I was born in 1953; I remember this show fondly. Along with Sky King, Sea Hunt, National Velvet, Lassie, My Friend Flicka, and others. Great shows - different era.
Right on. I don't think quality of life has to diminish that much over a life span; it's like a relationship, with yourself - you just have to give it the thought and attention it deserves, and you'll be the better for it.
I was born in 1948 I'm England and when my Maternal grandparents got a 14in black and white TV in the mid 50s l would travel to watch Roy Rodgers, Robing Hood and Highway Patrol. Then my parents would arrive and we would watch "I love Lucy" then walk home. 10/4 is indelibly printed in my mind 10/4!
@@tarstarkusz lt was Highway Patro not State Police and the "Star of the Show " was an actor, not a Policeman. He was sober when he acted. Sometimes he was difficult to understand in common with the majority of Yanjs trying but failing to pronounce English . You seem like someone who voted for Biden the imbecile and will vote for Harris the incompetent.
There very much still ARE Classic Roadside Cafés very much alive-n-well throughout America's heartland, timber country, the entire Southwest, and rural areas "from sea to shining sea"!!! In fact, I'd Pay Bank right about now for Fine Plate of café chicken-fried steak and 'real' mashed potatoes smothered in a Pure Country Recipe of thick sausage-n-mushroom-n-cream gravy, sided with some local peas and grill-top grilled onions.... where I would very happily reach The Size of Dan The Man (too)!!!! :-)
^^^@Tom Harris .. Yeah "Can ya dig it?" Mash potatoes and Chop's, Wtf? We don't even have menu's like that at my Country and @el mago you just described the Perfect dinner/lunch Wow! Awesome .. .
It is just the first week of January 2025. I don’t know exactly when this particular highway patrol episode first aired, but do you realize that this year 2025, mark the 70th anniversary anniversary anniversary of when the show premiered? It premiered in 1955, 70 years ago, wow!Still is a great kill to watch even seven decades later.
The Four Oaks Café was at the top of Beverly Glen where it hit Mulholland. The original café dated back to the turn of the last century. This makes sense, as it appears that much of the series comes from scenes on "dirt" and paved Mulholland Drive.
Broderick Crawford actually had drinking-and-driving issues in real life. He lost his license, and the CHP stopped assisting the show. He couldn't be seen driving in areas where he was likely to be seen. So the last two seasons 57-58, and 58-59, spent a lot of time on then-rural Mulholland Drive, and other rural locations.
@@jimstrict-998 Pretty widely publicized. And remember, the CHP was one of their sponsors. They had huge issues as his drinking was well known around town. Mulholland substituted for every state highway in their state. They were drawn to the portion just east of Coldwater Canyon where Bowmont Drive intersects. There used to be a large fire road entrance across the street (the valley side) and there was a knoll with a dirt road that went behind it to the fire road. They used that quite a bit to stash stolen cars and such.
Asking for the map reminded me....my Dad worked at a gas station back when you drove over an air hose that would "ding" a bell and attendants would come out to your car. Gas, clean your windshield, wipe off your headlights..check your oil if you wanted. One time a guy came in and asked for 25 cents worth of gas......and a road map.
I mentioned this on another episode, but what made this show unusual is that so much of it was shot outside. Just wasnt done much back then for cost control.
A lot of it is stock footage too though if you pay close attention and other episodes you'll see them Drive in the same car right down the same road same place they just you know it was a set
Oh sure. Crazy heavy, undersprung, terrible handling, and a steering column perfect for impaling you in a crash. Seatbelts? LOL. But pretty, yes. We're lucky to be here, and the survivor bias is strong.
I like how they managed to get to the wounded police officer, transport him to a hospital, treat a gun shot wound, get his statement, investigation and suss out his next move all before the crooks finished their lunch. Talk about efficiency lol
Yeah, I guess that comes from the whole real crime scene probably lasted 8hours, and they try to sqeeze, it all, in 30min. Lol. But I really like this true crime series, that I didn't even notice it, but it's good when others notice it. I love Broderick Crawford, so much he could be swinging from the moon, and it wouldn't seem, out the ordinary.
They must first come the the scene of crime and then radio for ambulance. And funny that the criminal get rid of his car tire mark only for few steps or the criminal unscrew a plate from another car in daylight but believe to put stolen plate on his car someone may see him and call the cop.
*The bad guy (Douglas Henderson) might be familiar to some viewers from The Wild Wild West, where he appeared semi-regularly as Jim West's and Artemis Gordon's field supervisor.*
Now this "smart" hoodlum was as thick as a brick! If he didn't substitute the old plates onto the new car, said plateless car would stick out like a sore thumb, and the new plates would be all but useless (as they proved to be). It would have been much safer trying to steal another car..... or take a train. Matthews' boys would not dare block the railway track (or wouldn't they?!)
@@jeffdavis7376 some people that don't see well, do that too, so they can read what they wrote. And some point it out, so they don't get commented on.
