Police Story TV Movie/Pilot Episode: Slow Boy
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- A special surveillance detail [Vic Morrow (Combat!), Harry Guardino (Dirty Harry), Ed Asner (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant), Ralph Meeker (Kiss Me Deadly, Paths of Glory, The Dirty Dozen)] set up to catch criminals in the act finally nabs Slow Boy [Chuck Connors (The Rifleman, Soylent Green)] while he is robbing a supermarket. Complications arise when the robber takes a hostage (Diane Baker) before the police can detain him. Other cast members include: John Karlen (Dark Shadows) and David Doyle (Charlie's Angels).
Vic Morrow and Chuck Connors. Are you kidding me? Two of the coolest, toughest, actors in Hollywood during their time!
Yes nice to see n read that there r other likeminded folk around..two of the best actors..(&in those days you had to be..😂❤)
Nfortunately they were both typecast for a while.
Steve McQueen was cooler!
Can't leave out Ralph Meeker, who played maybe the quintessential noir movie role in "Kiss Me Deadly" (1955)
Whaaaat?…The Rifleman pointing a pistol at Diane Baker?.. and Sgt Saunders aiming a shotgun at his head?…and Lou Grant as a detective?….now THIS is CLASSIC TV….😂😂😂
The Emmy winning pilot for the series "Police Story". Some 40 years later, it still holds up well.
Because it's reality, not media.
Great writing. Excellent show!!!
51 years!
The best TV police show ever. Amazing stars and well written stories. And the best part was Jerry Goldsmith's theme music. It introduced me to Jerry's work which I followed for years until his death. The greatest film composer of all time. Look up the list of his movie scores. Just amazing.
Jerry was all over the map, always loved his music!
Why those 27 clowns put a thumb down on the original police story..... best tv series ever and yes bring back sweet memory for me..... nostalgic walk along memory lane... especially the theme song.... very very sweet music.... thank you for the download.... keep it up & god bless you all.... always
And the worst thing about it is NO ONE forced them to watch it. It is just a bunch of babies crying for attention.
They are multiplying, there are 34, I am not one of them. A fan from Las Vegas, NV July 22, 2019
@@jimlove2805 How they a bunch of clowns if they watch some thing and didn’t like it.
Vic Morrow portrays an excellent cop...very believable!
Vic is sorely missed 😥😪
Absolutely.
He is missed and what a horrible way to go.
I love the police chatter in the background of the show.....Loved it then and now....
I didn't become a cop until 1983, but no other writer is able to capture this essence like Joseph Wambaugh. I heard his name mentioned while in the academy, and he was different than Michael Mann, in that he actually worked as a sweet cop with LAPD. It's immense feelings of nostalgia watching this, because my dad was a cop till the age of 83, when he passed, and my mother's dad was a Capt Detective, who helped hire my dad as a cop in 1953. Throughout all my life, all I ever knew was the life of a cop. As it turned out my brothers, and I are still cops. This is why I don't understand these new extremely young cops, who can't separate themselves from capitalism & public service. You can never think you're gonna be rich from being a cop, you have to embrace that you do it because you actually believe that you must protect & serve utilizing the color & spirit of the law, the best you can hope for is that you left a positive legacy for humanity & you'll be buried with your uniform, and bagpipes. I started when I was 19, I'm 52 but I can't seem to let it go, I kept away from supervising, and stayed in shape, so that I could walk the beat for as long as I can. If the keepers of the pearly gates allow me in, I know I'll be walking the beat there as well. Now I stay right above the poverty line, but I've got my oldest about to finish Harvard law, and my 18 & 19 year old finishing next year at UT Austin, and working towards PhD, or JDs, just like their oldest brother. I only wanted to make enough to send my kids to Ivy league schools. It helped that I always made extra money & teaching "OFF DUTY" at the academy, plus I always worked off duty jobs, till this day. If I don't get pushed out by young folks I'll keep doing what my grandfather, father, and brothers & cousins have always done, "pushing" a black & white. Where there is sheep, there will be wolves, thus there must be sheepdogs.
Dutch Avery mm
Dutch Avery you come from a good line of people. God bless
I went to college at 17, then got a job as a cop, but I always thank service men & women for their service to their country. I did 22 years in Laredo Sector US border patrol, stabbed 3 times shot once in 1993 , and 7 times in 2003, (NO VEST) and to this day I see people hate law enforcement? Maybe we deserve it? I never got days off for any internal affairs division investigation, but I my mother signed in 2003,a document for 30 days off w/o pay while I was in intensive care, It was 106 degrees in Laredo,Tx, and I did violate the border patrol policy , I was just a canine handler for 11 years. After 33 years I can't say I contributed to anything, except always stayed clean, and fought my own fights by myself, without Internet propaganda that I see today.
