Season 2

E1. The Search

Oct 8, 1956 · 28m

After an elderly couple inadvertently help a murderous bank robber slip through a police road block, a restaurant manager spots the fugitive who uses the old folks to keep from getting caught.

E2. Kidnap Copter

Oct 15, 1956 · 28m

Jerry Watts is the son of a millionaire and he's just been kidnapped and taken to an old shack high in the mountains. After a tip from a game warden brings the Highway Patrol, Jerry tries to escape to the officers, only to fall into a canyon severely injuring himself. The only way out is straight up.

E3. Trailer Story

Oct 22, 1956 · 28m

Steve Talbot is a jewel thief who likes nice automobiles, and the Highway Patrol knows this. So Talbot flees capture after a job in an old junker. This gets him past the roadblocks but he soon is stranded on the side of the road. He hijacks a newly married couple pulling a trailer and Dan passes the trio through, not wanting harm to come to the civilians. But in passing the blockade, they unknowingly pick up a new rider.

E4. Fisherman's Luck

Oct 29, 1956 · 28m

A car that was involved in an accident is stolen and later found again, and just happens to match the description of one used in a bank holdup. Putting two and two together, Dan speculates that this was the getaway car and it's occupants must have escaped on foot, which is near a posh resort.

E5. Magazine Writer

Nov 5, 1956 · 28m

Reporter Sam Dalquist has gone missing. Dan has been looking for him because a two bit hood was found dead after getting a traffic citation driving Dalquist's car. The only lead Mathews has is that Dalquist was working on an exposé about a hood named Matlock and that may be where the writer will be found...dead or alive.

E6. Typhoid Carrier

Nov 12, 1956 · 28m

Hank Dooley's daughter has just died from typhoid fever, and Dooley is now searching for his farm hand Len Frazier who is the one who infected her, complete with rifle in hand.

E7. Hot Rod

Nov 19, 1956 · 28m

Dan enlists the help of the leader of a local hot rod car club to assist in finding two robbers who use a souped-up car to get away from the Highway Patrol after each job.

E8. Hot Cargo

Nov 26, 1956 · 28m

Several criminals conspire to stage highway accidents prompting truck drivers to stop and help victims only to be assaulted and have their cargoes stolen. After discovering the hijackers are being tipped off by the owner of a roadside diner favored by truckers, Chief Mathews creates a ruse to force the crime ring into action with the hopes of capturing them.

E9. Oil Lease

Dec 3, 1956 · 28m

An Army bazooka is stolen by two men who use it to capture the payroll from an oil drilling company.

E10. Ex Con

Dec 10, 1956 · 28m

The life of an ex-con is never easy, especially when cellmates show up expecting favors. Al Baldwin is a reformed criminal but suddenly has unexpected guests who hide out at his house while plotting their next crime. When that holdup goes bad, the cons hold Al's wife hostage until Dan and the Highway Patrol come to the rescue.

E11. Motel Robbery

Dec 17, 1956 · 28m

A man and two women who specialize in robbing roadside motels become increasingly confident and reckless.

E12. Stolen Car Ring

Dec 24, 1956 · 28m

A man and two female accomplices steal expensive cars, forge registration cards, and sell the cars upstate before their status as stolen cars can be disseminated.

E13. Escaped Mental Patient

Jan 1, 1957 · 28m

Dan Mathews and his officers must work quickly to capture a delusional and unpredictable escapee from a mental hospital.

E14. Armored Car

Jan 7, 1957 · 28m

A trio of thieves threatens to murder the wife of an armored car guard in order to force him to surrender a $25,000 payroll secured inside the vehicle.

E15. Migrant Workers

Jan 14, 1957 · 28m

Inside information helps thieves rob a group of recently-paid itinerant fruit pickers, but murder results when one particularly desperate victim refuses to follow their orders.

E16. Ranch Copter

Jan 21, 1957 · 28m

A woman suspects her husband is trying to kill her. Iris: Virginia Dale. George: Douglas Henderson. Mathews: Broderick Crawford. Ted: Robert Cavendish.

E17. Amnesia

Jan 28, 1957 · 28m

Dan Mathews and his officers must rely upon an uncommunicative amnesiac to find a seriously injured camper.

E18. Statute of Limitations

Feb 4, 1957 · 28m

Mathews tries to prove the guilt of three holdup men---before the statute of limitations runs out. Mathews: Broderick Crawford. Eddie: Bing Russell. Wyatt: Mike Regan.

E19. Resident Officer

Feb 11, 1957 · 28m

A Highway Patrol officer is murdered after he discovers a marijuana field while on a hunting trip.

E20. Psycho

Feb 18, 1957 · 28m

A writer having a bad reaction to medication takes potshots at several targets, including Dan Mathews and his officers.

E21. Counterfeit

Feb 25, 1957 · 28m

Mathews and the Highway Patrol investigate a rash of forged payroll-check cashings affecting merchants in and around Los Angeles.

E22. Suspected Cop

Mar 5, 1957 · 28m

The distraught daughter of a deceased gemologist accuses Officer Johnson of stealing valuable uncut jewels from her late father's car.

E23. Trojan Horse

Mar 12, 1957 · 28m

Two men conceal themselves in large crates on the back of a truck as part of a plan to get inside a manufacturing plant so they can steal a $27,000 payroll.

E24. Female Hitchhiker

Mar 18, 1957 · 28m

A man and two female accomplices who pose as hitchhikers rob several unsuspecting male motorists, but murder results when one victim tries to fight back.

E25. Nitro

Mar 25, 1957 · 28m

A murderous hoodlum attempts to steal counterfeit currency plates that have been packed in nitroglycerin tubes for safekeeping.

E26. Motorcycle B

Apr 1, 1957 · 28m

Motorcycle-riding armed robbers elude Highway Patrol roadblocks by loading their two-wheelers into a closed truck driven by their leader.

E27. Officer's Wife

Apr 8, 1957 · 28m

Because of his wife's fears, Patrolman Ed Wylie resigns from the force after fellow officer Jerry March is killed in the line of duty.

E28. Stripped Cars

Apr 15, 1957 · 28m

Two brothers hijack a new-car carrier, planning to sell the cars to get cash to purchase a farm. When the driver dies from injuries sustained in the hijacking, they make a panic-stricken attempt to dispose of the evidence.

E29. Convict's Wife

Apr 22, 1957 · 28m

An escaped convict abducts his estranged wife and forces her to help him elude the Highway Patrol.

E30. Reformation

Apr 29, 1957 · 28m

An ex-con wants to return money stolen in an armed robbery, but his erstwhile partner has other ideas.