.......How well I remember "Highway Patrol" when I was about 14-15 years old.....it was my dad's as well as my uncle's favorite show.......I remember one time both dad and uncle were painting our house when "Highway Patrol" came on........the painting stopped immediately and we were all glued to our "giant" 21" TV !!!!
I watched this series as a kid in the early sixties. Now in my 70's I am enjoying them all again, and I can't help but wonder why modern TV shows just can't write good entertaining stories like these anymore.
Broderick Crawford was an EXCELLENT actor and he really shines in this episode! I saw these programs when they were new in the mid 1950s, loved them, and now as an elderly widow I'm still watching them and enjoying them!😊
This was from 56 to 59 i think. I was only three than so i'm glad i can see them now i do remember them rerunning in teenage years or something i remember some. I like the old ones they don't have all their blood and gore in them
I enjoyed Broderick in General hospital when he played the role of a deranged female nurse who mouldered her/his patients. It was hilarious as on several episodes Broderick was as drunk as a skunk and for got to shave! 😂
Talk about a diverse actor! I enjoyed Broderick in General hospital when he played the role of a deranged female psychopathic psychiatric nurse who moidered her/his patients. It was hilarious as on several episodes Broderick was as drunk as a skunk and forgot to shave! Dressed as a woman in a nurses uniform and high heels 😂
Good episode. Kudos to Broderick Crawford. He gets a lot of crap for drinking and his weight issues but one helluva actor. Linne Ahlstrand did 5 HP epidodes as a dispatcher. RIP Linne.
Linne may have been the policewoman from Ohio in one episode, and the girl in the motorcycle sidecar in another. Or, just actresses that look like her.
Talk about a diverse actor! I enjoyed Broderick in General hospital when he played the role of a deranged female psychopathic psychiatric nurse who moidered her/his patients. It was hilarious as on several episodes Broderick was as drunk as a skunk and forgot to shave! Dressed as a woman in a nurses uniform and high heels 😂
Talk about a diverse actor! I enjoyed Broderick in General hospital when he played the role of a deranged female psychopathic psychiatric nurse who moidered her/his patients. It was hilarious as on several episodes Broderick was as drunk as a skunk and forgot to shave! Dressed as a woman in a nurses uniform and high heels 😂
Trivia: At 21:12 the car is driving north on North Poinsettia Place in Hollywood. They then turn into one of the gates for Ziv Studios (where the TV series was filmed). 60 years later, those two houses at the end of Poinsettia Place at 21:12 still exist.
I often look up the locations shown to see how they look. It's surprising that some of the businesses not only are still there but occasionally still have the same signage.
I lived in the area when these shows were produced. The Ziv studio is gone. Demolished for a shopping center which in turn was demolished for condos. The studio dated to the silent picture era and had a long history before Ziv used it.
Talk about a diverse actor! I enjoyed Broderick in General hospital when he played the role of a deranged female psychopathic psychiatric nurse who moidered her/his patients. It was hilarious as on several episodes Broderick was as drunk as a skunk and forgot to shave! Dressed as a woman in a nurses uniform and high heels 😂 He spoke fast as well when he was in General hospital as well!
I love this show for 2 reasons.... the good acting of Broderick Crawford and supporting cast.... and the cars.... I remember those cars with the noisy lifters (fords I think)..... all of these cars were gas guzzlers.... but that was the engineering of the times.....
the Buicks were the gas guzzlers some of the noisy lifters might have been the fault of the crappy first generation "multivis" oils of the time did any of the first generation "Police Interceptors" have solid lifters?
Talk about a diverse actor! I enjoyed Broderick in General hospital when he played the role of a deranged female psychopathic psychiatric nurse who moidered her/his patients. It was hilarious as on several episodes Broderick was as drunk as a skunk and forgot to shave! Dressed as a woman in a nurses uniform and high heels 😂 He spoke fast as well when he was in General hospital as well!
They did that until 3M invented the Scotchlite Reflective tapes and vinyl coatings. Those reflective coatings exceed many times the reflective ability of those old reflectors.