The facts indicate that old, good cops are retiring early, because on every stop there's several Utube cameras in your face, along with Utube attorneys, self proclaimed experts on the Bill of Rights. I haven't retired because of my 3 kids in college, plus I don't know how to do anything else except be a public servant.
Dutch, the thing you gotta remember is that the cop haters are the ones who get the press. For every one of them there are a hundred who support cops. We don't get the press because we aren't controversial and don't sell papers or TV news. When a cop dies in the line of duty you can then see the support of the public. You see them lining the overpasses on the funeral route, stopping for the procession, and commenting on sites such as this. Things are NOT always as they seem. Because the press tends to be anti-cop doesn't make joe and jill sixpack the same. It's a two way street. Most cops are in favor of citizens arming themselves and learning to defend themselves and their families. Cops KNOW they aren't able, because of staffing shortages to be there whenever they're needed. It ain't their fault, and we the public realize that. We also are aware that most cops do what they can. Finger in the dike time. Most often at best cops pick up the pieces. But there ARE times, like 9-11 or an active shooter episode when cops are absolutely critical to public safety. Most know that, even if they don't often say it. I'm saying it now.
Dutch Avery Wambaugh.
THANKS! A star studded show of wonderful actors that are no longer with us. Vic Morrow was killed while making Twilight Zone: The Movie (1982). A fan from Las Vegas, NV July 22, 2019
I Liked Him As The Rifleman.Vic Morrow And Chuck Connors RIP.
Vic Morrow steals the show
tom sanderson he died making a movie. Had his head chopped off by Helicopter Blade.
As usual.
I miss Vic. He didn't have an easy life. God bless you and the two little ones. That was not an accident, that was murder!!!
He steals my heart!!!!❤😍
I like this dad with his kid daughter and their dog too 😄
Ed Asner's response to the "changing" Vic Morrow (37:37) was great, as was this episode. They picked the perfect actors for everybody. A lanky 6'5 guy in a crooked home-brewed ski mask holding a pistol ranks pretty high on a list of things I wouldn't want to deal with. -Thanks for uploading!
Great television. Better than most films today. Joseph Wambaugh is an excellent author and I've read most of his books. My favorite, of his, remains the New Centurions.
The volume and sound quality on this video upload is fantastic as well as the picture quality. Great classic T.V pilot movie most enjoyable. Thanks!!!!!!
This was aired in Finland in 1974 when I saw it. I still remember parts of it. In many ways it was more like a proper movie than a tv-show. The show in general was very good for its time. Today I really can't think of any that come even close.
I Like Vic Morrow As A Hero And Chuck Connors As A Hero.Both The Rifleman And Combat.
And both were on "The Rifleman".
I majored in Criminology at FSU, in 1970s...as a result of Joseph Wambaugh, books and TV series....retired US Army & law enforcement...
Wow what a cast was like watching all the old shows in one the acting and story was the highlight of a disappear ing run of good shows and actors much appreciated for bringing it to us this was a real classic treat ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
796 views and about half of them mine. I love Vic Morrow!
Me too!!!
Vic was a great actor. Gone way too soon. RIP
So do I! He may be gone but he’s still my heartthrob.
Sorely missed. He was gorgeous in Combat. DEE LIC OUS
The series encouraged me to become a cop. After 35 years still proud of the blue. But there are those few that give us a bad name. I was told many years ago that you yourself would be your worst enemy on the job. Remembering that, I always treated all people with respect and
good for you...
Thank you so much for your service, Bill! Much respect!!
Bill, I am sure you were a great cop. Wish more cops had your attitude.
How much afroamericanso did you kill
These were on to late and i believe in the middle of the week. But at 64 now these are actually pretty good made for TV movies. Better than most that they want you to pay for.
police story series motivated my desire to go treasury enforcement agent in 1978
i love old police shows for some reason
Great actors and writers!
Slow Boy
Episode aired Mar 20, 1973
Well written I love it
I was really impressed with Vic Morrow in this. I had a shock when I googled him poor guy his legacy lives on
tom sanderson damn what a freak accident pyrotechnics delaminate rotor blades killing 2 kids and vic at 52 .
