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State Trooper is an American crime drama set in the American West of the 1950s, starring Rod Cameron as Lt. Rod Blake, an officer/chief investigator of the Nevada Department of Public Safety. The series aired 104 episodes in syndication from 1956 to 1959.

State Trooper
Rod Cameron as Rod Blake, 1957.
Genre	Western/Crime drama
Written by	Fenton Earnshaw Lawrence Kimble Leslie McFarlane Barry Shipman Steven Thornley
Starring	Rod Cameron Robert Armstrong
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	104
Production
Producer	Richard Irving
Camera setup	Single-camera
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	Revue Studios
Distributor	MCA TV
Release
Original network	Syndication
Picture format	Black-and-white
Audio format	Monaural
Original release	January 1957 (1957-01) – June 25, 1959 (1959-06-25)
Chronology
Related shows	Star Stage

Overview

State Trooper is based in Las Vegas, Reno, and Carson City, Nevada, but was filmed by Revue Studios at Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth in Los Angeles County in California. Its fictional stories focus upon miners, ranchers, dude ranches, released convicts, and murder mysteries, often with surprise endings.

The series pilot entitled "Killer on a Horseback" starring Rod Cameron aired in February 1956 on an episode of the NBC anthology series Star Stage.[1]

Robert Armstrong appeared in 24 episodes as Sheriff Andy Anderson, who developed a good working relationship with Cameron's character, Blake. Don Haggerty played Sheriff Elder in nine episodes in the 1956-1957 season. Paul Stader appeared five times in the 1958-1959 season as Deputy Sheriff Jim Wallace. Tom Greenway appeared in four episodes as Sheriff Bronson: "Stay Lost, Little Girl", "Dangerous Honeymoon", "Full Circle", and "Death on Wheels".

Blake carried a "Detective Special" revolver.

Episodes

Season 1 (1956–57)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
1	1	"Red Badge of Death"	Richard Irving	Lawrence Kimble	September 25, 1956 (1956-09-25)
2	2	"The Paperhanger of Pioche"	Richard Irving	Lawrence Kimble	October 2, 1956 (1956-10-02)
3	3	"Meeting at Julia's"	Richard Irving	Lawrence Kimble	October 9, 1956 (1956-10-09)
4	4	"Jailbreak at Tonopah"	Richard Irving	Lawrence Kimble	1956 (1956)
5	5	"The Hills of Homicide"	Richard Irving	Lawrence Kimble	1956 (1956)
6	6	"From Here to Molokai"	Richard Irving	Lawrence Kimble	1956 (1956)
7	7	"What Price Gloria"	Richard Irving	Lawrence Kimble	1956 (1956)
8	8	"Weep No More O'Grady"	Earl Bellamy	Lawrence Kimble	1956 (1956)
9	9	"Nevada Boy, Pride and Joy"	Don McDougall	Lawrence Kimble	1956 (1956)
10	10	"One Way to Tahoe"	Richard Irving	Lawrence Kimble	1956 (1956)
11	11	"Room Service for 321"	Richard Irving	Lawrence Kimble	1957 (1957)
12	12	"The Cash Out"	Don McDougall	Teleplay by: Fenton Earnshaw Story by: Thomas Walsh	1957 (1957)
13	13	"Trail of the Dead"	Don McDougall	Teleplay by: Barry Shipman Story by: Leslie MacFarlane	1957 (1957)
14	14	"Rocking Chair Bandit"	Richard Irving	Lawrence Kimble	1957 (1957)
15	15	"Coate of Many Colors"	Sidney Salkow	Lawrence Kimble	1957 (1957)
16	16	"Boulder Joe's Bottle House"	Don McDougall	Lawrence Kimble	1957 (1957)
17	17	"Who Killed Doc Robbins"	Don McDougall	Lawrence Kimble	1957 (1957)
18	18	"Buck Fever"	Herschel Daugherty	Lawrence Kimble	1957 (1957)
19	19	"No Fancy Cowboys"	Don McDougall	James Gunn	1957 (1957)
20	20	"Violets on Mt. Rose"	Don McDougall	Lawrence Kimble	1957 (1957)
21	21	"The Last Stage Robbery"	Richard Irving	Lawrence Kimble	1957 (1957)
22	22	"The Silver Duke"	Don McDougall	Teleplay by: Barry Shipman Story by: Leslie MacFarlane	1957 (1957)
23	23	"Death on the Rock"	Sidney Salkow	Teleplay by: Leo Gordon & Fenton Earnshaw Story by: Leo Gordon	1957 (1957)
24	24	"The Last War Party"	Richard Irving	Lawrence Kimble	1957 (1957)
25	25	"Voice of the Bug"	Richard Irving	Lawrence Kimble	1957 (1957)
26	26	"The One That Didn't Get Away"	TBD	TBD	1957 (1957)
27	27	"Cinder Jungle"	Richard Irving	Fenton Earnshaw	1957 (1957)
28	28	"Diamonds Come High"	Richard Irving	Lawrence Kimble	1957 (1957)
29	29	"Jail Trail"	Richard Irving	Fenton Earnshaw	1957 (1957)
30	30	"The Only Girl on Boot Hill"	Richard Irving	Lawrence Kimble	1957 (1957)
31	31	"No Blaze of Glory"	D. Ross Lederman	Lawrence Kimble	1957 (1957)
32	32	"Beef ala Murder"	D. Ross Lederman	Lawrence Kimble	1957 (1957)
33	33	"Ride Til You Die"	Richard Irving	Fenton Earnshaw	1957 (1957)
34	34	"Madman on the Mountain"	Richard Irving	Lawrence Kimble	1957 (1957)
35	35	"Safe on a Boat"	Richard Irving	Lawrence Kimble	1957 (1957)
36	36	"Fury on Fremont Street"	D. Ross Lederman	Lawrence Kimble	1957 (1957)
37	37	"The Live Shell Game"	D. Ross Lederman	Fenton Earnshaw	August 23, 1957 (1957-08-23)
38	38	TBA	TBD	TBD	1957 (1957)
39	39	TBA	TBD	TBD	1957 (1957)