He was drunk and forgot his line. Talk about a diverse actor! I enjoyed Broderick in General hospital when he played the role of a deranged female psychopathic psychiatric nurse who moidered her/his patients. It was hilarious as on several episodes Broderick was as drunk as a skunk and forgot to shave! Dressed as a woman in a nurses uniform and high heels 😂 He spoke fast as well when he was in General hospital as well!
I grew up on Mulholland Dr. in the 70's , I love these scenes with what we called "Grandstands", it was the racetrack on Mulholland Dr. between Coldwater and Laurel Canyon, we would race back and forth and whoever was the fastest won. Pink slips were won and lost there. Great times !!
Normally in almost all of the episodes the California on the license plate is taped over, in this episode from 23:55-24:05 you can see CALIFORNIA, and to the right is the black strip that would be embossed with "56" which is the year that those plates began to issued by the DMV, and used until 1963.
Buffalo Ave in Sherman Oaks when the car chase starts. But not sure if that’s Ventura Blvd as it was only street developed back then in The Valley going north.
I was a cabby in the early 1970s. Our dispatcher wasn't a hot brunette. He was a fat, older guy who smoked too much. When I complained to him that the calls he was giving me were short trips with small or zero tips, he told me up front that I was still living at my parent's house and didn't need the money as much as the older cabbies who had rent or a mortgage to pay and a family to support.
@@tenfourproductionsllc To be fair to myself, I was too young and inexperienced to even think that a kickback was necessary. I wouldn't have known how to make such an offer. I was so green. I wondered why the cabs I got were always belching white smoke and sometimes stalled.
Everytime I fantasize about living in the 50's, I have to remember I am a Senior, and am thankful for todays modern medicine. I'm staying here. I love HP.
It looks like this episode was filmed in Sherman Oaks, because at 20:42 there is a street sign visible which reads Buffalo Avenue,3500 N, which I belive is located in Sherman Oaks.
Awesome how they jerry rigged the getaway car so it would not start. I thought that red bird on top of the taxi sign for the Red Bird taxi was funny looking. Another good episode with Dan Mathews and crew.
For those only accustomed to modern cars, the HP officer pulled the rotor from his distributor which disables the ignition system. Surprised to see that he had to open the hood from the interior of the car. Most cars at the time didn't have interior hood latches.
Why I moved from the San Fernando Valley: too many robberies! A problem back in 1959, and still a problem today. Oh well, I guess some things never change!
@@kenlucas7025 Yes! The final straw for my wife and I leaving the valley, was when she was a bank manager for a big bank, and her calling 911 during a "take over" robbery, and the police not responding until 40 minutes later. That was 25 years ago! My brother was born at Encino hospital in 1959.
@@carloscarpinteyro332 Wow. So many of the commenters here act like 1950s California was paradise with no crime and is ruined by Mexicans. . . . I'm just keepin it real.
Looked up the Wm Mellenthin building towards the end of the video. He was a builder of homes in that area. Then I went to Google maps/street. The area sure has changed!!
Lol stealing the rotor button out of the distributor. 20 Years or so ago had a guest at the house with a bit too much to drink so I took his coil wire off and placed it in my desk; heard him try to start car and no luck, heard hood pop and a few minutes later Vroom and off he went... Huh? He took the plug wire off #1 cylinder and used it as the coil wire and drove home on 7 cylinders! Nowadays I'd pull the fuel pump or ECM relay but still easy enough to swap in the horn relay or something if the driver has enough sense/motivation.
It would get stolen in a matter of hours these days. It wouldn’t last long at all. I wouldn’t leave a new convertible in a field anyways. I have a garage with a locking door.
When a HWP episode starts off with a shot of a beautiful looking 1953 Mercury you know that its going to be a good episode, and this one sure was with a great plot and suspenseful throughout. I noticed that they did not show either the cab driver getting shot or someone finding his body, I guess they felt that it would be a little bit too realistic for the audience to watch back then. Innocent people though did occasionally get killed on that show.
@@edgarcook9607 The '57 Merc is shown briefly in the introduction and appears later on in the show, but a few seconds into the story line a nice looking '53 Merc appears at :52 where it can be seen parked on the left side of the road. I just love that air scoop featured on the hood. It was also present on the '52 and '54 model years.
