I am 74... still enjoy them. the 'pre-California' politics destroyed California - love the cars... and the simple nature of the homes, landscapes, etc. Sad, however, to hear the struggles those actors all had in their private lives.
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@@retiredmusiceducator3612 In my opinion , being 67 years old, what has destroyed California is overpopulation. There are twice as many humans on the planet as there were in 1970.
Saw this show in reruns in the mid 1960's. I became a music teacher. Was taking piano lessons then...I wrote out the notes in the key of C to the Highway Patrol theme. My piano teacher was impressed that after only 2 years of lessons I could write this out and play the melody in the right hand and with chords and moving bass line notes in the lefthand. So the theme song was a milestone in my life but I did not know it at the time. Teacher said to me none of her other students have ever done this. So because of Highway Patrol I became a music teacher lol.
I enjoy finding bloopers in these shows. When the '57 Chevy first blocks the road the front tires are turned right. When they are walking the couple towards the '57 Chevy to haul them away the tires are turned left.
Yeah. They never imagined in the future one could have their own personal copy of the show to watch over n over. Fast forward, rewind, freeze frame, etc.
I just looked up actress Susan Dorn on IMDB and they have her date of birth as May 14, 1928. That makes her 91 not 87. She appeared in 3 episodes of Highway Patrol from 1957 to 1959. She only acted from 1957 to 1962 in 12 different tv shows or movies. Maybe her acting career was cut short due to her pulling a gun on Dan Mathews and spent many years in prison. LOL
@@franknew9001 I can’t understand why she pulled the gun. She could have faked ignorance about her husband’s secret activities. No reason for both of them to go to jail.
@@franknew9001 Ah, she didn't really mean it, she didn't want to shoot him, she said so didn't she? She should've got some leeway from the law for that, right?
I watched this episode last week on TV and made a discovery! Glad I found it on UA-cam! I had to start watching this series from the very first episode. I love it, especially since it has NO commercials! I also enjoy watching "The Fugitive" on TV! Both great shows!
@@JohnPMitten whatcha talkin'bout? I frikkin'love broderick crawford! Go watch The Mob, he plays a great undercover hood. Just sayin'he qas a notorious hollywood lush is all....part of his swagger
He also portrayed a state trooper from Idaho that issued hints about railroad safety in a film about rail crossings made by Union Pacific in the late 1950s.
Highway Patrol also had some pre-star actor/actress appearances such as Clint Eastwood, Leonard Nimoy and Barbara Eden. On several episodes Stuart Whitman was also a patrolman. I understand Whitman and Crawford became good friends, Whitman tried to help him with his drinking issue.
At 20:33, he is driving southbound on North Lucerne Boulevard in Los Angeles. At 20:42, the white house with the chimney is 537 North Lucerne. At 20:51, he walks up the driveway to 531 North Lucerne. More than 60 years later, both houses are still there.
@winggullseagull my parents had a '57 Bel Air wagon. Bought it used and within a few years the floorboard rusted out. Car was less than 10 years old. I wonder what my parents paid for that wagon🤔. I'm sure you wish you had that car now but in 1968 who knew?
@@richardrice8076 It was a 4 door hardtop I was hoping my dad would keep it. I recall in the mid '60's he had a piece of wood a 2 by 4 to hold the hood up. He bought a Chevelle Malibu in 1968 for my mom. She learned to drive in the '57 Chevy but it had no power steering it was a tank. That's why he bought the Chevelle w/ power steering. I used to know a co-worker in 1979 he bought a '57 Bel Air Convertible in 1964.....for $400 he was a kid then he sold it in the late '60's cheap like my dad. Little did he know it was an investment but he had no way of knowing in 1964. The reason the kids latched onto them was they were so cheap & the classic style. Hindsight is 20/20.
Actually, they did use the driver's door at 22:38 but to your point, them old cars with the bench seats the size of a sofa and column shifts, you get in either door
lcar4000 :evidently they had only 3 days to shoot an episode, so everything was rushed, also to keep up with Crawford's high speed acting style...so I imagine they didn't worry too much about continuity.
@@paulremmey8268 This 57 Chevy Two-Ten with 283 CID V-8 and Power Glide was 3252 lbs. The 2020 Prius is 3040 lbs. Only 212 lbs difference. My father weighted 142 lbs in 1957. It just takes a 354 lbs driver to even-out. We have lots of 354 pounders nowaday!
