Border Patrol a/k/a U. S. Border Patrol is a 39-episode syndicated half-hour adventure/drama television series which aired in the United States during 1959, with Richard Webb cast as Don Jagger, the fictitious deputy chief of the Border Patrol. Guest actors in supporting roles include Ben Johnson, Lon Chaney Jr., Don Gordon, and Herbert Rudley
Jagger worked in various locations along the Canadian and Mexican borders, as well as by the United States coastlines, in search of illegal aliens, drug dealers, gun runners, and other law breakers.Karibo, Holly M., Sin City North: Sex, Drugs, and Citizenship in the Detroit-Windsor Borderland, page 127, University of North Carolina Press, 2015 Stories were based on actual events recorded in United States Department of Justice files.
Border Patrol was sponsored by the American Oil Company / Amoco,Erickson, Hal, Syndicated Television: The First Forty Years, 1947 - 1987, page 48, McFarland, Inc., 2001 and was seen in 60 markets. Webb made personal appearances at Amoco gas stations to help promote the television program.photo caption https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/border-patrol-the-cbs-films-syndicated-show-lead-actor-news-photo/660532278
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