Dragnet

S01 E01 · 1951-12-16 · 30 min

The Human Bomb

A man walks into City hall carrying a live bomb. He threatens to blow up the building if his brother isn't released from jail.

S01 E02 · 1952-01-03 · 30 min

The Big Actor

Friday and Jacobs track down a drug ring through a small-time television actor who is hooked on heroin.

S01 E03 · 1952-01-17 · 30 min

The Big Death

Friday poses as a hired killer for a man who wants his wife dead.

S01 E04 · 1952-01-31 · 30 min

The Big Mother

A new-born baby is stolen from a hospital nursery and the trail leads the police to a deranged mother.

S01 E05 · 1952-02-14 · 30 min

The Big Cast

The police interrogate a suspect whom they believe to have murdered more than a dozen men.

S01 E06 · 1952-02-28 · 30 min

The Big Speech

A doctor is beaten and robbed of prescription drugs.

S01 E07 · 1952-03-13 · 30 min

The Big Parrot

A couple are robbed and murdered, along with their pet parrot. The killer uses a time bomb to start a fire and cover up his crime.

S01 E08 · 1952-03-27 · 30 min

The Big Moody

S01 E09 · 1952-04-10 · 30 min

The Big Blast

A divorced mother is killed in bed by a shotgun while her young boy sleeps beside her.

S01 E10 · 1952-04-24 · 30 min

The Big Trial

Friday testifies at the trial of a man accused of a hit-and-run, but the main witness against him suddenly disappears.

S01 E11 · 1952-05-08 · 30 min

The Big September Man

A secretary is beaten to death and the search for the killer leads police to a religious fanatic.

S01 E12 · 1952-05-22 · 30 min

The Big Phone Call

Friday confronts a jeweler with tape recorded evidence that proves he hired someone to rob his own store.

S01 E13 · 1952-06-05 · 30 min

The Big Casing

A man claims that his wife committed suicide right in front of him, but the evidence suggests otherwise.

S01 E14 · 1952-06-19 · 30 min

The Big Lamp

Friday and Jacobs are out to catch a safe burglar who has been on the loose for seven months.

S02 E01 · 1952-09-11 · 30 min

The Big Jump

A man stands upon the ledge of a tall building and threatens to jump to his death below.

S02 E02 · 1952-09-25 · 30 min

The Big Sorrow

Friday must cope with the sudden death of his partner as he and his new partner track a pair of escaped convicts.

S02 E03 · 1952-10-09 · 30 min

The Big Elevator

Friday and Smith search for the person who left a dead woman in a hospital elevator.

S02 E04 · 1952-11-06 · 30 min

The Big Seventeen

Friday and Smith investigate a group of teenagers who are using and selling drugs.

S02 E05 · 1952-11-20 · 30 min

The Big Trio

Friday and Smith investigate three traffic accidents in one night.

S02 E06 · 1952-12-04 · 30 min

The Big Imposter

A missing young boy is found and returned to his grandfather, but the case gets complicated when the grandfather suspects that the boy is not his own grandson.

S02 E07 · 1952-12-18 · 30 min

The Big .22 Rifle for Christmas

Two small boys are missing, there are blood stains on the ground and a gun meant as a Christmas present is gone.

S02 E08 · 1953-01-02 · 30 min

The Big Cop

Friday has to catch a bad cop who has been dealing with the mob.

S02 E09 · 1953-01-08 · 30 min

The Big Grandma

An elderly woman is passing bad checks, but no one suspects her because she looks harmless.

S02 E10 · 1953-01-15 · 30 min

The Big Whiff

A woman is murdered when she is given an overdose of chloroform.

S02 E11 · 1953-01-22 · 30 min

The Big Show

A seven-week-old baby is found abandoned in a bus station.

S02 E12 · 1953-01-29 · 30 min

The Big Safe

Friday and Smith are investigating a missing office safe.

S02 E13 · 1953-02-05 · 30 min

The Big Church

A woman receives threatening letters from an unknown stalker.

S02 E14 · 1953-02-12 · 30 min

The Big Hate

Gordon Miller, a young pianist, is found near an abandoned freight car holding the dead body of a woman in his arms. He claims he has killed her.

S02 E15 · 1953-02-20 · 30 min

The Big Shakedown

Friday is looking for a crooked cop.

S02 E16 · 1953-02-26 · 30 min

The Big Rose

Friday and Smith are looking for a missing woman that left her three children with her sister.

S02 E17 · 1953-03-05 · 30 min

The Big Building

A prominent dentist denies that his wife is missing, but Friday and Smith can find no trace of her.

S02 E18 · 1953-03-12 · 30 min

The Big Run

Two elderly women are struck down by a hit-and-run driver.

S02 E19 · 1953-03-19 · 30 min

The Big Break

Friday and Smith track down an escaped convict who is armed and dangerous.

S02 E20 · 1953-03-26 · 30 min

The Big Light

Friday and Smith must decide between accident or murder when a crewman working on a movie set is killed by a falling light.