20:50 love these shows, what America used too be like, beautiful small homes perfect driveways, mowed yards, clean streets, even the citizens evil-doers we're dress perfect. 60 years latter, fire gutted houses, chuck holes in the streets, broken curbs no driveways, Gangs Drugs, stolen shopping carts in the yard no sense wasting your time on a perpetrator, whole freaking City, are full of them.😊
I love the women in these shows always very fit and wearing a sharp dress .. Well today it would be a 250 lb butchie loaded with tats and spitting on the floor and calling everybody dude..
after he drives off `saying last one tommorrow morning` SHE should take send this mask,gun and stuff to police thru P.O>-package with return his name..She should split right after he drives off suit case with all the cash.change of clothes and just disappear into a small down arrive on a bus ,her hair dye -what ever-chanee name.. meet nice guy in small monatna town to live with..happyly ever after ..honestly
Yessirr you damn right about that! What happened to the word, femininity(?) Must no longer be in the vocabulary today. Again to clear myself, I ain't directing this to all women, though. Just saying
Kinda sad. If these crooks had only known that if they had bought two of those houses for $12K each back then, they'd be multimillionaires right now. Tsk tsk....
12K in 1957 is around 100K in 2020 munny, the house wouldn't be worth much now but the land in the hills of so-cal where they filmed these shows would and IS!
Kinky, That's close to true. I know a gentleman that bought a house around San Diego for I think he said, $32,000 in 1958, sold it in 1995 for over $300,000 not a million. but not bad at all
@@bertgrau9246 a better bet would have been to by an apartment in a 10-12 story building in Brooklyn in say the mid-80s for around 85K....got a friend who did and their apt appraises in the crap bulding they are in for about a mil 2 today.....thems good 30 yr returns!
My dad bought property in 1958 & had a house built for $20,000. House was finished in 1961, He left this planet in 1984 the house was left to my ma & she left it to me & my bro. We sold it in 2005 for $335,000 so my dad didn't live long enough to reap the benefits. The downside of forward thinking. Hindsight is 20/20 it's hard to look ahead & know the future. I was 17 in 1977 when my ma bought my first car a '59 2 door Impala for $1600 in mint condition. Even then '59 Chevy's were a rare sight & this young man in his 20's was checking it out & advised me to hang onto the car he said it'll go up in value someday. Some people can see value before anyone else can. But it wasn't an investment I liked the style. I got into a wreck & it wasn't worth fixing at the time....but it would've been in the long run. I didn't think ahead I was a kid. In 1978 my dad bought me a '57 Bel Air 4 dr hardtop for $1000 & I later sold it for $1700 the first time I made money. Then on I bought my own cars & if I kept all the cars I had I'd be sitting on a goldmine......hindsight is 20/20 as I said.
If you only knew the future you would know you had it real good. When the US was #1. Gone forever. Who's houses did they use back then, are they still nice neighborhoods?
About that sliding from the driver’s side to the passenger side to get out - always wondered about that. I’m 76 and have never seen anyone doing that! But it’s very true we girls always slid into the middle of those bench seats on a date😀🥴
That '57 Ford Custom 300 Fordor in Woodsmoke Grey shows up in lots of episodes! Of course, I do realize that the budget was like $57.18. And I do believe that was the original Nixon mask!! Never seen Dan with sunglasses before - looks like the larger of the Blues Brothers.
Wow! Where to start today? The guy cleans his finger prints off everything but the face of the chair back that he just laid his hands on; Dan heads to the "truck driver's house" (abt 11:24) in a police car, a Ford, with 2 headlights and arrives at the house in a Dodge sporting 4 headlights; the crook's car must suffered an accident that incapacitated its driver's side door since, after the 1st job we see, he always enters and exits on the passenger side; crook deposits his revolver in his back pants pocket ...and then proceeds to sit on it while he's driving, no pocket holster for him!; Dan drives away with no sunglasses, but then emerges from the interior of the market office looking like one of the Blues Bros.; Dan, like any good cop, leaves his keys in the ignition of his parked patrol car on the street -- of course, HP cops are so smart that they always carry extras, so why worry about someone taking the police car for a joyride? Another great episode with great old clunkers to entertain even the most demanding viewers.
Had I been Sam's wife I would NEVER have followed him into crime! Now the wife has to face jail time for her faithfulness to a wicked husband! Too bad, so sad!
This was before the criminals were allowed to go free no matter how guilty they are. Now we even open the prisons and let them all out because it costs too much to coddle them all. Now they get free medical, free college credits, free food, exercise time, lotsa sleep, and they get to hang with all their gang buddies.
