Posted on 10/04/2015 5:14:40 AM PDT by NonValueAdded
Highway Patrol is a syndicated action crime drama series that aired from 1955-1959. The series was syndicated by Ziv TV.
It starred Broderick Crawford as Dan Mathews, the gruff and dedicated head of a police force in a large, unidentified Western state. A signature shot of the series was fedora-wearing Mathews barking “10-4!” and other rapid-fire dialogue into a radio-microphone as he leaned against the door of his patrol car (call sign ID# “2150”).
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When asked why the show ended after four seasons, Broderick Crawford said, “We ran out of crimes.”
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Conrad with his gravelly voice began, "a Way out West there is only one way to handle the killers and the spoilers and that's with the US Marshall and the smell of… (Sound of Pistol shot with ricochet) Gunsmoke!"
Interestingly, many of the radio scripts were then used for television scripts and the same stories were simply retold with video. It seems they as time went on the television program became more and more soap opera and less and less Western. (I get it, a horse opera).
LOL!, We subjected our pledges to loud Cistersian music for hours while blindfolded in a hot boiler room in only their underwear
Lots of eps are available on YouTube.
Wasn’t it Art Gilmore?
I was thinking he was the same gent who, from the newstand, always intro’d Ziv’s earlier “Boston Blackie” series.
Another fun thing about HP was Crawford/Matthews never mentioning the brand name of a car. It was always "a tan sedan:....never a Ford or a Chevy.
Another fun thing was Crawford/Matthews always being near the crime and ready for the arrest despite the size of California. Of course, he did have that chopper ready to go.
And he always wore a suit and tie topped off by a fedora. Never in a uniform like all the other HP cops.
Oh man, you're good!
When I was a kid watching those shows, I never paid attention to looks. A cop was a good guy, and bad guys were bad guys. I rooted for Crawford to catch the bad guy. Never really noticed that he looked like an old, fat fighter who'd taken too many punches and thrown down too much bourbon.
Do not remember who said it.
See #25.
Could it have been Reed Hadley...he did a lot of that era’s lead in. (Just a guess).
Yes, but ours had to pull the pin on a grenade and not throw it until they finished saying it. Just kidding. But that would have been some hazing incident if a pledge class blew up. LOL
Actually, just like with saying the Greek alphabet forward and backwards, they had to strike and hold a match until done.
Art Gilmore sounds familiar.
The inventor of the Hot-Crazy matrix for rating women also has the Cute-Money matrix for rating men. Short story is that, at a certain level of wealth, women don’t care about a man’s looks. Hence, beautiful women will marry ugly men.
“Men offer security for sex. Women offer sex for security.” - one of life’s eternal truths
Mr. Crawford loved cops and could be found at LA watering holes with them.
Yes
Well, I’m admittedly a Ziv afficianado.
One other similar series was Ziv’s “Harbor Command” series, patterned after its “Highway Patrol” hit, but placed along the San Francisco waterfront area. Its star, Wendell Corey, was also a big-time boozer. Fun series, though, and available as well on dvd with nice print quality.
I've also heard that women give sex to get love while men give love to get sex.
The only thing I could remember is Crawford barking 10-4 into the mike of a car radio.
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