★ 6.5
1951
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8 Seasons
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Dragnet
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30m per episode
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276 Episodes
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Follows the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from the police term "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.
Episodes
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E1
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.
★ 10.0
Dec 16, 1951
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E2
The Big Actor
Friday and Jacobs track down a drug ring through a small-time television actor who is hooked on heroin.
★ 10.0
Jan 03, 1952
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E3
The Big Death
Friday poses as a hired killer for a man who wants his wife dead.
Jan 17, 1952
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E4
The Big Mother
A new-born baby is stolen from a hospital nursery and the trail leads the police to a deranged mother.
★ 4.0
Jan 31, 1952
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E5
The Big Cast
The police interrogate a suspect whom they believe to have murdered more than a dozen men.
★ 10.0
Feb 14, 1952
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E6
The Big Speech
A doctor is beaten and robbed of prescription drugs.
Feb 28, 1952
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E7
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.
Mar 13, 1952
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E8
The Big Moody
Mar 27, 1952
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E9
The Big Blast
A divorced mother is killed in bed by a shotgun while her young boy sleeps beside her.
Apr 10, 1952
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E10
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.
Apr 24, 1952
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E11
The Big September Man
A secretary is beaten to death and the search for the killer leads police to a religious fanatic.
★ 7.0
May 08, 1952
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E12
The Big Phone Call
Friday confronts a jeweler with tape recorded evidence that proves he hired someone to rob his own store.
★ 10.0
May 22, 1952
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E13
The Big Casing
A man claims that his wife committed suicide right in front of him, but the evidence suggests otherwise.
★ 10.0
Jun 05, 1952
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E14
The Big Lamp
Friday and Jacobs are out to catch a safe burglar who has been on the loose for seven months.
Jun 19, 1952
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E1
The Big Jump
A man stands upon the ledge of a tall building and threatens to jump to his death below.
★ 10.0
Sep 11, 1952
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E2
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.
★ 8.0
Sep 25, 1952
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E3
The Big Elevator
Friday and Smith search for the person who left a dead woman in a hospital elevator.
Oct 09, 1952
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E4
The Big Seventeen
Friday and Smith investigate a group of teenagers who are using and selling drugs.
Nov 06, 1952
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E5
The Big Trio
Friday and Smith investigate three traffic accidents in one night.
Nov 20, 1952
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E6
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.
Dec 04, 1952
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E7
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.
★ 6.7
Dec 18, 1952
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E8
The Big Cop
Friday has to catch a bad cop who has been dealing with the mob.
Jan 02, 1953
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E9
The Big Grandma
An elderly woman is passing bad checks, but no one suspects her because she looks harmless.
★ 7.0
Jan 08, 1953
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E10
The Big Whiff
A woman is murdered when she is given an overdose of chloroform.
Jan 15, 1953
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E11
The Big Show
A seven-week-old baby is found abandoned in a bus station.
★ 5.0
Jan 22, 1953
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E12
The Big Safe
Friday and Smith are investigating a missing office safe.
Jan 29, 1953
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E13
The Big Church
A woman receives threatening letters from an unknown stalker.
Feb 05, 1953
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E14
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.
★ 7.0
Feb 12, 1953
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E15
The Big Shakedown
Friday is looking for a crooked cop.
Feb 20, 1953
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E16
The Big Rose
Friday and Smith are looking for a missing woman that left her three children with her sister.
Feb 26, 1953
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E17
The Big Building
A prominent dentist denies that his wife is missing, but Friday and Smith can find no trace of her.
Mar 05, 1953
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E18
The Big Run
Two elderly women are struck down by a hit-and-run driver.
Mar 12, 1953
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E19
The Big Break
Friday and Smith track down an escaped convict who is armed and dangerous.
★ 10.0
Mar 19, 1953
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E20
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.
★ 8.0
Mar 26, 1953
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E21
The Big Waiter
An immigrant is brutally beaten to death and the trail may lead to the victim's abused wife.
Apr 02, 1953
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E22
The Big Test
A young man reports that he was robbed by bandits on horseback while he was down in Mexico.
Apr 09, 1953
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E23
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.
Apr 16, 1953
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E24
The Big Fire
A land lord begins threatening his tenants so he can force them to move out of his building.
Apr 23, 1953
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E25
The Big Ray
A man suddenly becomes ill and dies after eating his dinner at home.
Apr 30, 1953
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E26
The Big Frank
While investigating a routine robbery with Friday, Smith suffers a critical gunshot wound. Sergeant Friday is out for vengeance.