The show was syndicated right from the start, so they had to try to sell it in as many markets as possible. They didn't want some outstate and rural stations to reject it as being too gory for their viewers.
+Barry G Many of there "character" actors were WW 2 vest who were discharged in California and gave acting a shot. They were very busy with advent of TV in the 1950's. Some were pretty good others not so much.
Funny you say that. Neither Dan Mathews nor Joe Friday were written to have a life outside of their job. They were both composites of ideal policemen, so they have no wife, kids, hobbies, time away from the job.
The cab dispatcher says, "Highway Patrol headquarters, please hurry." As if the operator can connect them any faster. Yeah, Jerry definitely got a code blue.
Nothing is new in Hollywood. I thought the movie, “Collateral”, starring Tom Cruise was an original movie but it looks like they got the idea for the movie from this episode of Highway Patrol. It was still a good movie though.
Opposite of this scenario, I saw a sign posted on a Fort Worth cab that said "Taxi On Patrol" . That section of town had its share of trouble. Even worse today.
Quick, I better round up the two dispatchers and frisk then, let’s see if we can find one of them 50’s woodsided station wagons, I can remember all of those old cars from childhood, go get em’
13:13 "Oh, Mr. Mathews, I hope he doesn't do anything foolish. He's awfully hot-headed." I think the foolish part was agreeing to pick up two armed criminals for the police, after being given a full description and being fully aware of what they were planning to do. All blame goes to the cabbie's temper? What sort of cops expect civilians to participate in that?
Jidis You sound like a coward. Back then many folks had what was called BALLS and would help others by helping cops get rid of bad guys. Just stay in your mom's basement and you will be ok
I love how Mathews shoots from the hip! LOL The smog was awful in the LA basin back then. Its sound odd when the dispatcher eith firsy word "bye" and then talks.
Great Shooting Stance/Eye to Sight control by Brod! I have never heard Brod's rank mentioned in any of these great episode. Did Coppers refer to themselves as Mr. in the 50's? Still waiting to see some bro's in these episodes, no Latinos in SoCal back in the day?????? Thanks for posting these......10-4
LOL! They weren't on television in 1950s except as shoeshine "boys" and washing cars. This was what was wrong with this vicious cycle. Even if there were black or brown businessmen, doctors, cops, military, etc., TV only showed them in menial occupations. Then, the public watches TV and thinks that's all they can do. It's not true, but the TV and movie industry thinks that, so perceptions never change. And that is known as a stereotype.
This was my mother’s favorite show. Here I am 72 years old and I’m still watching it
me too
Same here.
So am I. Am 70. Good tv shows never go stale.
@@deloreslandeis1008 the quality story line an of course Broderick Crawford
Me too!
.......How well I remember "Highway Patrol" when I was about 14-15 years old.....it was my dad's as well as my uncle's favorite show.......I remember one time both dad and uncle were painting our house when "Highway Patrol" came on........the painting stopped immediately and we were all glued to our "giant" 21" TV !!!!
😆😆😆Giant 21inch TV
Hell, I’m watching on my tiny iPhone. 21”, you were styling 😎
Dave, 21inch tv in 1958?
14 or 15 you must be freaking ancient😳😂
😁 I'm only 67 but I remb this movie from early 60'z I was about 4-5
I watched this series as a kid in the early sixties. Now in my 70's I am enjoying them all again, and I can't help but wonder why modern TV shows just can't write good entertaining stories like these anymore.
I agree
Broderick Crawford was an EXCELLENT actor and he really shines in this episode! I saw these programs when they were new in the mid 1950s, loved them, and now as an elderly
widow I'm still watching them and enjoying them!😊
Good for you!