S02 E21 · 1953-04-02 · 30 min

The Big Waiter

An immigrant is brutally beaten to death and the trail may lead to the victim's abused wife.

S02 E22 · 1953-04-09 · 30 min

The Big Test

A young man reports that he was robbed by bandits on horseback while he was down in Mexico.

S02 E23 · 1953-04-16 · 30 min

The Big Lay-Out

A friend of Friday's asks him for help when he discovers that his son has been using drugs, and may be selling them as well.

S02 E24 · 1953-04-23 · 30 min

The Big Fire

A land lord begins threatening his tenants so he can force them to move out of his building.

S02 E25 · 1953-04-30 · 30 min

The Big Ray

A man suddenly becomes ill and dies after eating his dinner at home.

S02 E26 · 1953-05-07 · 30 min

The Big Frank

While investigating a routine robbery with Friday, Smith suffers a critical gunshot wound. Sergeant Friday is out for vengeance.

S02 E27 · 1953-05-14 · 30 min

The Big Lease

An elderly widower is missing, so Friday and Smith retrace his actions before his disappearance. Things point to a long vacation until the story of Mrs. Banner, who rented the man's house, doesn't add up.

S02 E28 · 1953-05-21 · 30 min

The Big Hands

Friday and Smith suspect a psycho killer when they find a woman with a broken neck in a hotel room.

S02 E29 · 1953-05-28 · 30 min

The Big Fourth

Several babies are stolen in the city.

S02 E30 · 1953-06-04 · 30 min

The Big Market

A bandit starts robbing people at local markets.

S02 E31 · 1953-06-11 · 30 min

The Big Friend

Friday and Smith are torn between two suspects when a man reports that his wife has been strangled.

S02 E32 · 1953-06-18 · 30 min

The Big Barrette

Friday and Smith search for the brutal killer of a 21-year-old woman.

S02 E33 · 1953-06-25 · 30 min

The Big Dance

Friday and Smith are looking for two thugs that seem to have disappeared from the city.

S03 E01 · 1953-09-03 · 30 min

The Big White Rat

Friday and Smith respond to and investigate reports of a drug ring.

S03 E02 · 1953-09-10 · 30 min

The Big Revolt

A woman reports her husband missing and Friday and Smith are assigned to find him.

S03 E03 · 1953-09-17 · 30 min

The Big Bull

Smith takes a personal interest when a strong-arm bandit threatens his family if he doesn't back off the case.

S03 E04 · 1953-09-24 · 30 min

The Big Betty

Friday and Smith track down a confidence ring who are selling defective watches.

S03 E05 · 1953-10-01 · 30 min

The Big Sophomore

A teenage boy steals food for his starving family.

S03 E06 · 1953-10-08 · 30 min

The Big Pill

Friday and Smith are on the trail of a gang that is robbing local drugstores.

S03 E07 · 1953-10-15 · 30 min

The Big Lie

S03 E08 · 1953-10-22 · 30 min

The Big Fake

A police rookie is accused of assaulting a citizen and stealing his money.

S03 E09 · 1953-10-29 · 30 min

The Big Dream

Friday and Smith investigate the murder of a girl who came to Los Angeles with a dream of being an actress.

S03 E10 · 1953-11-05 · 30 min

The Big Guilt

A man is found dead in an alley and it's up to Friday and Smith to find his killer and notify the man's wife.

S03 E11 · 1953-11-12 · 30 min

The Big Will

Friday and Smith investigate the murder of a rich man.

S03 E12 · 1953-11-19 · 30 min

The Big In-Laws

Friday and Smith try to capture a ring of truck hijackers.

S03 E13 · 1953-11-26 · 30 min

The Big Lilly

S03 E14 · 1953-12-03 · 30 min

The Big Kill

A cop is gunned down at home by a vengeful ex con. Friday must go under cover in prison to obtain a full confession.

S03 E15 · 1953-12-10 · 30 min

The Big Lover

Friday and Smith investigate a con man that marries rich women just for their money.

S03 E16 · 1953-12-17 · 30 min

The Big Thief

Robbers phone doctors for house calls then assault them and steal their drugs.

S03 E17 · 1953-12-24 · 30 min

The Big Little Jesus

A statue of the Child Jesus is stolen from a church. Friday and Smith must find it before the paritioners miss it on Christmas morning.

S03 E18 · 1953-12-31 · 30 min

The Big Eavesdrop

Friday and Smith overhear a suspicious conversation while on a coffee break in a diner.

S03 E19 · 1954-01-07 · 30 min

The Big Trunk

Three men are taken into custody for the murder of a former vaudeville actress who owned a large steamer trunk. The three men maintain innocence.

S03 E20 · 1954-01-14 · 30 min

The Big Youngster

Friday and Smith catch a boy who has been vandalising private property, but they discover that the boy's problems begin at home.

S03 E21 · 1954-01-21 · 30 min

The Big Boys

The cops must stake out a hotel lobby and deal with a drunken desk clerk as they wait for four juvenile armed robbers to show up.