Season 2 (1957–58)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
40	1	"A Penny Saved"	Stan Shpetner	Lawrence Kimble	1957 (1957)
41	2	"Out of Line"	D. Ross Lederman	Fenton Earnshaw	1957 (1957)
42	3	"The Black Leaper"	Richard Irving	Lawrence Kimble	1957 (1957)
43	4	"The Talking Corpse"	Richard Irving	Lawrence Kimble	1957 (1957)
44	5	"The Gandy Dancers of Steptoe Valley"	Richard Irving	Lawrence Kimble	1957 (1957)
45	6	"The Sound of Death"	John English	Barry Shipman	1957 (1957)
46	7	"The Dancing Dowager"	John English	Fenton Earnshaw	1957 (1957)
47	8	"Diamonds in the Rough"	TBD	TBD	1957 (1957)
48	9	"Cable Car to Tombstone"	TBD	TBD	1957 (1957)
49	10	"The Perilous Picnic"	TBD	TBD	1957 (1957)
50	11	"Grudge Race"	Tom Gries	Fenton Earnshaw	1958 (1958)
51	12	"Dangerous Honeymoon"	TBD	TBD	1958 (1958)
52	13	"The Doll Who Couldn't Sleep"	Stan Shpetner	Lawrence Kimble	1958 (1958)
53	14	"Full Circle"	Tom Gries	Teleplay by: John Draft & Fenton Earnshaw Story by: John Draft	1958 (1958)
54	15	"Death on Wheels"	TBD	TBD	1958 (1958)
55	16	"The Bride Wore Bullets"	Lawrence Dobkin	Lawrence Kimble	1958 (1958)
56	17	"Sweetheart of Sigmund Kaye"	Stan Shpetner	Lawrence Kimble	1958 (1958)
57	18	"Crisis at Comstock"	TBD	TBD	1958 (1958)
58	19	"The Case of the Happy Dragon"	Richard Irving	Lawrence Kimble	1958 (1958)
59	20	"Wild Green Yonder"	John English	Fenton Earnshaw	1958 (1958)
60	21	"Stray Lost Little Girl"	TBD	TBD	1958 (1958)
61	22	"The Widow Makers"	TBD	TBD	1958 (1958)
62	23	"Mystery Sniper"	John English	Barry Shipman	1958 (1958)
63	24	"312 Vertical"	TBD	TBD	1958 (1958)
64	25	"Another Chance"	TBD	TBD	1958 (1958)
65	26	"710 Hysteria Street"	TBD	TBD	1958 (1958)
66	27	"Firebug"	John English	Barry Shipman	1958 (1958)
67	28	"Kitchen Kill"	John English	Teleplay by: Lawrence Kimble Story by: Jonathan Craig	1958 (1958)
68	29	"The Last Waltz"	TBD	TBD	1958 (1958)
69	30	"Still Water Runs Red"	TBD	TBD	1958 (1958)
70	31	"No, My Darling Daughter"	TBD	TBD	1958 (1958)
71	32	"Hard Rock Man"	TBD	TBD	1958 (1958)
72	33	"Key to a Killer"	Lawrence Dobkin	Fenton Earnshaw	1958 (1958)
73	34	"The Woman Who Cried Wolf"	John English	Barry Shipman	1958 (1958)
74	35	"Inherit a Bullet"	Boris Sagal	Lawrence Kimble	1958 (1958)
75	36	"The Winnemucca Weskit"	John English	Lawrence Kimble	1958 (1958)
76	37	"Joker's Dead"	Lawrence Dobkin	Barry Shipman	1958 (1958)
77	38	"You Can't Run Forever"	Boris Sagal	Fenton Earnshaw	1958 (1958)
78	39	"Sweet & Gentle, Ltd."	TBD	TBD	1958 (1958)

