Watching this takes me back to being a small kid in the 1950s playing with a police car and two policemen who in my mind played these officers. i use to blare out just like Broderick Crawford. I was like 4, 5, and 6 years old at the time in our first house.
Seeing the old TV shows and movies on CZcams take you back to their time. I am not from California but reading comments on people of Highway Patrol who live there it is is very reminiscent for them. @@morrispowell1524
I used to love those words of wisdom at the end of every episode. "Leave your blood at the Red Cross not on the highway" " Clowns are funny at the circus but on the highway they're murder" ETC ETC
Somewhat incongruous that those comments came from Broderick Crawford who had his license suspended for drunk driving while the show was in production.
Back in 1958-59, Revell model car kits sold for $1.98. Today those same kits in un-opened boxes sell on e-bay for $25.00 minimum.Just goes to show you how much those cars from that era are cherished.They came in white plastic and were so much fun to paint and customize.Damn,I miss those days.At 73,I still put together one every now and then.I used to have a collection of a few of the cars seen on this program.Great memories with Highway Patrol.Thankyou Foxeema.
This show proves my point. When did the world make sense? WHEN CARS HAD FINS! To quote Marv from 'Sin City': "Modern cars, blehh. They all look like electric shavers."
While working with the State Police in New Mexico, each officer would be handling a half dozen criminal cases at any given time. So when people would call and ask "How's my case going?" And we need to ask them what their name is, they would get pissed off. Obviously they thought it was like this show and only one case at a time. We would also have the phones ringing constantly. Not much quiet time in the dispatch or offices. I do like this show, as it is mostly realistic but slowed down and I like everything from the 50's.
I read somewhere that Broderick Crawford liked liquid lunches and it occasionally caused problems on the set. Supposedly he would get quite drunk and be unable to legally drive so they would have to shoot him driving on deserted roads...when he was barely able to drive.
Yeah. I too grew up on Highway Patrol. I remember my father and I watching the show together and my father, having been a former FBI agent, used to rant and rave at how the highway patrol was doing everything wrong, and "That's not how we did it in the FBI." Those are memories I'll never forget. Especially because I had time together with my dad. Thanks so much for putting them on.
A friend of mine's dad was a captain of the police force. We would watch Adam 12 and all he would do is yell at the TV about police procedure and what they're doing wrong.
The way Broderick Crawford came on at the show's finale with words of wisdom reminds me of how Hopalong Cassidy would come on at show's end with the same kind of advice, especially said to young children! We kids loved both Hoppy and Dan Matthews!!!❤❤
God I remember these programmes, I was a very young child and Highway Patrol was the very first American tv show I ever watched. I was glued to the tv every Saturday night to watch Dan Mathews chasing the bad guys. I remembered his call sign from until today "2150". They look so corny now, but I loved the show as a kid, THANK YOU for posting this episode, it brought back happy memories.
edepillim actors are not what they seem . Broderick Crawford sadly was a alcoholic who was charged twice with. DWI ..........those speeches about the blood you spill may be your own seems hallow....
Temptation, Episode aired 21 October 1957. Broderick Crawford as Dan Mathews; Charles Maxwell as Rudolph Preston; Brett Halsey as Brian Meeker; John Parrish as Arthur Morgan; Dean Cromer (as Michael Kopcha) as Officer; Linné Ahlstrand, Dispatcher; Art Gilmore, Narrator (voice).
I love the getaway car - 1957 Mercury Monterey. Good car, and that year, Mercury was Motor Trend's Car of the Year, and Mercury supplied the car for the pace car in the Indianapolis 500 Race.
The thief was played by Charles Maxwell who went on to play the heavy in a lot of westerns. He lived from 1913 to 1993. The falsely accused was played by Brett Halsey who is the great-nephew of Bull Halsey, the well-known Navy admiral in WWII.
64, and wasnt aware of this particular show. A recent discovery, i really value the pure escapism it offers. So fun to go back to the mid to late fifties. ALSO a plus is the quality of the shows themselves from the crisp writing, quick pace, and more.