S03 E22 · 1954-01-28 · 30 min

The Big Ham

Friday and Smith investigate the death of a young girl that is initially ruled a suicide but turns out to be murder.

S03 E23 · 1954-02-04 · 30 min

The Big Chance

Signs point to foul play when a highway patrolman disappears from his car along a deserted road.

S03 E24 · 1954-02-11 · 30 min

The Big Children

Three children are found abandoned, filthy and starving. Friday and Smith charge the mother with neglect.

S03 E25 · 1954-02-18 · 30 min

The Big Poison

An elderly couple suddenly disappears from a fashionable neighborhood.

S03 E26 · 1954-02-25 · 30 min

The Big Quack

A man posing as a doctor burgles the house of a woman who is mentally disturbed.

S03 E27 · 1954-03-04 · 30 min

The Big Winchester

An elderly man appears to have killed himself with a rifle, but the cops soon learn that it was no accident.

S03 E28 · 1954-03-11 · 30 min

The Big Shoplift

Friday and Smith are surprised to find a wealthy house wife is a shoplifter, until they discover that she is a kleptomaniac.

S03 E29 · 1954-03-18 · 30 min

The Big Hit-Run Killer

A woman and her grandson are run down by a bakery truck, but the driver has an airtight alibi.

S03 E30 · 1954-03-25 · 30 min

The Big Drink

S03 E31 · 1954-04-01 · 30 min

The Big Girl

Friday and Smith hunt down the bandit queen; a tall, gorgeous woman who is on a rampage of robberies and shootings.

S03 E32 · 1954-04-08 · 30 min

The Big Mattress

Friday and Smith investigate a corrupt cop.

S03 E33 · 1954-04-15 · 30 min

The Big Pug

An elderly woman is badly beaten and robbed while on her way to the bank. The trail leads to an ex prize fighter.

S03 E34 · 1954-04-22 · 30 min

The Big Frame

A man's body is found in the gutter and the only clue is a pair of skid marks found nearby.

S03 E35 · 1954-04-29 · 30 min

The Big Plant

A woman disappears and her husband is the prime suspect, but Friday and Smith will have a hard time getting past his fierce guard dogs.

S03 E36 · 1954-05-06 · 30 min

The Big Check

A check forger is victimizing small businessmen in a particular neighborhood.

S03 E37 · 1954-05-13 · 30 min

The Big Threat

A man is beaten and robbed, then the thieves intimidate him and his family so he'll refuse to testify against them.

S03 E38 · 1954-05-20 · 30 min

The Big Dare

A single mother is stabbed to death in her home. The list of suspects includes her teenage son and her many boyfriends.

S03 E39 · 1954-05-27 · 30 min

The Big False Make

Friday begins to question a local gardener, who has been arrested for holding up a grocery store. During the interrogation Friday begins to have strong doubts about the man's confession.

S04 E01 · 1954-08-26 · 30 min

The Big Producer

A man claims to be a big Hollywood producer, but Friday and Smith discover that he's merely the leader of a pornography ring.

S04 E02 · 1954-09-02 · 30 min

The Big Fraud

A group of con artists are posing as cops and victimizing out-of-town businessmen in fashionable hotels.

S04 E03 · 1954-09-09 · 30 min

The Big Crime

Four-year-old twin girls are abducted from the local park.

S04 E04 · 1954-09-16 · 30 min

The Big Pair

An old man and his granddaughter are burglarized, leaving them broke and starving.

S04 E05 · 1954-09-23 · 30 min

The Big Escape

A case hits too close to home for Friday when his old army buddy robs a liquor store and shoots his partner. Friday believes his friend wants to go straight after doing time, but things get worse when his friend breaks jail.

S04 E06 · 1954-09-30 · 30 min

The Big Kid

When Friday and Smith learn that a showdown between two teenage gangs is about to take place within 48 hours, they do their utmost to prevent it.

S04 E07 · 1954-10-07 · 30 min

The Big Missing

Friday and Smith are looking for a missing businessman.

S04 E08 · 1954-10-14 · 30 min

The Big Bar

A holdup man is sticking up bars. After he takes the money he kills many of his victims. Sergeant Friday has few leads other than that the holdup man likes a certain song on the jukebox.

S04 E09 · 1954-10-21 · 30 min

The Big Present

Friday and Smith are looking for a burglar who leaves a milk bottle at the scene of the crime. They suspect a juvenile might be involved.

S04 E10 · 1954-10-28 · 30 min

The Big Gangster (Part 1)

An attempt is made on the life of a gang leader. Friday and Smith must find the shooters before his followers seek revenge.

S04 E11 · 1954-11-04 · 30 min

The Big Gangster (Part 2)

Friday and Smith must find the men who murdered a gang boss before an open gang war starts.

S04 E12 · 1954-11-11 · 30 min

The Big New Years

On New Year's Eve, Friday and Smith are working out of Central Receiving Hospital.