★ 10.0
May 07, 1953
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E27
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.
May 14, 1953
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E28
The Big Hands
Friday and Smith suspect a psycho killer when they find a woman with a broken neck in a hotel room.
May 21, 1953
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E29
The Big Fourth
Several babies are stolen in the city.
May 28, 1953
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E30
The Big Market
A bandit starts robbing people at local markets.
Jun 04, 1953
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E31
The Big Friend
Friday and Smith are torn between two suspects when a man reports that his wife has been strangled.
Jun 11, 1953
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E32
The Big Barrette
Friday and Smith search for the brutal killer of a 21-year-old woman.
Jun 18, 1953
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E33
The Big Dance
Friday and Smith are looking for two thugs that seem to have disappeared from the city.
Jun 25, 1953
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E1
The Big White Rat
Friday and Smith respond to and investigate reports of a drug ring.
Sep 03, 1953
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E2
The Big Revolt
A woman reports her husband missing and Friday and Smith are assigned to find him.
Sep 10, 1953
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E3
The Big Bull
Smith takes a personal interest when a strong-arm bandit threatens his family if he doesn't back off the case.
Sep 17, 1953
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E4
The Big Betty
Friday and Smith track down a confidence ring who are selling defective watches.
Sep 24, 1953
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E5
The Big Sophomore
A teenage boy steals food for his starving family.
Oct 01, 1953
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E6
The Big Pill
Friday and Smith are on the trail of a gang that is robbing local drugstores.
Oct 08, 1953
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E7
The Big Lie
Oct 15, 1953
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E8
The Big Fake
A police rookie is accused of assaulting a citizen and stealing his money.
Oct 22, 1953
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E9
The Big Dream
Friday and Smith investigate the murder of a girl who came to Los Angeles with a dream of being an actress.
Oct 29, 1953
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E10
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.
Nov 05, 1953
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E11
The Big Will
Friday and Smith investigate the murder of a rich man.
Nov 12, 1953
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E12
The Big In-Laws
Friday and Smith try to capture a ring of truck hijackers.
Nov 19, 1953
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E13
The Big Lilly
Nov 26, 1953
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E14
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.
Dec 03, 1953
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E15
The Big Lover
Friday and Smith investigate a con man that marries rich women just for their money.
Dec 10, 1953
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E16
The Big Thief
Robbers phone doctors for house calls then assault them and steal their drugs.
Dec 17, 1953
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E17
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.
★ 7.0
Dec 24, 1953
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E18
The Big Eavesdrop
Friday and Smith overhear a suspicious conversation while on a coffee break in a diner.
Dec 31, 1953
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E19
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.
★ 7.0
Jan 07, 1954
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E20
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.
Jan 14, 1954
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E21
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.
★ 10.0
Jan 21, 1954
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E22
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.
Jan 28, 1954
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E23
The Big Chance
Signs point to foul play when a highway patrolman disappears from his car along a deserted road.
Feb 04, 1954
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E24
The Big Children
Three children are found abandoned, filthy and starving. Friday and Smith charge the mother with neglect.
★ 8.0
Feb 11, 1954
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E25
The Big Poison
An elderly couple suddenly disappears from a fashionable neighborhood.
Feb 18, 1954
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E26
The Big Quack
A man posing as a doctor burgles the house of a woman who is mentally disturbed.
Feb 25, 1954
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E27
The Big Winchester
An elderly man appears to have killed himself with a rifle, but the cops soon learn that it was no accident.
Mar 04, 1954
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E28
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.
★ 7.0
Mar 11, 1954
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E29
The Big Hit-Run Killer
A woman and her grandson are run down by a bakery truck, but the driver has an airtight alibi.
★ 10.0
Mar 18, 1954
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E30
The Big Drink
Mar 25, 1954
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E31
The Big Girl
Friday and Smith hunt down the bandit queen; a tall, gorgeous woman who is on a rampage of robberies and shootings.
★ 10.0
Apr 01, 1954
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E32
The Big Mattress
Friday and Smith investigate a corrupt cop.
Apr 08, 1954
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E33
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.
Apr 15, 1954
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E34
The Big Frame
A man's body is found in the gutter and the only clue is a pair of skid marks found nearby.
★ 7.0
Apr 22, 1954
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E35
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.
Apr 29, 1954
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E36
The Big Check
A check forger is victimizing small businessmen in a particular neighborhood.
May 06, 1954
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E37
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.
May 13, 1954
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E38
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.
