Cannonball "Fall out" Original air date Feb 23 1959
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The Cannonball TV show was a 30 minute Canadian adventure/drama series that aired on CBC and in syndication in the U.S. It was about the lives of truckers Mike Malone and Jerry Austin as they moved freight throughout Canada and the United States.
Kids, This is why you use discretion, rather than tell the public at large, about how valuable your load is like Jerry & Cannonball, the two geniuses!
Beautiful cars, beautiful trucks. All so wonderful to see. God those were the best days. .......if I could only enjoy it all again.
Wow looks like a film or TV show with real trucks, roads,... from over 60 years ago, and in black & white.
Cannonball was filmed in Toronto Canada and used Kingsway transport terminal.. The truck was donated by GM Canada. There was a cab only in the studio for studio shots. The truck was sold after the show to Stone cartage Toronto.
thank you 🙏
Wow !!-I used watch this show in Sydney, Australia,-it was a big hit here !!--every "Trucker"-wanted to be like "Cannonball"--
The Truck was either built in Cleveland or Terrytown. The ONLY two Cab-Over GM Plants in North America, Beautiful Truck. THE Deisel is a Cummins
I got out of the marine corps in 1962 and got a job hauling steel out of sparrows point m.d. I drove an 860 jimmy that was bought from mclean trucking down in the carolinas those were the good days
All the best
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No placards! No sweeter sound than that singin' Detroit.
Long before TDG regulations.
CATERPILLAR . . . Beyond Beyond Category !
Truck driver heaven
That's dirty Detroit was a sceaming all the way
I remember this on the tv over here in the uk when I was a kid. I was born in 59 so we must of got it later. That has given me goosebumps. Thanks for sharing.
I was about five years old when this series ran and I remember being enthralled with it at the time.
Believe I 'Loved' every episode of 'Cannon Ball' that I watched as a ca 10/11/12 year old. Every truck passed had a hero in it in my imagination, on our long distance bi-annual vacations (family reunions) . . . Somewhere along the time road line we lost him but some Canadian Truckers have recently brought the 'old spirit' potential back.
I was 11 in 1959 watching every episode we could tune in with the TV's rabbit ears with my Grandpa. Memories to cherish for a life time.
@@coldlakealta4043 Yea ! even as those old memories and all that comes with it hurts a bit for being 'once-upon-a-time-kind' . . . but in a good way for the soul.
Talking about their valuable load.
No lock on the trailer door.
No lock on the box carrying the deadly radioactive material.
You don't need a Geiger counter to detect the naivete.
I guess the scriptwriters didn't have time for the complications of reality.
My brother Fergus...it was his favourite show when I was 6 years years old! He was 15 and we would watch it together! He's no longer with us but I sure HE is glad I;m watching it! I LOVE YOU FERGUS!
sorry for your loss
When I was a driver, I once carried exactly that run. Hazmat, Radioactive, only contained in a solid steel cylinder that weighed 400 lbs.
They didn't tie it down. And did that cylinder roll around like a gorilla got loose.
It was all one piece , I think the cylinder itself was a cell. Like a big lithium battery. So no damage could happen to it.
I had to take it to some power plant . Took us an hour to get it off my truck with a lift.
The OPP police cruiser is a '59 Pontiac Stratochief
If you look at how inset the tires on that car are.The Canadian Pontiacs of that era were on Chevy frames and a lot of them had straight 6 engines.
In the US that 1959 Pontiac was a Chieftain model.
@@dond.200 Was not close to a real wide track Pontiac with a 389.Had to be a big disappointment
I first saw thiis about 1960 in the UK , still my favourite TV series, that Screamin' Jimmy
engine, still gives me goose bumps after 60 years !!
How about Helldriver’s?
Sidney James legend.
Cannonball had that Detroit Diesel 2 stroke right up to max RPM's on that intro
distinctive exhaust notes like no other engine, so cool
"Yeah,cobalt,it'll kill you in 3 hours.It's perfectly safe,see I tested it"
Trucking was tough back then. Those trucks back then, too.
"Barreling down the highway....doing 44.