S04 E13 · 1954-11-18 · 30 min

The Big Want Ad

Friday and Smith investigate a man who is conning people by using the want ads.

S04 E14 · 1954-11-25 · 30 min

The Big Affair

Friday and Smith discover that the key to finding a hold-up artist lies in his married girlfriend.

S04 E15 · 1954-12-02 · 30 min

The Big Bible

A man locks himself in his study and threatens suicide if his wife leaves him.

S04 E16 · 1954-12-09 · 30 min

The Big Bindle

Friday goes under cover to bust a drug ring that is operating out of a high-class hotel.

S04 E17 · 1954-12-16 · 30 min

The Big Office

Friday and Smith are assigned to the business office, where they must deal with the paperwork on a busy weekend.

S04 E18 · 1954-12-30 · 30 min

The Big Rod

An expectant mother is run down and killed by two teenagers in a hot rod.

S04 E19 · 1955-01-06 · 30 min

The Big Rescue

A group of bandits arm themselves and break their comrades out of jail.

S04 E20 · 1955-01-13 · 30 min

The Big Family

Local businessman John Keith Jarrett disappears and evidence of suicide is discovered. Friday and Smith check on the surviving members of his family and find them not the least concerned about their father's death, with his son a tennis bum, his daughter promiscuous, and his wife drunken. The case gets even murkier when a report comes in of a traffic incident upstate involving a camper in which the driver was using Jarrett's license.

S04 E21 · 1955-01-20 · 30 min

The Big Shock

Friday and Smith go after a burglar who plans to break into a bank through an underground tunnel.

S04 E22 · 1955-01-27 · 30 min

The Big Screen

Friday and Smith team up with a newspaper reporter so they can investigate television repairmen who may be overcharging their customers.

S04 E23 · 1955-02-03 · 30 min

The Big TV

The detectives search for a missing mother and child at the behest of her mother-in-law, unaware that the girl's husband has died in action and is not overseas as the woman had claimed.

S04 E24 · 1955-02-10 · 30 min

The Big Dog

An old man sits on his front porch with a shotgun, threatening to kill the man who poisoned his dog.

S04 E25 · 1955-02-17 · 30 min

The Big Underground

Friday and Smith use a stolen check as a lead to a series of used car lot robberies.

S04 E26 · 1955-02-24 · 30 min

The Big Key

A woman's badly mutilated body is found in a churchyard on Christmas eve. The only clue is a key lying under her.

S04 E27 · 1955-03-03 · 30 min

The Big Mailman

Friday and Smith go after a bandit who is robbing mailboxes and then trying to cash other people's checks.

S04 E28 · 1955-03-10 · 30 min

The Big Customer

S04 E29 · 1955-03-17 · 30 min

The Big Tar Baby

A bartender's wife is kidnapped, beaten and rolled in hot tar.

S04 E30 · 1955-03-24 · 30 min

The Big Number

Friday and Smith Investigate a Bank Robbery, but they don't have much to go on.

S04 E31 · 1955-03-31 · 30 min

The Big Mask

A masked bandit is holding up supermarkets and the police are not able to catch him.

S04 E32 · 1955-04-07 · 30 min

The Big Sucker

A con artist is swindling jewelers using fake diamonds.

S04 E33 · 1955-04-14 · 30 min

The Big Moustache

Friday and Smith investigate the robbery of an appliance store.

S04 E34 · 1955-04-21 · 30 min

The Big Heel

Friday and Smith use an unusual footprint to help solve a murder case.

S04 E35 · 1955-04-28 · 30 min

The Big Gone

The owner of a flower shop kills a man who is trying to rob him, but the corpse mysteriously vanishes.

S04 E36 · 1955-05-05 · 30 min

The Big Student

Friday and Smith are on the trail of a bunch of teenagers selling fake magazine subscriptions.

S04 E37 · 1955-05-12 · 30 min

The Big Watch

Bandits are offering rides to hitch-hiking soldiers, then robbing and beating them.

S04 E38 · 1955-05-19 · 30 min

The Big Dig

Friday and Smith are looking into a report of a missing woman that turns into a murder investigation.

S04 E39 · 1955-05-26 · 30 min

The Big Mug

Two hold-up men are robbing and beating pedestrians in the down town area.

S05 E01 · 1955-09-02 · 30 min

The Big Pipe

A young woman is beaten to death with a led pipe and left in an empty office.

S05 E02 · 1955-09-09 · 30 min

The Big Chet

S05 E03 · 1955-09-16 · 30 min

The Big No Rain

S05 E04 · 1955-09-23 · 30 min

The Big Lift

An organized gang of shoplifters is looting large department stores in the city.

S05 E05 · 1955-09-30 · 30 min

The Big Confession

A man walks into the station and tells Friday that he wants to confess to a murder, but the cops have a hard time varifying his story.

S05 E06 · 1955-10-07 · 30 min

The Big Gap

A pawn shop owner alerts Friday and Smith when a man claimed to have purchased an expensive ring that turns out to be junk and then asked the pawn shop owner to sell him a gun.

