Border Patrol is a 34-episode syndicated

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 half-hour adventure

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/drama

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  television series which aired in the United States

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 during calendar year 1959, with Richard Webb

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 cast as Don Jagger, the fictitious deputy chief of the Border Patrol

United States Border Patrol

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. Webb earlier portrayed the title role of Captain Midnight

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, a 1954-1956 CBS television series based on an earlier radio

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 program.

In the series premiere on March 10, 1959, Jagger and a Seminole

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 Indian

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 chief played by Ralph Smiley enter the Florida

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 Everglades

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 in pursuit of a gang of gun-smuggling illegal immigrants. Webb later portrayed Lieutenant Commander Ben Finney in the "Court Martial" episode of NBC

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's original Star Trek

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series. He committed suicide in Van Nuys, California

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, after having suffered a long-term respiratory illness.

Selected episodes

• "The Party Line": An inventor, a foreign-born American citizen, is told that he must return to his old country with his inventions or face harm to his family members left behind.
• "Killer Abroad"
• "Passport to the Deep": A smuggling ring brings foreigners to the United States illegally for a price.
• "A Bundle of Dope": Jagger travels to San Diego
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  , California
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  , to investigate narcotics smuggling from Mexico
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  .
• "Tide of Death": A South America
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  n refugee
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   living in Cape Cod, Massachusetts
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  , played by Edward Colmans (1908-1977) pens an autobiography
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  . Two assassin
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  s from his old country kidnap his son and demand the manuscript in exchange for the boy's life.
• "Cargo Unknown": Jagger travels to the Canadian
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   border to investigate the smuggling of weapons stolen from military armories
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• "The Logmen": Jagger goes undercover as a logger in a lumber camp near the Canadian border to investigate the smuggling of illegal immigrants. Tyler McVey
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   and Gilman Rankin
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   guest star.
• "Love, Death and Diamonds": A beautiful girl seeks help from the Border Patrol in exposing a smuggling racket. Eleanor Berry and Herbert Rudley
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   guest star as Rosemary Comstock and John McAuliffe.
• "Rattigan and the Cat": A woman tells police captain
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   Bob Rattigan, portrayed by Dick Wessel
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   (1913-1965), that her husband is plotting her murder.
• "Rendezvous in Los Angeles
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  ": Jagger fakes mortal illness to set a trap for an alien-smuggling gang.
• "Black Sand, White Coral"
• "The Kwan-Yin Case": A piece of Chinese
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   jade
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   is linked to the death of a man and the unmasking of a smuggler.
• "The Quota Case"
• "In a Deadly Fashion": A Border Patrol agent goes undercover as a boxer
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   to nab a violent gangster
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  . Don Gordon guest stars.
• "Death in the Desert": Jagger travels to Yuma
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  , Arizona
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  , an alien-smuggling ring. Ron Hagerthy
  Ron Hagerthy
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   guest stars.
• "Test of Strength"
• "Night Target": Jagger investigates a fishing-chartering service in New Orleans linked to an alien-smuggling ring, with guest star Dean Fredericks
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• "Case of the Cockeyed Patient"
• "The Vegetable Man"
• "Terror on the Gold Coast"
• "Lost Star": A foreign agent kidnaps a film star to gain control over her husband, a diplomat (series finale).