Many of the car manufactturers had factories in LA back then. Aftyer the series became popular they were tossing new cars at ZIV like confetti. Even Buick, which didn't have a cop-spec car after '57, built the black Century coupe used in this ep. It was probably prepped as a patrol car later.
@@classic287 we had the Dodge Seneca, I hated it . But I was a kid and our car before was a huge Mercury . We loved to make faces in the bumper grill. Like a fun house mirror when it reflected. back.
@@classic287 I prefer those 'sensible' mid-'50s models, in which you could still wear a hat, to their squashed flat high tail-finned successors which looked a mess.
Fond memories! My dad & I used to watch ‘Highway Patrol’ together, Dad was a big fan of Mr. Crawford’s. Luv the ‘Bare Bones’ set they had back then. “The girl was just another blonde.” Ha...Those words wouldn’t fly today! 🥴 Gotta’ luv Broderick’s white socks tho & his hat doesn’t move.
I Love Lucy, My Three Sons, Our Gang, Dennis the Menace, The Andy Griffith Show, Father Knows Best, The Twilight Zone..., then a little later F Troop, Gilligan's Island, the Outer Limits and my favorite of the ‘60s: Lost in Space. So much great tv and great morals, ethics and family values.
my uncle was chp in socal--his working buddy took us in a brand new 1957 dodge chp car ripping around the hills by the beach-my sis and i were buckled by one seat belt in the front---we were 6/8 years old--you couldn't do that today!!!
Anybody else remember the Four Oaks Cafe? I do and it was nice. This was the Bel Air area then. According to my buddy who still lives in L.A, the building goes back to 1909 or 1910 and still had a restaurant there in or about 1993. This was good police work and some luck to catch that pair.
"Four Oaks Cafe" is still standing at 2181 N. Beverly Glen Blvd., in Los Angeles. Looks different today, of course. It was for sale at some point in 2014.
It's a two door sedan. There is a black frame round the front window, and a black "post" between the front and back windows. The rear window was longer than the '58 coupe and had chrome around the glass and a rubber seal strip for the chrome around the front window to strike and seal where the two windows meet. A simple honest mistake. The '58 coupe Riviera's were shorter, sportier, and had more chrome. ...Real lookers.
joseph laperuta, your not funny mister,just a jerk, for your comments on crawfords drinking problems,whitch too many of the fools here are doing,and its disgusting and predicable,he was a nice guy,stop your stupid insults people, and let the guy rest in peace...
Driving on Mulholland Drive between the San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles. His problem is that when he gets to Reseda Blvd, the road is still blocked in 2018. He would otherwise be able to drive the road another 40 miles to the beach. A portion of Mulholland Drive has been deliberately chained off and left dirt since the 1920s.
Maybe Mulholland Drive has been for decades the ideal digs for crooks - chain off and unpave the street to discourage these criminals. On the east side of Rochelle (IL) Creston rd over I 39 has been blocked off with barricades. My guess is that criminals were using that road as a getaway until the City of Rochelle said enough is enough and closed down Creston rd over I 39.
I used to live in the area that Dan Matthews patrols, but I moved because there were too many roadblocks. Every darn road I turned down, there was another roadblock.
Episodes in those days were filmed according to crime then,...crooks were not as smart as today's, a cop today would have taken no risks...bottom line is that today's cops are trained more rigorously,to be suspicious of everything .
Everybody believed it was required by law. Then one day you heard it was stupid to have all your information for anybody to see.and you realized how stupid that habit was.
I love the way they changed different brands of cars back in the day I remember Martin Milner especially and their Productions they always used Fords and I like all of the cars they drive but I especially like the Buick Century with the three speed on the column and the nail head definitely faster than the dynaflow
Watching this in 2023 is remarkable. The corniness is rivaling all the Rocky movies and Road House combined, but it's okay, when you consider how long ago these were made. I very much enjoy them, as in all the HP videos, all things considered.
All the car sounds are authentic. Many tv shows and movies from this era through the late 70s are all wrong but this show everything matched. As a car guy this is important. A chevy v8 should not sound like a six cylinder british car. It took Hollywood years to get the sounds right. They should have listened to Highway Patrol sound tracks!
Director, “Cut!” Alright, who put SPEED in Dan’s coffee again? You know he reads his lines without spaces between the words and no punctuation when he’s on that stuff”
I love these❗️ I actually have seasons 2-4, but season-1 was more expensive than the others put together. Shows like this are fantastic. Nothing on tv nowadays like it. Only junk. Thanks for posting. 📻🙂
Notice when Crawford at about 18:20, he reaches with his left hand when he gets back in the car. That car had push button transmission on the left in the corner of the dash. Pretty snazzy.
@24:14, Love how Matthews doesn't even clear the gun when it's handed back and forth. Then he puts his finger on the trigger while he's pointing it at the other officer lol
Broderick Crawford was known to take the occasional cocktail. After 12 noon filming scenes in this series that included him were pretty difficult. The real California Highway Patrol had a name for him. It was "Old 502" which was the code for drunk driver.
