Asking for the map reminded me....my Dad worked at a gas station back when you drove over an air hose that would "ding" a bell and attendants would come out to your car. Gas, clean your windshield, wipe off your headlights..check your oil if you wanted. One time a guy came in and asked for 25 cents worth of gas......and a road map.

I love the tail fins on those old cars. Cars today have no flare or character.

i was born in '56, and used to watch this on reruns in the early '60's. i'll never forget the main theme music.

ANYBODY NOTICE WHEN HE SAID "REG ON STEERING COLUMN" THATS RIGHT WE USED TO HAVE THEM IN PLASTIC HOLDERS WITH SPRINGS HOLDING THEM LOL

Broderick Crawford was an expert actor in any situation...he played his role in a very convincing way.

Good show! Love Broderick Crawford in these episodes. So good! Love the cars from this period of time!

Crawford’s portrayal of 50s cop is spot on.

The Four Oaks Café was at the top of Beverly Glen where it hit Mulholland. The original café dated back to the turn of the last century. This makes sense, as it appears that much of the series comes from scenes on "dirt" and paved Mulholland Drive.

Matthews has all the compassion of a mailbox!

I sure enjoy watching the Highway Patrol.

62k payroll !! Wow, that was huge in 1957.

Love those '50s cars. They are stylist and sturdy.

No cell phones, no internet. Life was sweet back in the day. 4 oaks café...…..got to love it.

"The girl was just another blonde" Best line ever!

*The bad guy (Douglas Henderson) might be familiar to some viewers from The Wild Wild West, where he appeared semi-regularly as Jim West's and Artemis Gordon's field supervisor.*

I mentioned this on another episode, but what made this show unusual is that so much of it was shot outside. Just wasnt done much back then for cost control.

I like how they managed to get to the wounded police officer, transport him to a hospital, treat a gun shot wound, get his statement, investigation and suss out his next move all before the crooks finished their lunch. Talk about efficiency lol

Fond memories! My dad & I used to watch ‘Highway Patrol’ together, Dad was a big fan of Mr. Crawford’s. Luv the ‘Bare Bones’ set they had back then. “The girl was just another blonde.” Ha...Those words wouldn’t fly today! 🥴 Gotta’ luv Broderick’s white socks tho & his hat doesn’t move.

I love the way Mathews barks😂..I love the 50's

OMG! These old classics are too funny! Everything happens just around the corner! LOL! We were so naïve those days!

I love this show I love this show great actors. I'm glad KZfaq recommended this channel for me.

The bad guy goes to all that trouble to etase the tire tracks after he shoots the cops, then hops in his car and makes a u-turn in the dirt. Duh!!

love those 2 door sedans,buick,dodge,plymouth,,Pontiac,mercury,

brings back a whole lot of memories

Bad guy in car. Setup a roadblock! Bank robbery. Setup a roadblock! Speeding kids. Setup a roadblock! Lost cat...yeah...you know....lol

DON'T YOU JUST LOVE SEEING THESE OLD CLASSIC CARS WHEN THEY WERE NEW!

Excellent vintage show !

6,000 pounds of pure American steel!

I like these old shows!

So sweet to see the bad guys get it in a short 26 minutes!

"Four Oaks Cafe" is still standing at 2181 N. Beverly Glen Blvd., in Los Angeles. Looks different today, of course. It was for sale at some point in 2014.

That '58 Buick 2 door coupe is a rarely seen gem.

I like looking at the houses,roads and the businesses in the city.

I used to watch shows like this, Have Gun Will Travel, Gunsmoke, Perry Mason and The Adventures of Superman on our B&W TV when I was a kid in the 50s.

I like watching these shows from the 50s because I was a kid back then and it reminds me of things of that time period.

Director, “Cut!” Alright, who put SPEED in Dan’s coffee again? You know he reads his lines without spaces between the words and no punctuation when he’s on that stuff”

Dan's bedside manner: "You sure did". lol

well let's hope he is better MAKING plates than he is changing em, sure he will get lots of practice

Born 57, don't remember the show. But love it today.

All the car sounds are authentic. Many tv shows and movies from this era through the late 70s are all wrong but this show everything matched. As a car guy this is important. A chevy v8 should not sound like a six cylinder british car. It took Hollywood years to get the sounds right. They should have listened to Highway Patrol sound tracks!

Anybody else remember the Four Oaks Cafe? I do and it was nice. This was the Bel Air area then. According to my buddy who still lives in L.A, the building goes back to 1909 or 1910 and still had a restaurant there in or about 1993. This was good police work and some luck to catch that pair.

Did everyone enjoy how Broderick pointed the gun at his deputy after saying, Oh, that's a dandy! Good gun handling skills there :)

I used to live in the area that Dan Matthews patrols, but I moved because there were too many roadblocks. Every darn road I turned down, there was another roadblock.

I've always Loved this show

That was the good old days when cops could rough up the criminals.

Driving on Mulholland Drive between the San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles. His problem is that when he gets to Reseda Blvd, the road is still blocked in 2018. He would otherwise be able to drive the road another 40 miles to the beach. A portion of Mulholland Drive has been deliberately chained off and left dirt since the 1920s.

When Matthews says at the end "you'll get 15 years" to the bad guy, he forgot about the dead paymaster from the Indiana robbery where that big pile of cash he found in the back seat came from .

After all that erasing of tire tracks he drives over the dirt twice more!

