DoctorArt PhD , sure we need to go back to these values....when women were excluded from just about any higher postition, and when they were fired when the became pregnant, when discrimination against blacks was institutionalized, when homosexuality was a crime, when saying you did not believe in god would cost you your job, when an unmarried young mother was a shame or when the child was being taken away to an institution, when the man was the undisputed boss of the society, when abuse could take place without it being considered a serious crime etc. Don’t be so naive as to believe that the moral values of the 50s were higher then now.
@@schotext2683 I see you are negative, and focused on the pathetic. Good luck with that mindset. I was thinking more along the lines of a Christian-based moral compass, citizen participation in our own gov't, Christian values, appreciation for our freedom and God-given natural rights, and we were not murdering our children, etc...
@@schotext2683 Now you get fired for taking a stance against abortion murder or same sex "marriage". So nothing's changed, except that godless freaks do the discriminating. Don't try and act moral when you've adopted the morality of death and personal irresponsibility.
@@doctorartphd6463 Christian values. I'm not Christian. And I don't wanna be. You must be a Republican. You have no moral compass. You need the New Testament to guide you. Pathetic.
Same here - love these episodes. I try to watch one of these a day. Also watch "Combat" episodes. "2150 to Headquarters" Ten-foah. I'm glad I found these episodes on TH-cam.
16:43. I know I just got out of prison, but I want to go back 😃. It would be easy for me to just retire and live out the rest of my life somewhat comfortably, but I want to go back to prison instead 😃.
In my whole life I have never encountered a 'road block' other than a DUI checkpoint. In this show I think you would basically have to plan for at least one road block every time you left the house :) I like the show
In Ohio they do vehicle inspection roadblocks or at least they did when I left there in 2013.They usually set up on some two lane highways that is not highly traveled. I lived there 10 years but my county didn't have one.
I encountered one once coming off the Interstate in South Carolina on the way home from the Solar Eclipse, the one before COVID. They were looking for a specific vehicle and set of people and we did not match, so they waved us through without stopping us.
My dad moved out of Pasedena in 1953 because he couldn't handle breathing the smog. Blew my mind that it was bad "way back" then. Auto emissions have really fallen.
What a great show great automobiles Great Highway Patrol work and since my dad looked a lot like Broderick roughy. I watch it every day better than anything on the TV.
@@stevek8829 Does ignorance run in your family or do you practice it for fun, loudmouth?? You actually think that ALL areas of the US had the same TV stations and followed what each other did?? Many cities had their own smaller TV stations and lots of them had their own programming using re-runs as fillers. Every night after school in the '60s we could watch this show (and others) from the '50s, the Three Stooges and many others.....M-F!! Maybe next time you should think about starting your brain before you shift your mouth into gear....YA THINK??
I LOVE THESE OLD SHOWS!! THEY ARE THE ABSOLUTE ONLY THING THAT I WATCH ON TV!! THEY KNEW THAT MEN ARE FOR WOMEN AND LADIES ARE NOT MEN !! THE BEST DAY EVER!!!
Then there was the bus fare 38 cents. He's given a dollar bill, and received change. Today it's correct change only..and a whole lot more than 38 cents!!🎈🎈
The comely Mary Ellen Popel, who plays the daughter, displays excellent acting here. Very little is known about her. Her acting career lasted about 20 years in about a dozen features in both TV and movies. Oddly, most of her movie roles were uncredited.
I can remember that in the 1950's a full size candy bar was a nickel. With 23 cents, I could have had 4 candy bars and 3 gum balls out of the gum ball machine. Near my house back then, was a shoe repair shop that had an old coke machine that sold the small size coke for 5 cents. If you wanted to leave the shoe repair shop with the coke, you had to give the owner 2 cents for the deposit on the bottle.
@ John Mitten -- It is called shrinkflation when a company reduces the weight or amount of product in what they are selling and don't lower the price. For example, most brands of the "not from concentrate" orange juice sold it in the 64 ounce size. Then about ten years ago, they all reduced the weight to 59 ounces. Then about two years ago, all of the brands reduced the weight to 52 ounces. Another example is toilet paper. I have been buying Angel Soft double rolls for at least 25 years. During that time, they have reduced the number of sheets per roll at least four or five times. At one time, each sheet was 4.5 x 4.5 inches. Now each sheet is 4 x 4 inches.
Now here's a fantasy episode that you'd never have happen today. No one in law enforcement would ever lift a finger to get someone out of jail that they mistakenly put there. God forbid they admit a mistake.
