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The Best Episodes of Highway Patrol

Every episode of Highway Patrol ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Highway Patrol!

The Best Episodes of Highway Patrol

Highway Patrol was a syndicated, fictional police action series produced from 1955 to 1959, concerning the activities of the highway patrol and their leader, Dan...

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  1. Background image for License Plates
    8.3/10(105 votes)

    #1 - License Plates

    S1:E29

    An alert boy is able to give Dan Mathews information that provides a critical break in the pursuit of a recidivist thief.

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    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Motorcycle A
    8.1/10(196 votes)

    #2 - Motorcycle A

    S1:E27

    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!

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    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for Fake Cop
    8.1/10(80 votes)

    #3 - Fake Cop

    S2:E34

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Hitchhiker Dies
    7.9/10(89 votes)

    #4 - Hitchhiker Dies

    S1:E30

    No description available

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    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Hitchhiker
    7.8/10(109 votes)

    #5 - Hitchhiker

    S1:E6

    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.

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    Director:Lew Landers
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Desert Town
    7.8/10(129 votes)

    #6 - Desert Town

    S1:E7

    No description available

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Dead Patrolman
    7.8/10(94 votes)

    #7 - Dead Patrolman

    S1:E33

    A Highway Patrol officer is murdered while pursuing a car stolen from a lonely bookstore owner.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Statute of Limitations
    7.8/10(84 votes)

    #8 - Statute of Limitations

    S2:E18

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Prison Break / Road Block
    7.7/10(158 votes)

    #9 - Prison Break / Road Block

    S1:E1

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Machine Story Copter / Machine Napping Copter
    7.7/10(111 votes)

    #10 - Machine Story Copter / Machine Napping Copter

    S1:E2

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Car Theft
    7.7/10(91 votes)

    #11 - Car Theft

    S1:E21

    Car thieves purchase wrecked vehicles and transfer the VIN plates to stolen ones in order to escape detection.

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    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Reformation
    7.7/10(82 votes)

    #12 - Reformation

    S2:E30

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

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    Director:George Blair
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Radioactive
    7.6/10(113 votes)

    #13 - Radioactive

    S1:E8

    No description available

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    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Oil Lease
    7.6/10(82 votes)

    #14 - Oil Lease

    S2:E9

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Gambling
    7.5/10(107 votes)

    #15 - Gambling

    S1:E5

    Dan Mathews and his officers assist a county sheriff in closing down a club that offers illicit gambling.

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    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Art Robbery
    7.5/10(86 votes)

    #16 - Art Robbery

    S1:E34

    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.

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    Director:Don Brinkley
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Lookout
    7.4/10(101 votes)

    #17 - Lookout

    S1:E4

    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.

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    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Prospector
    7.4/10(83 votes)

    #18 - Prospector

    S1:E38

    A poor prospector arouses suspicion when he suddenly begins paying off long-standing debts from a large roll of new $100 bills.

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    Director:Lew Landers
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for Ranch Copter
    7.4/10(84 votes)

    #19 - Ranch Copter

    S2:E16

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for Reckless Driving
    7.3/10(116 votes)

    #20 - Reckless Driving

    S1:E3

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Stolen Plane Copter
    7.0/10(77 votes)

    #21 - Stolen Plane Copter

    S2:E31

    Two convicts steal an airplane to escape from prison.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Witness Wife
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #22 - Witness Wife

    S3:E9

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Dead Hunter
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #23 - Dead Hunter

    S3:E10

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

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    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for Psycho Killer
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #24 - Psycho Killer

    S3:E30

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"License Plates" is the best rated episode of "Highway Patrol". It scored 8.3/10 based on 105 votes. Directed by Paul Guilfoyle and written by Unknown, it aired on 4/16/1956. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Motorcycle A".