[doug from upland]

At UCSB many years ago, on occasion we would ditch a class and I introduced others to watching Highway Patrol. It was so much fun to be drinking while watching and mocking Dan Mathews. The show was so badly done.

[driftless2]

What I like about many of those fifties cop/western shows is seeing up and coming future stars. "Hey, that's so and so before he became famous." I'm also a fan of character actors and enjoy seeing them in those shows.

Yes, HP was really not a very good show. But when you're 7-10 years old, you can't see the holes in the plot of a particular episode or just the ludicrousness of one single cop capturing virtually every bad guy in California.