Episodes 39

1 Prison Break / Road Block

October 3, 1955

28m

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.

2 Machine Story Copter / Machine Napping Copter

October 10, 1955

28m

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.

3 Reckless Driving

October 17, 1955

28m

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.

4 Lookout

October 24, 1955

28m

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.

5 Gambling

October 31, 1955

28m

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

6 Hitchhiker

November 7, 1955

28m

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.

7 Desert Town

November 14, 1955

28m

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8 Radioactive

November 21, 1955

28m

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9 Reformed Criminal

November 28, 1955

28m

Dan Mathews has reason to suspect the worst when a courier with a criminal record disappears with $31,000 after an automobile accident.

10 Father Thief

December 5, 1955

28m

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11 Retired Gangster

December 12, 1955

28m

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12 Phony Insurance

December 19, 1955

28m

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13 Escort

December 26, 1955

28m

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14 Resort

January 2, 1956

28m

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15 Girl Bandit

January 9, 1956

28m

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16 Mountain Copter

January 16, 1956

28m

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17 Lie Detector

January 23, 1956

28m

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18 Scared Cop

January 30, 1956

28m

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19 Harbor Story

February 6, 1956

28m

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20 Hit And Run

February 13, 1956

28m

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21 Car Theft

February 20, 1956

28m

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

22 Human Bomb

February 27, 1956

28m

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23 Plane Crash

March 5, 1956

28m

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24 Desert Copter

March 12, 1956

28m

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25 Plant Robbery

March 19, 1956

28m

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26 Released Convict

March 26, 1956

28m

A patient parolee decides the time is finally right to attempt the recovery of $250,000 stolen in an armored car robbery.

27 Motorcycle A

April 2, 1956

28m

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!

28 Mental Patient

April 9, 1956

28m

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29 License Plates

April 16, 1956

28m

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

30 Hitchhiker Dies

April 23, 1956

28m

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31 Blast Area Copter

April 30, 1956

28m

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32 Anti-toxin

May 7, 1956

28m

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33 Dead Patrolman

May 14, 1956

28m

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

34 Art Robbery

May 21, 1956

28m

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.

35 Runaway Boy

May 28, 1956

28m

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36 Taxi

June 4, 1956

28m

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37 Missing Witness

June 11, 1956

28m

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38 Prospector

June 18, 1956

28m

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

39 Christmas Story

June 25, 1956

28m

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