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Episode 39

Christmas Story (26:13)

Ted Spaeth's career as a successful architect has caused him to neglect his wife Laura and their six-year old daughter Julie.

Aired: 06/25/1956

Episode 38

Asa McQueen, old prospector, discovers a large sum of money hidden on his mining claim. His resulting spending spree brings him to the attention of both the police and the criminal who hid the money there, the loot from a large-scale robbery.

Aired: 06/18/1956

Episode 37

Missing Witness (26:18)

George Crenshaw has been sentenced to death for the Sunrise Park Murders. On the day his sentence is announced, Molly Weems appears at HP headquarters to state that Crenshaw is innocent, that she can identify the real Sunrise Park killer.

Aired: 06/11/1956

Episode 36

Taxi (26:16)

Steve Stankey, a gun-man about thirty, holds up a gas station, and while making his get-away in a taxi, shoots and kills a Highway Patrolman.

Aired: 06/04/1956

Episode 35

Runaway Boy (26:18)

A twelve-year-old boy , Jimmy West, runs away from home because of his unreasoning fear of an operation on his eyes. The boy's physician informs Dan that an immediate operation is necessary to preserve Jimmy's sight.

Aired: 05/28/1956

Episode 34

Art Robbery (26:17)

George Mills, business manager for art collector Carter Giles, engineers a plan to "kidnap" some valuable paintings and hold them for "ransom". Plans go awry, forcing Mills and his men to commit murder in order to escape the Highway Patrol's web.

Aired: 05/21/1956

Episode 33

Dead Patrolman (26:15)

The patrol car of a traffic officer is found abandoned on a country road. Investigation by Dan develops that the officer had been killed by two criminals who were engaged in a stolen car racket.

Aired: 05/08/1956

Episode 32

Anti-Toxin (26:16)

While on an inspection tour of outlying patrol stations, Dan Mathews is thrown headlong into a terrifying situation - and a race against the clock.

Aired: 05/07/1956

Episode 31

Blast Area Copter (26:20)

Jim Barnaby, a fugitive gunman, has taken Marge Willis captive for the use of her car.

Aired: 04/30/1956

Episode 30

Hitchhiker Dies (26:17)

With inside help, a bandit robs a plant payroll office of $28,000. He makes his escape in a grey sedan.

Aired: 04/23/1956

Episode 29

License Plates (26:15)

Seth Roberts, a very unpredictable bank robber was having things pretty much his own way.

Aired: 04/16/1956

Episode 28

Mental Patient (26:17)

A farmer is found dead, badly beaten.

Aired: 04/09/1956

Episode 27

Motorcycle (26:18)

Eight months ago, the tiny town of Sunland Park was raided and ran-sacked by a renegade motorcycle club.

Aired: 04/02/1956

Episode 26

Released Convict (26:14)

Nailor had served his time for a half a million dollars armored car robbery. The money had never been found.

Aired: 03/26/1956

Episode 25

Plant Robbery (26:18)

A duplicate armored truck is used to stage one of the most daring robberies on record. Dan throws all the technical resources of the Highway Patrol into action to track down the truck.

Aired: 03/19/1956

Episode 24

Desert Copter (26:16)

Stan Warren, a smooth, dapper con-man, wanted for murder, speeds toward the desert area in a borrowed car.

Aired: 03/12/1956

Episode 23

Plane Crash (26:15)

A Forest Ranger, patrolling a desolate section of heavy forestland, sees a small plane starting to land about a mile away. He notifies the Highway Patrol that it seems to be trying to make a forced landing.

Aired: 03/05/1956

Episode 22

Human Bomb (26:17)

Jay Dederick, an unemployed electrical engineer, has brooded over losing his job at Roget Chemical Corporation until it has become an obsession.

Aired: 02/27/1956

Episode 21

Car Theft (26:17)

Dan Mathews receives a phone call from an employee of a wrecking yard.

Aired: 02/20/1956

Episode 20

Hit And Run (26:18)

Mrs. Helen Barton, a woman of emotional and somewhat weak personality, has a serious argument with her husband because of the way in which her mother, Irene, tries to run her and her husband Joe's lives.

Aired: 02/13/1956

Episode 19

Harbor Story (26:17)

When three bandits rob a bank in a small coastal town and shoot a bystander, Dan orders roadblocks that seem certain to cut off every avenue of escape. Their car is found empty.