These half hour shows are of such good quality and writing, I wish that some episodes would have been 1 hour long. Some of the episodes are so intriguing that they could have easily been entertaining at an hour long! Rip Mr. Crawford.
+Kenny Savoy Have you noticed some are coming back,but they are mainly the Muscle Cars. I heard Firebird is coming out with under 100 next year. I thought Pontiac was gone. People are fed up with driving and riding in Pods. No room. Could you imagine parking in a Pod of today? haha The Classics had back seats as big as a sofa. haha Just as comfortable too. haha Good Times, Good Times, High Times. haha
Ouch. I'm really happy with and proud of my 2005 Jeep. It has been 100% reliable for 225000 miles. Just recently had to replace the transfer case as it got noisy. but that is the first thing to go bad. I do love those older cars but living in WI it would not be practical to drive one 12 months a year, the salt would eat it up. We can use ziebart to slow it down but it isn't the perfect answer. Anyone in my state who owns one of those old cars only drives it in the summer
15:46. Old man Silvers must have phenomenal eyesight. Imagine a man his age reading a phone number from a phonebook without eyeglasses. Such small fine print!!
You gotta love the 50s. The way the women viewed themselves is so different from today. 4.16 . "Why should I cry now? Isnt that silly? Isnt that just like a woman?"
This woman has courage, and mercy, and a kind heart, and brains. Today's women lack all of these. Give me the woman here any time over present-day banshees!
@@blackfinjrblackfinjr3555 are you under some kind of psychotic medication. You statement is one of the most moronic I have read in my life. The Bible states “let God be true and all men a liar.
California sure has changed. Dad gets out of prison and can buy a Smith & Wesson on his way home? No background check? Today, you'd never be able to buy a handgun in California that easily. Let alone if you'd just been released from prison. 23 cents back then was the equivalent of $5 minimum today. If you could buy a home in California back in 1957 for $23,000, it would be worth at least $500,000 today. Broderick Crawford probably needed that 23 cents for a drink after such a busy day. Both women in this episode were hot. Casting director knew his business.
And you'll also notice that in most of the episodes even the two bit down on their criminals could afford to drive around in new cars, sometimes husband and wife double teams both penniless but both driving brand new luxury cars and expensively dressed. How times have changed, no blacks in these episodes I guess they had a different police force to take care of that due to segregation. The bit I miss most is nobody wore a seatbelt and everyone smoked, unless you were some kind of whimp.. Now look at all the fools today lol
The daughter goes from ecstasy to hysterics in just five minutes. Tough day for her but thanks to the brave effort of Dan Matthews her father won't have to spend the rest of his life in prison. Just a few years maybe. Thank God for people like him! 😀
+John Clark The cop is not shooting into the bucket, the top with the lid continues into a sort of well where there is a bucket hanging from a rope, the whole thing full of water. As for the noise, you are right, with a revolver the noise goes out also by the joint between the cylinder and the barrel. Regards
Actually, I thought Dan was pretty mean there - after all, he HAD taken a (short) ride on the bus. Wasn't the driver's fault Dan didn't want to take the full 23 cents' worth.
That grey four door sedan has been used in other episodes. Since this show was filmed in black and white, they could have varied the vehicle color by verbally providing another color and no one would know. One of the few episodes where they had a first aid kit. Thirty seven cents to the end of the bus line? Wow, times have sure changed.
Real Steel my good friend if you were born during that era. Not these "tin cans" with doors & wheels they wanna sell you today! Then, there's all that tech they want you to pay for. I can drive & park the damn thing myself!
Man, Matthews is pointing that gun right at his officer while sitting at his desk, and loading it!! That’s crazy! Love these shows tho..I was 6 years old when this one aired..🙂
Blind justice is real and still goes on to this day. This poor guy lost his wife (likely died) his house, his job & several years of freedom. Don't blame the guy though gunning for the bus driver was not the right thing to do.
I have a friend who served in Vietnam. He said that at the PX you could get a pack of cigarettes from the vending machine - the cost was .23 cents. You would put a quarter and .02 cents we’re on the outside of the pack wrapped in cellophane.
This is why the justice system today compensates those who wrongfully served time. You've just ruined someone's life - with no compensation they're bound to seek revenge.
What is the convertible at the beginning of each show? I had it figured for a '55 Chevy but the trunk doesn't reach down to the bumper. I also thought Mercury. Anyone know ?
