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Episode 39
Christmas Story
aired: Mon, Jun 25, 1956
Ted Spaeth's career as a successful architect has caused him to neglect his wife Laura and their six-year old daughter Julie.
Episode 38
Prospector
aired: Mon, Jun 18, 1956
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.
Episode 37
Missing Witness
aired: Mon, Jun 11, 1956
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.
Episode 36
Taxi
aired: Fri, Jun 1, 1956
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.
Episode 35
Runaway Boy
aired: Mon, May 28, 1956
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.
Episode 34
Art Robbery
aired: Mon, May 21, 1956
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.
Episode 33
Dead Patrolman
aired: Mon, May 14, 1956
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.
Episode 32
Anti-Toxin
aired: Tue, May 1, 1956
While on an inspection tour of outlying patrol stations, Dan Mathews is thrown headlong into a terrifying situation - and a race against the clock.
Episode 31
Blast Area Copter
aired: Sat, Apr 28, 1956
Jim Barnaby, a fugitive gunman, has taken Marge Willis captive for the use of her car.
Episode 30
Hitchhiker Dies
aired: Sat, Apr 21, 1956
With inside help, a bandit robs a plant payroll office of $28,000. He makes his escape in a grey sedan.
Episode 29
License Plates
aired: Sun, Apr 15, 1956
Seth Roberts, a very unpredictable bank robber was having things pretty much his own way.
Episode 28
Mental Patient
aired: Mon, Apr 9, 1956
A farmer is found dead, badly beaten.
Episode 27
Motorcycle
aired: Mon, Apr 2, 1956
Eight months ago, the tiny town of Sunland Park was raided and ran-sacked by a renegade motorcycle club.
Episode 26
Released Convict
aired: Sun, Mar 25, 1956
Nailor had served his time for a half a million dollars armored car robbery. The money had never been found.
Episode 25
Plant Robbery
aired: Mon, Mar 19, 1956
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.
Episode 24
Desert Copter
aired: Mon, Mar 12, 1956
Stan Warren, a smooth, dapper con-man, wanted for murder, speeds toward the desert area in a borrowed car.
Episode 23
Plane Crash
aired: Thu, Mar 1, 1956
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.
Episode 22
Human Bomb
aired: Mon, Feb 27, 1956
Jay Dederick, an unemployed electrical engineer, has brooded over losing his job at Roget Chemical Corporation until it has become an obsession.
Episode 21
Car Theft
aired: Tue, Feb 21, 1956
Dan Mathews receives a phone call from an employee of a wrecking yard.
Episode 20
Hit And Run
aired: Wed, Feb 15, 1956
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.
Episode 19
Harbor Story
aired: Sat, Feb 11, 1956
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.
Episode 18
Scared Cop
aired: Tue, Feb 7, 1956
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
Episode 17
Lie Detector
aired: Wed, Feb 1, 1956
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.
Episode 16
Mountain Copter
aired: Wed, Jan 25, 1956
In their remote, isolated mountain cabin, Walt and Freda Hollis find an injured man --fever-ridden, hungry, armed with a gun.
Episode 15
Girl Bandit
aired: Tue, Jan 17, 1956
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.
Episode 14
Resort
aired: Sun, Jan 8, 1956
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.
Episode 13
Escort
aired: Sun, Jan 1, 1956
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.
Episode 12
Phony Insurance
aired: Mon, Dec 19, 1955
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.
Episode 11
Retired Gangster
aired: Mon, Dec 12, 1955
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.
Episode 10
Father Thief
aired: Mon, Dec 5, 1955
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.
Episode 9
Reformed Criminal
aired: Thu, Dec 1, 1955
Frank Wood, a Farmer's Cooperative, is reported missing while trans-porting a large sum of the firm's money.
Episode 8
Radioactive
aired: Fri, Nov 25, 1955
A thief steals a piece of oil research equipment which contains radio- active elements.
Episode 7
Desert Town
aired: Mon, Nov 21, 1955
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.
Episode 6
Hitchhiker
aired: Mon, Nov 7, 1955
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.
Episode 5
Gambling
aired: Tue, Nov 1, 1955
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.
Episode 4
Lookout
aired: Mon, Oct 24, 1955
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.
Episode 3
Reckless Driving
aired: Mon, Oct 17, 1955
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.
Episode 2
Machine-Napping
aired: Mon, Oct 10, 1955
Charlie Gray and Ross, two criminals, ingeniously "kidnap" an expensive machine owned by the Ferris Electronic Co.
Episode 1
Roadblock
aired: Mon, Oct 3, 1955
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.
