Highway Patrol Complete Season 3

brought back old memories

He loves them & watches them all the time.

For those who don't know about it, this show is not set only on the highway. It's more similar to Dragnet than to CHIPS. The Highway Patrol in this series serves as general police force, in addition to patrolling the highways.Someone has robbed your store and taken your 10 year old deaf-mute daughter hostage? Call the Highway Patrol!Kids play with guns and someone gets hurt? Call the Highway Patrol!Someone is blackmailing your husband? Call the Highway Patrol!This was one of my favorite after-school reruns in the early 60's,and I've waited almost 50 years to see it again. It was worth the wait! I started with Season 3, because it was the least expensive on the day I ordered from Amazon, and I wanted to see if it was as good as I remembered before I splurged on the more expensive seasons. It turns out that it is better than I recalled!!! Here are things I like about it--in no particular order:1. Very good picture and sound quality (way better than when I watched it on tv in the rabbit ears/pre-cable days). I did not have any quality issues.2. Excellent storylines/writing--a complete mystery/crime in only 25 minutes--no wonder Broderick Crawford talks so fast.3. Outstanding acting/casting. Broderick Crawford is so great, and many of the bit players are people I recognize from Perry Mason and other late-50's shows. Some even became more famous - that was a very young Leonard Nimoy in the "Hot Dust" episode!4. Unexpected examples of strong roles/equal rights for women. In Highway Patrol, women criminals con and kill people, are the brains behind complicated criminal enterprises, and sometimes outsmart the police, just like their male counterparts (and sometimes are even better at it!). Women officers are called in on dangerous decoy assignments and are as tough as the men.5. The 30-minute format is great for watching while doing short tasks, like paying the bills; and the episodes are standalone, so you don't need to know a backstory.6. The 2 plastic cases come in a cool matching heavy duty decorated cardboard box. (that's seasons 2-4--I don't know about season 1.)I'm going to Amazon to buy the rest of the series!

Broderick Crawford is back with Five More DVD Discs of episodes and that means you'd better mind your P's and Q's because he can bark out orders so fast that your belt will snap if you are trying to run away from him and your trousers will drop to your ankles entangling your ability to sprint and therefore fall flat on your face and subsequently be placed under arrest Highway Patrol style. Additionally, you'll look silly in your underwear, and if he's having a bad day he just might slap you with an additional fine for indecent exposure!I know, I know, what if the criminal is in a car? Well most if not all are in this series, so it's a good thing I imagined that you would ask that question. Dan Matthews (as played by Broderick Crawford but you knew that) gets so mad at lawbreakers that he will do anything in his power to stop them. And let me tell you, he has a LOT in his power. He even sometimes realizes that patrolling the highway in his vehicle is not going to cut it. That's when he...when he...yeah, you guessed it, he radios in for a helicopter!But traditionalists will be happy to know there are less copters this season than in season 2, so that can only mean one thing; more rubber on the road two fisted action and less airtime spent looking angry at the crooks from up above. Just listen to some of the episode titles in this Season 3:"Hypo Bandit"!"Witness Wife"!"Dead Hunter"!"Careless Cop"!"Lady Bandits"!"Dan's Vacation"!"Tear Gas Copter"!"Phony Cop"!"Dan Sick"!That's only scratching the surface, mind you, and I didn't want to make any potential customers dizzy or too excited so I didn't list them all.Suffice to say, if you've seen one episode of this show you need to see them all, so stop reading this review which will become meaningless once you have this box set snuggled next to your knee, the familiar blast of horns announcing each episode's beginning emanating from your television or whatever they call them nowadays, and helicopter lift it into your shopping cart here at Amazon!

There's nothing like watching Broderick Crawford barking out orders and delivering his lines so fast you can hardly understand him, and standing outside his car chewing up the handset of his two-way radio. His character is impatient with crime, or else Crawford was impatient with his role, who knows. I remember watching this way back in the day and I didn't know that Crawford had won an Oscar for his performance in "All the King's Men". Well, you'll see none of that acting brilliance here, the role of Dan Matthews is not exactly Oscar material, but Crawford's brusque portrayal of Matthews is really entertaining and is perfect for a half-hour TV cop show. There's crime, some action but not too much, and the bad guys always get busted at the end, quick and clean, no dragged-out stationhouse interrogations, confessions, and psychodrama.The incongruities of the show are kind of funny--why, in a small town, when there's been a robbery, do people call the Highway Patrol instead of the local police? Why does Crawford stand outside the car while on the two-way radio, toss the handset through the window into the car when he's done, then get in the car and drive off, instead of just getting in the car to use the radio? And why is Crawford always wearing that fedora?I'd a say a good portion of each episode consists of shots of cars driving. This is great if you're a vintage car fan. This gives you lots of footage of classic '50s land yachts with their tail fins and cushy suspensions bouncing along down the road.This particular set is a lot less expensive than compilations of other seasons of Highway Patrol, for some reason. I don't know why, these shows are just fine.

It was wonderful to be able to obtain all episodes of a show I watched when I was a kid, and still find that -- despite Crawford's machine-gun delievery -- a generally good series with only a few poor stories (about 39 episodes per year!!) and some rather pedestrian acting from time-to-time. Overall, it is very good, and great to see California back in the '50s as this show was shot on location.Highly recommended. And what a steal, considering what I paid for Season 1.

This collection will play on a Region 2 DVD Player. There are no extras or subtitles.I love this series - such a very entertaining cop show! HIGHWAY PATROL has a fine reputation and is fondly remembered with good reason. Here we have all thirty-nine, 25-26 minute episodes from season 3 with good B/W picture & sound quality. Rugged lead actor Broderick Crawford had a hard-drinking reputation, but his performance here as tough but amiable Chief-of-Police Dan Mathews is very good, as are the performances of the guest stars which include familiar character actor William Boyett in his reoccurring role as Sgt Ken Williams. Then there's the varied cases the top man behind the wheel is called upon to investigate, the snappy dialogue, and not a single wasted scene anywhere. So if like me you enjoy the likes of Jack Webb's "Dragnet" then I'm pretty confident you won't regret ordering this.39 episodes for (currently) under a tenner - well worth parting with your pennies I reckon. 10-4!!!

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My husband loves it...he lives in a b/w world...

I have not played the DVD yet but as in the past there should be no problems. Always a joy to order TV series from the past and very good prices