He looked older than that in this movie
Nothing short of murder due to insane hubris and negligence.
Agreed. It would've been a shocking way to die.
@@utube012341 he was 53, but yes, he did look older. He was a smoker and drank as well. Those two things will do that to the body.
@@utube012341 not having a happy personal life, divorce and a girlfriend and mom dying on him. Career not going the way it should have. A daughter who was a run away drug addict didn't help!!! Estranged from other daughter Jennifer Jason Lee, etc etc etc
I love this series, I always wanted to be a police detective when I was a senior in high school. I even read a lot of history of law enforcement, gun control and criminal law.
Jim ! Brilliant... thank you... This is excellent.. Lou Grant with a pump action ! The part is made for him.. I never heard of this before..
A great anthology tv series of police and detectives at work and the greatest
guest stars from the lead actors to the supporting actors and they make them
like this anymore.
Vic Morrow And Chuck Connors Were My Dad's Heroes,Vic,Chuck,Dad,Rest In Peace,Three In Heaven.The Rifleman And Combat Were Both My Mom And Dad's Favorite Shows,Vic,Chuck,Dad,Mom,Rest In Peace In Heaven.
Is that what passed for crime in the 1970s. We didn't know we had it so good. Unfortunately it's the next generation that's under fire now.
Notice the round decorations hanging from the ceiling of the grocery store.
I'm from the Chicago area and one of our food stores Dominick's, now defunct had the same decorations in the 70's.
This should have been titled; Sargeant Saunders takes down the Rifleman.
Hahahahaha---True
Vic was killed TWICE on that show!
This episode is full of all star talent. The names still resound in 2016. Vic Morrow (ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK), Harry Guardino (PORK CHOP HILL), Ed Asner(Fort Apache , the South Bronx) Chuck Conners(1st base for the Brooklyn Dodgers), Ralph Meeker(THE ANDERSON TAPES).
Well, I'm a talented observer.
I have to correct you.The movie was called The Blackboard Jungle which the song was playing over the opening credits.Besides Mr.Morrow it also featured future Hollywood legends Sidney Poitier,Paul Mazursky,Glenn Ford & Jameel Farrah aka Tv M*A*S*H*s Jamie Farr.Also Harry Guardino's probably best known movie role was Det.Lt.Al Bressler in Dirty Harry & the 2nd sequel The Enforcer.(responding to Fast Eddies post).
@@lamontburton1233 Interesting that Quentin Tarantino directed the daughters of Poitier and Morrow in his work. Sydney Tamilia in "Death Proof", Jennifer Jason Leigh in "The Hateful Eight".
Conners...also forward for the Boston Celtics
I have a definite bias for 70's and 80's cop/crime shows; still this one (which I missed back in the day), just blew me away; couldn't have anticipated how good this would be.
I can't believe I never saw any of these,
Wonderful to find this now,
Thank you for downloading these
Great story and these were real actor's, not people in costumes
Vic Morrow,Ed Asner great tv show.
Don't forget Chuck Connors.
Police Story was possibly the best drama on Tv, Michael Mann wrote for this show, and later Miami Vice……enjoy this folks, it’s good.
Vic Morrow was one of those super sexy men, a man's man like they don't make anymore. He got better looking with age too. Police Story is still one of the best shows to watch.
No, drinking, smoking and things not going well in his personal life and his career ( which most people feel he was black listed). Maybe Vic didn't play hollywood game and/ or pissed off some big wigs who ( I think) were jealous of his talent and smarts!!!
I totally believe Vic was black listed!!! Unfortunately, when you're in a hit show you're gone 16 2 18 hours a day!!! If you're married to someone like that it gets very lonely!!!! Sorry, but Vic wasn't running a country!!! It's like you're a married widow/ widower.
I'm not saying it's right to cheat but from a wife who was crazy in love with him to NOT even wanting to sit down with a mediator, a lot more stuff was going on!!!!
I would love to know more about him. Is there anyone out their that has ever met him???
His best look was in Combat with shorter hair and the two weeks grow in face, but still HOT!!!
Joseph Wambaugh wrote a few gripping true crime novels, too.
GREAT SHOW & FANTASTIC ACTING 👍
Vic Morrow came to Australia in the mid 1970s to appear in a couple of episodes of “The Evil Touch”.
One of my best performances.
Miss you Vic!!!
I agree---Your the best.
@@johnnynoirman Vic Morrow And Chuck Connors RIP.
