Dragnet

1. The Human Bomb

Air Date: 1951-12-16

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.

2. The Big Actor

Air Date: 1952-01-03

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

3. The Big Death

Air Date: 1952-01-17

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

4. The Big Mother

Air Date: 1952-01-31

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

5. The Big Cast

Air Date: 1952-02-14

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

6. The Big Speech

Air Date: 1952-02-28

A doctor is beaten and robbed of prescription drugs.

7. The Big Parrot

Air Date: 1952-03-13

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.

8. The Big Moody

Air Date: 1952-03-27

9. The Big Blast

Air Date: 1952-04-10

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

10. The Big Trial

Air Date: 1952-04-24

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

11. The Big September Man

Air Date: 1952-05-08

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

12. The Big Phone Call

Air Date: 1952-05-22

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

13. The Big Casing

Air Date: 1952-06-05

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

14. The Big Lamp

Air Date: 1952-06-19

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

1. The Big Jump

Air Date: 1952-09-11

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

2. The Big Sorrow

Air Date: 1952-09-25

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

3. The Big Elevator

Air Date: 1952-10-09

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

4. The Big Seventeen

Air Date: 1952-11-06

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

5. The Big Trio

Air Date: 1952-11-20

Friday and Smith investigate three traffic accidents in one night.

6. The Big Imposter

Air Date: 1952-12-04

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.

7. The Big .22 Rifle for Christmas

Air Date: 1952-12-18

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

8. The Big Cop

Air Date: 1953-01-02

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

9. The Big Grandma

Air Date: 1953-01-08

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

10. The Big Whiff

Air Date: 1953-01-15

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

11. The Big Show

Air Date: 1953-01-22

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

12. The Big Safe

Air Date: 1953-01-29

Friday and Smith are investigating a missing office safe.

13. The Big Church

Air Date: 1953-02-05

A woman receives threatening letters from an unknown stalker.

14. The Big Hate

Air Date: 1953-02-12

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.

15. The Big Shakedown

Air Date: 1953-02-20

Friday is looking for a crooked cop.

16. The Big Rose

Air Date: 1953-02-26

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

17. The Big Building

Air Date: 1953-03-05

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

18. The Big Run

Air Date: 1953-03-12

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

19. The Big Break

Air Date: 1953-03-19

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

20. The Big Light

Air Date: 1953-03-26

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

21. The Big Waiter

Air Date: 1953-04-02

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

22. The Big Test

Air Date: 1953-04-09

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

23. The Big Lay-Out

Air Date: 1953-04-16

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.

24. The Big Fire

Air Date: 1953-04-23

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

25. The Big Ray

Air Date: 1953-04-30

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

26. The Big Frank

Air Date: 1953-05-07

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

27. The Big Lease

Air Date: 1953-05-14

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.

28. The Big Hands

Air Date: 1953-05-21

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

29. The Big Fourth

Air Date: 1953-05-28

Several babies are stolen in the city.

30. The Big Market

Air Date: 1953-06-04

A bandit starts robbing people at local markets.

31. The Big Friend

Air Date: 1953-06-11

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

32. The Big Barrette

Air Date: 1953-06-18

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

33. The Big Dance

Air Date: 1953-06-25

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

1. The Big White Rat

Air Date: 1953-09-03

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

2. The Big Revolt

Air Date: 1953-09-10

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

3. The Big Bull

Air Date: 1953-09-17

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

4. The Big Betty

Air Date: 1953-09-24

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

5. The Big Sophomore

Air Date: 1953-10-01

A teenage boy steals food for his starving family.

6. The Big Pill

Air Date: 1953-10-08

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

7. The Big Lie

Air Date: 1953-10-15

8. The Big Fake

Air Date: 1953-10-22

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

9. The Big Dream

Air Date: 1953-10-29

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

10. The Big Guilt

Air Date: 1953-11-05

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.

11. The Big Will

Air Date: 1953-11-12

Friday and Smith investigate the murder of a rich man.

12. The Big In-Laws

Air Date: 1953-11-19

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

13. The Big Lilly

Air Date: 1953-11-26

14. The Big Kill

Air Date: 1953-12-03

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

15. The Big Lover

Air Date: 1953-12-10

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

16. The Big Thief

Air Date: 1953-12-17

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

17. The Big Little Jesus

Air Date: 1953-12-24

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.

18. The Big Eavesdrop

Air Date: 1953-12-31

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

19. The Big Trunk

Air Date: 1954-01-07

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.

20. The Big Youngster

Air Date: 1954-01-14

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

21. The Big Boys

Air Date: 1954-01-21

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.

