There's this great old TV show that comes on at 5:00 am weekdays on METV called Highway Patrol. It ran from 1955-1959, the year I was born. It's a real low budget cop show and the acting is just fair to say the least. But if you like to see mid to late 50's model cars, this is the show to watch. Great big Chevrolets, Fords, Dodges and so on. There's a lot of high tech of the time like two way radios and even an occasional helicopter. Bad guys get killed on most shows.
Somebody has even put together a website with screen shots of all the cars in the show. Link Below
It's worth the watch, especially for the cars, but you have to watch several shows to really get the gist of it but. Get up early or set your DVR.
Below is a little information on the show.
Academy Award-winning actor Broderick Crawford starred in this syndicated cop series as Chief Dan Mathews, a gravel-voiced cop who headed up the police’s highway patrol on the sprawling freeways of an unnamed western US state.
Bitter gun-play and thundering car chases were the prime (perhaps sole) ingredients of this production, its elemental effectiveness influencing the genre for a generation.
Announcer Art Gilmore was the series’ unseen narrator, and Chief Mathews’ radio acknowledgement “10-4” passed into common parlance around the world.
Highway Patrol became one of the most successful non-network shows ever and lives in syndication.