Drove like tanks. No power steering, no power brakes, hand crank windows, guzzled gas, spewed stink, hot sticky vinyl seats, shift control required a muscle bound man to operate. And, NO AC. That part really bad.
I wasn't old enough to drive in the 1950's but I don't remember drivers always getting into a car on the passenger side and sliding over to drive like they do in this tv series.
It's sort of a holdover from when there were still a lot of unpaved roads. People would exit the car on the curb side so that they weren't walking in mud and getting their shoes dirty. Many early American automobiles actually had the steering wheel on the right-hand side for that very reason, even though we drove on the right-hand side of the road. Not many vehicles with a bench seat anymore, so it's not really a option nowadays.....
There weren't many bucket seats then, just bench seats. Made it lots easier to slide across. Our girl friends sat in the middle in the front! Can't do that any more.
8:55 - nothing like a touch of slapstick to liven things up. Broderick Crawford is quite the versatile actor. Too bad Broderick didn't try the old Three Stooges routine at 11:40 where, after knocking on the door a few times and looking away for a moment, he knocks on the forehead of the person who just opened the door. At 14:12, while the narrator speaks, I bet Broderick is saying something like, "I always tell them there is no difference between a craft bourbon and a good old fashioned bottle of Jack Daniels, so stop trying to charge me so much." It's amazing no one scraped the side of the house backing those big cars out of that narrow driveway.
When that store owner, while laughing, told Dan that he didn't know what he was talking about, I would have loved to see Dan tell him to" shut yer yap" while smacking the back of his head! No way he should have taken that guff!
Good job the car roofs are high, what with them hats virtually glued onto their heads they need to be (I’m not talking about officers in uniform) That’s why they had so many convertibles
How about it? From Dan Mathews in Highway Patrol to two motorcycle officers in CHiPs in two decades, the role of California's police service is the same to protect and serve.
23:21 the other cop sounds exactly like Van Johnson. Such a great car show & neighborhoods were lovely. Makes you wonder why those two turned to crime.
why not to wear gloves for the heist , there is no use to clean the money box or the chair , the fingerprints were printed on the adhesive tape he used to immobilize the victim.
Commit a crime without involving a victim personally or secondly a victim but not hurting them or thirdly no weapons and the crime and the sentence are much reduced, the great train robbery in Britain would have been regarded considerably differently if the train driver haden't been attacked. The more successful the crime without human victim involvement to a certain extent the less chance of being caught or being given a long sentence and the more admiration you get.
The cafe was located at De Soto Ave. and Devonshire Blvd. (highway 118) before the now called Ronald Reagan came through north of there--opened in 1983 in Chatsworth Ca. in the San Fernando Valley.
Watched this series as a kid, and loved it. I still think it's a great series.
me too but my mom hated this show. it was on Monday through friday at lunchtime. but she let me watch it. PS she didn't like Crawford either
Used to watch this show all the time as a kid. Now I'm 67 and watching it again. Great stuff.
I am 74... still enjoy them. the 'pre-California' politics destroyed California - love the cars... and the simple nature of the homes, landscapes, etc. Sad, however, to hear the struggles those actors all had in their private lives.
@@retiredmusiceducator3612 In my opinion , being 67 years old, what has destroyed California is overpopulation. There are twice as many humans on the planet as there were in 1970.
Saw this show in reruns in the mid 1960's. I became a music teacher. Was taking piano lessons then...I wrote out the notes in the key of C to the Highway Patrol theme. My piano teacher was impressed that after only 2 years of lessons I could write this out and play the melody in the right hand and with chords and moving bass line notes in the lefthand. So the theme song was a milestone in my life but I did not know it at the time. Teacher said to me none of her other students have ever done this. So because of Highway Patrol I became a music teacher lol.
I love the way Crawford signs off each week. Those tips are always on point, even after all these years. Take heed, folks.
I could watch these all day
I’m retired so I guess I can
lol
I try to limit myself to one a day with my morning coffee.
Don Dressel
I’m working and watching them lol
@Oliver James That was very funny....I know what you mean.😂
Ok so now we’re all watching all day 😷🤔🤨
I like the fact that they didn't overload this show with music. No distraction from the plot
Denita Arnold
Or camera shots jumping all around
@@chrisj197438 i think whoever recorded these shows jerks the picture in and out and around just to bother people
@75joev ya (•‿•)
@@chrisj197438 q
@@JohnPMitten How profound.
