Highway Patrol Diversion Robbery (1955–1959) Online HD
Diversion Robbery

TV Episode
- Director:Derwin Abrahams
- Category:
- Writer:Lou Huston
- Cast:Broderick Crawford,William Boyett,Ed Nelson
- Time:30min
- Year:1955–1959
Paroled explosives expert Bert Nelson and his partner Paul Herrick place time bombs in vacant lots near the scenes of their planned holdups. The loud but harmless explosions create a diversion that permits them to commit their crimes quickly in the confused atmosphere and escape with few witnesses. Dan Mathews and Sergeant Williams notice a pattern developing and Dan diverts all available units to the relatively small area in which Nelson and Herrick are likely to strike. After their third robbery nets $10,000, the two thieves find a phalanx of officers converging on the area. With all main roads covered, they make a high-risk attempt to escape by trespassing onto the nearby network of dirt fire roads.
Casts
Episode complete credited cast: | |||
![]() | Broderick Crawford | - | Chief Dan Mathews |
![]() | William Boyett | - | Sgt. Ken Williams |
![]() | Ed Nelson | - | Paul Herrick |
![]() | Pierre Watkin | - | Mr. Larson |
![]() | Richard Bull | - | Bert Nelson |
![]() | Joy Pettit | - | Sylvia Davis |
![]() | Ron Foster | - | Officer 1410 |
![]() | Vance Skarstedt | - | Dispatcher (as Van Skarstedt) |
![]() | Art Gilmore | - | Narrator (voice) |
Highway Patrol Diversion Robbery (1955–1959)
$10,000 in 1959 had the same purchasing power as $73,600 in 2009.
Even though only one of them dies on the show, the actors playing the robbers, Ed Nelson and Richard Bull would both die in 2014 within 6 months of each other. Bull died at age 89 in February and Nelson at age 85 in August.