Highway Patrol 141 in Plane Crash

[@davidmaslow7473]

Whenever I want to relax and end the day, I watch Highway Patrol!

[@Harlowerayne]

I enjoy these vintage old shows and also old time radio. The shows are Classics.

[@AlexanderandAaron]

I run into this show by mistke. You get to watch one episode then you become addicted. Nothing I have seen that comes close to quality and monologue. One fine actor at its best.

[@davidbrown-xk8zl]

I looked up the registration number N3435C on the internet.It is a Cessna 170B built in 1954 and still flying,It is owned by Harter Holdings in Belleview Illinois.

[@martinklein3785]

Registration is actually N3534C (from radio call). Registered in Loomis, CA.

[@giggiddy]

​@@martinklein3785Don't worry. Some poser who wants to look relevant barely maintains that old relic and will soon crash it into a group of houses. I mean, isn't that what folks do with these old Cessnas?

[@philipresnik8761]

Except that is not the correct number...check it out

[@uralbob1]

Very cool! Thanks!

[@aj-2savage896]

That plane is still registered and flying in Florida. (2021)

[@M10000]

Horray!

[@12yearssober]

Wonder if the owner knows it was on this show?

[@captainemeritus5927]

I looked it up when I heard the call sign. I’m still on the registry, too!😂

[@scottledbetter7212]

@@captainemeritus5927 very cool !

[@jeremybear573]

Update for 2023?

[@davidg.5076]

Gotta love it real 50's talk," you didn't land a plane on a fire road to roast marsh mellows" spoken as fast as he could spit it out. I saw a lot of these episodes when I was a kid in the 50's, takes me back. We grew up with those cars on tv and in real life. Thanks, awesome !

[@richardburriesci7723]

CARS TODAY ARE MORE EFFICIENT AND ECONOMICAL BUT JUST LOOK AT THESE FIFTIES BEAUTIES THEY'RE GORGEOUS! NICE 1955 MERCURY

[@8176morgan]

Try a '56 'Big M' Mercury. I should know as I had a '55 Merc for about nine years! That one is a Monterey, which is what I had, but see the Trailer Story episode for the more expensive and even more impressive Montclair model. it will make your mouth drool!

[@seamusburke1828]

I'd take the Jeep over any Mercury! I just love a CJ5.

[@-oiiio-3993]

@@seamusburke1828 My 'daily' is a flat fendered Willys (registered as '46) with 225 Buick 'Odd Fire' V6, MSD, too much carb, 4 speed + Warn overdrive... . Windshield down, goggles and a grin!

[@Greeley.d]

Gas prices were dirt cheap so they could afford building cars like that. I grew up in the 60’s married in 73. We could put gas in our two cars for $20.00.

[@moestrei]

Way safer too.

[@paul1242]

I love this show, but one thing that makes me laugh is Matthews hiking through the wilderness in the hot sun wearing a suit, a tie and a fedora, and he doesn't break a sweat.

[@countdown2xstacy]

Paul 124 Haha! I was thinking the same thing !

[@r2gelfand]

Remember, he went to the Patrol Academy.

[@ourladyofguadalupebotanica6732]

All men wore suits back then - at all times. Clothes made the man.

[@LesterMoore]

@@ourladyofguadalupebotanica6732 and fedoras with a snap brim. Much more cool then those toads that wear baseball caps backwards. What a bunch of buffoons. No class, no money, no medical.

[@heyoldman2003]

@@ourladyofguadalupebotanica6732 and they shaved daily 😎

[@rogersmith4834]

Back in 2001-2002, I became great friends with Art Gilmore, who told me he narrated all 156+ episodes of HIGHWAY PATROL. He was never on set, but recorded everything "wild"--in a separate studio. He said in all this time, he met Crawford only once, a chance meeting in the studio Men's Room. Art narrated previews for decades for 20th Century-Fox and MGM. He was quite a guy, visiting us at Parley Baer's house, after playing 18 holes of golf at age 90.

[@Dave31452]

Parley Baer played the mayor on the Andy Griffith Show for you youngsters who never heard of him....