Good ol time memories 😊 Though just before my birth or very early and likely never seen it reminds me of shows of the time. Good acting. Voices of the times. Music...
So nothing but Diner's back then, not a lot of choices to eat in the late 50's, no wonder we ate home most of the time as I grew up not far from this Four Oaks Cafe but didn't eat there till years before it closed down. It was pretty expensive I think.
Tamara Goode - ONE REASON WAS CAMERAS BEING SET ON SIDEWALK SIDE MAKES FOR LESS SHOOTING PLUS OPENING A DOOR ON TRAFFIC SIDE CAN CAUSE PROBLEMS EVEN IN A CONTROLLED SET SITUATION.
Hey Charles, you got to love these old black and white shows with some episodes there's fast talking, fast driving and fast shooting. Just like those old fast, shoot em westerns. 😄
@@leelarson107 There were numerous times they had to do re takes and even cancellation of some of the filming due to his being either drunk or super hungover! But I still loved his acting!
Great classic cop show. Cutting edge of what was to bring hundreds more over the decades. Crawford was quite the character behind the scenes. with his over indulgence of drinking during taping. On scene real CHP officers dubbed him (code 6) " DUI,,it was a running joke of sorts.
Just wondering - do you have any knowledge of where the women's prisons in California are located? The lady in question at the end was told by Chief Mathews 50 years in the pen.
Wait never mind sir - just Googled "Women's prisons in California" and they're located in Chowchilla in the Central Valley and in Corona east of Los Angeles.
@@scoobycarr5558 Mathews is a stupid cop, not a judge. She would probably get 10 years for being a gangster's moll, and will be out on probation after serving half of that time. He wanted to scare the poor woman with his "50 years".
Dragnet always realistically provided the actual years and make of the car, such as "1952 Chevrolet coupe." I think Highway Patrol omitted car brand names because Ziv shows were made for 1st run syndication and the various TV stations that purchased the show may have had car makers as sponsors, and if Chevy was an advertiser that week they wouldn't want to hear verbal Ford references in the show, etc. You also never here anyone order a "Coke" or anything like that, all products are always referred to by generic names in Ziv programs.
That's IT. It as common for the main local sponsor to be an auto dealer. It's also why HP/ Ziv Productions kept using so MANY makes -- side by side. Few state patrols ever bought cars -- other than bulk -- from one firm -- typically Ford. This shifted as time went by... with even AMC getting into the game. Check out the AMC cop cars in "Argo." They were laying around after "Adam 12."
@4:12, background hills put the pull over scene in front of the Bel Air Presbyterian Church, 16221 Mulholland Dr. @18:21 & 19:17, near present day intersection of Mulholland Dr. & Skyline Dr., looking north. @19:55, they’re at the Nancy Pohl Overlook, scene is looking northeast. Apparently, Mulholland Dr. alignment was along the Betty Dearing Trail back then. Can anyone confirm?
I like watching these shows from the 50s because I was a kid back then and it reminds me of things of that time period.
Me 2
I was born in 1953; I remember this show fondly. Along with Sky King, Sea Hunt, National Velvet, Lassie, My Friend Flicka, and others. Great shows - different era.
Me to, im still going at 69, still kicking ass working like a dog but these young guys ain't got nothin on me yet lol.
Right on. I don't think quality of life has to diminish that much over a life span; it's like a relationship, with yourself - you just have to give it the thought and attention it deserves, and you'll be the better for it.
Same here… but on a Friday 13th…and 100% disabled…
I love the tail fins on those old cars. Cars today have no flare or character.
The fins act as vertical stablizers to steady the back of car.
All they have today is a very high price tag.
@@alphonsozorro7952 At speeds of over 150 mph.
Adam west bat mobile had them...holy dolphin fins batman.
Today's vehicles all look so GENERIC. Back then you could look@a car & know what make/model it was.
I was born in 73 but I love watching the old shows. Ain't it funny how they talk so fast! And they stand so close together. I love it! ❤
Good show! Love Broderick Crawford in these episodes. So good! Love the cars from this period of time!
Yeah he rounded up that killer trash good
What a man. Dark suites on the hottest of California days, black shoes, but always pristine white socks.
i was born in '56, and used to watch this on reruns in the early '60's. i'll never forget the main theme music.
I was born in 1948 I'm England and when my Maternal grandparents got a 14in black and white TV in the mid 50s l would travel to watch Roy Rodgers, Robing Hood and Highway Patrol. Then my parents would arrive and we would watch "I love Lucy" then walk home. 10/4 is indelibly printed in my mind 10/4!
I was born in '61 and remember watching the reruns in the early 1960's too, I had a toy Highway Patrol car, I wish I still had it.
The state police are worthless. The star of this show was drunk repeat DUI offender. He had to leave the show because of it.
