cafe was located in Chavez Ravine. They leveled it for Dodgers Stadium in 1958.
A waste of a good restaurant
Does every crook in the state use that same restaurant as a front for their evil doings? They also used it when they killed that guard, And they hid the Man in the basement, , And that time when they killed the owner, When he would not Sell it to them, They sold drugs from behind the counter, And then this episode, Cannot remember how many more, I like that place,
@@tomcarpenter700 Good way to use a good spot for a low budget films. Just keep using it with different characters.
@@Ninbitzero Yeah make me feel young again,,, When they use that, I believe that was my favorite Episodes,,,, It's nice and secluded,,,
Thank you for sharing that piece of history
I love seeing the old business and homes wondering if they still around
All long gone.
Not all. Most, almost all.
I like all the old 50s cars!
There are many great areas in L.A. that have not changed at all.
I was born in 49 so I remember some of those old cars etc. i remember when i was little my mother always wore a dress my dad always wore a hat. He was a farmer.
Yup, Greeley. I had a '56 Buick in 1967 when I was 17. That car was like a tank, and it had a lot of room in the back seat, if you know what I mean. Man, I loved that car.
My Mom and the neighbor ladies always had a housedress on .that was the late 40's and the 50's.
Hopefully we don't have to worry about that anymore 🎉😂.
Love these classic shows! Thank you for uploading them.
The actress Pamela Duncan sure mirrored Annette Funicello - a school boy's dream girl back in the '50s
No Two piece Swimsuit For
Ms. Funicello...
These shows were written by some of the greatest crime writers of their time. The suspense in this episode had me on the edge of my seat. They just don’t make them like this anymore.
Can't say I was on the edge of my seat. Definitely was paying attention. I wanted to smack that horrible man for beating on the old guy and acting so righteous about it, like the little tap he gave him wasn't the cause of the man's death. Now, an unintentional death is called manslaughter.
I loved and still love those old DeSotos and Plymouth Furies!
I liked them too. Since the 1980s, the 1957-58 Plymouths are known as "Christines" due to the film. Too bad they rusted so prematurely unless you were from the southwest like I am. They also ruined the design in 1959 when they reversed the direction of the tail fins on the Furys.
Mark Muffs It was cool getting Your thoughts Mark regarding the Desotos!
David Maslow ** They were nice !
I think there is a Chevrolet Impala driven by one of the main characters in every episode. Beautiful cars, then and now.
@@Sootaroot There's a '58 Buick that appears once in awhile, but I haven't seen very many Impalas.
No wonder there aren't any late Chrysler Corp. cars left to restore...they tore them all up on this show!!
The 1957-up Mopars were terrible rusters unless they spent their lives in the southwest
Yep. I grew up in Wisconsin and remember the rot road salt did to them by the mid 1960s. Also to the 1958-1960 GM cars. I moved to Southern Nevada in 1985 and own a couple of solid “Forward Look” Mopars and a pair of X-frame Chevys. A 1959 Plymouth Suburban station wagon, a 1957 Chrysler Saratoga, a ‘59 Impala and a ‘64 Biscayne wagon. . The intense UV here is murder on soft parts, but that’s easier to deal with than rotted out sheet metal.
the beautiful Pamela Duncan was an American B-movie actress who starred in the 1957 Roger Corman cult science fiction film Attack of the Crab Monsters. One of her co-stars was Russell Johnson (aka, Professor from Gilligan's Island)
I get more entertainment on just watching 1 of these Highway Patrol programs than I do watching these crappy programs of today for an entire year.
Me too, I enjoy these old shows.
The building was used at least five times in this series, the first as a house in "Missing Witness" near the end of season one and the last as a diner in "Dan Hostage" in 1959.
You're absolutely right. Good eye.
Many locations were used more than once, and probably the most was the back gate of the ZIV Productions lot.
I use to date a girl who was a dead ringer for Mattie, but her name was Kim. She was thin with dark hair and eyes just like mattie, and had the sweetest southern accent. She broke my heart. Even after all these years, I think about her often.
She must have been a cutie!
