Dan Matthews gets right down to the real nitty gritty and doesn't waste words! He gets right to the point without pussyfooting around!!! He's as sharp as a tack!!! LOL!!! That's what I love about these programs!!! No puffing!!!
My parents owned a 1958 Buick Special 2dr Coupe HT , Black ! That car was a great car. Then Dad bought a 1962 Buick Invicta ( Wildcat ) , 2dr Coupe HT with leather seats and all Power ! AutoTrans in console on the floor and a 445 Wildcat Engine ! Man that car had POWER !!! Loved that Car ! Wish I had it now !
Thanks for uploading these Highway Patrol TV Series Episodes. They are awesome. My dad Jean-Henri used to tell me about how he used to watch it as a young child when his family first came to the USA . Broderick Crawford ..... Very cool!!
I do enjoy the economic storytelling in some of these old TV shows. Highway Patrol was one of the best written, despite the fact that it was obviously very low budget. It's not better than the best new stuff, but it's relaxing, nostalgic entertainment. Very enjoyable. Thanks to Foxeema for these good quality uploads.
Neither the acting or writing seemed low budget. It seems like its expense in the quality of the show is better than anything else back or today. Why spend more money on CGI, Fancy cop clothes, over paid actors. Its only my opinion, I disagree with you its not as good as the best new stuff. There were great writers & actors back then who had to do well or starve. Today the actors get paid millions, why should they care how good their acting is, kids will piss their money away nowadays anyway. The writers were famous over many different tv shows. Many famous directors back then in movies, directed in certain tv shows. Westerns they wore cheap clothes to save money didnt detract from the story line. The actors today cant act themselves out of a paper bag. Kids wont watch a movie unless they have to pay it in a movie theater, it has to be in color, Stallone has to be realistic doing cartwheels dodging machine gun fire, it has to have CGi graphics, cussing, nudity, blood splattered on the wall, the movie has to be widescreen, bluray, not made before the year 2000 THX sound, & come in a pretty box, Young people dont know their as from a hole in the ground.
@@myronhelton4441 " ... it has to have CGi graphics, cussing, nudity, ..." You forgot sex, even porn, not the same as "nudity". Modern shows are not to tell an interesting story, but to attract voyeurs. The public's taste has changed for the worse.
This wasn't the only time the bad guys were driving Christine, a '58 Plymouth Fury. In this episode, it was a convertible. In the episode "Train Robbery" it was a 2-door hardtop. Matthews' cop car was a '58 Dodge Coronet.
Funny how born in 1953 I remember watching this TV show having a toy Highway Patrol police car and two officers while I was barking out orders like Brioderick Crawford. Thanks for plaving these on RU-vid. It's been a long time.
Excellent episode. I see Dan was sporting a different pair of shoes for this episode. Almost looked like a pair of brown loafers. Maybe his feet were bothering him and needed something a little more comfortable.
Beaver was a good show. I wonder if people back then could stoach 40 Beaver type shows. I dont remember too many innocent tv shows back then. You say this destroyed your image of the innocence of Leave it to Beaver. 65 years ago, I dont think one hears to many complaints about loss of innocence, compared to blood splattered walls today in movies. I can understand you watch only G movies. Cop shows have to be violent to be realistic. Kids have to be educated about violence, just read the bible. If blood splattered walls movies come on, I simply turn the channel. The violence on this would make kids laugh compared to garbage nowadays.
@@myronhelton4441 "Cop shows have to be violent to be realistic. Kids have to be educated about violence, just read the bible." Kids are "educated" ON violence, as modern movies are believed to be driving some viewers to commit rape and murder. Probably true. 50's movies shows didn't carry any explictly violent or sexual scenes, a clear sign of the culture that prevailed back then. The 70's were a turning point, when things began to change, with the attendant increase in sexual abuse and violence in US society.
When cop caught granger for speeding he asked why he didn’t stop right away. Grainier said his wife ran off with a highway patrol officer 20 years ago, he thought the guy was bringing her back
I can see the poetic Justice of it. The husband knew his wife was an evil control freak capable of having him murdered, and decided his American freedom was more important than letting her know he was still alive.