Ma'am , you may have long life healthy wealthy. Prayers to God
This was from 56 to 59 i think. I was only three than so i'm glad i can see them now i do remember them rerunning in teenage years or something i remember some. I like the old ones they don't have all their blood and gore in them
I enjoyed Broderick in General hospital when he played the role of a deranged female nurse who mouldered her/his patients. It was hilarious as on several episodes Broderick was as drunk as a skunk and for got to shave! 😂
Talk about a diverse actor! I enjoyed Broderick in General hospital when he played the role of a deranged female psychopathic psychiatric nurse who moidered her/his patients. It was hilarious as on several episodes Broderick was as drunk as a skunk and forgot to shave! Dressed as a woman in a nurses uniform and high heels 😂
Good episode. Kudos to Broderick Crawford. He gets a lot of crap for drinking and his weight issues but one helluva actor. Linne Ahlstrand did 5 HP epidodes as a dispatcher. RIP Linne.
Linne may have been the policewoman from Ohio in one episode, and the girl in the motorcycle sidecar in another. Or, just actresses that look like her.
There are worse things than fat and tipsy . . .perhaps like stupid, greedy and presisdent
Linne' died of cancer at 36, she was 27 in this episode......
Talk about a diverse actor! I enjoyed Broderick in General hospital when he played the role of a deranged female psychopathic psychiatric nurse who moidered her/his patients. It was hilarious as on several episodes Broderick was as drunk as a skunk and forgot to shave! Dressed as a woman in a nurses uniform and high heels 😂
Love this show,Broderick Crawford, great actor!! Love the scenery, old cars
Talk about a diverse actor! I enjoyed Broderick in General hospital when he played the role of a deranged female psychopathic psychiatric nurse who moidered her/his patients. It was hilarious as on several episodes Broderick was as drunk as a skunk and forgot to shave! Dressed as a woman in a nurses uniform and high heels 😂
Can I say with great confidence that the music spikes on this show are themselves outstanding!
Yes you can. ;>)
I totally agree. I wasn't even a thought when the show came out, but it quickly became my favorite as well as Sea Hunt
Music provided by The David Rose Orchestra!! Refer also to
Great tune "The Stripper"!
Yeah Really! 💗😍🤬😈💥💯
@@bailey9r’May I say’ is correct. He has a tongue, so obviously he can.
’May I say’ is correct. You have a tongue, so obviously you can.
We need shows like this on tv again
But Brod needs to stop shootin' from the hip and AIM, instead of just spraying lead.
We need law enforcement like this again!
Are you suggesting a modern day Reboot of this Great Program?
Please Don't!! 🖕💯💩🤡🥴🤬
Old TV shows no swearing no nudes no queen's pushing their way of life .Still watchable in this day and age.
Love that '57 Mercury convertible. Beauty in chrome and steel.
Watched highway patrol when I was a kid. It was my family's favorite show still watch it. Brings back memories.
Trivia: At 21:12 the car is driving north on North Poinsettia Place in Hollywood. They then turn into one of the gates for Ziv Studios (where the TV series was filmed). 60 years later, those two houses at the end of Poinsettia Place at 21:12 still exist.
That's funny. "Hey, Ziv, can you help us out? We're in a big jam here. Can you rewrite the script so we escape?"
also i highway patrol car went by a building in the 4000 block of laural canyon blvd in no hollywood, in the san fernando valley.
I often look up the locations shown to see how they look.
It's surprising that some of the businesses not only are still there but occasionally still have the same signage.
I lived in the area when these shows were produced. The Ziv studio is gone. Demolished for a shopping center which in turn was demolished for condos. The studio dated to the silent picture era and had a long history before Ziv used it.
Love those late 50s cars with the giant fins.....
talps th
They needed those fins for aerodynamic stability!
and bullet shields !
i love Crawfords work.. hes the best. 😁😁😁
He was great in the movies too. And later in an episode of "It Takes a Thief".
A real ‘take charge’ man of the ages. “Lets move now” he barks at his underling....too much!
Talk about a diverse actor! I enjoyed Broderick in General hospital when he played the role of a deranged female psychopathic psychiatric nurse who moidered her/his patients. It was hilarious as on several episodes Broderick was as drunk as a skunk and forgot to shave! Dressed as a woman in a nurses uniform and high heels 😂
He spoke fast as well when he was in General hospital as well!
Watching highway patrol makes me relive my youth. Love it
another great episode that keeps ya on the edge of your seat...👍👍. thank you!
