I'm 81 years old and I know for a fact that the 50's was the greatest decade in US history. We had it all, good jobs, affordable houses, great movies and TV, and good family life. Today is like living in some weird zoo.
George The 50s were great for you dude because you were white I take it no problems right, Nice job nice home wore nice clothes and didn't want for much
I am 72 years old and remember when the cops had revolvers, no bullet-proof vests, no AR-15s, no dashcams, no computers, and no bodycams. These guys now look like they are in the military, and they have to have all of this stuff. What a different and toxic world we live in today.
Looks like you were about 8 years old when the ArmaLite sold the patent and trademarks for both to Colt's Manufacturing Company in 1959 after the military rejected the design in favor of the M14. After most of the patents for the Colt AR-15 expired in 1977, many firearm manufacturers began to produce copies of the rifle under various names. While the patents have expired, Colt has retained the trademark to the AR-15 name and is the sole manufacturer able to label their firearms as such.
In Britain and British Commonwealth countries, the police don't even carry firearms unless under special circumstances. I once traveled to both American Samoa and West Samoa (which was under New Zealand rule before independence). The two islands are separated by 70 miles of ocean. The populations are exactly the same ethnically. Yet, the police in American Samoa are armed like they are in any American city in full police uniforms like you see in this Highway Patrol episode, while the police on West Samoa carry no firearms, and if they have a weapon at all, it's usually a bamboo bungee stick. And they wear a uniform top, a pith helmet, and a lava lava (sort of like a Polynesian kilt).
When I was a kid growing about 8 or 9 years old I never missed Highway Patrol ! I would stay up late even on school nights to watch the adventures of Broderick Crawford and his crime fighting. I really loved the show and think it influenced me to go into law enforcement after leaving the military in the early 70's. I retired after 35 years as a Deputy Sheriff and enjoyed most of it LOL Retirement is much better
Hello, this is the first time I have even heard of Highway Patrol! I’m 60 yo. Odd that Sweden didn’t get this show where I grew up. We Got the FBI and Twighlight Zone and I love Lucy, Mc Hales Navy, and my favourite, The Streets of San Francisco ! I love this this series! This episode is the first one I’ve ever seen! I will watch the entire series! lol I’m hooked after only one episode! 😂
I used to Watch this show Faithfully when I was a little girl. I don't know why, but I really liked this show watching it on TV. I am So Glad to read the Very informative information the ViewerS have that I read that the ViewerS know. THAT FOR THE INFORMATION YOU HAVE ABOUT THE ACTORS AND ACTRESSES!☺😊😜😛🤓
When we first had commercial TV in England back in the 50s there were lots of American TV shows like this, as a boy I loved 'em. Plus shows like Dragnet, I Love Lucy, Wagon Train, Gun Law, Sugarfoot, Maverick, Bonanza, etc.
When there is an outdoor scene of any type, I notice how much bird singing and chirping is going on, especially compared to how it is today. I'm elderly and remember the 1950s and how much of just about every state was open area, with towns and farms here and there. The birds and other wildlife must have had a much better quality of life before so many people and all our motors began to interfere with their peacefulness.
@@PS-js9oh Many years ago I used to sing the chorus of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer when the names are sung "Cupid, Dancer and Vixen" as Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Nixon.😅
Gloria, be aware of how movies and TV shows were made back then. Good directional microphones were not available, nor were small mikes you could hide in clothing. What they did was shoot the film and the actors acted and spoke their lines. Because the mikes had to be kept out of the camera field of view, the voice pickup was usually poor, and with a lot of echo/reverb and extraneous noise. Later, back at the studio, the actors were shown the film and they re-recorded their lines synchronising themselves to the film. The re-recorded studio voice track was then added to the film along with sound effects produced by a sound effects artist. In low budget TV films like this one, you can, if you are alert, pick up that the sounds you hear are not genuine - tires squealing on gravel, sound of motors starting not synchronised with the video, etc etc. In this particular TV show, sound levels are all over the place - they didn't take much care. In other words, you heard birds because the sound artist thought there should be birds, or the director wanted to reinforce that the scene was in a farming area, not because there were actual birds at the location.
