[GreenKeys] TTY on TV

[Richard Knoppow]

    I'm glad you discovered this old show. "Highway Patrol" was a 
syndicated show, never on a network although it was probably carried by 
some network affiliates.  The shows were produced on a very low budget, 
according to IMDB about $20,000 per episode. Even accounting for 
inflation that is very cheap.  I remember it from its original 
appearance being nearly twice your age. It was quite popular and was 
often parodied mostly because of Brodrick Crawford's delivery. The plots 
are somewhat ragged and one wonders a little how they got there from 
where they started. The shows on You Tube seem to come from various 
sources, one had an EBS warning from KTLA, a local TV station here so 
was undoubtedly recorded off the air within the last few years. A couple 
have electronic transitions so its possible they were edited a little.
     I watch them mostly because of the locations. I grew up in the Los 
Angeles of the early and mid 1950s a few blocks from the studio where 
these programs were made. The locations were in L.A. and Ventura 
counties mostly, none too far from "home" due to cost. The San Fernando 
Valley, which is now well developed was still largely undeveloped and 
farm land at the time. Its fascinating to me to try to recognize where 
some of the locations were. Beside this "Highway Patrol" occasionally 
features a few actresses who were well known pin-up models at the time 
and a couple of former Playboy playmates such as Linne Ahlstrand and the 
redoubtable Diane Weber.  Once in a while some one who became a star later.


On 12/22/2016 8:37 AM, Eric Garner wrote:
> I'm young enough to have never seen "Highway Patrol" even in reruns
> (I'm 37), but having loved CHiPs and Dragnet reruns as a kid i'll have
> to check more of the show out.
>
>
> TTY scenes for the impatient:
> 5:54 https://youtu.be/z9elhJjRJwQ?t=353
> 10:17 https://youtu.be/z9elhJjRJwQ?t=616
> 19:03 https://youtu.be/z9elhJjRJwQ?t=1143
> 20:01 https://youtu.be/z9elhJjRJwQ?t=1201
>


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Richard Knoppow
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WB6KBL