May 20, 1954
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E39
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.
★ 10.0
May 27, 1954
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E1
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.
★ 10.0
Aug 26, 1954
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E2
The Big Fraud
A group of con artists are posing as cops and victimizing out-of-town businessmen in fashionable hotels.
★ 10.0
Sep 02, 1954
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E3
The Big Crime
Four-year-old twin girls are abducted from the local park.
★ 10.0
Sep 09, 1954
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E4
The Big Pair
An old man and his granddaughter are burglarized, leaving them broke and starving.
★ 10.0
Sep 16, 1954
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E5
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.
Sep 23, 1954
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E6
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.
Sep 30, 1954
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E7
The Big Missing
Friday and Smith are looking for a missing businessman.
Oct 07, 1954
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E8
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.
Oct 14, 1954
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E9
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.
Oct 21, 1954
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E10
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.
Oct 28, 1954
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E11
The Big Gangster (Part 2)
Friday and Smith must find the men who murdered a gang boss before an open gang war starts.
Nov 04, 1954
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E12
The Big New Years
On New Year's Eve, Friday and Smith are working out of Central Receiving Hospital.
Nov 11, 1954
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E13
The Big Want Ad
Friday and Smith investigate a man who is conning people by using the want ads.
Nov 18, 1954
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E14
The Big Affair
Friday and Smith discover that the key to finding a hold-up artist lies in his married girlfriend.
Nov 25, 1954
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E15
The Big Bible
A man locks himself in his study and threatens suicide if his wife leaves him.
Dec 02, 1954
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E16
The Big Bindle
Friday goes under cover to bust a drug ring that is operating out of a high-class hotel.
Dec 09, 1954
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E17
The Big Office
Friday and Smith are assigned to the business office, where they must deal with the paperwork on a busy weekend.
Dec 16, 1954
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E18
The Big Rod
An expectant mother is run down and killed by two teenagers in a hot rod.
Dec 30, 1954
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E19
The Big Rescue
A group of bandits arm themselves and break their comrades out of jail.
Jan 06, 1955
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E20
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.
Jan 13, 1955
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E21
The Big Shock
Friday and Smith go after a burglar who plans to break into a bank through an underground tunnel.
Jan 20, 1955
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E22
The Big Screen
Friday and Smith team up with a newspaper reporter so they can investigate television repairmen who may be overcharging their customers.
Jan 27, 1955
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E23
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.
Feb 03, 1955
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E24
The Big Dog
An old man sits on his front porch with a shotgun, threatening to kill the man who poisoned his dog.
Feb 10, 1955
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E25
The Big Underground
Friday and Smith use a stolen check as a lead to a series of used car lot robberies.
Feb 17, 1955
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E26
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.
Feb 24, 1955
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E27
The Big Mailman
Friday and Smith go after a bandit who is robbing mailboxes and then trying to cash other people's checks.
Mar 03, 1955
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E28
The Big Customer
Mar 10, 1955
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E29
The Big Tar Baby
A bartender's wife is kidnapped, beaten and rolled in hot tar.
Mar 17, 1955
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E30
The Big Number
Friday and Smith Investigate a Bank Robbery, but they don't have much to go on.
Mar 24, 1955
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E31
The Big Mask
A masked bandit is holding up supermarkets and the police are not able to catch him.
Mar 31, 1955
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E32
The Big Sucker
A con artist is swindling jewelers using fake diamonds.
Apr 07, 1955
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E33
The Big Moustache
Friday and Smith investigate the robbery of an appliance store.
Apr 14, 1955
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E34
The Big Heel
Friday and Smith use an unusual footprint to help solve a murder case.
Apr 21, 1955
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E35
The Big Gone
The owner of a flower shop kills a man who is trying to rob him, but the corpse mysteriously vanishes.
Apr 28, 1955
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E36
The Big Student
Friday and Smith are on the trail of a bunch of teenagers selling fake magazine subscriptions.
May 05, 1955
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E37
The Big Watch
Bandits are offering rides to hitch-hiking soldiers, then robbing and beating them.
May 12, 1955
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E38
The Big Dig
Friday and Smith are looking into a report of a missing woman that turns into a murder investigation.
May 19, 1955
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E39
The Big Mug
Two hold-up men are robbing and beating pedestrians in the down town area.
May 26, 1955
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E1
The Big Pipe
A young woman is beaten to death with a led pipe and left in an empty office.