This must be an early episode - they were still letting ol' Brod drive on the public roads! An especially fetching dispatcher in this episode, too! Love this show.
My old man drove a '57 Mercury Monterey 4 door just like that one. No one else in the family liked it because it was too darned big for us. But that Meeker guy was hit first so he should have claimed self defense if he knew what he was doing.
The Monterey had sloppy suspension and bounced around while the Dodge suspension was torsion bar tight.The Dodges and Mopars of the era were favorites of Popular Mechanix Car guru Tom MaCahill.
Almost every state and county probably used 2 door sedans from the 30s up to the early 70s. The thought was at that time the more doors a car had the more expensive it was so 2 door sedans were actually very common
Had an uncle who swore by Mercury cars! I noticed that they almost always performed and held up better than a comparable (or, in later years identical) Ford model.
Great show -- brought bad some fond memories . Was surprised to see Mathews driving the Dodge -- after he showed up in his Buick to investigate the crime. LOL maybe we were not supposed to notice that.
I wish real life was like this show where justice always wins, bad guys get caught and good guys are vindicated. Life is not like that, not in the 1950's and not now either. These shows are a good escape from real life where we keep wishing.
There was sin and perversion then too, as you indicate. The real difference is that no one back then was proud of it; people didn't parade the sordid side of life in public. Now, all shame and sense of sin and wrongdoing is gone. The whole damned country has been turned into one big, trashy trailer park.
I think people had more common sense and integrity back then , now as Jack says the authorities are increasingly showing as total scumbags , only doing the bare minimum of real work and rarely putting any real thinking or effort into an honest conclusion into solving crimes . theres a shamelessness and lack of responsibility to it , as he said , they're actually proud of themselves and its right up the line to the prosecutors as they grope for position and power aggressively railroading sometimes innocent people into long terms in prison , guilty or not .
The criminals are so courteous. They don't try to run away. They don't cuff them before putting them in the car. They accept responsibility for their actions and don't try to blame it on their environment or other people. Does Dan Mathews ever go home?
Dan Matthews may have been in good shape, but Broderick Crawford had a drinking problem while they were doing Highway Patrol. Broderick Crawford had a DUI and had his driver's license suspended. He wasn't allowed to drive during the filming of Highway Patrol! The producers cut a deal with the California Department of Motor Vehicle Department. Crawford could only drive in the open country shots. When they shot city scenes, he could only drive for about one block. Crawford was drinking while filming. He would tell a member on the crew to get him a bottle at nearby liquor stores!
Read about Dan. . . he had major health issues, he had problems get out of a helicopter when it was required to ride in one, he missed filmings because of his drinking. . . .
He never told Dan he was slapped first by the business owner.Plus, the owner should know that Preston wore glasses....he's worked with him for a while.
Close estimate, but I think on the low side. Probably $120,000-130,000!! Houses etc are about 10 times what they were back then, and often more depending on where you live.
Gold in '57 was $35.25 an ounce. Today it's $1277.36 that's 36.24 times the '57 price. So $12,000 worth of '57 gold would sell for almost $435,000 today.
@@LuckyBaldwin777 gold price is a scam for morons to "invest" but there is some part of the price being high that relates to the fact that paper money could become even more worthless in a big hurry at any time due to the huge debt all nations carry today with very little to back it up .
Highway Patrol was always great. Look at the cool '57 Dodge D-500's the cops got to drive back then...Big engine and not too quiet dual exhausts. (The Dodge is a '57 because they have the small driving light instead of real 4 headlight systems because they were not yet legal till mid to late '57 Chrysler and the other car manufacturers had to go state to state to get the real quad headlights made legal with a major lobbing effort.
In reality nobody did that shit. They were all reasonably afraid of serious injury, harm, or even death, like all of us normal people. If someone had a reputation for being really fast or aggressive, or an exceptionally good shot, the usual result would be they would get shot in the back while eating, having a drink, playing cards, etc. In one of the very few actually documented gunfights of the old West, it was really more like an old-fashioned duel. Wild Bill Hickok faced off with another man on main street at either end of town. This was later determined to be a 70 yard distance. They both drew their weapons and presented side profiles to make themselves harder to hit. The man shot first and missed. Wild Bill then drilled him through the heart. Hardly a situation where people are staring each other down at ten yards and seeing who can shoot first.