That was my take as well- a 54 Lincoln. Was really surprised that smeone else knew? Didn’t see many of these back then; but as a young car buff of 14 I would look At all the cars going by, and be able to easily identify make and year.
@@jerrynuelle3254 Truth be told I didn't know. I thought that is was a '54 Mercury, have once had a '55 model year merc, but then I read somewhere that it was a '54 Lincoln and after watching the opening closely agree that it was indeed a Lincoln from that year which was considered a new car back then given that the show premiered in syndication in the fall of '55. So give yourself a pat on the back for being able to correctly identify that car. ☀
Funny, you got right through to the police back in the day. Dispatching today interferes more with crime than it helps. I know this because I installed and trained 9-1-1 systems and users. Also, very, very few cops would care about convicting the wrong man. America was a better place back then...never to return.
Doubt they would reopen the case after all these years, what with the other suspect being dead. Lots of innocent men are in jail cause the system won't admit they made a mistake -too embarrassing
The main point is not who actually killed the restaurant owner, but that this guy was innocent. No different than DNA exonerating someone and letting the wrongfully imprisoned out. So reopening the case is irrelevant.
Very true. Prosecutors care a lot more about their reputations than the guilt or innocence of the men they put away. No way the state's attorney would agree to release a convict just because the HP says someone else committed the crime he is in for. It would take years, or at least till another prosecutor is in office.
Wow matthews aka ol 502 was actually driving in this episode, I thought his DL was suspended until the later episodes. 17:40 AMEN! Forgiveness actually comes with a price, you must forgive others.
The bus driver could have said that they were just having a conversation. He didn’t threaten him in front of 2150. He wouldn’t have been released prison without a new trial.
@@juanmonge8 I do not believe the bus driver wanted him let off on the charges. He was truly scared, and he and 2150 thought his life was in fact in jeopardy. I think he would go back to prison on a new conviction. How stupid - to ignore the fact Reynolds made a mistake, and try to kill him, after you got your life back.
Doubt Mathews could just release him from prison at an instant. Today, still take 5 years to release. Lawyers would have to provide substantial evidence in Supreme court. Guess it was easier back then.
It is impossible, then and now, to get a wrongly convicted person out of prison so quickly. It takes a lot of time (sometimes years) and a lot of red tape.
So old Broderick had to have his 23 cents back. Cheap bugger. How much more could 23 cents be worth today? The girl's car looks like a '51 Plymouth ragtop, not a bad old buggy, even if a Ford or Chevy would be worth more today.
@@shizukamori6755 I believe a quarter would buy you a small can of stew from the vending machine at my jr. high in '59. But Broderick wasn't just a kid in school.
Ask someone today what their car license plate # is and see if they can tell you. Such a big bus surely should have more folks riding it. Does the bus only have one side door? They should let the guy go..he already has credit served time.
How did the dispatcher know the description of the car and the license plate when the girl never told him?? Oooops!! And that cop shot the gun into the container without gloves on putting his own fingerprints on it?? Uh Oh......
These old shows were the best. We need to get back to these values in America and common sense.
DoctorArt PhD , sure we need to go back to these values....when women were excluded from just about any higher postition, and when they were fired when the became pregnant, when discrimination against blacks was institutionalized, when homosexuality was a crime, when saying you did not believe in god would cost you your job, when an unmarried young mother was a shame or when the child was being taken away to an institution, when the man was the undisputed boss of the society, when abuse could take place without it being considered a serious crime etc. Don’t be so naive as to believe that the moral values of the 50s were higher then now.
@@schotext2683 I see you are negative, and focused on the pathetic. Good luck with that mindset. I was thinking more along the lines of a Christian-based moral compass, citizen participation in our own gov't, Christian values, appreciation for our freedom and God-given natural rights, and we were not murdering our children, etc...
@@schotext2683 Now you get fired for taking a stance against abortion murder or same sex "marriage". So nothing's changed, except that godless freaks do the discriminating. Don't try and act moral when you've adopted the morality of death and personal irresponsibility.
@@doctorartphd6463 Christian values. I'm not Christian. And I don't wanna be. You must be a Republican. You have no moral compass. You need the New Testament to guide you. Pathetic.
@@alext8828 Are you trying to be an a-hole, or did you just forget your medication? Geeze...a nasty bloke you are. You must be demonic.