That reminded me of this guy I use to work With, Robbed his own self of $600 dollars from a cash p/u for the company, bashed his own head in & claimed someone else robbed him! What an idiot! Next thing we knew was, "he no longer worked there"! Of course the police was called & I think after questioning him, they advised the company that he was lying! He was just pure stupid! SMH...
Don't ya just love all these cool 50's cars even the ones in the back ground. Best looking cars ever. Dangerous Dan & the rest ain't bad neither. Thanks for the post. Use to watch these with my old man. One of the top 50's shows 😎🔫
30 years ago I bought and restored a 1956 Chrysler Windsor Hardtop and it is still in my carport ready to take me everywhere. I got it cheap because the previous owner, a foreign diplomat, committed suicide inside.
That Dan Matthews could do it all...instead of calling in a lie detector expert, he administered the tests...must have taken a night or correspondent course...graduated with honors..
These bring back so many memories; I used to watch this series sitting on my now late WWII vet father's lap. Even that old-style motel brings back memories of the 1950s-1960s Florida vacations we used to take as a family. What a different and wonderful place America was back then. RIP Pop, sure miss you.
It may have been wonderful to you, but probably not so wonderful to minorities living under Jim Crow laws, lynchings and blatant discrimination. Or to those draftees who fought and died in the Korean War. Or to women who were shut out of careers or who suffered publicly tolerated domestic abuse. But cheers to you!
@@kenbob1071 Drear bleeding heart liberal, I know you can't see me, but I am a Black man, and my comment stands! So sorry you are a bitter person looking to be a victim. Your comment is null and void.
Saturday Night Live did a parody of this show back in the 70s when Broderick Crawford was host that week and of course reprising his role as Dan Matthews in the skit. Dan Ackroyd was the narrator: "Whenever the laws of any state are broken, a duly authorised organisation swings into action. It may be called the State Police, the Bulls, the Pigs, the Fuzz, the Klingons... or the Highway Patrol."
I remember this show as a kid . I didn’t know Broderick Crawford was such an alcoholic . He had his drivers license taken away and had to shoot scenes on dirt roads and non major highways
Watch those Buick cruisers bounce around. "Uncle" Tom McCahill's description in the day of a '50s era Buick's handling: "Like a fat matron trying to get out of a slippery bathtub".
That was when cops didn't pummel you into the ground when you pull a gun on them. They'd even leave it on the ground after they fat man kick it out of your hsnd
I used to watch this show every week as a kid. Loved it. Thanks for posting this. To borrow a quote: "What a different and wonderful place America was back then".
I agree and when a place is all white it's much better everyone knows that but is afraid to say it lol. If you were poor then it was because you were lazy. A working man back then could afford a house and his wife could stay home and raise the kids and keep house yes much better times and its proving to be true.
@@williamjackson5942 we were poor and did not know it. I grew up neat Tatumvill. Black and white kids got along fine. Yea there was That 1 percent. You are always going to have that. Blacks and white folks Get along with each other . How many years is it going to take to get over it. Get an education that's the way out.
The evil nephew "Henry" is played by Gene Reynolds before he became the mega producer-director on shows like M*A*S*H, Lou Grant, Hogan's Heroes and many others.
Yeah the 50s were great. Signs all over coffee shops and hotels in the south - Whites Only. Cars with horrible breaks and no seat belts that broke down all the time. I'm 100% sure you are white.
@@garychesser5277 He sure didn't deviate in his delivery. I remember him as a bad guy in The Glenn Ford western "The Fastest Gun Alive". Pretty much the same character but in cowboy garb! 😁
Actually, he made some okay movies and he was pretty good at comedy. Bear in mind, by this point in his career he was gassed a lot of the time. Kinda got a soft spot for the big lug.
Hi lineshaft, sorry to give you some more boring old-timer info: if you only know Jack Webb from Dragnet you might sell him short. His best work was on radio in the 40's and 50's, where he was just superb in many series, including Jack Novack and Pete Kelly's Blues and also the spin-off, Jeff Reagan. I hope you try it; it's worth the effort. Old Geezer, signing out!