That’s why I stand up and watch this series. I find that after a while my butt gets numb from sitting on the edge of my seat.
I love this show for 2 reasons.... the good acting of Broderick Crawford and supporting cast.... and the cars.... I remember those cars with the noisy lifters (fords I think)..... all of these cars were gas guzzlers.... but that was the engineering of the times.....
the Buicks were the gas guzzlers
some of the noisy lifters might have been the fault of the crappy first generation "multivis" oils of the time
did any of the first generation "Police Interceptors" have solid lifters?
The new cars were the stars in these shows.
I wish I could go back to the '50s for a few days.
im with you, god i miss the good times.
Fuck you and the50s
bovnyccc operalover Wouldn’t it be great to be able To return to the 50s permanently
It would be OK, except I'd like to keep the medical advances we have today, but bring back some of the 50's values, car style, and clothes
I'd go back permanently. The women actually acted like women.
Thank you for posting these.
+Thomas Coughran Agreed, what a great show
Broderick Crawford- America’s first “speed talker”. I could understand him as a kid and I still can!! 👍👍👍
@mariesmith8454easy because he was doomed to the eyeballs on speed amphetamies
Talk about a diverse actor! I enjoyed Broderick in General hospital when he played the role of a deranged female psychopathic psychiatric nurse who moidered her/his patients. It was hilarious as on several episodes Broderick was as drunk as a skunk and forgot to shave! Dressed as a woman in a nurses uniform and high heels 😂
He spoke fast as well when he was in General hospital as well!
Anyone remember those old stop signs with the reflectors in the word STOP and they were yellow
They did that until 3M invented the Scotchlite Reflective tapes and vinyl coatings. Those reflective coatings exceed many times the reflective ability of those old reflectors.
I do!
Crawford was a badass. His movies proved it
"What's that?" Almost every episode that is what Matthews says when on the phone! I caught him saying it twice in this episode. Hahaha.
Shows he is a good actor. There's no one really on the other end.
He was drunk and forgot his line. Talk about a diverse actor! I enjoyed Broderick in General hospital when he played the role of a deranged female psychopathic psychiatric nurse who moidered her/his patients. It was hilarious as on several episodes Broderick was as drunk as a skunk and forgot to shave! Dressed as a woman in a nurses uniform and high heels 😂
He spoke fast as well when he was in General hospital as well!
Never saw these as a kid, but such a great show.
Wow. As a small kid I got to stay up late to watch this show with mom and dad. Still great episodes.
I love these classic Cars!
I used to watch this series as a kid in Puerto Rico, perfectly dubbed in Latino Spanish by local Puerto Rican actors/ actresses.
I grew up on Mulholland Dr. in the 70's , I love these scenes with what we called "Grandstands", it was the racetrack on Mulholland Dr. between Coldwater and Laurel Canyon, we would race
back and forth and whoever was the fastest won. Pink slips were won and lost there. Great times !!
Use to watch with my grandmother in early 60s on a small black and white tv
I'm here for the old cars , wondering how many are still going .
How about the old people?
@@glennso47 The cars outlived them.....
The Cab Company also has a Hallicrafter Receiver. But there's a Motorola Business band Transmitter in back so....
…and none of the radios are ever turned on.
Broderick Crawford....a great actor.... love those Buicks....
Just rent a room for a few hours to plan our next heist! The Greyhound Scenic Cruiser made a nice background driveby!
I never saw this but I like it
love the old cars, so shiny and new
Normally in almost all of the episodes the California on the license plate is taped over, in this episode from 23:55-24:05 you can see CALIFORNIA, and to the right is the black strip that would be embossed with "56" which is the year that those plates began to issued by the DMV, and used until 1963.
Oh Dan ! They call him good - ol' Twinkle Toes when he tries to run !
At 14:50, the phone handset cord is cut off when the woman hands the phone to Dan.
Buffalo Ave in Sherman Oaks when the car chase starts. But not sure if that’s Ventura Blvd as it was only street developed back then in The Valley going north.