Chuck Connors Played A Bad Guy,Vic Morrow Was A Good Guy.
Like a Clint Eastwood movie, not bad.
Luv, luv, luv Vic Morrow. His character here isn't as sympathetic as Sgt. Saunders in Combat!, but he is such a great actor he can play both equally well.
He was a very versatile actor. He could play a teenage thug all the way to a police officer. I miss his work.😪
When you take a Bullet for a Friend, it's self sacrifice.
Vic Morrow deserved an Oscar for his role in this episode.
They don't give Oscar's for TV
I like Vic Morrow as a bad guy more---But he was a great actor.
i loved this show...used to watch it faithfully every week. they changed the main actors as the series progressed...interesting.
The show was an anthology show. So you see different a lot of different actors in each episode. The only actor who appeared in most of the episodes was Scott Brady who played Vinnie, an ex-cop turned bartender.
Man these shows hold up well!
Beautiful image quality and a stellar show. Thanks!
The best of the series
Great era show. Thanks.
Police Story.
"Slow Boy."(pilot for the tv series).
Guest Cast:
Vic Morrow,
Diane Baker,
Harry Gaurdino,
Ed Asner,
Ina Balin,
John Bennett Perry,
Chuck Connors,
David Doyle,
John Karlen,
Sandy Baron,
Michael Baseleon,
Barbara Rhoades,
Mel Scott,
&: James Luisi,
Also Featuring:
Peter Jason,
Taylor Lacher,
Kim Hamilton,
Dianne Hull,
Hal Williams,
Joseph Bernard,
Byron Mabe,
James Almanzar,
Ray Butenika,
Kevin Dobson,
Stephen Manley,
Dominique Pinassi,
Mario Machado,
Charles Isen,
Gerald York,
Bob Harks,
Nelson Cuevas,
Robert Cole,
&: John Escobar.
This is one of the best of the era - thanks for posting it. CHEERS from AUSTRALIA
My favorite episode. Chuck Connors was cousins with a guy I worked with.
Always thought this show was great. Different characters and different departments each week, yet recurring roles from time to time also. A real break from all the usual, everything the same week to week to week shows.
I am taken by this ..HISTORICAL DOCUMENT !..Just look at the cars...
Yeees Lawd!!
Check out the prices on food in the supermarket.
Vic Morrow was such an attractive, masculine man. And a talented actor. Still haunts me 40 years later about how he lost his life.
Couldn't agree more!
Well said
R.I.P. Vic Morrow still one of the great ones, a man in the whole sense of the word. Mauled by the blades of a chopper, a bad idea from some whimsical director a fifth of mr. Morrow's manhood.
Great episode and great show. Nothing today even remotely compares to these 1970's programs. The acting and writing are off of the charts. Thanks for uploading........I do have to say, at 1:17:10 she has one heck of a nerve just ripping her daughter away from her dad. If he was a bum, that would be one thing. But he's very established in his daughter's life. It would be pure evil for that mother and a judge to do anything to interrupt that in any way. Trying to rationalize her daughter will be better off having the mom's new stud adopt the little girl, what a selfish scumbag she is. That mom couldn't care less about her little girl and the relationship with her dad. And if the dad was trying to pull the same stunt on his ex wife, I'd say the same. Rarely is the kid's best interest really taken to heart. It's the idiotic whims of the adults who screw up these kids for life. The hate their exes more than they love their kids. Thank God the laws are much more fair now.
Excellent quality upload!. Every episode is well worth watching. Seems today's shows could learn alot from classics like this, oh and was that a young James Cann wearing the yellow outfit by the car talking to the cop about slow boy. Ask cause looked like him and adds more talent to this already talented lineup of actors ✌️
great pilot. I remember it because of Chuck Connors going bad. The young woman is Diane Baker. 20 years later she plays the senator whose daughter has been kidnaped by the psycho serial killer in Silence of the Lambs, and whose suit was complemented by Hannibal Lecter in Memphis (Oh, Senator... Love ya suit!)? When I lived in SF years ago (2003-04), I recall being behind her in checkout line at the flagship Whole Foods store there on California Street. Came to close to gettin' my Anthony Hopkins on - but sadly resisted.
The episode "The Cutting Edge" has him as a good guy, alongside Sylvester Stallone just before he broke out with ROCKY....
@@tomservo56954 you mean Connors and Stallone, both as cops?
@@teller1290 Yes...you can find it here
@Ziggy Stardust loved police story. Vic Morrow, Chuck Connors...where do you find those kind of guys today?