[@LesterMoore]

Parley Baer! He portrayed Chester in the radio rendition of Gunsmoke. Took real skill to play a character on radio with only voice inflections and volume with tics at appropriate times. Mr. Baer was very talented.

[@michaelterry4394]

@@LesterMoore YES he was .

[@adotintheshark4848]

Did he narrate Broderick taking a pee?

[@johnbockelie3899]

N- 3534 C. The airplanes registration number.😌

[@ladyluvRB]

I don't remember these shows growing up, but love watching them!

[@sludge4125]

Me, either, but I love them for the neat 1950s vehicles.

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

I never heard of this series until 2011.... and I grew up in the 60's-70's.

[@leesherman100]

I re-discovered this one day ago. I haven't seen this show for at least 60 years. Incredible.

[@holoholohaolenokaoi2299]

me too

[@paulcannon5065]

Me too too

[@adrianlois7322]

hase 56 años que no veia esta serie, es parte de mi infancia

[@bdcochran01]

Filmed in Chatsworth, CA. You will notice the rock used in the Lone Ranger series.

[@fernandopineda1589]

The narrator said Eagle Rock!

[@ivanleterror9158]

As well as other areas around the SFV. Now covered with houses and commercial business. And don't forget the Corrigonville movie ranch in the pass. The Reagan Library in located just to the west of here. In 52 we could watch dogfights for pilots in the Korean war use the area for training.

[@applemuffin7253]

The Lone Ranger was the pilot

[@JoeTillGuitars]

The house and barn was the Real McCoys house with Walter Brennan.

[@mexicanspec]

I thought that rock looked familiar.

[@donaldsmith3048]

I remember that in some of the shows he had the longest mic cord, he could almost talk on the radio standing in front of the car..

[@fw1421]

Man,I haven’t seen this show since the early 60’s! Broderick Crawford was always a hard ass character.

[@AMStationEngineer]

2:32 - Guy Williams, "Dr. John Robinson" of Lost in Space fame, and "Don Diego de la Vega" a.k.a. "Zorro" from the 1957 Disney series.

[@shanghaibennyii6565]

Gaetano Catalano, his birth name.

[@curtcoltharp3719]

AMStationEngineer I had to go back to 2:39 and look. By golly, you are right, it’s Guy Williams but I had to listen to his voice. Crawford certainly does rattle off his dialogue auctioneer style.

[@MrRtoman]

Armando Catalano

Never recognized him, and I was a lost in space dude. Thanks for the tip.

[@fernandopineda1589]

I can't recognize Guy Williams at 2:32, is it because he doesn't a mousthache?

[@ScoutCrafter]

Crawford could spit out lines like a machine gun! Thanks for posting!

[@oscaris1ru12]

ScoutCrafter must be an uzi then, I cant even think that fast, hahahahaha,,,

[@gary37rn84]

+ScoutCrafter he has a deep voice, i think he more close;y resembles a B.A.R.(Browning assault rifle)

[@thomasconway2572]

+Gary Miller B.A.R. actually stands for Browning Automatic Rifle.

[@robertszvetics210]

10 4 10 4 10 fourrrrrrrrrrr

[@JackGordone]

@@gary37rn84 BAR is the acronym for Browning Automatic Rifle, not Assault Rifle.

[@hemipower3308]

All these great episodes remind me of the good old days ,we even had laws in this country at that time.

[@henryhorner3182]

Laws enforced instead of politicians not allowing the police to do their jobs as policy is today.

[@crankychris2]

Yeah, like BW's multiple DUI's?

[@tomservo5347]

Television at this time always did the close ups with the meanest looking people. What I'd give to live during America's golden age where a man could make $40 a week and live on it with a house, car and family. What the hell happened?! (I know-but I'm sick of politics.)

[@fredreyez7614]

Hahaah!!

[@CharlottePrattWilson]

Fred what’s that supposed to mean?

[@booklover6753]

@@CharlottePrattWilson It means that Corporate America decided that the 40.00 dollar a week lifestyle wasn't profitable enough for them. So they started a slow take over of our government and economy in the 60s that has gotten out of control. Now, thanks to the "Citizens United" Supreme Court decision, the corporation's grip on society is cemented. You can thank the Republicans for that.