22. The Big Ham

Air Date: 1954-01-28

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

23. The Big Chance

Air Date: 1954-02-04

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

24. The Big Children

Air Date: 1954-02-11

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

25. The Big Poison

Air Date: 1954-02-18

An elderly couple suddenly disappears from a fashionable neighborhood.

26. The Big Quack

Air Date: 1954-02-25

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

27. The Big Winchester

Air Date: 1954-03-04

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

28. The Big Shoplift

Air Date: 1954-03-11

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

29. The Big Hit-Run Killer

Air Date: 1954-03-18

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

30. The Big Drink

Air Date: 1954-03-25

31. The Big Girl

Air Date: 1954-04-01

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

32. The Big Mattress

Air Date: 1954-04-08

Friday and Smith investigate a corrupt cop.

33. The Big Pug

Air Date: 1954-04-15

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

34. The Big Frame

Air Date: 1954-04-22

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

35. The Big Plant

Air Date: 1954-04-29

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.

36. The Big Check

Air Date: 1954-05-06

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

37. The Big Threat

Air Date: 1954-05-13

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

38. The Big Dare

Air Date: 1954-05-20

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

39. The Big False Make

Air Date: 1954-05-27

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.

1. The Big Producer

Air Date: 1954-08-26

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

2. The Big Fraud

Air Date: 1954-09-02

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

3. The Big Crime

Air Date: 1954-09-09

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

4. The Big Pair

Air Date: 1954-09-16

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

5. The Big Escape

Air Date: 1954-09-23

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.

6. The Big Kid

Air Date: 1954-09-30

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.

7. The Big Missing

Air Date: 1954-10-07

Friday and Smith are looking for a missing businessman.

8. The Big Bar

Air Date: 1954-10-14

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.

9. The Big Present

Air Date: 1954-10-21

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.

10. The Big Gangster (Part 1)

Air Date: 1954-10-28

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

11. The Big Gangster (Part 2)

Air Date: 1954-11-04

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

12. The Big New Years

Air Date: 1954-11-11

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

13. The Big Want Ad

Air Date: 1954-11-18

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

14. The Big Affair

Air Date: 1954-11-25

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

15. The Big Bible

Air Date: 1954-12-02

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

16. The Big Bindle

Air Date: 1954-12-09

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

17. The Big Office

Air Date: 1954-12-16

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

18. The Big Rod

Air Date: 1954-12-30

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

19. The Big Rescue

Air Date: 1955-01-06

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

20. The Big Family

Air Date: 1955-01-13

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.

21. The Big Shock

Air Date: 1955-01-20

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

22. The Big Screen

Air Date: 1955-01-27

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

23. The Big TV

Air Date: 1955-02-03

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.

24. The Big Dog

Air Date: 1955-02-10

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

25. The Big Underground

Air Date: 1955-02-17

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

26. The Big Key

Air Date: 1955-02-24

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

27. The Big Mailman

Air Date: 1955-03-03

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

28. The Big Customer

Air Date: 1955-03-10

29. The Big Tar Baby

Air Date: 1955-03-17

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

30. The Big Number

Air Date: 1955-03-24

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

31. The Big Mask

Air Date: 1955-03-31

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

32. The Big Sucker

Air Date: 1955-04-07

A con artist is swindling jewelers using fake diamonds.

33. The Big Moustache

Air Date: 1955-04-14

Friday and Smith investigate the robbery of an appliance store.

34. The Big Heel

Air Date: 1955-04-21

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

35. The Big Gone

Air Date: 1955-04-28

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

36. The Big Student

Air Date: 1955-05-05

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

37. The Big Watch

Air Date: 1955-05-12

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

38. The Big Dig

Air Date: 1955-05-19

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

39. The Big Mug

Air Date: 1955-05-26

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

1. The Big Pipe

Air Date: 1955-09-02

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

2. The Big Chet

Air Date: 1955-09-09

3. The Big No Rain

Air Date: 1955-09-16

4. The Big Lift

Air Date: 1955-09-23

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

5. The Big Confession

Air Date: 1955-09-30

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.

6. The Big Gap

Air Date: 1955-10-07

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.

7. The Big Look

Air Date: 1955-10-14

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

8. The Big Glasses

Air Date: 1955-10-21

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.

9. The Big Bird

Air Date: 1955-10-28

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

10. The Big Laugh

Air Date: 1955-11-04

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

11. The Big Smoke

Air Date: 1955-11-11

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

12. The Big Bounce

Air Date: 1955-11-18

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.

