Season 2

1. The Search

1956-10-08 · 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.

2. Kidnap Copter

1956-10-15 · 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.

3. Trailer Story

1956-10-22 · 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.

4. Fisherman's Luck

1956-10-29 · 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.

5. Magazine Writer

1956-11-05 · 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.

6. Typhoid Carrier

1956-11-12 · 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.

7. Hot Rod

1956-11-19 · 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.

8. Hot Cargo

1956-11-26 · 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.

9. Oil Lease

1956-12-03 · 28m

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

10. Ex Con

1956-12-10 · 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.

11. Motel Robbery

1956-12-17 · 28m

12. Stolen Car Ring

1956-12-24 · 28m

13. Escaped Mental Patient

1957-01-01 · 28m

14. Armored Car

1957-01-07 · 28m

15. Migrant Workers

1957-01-14 · 28m

16. Ranch Copter

1957-01-21 · 28m

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

17. Amnesia

1957-01-28 · 28m

18. Statute of Limitations

1957-02-04 · 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.

19. Resident Officer

1957-02-11 · 28m

20. Psycho

1957-02-18 · 28m

21. Counterfeit

1957-02-25 · 28m

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

22. Suspected Cop

1957-03-05 · 28m

23. Trojan Horse

1957-03-12 · 28m

24. Female Hitchhiker

1957-03-18 · 28m

25. Nitro

1957-03-25 · 28m

26. Motorcycle B

1957-04-01 · 28m

27. Officer's Wife

1957-04-08 · 28m

28. Stripped Cars

1957-04-15 · 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.

29. Convict's Wife

1957-04-22 · 28m

30. Reformation

1957-04-29 · 28m

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

31. Stolen Plane Copter

1957-05-06 · 28m

Two convicts steal an airplane to escape from prison.

32. Gem Robbery

1957-05-13 · 28m

33. Wounded

1957-05-20 · 28m

34. Fake Cop

1957-05-27 · 28m

One member of a three-person holdup team impersonates a Highway Patrol officer in order to deceive robbery victims into thinking that they need not notify the Patrol themselves.

35. Double Cross

1957-06-03 · 28m

36. Narcotics

1957-06-10 · 28m

37. Hired Killer

1957-06-17 · 28m

38. Hostage Copter

1957-06-24 · 28m

39. Rabies

1957-07-01 · 28m