Restaurant was closed and abandoned and is now worth 3 million and is being restored. It first opened in 1909. The link to it is dead.

lots of crime near the four oaks cafe. ought to move headquarters next door, wont have to drive so far. 2150!

Dan is wearing white sox and some kind of dock shoes. He must be suffering with Gout.

When Dan pulled the loot out of the suitcase, I thought he was going to pocket it!

You gotta love those cars!

She thought her guy was so smart, but after being shot by Mathews partner she tells him, "I thought you had this all figured out". She turned on him pretty quick. Of course they were going to be jailbirds for a long time.

"Let me see the map.....the GPS isnt working".

Dan and his sidekick are some men, to find the car with the missing licence plates.

Broderick Crawford, was one of the fastest talkers in his time , when dialogue was fast paced high energy. Excitement.👽🔫👮

Love how everything so neatly and quickly falls into place, just in time to film another episode.

Thanks foxeema!

Quando fui criança, sempre assistia era o máximo para mim e meus irmãos.

WRECKLESS driving DOESN'T DETERMINE WHO'S RIGHT, ONLY WHO'S LEFT! 🤔

What a great show!

Matthews loves those maps!

my Dad was a cop back then. he would take a look at the show, start laughing uncontrollably, then send me to my room

They didn't have Fords, Chevys, Dodges etc. They were black sedans, blue coupes or grey convertibles or green station wagons.

Seems like a different dispatcher in every show Big Dan must have been using a temp service.

Casually, "well,, he's still breathing." Matthews ain't got time to get too worked-up.

One day Dan will oil his door hindge

Dragnet always realistically provided the actual years and make of the car, such as "1952 Chevrolet coupe." I think Highway Patrol omitted car brand names because Ziv shows were made for 1st run syndication and the various TV stations that purchased the show may have had car makers as sponsors, and if Chevy was an advertiser that week they wouldn't want to hear verbal Ford references in the show, etc. You also never here anyone order a "Coke" or anything like that, all products are always referred to by generic names in Ziv programs.

When the cop identified the criminal's car as a "black sedan," he was giving useless information. He might as well have described it as "a car with four wheels."

Nice Buick special. Dan Mathews always gets his man.

The bad guy was Douglas Henderson when he had hair. He was the nearly bald Colonel Milt in the 1962 original Manchurian Candidate movie starring Frank Sinatra.

"Drive safely ! The poop you slip in might be your own ! " Dan Mathews

I love the way they changed different brands of cars back in the day I remember Martin Milner especially and their Productions they always used Fords and I like all of the cars they drive but I especially like the Buick Century with the three speed on the column and the nail head definitely faster than the dynaflow

I really doubt that office will go to the pen to see him.

So nothing but Diner's back then, not a lot of choices to eat in the late 50's, no wonder we ate home most of the time as I grew up not far from this Four Oaks Cafe but didn't eat there till years before it closed down. It was pretty expensive I think.

Dan always wounds, but never kills the villain.

@24:14, Love how Matthews doesn't even clear the gun when it's handed back and forth. Then he puts his finger on the trigger while he's pointing it at the other officer lol

The first part of this had my nerves tore all to itsy bitsy pieces! I couldn't finish my sardines and ice cream float!

Watching this in 2023 is remarkable. The corniness is rivaling all the Rocky movies and Road House combined, but it's okay, when you consider how long ago these were made. I very much enjoy them, as in all the HP videos, all things considered.

I'd love to have just one of those convertibles in that parking lot...just one. Dear lord.

Dan has white socks!

THEY CALLED AN AMBULANCE THAT OFFICER THAN LEAVES HIM ALL ALONE.

lets be careful out there! (hill st. blues)

ALWAYS look for a second weapon, and cuff asap after u findy any weapon! Training was different then. That's how we learn- the hard way. Felony stop procedures came into being because of the Newhall tragedy in 1970.

did you notice how many drivers exit out the passenger side door in many, many episodes?

This week on Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares. the Four Oaks Café. A restaurant which seems hopelessly stuck in the 1950's. The sign says "short orders" when it should say "sh!t orders". None of the customers want to be there. One couple I interviewed couldn't stop discussing when they could get out of town. Another man, a highway patrol captain, just kept screaming for another and another scotch and soda.

Has it occurred to anyone at Highway Patrol that the crook's 50 years was up over twelve years ago? This clown is back on our streets!

Indiana has had one plate for years.

Good show thank you for sharing

I love these❗️ I actually have seasons 2-4, but season-1 was more expensive than the others put together. Shows like this are fantastic. Nothing on tv nowadays like it. Only junk. Thanks for posting. 📻🙂

Man all these cars are now classics worth money in good shape

"And remember, when you drive, use a car! This is Broderick Crawford saying 'See you next week!'"

Boy Dan knows everything they are doing and solves the crime in 25 minutes. Then gives everyone advice not to leave their blood on the highway, just leave it at the Red Cross. I wished I could live where he patrolled. Safe place.

Dan Mathews realizing his pint of booze was almost empty, he went to the nearest bar.

50 years in the Pen ‼️‼️ Holy cow , maybe DANN will come visit you 😃

Mr Mathews so great..so satisfying....yes!! 👍👍

To hell with giving aid to your dying officer, lets go look around.

Deputy is "still breathing" but don't worry about calling an ambulance Dan!

Watch film noir with Matthew Broderick ." Scandal Sheet". Great movie. Very different from "Dan".