I was a cabby in the early 1970s. Our dispatcher wasn't a hot brunette. He was a fat, older guy who smoked too much. When I complained to him that the calls he was giving me were short trips with small or zero tips, he told me up front that I was still living at my parent's house and didn't need the money as much as the older cabbies who had rent or a mortgage to pay and a family to support.
wow, should of told him that you have 8 kids to feed.
lol, you didn't give your dispatcher enough of a kickback.
@@tenfourproductionsllc To be fair to myself, I was too young and inexperienced to even think that a kickback was necessary. I wouldn't have known how to make such an offer. I was so green. I wondered why the cabs I got were always belching white smoke and sometimes stalled.
Everytime I fantasize about living in the 50's, I have to remember I am a Senior, and am thankful for todays modern medicine. I'm staying here. I love HP.
Looks like Laurel Canyon ,16:53 was just a riverbed back then, now it's just cars all day long a major boulevard.
It looks like this episode was filmed in Sherman Oaks, because at 20:42 there is a street sign visible which reads Buffalo Avenue,3500 N, which I belive is located in Sherman Oaks.
5500 Buffalo. They shot much of this on Burbank Blvd.
Awesome how they jerry rigged the getaway car so it would not start. I thought that red bird on top of the taxi sign for the Red Bird taxi was funny looking. Another good episode with Dan Mathews and crew.
John A. No, it was a ford, nuff said
I.removed your rotor from the disturbutor. Turns your car off.
Ford = Fix Or Repair Daily/ Found On Road Dead lol!
@@Revelation18-4 Frequently overhauled rapidly deteriorating! ;
For those only accustomed to modern cars, the HP officer pulled the rotor from his distributor which disables the ignition system. Surprised to see that he had to open the hood from the interior of the car. Most cars at the time didn't have interior hood latches.
Why I moved from the San Fernando Valley: too many robberies! A problem back in 1959, and still a problem today. Oh well, I guess some things never change!
Things changed for the worse. Look at the stats.
It's Christine's taxi reiative
1959 the year I was born. Robberies were bad back then? Wow
@@kenlucas7025 Yes! The final straw for my wife and I leaving the valley, was when she was a bank manager for a big bank, and her calling 911 during a "take over" robbery, and the police not responding until 40 minutes later. That was 25 years ago! My brother was born at Encino hospital in 1959.
@@carloscarpinteyro332 Wow. So many of the commenters here act like 1950s California was paradise with no crime and is ruined by Mexicans. . . . I'm just keepin it real.
Looked up the Wm Mellenthin building towards the end of the video. He was a builder of homes in that area. Then I went to Google maps/street. The area sure has changed!!
That's all we need a hot headed taxi driver.
I like this show
That was smart pull the rotor out of the distributor
I thought he was going to pull the coil wire. He did even better.
old trick, my Dad did it to me when i needed to fix my brakes on my 53 chevy
All the crooks are always dressed so nicely. Usually very polite.
hey , none of us is perfect! Broderick Crawford wasn't the only actor that liked a little booze.The point is this-he was a Wonderful actor!
Of course, if he drank, he drank. No one ever said he could not act.
YEAH WELL HIS LITTLE BOOZE,SMOKING AND JUNK FOOD DIET DID HIM WAY BEFORE HIS TIME.....LESSON TO BE LEARNED HERE.
@KeweKrypto 12 And keep their political views to themselves!
@@RustyOpel HEALTHY LIFESTYLE HELPS WITH LESS SUFFERING WHEN YOU DO GET OLD. IT'S THE INTELLIGENT THING TO DO PERIOD.
@@denieledwards6893 - Well, he lived to 74. That's not so bad.
Notice the Hallicrafter Radio gear for their communications desk?
Thought it was a Hammerlund. Maybe you're right. They don't make them like that any more. Cheap ass PC from China now.
I work 12 hour security mobile patrol shifts and came across this series and fell in love with the cars and stories.
Those Old Buicks Are Awesome 1955-1958❤
Looks like the younger officers only got 3 holers,the senior officers/Sergeants like Crawford got 4 holers !
@@davidpowell3347Is this like v8 and v6 engines ?
Love that sweet '57 Mercury convertible !!!!!!!!.
The 1957 Mercury Convertible is nice.