@@tarstarkusz lt was Highway Patro not State Police and the "Star of the Show " was an actor, not a Policeman. He was sober when he acted. Sometimes he was difficult to understand in common with the majority of Yanjs trying but failing to pronounce English . You seem like someone who voted for Biden the imbecile and will vote for Harris the incompetent.
@@tarstarkusz Yup, state police are worthless...... until you need them. Then you'll be screaming for them like a lil girl.
Broderick Crawford was an expert actor in any situation...he played his role in a very convincing way.
Very convincing
10-4!
I believe he won an Oscar.
@@mousetreehouse6833 Yeap, for the lead in "All the King's Men."
@@frankfarago2825
Thanks. That title escaped me. 🙂
Crawford’s portrayal of 50s cop is spot on.
@XX crump A couple of people say you are a nice guy.
@XX crump I think he knows that, moron.
@XX crump don't curse, you foul-mouthed demon.
Crawford was much better than the dry, no nonsense monotone of Joe Friday which could become annoying@times.
@@a.leemorrisjr.9255 And Friday not only talked, but always walked like he had something stuffed in his exhaust pipe.
No cell phones, no internet. Life was sweet back in the day. 4 oaks café...…..got to love it.
AND, they had all those nice roadside cafes.
There very much still ARE Classic Roadside Cafés very much alive-n-well throughout America's heartland, timber country, the entire Southwest, and rural areas "from sea to shining sea"!!! In fact, I'd Pay Bank right about now for Fine Plate of café chicken-fried steak and 'real' mashed potatoes smothered in a Pure Country Recipe of thick sausage-n-mushroom-n-cream gravy, sided with some local peas and grill-top grilled onions.... where I would very happily reach The Size of Dan The Man (too)!!!! :-)
^^^@Tom Harris .. Yeah "Can ya dig it?" Mash potatoes and Chop's, Wtf? We don't even have menu's like that at my Country and @el mago you just described the Perfect dinner/lunch Wow! Awesome .. .
No internet...sweet??? How would we watch HP?
You betcha..and I remember those days well....
It is just the first week of January 2025. I don’t know exactly when this particular highway patrol episode first aired, but do you realize that this year 2025, mark the 70th anniversary anniversary anniversary of when the show premiered? It premiered in 1955, 70 years ago, wow!Still is a great kill to watch even seven decades later.
The Four Oaks Café was at the top of Beverly Glen where it hit Mulholland. The original café dated back to the turn of the last century. This makes sense, as it appears that much of the series comes from scenes on "dirt" and paved Mulholland Drive.
Broderick Crawford actually had drinking-and-driving issues in real life. He lost his license, and
the CHP stopped assisting the show. He couldn't be seen driving in areas where he was likely to be seen. So the last two
seasons 57-58, and 58-59, spent
a lot of time on then-rural Mulholland Drive, and other rural
locations.
@@jimstrict-998 Pretty widely publicized. And remember, the CHP was one of their sponsors. They had huge issues as his drinking was well known around town. Mulholland substituted for every state highway in their state. They were drawn to the portion just east of Coldwater Canyon where Bowmont Drive intersects. There used to be a large fire road entrance across the street (the valley side) and there was a knoll with a dirt road that went behind it to the fire road. They used that quite a bit to stash stolen cars and such.
I sure enjoy watching the Highway Patrol.
Asking for the map reminded me....my Dad worked at a gas station back when you drove over an air hose that would "ding" a bell and attendants would come out to your car. Gas, clean your windshield, wipe off your headlights..check your oil if you wanted. One time a guy came in and asked for 25 cents worth of gas......and a road map.
@Rick Jones it sounds like it was you that worked at a gas station back then. You know to many details.
Wow!
Head headlight adjustment in the 1950s. "Yer left is a bit high. I got em both aimed right now."
What a grand time to be alive
The times have certainly moved on…some things made it… some things won’t change-and some things will never change…
I mentioned this on another episode, but what made this show unusual is that so much of it was shot outside. Just wasnt done much back then for cost control.
A lot of it is stock footage too though if you pay close attention and other episodes you'll see them Drive in the same car right down the same road same place they just you know it was a set
Yeah - some locations are used multiple times from different angles...
I like these old shows!
Love those '50s cars. They are stylist and sturdy.
Metal not plastic bodies.
This is ALL true, but the closing of the car doors sound tinny and cheap.
1957 was the epitome of 50s style and glamour , every makes models were superb....
OK in a straight line, but those over-soft suspensions were death in corners.
Oh sure. Crazy heavy, undersprung, terrible handling, and a steering column perfect for impaling you in a crash. Seatbelts? LOL. But pretty, yes. We're lucky to be here, and the survivor bias is strong.
"The girl was just another blonde" Best line ever!
