
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…
TV-G • Action & Adventure, Drama • Series • 1955 • 5 seasons
Starring: Broderick Crawford, Art Gilmore
S1 E1 - 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 • 28m
S1 E2 - 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 • 28m
S1 E3 - 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 • 28m
S1 E4 - 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 • 28m
S1 E5 - Gambling
Dan Mathews and his officers assist a county sheriff in closing down a club that offers illicit gambling.
Oct 31, 1955 • 28m
S1 E6 - 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 • 28m
S1 E7 - Desert Town
Nov 14, 1955 • 28m
S1 E8 - Radioactive
Nov 21, 1955 • 28m
S1 E9 - 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 • 28m
S1 E10 - Father Thief
Dec 5, 1955 • 28m
S1 E11 - Retired Gangster
Dec 12, 1955 • 28m
S1 E12 - Phony Insurance
Dec 19, 1955 • 28m
S1 E13 - Escort
Dec 26, 1955 • 28m
S1 E14 - Resort
Jan 2, 1956 • 28m
S1 E15 - Girl Bandit
Jan 9, 1956 • 28m
S1 E16 - Mountain Copter
Jan 16, 1956 • 28m
S1 E17 - Lie Detector
Jan 23, 1956 • 28m
S1 E18 - Scared Cop
Jan 30, 1956 • 28m
S1 E19 - Harbor Story
Feb 6, 1956 • 28m
S1 E20 - 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 • 28m
S1 E21 - Car Theft
Car thieves purchase wrecked vehicles and transfer the VIN plates to stolen ones in order to escape detection.
Feb 20, 1956 • 28m
S1 E22 - Human Bomb
Feb 27, 1956 • 28m
S1 E23 - Plane Crash
Mar 5, 1956 • 28m
S1 E24 - Desert Copter
Mar 12, 1956 • 28m
S1 E25 - Plant Robbery
Mar 19, 1956 • 28m
S1 E26 - 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 • 28m

S1 E27 - 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 • 28m
S1 E28 - Mental Patient
Apr 9, 1956 • 28m
S1 E29 - 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 • 28m
S1 E30 - Hitchhiker Dies
Apr 23, 1956 • 28m
S1 E31 - Blast Area Copter
Apr 30, 1956 • 28m
S1 E32 - Anti-toxin
May 7, 1956 • 28m
S1 E33 - Dead Patrolman
A Highway Patrol officer is murdered while pursuing a car stolen from a lonely bookstore owner.
May 14, 1956 • 28m
S1 E34 - 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 • 28m
S1 E35 - Runaway Boy
May 28, 1956 • 28m
S1 E36 - Taxi
Jun 4, 1956 • 28m
S1 E37 - Missing Witness
Jun 11, 1956 • 28m
S1 E38 - 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 • 28m
S1 E39 - Christmas Story
Jun 25, 1956 • 28m
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Highway Patrol
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.
TV-G • Action & Adventure, Drama • TV Series • 1955