[@Brotherken1234]

I'll tell you what happened. Ronald Reagan. That's what happened.

[@telcobilly]

@@Brotherken1234 I'll tell you what happened, the Federal Reserve (which is niether) and the IRS in 1913 happened. We got sold out by rotten politicians to central banks in the middle of the night during.....hmmm, it wasn't Reagan...

[@MartyCanter]

This is called true classic tv, nothing today comes close..

[@adotintheshark4848]

Notice how the women are treated, how the people behave, how the cops can do their work? I'd like to live in that time period.

[@djf750]

@@adotintheshark4848 not if you were Black or Gay

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

some things are better left unsaid.....

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

@@adotintheshark4848 People just can't tell the difference between real-life and movies these days, unfortunately.

[@jeffsiegel4879]

The Highway Patrol gets the call and Matthews, the head of the entire Force, just happens to be hanging around in the middle of nowhere near a paved road.

[@tonycardinal9381]

I've never heard of this show before, I love it the shows of this era are awesome, compared to the so called reality crap of today.

[@roysterfutrell8889]

Many writers back then still understood that genuinely realist stories are dull, like todays stuff. Entertaining fiction is BETTER than reality.

[@LesterMoore]

The only recent show as entertaining as this is The Rockford Files from the 1970s to early 80s.

[@joen7xxx]

Check out Rescue 8, the predecessor to EMERGENCY!

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

@@erickanter4090 TV has always been 90% garbage. The movies are only filler for the damn commercials. It's only gotten worse. Now it's 99% garbage.

[@bertgrau3934]

I was a kid when this first aired. My dad and I would watch it. I enjoyed it then and now. Glad you enjoy it 😊

[@bikerasuka2550]

Isn't that Guy Williams in this story? Before he was Professor Robinson on Lost In Space or before being Zorro for the Disney Studios, he was a deputy in Highway Patrol. How cool is that? And I have to say, the daughter really looks cute! But even the bad girl had more sense than the bad guys.

[@johnl.sillasen1780]

Driving by the PIckwood theater one Sunday afternoon early sixties or late fifties, and there was Crawford buying matinee movie tickets for over a dozen kids, maybe two dozen; he was wearing a white dress shirt, open collar ... in those days many men tended to wear suits no matter where they went or when. My dad picked us up at the beach one day, wearing his suit and tie (holding his folded jacket) ... we laughed at him.

[@DavidMcCoyII]

I love it when people set stupid traps for themselves and Mr. Matthews has the perfect answer every time.

[@donkeyslayer4661]

That's why he's paid the big bucks..

[@garrysekelli6776]

They always get greedy and have to do one last heist.

[@anthonywalsh785]

good heavens what an old classic show. i am australian born in 1949 and can remember watching on the tv in the late 50's.

[@daveestes4951]

i get a kick out of crawfords moving he kinda glides around

[@countdown2xstacy]

dave estes Maybe he was drunk? He was supposedly a heavy drinker

[@jupiterlegrand4817]

Amazing that they immediately assumed the woman had no weapons or contraband and didn't search her. How times have changed!!

[@bertgrau3934]

Today you don't know if a woman is a woman, or a man. I agree though, search her twice 😊

[@TractorMonkeywithJL]

They probably couldn't show a man frisking a female on 1950's tv.

[@mistergrampy6452]

"Barney, the ranger didn't die of engine trouble."

[@Trev0r98]

"Matthews, the airplane didn't land because of a blow to the back of its head."

[@fredreyez7614]

Love those ..."Ford Ranger Zzz zzz!!!!"

[@NakedTongues]

Crawford could put more words in a second that it sounded like he was talking backwards. Helluva..actor

[@George50809]

Once more, Mathews solves a crime without getting his suit dirty. Great episode.

[@tommytruth7595]

He didn't even get his shoes dirty.

[@jimclark6256]

Or unbuttoning his coat.

He didn't even take a pull from a bottle.🍺🍷🍸

[@mexicanspec]

Not true. He did kneel down in the dirt.

[@victorbenson1766]

And, ever notice how nonchalant he is right after he shoots someone dead?

