Highway Patrol

Joe Norton holds up a roadside cafe and kills the owner. In a moment of weakness, he allows two witnesses - newlyweds - to escape with their lives. The witnesses aid the Highway Patrol to capture the bandit before he kills again.

A convicted murderer, wounded in the leg, escapes from the police and takes shelter in a stationery store run by two women. Mathews tracks the killer to his hideout and takes a million-to-one chance to rescue his hostages.

Myra Davis engineers a brilliant scheme for her husband's escape from the penitentiary. Leaving her husband hidden in a culvert, Myra coolly returns to her home to "head off" the Highway Patrol. Dan Mathews sees through Myra's "innocence" and uses her to expose her husband.

Two men steal a supply of TNT to blow a safe. Only Dan Mathews knows that TNT is set to be exploded by a radio signal. A transmitter turned on within a two mile radius of the explosive can blow the thieves sky-high.

A professional gambler decides to eliminate his competitor's illegal gambling room by staging a murder in his rival's place "business". Dan Mathews solves the murder and prevents another crime with only seconds to spare.

Charlie Holman and Vince Crater rob a bank of $35,000 in new bills. Unknown to Vince, Charlie ships the loot as baggage to another town. Enraged, Vince kills his partner and holds up the baggage train to regain the spoils. Chief Dan Mathews rides a Highway Patrol helicopter in an attempt to collar the murderous thief.

The body of an artist who disappeared mysteriously a number of years ago is found murdered near a mountain resort. Chief Mathews exposes the killer's strange motive.

Two gunmen take over an isolated railroad station, planning to kill the crew of an oncoming train and escape with a fortune in cash. Chief Mathews discovers the plot and races against time to save the lives of everyone on the train.

Pete Madison steals the itineraries of three traveling jewelry salesman, and alerts his confederates to rob them. Chief Mathews uses his knowledge of criminal methods to deduce when and where the thieves will strike.

When racketeers murder his brother Joe, Mike Richards hunts the killers without the help of the Highway Patrol. Chief Mathews springs to action to save the foolhardy "amateur detective".

Jim Rogers sees two men rob a warehouse and kill the watchman. He confesses the crime as his own, so his needy family can claim the reward. When he learns the reward isn't payable until after conviction, Jim escapes and flees into hiding. Realizing the killers will try to "erase' Rogers, Chief Mathews races them to find Jim before it's too late.

Con man Paul Gayle swindles kindly Gus Fields out of his hard earned savings. Gus dies of a heart attack. Chief Mathews puts his force in motion to capture Gayle.

Armed robbers hold the wife of a supermarket manager hostage until her husband turns over the receipts of his store. Chief Mathews knowledge of criminal operations shows him where the thieves will strike next.

Sentenced convict Ted Wilson is being taken to the state prison by Chief Mathews and the Highway Patrol. Members of Wilson's gang lay an ambush along the route. Chief Mathews, taking a calculated risk, detects the ambush and counters with a plan of his own.

Newspaperman Merrill Hartman writes incriminating articles against a protection racket whose victims are afraid to give evidence to the police. To dispose of this threat to their operation, racketeers bait a trap for Hartman. Chief Mathews discovers the trap, saves the reporter's life, and wipes out the racket.

A sailor is exposed to deadly-contagious spinal meningitis when he saves an infant's life. He then elopes with his girl, not knowing he's a carrier of the deadly disease. Chief Mathews combs through isolated mountain country to track down the couple and prevent an epidemic.

By posing as a Federal Narcotics Officer and a dope peddler, two swindlers dupe their victims into believing close relatives are members of a dope ring. In this switch on the confidence racket, victims are then tricked into "bribing" the imposters to protect their relatives. Chief Mathews uses the racketeer's greed to draw them into making a false step.

A gunman fleeing from prison forces a prospector to hide him in an abandoned gold mine. When the mine collapses, a heavy rock pins the prospector down. The desperate convict, spotted by Dan Mathews' men, prepares to shoot it out with them. Chief Mathews uses the helicopter to free the prospector and outmaneuver the convict.

An employee of a diamond importing firm receives a consignment of the precious gems. Gangsters kidnap her. Her disappearance with the diamonds casts police suspicion on her. Investigation by Chief Mathews discloses that another employee of the firm supplied "inside" information to the kidnappers. Chief Mathews tricks the accomplice into leading him to the gang's hideout.

Joining forces, the California and Mexican Highway Patrols hunt a car-theft ring operating across the border. The slick-working thieves elude the law by altering the cars before selling them. Chief Mathews uses a dashboard cigarette lighter to track down the theft racketeers.

Paul Carson has a grudge against Sergeant Ken Williams of the Highway Patrol. Williams had Carson's brother sentenced to prison and Carson is out to get even. He steals Williams' car and, by donning a Highway Patrol cap and purposely running down a pedestrian, implicates the unwitting Sergeant in a hit-and-run crime. Chief Mathews makes a shrewd deduction and blasts the true facts of the rundown

Crook Nathan Colley extracts "hush money" from ex-convicts who are leading decent lives where people don't know about their past. Colley pulls a gun on ex-con Jerry Singleton when Jerry refuses to pay up. Colley himself is accidentally killed when Singleton struggles for the gun. Fearing a murder rap, Singleton flees. Chief Mathews, with the aid of Singleton's wife, finds the victimized runaway

After his father is killed in an automobile accident, young Tommy Chugg sets out to settle the score with Robert Hoffman, accused but acquitted of manslaughter. Tommy kills Hoffman's son, then heads for the elder Hoffman's mountain retreat -- the determination to commit a second murder burning in his brain. Chief Mathews leads a life-and-death race against time to apprehend the crazed killer bef

Young Billy Redmond's father is killed by a burglar who had entered the Redmond home thinking the family was out of town. Aided by Billy's eye-witness account of the crime, Chief Mathews leads the highway patrol in pursuit of the killer. Chief Mathews drives the criminal into a corner, and uses "bullet persuasion" to end his dangerous career.