I checked out his bio on Wikipedia and the CHP stopped sponsoring the show after 2 years because he was an embarrassment to them in real life with multiple arrests for DUI and other things. Pretty sad....
@@hertzair1186 He always had that fast talk and the radio communication was really stupid. Over/ bla bla bla / over while looking up and then down. RIDICULOUS
They violated rights back then thinking that everyone should comply with their requests even though the bad guys were in the wrong, it was not constitutional
Normally I'd disagree, but man, it actually would be refreshing to get away from all of today's technologies. And yeah, I know I'm saying this while typing on RU-vid. Still. Ppl actually watched TV together back then, on ONE TV set.
John A. Not unusual. Most long-running shows deteriorate as they go along. That is why Gleason did only 39 Honeymooners. He quit while he was ahead, which is what all successful gamblers do.
@@melrose9252 They couldn't continue unless they had replaced the actor for Dan Mathews. Broderick Crawford was a serious alcoholic and wasn't permitted to drive more than about 100 feet in any episode because of drunk driving convictions. He often showed up for filming while under the influence. If you watch carefully, you can see when those occurred, when he just isn't "with it." Sometimes you can see his forehead with a big bruise on it.
I was born in 75, but I absolutely LOVE old black-and-white TV shows and movies from "Have Gun Will Travel" to the first season of "Gomer Pyle"!! TV shows nowadays are absolute crap...
Remember this as a favourite as a kid in the fifties in the UK. ITV had arrived and thankfully we now had many US shows. This show was one of the first and loved seeing the cars. 10/4 became a catch phrase.
Really nice to see the old movies again, and Highway Patrol was a joy to find. I think of my late father who loved such series, including this one. Then you should be quiet if you wanted to be there to watch with him.
I grew up in the 50’s and 60’s. The best time in the history of the world. Everyone had jobs, everyone could afford a house, gas was cheap, morales were high, and plenty of wide open spaces, then population exploded and everything went to sh*t.
@Jerry Nielsen I love Hwy Patrol .i also watch Andy Griffin. But Hwy Patrol episodes take place at different locations and I really enjoy The old gas stations, Restaurants, the old diesel trucks,And all the old cars And the 10-4 10-4. And the Prices on the grocery store windows.
@Jerry Nielsen me to.iam 75 in poor health and I enjoy listening to the 50s and 60s Music also. Especially sence I Figured out how to use my new phone. I really enjoy Google.
Marie Stoddard always plays the part of the bickering, nagging wife, the gossiping neighbor, and snatky aunt. She does it so well she was cast in Hitchcock film Suspect.
Not often in this series did we get to see Crawford get physical like doing a karate kick, go Broderick! What cracked me up about the series is at the ending 24:44 they would play that majestic triumphant score, as if Crawford had just single-handedly won WW II.
It's proven every day in depositions and any courtroom, the same. Try to remember everything truthfully on the witness chair for 90 mins. You'll be amazed by how the prosecutor and or DA"S can break you down and confuse you into your self dought! Especially when you're in front of the jury and a full courtroom. Wear a diaper is my advice. REALLY!
They sure are. My oldest brother "robbed" a bus depot 150 miles from where he lived. Three eye witnesses. Problem was is that he was on vacation with all of our family three states away!!! We all said we would testify as well as that resort owner and his wife. Case closed. Lol
Yeah, they are, but lie detectors are fallible too. There's a good reason their results are not admissible. Several Forensic Files have suspects who fail lie detector tests who later turn out to be innocent.
@@BobChippewa Maybe. But it's straightforward and to the point. Viewed in its proper context, it is a great police show. As good as Dragnet (sometimes better).
@@UkOutreach and I suspect a lefty loon who comes on social media and plays dumb on the meaning of “woke” is being facetious . I have no doubt you live and promote the woke agenda everyday. Spare us the fake need for an explanation.