You know it's trouble when the crook says "Don't worry honey, just one last job."
they all say that.......
@@caroltenge5147 almost all. DB Cooper didn't
😂EVERY TV cop show has one guy who says that ever since. then they had Columbo say "Just one more thing" and catch the guy
One of the reasons I like these old Highway Patrol shows is that there is always action and short diolpgues. very well written and acted always.
Short and quippy dialogue. What is a "diolpgues"? Their neckties? Yes, their ties are short.
I enjoy finding bloopers in these shows. When the '57 Chevy first blocks the road the front tires are turned right. When they are walking the couple towards the '57 Chevy to haul them away the tires are turned left.
Yea, some crew member probably had to move the 57’ Chevy😅 perhaps a retake of some sort..
Good catch! I missed that. Too busy thinking the guy should have listened to "the little woman" and not thought himself smarter than the police.
Yeah. They never imagined in the future one could have their own personal copy of the show to watch over n over. Fast forward, rewind, freeze frame, etc.
Blame the continuity girl...her fault.
Thank you Foxeema ! Such a great series! I was a kid then.
That lady is still around. Today (May 14th, 2019) is her 87th birthday. Happy Birthday, Susan Dorn !
I just looked up actress Susan Dorn on IMDB and they have her date of birth as May 14, 1928. That makes her 91 not 87. She appeared in 3 episodes of Highway Patrol from 1957 to 1959. She only acted from 1957 to 1962 in 12 different tv shows or movies. Maybe her acting career was cut short due to her pulling a gun on Dan Mathews and spent many years in prison. LOL
@@franknew9001 I can’t understand why she pulled the gun. She could have faked ignorance about her husband’s secret activities. No reason for both of them to go to jail.
@@franknew9001 Ah, she didn't really mean it, she didn't want to shoot him, she said so didn't she? She should've got some leeway from the law for that, right?
@ conniewojahn6445-- She did pull the gun on Dan Mathews, but I would give her much less of a sentence than her husband. Maybe probation.
@ axiomist1076-- I just looked up Susan Dorn again on IMDB, and unfortunately she died on February 26, 2020 at age 91.
all the shows are great & i love the cars i knew as a kid
I watched this episode last week on TV and made a discovery! Glad I found it on UA-cam! I had to start watching this series from the very first episode. I love it, especially since it has NO commercials! I also enjoy watching "The Fugitive" on TV! Both great shows!
When the series finished I love Brods reason for its demise “we ran out of crimes”!
A brilliant series, well acted and plots so straightforward!
In 19:43 Mathews wearing dark glasses looks like John Belushi in the "Blues Brothers " HA HA
I was thinking the same thing. This is the only time I've seen him in sunglasses. Also only time I've seen anyone get the drop on him.
And these kids think Belushi brothers were new style
It's a 106 miles to Chicago, we've got a half pack of cigarettes and a full tank of gas. It's dark and we're wearing sunglasses. HIT IT!!
Ol Dan sportin the Ray-Bans.
Seven years of college down the drain !
Nice, shiny new 1957 Chevy!
Betcha it was turquoise with a white top.
One of my favorite shows when I was growing up. Broderick Crawford always got the bad guy.
Always ‼️
Im here in 2024 and was born in 1952 loved this show back in the day and they make me laugh and still enjoy them now thanks
Born in 1951 myself 😎I love rewatching these shows !!
I love watching these Highway Patrol episodes! So good! Thank you for uploading this episode!
Is cool how Broderick Crawford gives advice at the end of each Highway Patrol episode!.
Yeah, I guess you get to do that when you are the Chief Detective who never gets his suit dirty.
Larry Jung Don't drive drunk like me, 10-4
That kind advice from Chief Mathews rings true even in today's modern era.
@@George50809 Whoa! There are episodes where he gets dirty chasing through underbrush and running down dusty roads.
Pretty good driving, backing out of that driveway with about two inches of room on each side.
David Smith a real cop would have never wedged himself in in the first place
@@acerothstein4755 A real cop would start drinking highballs at noon, like Broderick Crawford!
@@Cracktaculus dont watch if you hate broderick
@@JohnPMitten whatcha talkin'bout? I frikkin'love broderick crawford! Go watch The Mob, he plays a great undercover hood. Just sayin'he qas a notorious hollywood lush is all....part of his swagger
That's why his car's sides are full of scratches.
Dan' s partner, William Boyett was a regular on Adam 12 as Reed and Malloy's sergeant.
John Edwards THAT’S where I knew him from!!!