Here's a good drinking game..Every time Matthew's pick up phone and says, "What's that??"
One of the reasons l like this show, it's because it shows what some areas of Southern California are. What it used to look like
Late 1950's - early 1960's California was wonderful 👌
That high speed 30MPH chase!
That was so funny. Usually they speed up the film.
This is a swell episode, I really enjoyed it.
By golly, it sure was. Heck, I've been keen on Highway Patrol for a good long while now. The cars and backgrounds are fantastic!
@@672egalaxie6 How old are you two? I haven't heard "swell" and "by golly" in a long time.
More importantly, Jesus saves sinners! God bless you
Lol stealing the rotor button out of the distributor. 20 Years or so ago had a guest at the house with a bit too much to drink so I took his coil wire off and placed it in my desk; heard him try to start car and no luck, heard hood pop and a few minutes later Vroom and off he went... Huh? He took the plug wire off #1 cylinder and used it as the coil wire and drove home on 7 cylinders! Nowadays I'd pull the fuel pump or ECM relay but still easy enough to swap in the horn relay or something if the driver has enough sense/motivation.
funny
Well, you tried!
Cut the wire going to the ignition.
As a child, I remember thinking the heavy cars looked funny leaning and plunging like crazy when pushed!
Why would you push such a heavy car, when it has an engine you can drive it?
@@Nichole-Kerr Lol!!!
@ 20:42 5500 Buffalo ave. Sherman Oaks Ca. by Woodman and Burbank avenues.
Imagine how long a new Convertible would last in a field unattended these days.
Hemi power where I live there would be no problem. It’s what field. So sad it’s that way now.
It would get stolen in a matter of hours these days. It wouldn’t last long at all. I wouldn’t leave a new convertible in a field anyways. I have a garage with a locking door.
@@Tubby31310read your comment . It doesn’t make any sense?
@@Tubby31310it’s what field? What the heck does that meant to mean?
Hemi power where I live. So where where you live is Chrysler county. What has that got to do with a field ?
When a HWP episode starts off with a shot of a beautiful looking 1953 Mercury you know that its going to be a good episode, and this one sure was with a great plot and suspenseful throughout. I noticed that they did not show either the cab driver getting shot or someone finding his body, I guess they felt that it would be a little bit too realistic for the audience to watch back then. Innocent people though did occasionally get killed on that show.
Clue rental--no fee--that's a '57 Merc.
@@edgarcook9607 The '57 Merc is shown briefly in the introduction and appears later on in the show, but a few seconds into the story line a nice looking '53 Merc appears at :52 where it can be seen parked on the left side of the road. I just love that air scoop featured on the hood. It was also present on the '52 and '54 model years.
The show was syndicated right from the start, so they had to try to sell it in as many markets as possible. They didn't want some outstate and rural stations to reject it as being too gory for their viewers.
Probably for run time because this show has some episodes were it shows them execute someone that's been kidnapped
@@redtra236 Yes, that could well be but who knows for sure.
Crawford was moving like a gazelle during that shootout! lol
Yeah, he was moving slow during this episode.
And he act differently when there are murder crimes.
The dames on this show were hot!!
They were HOT in all the episodes.
Trite statement
@@ShieldArc200 SOMEONE DOESN'T LIKE THESE COMMENTS.
vvvvv
The dames are pretty! More importantly, Jesus saves sinners! God bless you
This was back when California was a great place to live. Simpler times for sure.
It was pretty sly for the HP officer to pull the distributor rotor from the perps getaway car.
Yeah, but he gambled: how did he know it was the crooks' car?
4:10 my favorite Adventures of Superman criminal
+Barry G Many of there "character" actors were WW 2 vest who were discharged in California and gave acting a shot. They were very busy with advent of TV in the 1950's. Some were pretty good others not so much.
Superan
Dan can get anywhere in 5 min provided it’s before noon
Love that merc convertible
Come on now, Move! What dialogue, Authoratively stated. Mathews and Friday would have made a match👮🤠.
Funny you say that. Neither Dan Mathews nor Joe Friday were written to have a life outside of their job. They were both composites of ideal policemen, so they have no wife, kids, hobbies, time away from the job.