Life is like Chinese food ...you just have to have the sweet and SOUR...I too had one like that...
Mike, this is Kim.......Get Over It!!!!!!!!! :)
This show brings back memories of spending time with my Grandparents...I also (found) the show on a cable channel and watched every morning.I love the Older shows.
OF course the actor's as well. BRODerRICK WAD A SUPER Star in my book..And thar voice would scare anyone
I'm so HAPPY I found it(show) on TH-cam
Wow Love,HighWay patrol,plus Law Enforcement runs on both sides of our families..It would be wonderful if they'd come up with a new show with The Kid's of the past Law Enforcement office, like the SONS,Grandsons.
Think that would be awesome..
This is such a good show.Thanks a lot.
I just love this show.
Wow...the old slide the gun to your partner trick! It gets them every time!!! Way to go Dan! Way to go Ken!!!
that's funny-- Gale drives up and parks across from the cops and they watch him get out -- then later they say 'Gale's office must be nearby, he walked here' hahaha!
... "he walked THERE".
When girls dressed like girls. Mattie is smokin hot.
Ten four
Real slick the way Dan slid the gun to Ken at the end. "Good thinking"
Good episode. Sad for the old man. Thank you for uploading.
I had a58 Chrysler, in 1975. Cost $150. Then a 57 Plymouth, for $100. In 1968, high school. I crashed my 55 dodge. Car cost $50. My dad sold cars, he bought cars for trade in value at his huge car lot, work. Ralph Williams ford. Encino, ca. 1960s.
@@susannewilson2258 Cars loose value quick in the US, as the poorer or younger section of the population could afford used cars, while the middle-class and the rich buy new cars to keep the sales going.
@@alphonsozorro7952 Any car in that show in good condition would be worth a fortune today. They no longer make real cars, just CTAs (Computerized Transportation Appliances) While I've always been a Mopar guy, at least through most of the '70s, my favorite car from that show was Crawfords '55 Buick Special.
Mattie was a real looker! played by Pamela Duncan.
+4thstooge she's been a bad girl on others also. And, I think she was a dispatcher also, thanks 4th!
she also played the undercover policewoman from Ohio in an episode the year before.
she was also never married and died in NJ home with no heirs
Nothing but cheap trash.
@@MrShelly53 The 'Confidence man,' aka, Paulie Gale. Yeah Mattie, Pamela Duncan, I recall peeping that dark haired pillsbury frosting cake finger from Mike Hammer's "My gun is quick."
I sure like that music
Anyone else notice that Mattie's Cafe was the same place as used in a previous episode, or maybe after this one? In that episode they had a juke box in the place and it may have been called Harold's Cafe, although don't quote me on that. That '58 Desoto 2 dr. hdtp. is one car I haven't seen in other episodes so far, though.
The same building is used later on in the 1959 episode "Dan Hostage".
Seems like they've pulled up to the same little house in different episodes too.
Definitely, good locations are worth it.
smooth gun slide Matthews!
Pamela Duncan was an American B-movie actress who starred in the 1957 Roger Corman cult science fiction film Attack of the Crab Monsters ... good few frames @ 8:00 . she appeared on Perry Mason ... Pony Express, Highway Patrol, Maverick, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Colt .45, Tombstone Territory, Sea Hunt and Bat Masterson ...
Matte's Caffe could tell a tale. Location for many scenes in HP.
$5;000. would have bought 2 brand new Homes in Orange County in that Year.
Its hard to believe!
You mean two brand new cars?
Today $5,000 would not be enough to PAY intelligent people to move there.
@@henryhorner3182 i dont know, i bought my beach house for 800k worth 7 mm now
@@johnkemper3451 I'm poor and you're rich, but we both like watching Highway Patrol.
You need to remember this was back in the 50’s
Time filling entertaining show just as it was meant to do
Probably not one of my favorite episodes, but I liked it. What a punk, hits that old man and beats him out of $5,000.
Sequal: Mattie gets out of prison and marries Dan, and they buy that greasy spoon.