Sep 02, 1955
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E2
The Big Chet
Sep 09, 1955
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E3
The Big No Rain
Sep 16, 1955
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E4
The Big Lift
An organized gang of shoplifters is looting large department stores in the city.
Sep 23, 1955
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E5
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.
Sep 30, 1955
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E6
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.
Oct 07, 1955
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E7
The Big Look
A woman is dragged from her home and badly beaten by an unknown attacker.
Oct 14, 1955
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E8
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.
Oct 21, 1955
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E9
The Big Bird
Sgt. Friday investigates a robber who only targets pet stores and homes that have pet birds.
Oct 28, 1955
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E10
The Big Laugh
A con man makes lonely women fall for his charms, then steals their money and disappears.
Nov 04, 1955
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E11
The Big Smoke
An elderly couple is brutally beaten and the trail leads police to a former handy man.
Nov 11, 1955
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E12
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.
Nov 18, 1955
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E13
The Big Shot
A night club owner is shot down and there are no witnesses to the crime.
Nov 25, 1955
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E14
The Big Locker
Friday and Smith happen to catch a man trying to sell a stolen ring at a pawn shop.
Dec 02, 1955
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E15
The Big Note
An anonymous note leads Friday and Smith to a group of teenage drug users and their neglectful parents.
Dec 09, 1955
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E16
The Big Genius
Friday and Smith investigate what seems to be the perfect crime.
Dec 16, 1955
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E17
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.
Dec 30, 1955
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E18
The Big Tour
Jan 06, 1956
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E19
The Big Sisters
An elderly woman fakes a burglary report so she can get attention from the police and the media.
Jan 13, 1956
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E20
The Big Ruling
Jan 20, 1956
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E21
The Big Fall Guy
Friday and Smith are on the trail of a robbery suspect that has robbed two stores.
Jan 27, 1956
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E22
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.
Feb 03, 1956
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E23
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.
Feb 10, 1956
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E24
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.
Feb 17, 1956
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E25
The Big Daughter
Friday and Smith investigate a missing persons report.
Feb 24, 1956
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E26
The Big No Suicide
Friday gets a call from a former mental patient who is threatening to kill himself and his family.
Mar 02, 1956
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E27
The Big Siege
Police find themselves in a stand-off when an armed bank robber takes a woman hostage in her home.
Mar 09, 1956
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E28
The Big Mama
Mar 16, 1956
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E29
The Big Revision
Friday and Smith hit a blank wall when a burglary suspect refuses to admit where he hid his stash.
Mar 23, 1956
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E30
The Big Ex-Blonde
Friday goes undercover to catch brothers who steal people's money by posing as real-estate agents.
Mar 30, 1956
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E31
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.
Apr 06, 1956
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E32
The Big Rush
Two bandits turn cop killer when they gun down an off-duty policeman during a tavern hold-up.
Apr 13, 1956
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E33
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.
Apr 20, 1956
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E34
The Big Deal
Friday and Smith are investigating a rash of car thefts. The stolen cars are being sold with forged pink slips.
Apr 27, 1956
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E35
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.
May 04, 1956
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E36
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.
May 11, 1956
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E37
The Big Housemaid
May 18, 1956
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E38
The Big Gift
May 25, 1956
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E39
The Big Salvage
Jun 01, 1956
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E1
The Big Cat
A circus man reports that a tiger escaped from his truck and is now on the loose in Los Angeles.
Sep 27, 1956
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E2
The Big Misses
A frightened wife tells Friday and Smith that she's worried her husband is planning to pull a hold-up.
Oct 11, 1956
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E3
The Big Beer
Oct 18, 1956
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E4
The Big Net
A group of police women act as decoys to draw a stick-up man out into the open.
Oct 25, 1956
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E5
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.
Nov 01, 1956
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E6
The Big Limp
A teenage boy under arrest admits to police that his brother is planning to rob a loan company.
Nov 08, 1956
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E7
The Big Tattoo
Friday and Smith are looking for a robber with an unusual tattoo.
Nov 15, 1956
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E8
The Big Odd
Friday and Smith investigate a gambling racket.
Nov 22, 1956
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E9
The Big Bill
Friday and Smith investigate reports of counterfeit money appearing all over the city.
Nov 29, 1956
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E10
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.
Dec 06, 1956
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E11
The Big Talk
A watch salesman reports that he was robbed by two men whom he drank with the night before.
Dec 13, 1956
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E12
The Big Doting Mother
Dec 20, 1956
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E13
The Big Handcuffs
Dec 27, 1956
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E14
The Big Father
A father works as a day burglar so he can buy presents for his kids, now living with his ex wife.