That looks like the Pacific Electric Railway shops in the background of the chase scene. There's an electric locomotive and a new diesel off on the side as they speed past.
Yes - PE's Sherman yard in W. Hollywood. LA MTA buses seen in BG during robbers flight thru yard, as well. A year after this ep was filmed, MTA expanded their bus yard considerably. PE yard shrank a lot, and LA County Sheriff's W. Hollywood station was built on that site. Check Google maps against Historic Aerials site.
So cool, what a great catch! This episode is probably 1957. The electric locomotive is one of only two left in in service 1622 & 1624, all others were scrapped. By January 1958 the west end was dieselised. 1624 survives today at the Southern California Railway Musiem in Perris California.
@@msm6186 Yes! LA Sherrif building was completed in 1961. So much change, TOO much change was happening in LA, old Bunker Hill, 20th Century Fox back lots were gone in a few years.
Look for a movie titled; "Hell Bound" 1957. It is classic film noir! In it, it has bad guys, really bad women, and the graveyard where the Pacific Electric Red Car trolleys ended up in it's climatic finalli! I just watched it on Amazon! The actor who played Cyrano Jones on Star Trek is even in it!
Old man slapped Meeker first Wtf does that simply not count? The old man went to violence first. He’s guilty of assault even though he got the worst of it.
Paul Duca - Pre-'66 the arresting officer just said, "if ya clam up on me, I'll give you a wood shampoo with my billy club." Then they'd haul 'em down to headquarters, sweat 'em out under hot lights and whack 'em around with a rubber hose. Simpler times.
There is a pre ww2 designed coupe that was sold in about 1947. They didn't sell cars during the war. There is a 54 Ford Convertible. I had a 53, the last year of the flathead. It was my first car. The episode where Clint Eastwood rides a hard tail Harley is a good one. I think the funniest episodes are the one where the guy finds the pot. It looks like dead leaves and when the patrolman gets killed. At the start he is chasing a stolen car. The guy gets out and runs up a hill and he goes after him. Doesn't say stop. They just kill each other. Back then when you wanted to end a cop show, you just killed the bad guy. It's almost embarrassing to admit I like those old shows, but I grew up in the 50's and it brings back great memories.
When I was 7 or 8 I used to ask my dad, why do they always call the highway patrol instead of the police? Wouldn't it be easier to find the car, dad, if he told them what kind it was? Dad, They act like they are all over but everything looks like California? Isn't that the same guy that got killed a couple weeks ago as a bank robber? Dad,Larrabee sure acts like a sissy. Dad, why Dan Mathews call that guy and say he was Les Mathews? Dad, did you ever tell mom that you had a lovely son? Mine were on 2nd or 3rd generation dvd's. They were cheap, though. Broderick Crawford was really a terrible person to cast. He was fat, always sweating and waddled like a duck.
I absolutely am a dragnet junkie. In 1953 or 54, I was 4 or 5 and the show was called Badge 714. It was on radio and television. I have downloaded and burned about 50 episodes to cd and listen to them in the car. People wonder what radio station I have on. The tv show was incredible. I just watched the pilot movie again the other night for the resurrection of the show. The movie was done in 66 and the first episode was the Blue Boy episode of Dragnet 1967. It was really sad that the show was so bad. I have about 20 of the 50's episodes on DVD and if I watch them and then watch the new ones, it's sad. They had Virginia Gregg in a lot of them. Bobby Troup was a regular. A little trivia, they wore the same clothes in every episode but 2. One was the night school pot episode where he wore the orange sweater and off the top, I don't remember the other.
Highway Patrol and Dragnet were two of my childhood favorites.
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I liked the way Preston waited at the landings of each set of steps so that Dan could catch up. Great show!
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Watching this takes me back to being a small kid in the 1950s playing with a police car and two policemen who in my mind played these officers. i use to blare out just like Broderick Crawford. I was like 4, 5, and 6 years old at the time in our first house.
