Highway Patrol 1955-59

[Sandy G]

IIRC, "Hiway Patrol" was an independently produced/syndicated series, & was on a more or less shoestring budget... Almost ANY Jack Webb show had a LOT of "Corner-Cutting", too. Webb was notoriously stingy, & since he OWNED the shows, anything spent came out of HIS pocket. He also had a coterie of his actor buddies & friends who sooner of later, likely showed up in every one of his series as extras..

[Eric H]

I was watching an episode a couple nights ago and there was one shot where you could clearly see the Mike poking around the fender of the patrol car, it was moving around a bit so it was very obvious.

I believe it was the same episode where it cut in from what would have been a commercial break to a scene of a motorcycle driving down a road, encountering a HP car and turning around and fleeing, then it ended and cut to another scene, it made no sense at all.

10 minutes later the exact scene repeats, clearly this was a major editing fail on someones part.

[kramden66]

probably the way the station aired it, even these days they goof up when broadcasting

[Eric H]

Originally Posted by kramden66

probably the way the station aired it, even these days they goof up when broadcasting

This was on DVD.

[kramden66]

now that is bizarre, they made the episode that way ?

[Eric H]

It a season 3 episode titled "Mother's March".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0601480/?ref_=tt_ep_ep15

IMDB mentions the scene under the Trivia section but doesn't say it's a goof, it clearly is but it may be a deliberate goof done for whatever reason.

[old_tv_nut]

If the DVD was made from a print that was cycled to stations that bought the syndication, it could have been cut and spliced multiple times for commercial insertion. This could have resulted in something left out of order, or the other possibility was that the first occurrence was meant as a teaser but was incomplete after all the slcing and dicing, and with no commercials in place.

[Eric H]

The print looks too nice to be a syndication print, the running time is something like 26 minutes too.
The IMDB mentions the scene so I am assuming it's always been there.

From the IMDB:

"This particular episode is unique, inasmuch as narration is limited to the beginning of the first act. Virtually all episodes of this series included narration to begin both the first and the second acts, and most included several bits of narration at other points as well. In place of the usual narration at the opening of the second act is a snippet from the story's climax, which shows the robber making a desperate u-turn at a roadblock. Normally, scene snippets are only shown at the beginning of the episode"

They make it sound like a feature instead of a mistake, I can't see how it's anything else but a mistake because it makes no sense at all.