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Highway Patrol - Season 1
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Title: Highway Patrol

Overview: 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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Ratings

Average Vote: 5.8 (9 votes)

Cast

  • Chief Dan Mathews: Broderick Crawford
  • Narrator: Art Gilmore
  • Highway Patrol - Prison Break / Road Block (Season 1 - 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.

    Highway Patrol - Machine Story Copter / Machine Napping Copter (Season 1 - 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.

    Highway Patrol - Reckless Driving (Season 1 - 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.

    Highway Patrol - Lookout (Season 1 - 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.

    Highway Patrol - Gambling (Season 1 - Episode 5)

    Dan Mathews and his officers assist a county sheriff in closing down a club that offers illicit gambling.

    Highway Patrol - Hitchhiker (Season 1 - 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.

    Highway Patrol - Desert Town (Season 1 - Episode 7)

    Highway Patrol - Radioactive (Season 1 - Episode 8)

    Highway Patrol - Reformed Criminal (Season 1 - 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.

    Highway Patrol - Father Thief (Season 1 - Episode 10)

    Highway Patrol - Retired Gangster (Season 1 - Episode 11)

    Highway Patrol - Phony Insurance (Season 1 - Episode 12)

    Highway Patrol - Escort (Season 1 - Episode 13)

    Highway Patrol - Resort (Season 1 - Episode 14)

    Highway Patrol - Girl Bandit (Season 1 - Episode 15)

    Highway Patrol - Mountain Copter (Season 1 - Episode 16)

    Highway Patrol - Lie Detector (Season 1 - Episode 17)

    Highway Patrol - Scared Cop (Season 1 - Episode 18)

    Highway Patrol - Harbor Story (Season 1 - Episode 19)

    Highway Patrol - Hit And Run (Season 1 - Episode 20)

    Highway Patrol - Car Theft (Season 1 - Episode 21)

    Car thieves purchase wrecked vehicles and transfer the VIN plates to stolen ones in order to escape detection.

    Highway Patrol - Human Bomb (Season 1 - Episode 22)

    Highway Patrol - Plane Crash (Season 1 - Episode 23)

    Highway Patrol - Desert Copter (Season 1 - Episode 24)

    Highway Patrol - Plant Robbery (Season 1 - Episode 25)

    Highway Patrol - Released Convict (Season 1 - Episode 26)

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

    Highway Patrol - Motorcycle A (Season 1 - 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!

    Highway Patrol - Mental Patient (Season 1 - Episode 28)

    Highway Patrol - License Plates (Season 1 - Episode 29)

    An alert boy is able to give Dan Mathews information that provides a critical break in the pursuit of a recidivist thief.

    Highway Patrol - Hitchhiker Dies (Season 1 - Episode 30)

    Highway Patrol - Blast Area Copter (Season 1 - Episode 31)

    Highway Patrol - Anti-toxin (Season 1 - Episode 32)

    Highway Patrol - Dead Patrolman (Season 1 - Episode 33)

    A Highway Patrol officer is murdered while pursuing a car stolen from a lonely bookstore owner.

    Highway Patrol - Art Robbery (Season 1 - 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.

    Highway Patrol - Runaway Boy (Season 1 - Episode 35)

    Highway Patrol - Taxi (Season 1 - Episode 36)

    Highway Patrol - Missing Witness (Season 1 - Episode 37)

    Highway Patrol - Prospector (Season 1 - Episode 38)

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

    Highway Patrol - Christmas Story (Season 1 - Episode 39)

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