Aired: 02/06/1956

Episode 18

Scared Cop (26:14)

Patrolman Mark Reynolds comes face to face on a highway with his brother, Bill Reynolds, an escaped criminal. Reynolds. The Highway Patrol retains one of its better men

Aired: 01/30/1956

Episode 17

Lie Detector (26:17)

The Highway Patrol is called in to arrest Roger Taylor, who was identified as the man who beat Mrs. Ethel Carey, to find out the holding place of her fortune.

Aired: 01/23/1956

Episode 16

Mountain Copter (26:16)

In their remote, isolated mountain cabin, Walt and Freda Hollis find an injured man --fever-ridden, hungry, armed with a gun.

Aired: 01/16/1956

Episode 15

Girl Bandit (26:19)

A bank messenger, Frank Douglas, at his wife Louise's instigation, absconds with a large sum of money, brings it home, where he arrives earlier than expected and overhears the wife planning to double-cross him and run off with the money and another man.

Aired: 01/09/1956

Episode 14

Resort (26:17)

The Highway Patrol, working with the State Narcotics Bureau, learns that heroin is being transported into the local area by a unique method: concealed under the hubcaps of cars belonging to innocent people.

Aired: 01/02/1956

Episode 13

Escort (26:08)

Dan Mathews receives an anonymous phone call to the effect that Johnny Barr, crime syndicate head, is planning to carry out the murder of an important man.

Aired: 12/26/1955

Episode 12

Phony Insurance (26:15)

Masterson, an intelligent, business-like protection man, is running what seems to be a legitimate maintenance service. His organization causes the breakdown of trucks on the highway, then he moves in to offer his servicing.

Aired: 12/19/1955

Episode 11

Retired Gangster (26:21)

Jack McCall, retired gangster, former head of crime operation in state now a successful rancher, is to be called to testify before a grand jury, investigating crime in the state.

Aired: 12/12/1955

Episode 10

Father Thief (26:18)

Young Grant Elliot, stopped for speeding, panics and accidentally runs down the patrolman when the latter grows suspicious of a lot of automobile accessories in the car.

Aired: 12/05/1955

Episode 9

Reformed Criminal (26:17)

Frank Wood, a Farmer's Cooperative, is reported missing while trans-porting a large sum of the firm's money.

Aired: 11/28/1955

Episode 8

Radioactive (26:15)

A thief steals a piece of oil research equipment which contains radio- active elements.

Aired: 11/21/1955

Episode 7

Desert Town (26:18)

While on an inspection tour of outlying patrol station, Dan Mathews stops off for breakfast in the tiny, isolated community of Larchmont. Dan's curiosity changes to suspicion when he comes across and out-of-state car which checks out to be stolen.

Aired: 11/14/1955

Episode 6

Hitchhiker (26:18)

An unidentified man picks up a hitchhiker, a migrant worker, kills him with a tire iron, plants false identification on his body, and hen wrecks the car to make the hitchhiker's death appear to be accidental.

Aired: 11/07/1955

Episode 5

Gambling (26:13)

The Club Bahamas, an illegal gambling house, has defied all efforts to close it by the local sheriff, so he makes an appeal to Dan for help.

Aired: 10/31/1955

Episode 4

Lookout (26:18)

Though innocent of involvement, Joe Bradshaw happens to be in the company of the Fowler Brothers when they hold up a diner and murder its proprietor. He flees in fright. Fear of the police, compounded with an even greater terror of the vengeance he may expect from the Fowlers, drives Joe to attempt to get out of town.

Aired: 10/24/1955

Episode 3

Reckless Driving (26:21)

Dan Mathews places a new stretch of highway under severe Selective Enforcement--in order to reduce the high accident rate. Systematic traffic checks and increased patrolling of the area are instigated. Also, Mathews interviews negligent drivers who receive too many citations on that highway--hoping to determine causes and cures.

Aired: 10/17/1955

Episode 2

Machine-Napping (26:17)

Charlie Gray and Ross, two criminals, ingeniously "kidnap" an expensive machine owned by the Ferris Electronic Co.

Aired: 10/10/1955

Episode 1

Roadblock (Pilot No. 1) (26:20)

Ralph Neal is a hardened criminal. He's smart, ruthless, and brutal. His outward personality belies his vicious character. He escapes from a state penitentiary.

Aired: 10/03/1955

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