I like how they managed to get to the wounded police officer, transport him to a hospital, treat a gun shot wound, get his statement, investigation and suss out his next move all before the crooks finished their lunch. Talk about efficiency lol
Nnnn m
Mmmmmm
Yeah how are you survived getting shot in the spine at 11 now
Yeah, I guess that comes from the whole real crime scene probably lasted 8hours, and they try to sqeeze, it all, in 30min. Lol. But I really like this true crime series, that I didn't even notice it, but it's good when others notice it. I love Broderick Crawford, so much he could be swinging from the moon, and it wouldn't seem, out the ordinary.
They must first come the the scene of crime and then radio for ambulance. And funny that the criminal get rid of his car tire mark only for few steps or the criminal unscrew a plate from another car in daylight but believe to put stolen plate on his car someone may see him and call the cop.
suss out??
OMG! These old classics are too funny! Everything happens just around the corner! LOL! We were so naïve those days!
*The bad guy (Douglas Henderson) might be familiar to some viewers from The Wild Wild West, where he appeared semi-regularly as Jim West's and Artemis Gordon's field supervisor.*
Yes I recognize Douglass Henderson. I have seen the face around on tv land but it been quite awhile since the days of wild wild west was on television
Just another Blonde
Thank you for sharing that. I knew his face and voice were familiar, but couldn't place it. Again thank you.
Doubled as Canadian prime minister Jean Chretien.....
DAN without a hat on
ANYBODY NOTICE WHEN HE SAID "REG ON STEERING COLUMN" THATS RIGHT WE USED TO HAVE THEM IN PLASTIC HOLDERS WITH SPRINGS HOLDING THEM LOL
Now this "smart" hoodlum was as thick as a brick! If he didn't substitute the old plates onto the new car, said plateless car would stick out like a sore thumb, and the new plates would be all but useless (as they proved to be). It would have been much safer trying to steal another car..... or take a train. Matthews' boys would not dare block the railway track (or wouldn't they?!)
@@javiergilvidal1558 I think the smart thing to do would be to steal another front plate and put the 2nd front plate on the back of the other car.
Did not know that! Thanks!
Well, you don't have to yell out your comments. It's interesting on those registration
@@jeffdavis7376 some people that don't see well, do that too, so they can read what they wrote. And some point it out, so they don't get commented on.
love those 2 door sedans,buick,dodge,plymouth,,Pontiac,mercury,
Many of the car manufactturers had factories in LA back then. Aftyer the series became popular they were tossing new cars at ZIV like confetti. Even Buick, which didn't have a cop-spec car after '57, built the black Century coupe used in this ep. It was probably prepped as a patrol car later.
Ya those “all of a sudden it’s 1960” Plymouths and Dodges took a beating bouncing all over the dirt roads...
@@rickr442 aza
@@classic287 we had the Dodge Seneca, I hated it . But I was a kid and our car before was a huge Mercury . We loved to make faces in the bumper grill. Like a fun house mirror when it reflected. back.
@@classic287 I prefer those 'sensible' mid-'50s models, in which you could still wear a hat, to their squashed flat high tail-finned successors which looked a mess.
I love the way Mathews barks😂..I love the 50's
I like looking at the houses,roads and the businesses in the city.
I love this show I love this show great actors. I'm glad UA-cam recommended this channel for me.
Sammy Video Plex All the Black and White Dragnet shows and 300 Dragnet radio shows are on UA-cam as well . Love the old stuff 👍🏼
62k payroll !! Wow, that was huge in 1957.
That would equate to ~$1,000,000 today.
Somewhere around $666,000 now in 2023.
62k is a huge amount to fay & at any time on history.
Yeah - all the robberies were very low amounts! I think one was $50k.
Another vote for Brodrick, "You wanna bet" No wonder this series was so popular. I hope he knew how good he was.
Born 57, don't remember the show. But love it today.
Fond memories! My dad & I used to watch ‘Highway Patrol’ together, Dad was a big fan of Mr. Crawford’s. Luv the ‘Bare Bones’ set they had back then. “The girl was just another blonde.” Ha...Those words wouldn’t fly today! 🥴 Gotta’ luv Broderick’s white socks tho & his hat doesn’t move.
brings back a whole lot of memories
I used to watch shows like this, Have Gun Will Travel, Gunsmoke, Perry Mason and The Adventures of Superman on our B&W TV when I was a kid in the 50s.
I too!
I Love Lucy, My Three Sons, Our Gang, Dennis the Menace, The Andy Griffith Show, Father Knows Best, The Twilight Zone..., then a little later F Troop, Gilligan's Island, the Outer Limits and my favorite of the ‘60s: Lost in Space.
So much great tv and great morals, ethics and family values.
Me too...born in 48.
Gawd..TV theme songs were as good as any Rock tunes in the day and most memorable. The talent is incredible. Robert at 69.
DON'T YOU JUST LOVE SEEING THESE OLD CLASSIC CARS WHEN THEY WERE NEW!
Richard Burriesci I remember them fondly. No seat belts.
thats the main reason i watch this show!!!