Ditto.
I immigrated to the United States in 1973, and it is so nice to see the LA houses where I grew up. I am retired now.
Seeing the old TV shows and movies on CZcams take you back to their time. I am not from California but reading comments on people of Highway Patrol who live there it is is very reminiscent for them. @@morrispowell1524
I used to love those words of wisdom at the end of every episode.
"Leave your blood at the Red Cross not on the highway"
" Clowns are funny at the circus but on the highway they're murder" ETC ETC
Somewhat incongruous that those comments came from Broderick Crawford who had his license suspended for drunk driving while the show was in production.
Back in 1958-59, Revell model car kits sold for $1.98. Today those same kits in un-opened boxes sell on e-bay for $25.00 minimum.Just goes to show you how much those cars from that era are cherished.They came in white plastic and were so much fun to paint and customize.Damn,I miss those days.At 73,I still put together one every now and then.I used to have a collection of a few of the cars seen on this program.Great memories with Highway Patrol.Thankyou Foxeema.
$2 in 1957 is equivalent in purchasing power to about $21.65 today, so the price has remained stable
The first AMT kit I had was a 58 Buick. My aunt gave it to me for Christmas in 1958.
Boy!! He sure did carry this show.
Excellent job..
This show proves my point. When did the world make sense? WHEN CARS HAD FINS! To quote Marv from 'Sin City': "Modern cars, blehh. They all look like electric shavers."
He 's. Tough that Brod .!!
Some of them are electric cars.
While working with the State Police in New Mexico, each officer would be handling a half dozen criminal cases at any given time. So when people would call and ask "How's my case going?" And we need to ask them what their name is, they would get pissed off. Obviously they thought it was like this show and only one case at a time. We would also have the phones ringing constantly. Not much quiet time in the dispatch or offices. I do like this show, as it is mostly realistic but slowed down and I like everything from the 50's.
This was one of my favorite tv shows growing up, I loved looking at all the different car models.
Big dan ran up those stairs like a champ and was hardly breathing at the top. Man, he was in shape.
@24:31 Dan looks like he was just catching his stride.
The magic of TV...lol
I read somewhere that Broderick Crawford liked liquid lunches and it occasionally caused problems on the set. Supposedly he would get quite drunk and be unable to legally drive so they would have to shoot him driving on deserted roads...when he was barely able to drive.
Yeah. I too grew up on Highway Patrol. I remember my father and I watching the show together and my father, having been a former FBI agent, used to rant and rave at how the highway patrol was doing everything wrong, and "That's not how we did it in the FBI." Those are memories I'll never forget. Especially because I had time together with my dad. Thanks so much for putting them on.
Could your dad imagine J.Edgar Hoover in a dress? Did he live long enough to see Crawford play Hoover in a movie?
@@tomservo56954 no but he saw you in a dress lotsa times when he was on stake out of the gay bar you hang out at
A friend of mine's dad was a captain of the police force. We would watch Adam 12 and all he would do is yell at the TV about police procedure and what they're doing wrong.
@@mikeflynn1629 Ha. That got a chuckle out of me. I forgot I even posted this.
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Cracks me up, how fast Broderick Crawford always talks. 🤣 I think this is my favorite show now
The way Broderick Crawford came on at the show's finale with words of wisdom reminds me of how Hopalong Cassidy would come on at show's end with the same kind of advice, especially said to young children! We kids loved both Hoppy and Dan Matthews!!!❤❤
God I remember these programmes, I was a very young child and Highway Patrol was the very first American tv show I ever watched. I was glued to the tv every Saturday night to watch Dan Mathews chasing the bad guys. I remembered his call sign from until today "2150". They look so corny now, but I loved the show as a kid, THANK YOU for posting this episode, it brought back happy memories.
I still remember my dad's badge number on his Mobil Oil refinery badge. 6252
Watched this on our first tv. Was allowed to stay up and watch. Broderick Crawford was my hero 10. 4
10-4 back at ya
edepillim actors are not what they seem . Broderick Crawford sadly was a alcoholic who was charged twice with. DWI ..........those speeches about the blood you spill may be your own seems hallow....
