If you have season 1 be careful buying season 3
I purchaced Highway Patrol, season 1, months ago and I have been waiting for more to be released. If you have Season 1 be sure to compare the episodes in 1 and 3. My season 1 and the season 3 advertised above have the same episodes. If you are not careful you could end up with 2 of the same thing. It's obvious that one or the other is mislabled. Now I don't know if I have season 1 or 3.
excellent police procedurals
It is amazing that a low-budget series of roughly 25 minutes episodes, centered on a pudgy and balding actor playing a highway patrol supervisor, could be so good - but they are!
Downside: formulaic - the crime is committed (minor music in background), the highway patrol of an unnamed state (obviously California) is called - sometimes, if you think, inappropriately (the patrol investigates kidnapping??) and, in a few minutes, the crime is invariably solved - no high tech, no fireworks (beyond small arms)- just thinking it through and doing their jobs (maybe this isn't downside).
Upside - versatile actor Broderick Crawford and his rapid-fire delivery - logical solutions, combining believable procedures and sometimes a clue or two, adult (in the best sense of the word) dialogue, finishing with an incisive line, usually to the crook, by the chief, and then a clever send-off to the audience - blatant violation of today's absurd Civil Religion (intelligent white males running...
Another Big 10-4!
I received season 2 and 3 and watched several episodes and skimmed through the other titles. The A/V seems to be on par with the first season release. All is good as far as I'm concerned, especially being that I never really expected these episodes to see an authorized release. I guess waiting patiently for well over fifty-years finally paid off. Remember: leave your blood at the Red Cross, not on the highway!
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