[@jojobpb8866]

Started watching this show on This Sacramento. Been a fan for over four years!

[@reneleggs]

Try 40, Dude!

[@Sootaroot]

@@reneleggs Any advance on 40 ?

[@hectoresquivel7805]

We gratefully acknowledge the use of beautiful Cars of the 50s for if it wornt for them these shows wouldn't have been possible . You could have put 2 of today's cars in the trunk of a Car in those days . And the best thing about those Cars YOU COULD WORK ON THEM !!

[@hkk3656]

Binge watching 2020...love it!

[@wilneal8015]

Binge watching in 2023... what an Outstanding Program!!!

[@niad5630]

@@wilneal8015 Good comment Mate..

[@marks6663]

That plane was built in 1954 and is still flying today, owned by an LLC by the name of Harter Holdings.

[@susanpoole5222]

loved Broderick Crawford when I was a little girl, great to have highway patrol on my pad, susa

[@fredreyez7614]

C'mon... Let's go buddy!!

[@DavidShrader-m3r]

I binge watch and love every episode

[@coolbigrigs]

The initial ground search around the plane for clues of its landing came up empty. The cops head out in ear-shot distance to search for the jeep and Ranger. There sit the jeep and expired forest ranger not 20 yards away in view from the plane. Too funny. An enjoyable episode nonetheless. Retro TV is far more entertaining than TV in 2018.

[@sludge4125]

:)

[@danielhendricks1126]

For a real comic treat, turn on Closed Captioning and enjoy the hilarious Voice Recognition System (VRS) misinterpretations -- raw and uncensored.

[@carolynarmour-5787]

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[@MrTruckerf]

Most of the plots have holes in them you could drive a '57 Buick through!

[@frisco21]

The farm house where the hostage exchange was made was used in Big Valley some ten years after this episode was shot.

[@packingten]

Also in Roy Rogers shows ...

[@hemipower3308]

frisco21 That House was in a lot of Westerns.

[@michaeldavenport8922]

That was a good episode I must say five stars

Agreed

[@davidbrown-xk8zl]

Correction.Aircraft number N3534C is still flying and located in Loomis,Ca. It is a Cessna 170B, I just had the 35 and 34 backwards.This aircraft was built in 1955

[@coloradostrong]

It's a CIA plane used to bring coke into the country and fly guns to the Honduras.

[@booklover6753]

@@coloradostrong Seen Bigfoot lately?

[@Classicrocker6119]

The daughter looked hot! She's probably glad that Dan went to the Patrolman Academy too.

[@sludge4125]

Nice dagmars, too.

[@tommytruth7595]

Yeah, but she is sick. She was in the sanitarium.

[@Sootaroot]

She was very annoying. The gardener would soon have offered the parents money to take her back.

[@ivanleterror9158]

The gardener's wife was no slouch either.

[@PaulDavis-jb1bx]

I used to watch this on tv in the late 50s, it's still just as good. When we were at school, we always finished a conversation with 10/4

[@remmymafia3889]

You have to love how Crawford goes everywhere in the suit and dress shoes.

[@angelbulldog4934]

It was a different time. I remember ladies wearing hats and gloves to grocery shop.

[@majortom1950]

At the end - the pilot still had his knife on his belt when arrested and taken away

[@majortom1950]

@@GlamRockCowboy Would haves and 'perhaps' don't cut it - try again -

[@rickroscoe4734]

No shooting, no killing. Just good guys outsmart bad guys.

[@eatmyskids]

Yeah, no killing, park rangers don't count huh

[@newforestroadwarrior]

I suspect he meant no killing on screen

[@dave1283]

Dan is always close to where the action is. lol

[@luckyshoeshine]

Thanks- enjoyed the memory of real people drama

[@johnrogan9420]

Crawford is too cool...1950s...him and Edmund O'Brien...the best ...WW2 vets!

[@B1970T]

John Rogan dont forget also Lee Marvin.

[@tommytruth7595]

"Did you see a Ranger when you landed?" "No, we saw a Jeep."

[@Sootaroot]

Trivia corner: the name came from General Purpose vehicle - GP. When you say it, the first part is Jeep. Another example: one of the Mercury astronauts was Deke Slayton. Real name Donald Kent or DK. The first part of that is Deke. I got bored with this dull episode.