@ 4:16, vehicle drives past a road sign which appears to read Paducah St. Based on old Chavez Ravine maps, vehicle is driving along Effie St. then turns onto Davis St. which would place this scene under a parking lot servicing Dodger Stadium. Beyond Davis St., there is a visible steep side slope cut in Effie St. that shows up in many other Highway Patrol shows, like the Hostage Officer Episode @21:47.
@ 6:10, same #804 Centennial St. store front scene 12 minutes into the Lady Bandits Episode, corner of Centennial & Alpine.
Remember, this show was made for less than $25,000 per episode, including paying the actors. You have to take a lot of shortcuts when you have a budget like that. It's still a lot better than anything made today, no matter how much they spent on it.
Nice. We had a 1960 avacado green Plymouth Fury. Gotta love those shark fins!!!
Damn! How did those kids wander into the shoot? Oh well, filum is expensive so just leave them in. We gotta mov3 on to the next setup before the permit guys come around
Those 2 convertibles would fetch you close to 200,000 grand today,just old cars in those days
Dan and Ken working well together, skidding that 🔫 down the counter.😎💰🤠
You can watch all highway patrols on other YOuTube channels without the billboard identification symbol blocking half the screen.
Except for a few episodes I can't watch due to audio problems, I can now say I've finished 'em all. Thank you, Foxeema. I enjoyed it immensely!
I'd like to know why eight episodes in particular appear to have no audio when I try to watch them on my desktop PC. I hear them just find on my smartphone. Very odd!
find them yerself! L0L
Where are those kool cars today
Pamela Duncan was a Relative of mine. She was Italian American. Her real name was Phyllis DeSimone
she was fine as hell...def, knew she had some ethnic flavor..
Reminds me a bit of Annette Funicello.
Does anybody notice that Mathews is kind of light on the loafers when he walks?
Hound Dog haha always looking like he’s sneaking up
that's because he was a drunk
@@robertbernard6410 Don't keep calling Crawford a drunk. Don't watch the show.
@@JohnPMitten A drunk is someone who can't handle the booze, obviously Broderick didn't let it interfere. Just because a person drinks doesn't mean they aren't of high moral character. Drinking was well accepted back in the day.
Bad back.
I remember Pamela Duncan from "Attack of the Crab Monsters". That movie scared me to death when I was little.
Yeah , she's half-hot.
Main copper's dress code: dark hat, dark suit.... coupled with white socks and light beige loafers. Classy, but was it really authorized Highway Patrol standard issue?
Those cars were something else.... huge and massive, built like a tank. A Tiger tank, not a Sherman.... You could pull up on a busy street, slide rightward and exit from the vehicle right to the curb. This design would save thousands of lives today.... instead of the dumb bucket seats and claustrophobic cockpits we are cursed with. Even in an overturn emergency, you cannot extricate yourself from behind the wheel towards the right front door.
Yep and with no seat belts, not very likely you'd be around to perform such feats.
That $5,000 would be about $50,000 today (2021). And as far as one more job, that is the storyline for so many of these type shown and numerous movies. Just one more job and we will be set. Lol
Yet the bad guy was going to give the money back. The guy had a heart attack, which complicated everything. Old people, what can ya do?
Remember no matter how new, the safest devise in your car is YOU!
True today.
Clowns are pretty funny in the circus
@@wt1370 But on the Highway,
They're Murder!! 🤐😵🤬🤡🔥☹️💯😱
@@wilneal8015 🤣🤣👍
Man, big cars, big fins, ailerons, flaps, big elevators, cockpits.
Pamela Duncan in this episode was also in #92 Policewoman.
Passing the gun across the counter to your partner: do they teach you that at the academy?
They also teach how to win a shootout at a Diner!
Yeah, if they teach Shuffleboard - ha ha!
Modern acadamy courses teaches rather how to shoot suspects, mostly unarmed, handcuff their hands behind their back, and feel good how the pigs have protected themselves, taking no chances, even with a dead body.
I get a laugh out of that incredibly "accurate" shooting with a .38 snubnose. Usually at respectable distances,
Henry Horner: Mathews never misses
At 10:51 Mattie calls old Mike “Gus” . The continuity man didn’t catch it. I love these old shows. 👍🏻
Good catch.