Yeah! I thought he looked familiar. At first I thought it was the rookies show. But you're right. Adam 12
He also portrayed a state trooper from Idaho that issued hints about railroad safety in a film about rail crossings made by Union Pacific in the late 1950s.
He had at least 25 years being a cop on tv. He ought to get a state pension.
Highway Patrol also had some pre-star actor/actress appearances such as Clint Eastwood, Leonard Nimoy and Barbara Eden. On several episodes Stuart Whitman was also a patrolman. I understand Whitman and Crawford became good friends, Whitman tried to help him with his drinking issue.
At 20:33, he is driving southbound on North Lucerne Boulevard in Los Angeles. At 20:42, the white house with the chimney is 537 North Lucerne. At 20:51, he walks up the driveway to 531 North Lucerne. More than 60 years later, both houses are still there.
Thank you very much! I was wondering about that.
(Location identification is a hobby for me but I wasn't going to attempt this one)
The calling card phrase of every show was "Can you get me the Highway Patrol" on the phone. It really got the juices flowing.
Speaking of 57 Chevs and Fords , I remember Perry Mason driving a 57 Ford with a retractable hard rooftop. Beautiful ride.
When she says "Please don't do it again " like he was a naughty toddler. Just kills me
This show is classic & 57 Chevy's & Fords were king !
" Honey, I'm almost done, after I finish THAT ONE LAST JOB."
ALL the cars were king.
@@richardrice8076 That's true I'm a little partial my dad bought a '57 Bel Air new & sold it in 1968 to a kid for $250. I was there as a kid.
@winggullseagull my parents had a '57 Bel Air wagon. Bought it used and within a few years the floorboard rusted out. Car was less than 10 years old. I wonder what my parents paid for that wagon🤔. I'm sure you wish you had that car now but in 1968 who knew?
@@richardrice8076 It was a 4 door hardtop I was hoping my dad would keep it. I recall in the mid '60's he had a piece of wood a 2 by 4 to hold the hood up. He bought a Chevelle Malibu in 1968 for my mom. She learned to drive in the '57 Chevy but it had no power steering it was a tank. That's why he bought the Chevelle w/ power steering.
I used to know a co-worker in 1979 he bought a '57 Bel Air Convertible in 1964.....for $400 he was a kid then he sold it in the late '60's cheap like my dad. Little did he know it was an investment but he had no way of knowing in 1964. The reason the kids latched onto them was they were so cheap & the classic style. Hindsight is 20/20.
Just imagine, a 1/2 hour show with only 4 minutes of commercials.
It's wonder car manufactures put drivers side doors on vehicles, apparently no one used them back then
Yes, in all these episodes the drivers never use the driver side doors--very strange !
Actually, they did use the driver's door at 22:38 but to your point, them old cars with the bench seats the size of a sofa and column shifts, you get in either door
Safer to slide across than to be on the traffic side of the car.
I was thinking it looked like Charles Bronson...
That seems strange to me, I have never done that.
These old shows are great! I like how he stuffs the evidence mask into the bad guy’s pocket for safe keeping.
This series is educational as well as entertaining.Delinquents should be made to watch this so they can clearly see they will never get away with it.
Dan know he's kicks! Told that guy "here put this back on, I think you look better in it" Lol
I like that quip, too.
The rearview mirror on top of the dashboard on the 1950s cars looks cool. I hope they will do it again on today's new vehicles.
-Mathews leaves for the truck driver's house in a 57 Dodge, which turns into a 56 Mercury en route, and changes back into a Dodge upon arrival.
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lcar4000 :evidently they had only 3 days to shoot an episode, so everything was rushed, also to keep up with Crawford's high speed acting style...so I imagine they didn't worry too much about continuity.
Nobody ever said that Mathews couldn't perform miracles? lol.
Guess they was trying transformers..lol
@Brian Salomon the grassy knoll. You must be near my age -- 69 -- as only those who lived through the Kennedy murder know what the grassy knoll was.
Dan does pretty good going through that tight driveway and backing out. That must be great in the wintertime. 15:35 crane shot.
Jim Stokes wintertime ? California.
He wasn't drunk that episode.
Those driveways were designed for model T's and such.
@@craigschneider1820 No doubt that didn’t hurt the small car market.
They were, I owned one
I love the cars in these episodes!!!
Well, another good one. How about that '57 Chevy?
I'd swap your Prius for that "57 Chevy anytime (and the Chevy in any condition).
otterlover95 Prius over old classic cars?