Love this show so much. 50's were the golden years for so many things including this show!🇺🇲👍😃 Thanks for posting!!🙏👍
I've been watching highway patrol episodes, a couple everyday for the past year. Love it...... rarely watch "regular" tv anymore.
artgueret I got rid of my TV years ago, and could not be happier about it. The internet is all you need.
There's really nothing on TV to watch.
nice! me too
@@billharden7127 Nascar and the european soccer leagues
Same here - love these episodes. I try to watch one of these a day. Also watch "Combat" episodes. "2150 to Headquarters" Ten-foah. I'm glad I found these episodes on TH-cam.
16:43. I know I just got out of prison, but I want to go back 😃. It would be easy for me to just retire and live out the rest of my life somewhat comfortably, but I want to go back to prison instead 😃.
In my whole life I have never encountered a 'road block' other than a DUI checkpoint. In this show I think you would basically have to plan for at least one road block every time you left the house :) I like the show
In Ohio they do vehicle inspection roadblocks or at least they did when I left there in 2013.They usually set up on some two lane highways that is not highly traveled. I lived there 10 years but my county didn't have one.
Me neither, and I'm now 80.
I have been stopped at a couple. I know one was for an armed robbery
I encountered one on the NJ Turnpike in. 1965. We had to put the windows down and I lit a cigar to get rid of the weed smoke 😂.
I encountered one once coming off the Interstate in South Carolina on the way home from the Solar Eclipse, the one before COVID. They were looking for a specific vehicle and set of people and we did not match, so they waved us through without stopping us.
This was a great episode! Dan Matthews is awesome!
Agree!👍
Nice old bus (22:57). Love these vintage vehicles and smoggy S.California locations. Love to see some 'then and now' comparisons.
My dad moved out of Pasedena in 1953 because he couldn't handle breathing the smog. Blew my mind that it was bad "way back" then. Auto emissions have really fallen.
A Hiland.
Oh! i thought it was FOG! Lol!
i grew up in Central California & the fog looked familiar! 😂
Some of these Highway Patrol episodes are fine morality plays, condensed into 25 minutes.
Just about all shows did then. Those were the days.
LedHed Steven 🎸 🎹 🎸
What a great show great automobiles Great Highway Patrol work and since my dad looked a lot like Broderick roughy. I watch it every day better than anything on the TV.
I miss the 5Os! I was a kid when this show was on TV.
Me too, we watched the reruns everyday after school back then.
@@USCG.Brennan back then reruns were only played during the summer! So BS
@@stevek8829 Does ignorance run in your family or do you practice it for fun, loudmouth??
You actually think that ALL areas of the US had the same TV stations and followed what each other did?? Many cities had their own smaller TV stations and lots of them had their own programming using re-runs as fillers. Every night after school in the '60s we could watch this show (and others) from the '50s, the Three Stooges and many others.....M-F!! Maybe next time you should think about starting your brain before you shift your mouth into gear....YA THINK??
@@USCG.Brennan we too in the 60s we watched reruns of shows made in the 1950s.
Such a great old program. I always found it funny that Crawford always used the radio before entering the vehicle.
Broderick Crawford: *"If you care to drive, drive with care."* That still is important for the everyday driver to heed in today's modern era.
Yes it is !!
Simple common sense.
He lost his license for DWI. Man speaks with forked tongue.
The one I like the most is "reckless driving doesn't determine who's right, only who's left" I say that to people today if the subject comes up.
I like the phrase he uses "it's not the car that kills, it's the driver".
Daughter is a looker... 😋😍❤Go Dan! Live these episodesThanks much
So's the blonde hottie off the bike and into the phone booth - so sweet! :)
Old phone booths are charming. Nothing but cell phones now. No place for even Superman to change!
Superman lives inside a cell phone, that's where he changes, and from where he pops out.
You're thinking of The Atom!
I never thought of that!
I LOVE THESE OLD SHOWS!! THEY ARE THE ABSOLUTE ONLY THING THAT I WATCH ON TV!! THEY KNEW THAT MEN ARE FOR WOMEN AND LADIES ARE NOT MEN !! THE BEST DAY EVER!!!
This was a very unusual episode. I really liked the ending--"I want my 23 cents back''-awesome.
Then there was the bus fare 38 cents. He's given a dollar bill, and received change. Today it's correct change only..and a whole lot more than 38 cents!!🎈🎈
John A. In those days, for 23 cents you could buy a comic book, 2 candy bars and 3 pieces of bubble gum: a whole weekend of fun for a kid.
good ol' scotch thriftiness. pinch a purty penny, my lad
the two dimes were 90% silver too
i didn't know Dan was so cheap lol
"Dad" played by Billy Nelson is in several Adventures of Superman episodes, and he always plays a crook.
