"Highway Patrol" Hit and Run (TV Episode 1958) Poster

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(1958)

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Fleeing Crook Struck by Hit-and-Run Driver
FlushingCaps19 March 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Two holdup men are involved in robbing a company's safe. One of them dashes out of the building just as a car is zipping by and the vehicle strikes the man. The driver, a woman named Lois, stops her car, gets out, looks at the victim-wounded, not dead-and gets back in her car and just drives away-going home, where her husband sensibly calls for an ambulance to go to the site and then drives his wife back to the scene.

When they get there, the victim is gone. So the Highway Patrol, led by Dan, spend most of the show trying to find the body-and they believe it's connected to the safe job just discovered. They get the little info Lois can provide, and finally track down the two men, as usual.

Someone else reviewed this episode and claimed that dialogue in this show makes Mathews the kind of cop "most would hate." Their main beef is his "threat to the innocent (Lois).

There was nothing innocent about Lois. She clearly committed the crime named in the title of this episode. And she left a wounded man on the street where he might have died when for all she knew, medical treatment could have saved his life. All Mathews did was tell the woman she better hope the victim doesn't die "for her sake." If that constitutes a "threat" then I'm Whistler's father.

This was a decent episode, not a standout one. Worthy of a 7.
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10/10
Karen is a surprise
cartjos18 August 2020
I have something positive and something negative. The actress, Karen Kadler, was a surprise. Her acting was excellent, but her beauty was even better. Another example of a person with the looks and talent not getting the breaks. Sadly she passed away quite young. She was the positive. The negative is Crawford. I am sure an actor with his resume could make the character his own in this series. He seems to have wanted that character to be the kind of cop most would hate. His threat to the innocent Kadler and shoving of a handcuffed prisoner are all too typical of his characterization of Lt. Mathews. The reasons I gave this episode a 10 are Kadler being in it, no one being killed, and seeing Richard Benedict. Benedict, for people of my age, is one of those actors where you know the face, but not the name.
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