I'm 66. I did see them when they were new!
Can't buy a new Pontiac or Oldsmobile anymore...man, I loved those brands by GM!!
my uncle was chp in socal--his working buddy took us in a brand new 1957 dodge chp car ripping around the hills by the beach-my sis and i were buckled by one seat belt in the front---we were 6/8 years old--you couldn't do that today!!!
I've always Loved this show
Anybody else remember the Four Oaks Cafe? I do and it was nice. This was the Bel Air area then. According to my buddy who still lives in L.A, the building goes back to 1909 or 1910 and still had a restaurant there in or about 1993. This was good police work and some luck to catch that pair.
Awesome thanks Brian.
I doubled in another episode as the Mountain Cafe.
Oh my goodness how cool ..so THE FOUR Oaks diner still there,.! I hope!!!
"Four Oaks Cafe" is still standing at 2181 N. Beverly Glen Blvd., in Los Angeles. Looks different today, of course. It was for sale at some point in 2014.
SallySallySallySally As a fan of classic diners and hotels I appreciate these kinds of updates
snowden67 wow, amazing metamorphosis...it must of had good food to get that far!
The guy killed someone for $62K. That wouldn't even be a down payment on that business these day.
Gee didn't exactly know that Los Angeles was that wide open in the 1950s ...
It was in biz since the turn of last century according to LA TIMES.
That '58 Buick 2 door coupe is a rarely seen gem.
It's a two door sedan. There is a black frame round the front window, and a black "post" between the front and back windows. The rear window was longer than the '58 coupe and had chrome around the glass and a rubber seal strip for the chrome around the front window to strike and seal where the two windows meet. A simple honest mistake.
The '58 coupe Riviera's were shorter, sportier, and had more chrome. ...Real lookers.
@@thomasmurphy2379 uh, a sedan is a 4 door.
Thanks foxeema!
They should have a highway patrol special on all the diners shown on the show, and where they are at.
Excellent vintage show !
Did everyone enjoy how Broderick pointed the gun at his deputy after saying, Oh, that's a dandy! Good gun handling skills there :)
HypOnline-guns and alcohol don't mix! Crawford was half in the bag during filming
joseph laperuta, your not funny mister,just a jerk, for your comments on crawfords drinking problems,whitch too many of the fools here are doing,and its disgusting and predicable,he was a nice guy,stop your stupid insults people, and let the guy rest in peace...
@@bencallos812 You mean he didn't drink?
oh yeah, I notice alot of that in these clips, cracks me up
I've noticed that in a lot of these episodes, not good gun handling
Driving on Mulholland Drive between the San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles. His problem is that when he gets to Reseda Blvd, the road is still blocked in 2018. He would otherwise be able to drive the road another 40 miles to the beach. A portion of Mulholland Drive has been deliberately chained off and left dirt since the 1920s.
Maybe Mulholland Drive has been for decades the ideal digs for crooks - chain off and unpave the street to discourage these criminals. On the east side of Rochelle (IL) Creston rd over I 39 has been blocked off with barricades. My guess is that criminals were using that road as a getaway until the City of Rochelle said enough is enough and closed down Creston rd over I 39.
^^^@bd C .. [Mulholland] - "Murder Drive" Ha!!! :P] .v ..
Guess I fumbled the ball "boy you sure did..I dont know how you made it here, you're a disgrace to the force" 😂
I used to live in the area that Dan Matthews patrols, but I moved because there were too many roadblocks. Every darn road I turned down, there was another roadblock.
😂😂
😅😅😅😅😅😅
I love this show Brawford Crawford played a great role as a kid i watched every evening after school.
Bad guy in car. Setup a roadblock! Bank robbery. Setup a roadblock! Speeding kids. Setup a roadblock! Lost cat...yeah...you know....lol
One episode was an epidemic outbreak --- same m.o.
Love this show no nonsense no distracting music no nonsense no sentimentality love the country atmosphere just straight up good policing❤❤❤
Matthews loves those maps!
USAFsarge: like Sargeant Culpepper in Mad Mad Mad Mad World...
Erik Hertzer Hi Erik! Its nice to see how many people like Highway Patrol!
Yes it is addictive...been binge-watching these whilst doing work around the house!
And he likes to draw circles on those maps.
and roadblocks!
Love how everything so neatly and quickly falls into place, just in time to film another episode.
It has to its o ly a 30minute show
The bad guy goes to all that trouble to etase the tire tracks after he shoots the cops, then hops in his car and makes a u-turn in the dirt. Duh!!
lol, yeah, funny.
lol, yeah, funny.
Episodes in those days were filmed according to crime then,...crooks were not as smart as today's, a cop today would have taken no risks...bottom line is that today's cops are trained more rigorously,to be suspicious of everything .
Yeah...if you're black , they shoot first & then say they were in fear of their lives. Works every time. And I'm a white guy.
Rick OBrien you're a moron
So sweet to see the bad guys get it in a short 26 minutes!