First rate series. With exception perhaps to the CSI series, today's equivalent serve ups doesn't come close...
54:46....A young Jack Clompas (Seinfeld) "Still Writes Upside Down" Lol 😃
Vic Morrow Ed Asner Chuck Connors Harry Guardino and Ralph Meeker wow what a freaking cast. If I'm not mistaken this pilot was emmy-winning. just don't make television like this no more. I always enjoyed Hill Street Blues in the '80s too. Nothing's really any better than Colombo though. Sad thing about police story episodes you just don't see it on TV ever!!!! It's been so long since I've seen it episode on TV I think it was the early 90s. It's a damn shame. I guess there may be some TV apps out there that show it not Pluto or Tubi.
This is/was great for many reasons. Here's a couple.
You get to see TV's "THE RIFLEMAN," the moral, upright Lucas McCain (Chuck Connors), play a total degenerate, homicidal, piece of garbage, and seeming to enjoy doing so.
The great location shooting provides a time capsule view of the Middle-to-East San Fernando Valley from almost 50 years ago --- Sherman Oaks, Studio City, Toluca Lake, etc. Much of it has changed, while some of it hasn't.
Oh, and Connors' villain abandoned a cigar during the final robbery, leaving his DNA at the crime scene ... not that it mattered, as it turned out.
I would add another reason.
It was one of the first cop shows to portray cops as real people - husbands, fathers, brothers, work colleagues, etc. - and all the attendant personal issues that they brought with them to their jobs.
That's why they call it "acting"
Chuck Connors plays a 'bad guy' in SOYLENT GREEN also
Thank you it was great😘
Ton Swinburn, God Bless my brother in blue, for after our last tour of duty is 10-7 ,10-42 our spirits are there to stand by every new rookies side, always protecting & serving, even so, he’ll be protecting & serving once through ,the pearly gates of Saint Michael's station house.
Vic Morrow Sounded Like Mr.Ellingson,Principal At Clover Park High School.
Vic is my favorite actor. The best. Long Live Sgt. Saunders!
Great stuff. Thanks for uploading!
Thank you Joseph Wambugh
Wow Rotrary Pay Phones, nd Thank you Duch Avery for you Service:)
Never knew Vic Morrow hero from Combat starred in Police Story.
Love this Police Story actors from long ago 👍
It's sad, young police 🚔 officers don't know who Wambagh is.
Awesome show
Great show
Thanks for posting
This was not a pansy as police show!
Fantastic Stuff
Vic Morrow walks in a barber shop and asks for a little off the top, lol.
@2:18
at the movies, Joseph Wambaugh's "New Centurions"
Great cast!
rotary phones smokin where ever and let's not forget the aluminum tv trays ah the good old days
@socal rocks STFU commie
@@silverpairaducks You STFU, Trump-lover.
This was excellent to see in 2022.
Sooo....the Rifleman turned bad and Lou Grant became a cop 😁
And Vic Morrow was the good guy. In "The Rifleman", he played the bad guys!
@@triciajohansen7124 In Combat! he was the good guy and in Bonanza too.
@@dindinprivate3477 yes he was. But I think it is ironic that Vic was the good guy and Chuck was bad when they were the opposite in " The Rifleman".😎
@@triciajohansen7124 Change of pace is good for an actor's CV.
Have you seen him in Target: Harry? He's a good bad guy LOL
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Good movie.
This was a great show!!!
Great tv show, I remember watching these as a kid in the late 70's.
Do you have more episodes?
particularly season 3x5?
never thought I would see chuck connors trying to stay under the radar😀
God bless you, Vic, RIP Shalom, you are missed.😪🙏✡❤
4.42 Cinema "New Centurions" by Joseph Wambaugh - nice bit of self advertising!
Appreciate it if you could find the other PS episode featuring Vic Morrow as Joe LaFrieda. I think it's titled "Countdown". Thanks!
Please provide other episodes with Vic if you have it, thank you!!!!
To PLASMA if you listen closely when MORROW walks in the restaurant he tells the worker if anyone ask for JOE LEFRIEDA to call him (vic) I,M watching this as I,M commenting so if VIC lives tru this episode the OTHER POLICE STORY he does he is JOE LE FRIEDA!!
@@johncasciello4123 now, I have to check it out!!!
Witnessing is not something that you can do by force.
This was an explosive final ending
Ray is jack clompas in seinfeld
Some might ask you to be their valentine but that is not a license to kill.