Season 3

1957–1958

Oct 7, 1957 · 28m

A former nursing home employee turns to robbing luxury stores and uses a potentially lethal stolen drug to disable his victims.

E2. Efficiency Secretary

Oct 14, 1957 · 28m

A secretary with an impeccable reputation for trustworthiness and reliability colludes with her boyfriend to steal $50,000 from her employer.

E3. Temptation

Oct 21, 1957 · 28m

A construction foreman steals $12,000 from his employer's open safe, then attempts to frame a subcontractor for the crime.

E4. Safecracker

Oct 28, 1957 · 28m

A meticulous safecracker is certain that he can pull off a lucrative jewel theft despite the Highway Patrol's constant surveillance.

E5. Mistaken Identity

Nov 4, 1957 · 28m

An unassuming cabinetmaker is abducted at gunpoint when coincidence causes a would-be thief to mistake him for a diamond merchant.

E6. Hostage Family Copter

Nov 11, 1957 · 28m

The Highway Patrol helicopter is ordered into action to follow a murderous fugitive that has taken three hostages.

E7. The Sniper

Nov 18, 1957 · 28m

A series of apparently random potshots at moving cars turns out to be an attempt to conceal a carefully planned murder.

E8. Hot Dust

Nov 25, 1957 · 28m

Lab worker Harry Wells flees and aggressively avoids people, after being accidentally exposed to dangerous radioactive material.

E9. Witness Wife

Dec 2, 1957 · 28m

Mathews tries flushing out two gunmen who are holding a farmer and his wife hostage. Mathews: Broderick Crawford. Ruttman: Tom Holland. Collins: Robert Swan. Martin: Ted Lehman. Jane: Gail Gregg.

E10. Dead Hunter

Dec 9, 1957 · 28m

Mathews investigates a businessman's accidental death. Mathews: Broderick Crawford. Foster: Joe Haworth. Tom: Pierre Watkins.

E11. Convicted Innocent

Dec 16, 1957 · 28m

A wrongly-convicted recent parolee is determined to kill the bus driver whose mistaken testimony was responsible for his incarceration.

E12. Chain Store

Dec 23, 1957 · 28m

A delivery driver commits a series of armed robberies against individual stores that make up a small supermarket chain.

E13. Double Death

Dec 30, 1957 · 28m

A wrongly-convicted parolee becomes coldly determined to murder the former business partner whose ruse was responsible for his conviction.

E14. Hideout

Jan 6, 1958 · 28m

A holdup man is murdered by the woman who planned his crime and sheltered him in the basement of her roadside diner.

E15. Mother's March

Jan 13, 1958 · 28m

A handyman robs a local businessman of $11,000 in charitable donations, then attempts to frame a local beautician for the crime.

E16. Slain Cabby

Jan 20, 1958 · 28m

Two men commit a series of armed robberies and escape by commandeering taxicabs for use as nondescript getaway cars.

E17. Insulin

Jan 27, 1958 · 28m

Two coldly calculating hoodlums attempt to murder their diabetic former cell-mate by depriving him of his insulin.

E18. The Seventh Green

Feb 3, 1958 · 28m

A country club grounds keeper who shelters notorious criminals comes under investigation after he is forced to kill one of his "clients".

E19. Foster Child

Feb 10, 1958 · 28m

An angry father pursues an orphan boy that he believes is responsible for the accidental shooting of his son.

E20. Lady Bandits

Feb 17, 1958 · 28m

Two women disguised as men commit a series of armed robberies, two of which result in murder.

E21. Revenge

Feb 24, 1958 · 28m

Felon Gerald Gray, who bears a personal grudge against Dan Mathews, is released from prison and uses everyone around him in his efforts to extract revenge.

E22. Tear Gas Copter

Mar 3, 1958 · 28m

Dan Mathews uses the Highway Patrol helicopter and tear gas in an effort to flush out two wanted fugitives who have taken a woman hostage inside her own house.

E23. Deaf Mute

Mar 10, 1958 · 28m

A botched robbery results in the abduction of the only witness - a 10-year-old girl who can neither hear nor speak.

E24. Hit and Run

Mar 17, 1958 · 28m

A woman panics and flees after striking a "pedestrian" who was actually involved in an attempt to steal $70,000 from an industrial plant's safe.

E25. Fear

Mar 24, 1958 · 28m

A family man is forced to commit murder when a would-be blackmailer discovers that he is actually the "Polka Dot Bandit".

E26. Careless Cop

Mar 31, 1958 · 28m

A Highway Patrol officer is critically wounded after failing to properly frisk and handcuff a suspect during a routine traffic stop.

E27. Policewoman

Apr 7, 1958 · 28m

An out-of-state policewoman who has infiltrated a gambling syndicate finds herself in grave danger when her identity is discovered.

E28. The Truckers

Apr 14, 1958 · 28m

A husband and wife team rob pharmaceutical trucks after slipping the drivers pills that render them temporarily unconscious.

E29. Credit Card

Apr 21, 1958 · 28m

Two thieves target unsuspecting motorists for credit card theft, but they become targets themselves when a determined female victim manages to notify the Highway Patrol.

E30. Psycho Killer

Apr 28, 1958 · 28m

A mentally disturbed man murders women who seek husbands through "Lonely Hearts" clubs.