Joe McQuinn was the hold up man, he was in a lot of old westerns as a heavy too
He has the perfect face to play a crook
john Smith He was a prolific actor back then.
In an earlier HP, he played half of a husband/wife team that employed a phony HP officer in a crime spree
The comely Mary Ellen Popel, who plays the daughter, displays excellent acting here. Very little is known about her. Her acting career lasted about 20 years in about a dozen features in both TV and movies. Oddly, most of her movie roles were uncredited.
Actress Mary Ellen Popel was born on June 20, 1920. She celebrated her 99th birthday on June 20, 2019.
@@franknew9001 ...She passed away in 2016 in Los Angeles.
Another beautiful actress. Ol' Dan was a lucky man.
that 23 cents is a whole Gallon of Gas! or a Coke and 8 pieces of penny candy !! bring the 3 cent bottle back!!!
I can remember that in the 1950's a full size candy bar was a nickel. With 23 cents, I could have had 4 candy bars and 3 gum balls out of the gum ball machine. Near my house back then, was a shoe repair shop that had an old coke machine that sold the small size coke for 5 cents. If you wanted to leave the shoe repair shop with the coke, you had to give the owner 2 cents for the deposit on the bottle.
coins were 90% silver until 1965
@@franknew9001 Remember Three Musketeers. They whittled them down to just Two Musketeers.
@ John Mitten -- It is called shrinkflation when a company reduces the weight or amount of product in what they are selling and don't lower the price. For example, most brands of the "not from concentrate" orange juice sold it in the 64 ounce size. Then about ten years ago, they all reduced the weight to 59 ounces. Then about two years ago, all of the brands reduced the weight to 52 ounces.
Another example is toilet paper. I have been buying Angel Soft double rolls for at least 25 years. During that time, they have reduced the number of sheets per roll at least four or five times. At one time, each sheet was 4.5 x 4.5 inches. Now each sheet is 4 x 4 inches.
Now here's a fantasy episode that you'd never have happen today. No one in law enforcement would ever lift a finger to get someone out of jail that they mistakenly put there. God forbid they admit a mistake.
These half hour shows are of such good quality and writing, I wish that some episodes would have been 1 hour long. Some of the episodes are so intriguing that they could have easily been entertaining at an hour long! Rip Mr. Crawford.
It's nice to see some real automobiles again..all they make now days are recalls..junk..crap...
You're right, Kenny! They looked so much better back then. Today, you can't tell one car from another.
+Kenny Savoy Have you noticed some are coming back,but they are mainly the Muscle Cars. I heard Firebird is coming out with under 100 next year. I thought Pontiac was gone. People are fed up with driving and riding in Pods. No room. Could you imagine parking in a Pod of today? haha The Classics had back seats as big as a sofa. haha Just as comfortable too. haha Good Times, Good Times, High Times. haha
@@helenkruse back seats? hubba hubba!
Beautiful designs when you could tell which model, make, year! But they all were gas suckers, we didn't give a crap in the day
Ouch.
I'm really happy with and proud of my 2005 Jeep. It has been 100% reliable for 225000 miles. Just recently had to replace the transfer case as it got noisy. but that is the first thing to go bad.
I do love those older cars but living in WI it would not be practical to drive one 12 months a year, the salt would eat it up.
We can use ziebart to slow it down but it isn't the perfect answer.
Anyone in my state who owns one of those old cars only drives it in the summer
Ah, the days when his drivers could quickly make change!
15:46. Old man Silvers must have phenomenal eyesight. Imagine a man his age reading a phone number from a phonebook without eyeglasses. Such small fine print!!
Operator, get me the Highway Patrol!
You gotta love the 50s. The way the women viewed themselves is so different from today. 4.16 . "Why should I cry now? Isnt that silly? Isnt that just like a woman?"
This woman has courage, and mercy, and a kind heart, and brains. Today's women lack all of these. Give me the woman here any time over present-day banshees!
Something you don’t hear to often, the Bible being quoted on a television program.
Right. Praise Jesus Forevermore.
Good. I’m glad it’s not quoted on tv anymore. It’s a bunch of lies and double talk
@@blackfinjrblackfinjr3555 are you under some kind of psychotic medication. You statement is one of the most moronic I have read in my life. The Bible states “let God be true and all men a liar.
