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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!

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...
Genres:Action & AdventureDrama
Network:Syndication

Best Episodes Summary

"License Plates" is the best rated episode of "Highway Patrol". It scored 8.3/10 based on 101 votes. Directed by Paul Guilfoyle and written by N/A, it aired on 4/16/1956. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Motorcycle A".

  • License Plates
    8.3/10101 votes
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    #1 - License Plates

    Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/16/1956

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

    Director: Paul Guilfoyle

    Writer: N/A

  • Motorcycle A
    8.1/10186 votes
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    #2 - Motorcycle A

    Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/2/1956

    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!

    Director: Lambert Hillyer

    Writer: N/A

  • Fake Cop
    8.1/1074 votes
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    #3 - Fake Cop

    Season 2 Episode 34 - Aired 5/27/1957

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Desert Town
    7.9/10122 votes
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    #4 - Desert Town

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/14/1955

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Hitchhiker
    7.8/10104 votes
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    #5 - Hitchhiker

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/7/1955

    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.

    Director: Lew Landers

    Writer: N/A

  • Car Theft
    7.8/1086 votes
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    #6 - Car Theft

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/20/1956

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

    Director: Herbert L. Strock

    Writer: N/A

  • Dead Patrolman
    7.8/1090 votes
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    #7 - Dead Patrolman

    Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 5/14/1956

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Prison Break / Road Block
    7.7/10151 votes
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    #8 - Prison Break / Road Block

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/3/1955

    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.

    Director: Herbert L. Strock

    Writer: N/A

  • Machine Story Copter / Machine Napping Copter
    7.7/10107 votes
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    #9 - Machine Story Copter / Machine Napping Copter

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/10/1955

    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.

    Director: Herbert L. Strock

    Writer: N/A

  • Statute of Limitations
    7.7/1081 votes
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    #10 - Statute of Limitations

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/4/1957

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Reformation
    7.7/1074 votes
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    #11 - Reformation

    Season 2 Episode 30 - Aired 4/29/1957

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

    Director: George Blair

    Writer: N/A

  • Witness Wife
    7.7/1075 votes
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    #12 - Witness Wife

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 12/3/1957

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Gambling
    7.6/10102 votes
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    #13 - Gambling

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/31/1955

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

    Director: Leslie Goodwins

    Writer: N/A

  • Radioactive
    7.6/10109 votes
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    #14 - Radioactive

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/1955

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    Director: Paul Guilfoyle

    Writer: N/A

  • Oil Lease
    7.6/1079 votes
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    #15 - Oil Lease

    Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 10/1/1956

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

    Director: Lambert Hillyer

    Writer: N/A

  • Psycho Killer
    7.6/1071 votes
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    #16 - Psycho Killer

    Season 3 Episode 30 - Aired 4/28/1958

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Art Robbery
    7.5/1081 votes
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    #17 - Art Robbery

    Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 5/21/1956

    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.

    Director: Don Brinkley

    Writer: N/A

  • Ranch Copter
    7.5/1079 votes
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    #18 - Ranch Copter

    Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/21/1957

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

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Reckless Driving
    7.4/10109 votes
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    #19 - Reckless Driving

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/17/1955

    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.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Lookout
    7.4/1096 votes
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    #20 - Lookout

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/1955

    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.

    Director: Herbert L. Strock

    Writer: N/A

  • Prospector
    7.4/1077 votes
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    #21 - Prospector

    Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 6/18/1956

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

    Director: Lew Landers

    Writer: N/A

  • Dead Hunter
    7.3/1075 votes
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    #22 - Dead Hunter

    Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 12/10/1957

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

    Director: Herbert L. Strock

    Writer: N/A

  • Stolen Plane Copter
    7.0/1071 votes
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    #23 - Stolen Plane Copter

    Season 2 Episode 31 - Aired 5/6/1957

    Two convicts steal an airplane to escape from prison.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A