Late fifties.....early sixties....the teenage years for us baby boomers....Highway Patrol was part of it. Good ol fast talking Crodrick Brawford. 😊
The cab dispatcher says, "Highway Patrol headquarters, please hurry." As if the operator can connect them any faster.
Yeah, Jerry definitely got a code blue.
The money is always in a paper sack.
Paper money, paper bag
Nice looking dispatcher wow oui
Amazing that with a dead driver and stolen cab that the dispatcher is alone for the entire ordeal. No manager or supervisor or owner appears ....
Both dispatchers are attractive and wholesome looking.
Trite statement.
I thought he had pulled off a couple spark plug wires, snatching the rotor our of the distributor= even better !
Nothing is new in Hollywood. I thought the movie, “Collateral”, starring Tom Cruise was an original movie but it looks like they got the idea for the movie from this episode of Highway Patrol. It was still a good movie though.
Opposite of this scenario, I saw a sign posted on a Fort Worth cab that said "Taxi On Patrol" . That section of town had its share of trouble. Even worse today.
Quick, I better round up the two dispatchers and frisk then, let’s see if we can find one of them 50’s woodsided station wagons, I can remember all of those old cars from childhood, go get em’
That’s why I stand up and watch this series. I find that after a while my butt gets numb from sitting on the edge of my seat.
13:13 "Oh, Mr. Mathews, I hope he doesn't do anything foolish. He's awfully hot-headed." I think the foolish part was agreeing to pick up two armed criminals for the police, after being given a full description and being fully aware of what they were planning to do. All blame goes to the cabbie's temper? What sort of cops expect civilians to participate in that?
They were being good citizens.
Jidis
You sound like a coward. Back then many folks had what was called BALLS and would help others by helping cops get rid of bad guys.
Just stay in your mom's basement and you will be ok
@@bertgrau9246 You can't expect a "jidis safi" to understand that.....
@@javiergilvidal1558 Yeah, like this show is realistic look at life.
There is always one last job. They should have chosen an area outside Dan's. Broderick Crawford was one of the best. RIP.
Something for Uber to worry about
Good episode. Funny, the cabs have radios but no antennas.
" Who's right ...Who's left ... Who Cares " With Dan Mathews on the job ,no one is safe from the law !
I had a "code Maggie" in my front seat this morning......
Great episode.
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I love how Mathews shoots from the hip! LOL The smog was awful in the LA basin back then. Its sound odd when the dispatcher eith firsy word "bye" and then talks.
"Smog" is also naturally occuring in the right conditions. It was commented on in that are by the first white men who arrived there.
Imagine how much those cars weighed and you had to use tools to get into a Budweiser can!
High speed pursuit, 1958-style.
Looks like this episode was shot on location in Van Nuys and Sherman Oaks.
These Cars Drive Me Crazy ❤😊
AHhhhhhhh.........The old .."steal the rotor trick"Cant do that these days....COPPER !
There's fuel pump relay and PCM relay that can be pulled from some cars now
I wish I could go back to the 60s and the 70s. But I Can't.
Well, I believe this is from 1958.
@@scribe570 Well.Who cares.
The bad guys were in a hurry at 25 mph while being chased at the 20:54 minute mark.
Great Shooting Stance/Eye to Sight control by Brod! I have never heard Brod's rank mentioned in any of these great episode. Did Coppers refer to themselves as Mr. in the 50's? Still waiting to see some bro's in these episodes, no Latinos in SoCal back in the day?????? Thanks for posting these......10-4
back in the day they would call you mr david if your name was david and always said sir
What's a bro?
He was a leautenant
LOL! They weren't on television in 1950s except as shoeshine "boys" and washing cars. This was what was wrong with this vicious cycle. Even if there were black or brown businessmen, doctors, cops, military, etc., TV only showed them in menial occupations. Then, the public watches TV and thinks that's all they can do. It's not true, but the TV and movie industry thinks that, so perceptions never change. And that is known as a stereotype.
He was a lieutenant. Heard it mentioned several times.
Nothing wrong with watching this even in your 70s! It's all new 2 me being in the U.K. but it's good entertainment