Highway Patrol Season 1

October. 03,1955      TV-G
Rating:
7.7
Trailer Synopsis

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.

Episode 39 : Christmas Story
January. 01,0001
Episode 38 : Prospector
June. 18,1956
A poor prospector arouses suspicion when he suddenly begins paying off long-standing debts from a large roll of new $100 bills.
Episode 37 : Missing Witness
January. 01,0001
Episode 36 : Taxi
January. 01,0001
Episode 35 : Runaway Boy
January. 01,0001
Episode 34 : Art Robbery
May. 21,1956
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.
Episode 33 : Dead Patrolman
May. 14,1956
A Highway Patrol officer is murdered while pursuing a car stolen from a lonely bookstore owner.
Episode 32 : Anti-toxin
January. 01,0001
Episode 31 : Blast Area Copter
January. 01,0001
Episode 30 : Hitchhiker Dies
January. 01,0001
Episode 29 : License Plates
April. 16,1956
An alert boy is able to give Dan Mathews information that provides a critical break in the pursuit of a recidivist thief.
Episode 28 : Mental Patient
January. 01,0001
Episode 27 : Motorcycle A
April. 02,1956
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!
Episode 26 : Released Convict
January. 01,0001
A patient parolee decides the time is finally right to attempt the recovery of $250,000 stolen in an armored car robbery.
Episode 25 : Plant Robbery
January. 01,0001
Episode 24 : Desert Copter
January. 01,0001
Episode 23 : Plane Crash
January. 01,0001
Episode 22 : Human Bomb
January. 01,0001
Episode 21 : Car Theft
February. 20,1956
Car thieves purchase wrecked vehicles and transfer the VIN plates to stolen ones in order to escape detection.
Episode 20 : Hit And Run
January. 01,0001
Episode 19 : Harbor Story
January. 01,0001
Episode 18 : Scared Cop
January. 01,0001
Episode 17 : Lie Detector
January. 01,0001
Episode 16 : Mountain Copter
January. 01,0001
Episode 15 : Girl Bandit
January. 01,0001
Episode 14 : Resort
January. 01,0001
Episode 13 : Escort
January. 01,0001
Episode 12 : Phony Insurance
January. 01,0001
Episode 11 : Retired Gangster
January. 01,0001
Episode 10 : Father Thief
January. 01,0001
Episode 9 : Reformed Criminal
January. 01,0001
Dan Mathews has reason to suspect the worst when a courier with a criminal record disappears with $31,000 after an automobile accident.
Episode 8 : Radioactive
November. 21,1955
Episode 7 : Desert Town
November. 14,1955
Episode 6 : Hitchhiker
November. 07,1955
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.
Episode 5 : Gambling
October. 31,1955
Dan Mathews and his officers assist a county sheriff in closing down a club that offers illicit gambling.
Episode 4 : Lookout
October. 24,1955
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.
Episode 3 : Reckless Driving
October. 17,1955
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.
Episode 2 : Machine Story Copter / Machine Napping Copter
October. 10,1955
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.
Episode 1 : Prison Break / Road Block
October. 03,1955
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.

Seasons

Season 4
Season 4 0001
Season 3
Season 3 0001
Season 2
Season 2 0001
Season 1
Season 1 1955

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