Good one! I never noticed that
God bless payphones!
That style, with individual slots for nickles, dimes and quarters could be "hacked" with a piece of stiff paper and a dime.
I remember putting a penny into the nickel slot... give it a smank and got many a cheap call..anyone else do that ?
Naughty lads, cheating the phone companies like that! Over this side of the pond a favourite trick was to use a ring-pull attached to a thin thread of cotton. Activate the phone, use the ring-pull to get a coin credit, and then pull the ring-pull out again with the thread, and repeat as many time as needed.
I plead innocent to all charges, m'lud.
@@heyoldman2003 Me, I think 10-cents. I'm 68. Maybe you're a bit older?
The calls were a dime as I remember. I’m 67 . So glad I made it this far 😎🙏 and I love “ the old days “ 👍🏼
I'd love to have that '58 rag top!
This 1958 Plymouth Fury had a 350 CID V-8, the only year Plymouth Fury had a 350 CID V-8. 1957 Fury had the 318 CID (called : V-800 Dual Fury) and the 361 CID in 1959. Both 1957 318 CID and 1959 361 CID are called the "Golden Commando Power"
If you have a beautiful car, you're afraid to drive it. If you have a beautiful girl your afraid to show it. Just put it in a case and eventually get board with it.
In this series "Highway Patrol" you'll see Los Angeles county, Orange County, etc before it was really built up. A lot of open space!
Please bring back these types of programing,these programs now days are nothing but trash.Bring back he older 1950s type programs.Please dont politicize programs.
You and your comment are trash !
This was a great show. But why is the picture intermittently pitching and rolling? Trying to defeat the algorithms used for detecting unauthorized uploading of copyrighted material?
This has to be the most implausible HP ever. An old man is hit on the chin, bangs his head and drops dead around the back of an isolated truck stop. No witnesses, no link to the cafe. But Dan magically guesses the local truckstop is the link, without a shred of evidence, even though it's run by a solitary woman with no record we know of, and no obvious link to any criminality. Matthews says, "Gus used to tell you a lot of things (evidence of that?) Did he ever mention any investments?" Ludicrous; it's a cafe where he got a snack! So, why is the con man so eager to dump the body in broad daylight, rather than wait till it's dark and go farther away? (Odd how, in such a wild environment, they don't just dig a hold and throw him in. he'd be there for ever.) Why do he and the woman think the police will be by with questions for them, given there's no evidence the old man was even there that day or had any connection with them save an odd cup of coffee. How likely is it the body will be dumped with the hat left carelessly at the road side. Why would a patrolman think an isolated old hat buried in the grass meant he'd be wise to stop, let alone that someone was down the slope? Why would the criminal hang around in the cafe with the police there. Some of the scripts hold together quite well. This sure ain't one of them.
Dan could smell his fecal matter and knew what he was eating. When one dies they lose this control. Dan could recognize that fish platter easily.
LAL! Most of us have better things to do than piss and moan about a TV show plot. Seek to procure a life, whatsyername.
Dan don't need no stinkin' evidence.
There was another unbelievable one. Can't recall now. But you are right on this one. :) Oh yeah. there was one where the guy held up a cab. Had him stop at the bank and said don't move. I'm going to rob this bank. Then come back & you will be the undetected getaway car. So the cab driver WAITS! & the rest just follows.
It's the old question: why didn't the wolf eat Little Red Riding Hood when he met her in the wood, instead of rushing ahead to her grandmother's cottage ? Because then there would be no story.
The old slide the pistol down the bar trick works every time.
Bernie Madoff got the inspiration for his Ponzi scheme by watching this show as a kid.
It shouldn't be a crime, it's right there in plane sight on the dollar bill, a pyramid.
Maybe so!
A different view of the 1950s Than HAPPY DAYS.
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Thursday, August 24 - 2023.
I need a car with wings.