Saved by the highway patrol!
Quarantine
People just have to mention alcoholic. Put attention on the great actor!
Temptation, Episode aired 21 October 1957. Broderick Crawford as Dan Mathews; Charles Maxwell as Rudolph Preston; Brett Halsey as Brian Meeker; John Parrish as Arthur Morgan; Dean Cromer (as Michael Kopcha) as Officer; Linné Ahlstrand, Dispatcher; Art Gilmore, Narrator (voice).
I too love these old shows growing up in the 50s and 60s. Those old cars were built like tanks unlike today’s which are plastic.
I can't stay away i power watch! Really make you feel good to see scenes and cars and the way men used to talk when I was a kid growing up.
Thanks for bringing back old memeories.
I love the getaway car - 1957 Mercury Monterey. Good car, and that year, Mercury was Motor Trend's Car of the Year, and Mercury supplied the car for the pace car in the Indianapolis 500 Race.
But Mercury production was off from 1956...which was only around 1000 cars lower than the make's then record in '55.
It was felt the "Dream Car Design" was both too ahead of buyers' tastes, and not as sleek as the Chrysler line.
Mercurys were always great cars. I still have a 2000 Mercury today.
Love his tough-looking Olds. 10-4 !
2:19 Helm's Bakery truck whistle! If you're like me and grew up in LA in the 60's there's no mistaking that sound!
@zombi wolf I had to go back. Sure enough you're correct!
@Black Buick Now you know.
The thief was played by Charles Maxwell who went on to play the heavy in a lot of westerns. He lived from 1913 to 1993. The falsely accused was played by Brett Halsey who is the great-nephew of Bull Halsey, the well-known Navy admiral in WWII.
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no kidding ! now thats interesting .
64, and wasnt aware of this particular show.
A recent discovery, i really value the pure escapism it offers. So fun to go back to the mid to late fifties. ALSO a plus is the quality of the shows themselves from the crisp writing, quick pace, and more.
This must be an early episode - they were still letting ol' Brod drive on the public roads! An especially fetching dispatcher in this episode, too! Love this show.
My old man drove a '57 Mercury Monterey 4 door just like that one. No one else in the family liked it because it was too darned big for us. But that Meeker guy was hit first so he should have claimed self defense if he knew what he was doing.
They worked it out
The Monterey had sloppy suspension and bounced around while the Dodge suspension was torsion bar tight.The Dodges and Mopars of the era were favorites of Popular Mechanix Car guru Tom MaCahill.
@USAFsarge bouncy or not , its one bea-u-ti-ful machine
A lots of state and cities liked the Dodge and Plymouth police cars, were faster than most Ford's, Chevy's and they handled better
I'd like to have a vintage car like shown in these old series!
A red spotlight and an big amber light on the rear package shelf. So much for emergency lights. I guess the California residents were used to them!
Love these shows! Thank you so very much for uploading them!
Watched this classic show through the years was always favorite of mine.
Dragnet cops power walked and these cops drive like a bat out of hell 🤣😂.
MATTHEWS: Doesn't look so good now, does it?
PRESTON: I don't know, you took my glasses.
Almost every state and county probably used 2 door sedans from the 30s up to the early 70s. The thought was at that time the more doors a car had the more expensive it was so 2 door sedans were actually very common
Great memories. They must have got seasick driving Highway patrol cars with that soft suspension.
Great TV classic cool older cast.
Truly enjoyed. Thanks for sharing.
Love those old driveways where they just paved were the tire's run.
cool show love the old cars
Crawford went up those stairs like a gazelle! lol
so did the poor guy ever get paid lol great show thank you
Had an uncle who swore by Mercury cars! I noticed that they almost always performed and held up better than a comparable (or, in later years identical) Ford model.
great episode.that young bad guy,also played a bad guy on an episode of the adventures of superman.
9:34 The Dodge fired up fast with a snort of smoke!
Great show -- brought bad some fond memories . Was surprised to see Mathews driving the Dodge -- after he showed up in his Buick to investigate the crime. LOL maybe we were not supposed to notice that.