They could send the drawing to the lab and have it radio carbon dated to get the exact time the artist drew it to establish the time of death to a reasonable degree of accuracy +/- 80 years or so :)
I remember this show from when I was a little kid, and I grew up and became a police officer. To see these episodes now knowing what I know allows me to see all the gaps and short cuts the director and writers took either from omission or not knowing any better. It's kind of fun to watch these all over again in a different light.
Favorite of the whole series! Why couldn't the deserted wife live and let live? Other favorites also but this one is unusual. Eliot Ness would have loved this clue!
Daniel Young yea move to Prescott Arizona It reminds me of California in the 70s It’s not hot like the rest of Arizona because it’s in a high elevation
Dan Mathews always wore a suit and never took his hat off even indoors. I also watched for something on this episode that I had read about. He had bad feet and circulation so he wore bedroom slippers with his suit. Take a look at the light tan ones tonight. 🤣
Craig Dallas : During the 4th season of Highway Patrol there almost was a Chinese Acrobat episode but the plate-spinning acrobat broke so many dinner plates the show’s budget wouldn’t allow the completion of the episode. That is the full truth or it could just be a rumor I’m not sure.
True ! But one episode did include the robbery of a Chinese Laundry (I think it was operated by the Wong Brothers). They had a killer slogan: "Two Wongs Can Make it White !"
The restaurant became a speakeasy in the 1920s with illegal hooch and prostitutes. Given the clientele, a number of bad things could have happened on that piece of real estate. The one documented case was a doozy. Down a bit from the current Four Oaks site, a man stormed into a roadhouse and confronted his wife in bed with her lover. In a rage, he hacked off the male adulterer’s head with a scythe, bathing the room in blood. The locals captured the murderer and hanged him, and the wandering wife inherited all of the man’s money and property.
The Plymouth and the HP Dodge & Buick were all '58s. And usually, the copyright date at the end matches the year of the cars. But this episode had a copyright of 1955! Strange, huh?
I remember seeing these Highway Patrol shows on TV when I was a kid. Haven't seen them since till just now. Broadway acts like a cop who has been eating a bunch of cross drops but you could get back in those days.
this isn't so much of a crime show, but an vehicle showcase -- at lest they use the Big Three, Ford, GM, and Chrysler, mostly the latter, though. love looking t those classic finned beauties.
The sign on the restaurant said " FOUR OAKS CAFE" when the victim to be came out and when Matthews and the police officer pull up to interview the waitress but the cop and Lt Matthews kept calling it | MOUNTAIN CAFE" ..... 12:48 everybody leaves the shack with the kettle left on,
I enjoy watching all of these videos, its amazing how the Highway Patrol and police departments can do their job, today with all the modern technology their job can go much faster and better than back in the 1950's modern computers and other technology systems.
Hush Puppies were the thing then. No black heel marks on Mom's waxed floors, y'know. Neoprene crepe soles and brushed pigskin uppers, so you didn't have to shine them; light as a sneaker or house shoe... Remember the slogan: "Hush Puppies are Dumb".
Broderick looked and sounded a bit rough in this episode. This is also the third time I've seen him wearing sneakers/slippers probably due to his foot problems.
Victim is shot in the chest/stomach area and is face down when found. Yet the sarge knows he was shot twice when he calls it in. Pretty observant! Or else a blooper.
19:30 Cop gets home. "How was your day today honey" "Oh, I got clubbed over the head and knocked out again today. Bad guy got away" Bad guy gets home from work "How was your day honey" "Oh, I clubbed a cop over the head and got away, but once again forgot to disable his radio"
The cop pulled him over for doing 70 in a 55 . . . that's 'going to church' speed today on the Long Island Expressway, you gotta do about 80+ to get a cop to think about pulling you over.