The Detroit is a-screaming....She can't give any more.
My eardrums are a-bleedin'...The stacks are belching smoke.
I drive all night and drive all day, and still I'm stayin' broke".
Those two drivers would have been fired for violating TSA regulations.
No stopping along route, no hitchhikers, no loose lips. Make sure your cargo is secured...etc
That cabover prime mover would be quite valuable now days
Back when this series first aired there was a guy that worked with my Dad who quit that job and became a truck driver. From then on every time we saw him we'd say "Hey, Cannonball!!"
THanks for this TV show, it brings back good memories when I was a boy.
Great show to watch, awesome truck aswell
iv just come across this film 🎥 in the uk 🇬🇧 thank you 🙏
Thanks for the upload !! Looks like a good series !!
A GREAT Canadian TV show,maybe one of the first.
The truckers had no GPS in those days, no tachometer readouts,no short-wave radios...
They were TRUCKERS!. doing what they had to do.....
They had 2way radios if so equipped...but radios where expensive so most didn't.
Yep, back in the days when a lease operator could still make some money.
@@1693caterpillar R U serious, not disputing your words, but did they even have lease operators in those days?? "Just asking"
@@t.c.3027 More of an owner operator rather then a lease operator.
Just maps, you could call the shipper or receiver and hope you don't get directions from the secretary who drives her Datsun b210 to work every day, and forgets to tell you about the 9ft clearance bridge that's on her route.😮
I watched this show in reruns in the early 60s. I didn't know it was a Canadian show. Amazing. I like the radiation theme. Very much what was on people's minds at the time.
( At least in the US ) It is a Federal Felony to tamper with Seal in Interstate Commerce . The Criminal penalties were considered more of a deterrent than a padlock , which a semi serious thief could readily enough defeat with hammer, crowbar, or bolt cutters .
The sound of the Detroit diesel in the opening scene is unmistakable!
If that cab is a rocking don't come a knocking.
@25:11 goes from a cacophonous roar to complete silence in the cab haha
It`s a shame there aren`t more episodes available.
I was always a avid fan of Paul Birch , excellent actor and a sound choice for this series . I was only 3 yrs. old when this first aired , my Dad really enjoyed this series . And a fan of Paul, I believe that was exactly what started my Dad watching this. He always watched anything that he appeared in , with one exception "Queen of Outer Space " in which Paul played a supporting role. But I really liked the film with Paul.......thank you for the uploading !
Was 7
I think he played Captain Carpenter in “The Fugitive.” He was also “zapped” by a Martian in the 1953 film, “War of the Worlds.”
Gee I hope one day they can re-format this. I loved this show as a kid. Love the old trucks. There's something so .. innocent if that is the description. The shows , for me at least, were just excellent. To be honest I'm probably looking at stuff with so much longing, so much MISSING those times. I'm hugely content with my life ATM but... those were great times. So FULL of imagination and freedom. I do miss my childhood but then.... as a kid I didn't know what I had.
This brings back memories. My second GMC truck had a Detroit Diesel 4-71, two cycle, 158 horsepower, 284 cubic inch diesel like the Cannonball truck. I thought it was a real powerhouse at that time.
The Cannonball truck was definitely a 71 series engine, but whether it was a 4 or 6, I can't say.I always thought it was a six, but can't be sure.
I reckon
When did you have the 4-71?
I think it was from the 1970s into the 1980s. I sure wish I would have kept those trucks.
@@buelowexcavating I learned 30 years ago dont throw stuff out. Just buy more storage space
In forty two years driving, I hauled a few super expensive loads, but I never shot my mouth off about what I was hauling.
If asked, I usually said Kotex, or Tampons.
Good think you never mentioned that to a lady hitch hiker or you'd have been standing around like these two bozos with a who farted look on your face.
Never had a lady hitch hiker. And if I did, still none of her business what I was hauling. Come to think of it, what would I care what some woman hitching around the country thought about what I said?
Strangest load I ever had was 2000 pounds of live earthworms for a bait shop in Florida. Best load was a load of brochures for Harlequin Romances. Each one had a Susan B. Anthony dollar coin, all 250,000 of them! Never thought about the value in Canadian either but that's a lot of weight!!