[@-oiiio-3993]

@@Sootaroot No, it did not. The designation 'GP' was internal Ford code for _Government, 80" wheelbase_ per 1941 Ford Motor Company documentation. It was not _'General Purpose',_ and was not the first 'Jeep'. The first prototype delivered of what would become 'Jeep' was the 'Blitz Buggy', built by American Bantam. That was followed by the Willys 'Quad; and Ford 'Pygmy'. After Ordnance thoroughly abused the aforementioned prototypes (they were impressed) limited contracts were issued to the three firms to build revised prototypes for further evaluation (abuse). That resulted in the Bantam BRC (Bantam Reconnaissance Car), Willys MA (Military, first contract) and Ford GP (Government, 80 inch wheelbase). The contract for 'Truck, 1/4 Ton, 4X4, G503' was eventually awarded to Willys Overland with Ford as subcontractor and saw Willys building over 360,000 of their Model MB (Military, second contract) and Ford over 280,000 of their Model GPW (Government, 80" wheelbase, Willys pattern) by War's end.

[@dareisnogod5711]

This show was trite in '54 & ( goodness me ! ) it still is.

[@vexer2942]

The plane didn't crack up,. but apparently the daughter did since she was in a sanitorium. Matthews and the cop who looked through the plane didn't notice the Jeep as close as it was? C'mon. The wife/mother with a heart of gold and the mobster who promises to go straight. Who else gagged?

[@roysterfutrell8889]

Sanatorium could mean convalescent hospital. Like a tuberculosis sanatorium.

[@davidpowell3347]

@@roysterfutrell8889 Might have been a bit easier in those days to put someone in the asylum for a month or two for a rest from "nervous exhaustion" or to simply give family members a break from constantly having to put up with the behavior of a psychotic family member concept of the "nervous breakdown"

[@wierpkevin]

" I Got some dope on the plane" "whose on the plane?" "I just told you, some dope"

[@Sootaroot]

They gave Matthews a dope test. He passed.

[@marknelson5929]

I recognise Guy Williams playing a cop alongside the Dan Mathews in this episode. Guy went on to great fame in ZORRO and LOST IN SPACE.

[@richcar3434]

"They're sure doin a lot of gabbin down there"...cracked me up!..

[@Sootaroot]

And from Matthews of all people. True irony.

[@chrisneilson7221]

LOL, classic Mathews: 10:38 "I don't think you'd take the chance of splattering yourself all over the countryside just to come up here and toast marshmallows"

[@Sootaroot]

Dan was always thinking of food.

[@louistaylor9796]

A revelation for me! in reference to crossbow 1203 vis a' vis the Andy Griffith show ...."Guy William's deputy ''character is named "Barney'!

[@jayonnaj18]

I recognized Guy Williams who played ZORRO in the mid-fifties tv programs from the Walt Disney studio!

[@bryansikes6443]

Guy Williams Should Have Had Another Series After Lost In Space Went Off The Air In 1968. As A Police Officer Around The Mid 1970's!!!!!

[@GlamRockCowboy]

By the time LIS went off the air, Williams had become thoroughly disenchanted with Hollywood, especially as a result of Jonathan Harris's virtually taking over the show. In his later years, Harris expressed regret that he and Williams had never reconciled their differences. In fairness to both of these two very talented actors, it should be pointed out that they grew up in totally different social and family environments, so perhaps some conflict between the two was inevitable.

[@tsf5-productions]

"I went to Patrol Academy, remember?" So our man Matthew's gets another batch of bad people. Good show. I like the music score of these series. Wonder if they are in a collection of 1950's TV show themes?

[@ivanleterror9158]

Would make a good ring tone.

[@wilneal8015]

the theme song is performance is by the David Rose Orchestra, also known for their performance of 'The Stripper' !

[@gunnyu.s.m.c8606]

pretty funny how that ranch house has been in a lot of movies, either way good show

[@richcar3434]

I was expecting Chuck Conners to come out with his rifle..