S05 E07 · 1955-10-14 · 30 min

The Big Look

A woman is dragged from her home and badly beaten by an unknown attacker.

S05 E08 · 1955-10-21 · 30 min

The Big Glasses

A housewife, Ella Ryburn, reports to Friday and Smith that she cannot contact her mother, who is married to Alfred Rudolph Shroder. When he is questioned, Shroder claims his wife left him and that, out of shame, he sold their house and put her items in storage.

S05 E09 · 1955-10-28 · 30 min

The Big Bird

Sgt. Friday investigates a robber who only targets pet stores and homes that have pet birds.

S05 E10 · 1955-11-04 · 30 min

The Big Laugh

A con man makes lonely women fall for his charms, then steals their money and disappears.

S05 E11 · 1955-11-11 · 30 min

The Big Smoke

An elderly couple is brutally beaten and the trail leads police to a former handy man.

S05 E12 · 1955-11-18 · 30 min

The Big Bounce

Joe Friday searches for a check forger who has been using the name of the old-time movie villain Parker Allington... who died three years ago.

S05 E13 · 1955-11-25 · 30 min

The Big Shot

A night club owner is shot down and there are no witnesses to the crime.

S05 E14 · 1955-12-02 · 30 min

The Big Locker

Friday and Smith happen to catch a man trying to sell a stolen ring at a pawn shop.

S05 E15 · 1955-12-09 · 30 min

The Big Note

An anonymous note leads Friday and Smith to a group of teenage drug users and their neglectful parents.

S05 E16 · 1955-12-16 · 30 min

The Big Genius

Friday and Smith investigate what seems to be the perfect crime.

S05 E17 · 1955-12-30 · 30 min

The Big Reminisce

During a quiet New Year's shift, Friday and Smith remember some of their past cases and why it is they became cops.

S05 E18 · 1956-01-06 · 30 min

The Big Tour

S05 E19 · 1956-01-13 · 30 min

The Big Sisters

An elderly woman fakes a burglary report so she can get attention from the police and the media.

S05 E20 · 1956-01-20 · 30 min

The Big Ruling

S05 E21 · 1956-01-27 · 30 min

The Big Fall Guy

Friday and Smith are on the trail of a robbery suspect that has robbed two stores.

S05 E22 · 1956-02-03 · 30 min

The Big Set

A city councilman is beaten and robbed by two men outside a bar. When he dies from his injuries, Friday and Smith feel pressure to find the killers.

S05 E23 · 1956-02-10 · 30 min

The Big Child

A two-year-old child after drinking bleach from under the sink. Friday and Smith are unable to locate the mother for questioning.

S05 E24 · 1956-02-17 · 30 min

The Big Slug

A liquor store owner is shot and killed during a botched robbery, but police can find no trace of the fatal bullet.

S05 E25 · 1956-02-24 · 30 min

The Big Daughter

Friday and Smith investigate a missing persons report.

S05 E26 · 1956-03-02 · 30 min

The Big No Suicide

Friday gets a call from a former mental patient who is threatening to kill himself and his family.

S05 E27 · 1956-03-09 · 30 min

The Big Siege

Police find themselves in a stand-off when an armed bank robber takes a woman hostage in her home.

S05 E28 · 1956-03-16 · 30 min

The Big Mama

S05 E29 · 1956-03-23 · 30 min

The Big Revision

Friday and Smith hit a blank wall when a burglary suspect refuses to admit where he hid his stash.

S05 E30 · 1956-03-30 · 30 min

The Big Ex-Blonde

Friday goes undercover to catch brothers who steal people's money by posing as real-estate agents.

S05 E31 · 1956-04-06 · 30 min

The Big Bobo

A police officer is suspended from duty when he is accused of taking a bribe in exchange for a prisoner's release.

S05 E32 · 1956-04-13 · 30 min

The Big Rush

Two bandits turn cop killer when they gun down an off-duty policeman during a tavern hold-up.

S05 E33 · 1956-04-20 · 30 min

The Big Setup

An informant tips off police to a shipment of heroin coming into the country. Friday goes under cover to bust open the ring.

S05 E34 · 1956-04-27 · 30 min

The Big Deal

Friday and Smith are investigating a rash of car thefts. The stolen cars are being sold with forged pink slips.

S05 E35 · 1956-05-04 · 30 min

The Big Wish

A teenage boy turns himself in and confesses to being an addict, but he refuses to give up the names of his friends who supplied him.

S05 E36 · 1956-05-11 · 30 min

The Big Hat

A young man is found hiding in an empty train car with the strangled body of an older woman next to him.

S05 E37 · 1956-05-18 · 30 min

The Big Housemaid

S05 E38 · 1956-05-25 · 30 min

The Big Gift

S05 E39 · 1956-06-01 · 30 min

The Big Salvage

S06 E01 · 1956-09-27 · 30 min

The Big Cat

A circus man reports that a tiger escaped from his truck and is now on the loose in Los Angeles.

