Highway Patrol.
Recently, it was shown 5X a week at 5 AM on the THIS channel, and I got to revisit the series.
The theme music...the old cars...Broderick Crawford keeping his unnamed state protected from crime...
I liked Dragnet, but no fleets of old cars and California open spaces before things went bad. I also appreciate that Highway Patrol’s preaching was more subtle.
Highway Patrol . Somebody has uploaded a bunch of full episodes to Youtube .