Progress not by me
otterlover95 , that 57 Chevy was heavy ! Like enough metal for ten preusis ? Let’s make the kitchen appliances instead
@@paulremmey8268 This 57 Chevy Two-Ten with 283 CID V-8 and Power Glide was 3252 lbs. The 2020 Prius is 3040 lbs. Only 212 lbs difference. My father weighted 142 lbs in 1957. It just takes a 354 lbs driver to even-out. We have lots of 354 pounders nowaday!
I love DansLast remark-when you have some time, put this back on, You look better in it! Referring to that "professional" looking mask!
This is the last time
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
I love this old shows from the '50s, including the voiceovers.
20:50 love these shows, what America used too be like, beautiful small homes perfect driveways, mowed yards, clean streets, even the citizens evil-doers we're dress perfect. 60 years latter, fire gutted houses, chuck holes in the streets, broken curbs no driveways, Gangs Drugs, stolen shopping carts in the yard no sense wasting your time on a perpetrator, whole freaking City, are full of them.😊
Sad but true. "Progress" ...
And people shitting on the sidewalks in full view of diners in tony restaurants. Nice. :(
Liberalism is a mental disorder
well they took God out of school...I don't think they have the pledge of allegiance either.
OH SHUT UP! 👎
I love the women in these shows always very fit and wearing a sharp dress .. Well today it would be a 250 lb butchie loaded with tats and spitting on the floor and calling everybody dude..
blueticecho thats funny homey.
you forgot zits, yellow teeth, toe wax, dandruff and lice.
Stop it! You're making me frisky!
after he drives off `saying last one tommorrow morning` SHE should take send this mask,gun and stuff to police thru P.O>-package with return his name..She should split right after he drives off suit case with all the cash.change of clothes and just disappear into a small down arrive on a bus ,her hair dye -what ever-chanee name.. meet nice guy in small monatna town to live with..happyly ever after ..honestly
Yessirr you damn right about that! What happened to the word, femininity(?) Must no longer be in the vocabulary today. Again to clear myself, I ain't directing this to all women, though. Just saying
Kinda sad. If these crooks had only known that if they had bought two of those houses for $12K each back then, they'd be multimillionaires right now. Tsk tsk....
Millionaires, but dead of old age.
12K in 1957 is around 100K in 2020 munny, the house wouldn't be worth much now but the land in the hills of so-cal where they filmed these shows would and IS!
Kinky,
That's close to true. I know a gentleman that bought a house around San Diego for I think he said, $32,000 in 1958, sold it in 1995 for over $300,000 not a million. but not bad at all
@@bertgrau9246 a better bet would have been to by an apartment in a 10-12 story building in Brooklyn in say the mid-80s for around 85K....got a friend who did and their apt appraises in the crap bulding they are in for about a mil 2 today.....thems good 30 yr returns!
My dad bought property in 1958 & had a house built for $20,000. House was finished in 1961, He left this planet in 1984 the house was left to my ma & she left it to me & my bro. We sold it in 2005 for $335,000 so my dad didn't live long enough to reap the benefits. The downside of forward thinking. Hindsight is 20/20 it's hard to look ahead & know the future.
I was 17 in 1977 when my ma bought my first car a '59 2 door Impala for $1600 in mint condition. Even then '59 Chevy's were a rare sight & this young man in his 20's was checking it out & advised me to hang onto the car he said it'll go up in value someday. Some people can see value before anyone else can.
But it wasn't an investment I liked the style. I got into a wreck & it wasn't worth fixing at the time....but it would've been in the long run. I didn't think ahead I was a kid. In 1978 my dad bought me a '57 Bel Air 4 dr hardtop for $1000 & I later sold it for $1700 the first time I made money. Then on I bought my own cars & if I kept all the cars I had I'd be sitting on a goldmine......hindsight is 20/20 as I said.
If you only knew the future you would know you had it real good. When the US was #1. Gone forever. Who's houses did they use back then, are they still nice neighborhoods?
So true.👍
California
Land of Opportunity
@@brooklyn9398 it was until the boomers grew up and messed all up. 😿
@@brooklyn9398 The peoples republic of california
When people confuse fantasy with reality they get comments like this.
Oh, no glam dispatcher this week.
Great one liner from Dan at the end ! 👏👏👏👏🇬🇧
Thanks for bringing this to us.
Isn’t it interesting that homes in the 50s have 0-1 garage doors. It was unheard of to think that a middle class family would have two or more cars.
the day's of the power glide transmission
slip and slide power guide.
