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Happy Broderick Crawford Day (10-4)
The Official 60's Site - Highway Patrol ^
| October 4, 2015
| NonValueAdded
Posted on 10/04/2015 5:14:40 AM PDT by NonValueAdded
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To: doug from upland
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posted on
10/04/2015 5:59:03 AM PDT
by
eastforker
(The only time you can be satisfied is when your all Trump.)
To: knarf; katana
I can remember the opening lines of that radio show as though it were yesterday-a clear sign of aging when one remembers oddities from the past and forgets current matters.
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).
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posted on
10/04/2015 5:59:59 AM PDT
by
nathanbedford
("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
To: doug from upland
LOL!, We subjected our pledges to loud Cistersian music for hours while blindfolded in a hot boiler room in only their underwear
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posted on
10/04/2015 6:01:42 AM PDT
by
wetgundog
("Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is No Vice" -AuH2O)
To: NonValueAdded
Lots of eps are available on YouTube.
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posted on
10/04/2015 6:17:27 AM PDT
by
Zionist Conspirator
(The "end of history" will be Worldwide Judaic Theocracy.)
To: 1raider1
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.
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posted on
10/04/2015 6:23:48 AM PDT
by
greene66
To: NonValueAdded
I loved Crawford's gruff, machine gun speed voice when he barked orders to his underlings. It would have been hilarious if one of them had asked him to repeat what he said and slow it down please.
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.
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posted on
10/04/2015 6:25:59 AM PDT
by
driftless2
(For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
To: greene66
Wasnt it Art Gilmore? Oh man, you're good!
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posted on
10/04/2015 6:26:36 AM PDT
by
1raider1
To: knarf
"IMO, he was fat and ugly and a complete violation of my candied indoctrination to Hellywood stardom"
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.
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posted on
10/04/2015 6:30:11 AM PDT
by
driftless2
(For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
To: 1raider1
Do not remember who said it.
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posted on
10/04/2015 6:33:06 AM PDT
by
doug from upland
( never trust DemocRATS with national security)
To: doug from upland
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posted on
10/04/2015 6:35:40 AM PDT
by
1raider1
To: 1raider1
Could it have been Reed Hadley...he did a lot of that era’s lead in. (Just a guess).
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posted on
10/04/2015 6:36:25 AM PDT
by
Mouton
(The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
To: wetgundog
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.
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posted on
10/04/2015 6:36:42 AM PDT
by
doug from upland
( never trust DemocRATS with national security)
To: 1raider1
Art Gilmore sounds familiar.
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posted on
10/04/2015 6:37:36 AM PDT
by
doug from upland
( never trust DemocRATS with national security)
To: shibumi
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
To: knarf
Mr. Crawford loved cops and could be found at LA watering holes with them.
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posted on
10/04/2015 6:42:56 AM PDT
by
KeyLargo
To: 1raider1
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posted on
10/04/2015 6:44:38 AM PDT
by
KeyLargo
To: 1raider1
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.
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posted on
10/04/2015 6:45:48 AM PDT
by
greene66
To: twister881
Men offer security for sex. Women offer sex for security. - one of lifes eternal truthsI've also heard that women give sex to get love while men give love to get sex.
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posted on
10/04/2015 6:47:55 AM PDT
by
1raider1
To: NonValueAdded
I found and watched the first season on Hulu, but have never been able to find and watch the remaining seasons.
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posted on
10/04/2015 6:48:22 AM PDT
by
AlaskaErik
(I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
To: doug from upland
Very good. How many of those shows did you see? I watched quite a few at the time, but when they started showing reruns on cable a few years ago, I couldn't remember that, the theme song, or Crawford's character's name.
The only thing I could remember is Crawford barking 10-4 into the mike of a car radio.
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posted on
10/04/2015 6:56:10 AM PDT
by
driftless2
(For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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