The infamous Four Oaks Cafe... It's a slow day in the neighborhood when the Highway Patrol pulls over to look at a paper pad on the road. You could make a pot of tea, or 10 or 20, with that behemoth. That art gallery dealer is going to loot the place as soon as Mathews leaves. 20:00 "I was going to give that guy a break and write him for 60 in a 55. Now he's getting the full ticket, by golly." 21:52 "We can't hire another killer. There isn't time!" Next time, plan ahead. I like Williams' glance at Mathews in the apartment. "The place is surrounded." "Really?"
"The charcoal looks fresh!" "I want to make person-to-person call to Blanch Cronin". Mmm? Oh yeah, the number is..." "It's just that I've never been an accessory to murder before". You too can be screenwriter! LOL
This seemed like a throwed together episode. Lotta bloopers. Usually they got police procedures pretty close but even tho the victim wrote "blue convertible" on the drawing, what we in the police world call a "clue" they didn't immediately, or really ever, put out a BOLO, Be On Look Out, for the vehicle. Kinda wasted that part of the scene. I'm no artist but seems like it would have taken several minutes to draw a good likeness like that. I know it was the 50's, I'm bout same age as the show, but they usually took more care with story lines. Of course ya gotta take into consideration that a crime had to occur, Dan the Man had to find out about it, get some amazing breaks and solve the crime in one episode. Not too shabby. After over 40 years of law enforcement and related fields I'm pretty sure this show, then Adam 12, Emergency, CHiPs and of course Dragnet affected my career choices. Unfortunately real police work ain't nothing like TV and movies. Stupid criminals account for most solved cases and when we get shot or beat up it hurts or kills us. We don't do a Bruce Willis and lean on an ambulance givin life lecture to our daughter 30 minutes after a beat down and shootin thru our own shoulder to kill the bad guy behind us. We have multiple surgeries and months of rehab, IF we even survive. Then PTSD makes us write long boring comments that no one reads. But that's ok, we call it "therapy" cause nobody wants to hear our old cop stories. Ya'll take care. And I hope on some other plain that every time we watch these old shows the characters come alive and get to relive em too. Crazy, right? Guess I'll never grow up. Thot it was real when I watched as a kid. Then had to figure out that real life sucks, mostly. Ain't that why we're here still watchin? Escape? Ya'll take more care. L8r.
" Stupid criminals account for most solved cases and when we get shot or beat up it hurts or kills us." A surprisingly honest confession from a former cop. I read your long comment to the end. Testimony like yours helps put the show in the right perspective. Thanks.
@@alphonsozorro7952 Most smart people find a way of earning a living honestly, or at least one that looks so. Most crooks are, then, idiots by definition. That makes the real smart ones double dangerous. Thus, police end up being an evolutionary "survival of the fittest" mechanism!
19:45, A Mystery Sting, also used on Casey Jones, “Storm Warning” episode (1:51), I’d like to know what TC number is where that sting come from?, It’s from the Capitol “HI-Q” Series, since Casey Jones is a Screen Gems Production.
+Robert Tiscione Did you notice they switched cars in the episode before this? In episode 92 Crawford had the Buick, and in this one he has the '58 Dodge?
@@BearStar1 I know that look it up in a repair manual, I have one actually I have a lot they cover American cars from 1940 up to 1985 and in 1958, the cubic inch was 364, the torque was 445. If you don't have a repair manual Google it
Dan must have had sore feet...he isn't wearing black leather oxfords but rather some sort of tan "deck shoe", a no no with a black suit :)...nice episode though, thanx for the upload.
Portrait of a death ,that's an unusual topic.Clunes museum in Victoria Australia had a art exhibition .A painting was large ,yellow hanging on the wall I thought it was exactly that sort of painting.
Nowadays when a cop stops you, they say stay in your car. Pretty sloppy police work to let the guy get out. But maybe that was inaccurate, even for those days.
DUH, if the "professional hit man" had just drove the speed limit, he could have been long gone. Guess he wasn't so professional after all. And who would let the hired killer know where they live so he could find them later?
