Highway Patrol

Prison Break / Road Block

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.

Oct 3, 1955

Machine Story Copter / Machine Napping Copter

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.

Oct 10, 1955

Reckless Driving

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.

Oct 17, 1955

Lookout

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.

Oct 24, 1955

Gambling

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

Oct 31, 1955

Hitchhiker

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.

Nov 7, 1955

Desert Town

Nov 14, 1955

Radioactive

Nov 21, 1955

Reformed Criminal

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

Nov 28, 1955

Father Thief

Dec 5, 1955

Retired Gangster

Dec 12, 1955

Phony Insurance

Dec 19, 1955

Escort

Dec 26, 1955

Resort

Jan 2, 1956

Girl Bandit

Jan 9, 1956

Mountain Copter

Jan 16, 1956

Lie Detector

Jan 23, 1956

Scared Cop

Jan 30, 1956

Harbor Story

Feb 6, 1956

Hit And Run

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.

Feb 13, 1956

Car Theft

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

Feb 20, 1956

Human Bomb

Feb 27, 1956

Plane Crash

Mar 5, 1956

Desert Copter

Mar 12, 1956

Plant Robbery

Mar 19, 1956

Released Convict

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

Mar 26, 1956

Motorcycle A

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!

Apr 2, 1956

Mental Patient

Apr 9, 1956

License Plates

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

Apr 16, 1956

Hitchhiker Dies

Apr 23, 1956

Blast Area Copter

Apr 30, 1956

Anti-toxin

May 7, 1956

Dead Patrolman

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

May 14, 1956

Art Robbery

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.

May 21, 1956

Runaway Boy

May 28, 1956

Taxi

Jun 4, 1956

Missing Witness

Jun 11, 1956

Prospector

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

Jun 18, 1956

Christmas Story

Jun 25, 1956