Highway Patrol/Rabies

Rabies
Season 2, Episode 39
Airdate	July 1, 1957
Screenplay by	Bob Mitchell
Directed by	Eddie Davis
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Highway Patrol — Season Two

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Rabies is the thirty-ninth episode of the second season of Highway Patrol, and the seventy-eighth episode overall.

Starring: Broderick Crawford (Dan Mathews)

with Aline Towne (Alice Marshall), Mimi Gibson (Kathy Marshall), Richard Emory (Dr. Elliott), Gretchen Thomas (Snack stand operator), Howard Price (Officer), Ted Jacques (Mr. Frenchman), Rudolph Solari (Ted Lathrop)

Art Gilmore (Narrator)

Plot Overview

Chief Mathews and the Highway Patrol, joined by local physician Dr. Elliott, race against time to find Kathy Marshall, a little girl who had been bitten on the cheek at a gas station by a small dog who later developed the signs of rabies, four days after the initial bite. The Highway Patrol's search is complicated when Kathy and her widowed mother Alice, who are vacationing and are unaware of the dog's sickness, keep making random stops at different rural spots ahead of them while also just missing hearing radio reports about the search for Kathy. After a tip from a snack stand operator about the Marshalls' departure to a fishing lodge where Alice's late husband had once taken her to, Mathews and Dr. Elliott soon find them and the doctor administers a rabies vaccine to Kathy to stop the virus.