US had 'Route 66', Canada had 'Cannonball'. I rest my case.
the jury has just come in. You won your case unanimously.
Yea, but Cannonball was an idiot for shooting his mouth off in the diner.
I believe William Campbell can play the Harpsichord well with a little help
Yes, at least in his role as General Trelane.
awesome so awesome! please upload more of this show...its my favorite show from my youth...it was mine and my dads show when he was home from the road
Me too!
great films 🎥 uk 🇬🇧 manchester
There's going to be a new series.. A.I. cannonball the truck drives itself....then the radioactive element causes the AI computer goes crazy and the truck goes top speed in reverse...theres a regionwide emergency. Then finall a teamster pulls along side and shuts the AI system bringing the truck to a harmless stop.....
Good old shows. To bad that still have these Buildings from the 50s and 60s I have to try to back into then with 53 foot vans.it is not fun.
Good old show alright! So good it should've at length been out on DVD.
@@peterbarkley2648 Classic NZ 8V92TA trucking
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I hear ya there. Me too
I grew up watching the original series. I sure hope that this 660 series "Jimmy" made up its mind whether it was powered by Cummins "J" Series as it left the terminal, or the 8-71 while it was going down the highway. lol PS: The 8-71 was still Not in production, "if" the tractor was a Pre-1957 model.
Actually, the 8-71 was Rarely installed in this series GMC, "if" ever. They were even fairly "rare" in the "Crackerbox's" that followed. The 6-71 was the predominant engine in this 660 Series "COE", and the "Crackerbox".
Yeah, it could have even been a 4-71. That engine was used quite a bit in the 50s. I don't think they ever put 8V-71s in that series of trucks.
I drove a lot of 71 series engines back in the 70s. 6, 8 and even took a 12v71 for a spin once. That sound is forever burned into my brain.
@@2wagondragon... Hi, and thank you for your reply. The 4-71 was Never installed in the 660 Series trucks from GMC, only the 6-71. I worked with Detroit Diesel under contract as an advisor on experimental systems in the early to mid 1970's and studied Diesel Engine Design & Theory for four years (1963 - 67) and directly under P. Nicholas from 1964 - 67, who had just retired from R&D at GM Diesel (Detroit Diesel after May, 1965) and who was one of the three lead designers of the very first prototype 2 cycle engine, from late 1936, on.. until he retired in the early summer of 1964.
He presented me (in 1970 after my return from VN) with an 8"X10" framed black & white photo of himself, Charles "Boss" Kettering and one other engineer, with the very first prototype engine, after they had fired it up for the very first time in 1938.
It's definitely an historical moment, frozen in time that I will keep to my last breath
The First Production engines, were 6-71's under contract for the US. Navy in Sept. 1939.
During and after working with DD in the 70's, I purchased my own Semis to help finance my drag racing "vice" and they were powered with 12-71's, which I removed as soon as I got it home from the dealer (my first New one - my very first [a 1969 - 359 Pete, ext hood], I bought from a good friend of the family, who had to retire due to a heart attack), tore it down and then proceeded to "build" it, as well as fully Balance the entire reciprocating assembly for longevity purposes, as well as absolute smoothness of operation.
Over the years I've owned three semis with 12-71 power, and "built" all three of them. My personal favorite DD's, are the 3-71, L6-71 (inline), 12-71 and the Series 110 engine.
The Series 51 (based on initial production year, Not cyl. displacement as were the other DD platforms) was also a very interesting design as well, and was extremely efficient with fuel consumption, though not a "high" output engine, and worked perfectly for the targeted market they were designed for... Marine use, in the logging / pulp industry, medium size fishing & Lobster boats and stationary use, such as irrigation pumps, etc.
I "built" a Series 110 as well, with the intention of retro-fitting it into another extended hood "A" model KW... but wound up selling it, and have dreaded doing that, ever since. Such is life, sometimes. : )
@@Romans--bo7br Very interesting background, thank you. The only Detroit engine I ever owned was an 8V92 T in a 79 Transtar II. Derisively known as the green grenade, except mine was painted IH red. I think they addressed a lot of the issues with the silver series in the early 80s.