S06 E02 · 1956-10-11 · 30 min

The Big Misses

A frightened wife tells Friday and Smith that she's worried her husband is planning to pull a hold-up.

S06 E03 · 1956-10-18 · 30 min

The Big Beer

S06 E04 · 1956-10-25 · 30 min

The Big Net

A group of police women act as decoys to draw a stick-up man out into the open.

S06 E05 · 1956-11-01 · 30 min

The Big Convertable

A man forges checks to keep himself and his wife in an expensive lifestyle, but he goes too far when he buys a slick convertable.

S06 E06 · 1956-11-08 · 30 min

The Big Limp

A teenage boy under arrest admits to police that his brother is planning to rob a loan company.

S06 E07 · 1956-11-15 · 30 min

The Big Tattoo

Friday and Smith are looking for a robber with an unusual tattoo.

S06 E08 · 1956-11-22 · 30 min

The Big Odd

Friday and Smith investigate a gambling racket.

S06 E09 · 1956-11-29 · 30 min

The Big Bill

Friday and Smith investigate reports of counterfeit money appearing all over the city.

S06 E10 · 1956-12-06 · 30 min

The Big Search

A distraught father reports that his teenage daughter is missing, and things look more bleak when her murdered pet is discovered in her room.

S06 E11 · 1956-12-13 · 30 min

The Big Talk

A watch salesman reports that he was robbed by two men whom he drank with the night before.

S06 E12 · 1956-12-20 · 30 min

The Big Doting Mother

S06 E13 · 1956-12-27 · 30 min

The Big Handcuffs

S06 E14 · 1957-01-03 · 30 min

The Big Father

A father works as a day burglar so he can buy presents for his kids, now living with his ex wife.

S06 E15 · 1957-01-10 · 30 min

The Big Switch

S06 E16 · 1957-01-17 · 30 min

The Big Steal

Friday and Smith investigate a rash of burglaries.

S06 E17 · 1957-01-24 · 30 min

The Big Manikin

A woman reports that her husband has failed to come home after going out with is business partner.

S06 E18 · 1957-01-31 · 30 min

The Big No Tooth

A bandit carrying a sawed-off shotgun is robbing hotels in the down town area.

S06 E19 · 1957-02-07 · 30 min

The Big Skip

A man is reported missing, by two different women, the description matches, but the names are different. He is married to these two and has apparently skipped out on both. Friday searches for him at various places.

S06 E20 · 1957-02-14 · 30 min

The Big Fin

A tourist leaves her purse in the back of a cab and it's up to Friday and Smith to track it down.

S06 E21 · 1957-02-21 · 30 min

The Big Game

S06 E22 · 1957-02-28 · 30 min

The Big Coins

Friday and Smith are on the trail of a robber/arsonist that takes nothing of value and then sets the house on fire.

S06 E23 · 1957-03-07 · 30 min

The Big Close

Friday and Smith reopen a closed case because a tip leads them to believe they have the wrong person.

S06 E24 · 1957-03-14 · 30 min

The Big Tie

Friday and Smith investigate the former employee of a tie manufacturing company.

S06 E25 · 1957-03-21 · 30 min

The Big Cup

A howling dog leads to the unearthing of the battered body of an old woman in her garden.

S06 E26 · 1957-03-28 · 30 min

The Big Truck

Friday and Smith investigate the hit and run of a little girl.

S06 E27 · 1957-04-04 · 30 min

The Big Saint

Friday and Smith try to prove that a salvage yard operator is using his business to fix up stolen cars.

S06 E28 · 1957-04-11 · 30 min

The Big Match

An auction house is held up and the only clue to the bandits lies in a dropped matchbook.

S06 E29 · 1957-04-18 · 30 min

The Big Help

S06 E30 · 1957-04-25 · 30 min

The Big Celebration

Friday and Smith are on the trail of a thief whose victims are attending weddings and funerals.

S06 E31 · 1957-05-02 · 30 min

The Big Cry Baby

S06 E32 · 1957-05-09 · 30 min

The Big Lesson

Friday and Smith are on the trail of three masked men responsible for over thirty robberies.

S06 E33 · 1957-05-16 · 30 min

The Big Soldier

S06 E34 · 1957-05-23 · 30 min

The Big Make

A bakery owner and his daughter are shot down during a robbery.

S07 E01 · 1957-09-26 · 30 min

The Big Constitution

S07 E02 · 1957-10-03 · 30 min

The Big Candy Box

S07 E03 · 1957-10-10 · 30 min

The Big Button

S07 E04 · 1957-10-17 · 30 min

The Big Yak

S07 E05 · 1957-10-24 · 30 min

The Big Howard

S07 E06 · 1957-10-31 · 30 min

The Big Tomato Cans

S07 E07 · 1957-11-07 · 30 min

The Big Dip

Friday and Smith investigate money being taken from a department store's registers with the help of store security.

S07 E08 · 1957-11-14 · 30 min

The Big License Plates

S07 E09 · 1957-11-21 · 30 min

The Big Blank

A bunch of forged checks are popping up all over the city and it's up to Friday and Smith to catch the forger.

