Broderick Crawford
Dan Mathews
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Series SeasonSeason 1 episodes1955
Highway Patrol
Season 1
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Episodes
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Episode 128 min1955-10-03
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.
Episode 228 min1955-10-10
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.
Episode 328 min1955-10-17
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.
Episode 428 min1955-10-24
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.
Episode 528 min1955-10-31
Gambling
Dan Mathews and his officers assist a county sheriff in closing down a club that offers illicit gambling.
Episode 628 min1955-11-07
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.
Episode 728 min1955-11-14
Desert Town
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Episode 828 min1955-11-21
Radioactive
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Episode 928 min1955-11-28
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.
Episode 1028 min1955-12-05
Father Thief
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Episode 1128 min1955-12-12
Retired Gangster
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Episode 1228 min1955-12-19
Phony Insurance
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Episode 1328 min1955-12-26
Escort
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Episode 1428 min1956-01-02
Resort
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Episode 1528 min1956-01-09
Girl Bandit
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Episode 1628 min1956-01-16
Mountain Copter
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Episode 1728 min1956-01-23
Lie Detector
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Episode 1828 min1956-01-30
Scared Cop
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Episode 1928 min1956-02-06
Harbor Story
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Episode 2028 min1956-02-13
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.
Episode 2128 min1956-02-20
Car Theft
Car thieves purchase wrecked vehicles and transfer the VIN plates to stolen ones in order to escape detection.
Episode 2228 min1956-02-27
Human Bomb
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Episode 2328 min1956-03-05
Plane Crash
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Episode 2428 min1956-03-12
Desert Copter
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Episode 2528 min1956-03-19
Plant Robbery
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Episode 2628 min1956-03-26
Released Convict
A patient parolee decides the time is finally right to attempt the recovery of $250,000 stolen in an armored car robbery.
Episode 2728 min1956-04-02
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!
Episode 2828 min1956-04-09
Mental Patient
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Episode 2928 min1956-04-16
License Plates
An alert boy is able to give Dan Mathews information that provides a critical break in the pursuit of a recidivist thief.
Episode 3028 min1956-04-23
Hitchhiker Dies
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Episode 3128 min1956-04-30
Blast Area Copter
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Episode 3228 min1956-05-07
Anti-toxin
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Episode 3328 min1956-05-14
Dead Patrolman
A Highway Patrol officer is murdered while pursuing a car stolen from a lonely bookstore owner.
Episode 3428 min1956-05-21
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.
Episode 3528 min1956-05-28
Runaway Boy
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Episode 3628 min1956-06-04
Taxi
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Episode 3728 min1956-06-11
Missing Witness
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Episode 3828 min1956-06-18
Prospector
A poor prospector arouses suspicion when he suddenly begins paying off long-standing debts from a large roll of new $100 bills.
Episode 3928 min1956-06-25
Christmas Story
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