Season 3: 1959

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
79	1	"Prettiest Dress in Goldfield"	Richard Irving	Lawrence Kimble	1959 (1959)
80	2	"What's Mine is Mine"	TBD	TBD	1959 (1959)
81	3	"Larceny and Old Age"	TBD	TBD	1959 (1959)
82	4	"Carson City Kitty"	Richard Irving	Barry Shipman	1959 (1959)
83	5	"The Man from Solitary"	TBD	TBD	1959 (1959)
84	6	"The Choker"	TBD	TBD	1959 (1959)
85	7	"The Judas Tree"	TBD	TBD	1959 (1959)
86	8	"Hard Money, Soft Touch"	TBD	TBD	1959 (1959)
87	9	"Let 'Em Eat Smoke"	TBD	TBD	1959 (1959)
88	10	"The Patient Skeleton"	TBD	TBD	1959 (1959)
89	11	"The Case of the Barefoot Girl"	TBD	TBD	1959 (1959)
90	12	"So Early in the Mourning"	TBD	TBD	1959 (1959)
91	13	"Pistols for Two"	TBD	TBD	1959 (1959)
92	14	"Love on the Rocks"	TBD	TBD	1959 (1959)
93	15	"While Jerome Burned"	William Witney	Ken Pettus	1959 (1959)
94	16	"And Baby Makes Two"	Richard Irving	Lawrence Kimble	1959 (1959)
95	17	"The Night Has a Thousand Eyes"	TBD	TBD	1959 (1959)
96	18	"Everything Else is Bridgeport"	TBD	TBD	1959 (1959)
97	19	TBA	TBD	TBD	1959 (1959)
98	20	TBA	TBD	TBD	1959 (1959)
99	21	TBA	TBD	TBD	1959 (1959)
100	22	TBA	TBD	TBD	1959 (1959)

Guest stars

Home media

Timeless Media Group released the complete first season on DVD in Region 1 on December 14, 2010.[2] The complete second and third seasons were released together in a six-disc set on December 13, 2011.[3]

On September 23, 2014, Timeless Media Group released State Trooper - The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1.[4] The 11-disc set contains all 104 episodes of the series.

References

External links

• State Trooper'' at IMDb

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