@@hkk3656 But in 2021 they still use those Power Glide in dragsters!
Another miracle of no antennaes but the clearest radios ever heard of.
Using a '57 Chevy as a roadblock, priceless.
Neat 55 Chevy.. 😁😋❤Love Brod and this iconic show!
ABLAZ X (Armaniblast) I’ve owned 3 55 Chevys and a 56
Great cars and easy to work on
ABLAZ X (Armaniblast) you sure your not mistaking a 55 Chevy for a 57 Chevy?
57 for sure, hood is giveaway
Love this series
11:34 my mom hated those rear view mirrors, we had a '61 Dodge Pioneer 9 passenger wagon.
17:44 Brod talks into an "Elvis" Electro-Voice dynamic mic.
These were very classy shows back then
Broaddrick rockin the killer shades
Those 1950s suspensions sure were loosey goosey
Thanks for the spare keys that Chief Mathews had the crooks are captured and everything is sunny once again in Southern California.
🎉beautiful old cars
I always liked the close-up shots, they were done with handheld cameras......added realism.
About that sliding from the driver’s side to the passenger side to get out - always wondered about that. I’m 76 and have never seen anyone doing that! But it’s very true we girls always slid into the middle of those bench seats on a date😀🥴
remember waiting for the shown to come on when I was 6-7
That '57 Ford Custom 300 Fordor in Woodsmoke Grey shows up in lots of episodes! Of course, I do realize that the budget was like $57.18. And I do believe that was the original Nixon mask!! Never seen Dan with sunglasses before - looks like the larger of the Blues Brothers.
Wow! Where to start today? The guy cleans his finger prints off everything but the face of the chair back that he just laid his hands on; Dan heads to the "truck driver's house" (abt 11:24) in a police car, a Ford, with 2 headlights and arrives at the house in a Dodge sporting 4 headlights; the crook's car must suffered an accident that incapacitated its driver's side door since, after the 1st job we see, he always enters and exits on the passenger side; crook deposits his revolver in his back pants pocket ...and then proceeds to sit on it while he's driving, no pocket holster for him!; Dan drives away with no sunglasses, but then emerges from the interior of the market office looking like one of the Blues Bros.; Dan, like any good cop, leaves his keys in the ignition of his parked patrol car on the street -- of course, HP cops are so smart that they always carry extras, so why worry about someone taking the police car for a joyride? Another great episode with great old clunkers to entertain even the most demanding viewers.
Relax dude - enjoy the show and go light on the critical review. It's entertainment and not a lesson in policing.
A Mercury, not a Ford.
Love watching these in 2020! Thanks!!!
Dan looks like one of the Blues Brothers in those shades!! lol
Looked like some area of Pasadena to me. Lake Avenue? Always enjoy the ladies fashions and the old school autos. Thank you.
Famous last words. I am smarter than the cops.
Had I been Sam's wife I would NEVER have followed him into crime! Now the wife has to face jail time for her faithfulness to a wicked husband! Too bad, so sad!
14:37 : "Baby I know what I'm doin' "
They why are you driving a Ford?
You know how to spell obviously not
^Ford Owner
Because 1957 Ford could have 312 CID V-8 as opposed to 283 CID V-8 in Chevys. Fords were faster.
Just walk in. No warrant. That all gets dismissed these days.
This was before the criminals were allowed to go free no matter how guilty they are. Now we even open the prisons and let them all out because it costs too much to coddle them all. Now they get free medical, free college credits, free food, exercise time, lotsa sleep, and they get to hang with all their gang buddies.
Door was open.
@@NaYawkr
they also get help finding a job if or when they get out.
Mark,
that was before Miranda rights, they didn't come along until July 1966
Aaahhh........the age of the Fedora!!
Dan styling with those Jackie O sunglasses. Dan putting bags in back seat: he needs to join brotherhood of sleeping car porters
i would have loved to lived back then..driving all those good old cars..
There IS nothing like driving those old cars, I have the privilege to drive them thru out the summer.
Drove like tanks. No power steering, no power brakes, hand crank windows, guzzled gas, spewed stink, hot sticky vinyl seats, shift control required a muscle bound man to operate. And, NO AC. That part really bad.
I wasn't old enough to drive in the 1950's but I don't remember drivers always getting into a car on the passenger side and sliding over to drive like they do in this tv series.
It's sort of a holdover from when there were still a lot of unpaved roads. People would exit the car on the curb side so that they weren't walking in mud and getting their shoes dirty. Many early American automobiles actually had the steering wheel on the right-hand side for that very reason, even though we drove on the right-hand side of the road.