All of the 71 series engines I drove were in company trucks.
Was the 110 ever used for highway applications, at leas in OEM models? I read that the early 110 series used a centrifugal blower which is only good for a constant RPM application.
I remember two particular episodes that I would love to see again. One was about a guy who was handling a “gun,” and the audience was left with the impression that he was seeking “revenge” on Mike for a wound he received during the war. The other was about a truck “rodeo,” featuring skill contests.
A rock collector once found a lost radioactive isotope on a construction site. He placed the cool-looking "stone" in his back pocket. He later lost the better part of his backside from radiation exposure. I don't remember if it later took his life.
That's the same guy that had his pocket bible catch a bullet.
He looked like one of my dispatchers...whew!
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Big Entrance time here comes the 1959
DETROIT DIESEL 6V71
aka Appalachian Hummingbird
Aka
Detroit Screamer
Nice RIG BABY
thanks
Those were the days....No seat belts...
Or saftey glass or collapsing steering columns, oh yes the good ol days for sure.
More like the Laurel and Hardy trucking Co.
right
In these high tech times with cell phones nobody puts through a call to Dr. Reynolds without first listening to option’s in Spanish and about how another emergency number that is not that of Doctor Reynolds should be dialed first. Then that it will be a long wait and leave Your Name and number so The place in Queue will not be lost and wait for a call back.
The hitcher is Canadian actor Don Franks who we lost this year.
i knew don franks since 1959
Did he die from radiation poisoning?
What?! He didn't die from radiation poisoning?
Don is gone now.
I figure that radiation poisoning would have done him in quicker then this
Most expensive load I ever hauled was cigarettes and liquor and you can bet I never conversat over it either lol
Strangest thing I ever picked up was 2000 pounds of earthworms going to Florida. Even worms get away for the winter but I don’t.
Someone else ran them to Florida but that tops the strange load.
Picked up 30000 of recycled copper. They photographed the truck/trailer, my licence and me.
I think the value was around $450,000 Canadian.
Good ole Hwy 2, Kingston Rd.
As a professional truck driver, I've got to do a little bit of knit picking hair. If they were only going about 3 hours up the road why did they fail to need to stop for a meal? I'm young. Also, they should not have been openly chit chatting about what they were transporting. Considering it was a hazardous material, high value load. Not to mention the fact that 1 of them should have walked around and checked the seal before they drove away from the restaurant.
The first 'Ice Road Truckers', only better.
yo la recuerdo por 1962, en México la pasaban como Mike Malone.....
Yeah, sure. These two hosers are going to be trusted with cargo like that.
Lol... Just another work day for Homer Simpson and sidekick picking up stuff from the bunny suits at Scary Atomic Laboratory, Inc. then ambling into a truck stop at the Union mandated lunchtime even if you're hauling stuff that could kill a million folks and yucking it up with a hobo about the value of that totally unprotected load. What could possibly go wrong?
farmalmta, Don't forget it's a television show, like every show one needs a plot, or they have no show. A better plot than the Homer Simpson show had, if it even had one.
jerry s, it was over the trailer's rear axles, which is pretty safe.
Kids, This is why you use discretion, rather than tell the public at large, about how valuable your load is like Jerry & Cannonball, the two geniuses!
Those guys shouldn't be driving nails.
Bonehead move by at ~9:30 Mike when he states "You wouldn't believe it. We're carrying something no bigger than your thumbnail and it's worth 100 grand." Not enough common sense to keep it confidential.
I agree! Loose lips will sink ships.
Ha! That box allegedly weighs 400 lbs yet 2 guys in zoot suits pick it up with ease!
Yeah. Men were MEN in the 50s
Going down the highway, doing 94. Someone cut a fart, blew me out the door. The tires couldn't take it, the engine fell apart and everybody knew, Hillary cut a fart.
If Trump cut a fart you would inflate like a balloon.
