Prison Break / Road Block

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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.

10/3/1955

Machine Story Copter / Machine Napping Copter

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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.

10/10/1955

Reckless Driving

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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.

10/17/1955

Lookout

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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.

10/24/1955

Gambling

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

10/31/1955

Hitchhiker

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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.

11/7/1955

Desert Town

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11/14/1955

Radioactive

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11/21/1955

Reformed Criminal

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

11/28/1955

Father Thief

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12/5/1955

Retired Gangster

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12/12/1955

Phony Insurance

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12/19/1955

Escort

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12/26/1955

Resort

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1/2/1956

Girl Bandit

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1/9/1956

Mountain Copter

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1/16/1956

Lie Detector

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1/23/1956

Scared Cop

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1/30/1956

Harbor Story

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2/6/1956

Hit And Run

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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.

2/13/1956

Car Theft

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

2/20/1956

Human Bomb

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2/27/1956

Plane Crash

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3/5/1956

Desert Copter

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3/12/1956

Plant Robbery

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3/19/1956

Released Convict

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

3/26/1956

Motorcycle A

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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!

4/2/1956

Mental Patient

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4/9/1956

License Plates

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

4/16/1956

Hitchhiker Dies

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4/23/1956

Blast Area Copter

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4/30/1956

Anti-toxin

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5/7/1956

Dead Patrolman

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

5/14/1956

Art Robbery

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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.

5/21/1956

Runaway Boy

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5/28/1956

Taxi

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6/4/1956

Missing Witness

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6/11/1956

Prospector

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

6/18/1956

Christmas Story

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6/25/1956