Jan 03, 1957
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E15
The Big Switch
Jan 10, 1957
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E16
The Big Steal
Friday and Smith investigate a rash of burglaries.
Jan 17, 1957
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E17
The Big Manikin
A woman reports that her husband has failed to come home after going out with is business partner.
Jan 24, 1957
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E18
The Big No Tooth
A bandit carrying a sawed-off shotgun is robbing hotels in the down town area.
Jan 31, 1957
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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.
Feb 07, 1957
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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.
Feb 14, 1957
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E21
The Big Game
Feb 21, 1957
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E22
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.
Feb 28, 1957
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E23
The Big Close
Friday and Smith reopen a closed case because a tip leads them to believe they have the wrong person.
Mar 07, 1957
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E24
The Big Tie
Friday and Smith investigate the former employee of a tie manufacturing company.
Mar 14, 1957
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E25
The Big Cup
A howling dog leads to the unearthing of the battered body of an old woman in her garden.
Mar 21, 1957
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E26
The Big Truck
Friday and Smith investigate the hit and run of a little girl.
Mar 28, 1957
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E27
The Big Saint
Friday and Smith try to prove that a salvage yard operator is using his business to fix up stolen cars.
Apr 04, 1957
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E28
The Big Match
An auction house is held up and the only clue to the bandits lies in a dropped matchbook.
Apr 11, 1957
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E29
The Big Help
Apr 18, 1957
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E30
The Big Celebration
Friday and Smith are on the trail of a thief whose victims are attending weddings and funerals.
Apr 25, 1957
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E31
The Big Cry Baby
May 02, 1957
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E32
The Big Lesson
Friday and Smith are on the trail of three masked men responsible for over thirty robberies.
May 09, 1957
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E33
The Big Soldier
May 16, 1957
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E34
The Big Make
A bakery owner and his daughter are shot down during a robbery.
May 23, 1957
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The Big Constitution
Sep 26, 1957
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E2
The Big Candy Box
Oct 03, 1957
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E3
The Big Button
Oct 10, 1957
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E4
The Big Yak
Oct 17, 1957
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E5
The Big Howard
Oct 24, 1957
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E6
The Big Tomato Cans
Oct 31, 1957
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E7
The Big Dip
Friday and Smith investigate money being taken from a department store's registers with the help of store security.
Nov 07, 1957
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E8
The Big License Plates
Nov 14, 1957
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E9
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.
Nov 21, 1957
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E10
The Big Tease
Nov 28, 1957
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E11
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.
Dec 25, 1957
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The Big Red Wagon
Dec 12, 1957
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E13
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.
Dec 19, 1957
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E14
The Big Full Moon
Dec 26, 1957
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E15
The Big Jade
Friday and Smith investigate a series of jade robberies.
Jan 02, 1958
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E16
The Big Tip
Jan 09, 1958
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E17
The Big Stubby
Jan 16, 1958
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E18
The Big Baby Face
Jan 23, 1958
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E19
The Big Lip
Friday and Smith are on the trail of a hit-and-run driver.
Jan 30, 1958
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E20
The Big Boot
Friday and Smith investigate a home invasion and their only clue is a boot print in the mud by a window.
Feb 13, 1958
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E21
The Big Rip
A man accuses his son of stabbing him, but Friday and Smith find out that his son has an airtight alibi.
Feb 20, 1958
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E22
The Big Excuse
Feb 27, 1958
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E23
The Big Knot
Mar 03, 1958
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E24
The Big Hobby
Mar 13, 1958
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E25
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.
Mar 20, 1958
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E26
The Big Gent
An ex con called The Gentleman Bandit begins working again when he holds up a bank with two helpers.
Mar 27, 1958
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E27
The Big Wardrobe
Friday and Smith track a man who writes bad checks for expensive clothes and then sells the clothes for a profit.
Apr 03, 1958
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E28
The Big War
Friday and Smith investigate a report of a teen gang war in the middle of Los Angeles.
Apr 10, 1958
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E29
The Big Bad Count
Apr 17, 1958
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E30
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.
Apr 24, 1958
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The Big Pack Rat
May 01, 1958
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E32
The Big Honeymoon
Friday and Smith are looking for a man who sells fake honeymoon trips to unsuspecting couples.
May 08, 1958
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E33
The Big Eyes
May 15, 1958
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E34
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.
May 22, 1958
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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.
May 29, 1958
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E36
The Big Bed
Jun 05, 1958
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E37
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.