Pretty damn good show in the context of early TV and the times. Much rather watch this than the new PC crap fest that Hollywood regurgitates. Todays casting is the worst when it comes to reality.
Brodrick has some fancy moves...kicking that gun like that...the other cop never even made the slightest move to reach for his gun...BTW...Brodrick has a really huge head...just saying...
Thanks for sharing these classic gems! OMG, this was my favorite show as a kid! It's just nuts to see old rural San Fernando Valley where most those episodes were filmed full of farms ranches road motels and some begins of the development to come, and it came fast, 😩. Actually to me, a local SoCal boy here all my life, it's sorta sad to see what San Fernando and Simi Valley have become today - it's just overkill. All that land you see in HP is now developed one way or the other. 😔 Here's a little trivia about those classic behemoth HP cars 👇 The 1955 Buick Century two-door sedans seen were built especially for the CHP and were never offered for sale to the public. Two-door sedans were adequate, because the real CHP rarely arrested anyone at that time, being involved more with accident investigations, enforcement, and auto thefts. However even if they did arrest those big girls had AMPLE room in the back! They're like floating livingrooms. LOL. But you kids that weren't around you missed out because those old American made cars were the most comfortable ever cars and actually a lot of fun to drive with big powerful V8 engines. Another triv about Buicks from that era (55-60) to start the engine you turned the ignition on then stepped all the way down on accelerator pedal that started the engine. Weird but true. 😁
My dad had a 1953 Buick straight 8 that was started like that. You would turn the ignition on and push the accelerator to the floor to start the engine.
Superbly under-played by Broderick which made this series so good. As a child in the 1950s, I used to watch this. I always remember this tag line from one episode - "It's not the car that kills - it's the driver!".
So Granny has TWO skull fractures now, signed herself out of the hospital, was insane with brain damage, got a taxi back to the motel, picked up the pistol, had the taxi driver drive around until she found Taylor, and shot him, yelling about Martians who steal people's money.
Does Henry and Wilbur have something in common with the two dudes from two great late 1940's film noir flicks, Hitchcock's Rope and Strangers on a Train ??
I was born in 1951, and not sure if I'd go back again if I could; life is hard, no matter when one is born; I do, however, miss the Roy Rogers cowboy boots I received every Christmas from Granny and Grandpa St. Pierre!
Hopefully you're not a minority or a woman because warping back to the 50s would suck for you. Oh, and if you do, make sure you're either too young or too old to be drafted into the Korean War.
Interesting that only the 1955 episodes credit "Bernard R. Caldwell and the California Highway Patrol" in the opening. The rest of the series 1956-59, the opening credits more generically thank "Highway Patrols throughout the nation"
+Barney Fife Well Barney .. we kind of knew it ... Not all the Taylors were like Andy. Oh by the way ... we still have 6 jars of Aunt Bea's pickles to get rid of ..any ideas? I was thinking of selling them to the military as some kind of new weapon ...
I was picked out by eye witnesses twice in my life when I didn't do anything wrong. Once for murder. the real guy was caught and confessed. He was a serial killer. The other time for arson. GOD intervened on my behalf. The cops were taunting me telling me about how much I would be tortured in the lockup. A friend was given a lie detector in a supermarket theft. It said he lied. He didn't. The guys who really did it took the test and passed. he was fired, they kept their jobs. No sense to take the test. It can't exonerate you, but can help the cops to work real hard to convict you. This woman never saw the robber, she saw the coat and hat. That's not evident. No one even got suspicious when the nephews car started right up after he stopped for car trouble. My lawyer, a former Federal judge, told me never talk to the cops in a big case. they want to make it go away and will pin anything on you. He's a former judge, so I would think he would know. If I ever serve on a jury, close enough won't cut it. they would have to prove to me the guy did it for sure. Not, he probably did it.
You are living under an unlucky star. There is an old adage in Romance languages, Spanish, French, etc. that says the third time is always the charm ("A la tercera, la vencida" in Spanish). What that means is that you will sooner or later be charged with yet another crime you didn't commit, and this time......