Everybody believed it was required by law. Then one day you heard it was stupid to have all your information for anybody to see.and you realized how stupid that habit was.
What a great show!
well let's hope he is better MAKING plates than he is changing em, sure he will get lots of practice
I love the way they changed different brands of cars back in the day I remember Martin Milner especially and their Productions they always used Fords and I like all of the cars they drive but I especially like the Buick Century with the three speed on the column and the nail head definitely faster than the dynaflow
Ronald Daub On Adam-12 they used an AMC Ambassador.
I thought they were Plymouths?
Adam 12 they used the AMC , Plymouth, and I think even a Dodge .
Watching this in 2023 is remarkable. The corniness is rivaling all the Rocky movies and Road House combined, but it's okay, when you consider how long ago these were made. I very much enjoy them, as in all the HP videos, all things considered.
All the car sounds are authentic. Many tv shows and movies from this era through the late 70s are all wrong but this show everything matched. As a car guy this is important. A chevy v8 should not sound like a six cylinder british car. It took Hollywood years to get the sounds right. They should have listened to Highway Patrol sound tracks!
+Stuart Fitzsimons I am a car collector you are corect
That plus NEVER EVER a rear screen projection! That was one of the quality perks of anything produced by ZIV productions!
For full size classic American cars this is a great show.
and that 50's Buick transmission............
I think they were too poor to use soundtrack and just recorded them on location.
As I'm working on an ex RCMP 1981 Plymouth Gran fury,this video appeared in my feed. I love these old shows.
Director, “Cut!” Alright, who put SPEED in Dan’s coffee again? You know he reads his lines without spaces between the words and no punctuation when he’s on that stuff”
😅😅Ha! Ha! Ha! That was a good one.
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6,000 pounds of pure American steel!
Dan's bedside manner: "You sure did". lol
I'm surprised he didn't tell the officer, "Don't be late for work tomorrow"!
I love these❗️
I actually have seasons 2-4, but season-1 was more expensive than the others put together.
Shows like this are fantastic.
Nothing on tv nowadays like it. Only junk.
Thanks for posting.
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Notice when Crawford at about 18:20, he reaches with his left hand when he gets back in the car. That car had push button transmission on the left in the corner of the dash. Pretty snazzy.
I thought so!
My Dad an old Plymouth Valiant with push button transmission!
torqueflite transmission! I had a '63 Dodge 383 with a Torqueflite.
I really like this type of programing, clean fun with no drugs.
You gotta love those cars!
Good show thank you for sharing
Excellent movie, loved it! Thank you so much for posting!🙏😊🙏
@24:14, Love how Matthews doesn't even clear the gun when it's handed back and forth. Then he puts his finger on the trigger while he's pointing it at the other officer lol
Love the way these stories are written because you ca listen to them while driving and imagine what’s going on without looking at the screen
"Looks like I fumbled the ball." "You sure did." It's always great to have an understanding boss.
Broderick Crawford was known to take the occasional cocktail. After 12 noon filming scenes in this series that included him were pretty difficult. The real California Highway Patrol had a name for him. It was "Old 502" which was the code for drunk driver.
That was the good old days when cops could rough up the criminals.
Now they are terrorists in uniform.
And it kept the law abiding a lot safer.
The good old days with no CCTVs, celfone videos, and no worries about the criminal's " human rights."
@@alphonsozorro7952 BS. Comply - don't die.
actually cops probably had more respect for the public then than now. Used to be public servants now white nationalists
The New York Auto Show used to have some of the cars used in these episodes on display only.
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Seems like a different dispatcher in every show Big Dan must have been using a temp service.
blueticecho ...or Big Dan was hard to work for.
You call him Big Dan i seen a movie with John Wayne and Joan Crawford late 1935 he was big boy
Jeffrey Epstiens Temp service. "When Im Done,You get one"That's his motto
hehe
Maybe he offered a GREAT benefits package..........
That 1958 buick was great with the twin bombsights on the front fenders.
I had a 1958 Oldsmobile 88 with a 350 Rocket V-8.
Restaurant was closed and abandoned and is now worth 3 million and is being restored.
It first opened in 1909.
The link to it is dead.
Is the 4 oaks open now??????
Good ol time memories 😊
Though just before my birth or very early and likely never seen it reminds me of shows of the time. Good acting. Voices of the times. Music...
So nothing but Diner's back then, not a lot of choices to eat in the late 50's, no wonder we ate home most of the time as I grew up not far from this Four Oaks Cafe but didn't eat there till years before it closed down. It was pretty expensive I think.
Remember Uncle Broderick portrayal of different characters during his career. Enjoy viewing the police cars/equipment of that era-!!!🤗
did you notice how many drivers exit out the passenger side door in many, many episodes?
They actually HAD room to do so back then, Today...not so much.
All the cars had bench seats, easy to slide over!
