Police car 2150

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Television series
German title Police car 2150
Original title Highway Patrol
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) 1955-1959
length 30 minutes
Episodes 156 in 4 seasons
genre Thriller
production Frederick W. Ziv
music Ray Llewellyn
First broadcast October 3, 1955 (USA)
German-language
first broadcast		 June 5, 1963 on ZDF
occupation

Patrol car 2150 (original title: English Highway Patrol , German (analogously): " State Police ") is an American television series that was produced in 156 episodes from 1955 to 1959 and broadcast via syndication . In Germany only 13 episodes were dubbed and shown on ZDF from June 5, 1963 . It has been translated into 17 languages ​​and broadcast in 71 countries.

content

Captain Mathews is the head of Highway Patrol , the state police force in a fictional US state in the western United States that shares a border with Mexico. His radio patrol car has the radio code 21-50 . In each episode, a police event occurs that requires Mathews' personal intervention.

At the end of numerous episodes, Captain Mathews addresses the audience directly with calls for traffic safety .

background

Ziv, who had already produced several television series such as The Cisco Kid or Science Fiction Theater , conceived the series at a request from the California Highway Patrol (CHP), which apparently expected an advertising effect from a representation in a television series. In return, the CHP was ready to provide the series with logistical support. At that time, the CHP was still more or less a pure motorway police force and was therefore rarely involved in investigations into serious criminal cases, which was the responsibility of the local authorities or the FBI . The normal business activity of the CHP did not seem dramaturgically attractive enough to Ziv, so that a serious criminal case had to be solved in practically every episode.

The series was shot entirely in California , in the San Fernando and Simi Valley or Griffith Park . The interior shots were produced at ZIV Studios, 7950 Santa Monica Boulevard. For cost reasons, the outdoor shots were operated with a minimum of effort, so that z. B. elaborate pursuit drives were omitted.

In the first two seasons, the production was still technically supported by the CHP. Original radio patrol cars were provided, in which only the official markings were pasted over with the fictional ones of the series. A two-door special model of the Buick Century , which Buick had only produced for the CHP, was also used for the series . The uniforms were also based on those of the CHP.

It is not known why the CHP specifically withdrew its support; in any case, she was dissatisfied with the dramaturgical development of the series. For dramaturgical reasons, the use of firearms was exaggerated and depicted in an unrealistic way, as in most western films . A fifth season planned by Ziv failed because of the lead actor Crawford, who refused to work.

Guest stars

As guest stars u. a. on: Robert Conrad , Clint Eastwood , Barbara Eden , Ruta Lee , Ed Nelson , Leonard Nimoy and Stuart Whitman .

DVD release

The first season was released in 2010, the remaining three on DVD in 2013 . A German edition is not yet available.

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