Highway Patrol - Season 1 - Eps 4: Lookout
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.
About Highway Patrol

Title: Highway Patrol
First Air Date: 1955-10-03
Last Air Date: 1958-04-28
Status: Ended
Rating: 5.8/10 (from 9 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 5
Total Episodes: 156
Network: Syndication
Genres: Action & Adventure, Drama
Production Companies: Ziv Television Programs
Synopsis
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.
Cast

Broderick Crawford
Chief Dan Mathews

Art Gilmore
Narrator