And we all know now it wasn't Hillary who cut that fart, it was "Diaper Don" The original "Sirshitsinpantz"
I was always. Taught to keep.mt mouth shut in the military, you know loose lips sink ships,ge eats donuts a d coffee and runs his big mouth ,crap u would have tryed to steak that thing myself, big mouth trucker,from a trucker
No hazmat placards?
no collapsible steering wheel either--head on collision it shoots straight into your chest 💀💀💀
yep that g m c. was state of the art in those days .where semi name came from was those semi cab overs .instead of cab compleatly over engine
The name semi comes from the fact that they pull "semi" trailers......meaning wheels on one end, as opposed to a full trailer, which has wheels on both ends.
‘Semi’ is shortened up from semi tractor-trailer. Semi is half, like a semi-circle. A semi trailer is considered such as it’s supported on one end by its own set of wheels & is missing wheels on the other end. It’s only got ‘half’ its wheels. The tractor provides the other half when coupled up together. ‘Semi’ - It’s got nothing to do with the tractor pulling it…cab over, conventional or otherwise…
Abbot & Costello meets Movin' On
Was this directed by Ed Woods ?
Where were the RCMP? The Mounties should have been alerted.
No placards?
No paddle lock just a seal. lol
‘padlock’….no paddles involved….
@@chooch1995 "Paddle lock"? Never even occurred to me.
Radioactive load and no escort?
Must be those good ol' days I hear of.
that was 65 years ago. Things have changed drastically since then.
Removed the seal.Federal offense.....10 to 20...
So dangerous that it throws the tracking off...
10 miles east of Buffalo !!!! East Aurora ! Hot bed of the COLD WAR 😂
124 front w Toronto to Kingston so cool!
I owned trucks with the 4-71, 6-71, 8V-71 and 6V-92 in them. After listening to it again it is hard to be sure if it is the 4 or 6.
I drove lots of 6 -71 and 8V-71 engines back in the 70s. Even got to pilot a 12V-71 once. I owned a 8-92 for a while in the 80s.
It's a sound you never forget.
the truck was sold after the show to Stone cartage toronto.
Eagle eye for details.Thanks.
Dubbed?
@@2wagondragon the 6-71 is something you wanna forget.lot of noise and stress and crawling uphill. I wanted the 335 cummins
Good old Cannonball, the blabber-mouth...
cannonballl yes yes
i had a 68 f600 with that type cab .to much wind resistsance
Remember the one commercial you only saw during the Superbowls because they knew they had a majority of men watching it ? The guy uses a high powered rifle to shoot at a lock. And it says "So if you wanna hold on to what you've got.....choose Master Lock ! ! !
Did they ever wash that rig?
On par with Highway Patrol.
Soooooo, a deadly nuclear device is stolen, and the truck drivers are free to go. Ahhh Hollywood.
Ya Hollywood of the North, this was made in Canada!
CANADIAN SERIES wow! How about that? TRUCKER SERIES IN TORONTO! late 50s!
The guy getting picked up is Don franks from toronto canada. He jjust died this year
Rest in Peace.
Good to know that cobalt he stole didn't do him in. 3 hours turned into 50 years.
I think he played the male lead in Francis for coppola version of finians rainbow
Don Franks?!
No lock on the door?
Don't ask!
There was an episode where they ran over the Littlest Hobo. lol
Ya I heard about that, Chub Stanley from the Forest Rangers made a fir coat out of the dog and gave it to the Indian guide!
thet called them coe. s cab over engines little diffrent than rwg cab over
No Placards???What are you trying to pull you hosers.Now,let me see your logs !!
those poor mans they should hav lockeed the trlr. nnnow they weel lose they jobs.
pity about the quality of the film
I thought the star of Cannonball was William Conrad.
Peter Martineau that show was "cannon"
@@shsv81661 Yes, but in all fairness, Cannon was kind of cannonball shaped. It's a forgivable error on Peter's part.
2022: THEY'RE IN OTTAWA!
They need to get a shot, keep some masks in the cab and get to work, instead of acting like fools.
@@booklover6753 Oh go get your booster shot, buddy.
Load covid vax
Notice, the Canucks never contributed to western culture. Yea hey der.