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Border Patrol

  • 1959-1959
  • 1 season
  • Action & Adventure

Don Jagger is a Border Patrol deputy chief who is a troubleshooter from to various locations. His assignments take him from the Florida Everglades to Washington logging camps in this syndicated series.

Season 1 Episode Guide

39 Episodes 1959

Episode 1

Everglades Story

Tue, Mar 10, 1959 26 mins

U.S. Border Patrol Agent Don Jagger pursues a gang of illegal aliens engaged in gun running and kidnapping through the Florida Everglades. His search for the arms smugglers is assisted by a Seminole alligator wrestler who knows the hammocks and sloughs of southern Florida like the back of his hand.

Episode 2

The Party Line

Tue, Mar 17, 1959

Border Patrol Agent Jagger must thwart Communist agents who are trying to force a naturalized American citizen to return to his home county with his inventions by threatening to harm the old man's family.

Episode 3

Killer Abroad

Tue, Mar 24, 1959 30 mins

Deputy Chief Don Jagger joins the hunt for an escaped murderer. The crucial clue to man's location is provided by a friendly dog.

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Episode 4

Passport to the Deep

Tue, Mar 31, 1959

Two foreigners desperate to immigrate to America are convinced by criminals that they will not be able to enter legally, but can be spirited across the border - for a hefty price. Rather than smuggle the couple into the United States, the crooks plan to steal their money and kill them.

Episode 5

A Bundle of Dope

Tue, Apr 7, 1959 26 mins

Jagger is sent to San Diego to break up a drug-smuggling gang operating along the Mexican border. He traces the narcotics to the criminals' headquarters - an innocent-looking bowling alley.

Episode 6

Political Killer

Tue, Apr 14, 1959

Jagger is ordered to track down an international killer who slipped into the United States to assassinate a popular politician.

Episode 7

Tide of Death

Tue, Apr 21, 1959

A former Latin American political leader is working on his autobiography after fleeing his homeland following a revolution. Assassins sent by his enemies track him and Cape Cod and kidnap the refugee's son, offering to trade his life for the unfinished - and unflattering - manuscript he has almost completed.

Episode 8

My Life

Tue, Apr 28, 1959

Episode 9

Cargo Unknown

Tue, May 12, 1959 26 mins

Jagger is ordered to the Canadian border when a gang specializing in stealing guns from federal armories sets up a lucrative arms smuggling operation.

Episode 10

Appointment with Catastrophe

Episode 11

Illicit Lottery

Tue, May 26, 1959

Jagger stumbles upon a scheme to sell stolen lottery tickets operating in the Bahamas.

Episode 12

The Plague Trail

Tue, Jun 2, 1959

Jagger pursues an illegal alien thought to be a carrier of typhoid fever.

Episode 13

The Logmen

Tue, Jun 9, 1959 26 mins

When American and Canadian border patrol agents are unable to stem the flow of illegal aliens into the United States, Jagger decides to go undercover as a lumberjack in hopes of infiltrating the gang who may be operating in a lumber camp in the Pacific Northwest.

Episode 14

Rattigan and the Cat

Tue, Jun 16, 1959 26 mins

Jagger's vacation turns into a busman's holiday when he agrees to help an old friend, now a Los Angeles police captain, pursue a Frenchman wanted for the murder of his wife. The lawmen hope that the killer's fear of felines can be turned into a lever to capture their quarry.

Episode 15

The Blackmail Case

Tue, Jun 23, 1959

Episode 16

Love, Death and Diamonds

Tue, Jun 30, 1959 26 mins

A beautiful girl goes to the Border Patrol for assistance and puts them onto the trail of a big smuggling racket.

Episode 17

Rocky Mountain Story

Wed, Jul 8, 1959

Illegal aliens attempt to reopen an abandoned mine in a western ghost town.

Episode 18

The Pious Patsy

Wed, Jul 15, 1959

A criminal gang uses innocent tourists to smuggle drugs across the border.

Episode 19

Rendezvous in Los Angeles

Wed, Jul 22, 1959

Jagger fakes his own death in order to smoke out an alien smuggling ring.

Episode 20

Black Sand, White Coral

Wed, Jul 29, 1959

Episode 21

The Kwan-Yin Case

Wed, Aug 19, 1959

A piece of Chinese jade that results in a man's death sets in motion events that lead to the unmasking of a smuggler.

Episode 22

The Quota Case

Tue, Aug 18, 1959 30 mins

Episode 23

Time Out

Tue, Aug 25, 1959

Episode 24

The Homecoming

Tue, Sep 1, 1959

A deported criminal with a terminal illness sneaks into the United States to meet a son whom he has never met.

Episode 25

In a Deadly Fashion

Tue, Sep 8, 1959 26 mins

A Border Patrolman goes undercover as a boxer to catch a dangerous and violent gangster.

Episode 26

Death in the Desert

Tue, Sep 15, 1959

Jagger travels to Yuma, Arizona, to investigate a gang smugging aliens into the country from Mexico.

Episode 27

Test of Strength

Tue, Sep 22, 1959

Episode 28

Night Target

Tue, Sep 29, 1959 26 mins

In New Orleans Jagger investigates a boat service that charters fishing trips which may be connected to a gang smuggling illegal aliens from South America.

Episode 29

Case of the Cockeyed Patient

Tue, Oct 6, 1959

Jagger searches for a diseased parakeet and winds up in a small Mexican town filled with drunken birds.

Episode 30

Hare and Hounds

Tue, Oct 20, 1959

Episode 31

The Vegetable Man

Tue, Oct 27, 1959

Jagger investigates a man smuggling illegal aliens across the Mexican border who dabbles in blackmail as well.

Episode 32

The Deadman's Float

Tue, Nov 3, 1959

Jagger goes undercover in an attempt to infiltrate a gang of smugglers.

Episode 33

Terror on the Gold Coast

Mon, Nov 9, 1959

A foreign criminal deported to the United States expands his criminal enterprise to include kidnapping.

Episode 34

Lost Star

Tue, Nov 17, 1959

A pretty movie starlet is kidnapped to force her foreign diplomat husband to comply with the abductor's demands.

Episode 35

Crime Wave at Coral Gables

Mon, Nov 23, 1959

Jagger is asked to investigate when a crime wave strikes a Florida resort community who uses Canadians with temporary visas as employees.

Episode 36

A Lapse of Time

Mon, Nov 30, 1959

A man plots to kill a smuggler who allowed his brother to drown.

Episode 37

The Deadly Fool

Mon, Dec 7, 1959

Jagger is asked to end the romance of a wealthy young heiress and a racketeer.

Episode 38

Learn to Fly

Mon, Dec 14, 1959

The Border Patrol investigates reports that a student pilot may be using his training flights to smuggle narcotics across the Mexican border.

Episode 39

Bracero

Mon, Dec 14, 1959

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