Great line from this episode: next time keep your hands in your pockets.
Got to love it!
"Next time keep your hands in your pockets kid"
Classic!
I remember watching this show , as a little kid , in the 1960s , on a black and white TV.
Crawford is in great shape running up the stairs the way he did!
They had a pint of Wild Turkey 101 at the top as his reward.
I wish real life was like this show where justice always wins, bad guys get caught and good guys are vindicated.
Life is not like that, not in the 1950's and not now either.
These shows are a good escape from real life where we keep wishing.
There was sin and perversion then too, as you indicate. The real difference is that no one back then was proud of it; people didn't parade the sordid side of life in public. Now, all shame and sense of sin and wrongdoing is gone. The whole damned country has been turned into one big, trashy trailer park.
@@JackGordone ...you're so right!!
But there is a GOD .
@@arturovaldes546 Amen. Jesus is Lord.
I think people had more common sense and integrity back then , now as Jack says the authorities are increasingly showing as total scumbags , only doing the bare minimum of real work and rarely putting any real thinking or effort into an honest conclusion into solving crimes . theres a shamelessness and lack of responsibility to it , as he said , they're actually proud of themselves and its right up the line to the prosecutors as they grope for position and power aggressively railroading sometimes innocent people into long terms in prison , guilty or not .
Another good one. And no beautiful woman for a change!
the dispatcher at the highway patrol office she was nice
The actors name is/was Charles Maxwell.The episode on Superman was "The Superman Silver Mine" He played Boris ( Bordelais) FYI
The criminals are so courteous. They don't try to run away. They don't cuff them before putting them in the car. They accept responsibility for their actions and don't try to blame it on their environment or other people. Does Dan Mathews ever go home?
Dan: "Remember, leave your blood at the blood bank and don't spill your booze on the highways."
Dan was in good shape. He wasn't even out of breath when they wound up at the top of the steps to grab the suspect.
Probably because the scene that was filmed at the top of the stairs was filmed over an hour later, after he stopped sweating and panting.
Dan Matthews may have been in good shape, but Broderick Crawford had a drinking problem while they were doing Highway Patrol. Broderick Crawford had a DUI and had his driver's license suspended. He wasn't allowed to drive during the filming of Highway Patrol! The producers cut a deal with the California Department of Motor Vehicle Department. Crawford could only drive in the open country shots. When they shot city scenes, he could only drive for about one block. Crawford was drinking while filming. He would tell a member on the crew to get him a bottle at nearby liquor stores!
Read about Dan. . . he had major health issues, he had problems get out of a helicopter when it was required to ride in one, he missed filmings because of his drinking. . . .
I can't believe I had never seen this show before.
Back then even the California drought was bad. Lots of dust.
It's always dusty during the dry summer season no matter how much rain they got during the rainy season of fall-winter.
@@chrisneilson7221 A lot of California has 2 seasons, mud or dust
He never told Dan he was slapped first by the business owner.Plus, the owner should know that Preston wore glasses....he's worked with him for a while.
$12,000 in those days was worth around $98,400. Big haul.
Don't know about a place up in the hills, but you could by a great house for $12K back in the '50s.
Close estimate, but I think on the low side.
Probably $120,000-130,000!! Houses etc are about 10 times what they were back then, and often more depending on where you live.
Gold in '57 was $35.25 an ounce. Today it's $1277.36 that's 36.24 times the '57 price. So $12,000 worth of '57 gold would sell for almost $435,000 today.
@@taxisteve929 $12,000.00 in 1957 is equal to $111,727.83 in 2020
houses are more than 10 times
@@LuckyBaldwin777 gold price is a scam for morons to "invest" but there is some part of the price being high that relates to the fact that paper money could become even more worthless in a big hurry at any time due to the huge debt all nations carry today with very little to back it up .
The air filters got a good workout in this episode. 50's drought.
Barney Fife**😊
@USAFsarge an oil bath air cleaner and a canister oil filter. They both were a pia to clean. Beautiful old cars though.
@USAFsarge That's interesting. I always thought paper air filters weren't used until the early '60s. Learn something new everyday, thanks!