S07 E10 · 1957-11-28 · 30 min

The Big Tease

S07 E11 · 1957-12-25 · 30 min

The Big Love

A man reports that his wife ran off with his little girl and the man she was having an affair with. The trail leads Friday and Smith to a suicide pact.

S07 E12 · 1957-12-12 · 30 min

The Big Red Wagon

S07 E13 · 1957-12-19 · 30 min

The Big Prescription

Mrs. Eileen Multon picks up the wrong prescription. Now it's up to Friday and Smith to find her before it's too late.

S07 E14 · 1957-12-26 · 30 min

The Big Full Moon

S07 E15 · 1958-01-02 · 30 min

The Big Jade

Friday and Smith investigate a series of jade robberies.

S07 E16 · 1958-01-09 · 30 min

The Big Tip

S07 E17 · 1958-01-16 · 30 min

The Big Stubby

S07 E18 · 1958-01-23 · 30 min

The Big Baby Face

S07 E19 · 1958-01-30 · 30 min

The Big Lip

Friday and Smith are on the trail of a hit-and-run driver.

S07 E20 · 1958-02-13 · 30 min

The Big Boot

Friday and Smith investigate a home invasion and their only clue is a boot print in the mud by a window.

S07 E21 · 1958-02-20 · 30 min

The Big Rip

A man accuses his son of stabbing him, but Friday and Smith find out that his son has an airtight alibi.

S07 E22 · 1958-02-27 · 30 min

The Big Excuse

S07 E23 · 1958-03-03 · 30 min

The Big Knot

S07 E24 · 1958-03-13 · 30 min

The Big Hobby

S07 E25 · 1958-03-20 · 30 min

The Big Organizer

Friday and Smith are trying to bring down a street gang but are having a hard time getting to the top man known as The Organizer.

S07 E26 · 1958-03-27 · 30 min

The Big Gent

An ex con called The Gentleman Bandit begins working again when he holds up a bank with two helpers.

S07 E27 · 1958-04-03 · 30 min

The Big Wardrobe

Friday and Smith track a man who writes bad checks for expensive clothes and then sells the clothes for a profit.

S07 E28 · 1958-04-10 · 30 min

The Big War

Friday and Smith investigate a report of a teen gang war in the middle of Los Angeles.

S07 E29 · 1958-04-17 · 30 min

The Big Bad Count

S07 E30 · 1958-04-24 · 30 min

The Big Evans

A man reports that a police officer blackmailed him for money and then beat him up, and he has the bruises to prove his story.

S07 E31 · 1958-05-01 · 30 min

The Big Pack Rat

S07 E32 · 1958-05-08 · 30 min

The Big Honeymoon

Friday and Smith are looking for a man who sells fake honeymoon trips to unsuspecting couples.

S07 E33 · 1958-05-15 · 30 min

The Big Eyes

S07 E34 · 1958-05-22 · 30 min

The Big Cracker Box

Friday and Smith investigate a rash of supermarket robberies, and the burglar's calling card is leaving crackers scattered all over the floor of the store.

S07 E35 · 1958-05-29 · 30 min

The Big Perfume Bottle

A unique and costly perfume bottle is taken from an upscale home and it's up to Friday and Smith to get it back.

S07 E36 · 1958-06-05 · 30 min

The Big Bed

S07 E37 · 1958-06-12 · 30 min

The Big Ruthie

A disgruntled ex-con helps Friday and Smith take down a forgery ring that has cashed thousands of dollars in forged payroll checks.

S07 E38 · 1958-06-19 · 30 min

The Big Grifter

A con artist operating in the gentle swindle steals money from grieving relatives after their loved ones die.

S07 E39 · 1958-06-26 · 30 min

The Big Irony

Friday and Smith investigate a murder-suicide of a husband and wife.

S08 E01 · 1958-09-23 · 30 min

The Big Beating

Friday and Smith investigate a woman's claim that her neighbors are abusing their child.

S08 E02 · 1958-09-30 · 30 min

The Big Sweet Annie

Friday investigates a woman's disappearance after a convicted murderer is paroled into her custody.

S08 E03 · 1958-10-07 · 30 min

The Big Star

Friday and Smith investigate anonymous threats to disfigure a a famous actress.

S08 E04 · 1958-10-14 · 30 min

The Big Oskar

The detectives take a report of valuables stolen from the home of a somewhat eccentric old lady. They begin to suspect something is amiss when she starts talking about how she gets the "scoop" on crimes by being the first to report them to the local newspaper.

S08 E05 · 1958-10-21 · 30 min

The Big Little Boy

The detectives are trying to solve the case of the milk bottle bandit when they catch a break and apprehend a diminutive fifteen year old.

S08 E06 · 1958-10-28 · 30 min

The Big Voice

A mysterious telephone caller offers a man $1000 for a contract killing, and Friday must identify the caller before it's too late.