Not many vehicles with a bench seat anymore, so it's not really a option nowadays.....
There weren't many bucket seats then, just bench seats. Made it lots easier to slide across. Our girl friends sat in the middle in the front! Can't do that any more.
Bench seats were great for many things 😂 .
@@billhowes7937 Don't you mean the back seat?
8:55 - nothing like a touch of slapstick to liven things up. Broderick Crawford is quite the versatile actor. Too bad Broderick didn't try the old Three Stooges routine at 11:40 where, after knocking on the door a few times and looking away for a moment, he knocks on the forehead of the person who just opened the door. At 14:12, while the narrator speaks, I bet Broderick is saying something like, "I always tell them there is no difference between a craft bourbon and a good old fashioned bottle of Jack Daniels, so stop trying to charge me so much." It's amazing no one scraped the side of the house backing those big cars out of that narrow driveway.
Yeah, Crawford loved his booze!
All these episodes. ...you'd think that the bad guy would get away at least once!
Sorry crime doesn't pay. It would be fun if just once it did but sorry............
That 57 Chevy costs a fortune today! I’d love to have one but ……..!
When that store owner, while laughing, told Dan that he didn't know what he was talking about, I would have loved to see Dan tell him to" shut yer yap" while smacking the back of his head! No way he should have taken that guff!
🤣👍
Matthews was too nice to smack anybody, the show's writers made sure all of the Highway Patrol were polite.
Pears 2 lbs. 25 Cents Love looking at the real prices of the 1950's
Good job the car roofs are high, what with them hats virtually glued onto their heads they need to be (I’m not talking about officers in uniform) That’s why they had so many convertibles
A very ironic phrase, "this will be the last time( or job)"! That end of the story end right there and then!? Lol
The real STARS of these shows are the cars,....!
How about it? From Dan Mathews in Highway Patrol to two motorcycle officers in CHiPs in two decades, the role of California's police service is the same to protect and serve.
the guy robbers first name is sam. they didn't mention it, but his last name was walton and this is a true story on how walmart became so big! lol
ROFLMAO!!!!
Imagine using a mint 1957 Chevy today as a roadblock!
Also, Dan Matthews looks like Jake Blues with his sunglasses on!
Jake!!
Love The Sunglasses! He was getting pretty Mod in this episode!
This is Broderick Crawford saying I need a drink..
So, at 11:24 Matthews drives away from the store in a Mercury and three seconds later shows up at the suspect's house in a Dodge. These guys are good!
I can’t believe a crook got the drop on Dan Matthews! He must be slipping!
Highway Patrol: Special 14 of 41.
Season 3. Episode 12. "Chain Store".
Gold Episode 11.
Bad Woman: Susan Dorn.
Wednesday - December 14 - 2022.
23:21 the other cop sounds exactly like Van Johnson.
Such a great car show & neighborhoods were lovely.
Makes you wonder why those two turned to crime.
It was in the script 🎭
@@jamescalifornia2964 😆
why not to wear gloves for the heist , there is no use to clean the money box or the chair , the fingerprints were printed on the adhesive tape he used to immobilize the victim.
+Ron Wolpa
It was not in the script.
rahkin rah
What red wagon? What plastic sword? As far as I know I never played with dumb kids like you.
Why not tape the police up and pull the house phone and car radio, he taped the store managers up?
Commit a crime without involving a victim personally or secondly a victim but not hurting them or thirdly no weapons and the crime and the sentence are much reduced, the great train robbery in Britain would have been regarded considerably differently if the train driver haden't been attacked. The more successful the crime without human victim involvement to a certain extent the less chance of being caught or being given a long sentence and the more admiration you get.
His prints were inside the cash box too.
The cafe was located at De Soto Ave. and Devonshire Blvd. (highway 118) before the now called Ronald Reagan came through north of there--opened in 1983 in Chatsworth Ca. in the San Fernando Valley.
Hey! :)
Cameras everywhere, and the grid has changed everything
That Broderick is damned near clairvoyant...
Funny how that mask looks like Adolphe Menjou.
Nah. Thomas E. Dewey.
It's Nixon with a mustache.
Dan looks so cool in sunglasses.
Lotta work to back those behemoths out of that tight drivewayaway
Because only Simpletons pull in to a driveway only having to back out blindly and expect people to wait on them. Forward thinking people back in.
Before security cameras, all was possible