Highway Patrol was filmed in and around Los Angeles. Those open road scenes, shows the dry desert environment Southern California has.
Highway Patrol was always great. Look at the cool '57 Dodge D-500's the cops got to drive back then...Big engine and not too quiet dual exhausts. (The Dodge is a '57 because they have the small driving light instead of real 4 headlight systems because they were not yet legal till mid to late '57 Chrysler and the other car manufacturers had to go state to state to get the real quad headlights made legal with a major lobbing effort.
Dude shoulda been a boxer. He got a haymaker right hook.
I remember Broderick Crawford playing Vinny Harold in the fastest gun alive with glen ford
YOU'RE POSITIVELY RIGHT, TREVOR! VINNY HAROLD...KILLED BY THE FASTEST ALIVE...GEORGE TEMPLE...KILLED BY THE FASTEST GUN ALIVE!!!
Fantastic movie! 10-4,☺.
In reality nobody did that shit. They were all reasonably afraid of serious injury, harm, or even death, like all of us normal people. If someone had a reputation for being really fast or aggressive, or an exceptionally good shot, the usual result would be they would get shot in the back while eating, having a drink, playing cards, etc. In one of the very few actually documented gunfights of the old West, it was really more like an old-fashioned duel. Wild Bill Hickok faced off with another man on main street at either end of town. This was later determined to be a 70 yard distance. They both drew their weapons and presented side profiles to make themselves harder to hit. The man shot first and missed. Wild Bill then drilled him through the heart. Hardly a situation where people are staring each other down at ten yards and seeing who can shoot first.
That looks like the Pacific Electric Railway shops in the background of the chase scene.
There's an electric locomotive and a new diesel off on the side as they speed past.
Yes - PE's Sherman yard in W. Hollywood. LA MTA buses seen in BG during robbers flight thru yard, as well. A year after this ep was filmed, MTA expanded their bus yard considerably. PE yard shrank a lot, and LA County Sheriff's W. Hollywood station was built on that site. Check Google maps against Historic Aerials site.
So cool, what a great catch! This episode is probably 1957. The electric locomotive is one of only two left in in service 1622 & 1624, all others were scrapped. By January 1958 the west end was dieselised. 1624 survives today at the Southern California Railway Musiem in Perris California.
@@msm6186 Yes! LA Sherrif building was completed in 1961. So much change, TOO much change was happening in LA, old Bunker Hill, 20th Century Fox back lots were gone in a few years.
Look for a movie titled; "Hell Bound" 1957. It is classic film noir! In it, it has bad guys, really bad women, and the graveyard where the Pacific Electric Red Car trolleys ended up in it's climatic finalli! I just watched it on Amazon! The actor who played Cyrano Jones on Star Trek is even in it!
love them old ones
Top of the world Ma !!!
thanks for the uploads. Sadly, I can remember my father watching these back I think in the 50's??
I love this show.Its funny that the main star (Crawford)used to play Gangster parts in movies.
Or good guys. Watch him in "The Mob" on YT for free.
Isn't it amazing that where EVER Mathews is at, even if it's in the john, the phone rings and they ask for him.
uh they didn't have cell phones back then
Greed will get you no where remember that one
That right rear bumper dragging on the driveway.
Still, this is way less campy than CHiPs.
i grew upwatching highway patrol loved it
Old man slapped Meeker first Wtf does that simply not count? The old man went to violence first. He’s guilty of assault even though he got the worst of it.
Mathews called in that the young man was wearing jeans, but we can plainly see he's wearing khaki colored slacks.
5:09 he bottoms the bumper on that beautiful Mercury against the concrete 😢
@Black Buick ouch!
15:32 Gets the Dodge
Man that was stupid running up those steps. Where did he think he was going?
MY THOUGHT EXACTLY,HAPPENS IN SO MANY MOVIES,WHERE DO THEY THINK THE'RE GOING?
Its the stairway to heaven.
Vernon
Maybe he was going to jump and chickened out?
"A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's printed on." - Sam Goldwyn.