S08 E07 · 1958-11-04 · 30 min

The Big Jukebox

Friday goes undercover as a bar owner in order to break up an illegal jukebox operation.

S08 E08 · 1958-11-11 · 30 min

The Big Doll

As Friday and Smith investigate a woman's death, they are disturbed to find that her daughter is more interested in discussing her collection of dolls.

S08 E09 · 1958-11-18 · 30 min

The Big Border

Friday and Smith must track a pair of escaped convicts across the Mexican border.

S08 E10 · 1958-11-25 · 30 min

The Big Nazi

While investigating reports of teenagers involved in a gunfight, Friday and Smith are shocked to find one of the teens involved wearing a Nazi uniform.

S08 E11 · 1958-12-02 · 30 min

The Big Hot Rod

Friday is on the hunt for a group of teens that are stealing sports cars.

S08 E12 · 1958-12-09 · 30 min

The Big Green Monkey

Friday and Smith investigate a robbery, and their only clue to the suspect's identity is a green jade monkey.

S08 E13 · 1958-12-16 · 30 min

The Big Hype

Friday attempts to track down a heroin pusher.

S08 E14 · 1958-12-23 · 30 min

The Big Maria

Friday and Smith investigate the death of a woman found murdered in a churchyard on Christmas Eve.

S08 E15 · 1958-12-30 · 30 min

The Big Donation

Two con artists are selling phony magazines subscriptions to unsuspecting suckers.

S08 E16 · 1959-01-06 · 30 min

The Big Malcolm

Friday and Smith investigate a criminal gang that preys on all-night restaurants.

S08 E17 · 1959-01-13 · 30 min

The Big Smart Girl

Friday and Smith investigate a series of robberies in fashionable homes.

S08 E18 · 1959-01-20 · 30 min

The Big Doctor

Friday goes undercover to investigate a bookie operation.

S08 E19 · 1959-01-27 · 30 min

The Big Signet

Friday and Smith have to find a man selling forged passports and paperwork.

S08 E20 · 1959-02-03 · 30 min

The Big Accident

An insurance adjuster files a report with Friday about possible fraudulent insurance claims.

S08 E21 · 1959-02-10 · 30 min

The Big Mailman

Friday works with a postal inspector to catch a gang using the mail to scam money from people.

S08 E22 · 1959-02-17 · 30 min

The Big Roll

S08 E23 · 1959-02-24 · 30 min

The Big Thirteen

An elderly man reports a loss of money to the LAPD, then subsequently denies making the report. Friday and Smith must investigate.

S08 E24 · 1959-03-10 · 30 min

The Big Sour

An elderly couple are beaten and robbed. The key to finding the bandits lies in a paper boy and an alert bartender.

S08 E25 · 1959-03-17 · 30 min

The Big Starlet

Friday investigates a young starlet under suspicion of check forgery.

S08 E26 · 1959-03-24 · 30 min

The Big Holdup

A robber called "The Rattlesnake Bandit" takes pleasure in beating and shooting his victims after he takes their money.

S08 E27 · 1959-03-31 · 30 min

The Big Name

The only clue to a murder investigated by Friday is the tape on a knife handle.

S08 E28 · 1959-04-07 · 30 min

The Big Couple

Friday and Smith investigate a husband and wife con team that have a long criminal record.

S08 E29 · 1959-04-14 · 30 min

The Big Squeeze

Friday investigates a robbery that is caused by a blackmail victim's refusal to pay.

S08 E30 · 1959-04-21 · 30 min

The Big Picture

A young girl commits suicide after she is tricked by a pair of movie talent scouts who are really operating a prostitution ring.

S08 E31 · 1959-04-28 · 30 min

The Big Carnation

Friday and Smith hunt "The Carnation Kid," a suspect in a series of hotel burglaries.

S08 E32 · 1959-07-07 · 30 min

The Big Operator

Friday and Smith investigate a the death of a woman found beaten in her car, and suspect that her husband is somehow involved.

S08 E33 · 1959-07-12 · 30 min

The Big Bray

Friday and Smith investigate a series of food market robberies, where the bandit has been posing as a salesman.

S08 E34 · 1959-07-19 · 30 min

The Big Infant

Friday and Smith's investigation of a stolen car - containing a sleeping baby - leads them to two juvenile suspects.

S08 E35 · 1959-07-26 · 30 min

The Big Appetite

Friday and Smith track a burglar who breaks into homes and businesses to steal gourmet food items.

S08 E36 · 1959-08-02 · 30 min

The Big .38

Cab drivers are being held up, but the descriptions given by the victims don't match.

S08 E37 · 1959-08-09 · 30 min

The Big Byron

A man reports that his fiance's former boyfriend has taken shots at him.

S08 E38 · 1959-08-16 · 30 min

The Big Counterfeit

A man impersonating a police officer is going to local businesses and asking for donations for the widows and orphans fund. Smith and Friday set out to stop the con man.

S08 E39 · 1959-08-23 · 30 min

The Big Red

An informant's tip puts Friday on the trail of a narcotics ring.