Prison Break / Road Block

S01 E01 • Monday, Oct 3, 1955 • Oct 3 • 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.

Machine Story Copter / Machine Napping Copter

S01 E02 • Monday, Oct 10, 1955 • Oct 10 • 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.

Reckless Driving

S01 E03 • Monday, Oct 17, 1955 • Oct 17 • 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.

Lookout

S01 E04 • Monday, Oct 24, 1955 • Oct 24 • 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.

Gambling

S01 E05 • Monday, Oct 31, 1955 • Oct 31 • 28m

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

Hitchhiker

S01 E06 • Monday, Nov 7, 1955 • Nov 7 • 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.

Desert Town

S01 E07 • Monday, Nov 14, 1955 • Nov 14 • 28m

Radioactive

S01 E08 • Monday, Nov 21, 1955 • Nov 21 • 28m

Reformed Criminal

S01 E09 • Monday, Nov 28, 1955 • Nov 28 • 28m

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

Father Thief

S01 E10 • Monday, Dec 5, 1955 • Dec 5 • 28m

Retired Gangster

S01 E11 • Monday, Dec 12, 1955 • Dec 12 • 28m

Phony Insurance

S01 E12 • Monday, Dec 19, 1955 • Dec 19 • 28m

Escort

S01 E13 • Monday, Dec 26, 1955 • Dec 26 • 28m

Resort

S01 E14 • Monday, Jan 2, 1956 • Jan 2 • 28m

Girl Bandit

S01 E15 • Monday, Jan 9, 1956 • Jan 9 • 28m

Mountain Copter

S01 E16 • Monday, Jan 16, 1956 • Jan 16 • 28m

Lie Detector

S01 E17 • Monday, Jan 23, 1956 • Jan 23 • 28m

Scared Cop

S01 E18 • Monday, Jan 30, 1956 • Jan 30 • 28m

Harbor Story

S01 E19 • Monday, Feb 6, 1956 • Feb 6 • 28m

Hit And Run

S01 E20 • Monday, Feb 13, 1956 • Feb 13 • 28m

Dan Mathews must cope with a family's effort to protect an emotionally fragile young woman who fled after striking a pedestrian with her car.

Car Theft

S01 E21 • Monday, Feb 20, 1956 • Feb 20 • 28m

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

Human Bomb

S01 E22 • Monday, Feb 27, 1956 • Feb 27 • 28m

Plane Crash

S01 E23 • Monday, Mar 5, 1956 • Mar 5 • 28m

Desert Copter

S01 E24 • Monday, Mar 12, 1956 • Mar 12 • 28m

Plant Robbery

S01 E25 • Monday, Mar 19, 1956 • Mar 19 • 28m

Released Convict

S01 E26 • Monday, Mar 26, 1956 • Mar 26 • 28m

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

Motorcycle A

S01 E27 • Monday, Apr 2, 1956 • Apr 2 • 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!

Mental Patient

S01 E28 • Monday, Apr 9, 1956 • Apr 9 • 28m

License Plates

S01 E29 • Monday, Apr 16, 1956 • Apr 16 • 28m

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

Hitchhiker Dies

S01 E30 • Monday, Apr 23, 1956 • Apr 23 • 28m

Blast Area Copter

S01 E31 • Monday, Apr 30, 1956 • Apr 30 • 28m

Anti-toxin

S01 E32 • Monday, May 7, 1956 • May 7 • 28m

Dead Patrolman

S01 E33 • Monday, May 14, 1956 • May 14 • 28m

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

Art Robbery

S01 E34 • Monday, May 21, 1956 • May 21 • 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.

Runaway Boy

S01 E35 • Monday, May 28, 1956 • May 28 • 28m

Taxi

S01 E36 • Monday, Jun 4, 1956 • Jun 4 • 28m

Missing Witness

S01 E37 • Monday, Jun 11, 1956 • Jun 11 • 28m

Prospector

S01 E38 • Monday, Jun 18, 1956 • Jun 18 • 28m

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

Christmas Story

S01 E39 • Monday, Jun 25, 1956 • Jun 25 • 28m