[@FerasAbuTaha]

Lol! :) @ 4:33 when the patrolman reads off the tail # of the airplane to dispatch...I checked the current registration for N3534C and it's the SAME plane!! That actually was the tail number of a 1955 Cessna 170!!!!!!

[@flintdinkersnatch5297]

Damn, planes last a long time if you take care of em', eh?

[@mesutter]

Yep, it's registered to a guy in Loomis!

[@rickey5353]

Nice investigative work, Matthews... LOL!

[@erikhertzer8434]

I bet the current owner Mr. Peck would get a kick out of seeing this episode and seeing his plane in its original condition...

[@SW2799]

And also if you noticed, they said it was the CAA (Civil aviation Authority) registration number, which was the predecessor to today's FAA or federal Aviation administration.

[@markmnorcal]

Again this show has a hot babe in it, even the dispatchers cycle through one hot one after another.

[@jimervin387]

Excellent equipment on that hot babe. Big distraction for old Mathews.

[@georgesenda1952]

Exciter Both of the women are babes.

[@rahkinrah1963]

Exciter - DITTO!

[@wt1370]

Definitely casting couch material

[@sharksport01]

Yes, Barney is definitely hot.

[@jerrypitts4905]

It's amazing Mathews can talk to everyone from his car radio without an antenna mounted on the outside.

[@katana258]

ranger jeep 20 yards from plane and they never saw it right off

[@MartinDee2000]

That's why I stopped watching it. I hate illogical bullshit.

[@cvcoco]

OOPS!

[@larrynunnery7914]

Bad case of tunnel vision.

[@sludge4125]

It’s called suspension of disbelief.

[@ernestkovach3305]

Poetic license.

[@artgecko2645]

Great line: Dan Matthews barks at young Zorro, "The ranger didn't die of engine trouble!"

[@raiderdanCA]

One of the better episodes -- great to see the early role played by GUY WILLIAMS ; As usual, BRODERICK CRAWFORD was GREAT !

[@davidcarroll1883]

My dad's '56 "Big M" Phametom 4 door had a 312 4 bbl with dual exhaust truck mufflers. Killer car! At least 10 miles a gallon. lol. Back in 1964.

[@peterterry398]

I love the ending.....Brodericks smile.... and comment at the end was great!!!

[@theloniousMac]

I used to watch this in reruns as a kid on wee hour tv on Saturdays. Love this. They made it for all of $37.48 and yet it still had my attention and came with a little twist at the end. 2150 out.

[@ednammansfield8553]

I used to watch this on British TV back in the 1960's, brilliant show at the time.

[@D.Milton-Husaw6819]

I love this show!❤

[@jln55]

The woman went unfrisked ;).

[@jln55]

nemo227 Haaaaaa!!!!

[@theothertroll]

***** She was already frisky

[@mikeejay63]

Mom sure was frisky, had the daughter when she was 14.

[@jimervin387]

Maybe the cop was too polite in those days to frisk a woman'.

[@GlamRockCowboy]

She would have been searched by a female officer when they reached Headquarters. That should have been routine even back then!

[@Catquick1957]

I bet the pilot doesn't get that bonus

[@greatbyrondo]

Yeah he does.....He gets an extra 10 yrs...!!!!

[@greatbyrondo]

Yeah he does....He gets an extra 10 yrs..!!!

[@paul1242]

What a break for Matthews that the Barney he had helping him wasn't Barney Fife.

[@Sootaroot]

Or Rubble.

[@lenny38138]

How did Dan go right to where the plane landed, then not see the jeep 100 feet away, in the open?

[@8176morgan]

How be it that big Dan the head of the Highway Patrol was right there in the area to begin with instead sitting behind a big desk at patrol headquarters where he belonged!

[@Sootaroot]

@@8176morgan And he looked as if he had nothing to do.

[@-oiiio-3993]

It was a stealth Jeep.

[@McIntyreBible]

11:16, " It's my money, every dime...it's an awful lot of money to be taking on a camping trip!" Hahahahahaha!

[@tommytruth7595]

He is so rich he was going to use it to start fires with.

