← Highway Patrol

Season 1

39 episodes · 1955

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    Prison Break / Road Block

    Oct 3, 195528 min★ 7.8

    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.

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    Machine Story Copter / Machine Napping Copter

    Oct 10, 195528 min★ 7.7

    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.

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    Reckless Driving

    Oct 17, 195528 min★ 7.4

    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.

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    Lookout

    Oct 24, 195528 min★ 7.4

    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.

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    Gambling

    Oct 31, 195528 min★ 7.5

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

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    Hitchhiker

    Nov 7, 195528 min★ 7.6

    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.

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    Desert Town

    Nov 14, 195528 min★ 7.9

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    Radioactive

    Nov 21, 195528 min★ 7.4

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    Reformed Criminal

    Nov 28, 195528 min★ 7.9

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

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    Father Thief

    Dec 5, 195528 min★ 7.8

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    Retired Gangster

    Dec 12, 195528 min★ 7.7

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    Phony Insurance

    Dec 19, 195528 min★ 7.4

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    Escort

    Dec 26, 195528 min★ 7.7

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    Resort

    Jan 2, 195628 min★ 7.7

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    Girl Bandit

    Jan 9, 195628 min★ 7.9

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    Mountain Copter

    Jan 16, 195628 min★ 7.5

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    Lie Detector

    Jan 23, 195628 min★ 7.7

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    Scared Cop

    Jan 30, 195628 min★ 7.7

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    Harbor Story

    Feb 6, 195628 min★ 7.8

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    Hit And Run

    Feb 13, 195628 min★ 7.9

    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.

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    Car Theft

    Feb 20, 195628 min★ 7.8

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

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    Human Bomb

    Feb 27, 195628 min★ 8.1

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    Plane Crash

    Mar 5, 195628 min★ 7.8

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    Desert Copter

    Mar 12, 195628 min★ 7.5

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    Plant Robbery

    Mar 19, 195628 min★ 7.8

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    Released Convict

    Mar 26, 195628 min★ 7.6

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

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    Motorcycle A

    Apr 2, 195628 min★ 8.1

    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!

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    Mental Patient

    Apr 9, 195628 min★ 8.3

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    License Plates

    Apr 16, 195628 min★ 8.0

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

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    Hitchhiker Dies

    Apr 23, 195628 min★ 7.9

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    Blast Area Copter

    Apr 30, 195628 min★ 7.8

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    Anti-toxin

    May 7, 195628 min★ 7.8

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    Dead Patrolman

    May 14, 195628 min★ 7.8

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

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    Art Robbery

    May 21, 195628 min★ 7.6

    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.

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    Runaway Boy

    May 28, 195628 min★ 7.6

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    Taxi

    Jun 4, 195628 min★ 8.1

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    Missing Witness

    Jun 11, 195628 min★ 7.8

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    Prospector

    Jun 18, 195628 min★ 7.4

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

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    Christmas Story

    Jun 25, 195628 min★ 8.0