Tamara Goode - ONE REASON WAS CAMERAS BEING SET ON SIDEWALK SIDE MAKES FOR LESS SHOOTING PLUS OPENING A DOOR ON TRAFFIC SIDE CAN CAUSE PROBLEMS EVEN IN A CONTROLLED SET SITUATION.
Single camera filming....Same on the Andy Griffith Show
I saw Andy do that alot on The Andy griffith show...
I grew up in the Indiana county that used 4 as the prefix. Benton County.
my Dad was a cop back then. he would take a look at the show, start laughing uncontrollably, then send me to my room
When Dan pulled the loot out of the suitcase, I thought he was going to pocket it!
WRECKLESS driving DOESN'T DETERMINE WHO'S RIGHT, ONLY WHO'S LEFT! 🤔
I love this show!
Nice Buick special. Dan Mathews always gets his man.
Broderick Crawford, was one of the fastest talkers in his time , when dialogue was fast paced high energy. Excitement.👽🔫👮
Things go better with coke.
Hey Charles, you got to love these old black and white shows with some episodes there's fast talking, fast driving and fast shooting. Just like those old fast, shoot em westerns. 😄
Not bad, considering that he was an alcoholic.
@@leelarson107 There were numerous times they had to do re takes and even cancellation of some of the filming due to his being either drunk or super hungover! But I still loved his acting!
Great classic cop show. Cutting edge of what was to bring hundreds more over the decades. Crawford was quite the character behind the scenes. with his over indulgence of drinking during taping. On scene real CHP officers dubbed him (code 6) " DUI,,it was a running joke of sorts.
Dan is wearing white sox and some kind of dock shoes. He must be suffering with Gout.
Nick Harrell Booze will bring on the gout faster than heartburn
Cool info, noticed the shoes and socks. He normally wore loafers
He was a boozer .
@@Jay-vr9ir your point? How about you? What's your flaw, failure that we can spread around?
@@josephlaperuta1124 One of the foreman where I worked, (young guy), had the gout and knew the cause but it didn't stop him from drinking.
The most beautiful cars.
You should see those cars in person.
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They didn't have Fords, Chevys, Dodges etc. They were black sedans, blue coupes or grey convertibles or green station wagons.
Just wondering - do you have any knowledge of where the women's prisons in California are located? The lady in question at the end was told by Chief Mathews 50 years in the pen.
Wait never mind sir - just Googled "Women's prisons in California" and they're located in Chowchilla in the Central Valley and in Corona east of Los Angeles.
@@scoobycarr5558 She ought to be out by now. I doubt if she looks as good as she did when Dan arrested her.
@@scoobycarr5558 Mathews is a stupid cop, not a judge. She would probably get 10 years for being a gangster's moll, and will be out on probation after serving half of that time. He wanted to scare the poor woman with his "50 years".
tehachapi prison for women
Watching this now I can see these were campy as hell, but being a mere lad at the time...I loved Highway Patrol.
"Let me see the map.....the GPS isnt working".
I've noticed a mistake in this film. When mathews radios headquarters the operator says "headquarters bye" when they should say "headquarters hello".
I really doubt that office will go to the pen to see him.
I heard the directors tried to get Broderick Crawford's scenes in the can before noon because of his tendency to return from lunch half in the bag.
Dragnet always realistically provided the actual years and make of the car, such as "1952 Chevrolet coupe." I think Highway Patrol omitted car brand names because Ziv shows were made for 1st run syndication and the various TV stations that purchased the show may have had car makers as sponsors, and if Chevy was an advertiser that week they wouldn't want to hear verbal Ford references in the show, etc. You also never here anyone order a "Coke" or anything like that, all products are always referred to by generic names in Ziv programs.
That's IT. It as common for the main local sponsor to be an auto dealer.
It's also why HP/ Ziv Productions kept using so MANY makes -- side by side.
Few state patrols ever bought cars -- other than bulk -- from one firm -- typically Ford.
This shifted as time went by... with even AMC getting into the game.
Check out the AMC cop cars in "Argo." They were laying around after "Adam 12."
I like the coupla episodes where Broaderick did some fight stunts. LoL
Like the undercover policewoman and he rolls over a sofa!
Dan and his sidekick are some men, to find the car with the missing licence plates.
Well, it is a TV show after all. It was as if it was all written in the script !
great episode. thanks for posting
lots of crime near the four oaks cafe.
ought to move headquarters next door, wont have to drive so far. 2150!
^^^@carol tenge .. 10-4! .. .
Is that maybe Mulholland drive area film location ?
@4:12, background hills put the pull over scene in front of the Bel Air Presbyterian Church, 16221 Mulholland Dr.
@18:21 & 19:17, near present day intersection of Mulholland Dr. & Skyline Dr., looking north.
@19:55, they’re at the Nancy Pohl Overlook, scene is looking northeast. Apparently, Mulholland Dr. alignment was along the Betty Dearing Trail back then. Can anyone confirm?