Jun 12, 1958
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E38
The Big Grifter
A con artist operating in the gentle swindle steals money from grieving relatives after their loved ones die.
Jun 19, 1958
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The Big Irony
Friday and Smith investigate a murder-suicide of a husband and wife.
Jun 26, 1958
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The Big Beating
Friday and Smith investigate a woman's claim that her neighbors are abusing their child.
Sep 23, 1958
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The Big Sweet Annie
Friday investigates a woman's disappearance after a convicted murderer is paroled into her custody.
Sep 30, 1958
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The Big Star
Friday and Smith investigate anonymous threats to disfigure a a famous actress.
Oct 07, 1958
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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.
Oct 14, 1958
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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.
Oct 21, 1958
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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.
Oct 28, 1958
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The Big Jukebox
Friday goes undercover as a bar owner in order to break up an illegal jukebox operation.
Nov 04, 1958
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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.
Nov 11, 1958
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The Big Border
Friday and Smith must track a pair of escaped convicts across the Mexican border.
Nov 18, 1958
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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.
Nov 25, 1958
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The Big Hot Rod
Friday is on the hunt for a group of teens that are stealing sports cars.
Dec 02, 1958
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The Big Green Monkey
Friday and Smith investigate a robbery, and their only clue to the suspect's identity is a green jade monkey.
Dec 09, 1958
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E13
The Big Hype
Friday attempts to track down a heroin pusher.
Dec 16, 1958
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The Big Maria
Friday and Smith investigate the death of a woman found murdered in a churchyard on Christmas Eve.
Dec 23, 1958
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The Big Donation
Two con artists are selling phony magazines subscriptions to unsuspecting suckers.
Dec 30, 1958
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The Big Malcolm
Friday and Smith investigate a criminal gang that preys on all-night restaurants.
Jan 06, 1959
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The Big Smart Girl
Friday and Smith investigate a series of robberies in fashionable homes.
Jan 13, 1959
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E18
The Big Doctor
Friday goes undercover to investigate a bookie operation.
Jan 20, 1959
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E19
The Big Signet
Friday and Smith have to find a man selling forged passports and paperwork.
Jan 27, 1959
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E20
The Big Accident
An insurance adjuster files a report with Friday about possible fraudulent insurance claims.
Feb 03, 1959
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E21
The Big Mailman
Friday works with a postal inspector to catch a gang using the mail to scam money from people.
Feb 10, 1959
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E22
The Big Roll
Feb 17, 1959
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E23
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.
Feb 24, 1959
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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.
Mar 10, 1959
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The Big Starlet
Friday investigates a young starlet under suspicion of check forgery.
Mar 17, 1959
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The Big Holdup
A robber called "The Rattlesnake Bandit" takes pleasure in beating and shooting his victims after he takes their money.
Mar 24, 1959
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The Big Name
The only clue to a murder investigated by Friday is the tape on a knife handle.
Mar 31, 1959
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E28
The Big Couple
Friday and Smith investigate a husband and wife con team that have a long criminal record.
Apr 07, 1959
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The Big Squeeze
Friday investigates a robbery that is caused by a blackmail victim's refusal to pay.
Apr 14, 1959
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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.
Apr 21, 1959
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The Big Carnation
Friday and Smith hunt "The Carnation Kid," a suspect in a series of hotel burglaries.
Apr 28, 1959
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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.
Jul 07, 1959
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The Big Bray
Friday and Smith investigate a series of food market robberies, where the bandit has been posing as a salesman.
Jul 12, 1959
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The Big Infant
Friday and Smith's investigation of a stolen car - containing a sleeping baby - leads them to two juvenile suspects.
Jul 19, 1959
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The Big Appetite
Friday and Smith track a burglar who breaks into homes and businesses to steal gourmet food items.
Jul 26, 1959
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E36
The Big .38
Cab drivers are being held up, but the descriptions given by the victims don't match.
Aug 02, 1959
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E37
The Big Byron
A man reports that his fiance's former boyfriend has taken shots at him.
Aug 09, 1959
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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.
Aug 16, 1959
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The Big Red
An informant's tip puts Friday on the trail of a narcotics ring.
Aug 23, 1959
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Details
Status
Ended
Seasons
8
Episodes
276
Runtime
30m
First Aired
1951
Last Aired
Aug 23, 1959
Type
Scripted
Country
US
Votes
34
Popularity
48
In Production
❌ No
Created By
Jack Webb
Networks
NBC
Production
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