@@JohnPMitten good reply.
@@blackfinjrblackfinjr3555 The only way to eternal salvation is through Jesus Christ.
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How did we solve any crimes before Mathews?
I loved watching this show when I was a kid.
Laraby was in Get Smart
A grey four door sedan. That really narrows it down.
California sure has changed. Dad gets out of prison and can buy a Smith & Wesson on his way home? No background check? Today, you'd never be able to buy a handgun in California that easily. Let alone if you'd just been released from prison. 23 cents back then was the equivalent of $5 minimum today. If you could buy a home in California back in 1957 for $23,000, it would be worth at least $500,000 today. Broderick Crawford probably needed that 23 cents for a drink after such a busy day. Both women in this episode were hot. Casting director knew his business.
He didn't say how he got the gun. He could have easily gotten it from a family member of another inmate.
Now you can wear a facemask & rob stores - no gun needed.
Pawn shop,$25. Your good.
My man wants his change back, that's epic LOL
I'm thinking that Matthews believes that the bus driver threw Silvers under the bus and yes the pun was intended!
3:08 ... ye olde Jell-o suspension. 😆😆😆😆
Back when law enforcement use common sense and lead bullets
An era in which even the wrongdoers were smartly dressed. Something that's very lacking in this day and age.
That's why I never trust a suit and tie guy. He could be a crook.
And you'll also notice that in most of the episodes even the two bit down on their criminals could afford to drive around in new cars, sometimes husband and wife double teams both penniless but both driving brand new luxury cars and expensively dressed.
How times have changed, no blacks in these episodes I guess they had a different police force to take care of that due to segregation.
The bit I miss most is nobody wore a seatbelt and everyone smoked, unless you were some kind of whimp..
Now look at all the fools today lol
2:08 'Laugh-In' Announcer Gary Owens
Every episode is always in August
Note the Lincoln Mark 2 inspired front end styling on the Mercury.
She said he's driving away how'd he know it was north. Lol
Cutie pie in phone booth
Larry James He knew because it was in the script. LOL
Good point.
Maybe the road was one-way.....
@@jimlaguardia8185 Yeah but shouldn't it be in the script for her too?
Thank you
Great Ending ❤
Yeah, “Can I have my 35 cents back now?”😂
@2:19 Mr. Piggy sez "he's driving NORTH on HWY 118." Hwy 118 is a west-east hwy.
'57 Mercury: Beauty on Wheels!
Mercury Monterey series with 312 CID V-8 and with 255 BHP
me and my friend mikomopadopalis love this program, you cannot get it in cyprus, his mother still has a black and white tv, such a shame,
The daughter goes from ecstasy to hysterics in just five minutes. Tough day for her but thanks to the brave effort of Dan Matthews her father won't have to spend the rest of his life in prison. Just a few years maybe. Thank God for people like him! 😀
That bus is awesome!!
1950’s era ACF Brill. Some of them had Hall Scott gasoline engines. This one sounds like a diesel.
Ooh! I like that phone booth woman!
Most definitely.
Wendy Wilde
They had some lookers on this show.
Most of the women in these shows were beauties. Not a tattoo freak or a piercings freak in the casts.
Chinese proverb: "When you seek revenge dig two graves".
That's a good one.
The two graves are the one for your victim and the one for yourself.
@@andrewbloom7637 I gathered that much....
05:55 Now that's the way to observe safety. Shoot in the bucket, no hearing or eye protection. Did we get softer or smarter?
+John Clark The cop is not shooting into the bucket, the top with the lid continues into a sort of well where there is a bucket hanging from a rope, the whole thing full of water. As for the noise, you are right, with a revolver the noise goes out also by the joint between the cylinder and the barrel. Regards
John Clark Both.
Glad to see they had a multi-task lab - just made my day wondering what that dark crap was in these lovely conical flasks.
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Mattews saves the day! Again.
Another classic episode
I think at the end I would have told Matthews, "Here's a quarter. Keep the change".
Actually, I thought Dan was pretty mean there - after all, he HAD taken a (short) ride on the bus. Wasn't the driver's fault Dan didn't want to take the full 23 cents' worth.
@@drcurv I think Dan thought the bus driver was a scoundrel hence wanting his money back!
Hey,
Howard Silva looks and sounds a lot like Muggs McGurk from the adventures of Superman!