Good thing it wasn't a Timex watch
Thank you!!!!
Loved hearing those cars scrape that driveway when they pulled in!!!
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CLASSIC !!
Yeah,they got him and in this episode no one was hurt,injured or shot good show of lsw enforcement work,thanks!!!
They where the good old days alright....yep
Even electronic telephone switching wasn't nearly as fast as what is shown at 19:46. OOPS!
Hard to get in the back seat of a two door police car
Not in those cars. You could fold the front seat forward and practically walk in.
Not heard of that foxeema before, having checked it out, it’s related to the game of Scrabble.
Wow. I am a 72 year old hot lesbian and this was an exciting episode. Had me on pins and needles to the very end.
thanks for the name of the actor,you know your stuff !!!
Where was his search warrant....?? Why were no suspects given Miranda Right? Where was Johnny Cochran?
The Miranda ruling wasn't until 1966
Paul Duca - Pre-'66 the arresting officer just said, "if ya clam up on me, I'll give you a wood shampoo with my billy club." Then they'd haul 'em down to headquarters, sweat 'em out under hot lights and whack 'em around with a rubber hose. Simpler times.
@@johnaddeo2251 ...but effective.
Miranda was not ordered by US Supreme court till 1968
Johnny Cochran and Miranda were still in grade school
20:56 ... leaves Meeker there without a lift back. LOL!
"There's an undisturbed layer of dust in the glove compartment." Hard evidence back then to put you in the slammer.
The money that Preston stole looked like Monopoly money.
It clearly wasn't US currency.
Dan's police care is a 2 door? Crazy!
The same cars are in every episode. The 57 Ford that guy drives is in at least a half dozen.
There is a pre ww2 designed coupe that was sold in about 1947. They didn't sell cars during the war. There is a 54 Ford Convertible. I had a 53, the last year of the flathead. It was my first car. The episode where Clint Eastwood rides a hard tail Harley is a good one. I think the funniest episodes are the one where the guy finds the pot. It looks like dead leaves and when the patrolman gets killed. At the start he is chasing a stolen car. The guy gets out and runs up a hill and he goes after him. Doesn't say stop. They just kill each other. Back then when you wanted to end a cop show, you just killed the bad guy. It's almost embarrassing to admit I like those old shows, but I grew up in the 50's and it brings back great memories.
I am sure they are the same. Quality is terrible. I know I gave less than $30 for the set.
When I was 7 or 8 I used to ask my dad, why do they always call the highway patrol instead of the police? Wouldn't it be easier to find the car, dad, if he told them what kind it was? Dad, They act like they are all over but everything looks like California? Isn't that the same guy that got killed a couple weeks ago as a bank robber? Dad,Larrabee sure acts like a sissy. Dad, why Dan Mathews call that guy and say he was Les Mathews? Dad, did you ever tell mom that you had a lovely son? Mine were on 2nd or 3rd generation dvd's. They were cheap, though. Broderick Crawford was really a terrible person to cast. He was fat, always sweating and waddled like a duck.
I absolutely am a dragnet junkie. In 1953 or 54, I was 4 or 5 and the show was called Badge 714. It was on radio and television. I have downloaded and burned about 50 episodes to cd and listen to them in the car. People wonder what radio station I have on. The tv show was incredible. I just watched the pilot movie again the other night for the resurrection of the show. The movie was done in 66 and the first episode was the Blue Boy episode of Dragnet 1967. It was really sad that the show was so bad. I have about 20 of the 50's episodes on DVD and if I watch them and then watch the new ones, it's sad. They had Virginia Gregg in a lot of them. Bobby Troup was a regular. A little trivia, they wore the same clothes in every episode but 2. One was the night school pot episode where he wore the orange sweater and off the top, I don't remember the other.
Preston, you're F'd...Super car chase! thanks Foxeema
If he was my employee I would fire him then press charges for theft
Twelve large was quite a bit of money then. By today's calculation it was the same as $117,067 then!
All the criminals lose when Sgt. Friday loans Chief Mathews his trusty .38 Special.
How the hell did he get as cell phone! Dan Mathews and time travel! wow!