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Highway Patrol

Highway Patrol

1955 - 1959

Prison Break / Road Block

3rd October 1955
Episode 1
A hardened criminal, whose personality belies his viciousness, escapes from prison, killing a guard. Dan Mathews swings into action, and as the man commits one ruthless act after another to break through the trap closing in on him, it becomes apparent that there's almost a personal conflict between the two men - that ends only when they meet face to face in the final scene.

Machine Story Copter / Machine Napping Copter

10th October 1955
Episode 2
An expensive, giant computer, one of the twentieth century wonders, which does a tremendous amount of administrative work in just hours, is ingeniously 'kidnapped' from an electronics company by two men. The firm's owner is told to get $100,000 from his bank at two o'clock the next day and wait for instructions. A helicopter chase helps Dan stop the men from collecting the ransom or getting away.

Reckless Driving

17th October 1955
Episode 3
Systematic traffic checks and increased patrols begin on a high accident freeway. Hoping to determine causes and cures, Dan questions drivers who get too many citations there. One man refuses to accept Dan's safety philosophy. When his license is suspended, his wife drives him to an important business meeting. En route, her eyeglasses break and he takes over at the wheel. Encountering a traffic check, he panics and flees, resulting in a severe accident in which his wife is critically injured. He learns the hard way - and too late - what Dan had earlier tried to impress upon him.

Lookout

24th October 1955
Episode 4
An uninvolved man happens to be in the company of two brothers who hold up a diner and kill its owner. Fearing the police and terrified of the vengeance he may expect from the criminals, he flees. As Dan searches for him, one man winds up dead, two critically wounded, and the man who a few short hours ago was an average law-abiding citizen is harried to the point where he is willing to shoot it cut with the police - until Dan manages to show the error of his ways.

Gambling

31st October 1955
Episode 5
Dan Mathews and his officers assist a county sheriff in closing down a club that offers illicit gambling.

Hitchhiker

7th November 1955
Episode 6
A series of fraudulent insurance claims is discovered after Dan Mathews and his officers learn that the "accidental" death of a migrant worker was actually a homicide.

Desert Town

14th November 1955
Episode 7
No overview available.

Radioactive

21st November 1955
Episode 8
No overview available.

Reformed Criminal

28th November 1955
Episode 9
Dan Mathews has reason to suspect the worst when a courier with a criminal record disappears with $31,000 after an automobile accident.

Father Thief

5th December 1955
Episode 10
No overview available.

Retired Gangster

12th December 1955
Episode 11
No overview available.

Phony Insurance

19th December 1955
Episode 12
No overview available.

Escort

26th December 1955
Episode 13
No overview available.

Resort

2nd January 1956
Episode 14
No overview available.

Girl Bandit

9th January 1956
Episode 15
No overview available.

Mountain Copter

16th January 1956
Episode 16
No overview available.

Lie Detector

23rd January 1956
Episode 17
No overview available.

Scared Cop

30th January 1956
Episode 18
No overview available.

Harbor Story

6th February 1956
Episode 19
No overview available.

Hit And Run

13th February 1956
Episode 20
Dan Mathews must cope with a family's effort to protect an emotionally fragile young woman who fled after striking a pedestrian with her car.

Car Theft

20th February 1956
Episode 21
Car thieves purchase wrecked vehicles and transfer the VIN plates to stolen ones in order to escape detection.

Human Bomb

27th February 1956
Episode 22
No overview available.

Plane Crash

5th March 1956
Episode 23
No overview available.

Desert Copter

12th March 1956
Episode 24
No overview available.

Plant Robbery

19th March 1956
Episode 25
No overview available.

Released Convict

26th March 1956
Episode 26
A patient parolee decides the time is finally right to attempt the recovery of $250,000 stolen in an armored car robbery.

Motorcycle A

2nd April 1956
Episode 27
Two bikers (Clint Eastwood as 'Joe Keeley', John Compton as 'Nick West') ride stripped-down Harleys into town and stop at a cafe. They are shocked when the cafe owner (Jack Edwards as 'Bernie Sills') confronts them with a shotgun and orders them to leave. As his wife calls the Highway Patrol her husband provokes the bikers, until Nick takes the gun from Sills and punches him. The bikers jump on their bikes and roar out of town. When Sills learns his wife has called the law, he hides the gun and lies to the responding motorcycle cop, telling him the cyclists started the trouble. The cop takes off after the bikers, only to be struck and killed by a trucker who runs a red light. Broderick Crawford’s ‘Chief Dan Mathews’ quickly sorts truth from fiction and arrests the café owner for assaulting the bikers. A nice (albeit unlikely) twist on the ‘bad guy bikers’ trope!

Mental Patient

9th April 1956
Episode 28
No overview available.

License Plates

16th April 1956
Episode 29
An alert boy is able to give Dan Mathews information that provides a critical break in the pursuit of a recidivist thief.

Hitchhiker Dies

23rd April 1956
Episode 30
No overview available.

Blast Area Copter

30th April 1956
Episode 31
No overview available.

Anti-toxin

7th May 1956
Episode 32
No overview available.

Dead Patrolman

14th May 1956
Episode 33
A Highway Patrol officer is murdered while pursuing a car stolen from a lonely bookstore owner.

Art Robbery

21st May 1956
Episode 34
Two thieves attempt to steal valuable paintings and demand ransom of $500,000. but they are forced to commit murder when the plan goes awry.

Runaway Boy

28th May 1956
Episode 35
No overview available.

Taxi

4th June 1956
Episode 36
No overview available.

Missing Witness

11th June 1956
Episode 37
No overview available.

Prospector

18th June 1956
Episode 38
A poor prospector arouses suspicion when he suddenly begins paying off long-standing debts from a large roll of new $100 bills.

Christmas Story

25th June 1956
Episode 39
No overview available.
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Highway Patrol was a syndicated, fictional police action series produced from 1955 to 1959, concerning the activities of the highway patrol and their leader, Dan Matthews (who held no rank). Although filmed in and around the Los Angeles area, the state setting for the stories was never identified, and city and street names were fictionalized.

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