# "The highwayman" TV series

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**Created:** [December 13, 2022, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highwayman-tv-series/976465 "2022-12-13T17:05:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highwayman-tv-series/976465/1 "2022-12-13T17:05:30Z")

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I love this opening narration by William Conrad. . Some southern band should set this to music. Perhaps Blackfoot of “The Highway Song” fame.

```
They say he came into this world from someplace off the clock.
And his mother was an ice-cold wind; his pa a fiery rock.
It's told that on some starless nights his rig could up and glow,
And folks who say they saw it coming swear they didn't see it go.
Now you hear a lot of legends told when you ride the long hard slab,
From some who say the man is good and some who say he's bad.
But all agreed who've ever tried to play a cheatin' hand;
You only get one chance to draw against "The Highwayman."

```

Anyone ever watch this show?

> **[$65,000 Worth Of Cool: The Highwayman Truck](https://barnfinds.com/65000-worth-of-cool-the-highwayman-truck/?utm_campaign=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Newsletter%2B%28Daily%29)**
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> So apparently, there's a TV show that I don't know about. How did this happen? I watch Knight Rider every day that I'm not on the road and this custom (did I even have to say that this is a custom?) cab-under truck, apparently built on a 1982...

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**Author:** ![TheTooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/919ad9/32.png) [@TheTooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheTooth)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highwayman-tv-series/976465/2 "2022-12-13T17:39:08Z")

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Co-starring Jacko as “Jetto”.

Maxwell’s Equations, which I went to some effort to learn and understand? Gone. A credit for a TV show I watched twice when I was 10 and didn’t even like? Written in stone.

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**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highwayman-tv-series/976465/3 "2022-12-13T18:35:48Z")

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> [@TheTooth](#):
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> Maxwell’s Equations, which I went to some effort to learn and understand? Gone. A credit for a TV show I watched twice when I was 10 and didn’t even like? Written in stone.

Same. I can remember way too much about Green Acres.

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**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2022, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-highwayman-tv-series/976465/4 "2022-12-13T19:23:48Z")

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That’s the truck “Jetto” drove.

> **[Peterbilt in "The Highwayman"](https://imcdb.org/vehicle_206906-Peterbilt-1982.html)**

Here is _the_ truck:

> **[Kenworth K-100 in "The Highwayman"](https://imcdb.org/vehicle_206905-Made-for-Movie.html)**

> [@mixdenny](#):
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> Anyone ever watch this show?

Every episode.