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Action & Adventure · Drama

Highway Patrol

1955-1959 5 seasons 156 episodes
68 Pulse
7.7 IMDb
Long haul 73 hours
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Plot

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 Matthews (who held no rank). Although filmed in and around the Los Angeles area, the state setting for the stories was never identified, and city and street names were fictionalized.

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Credits

Directed by: Herbert L. Strock, Lew Landers, Paul Guilfoyle

Cast: Broderick Crawford, Art Gilmore, William Boyett, Stuart Whitman, Terry Frost, Troy Melton

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