This kind of thing is going on to this day. My mom is 91 and has been receiving false charges from Walmart and also Xfinity. I went to the dentist and they quoted $1100 and then when I go in they had me sign for $1384. I really needed it done then, so I relinquished. Some time ago I took my car in to get an estimate, he calls me back and said he had it apart and I had to pay $900 more than originally discussed.( He was trying to extort me.) I told him to put it in a bag and I'd put the car in my back yard. He finally agreed to the original price. This is standard American business, of which the government is totally behind. Someday these people will run out of victims.
Some of the same actors used in other shows. Cafe scenario often used again.
I like how their guns aim themselves on this show. Shoot from the hip.
+markmnorcal The cops always shoot .38 Special revolvers, a caliber considered marginal for defense today. But The Man, shooting from the hip, brings down the crims with one or a maximum of two bullets! Regards
Yea...seems all the cops shoot from the hip!
and kinda push it forward a little too haha
Matthews didn't know who Gayle was, but then he walked straight to his office. These scripts are so full of holes, but they are still fun.
I love these shows, light tap to the head, before person hits the floor perp is always
He’s Dead
The old man hit his head. It was an accident.
I'm noticing a pattern here,,,,,they should have burned down that diner. every other episode somebody's using it to commit crime. Different owners and names. could have wiped out half the crime in an instant lol
Caveman lol right you gotta point there
In answer to Bert Grau , definitely true! All of the new safety equipment on the new cars gives the drivers a false impression that everything is okay and they don't need to keep alert, wear seatbelts, and stop texting on the phone while driving! Don't get me wrong, cellphones are a good invention but for driving and keeping your concentration on the road and what's around you, they're not.
@@dp.oennismaurer205 People drive their Escalades on the icy roads of I-70 thinking that they are invincible and the other people will be doing the dying. I love to see "them" upside-down on the side of the highway.
This movie couldn't have been made today, because with today's cars having consoles in the middle of the seat, they couldn't have got in the car on the passenger side and slide across to the drivers side. Sure had some pretty women back then though.
Some of those pretty women nowadays would be riding shotgun with a Dan Mathews-type, not just on dispatch, but upholding the law. I hope they never get the idea of relaunching "Dragnet" with a woman portraying Jack Webb's old role. Mariska Hargitay is great as Olivia in L&O-SVU, but let's not push it, Hollywood, okay?
@@nostalgia6578 Just like most Dr Who Fans have not accepted the Female version. Plus it would be like Archie Bunker becoming a Georgia Sherrif, or Ed O'Neil from Married with Children playing "Friday" he must have gotten that as a US Marshal Protected Witness job?
Can't go slugging old geezers and expect no dire consequences.
Why would he hit him? He was going to give him his cash back anyway? Makes no sense.
@@Catquick1957 just showing how tuff he is....h'ell get his ..
Don't hit Biden or Bernie :-)
@@Catquick1957 He hit him to punish him for wanting his money back, but not to kill him.
@@ITILII Or Trump, even older than "Gus".
With eyebrows like that, you'd think SHE was the killer.
Oral statement from Mattie to Dan, as witnessed by Sgt. Williams: "Yes, OK Officer Matthews, I admit I did it. I came on to old Gus as I was feeling sorry for him, but the poor old chap just had a heart attack and popped his clogs right in front of me. But I never committed no murder".
Aaaaaah, the 1950s "Mattie's Café".... A World Away from the 1960s "Alice's Restaurant"!!!
One would rob you like a Republican and the other would rob you like a Democrat.
Paul Gayle was a brave man, using his girlfriend as a shield before he got shot.
and hide behind a bullet proof table
Do anything you want to the girl but leave me alone! He said.
No matter HOW new, the SAFEST DEVICE in YOUR CAR 🚗 is YOU! #mgmlion #roar
In real life to treat an elderly person in such a way. There is no word to describe a person like this other than sum bag.
The criminal bad guy bears a striking physical resemblance to investor Charles Ponzi.
Dan wearing house slippers. Old man is tommy Jackson who played cop in many films. I think the punk was the mimosa guy stuck in a cave in great film Ace in the hole.
Never saw this episode before.
Sure ya do. Remember when we we snorting lines off that hooker's back and the TV was on? I never missed an episode, no matter what, back in the day.
