Highway Patrol: Plane Crash (1956)
Season 1, Episode 23
5/10
Taking Flight
24 February 2012
In Eagle Rock (a small Los Angeles-area community), chief Broderick Crawford (as Dan Mathews) and officer pal Guy Williams (as Barney) discover an abandoned plane and, nearby, a dead forest ranger. These mysteries lead Mr. Crawford to racketeer Mack Williams (as Harry Barlowe), his high-strung wife Helen Brown (stealing the episode, as Ellen), and private pilot Richard Newton (as Steve Wasson). Criminals in the 1950s might have noted how Ms. Brown, due to her gender, did not have the same "pat down" search as the men in her group. The trio are trying to solve a mystery of their own, involving crooked entrepreneur Bob Hopkins (as Eddie Cooper). Crawford must put these puzzling, seemingly disconnected situations together in less than thirty minutes...

***** Plane Crash (3/5/56) Leon Benson ~ Broderick Crawford, Helen Brown, Richard Newton, Mack Williams
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