That's because he is Muggs McGurk. After being sent back to prison he turned crooked. Happens sometimes.
That grey four door sedan has been used in other episodes. Since this show was filmed in black and white, they could have varied the vehicle color by verbally providing another color and no one would know. One of the few episodes where they had a first aid kit. Thirty seven cents to the end of the bus line? Wow, times have sure changed.
Speck looks like the same guy from the previous episode.
Wish they made cars like that today. On today's cars a new born can rip the bumper off with her bare hands.
Real Steel my good friend if you were born during that era. Not these "tin cans" with doors & wheels they wanna sell you today! Then, there's all that tech they want you to pay for. I can drive & park the damn thing myself!
Broderick Crawford made this show great!
The description is gray four door sedan. I guess you couldn't mention the manufacturer.
That would have cost somebody something. It's called product placement.🎈🎈
Was not in the script?
Its like advertising by mentioning the name i suppose. Probably some conflict of interest or something
Yeah. Seems like it would have narrowed it down a lot more if they specified make and model. But they never did back in those days
Man, Matthews is pointing that gun right at his officer while sitting at his desk, and loading it!! That’s crazy! Love these shows tho..I was 6 years old when this one aired..🙂
Was he loading it? I thought he was just handling it.
Blind justice is real and still goes on to this day. This poor guy lost his wife (likely died) his house, his job & several years of freedom. Don't blame the guy though gunning for the bus driver was not the right thing to do.
What a great episode. Mathew took care of business.
"Drive with Care…". Notice that Brod didn't say "Drive Sober…".
Broderic says drive with care because back then he didn't know the meaning of sober.
"Sober" doesn't rhyme. Besides, many bad drivers are sober, just immature or stupid.
Ron D'Eau Claire faxist
He said, drive with beer.
Implied.
I have a friend who served in Vietnam. He said that at the PX you could get a pack of cigarettes from the vending machine - the cost was .23 cents. You would put a quarter and .02 cents we’re on the outside of the pack wrapped in cellophane.
I remember buying ciggs for 33 cents a pack.
What classy dame!
This is why the justice system today compensates those who wrongfully served time. You've just ruined someone's life - with no compensation they're bound to seek revenge.
Kinda wish they'd show some of the commercials from that time.
Well, I finally know who those "Lab Boys" are that Dan Mathews is always asking for! It's just one guy.. Larabie in the next room! 5:55 hehe
I noticed Laraby firing the weapon, but I didn't connect him to the "lab boys" remark Matthews made. Good catch.
Great Shows
What is the convertible at the beginning of each show? I had it figured for a '55 Chevy but the trunk doesn't reach down to the bumper. I also thought Mercury. Anyone know ?
Yes, its a 1954 Lincoln Capri convertible. Gorgeous looking car in my opinion.
@@8176morgan Thanks. One of the best-looking cars ever.
That was my take as well- a 54 Lincoln. Was really surprised that smeone else knew?
Didn’t see many of these back then; but as a young car buff of 14 I would look
At all the cars going by, and be able to easily identify make and year.
@@jerrynuelle3254 Truth be told I didn't know. I thought that is was a '54 Mercury, have once had a '55 model year merc, but then I read somewhere that it was a '54 Lincoln and after watching the opening closely agree that it was indeed a Lincoln from that year which was considered a new car back then given that the show premiered in syndication in the fall of '55.
So give yourself a pat on the back for being able to correctly identify that car. ☀
Funny, you got right through to the police back in the day. Dispatching today interferes more with crime than it helps. I know this because I installed and trained 9-1-1 systems and users. Also, very, very few cops would care about convicting the wrong man. America was a better place back then...never to return.
2:20, you don't get to do that, Mr. dispatcher. That is Dan's job. But he needs to look at a map on the wall first.
ho gave him the description and license number of the car?
Well built that's what you call them .
The daughter did
When was the last time you got in or out of your vehicle on the passenger side, if you were the driver???
Only seen it on TV
No one can do it now with the separate front seats. LOL
Al Eberts I’ve heard it was a Southern California thing
People didn't really do it then either unless left was heavy traffic. I think this show tried to promote it for public safety.
@@stevek8829 Excellent observation - I think you may be right.
Wait a minute! The cop on the dispatch calls out the roadblocks instead of Dan?