I notice they use people from other series in this one.
They always do, as with cars.
Many and various, hot looking "dispatch" women, who probably didn't even get paid and had to do the director. I am more interested in the cars and seeing the olden days.
What we learned today is there would be less crime if cars didn’t have those darn fins!
Dans the best!
i suspect Broderick Crawford was a good man in real life too
Crawford's flaw was that he hit the ol' booze bottle a little too much.
@@nostalgia6578 And the ciggies, don´t fergit the ciggies he loved them too.
Matthews' sidekick: "Why would they dump him on the side of the highway?" Must've been the highway to Bugtussle............
They talk real fast because it's only a 30 minute show
Correction: Broderick Crawford talks "rapid-fire" 'cause he has only 26 minutes to apprehend or kill the perp, and then he has to forfeit 4 minutes for beer ads. LOL!
If you slow the TH-cam playback speed to .75, you can understand every word that comes out of Dan Mathews' mouth. Really!
The end of the story has two loose ends. SPOILER - Did Mike get his $10 for getting the car? And it might be irrelevant that Gus dies of a heart attack if the heart attack was brought about by the stress of being assaulted. The man would still be guilty of murder if the heart attack was stress-induced by the con man.
+snowden67 Mike gets his tenner before he goes out to get the baddie's car, and of course the heart attack was caused by the strees of being punched in the nose, so it is clearly murder. Regards
Depending on the state, some laws in 1958 would have called Gus's death an accident or involuntary manslaughter, others they'd press for murder 1.
The DA is going to have to prove in court that the man would not have died of the heart attack anyway. I am not sure how he would do that.
Hitting someone to death, doesn't mean murder but manslaughter.
Even those who killed people using knives, got away with manslaughter charges.
So, why not a hardhitting thug? Besides, he threw the money to the old man, thinking he simply passed out.
Mathews was a real flat foot.Notice his orthopedic shoes?
"Gee I hardly hit him" What a huge understatement.
After being punched, the victim fell backwards, hitting the back of his head on the trunk of a tree.
@@lamarjr56 And yet Dan said he died from a heart attack. That's the way I want to go out with several death throws. Heart attack from a hookers hummer, driving too fast on a windy mountain road , cops shooting at me, high on a heroin OD. I'm old enough where cause of death would be "natural".
Old man said he talked to friends and They told him he was swindled.They told cops.
Those older cars had excellent shocks. No seat belts.Matthews asks Mr. gale, "What are you going to do Gale, kill everything you see?" Shouldn't that be everyone you see?
Good shocks but poor damping.
Real tuff guy hitting an older man
More good lookin chicks ..those were the days. So different than today.
For sex-craving US males, any actress is "beautiful", regardless of her features.
This one was ugly, with her thick-set nose and lips. And not prime, at 33!
17:17 Check Dan's shoes as he's crossing the street. Those are NOT the shoes of a plain clothes state police officer. They look comfortable and possibly expensive. Probably the sensible shoes "Big Brody" wore to the set that day! Somebody help me here. Did I find a "BLOOPER"?
Man, was that freek'n slick or what!!
And Pamela Duncan is amazing . A good com man operates under a rule that you never let them see you sweat. And Mattie was nervous.
Why fly by nite coffee shoppe has a safe? Is Dan wearing house slippers? Tough guy desired to die as Leo mimosa in that mine thanks to chuck Tatum.
10:56 she slipped up and called him Gus and they didn't re-shoot the scene. I need a job in Hollywood cause I always catch stuff like that. LOL
Mattie was a nice Italian girl 😚👌
I couldn't stand the ways of Mattie's evil boyfriend!!!
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“Pick’n on an old man like dat.” Duke Mantee (Bogart in Petrified Forest)
check out Dans shoes! Highway Patrol issue?
+David Maslow those were his casual Friday mocks.
+rahkin rah LOL! Wonderful comment rahkin rah!
Yes, I noticed. They look like loafers to me.
Vans sneakers.
Did the little kids get SAG credits?
All the bad guys in this series use the Smith & Wesson model 10 38 special