The Highwayman
Series starring a big high-tech 18-wheeler whose driver, the title's "Highwayman," was one of a team of federal marshals empowered to right wrongs "where ordinary laws do not reach"--and to haul special cargo. The truck was heavily armed and had a cab that turned into a helicopter for quick escapes.
- 1987-1988
- 1 season
- NBC
- Action & Adventure, Science Fiction
Series starring a big high-tech 18-wheeler whose driver, the title's "Highwayman," was one of a team of federal marshals empowered to right wrongs "where ordinary laws do not reach"--and to haul special cargo. The truck was heavily armed and had a cab that turned into a helicopter for quick escapes.
Season 1 Episode Guide
10 Episodes 1987 - 1988
Episode 0
The Highwayman
Sun, Sep 20, 1987 91 mins
A government agent in a supertruck named "Stealth" that is loaded with ultra-high-tech weapons and a helicopter travels the highways, fighting evil.
Episode 1
Road Lord
Fri, Mar 4, 1988 60 mins
Highway investigates the murder of his fellow Marshall, Stephen North (Kent McCord) and finds that there is more to the story. Androids.
Episode 2
The Hitchhiker
Fri, Mar 11, 1988
Highwayman transports an alien life form that infects himself and others exposed to it.
Episode 3
Till Death Duel Us Part
Fri, Mar 18, 1988
Highway breaks an ex partner out of jail to help clear his name in a bank robbery, on the lamb he finds out differently.
Episode 4
Summer of '45
Fri, Apr 1, 1988
Winthrop goes into a government facility and doesn't come out. Highway and Jetto follow her. They drive in and find themselves in World War 2. When Highway and Jetto come across some men who have Winthrop's car, they make them take them to her. When they do, she tells them, that they're in the facility where the A bomb was developed and a man she knows who is the son of the man who created it came into the past to stop him.
Episode 5
Send in the Clones
Fri, Apr 8, 1988
Highwayman and Jetto befriend a subhuman clone called Mac, only to discover he's been programmed to assassinate the mayor of a major city.
Episode 6
Billionaire Body Club
Fri, Apr 15, 1988
A doctor provides a black market organ donor service to the rich and powerful. Highwayman assists a police officer determined to save her sister from being the next 'donor'.
Episode 7
Frightmare
Fri, Apr 22, 1988
A mobster who is looking for the man who will testify against him who is in protective custody. He abducts anyone who might know where he is and subjects them to a new procedure wherein they can see the person's thoughts that can kill the person. Eventually they grab Winthrop and use it on her. When Highway and Jetto learn of her abduction they try to find her.
Episode 8
Warzone
Fri, Apr 29, 1988
Jetto suffers a head injury causing flashbacks to his time in the service and a previous head injury that caused him to forget the cause of it.
Episode 9
The Haunted Highway
Fri, May 6, 1988
Highway and Jetto investigate a murder connected to a mine on native American land. The murder is said to be by native American spirits upset by the mine.