If you want to play a drinking game, take a shot each time the daughter says "Dad!!!'. 😄
Doubt they would reopen the case after all these years, what with the other suspect being dead. Lots of innocent men are in jail cause the system won't admit they made a mistake -too embarrassing
Too expensive when some lawyer gets involved and sues the county/ state.
My son is a Corrections Officer. He says 9 out of 10 inmates claim they did not do the crime that put them in prison in the first place.
The main point is not who actually killed the restaurant owner, but that this guy was innocent. No different than DNA exonerating someone and letting the wrongfully imprisoned out. So reopening the case is irrelevant.
Very true. Prosecutors care a lot more about their reputations than the guilt or innocence of the men they put away. No way the state's attorney would agree to release a convict just because the HP says someone else committed the crime he is in for. It would take years, or at least till another prosecutor is in office.
Wow matthews aka ol 502 was actually driving in this episode, I thought his DL was suspended until the later episodes.
17:40 AMEN! Forgiveness actually comes with a price, you must forgive others.
@Nuclear Christian Problem is, this man was "forgiven" when he did nothing wrong. The State should have compensated him.
They probably gave him another five years, and this time when he got out he really did kill the bus driver.
The bus driver could have said that they were just having a conversation. He didn’t threaten him in front of 2150. He wouldn’t have been released prison without a new trial.
Excellent point!
@@juanmonge8 I do not believe the bus driver wanted him let off on the charges. He was truly scared, and he and 2150 thought his life was in fact in jeopardy. I think he would go back to prison on a new conviction. How stupid - to ignore the fact Reynolds made a mistake, and try to kill him, after you got your life back.
I didn't hear her give any of that identifying information to the dispatcher before he relayed it over the radio.
Doubt Mathews could just release him from prison at an instant. Today, still take 5 years to release. Lawyers would have to provide substantial evidence in Supreme court. Guess it was easier back then.
The acting is so over the top
1:31 ... Babe!
.23 is like 8 bucks today...no wonder Crawford wanted his money back
It is impossible, then and now, to get a wrongly convicted person out of prison so quickly. It takes a lot of time (sometimes years) and a lot of red tape.
Unless it's in a TV SHOW!!! For cryin' out loud, get a grip!
I keep saying that Broderick reminds me of Tony Serprano
Soprano with an o my paisano
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You can't end like that. What happened to him
Prison time again unfortunately.
You just don't mess with Matthews.
Dan Matthews was a no nonsense tough guy cop. He got his man every week.
frdjr252 While simultaneously drinking and driving.
I love Matthews, he reminds me of my Dad, only better.
I want my 23 cents back. Can you believe a bus ride was only 23 cent ?
That would probably about $3.00 now.
So old Broderick had to have his 23 cents back. Cheap bugger. How much more could 23 cents be worth today? The girl's car looks like a '51 Plymouth ragtop, not a bad old buggy, even if a Ford or Chevy would be worth more today.
His $.23 would have bought old "2150" 2 packs of Chesterfields in the 50's.
I'm thinking late 40s Stude….
0.23 is a couple of bucks.
Back when I was in grade school in the late 50's, a quarter would buy a lunch at our school canteen.
@@shizukamori6755 I believe a quarter would buy you a small can of stew from the vending machine at my jr. high in '59. But Broderick wasn't just a kid in school.
Ask someone today what their car license plate # is and see if they can tell you. Such a big bus surely should have more folks riding it. Does the bus only have one side door? They should let the guy go..he already has credit served time.
Until he pulled a gun on the driver and got in more trouble.
He kidnapped the driver and threatened to kill him. 5 years is what I think he deserves. Very stupid.
It was a simpler time, the world didn't move as fast, & most folks knew the difference between right/rong even if didn't always do the right thing.
How did the dispatcher know the description of the car and the license plate when the girl never told him?? Oooops!! And that cop shot the gun into the container without gloves on putting his own fingerprints on it?? Uh Oh......
@NPCs U Can’t Laugh _____ Bahahaha No....the gun, not the bullet.
Why would they want prints at that stage? Total nonsense.
I guess they'd call that kidnap, attempted murder and a few other things.
Poor sucker probably got 15 to life
I guess that the Highway Patrol did not pay much back in the 1950's, as Dan Mathews wanted his 23 cents back from his unfinished bus ride.
0.23 is a couple of bucks or more now.
@ Don Moore-- In the 1950's, with 23 cents, you could buy a gallon of gasoline, or 4 full sized candy bars with 3 cents for the penny gumball machine.
I wish there was a version without the music. It is SO repetitive.