[@Sootaroot]

@@tommytruth7595 It happens. The current UK prime minister belonged to an exclusive club for the sons of rich people, and one of the initiation rituals was setting fire to a pile of banknotes in front of a street beggar. That is the sort of privileged trash who are now running the country. No wonder it is going down the tubes.

[@booklover6753]

@@Sootaroot Maybe you'll get lucky and Johnson will go the way of the Dodo bird.

[@zippit40]

Big M on the front of that 56 merc. part of the commercials

[@phantomfixer]

Funny seeing Zorro, as a California highway patrol officer, lol.

[@franknew9001]

I didn't recognize Guy Williams without his mask, cape, and sword. LOL ☺☺

[@TheNextGoogification]

- >>> I was so caught up in this plot, I thought it was real. I found myself driving to the location, I happen to know where it was - halfway there I realized it was just a TV show

[@Sootaroot]

And they still had not removed the ranger.

[@dhall058]

One time I responded to dispatch, "21-50 By!" Got a few laughs from my fellow old-timers.

[@markmichal2952]

Watch closely at the beginning. When the ranger spots the "airplane in trouble" it's of the low-wing' configuration. When Matthews and Officer find the bird the configuration is high-wing. And now I chuckle as the Officer's name is Barney.... LOL

[@aquillafleetwood8180]

Cool cars of the 1950s...I was born in 1952....

[@Dave31452]

The kidnapper's wife had about an 18" waist. You sure don't see any adult women that skinny anymore....

[@jayonnaj18]

I love this series and Broderick Crawford did a great job, in my opinion, in the role of Dan Matthews!😊

[@ralphquinteros7564]

The numbers racket is today called the legal lottery .

[@davidanderson7465]

he figured it out because he read the script

[@Sootaroot]

Like in Spaceballs when Mel Brooks gets a pirate video to find out what happens next.

[@Johnnycdrums]

"The clowns at the circus they're real funny, on the highway they're murder".

[@sludge4125]

Funny how?

[@richardjones186]

This would have been a very short episode if Dan and Barney searched the house properly to begin with.

[@remmymafia3889]

Just realized, Barney is Guy Williams, aka 'Zorro' and John Robinson - 'Lost In Space". No wonder Crawford, shows hima little more respect that he does his other uniformed co-workers.

[@JK-rv9tp]

When I was a bush pilot all the customers addressed me as "pilot".🤣

[@mickeyray3793]

Too bad this show wasn't filmed in color. It always took place out in the country,, in scenic areas.

[@is1amizationbyimmigration262]

excellent po1ice work! you wouldn't want to bring the cop car closer to the scene, it's better to just keep running the the quarter mile back and forth and back and forth to use the radio.

[@rahkinrah1963]

There was road right in there!

[@countdown2xstacy]

Is1amization by Immigration Funny !!! But you’re right

[@flitsertheo]

What if both roads don't connect for miles, or not at all ? That police car is not exactly a jeep which can cross the rough terrain.

[@Sootaroot]

Really low on budget at the end of a season.

[@danmcpherson8158]

That mammoth portable radio in that Jeep.

[@drewallen8326]

I haven’t figured out yet why Mathew’s wears a suit and not a uni.

[@zhinbaysen7581]

The other patrolman. Guy Williams ( Zorro).

[@aikido775]

Love Crawford's machine gun verbals. Heard from CHP friend of my dad that Crawford received so many 502's (today's DUII) that he had his license revoked and could only drive on private roads during the filmings. Notice he has other actor driving on public roads. Confirmed by another man who worked on location! Fun series and remembered watching it as a kid...

[@roaenokesyzlak7828]

Gat dang i wish there was a colorized version of this show. Not saying B&W isnt good, quite to contrary, however, with all this technology that can 'color-match' black and white photos and video, it would be neat to see a colorized version of this show.

[@uralbob1]

Want a challenge? Turn up the video playback speed to 1.25-1.75-2.00, and then see if you can understand one friggin’ word Ole’ Crawford is saying! BTW: This is one of my favorite episodes!

[@robertbrawley5048]

These are edge of your seat shows . Sure i i watched this program back in the fifties . Nothing special back them . But now Vah vah Vuhroom

[@jackaustin3576]

I watched these shows when they first came on TV....