13. The Big Shot

Air Date: 1955-11-25

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

14. The Big Locker

Air Date: 1955-12-02

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

15. The Big Note

Air Date: 1955-12-09

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

16. The Big Genius

Air Date: 1955-12-16

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

17. The Big Reminisce

Air Date: 1955-12-30

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

18. The Big Tour

Air Date: 1956-01-06

19. The Big Sisters

Air Date: 1956-01-13

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

20. The Big Ruling

Air Date: 1956-01-20

21. The Big Fall Guy

Air Date: 1956-01-27

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

22. The Big Set

Air Date: 1956-02-03

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.

23. The Big Child

Air Date: 1956-02-10

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

24. The Big Slug

Air Date: 1956-02-17

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

25. The Big Daughter

Air Date: 1956-02-24

Friday and Smith investigate a missing persons report.

26. The Big No Suicide

Air Date: 1956-03-02

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

27. The Big Siege

Air Date: 1956-03-09

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

28. The Big Mama

Air Date: 1956-03-16

29. The Big Revision

Air Date: 1956-03-23

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

30. The Big Ex-Blonde

Air Date: 1956-03-30

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

31. The Big Bobo

Air Date: 1956-04-06

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

32. The Big Rush

Air Date: 1956-04-13

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

33. The Big Setup

Air Date: 1956-04-20

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

34. The Big Deal

Air Date: 1956-04-27

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

35. The Big Wish

Air Date: 1956-05-04

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.

36. The Big Hat

Air Date: 1956-05-11

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

37. The Big Housemaid

Air Date: 1956-05-18

38. The Big Gift

Air Date: 1956-05-25

39. The Big Salvage

Air Date: 1956-06-01

1. The Big Cat

Air Date: 1956-09-27

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

2. The Big Misses

Air Date: 1956-10-11

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

3. The Big Beer

Air Date: 1956-10-18

4. The Big Net

Air Date: 1956-10-25

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

5. The Big Convertable

Air Date: 1956-11-01

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.

6. The Big Limp

Air Date: 1956-11-08

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

7. The Big Tattoo

Air Date: 1956-11-15

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

8. The Big Odd

Air Date: 1956-11-22

Friday and Smith investigate a gambling racket.

9. The Big Bill

Air Date: 1956-11-29

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

10. The Big Search

Air Date: 1956-12-06

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

11. The Big Talk

Air Date: 1956-12-13

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

12. The Big Doting Mother

Air Date: 1956-12-20

13. The Big Handcuffs

Air Date: 1956-12-27

14. The Big Father

Air Date: 1957-01-03

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

15. The Big Switch

Air Date: 1957-01-10

16. The Big Steal

Air Date: 1957-01-17

Friday and Smith investigate a rash of burglaries.

17. The Big Manikin

Air Date: 1957-01-24

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

18. The Big No Tooth

Air Date: 1957-01-31

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

19. The Big Skip

Air Date: 1957-02-07

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.

20. The Big Fin

Air Date: 1957-02-14

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

21. The Big Game

Air Date: 1957-02-21

22. The Big Coins

Air Date: 1957-02-28

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

23. The Big Close

Air Date: 1957-03-07

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

24. The Big Tie

Air Date: 1957-03-14

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

25. The Big Cup

Air Date: 1957-03-21

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

26. The Big Truck

Air Date: 1957-03-28

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

27. The Big Saint

Air Date: 1957-04-04

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

28. The Big Match

Air Date: 1957-04-11

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

29. The Big Help

Air Date: 1957-04-18

30. The Big Celebration

Air Date: 1957-04-25

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

31. The Big Cry Baby

Air Date: 1957-05-02

32. The Big Lesson

Air Date: 1957-05-09

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

33. The Big Soldier

Air Date: 1957-05-16

34. The Big Make

Air Date: 1957-05-23

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

1. The Big Constitution

Air Date: 1957-09-26

2. The Big Candy Box

Air Date: 1957-10-03

3. The Big Button

Air Date: 1957-10-10

4. The Big Yak

Air Date: 1957-10-17

5. The Big Howard

Air Date: 1957-10-24

6. The Big Tomato Cans

Air Date: 1957-10-31

7. The Big Dip

Air Date: 1957-11-07

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

8. The Big License Plates

Air Date: 1957-11-14

9. The Big Blank

Air Date: 1957-11-21

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

10. The Big Tease

Air Date: 1957-11-28

11. The Big Love

Air Date: 1957-12-25

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.

12. The Big Red Wagon

Air Date: 1957-12-12

13. The Big Prescription

Air Date: 1957-12-19

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

14. The Big Full Moon

Air Date: 1957-12-26

15. The Big Jade

Air Date: 1958-01-02

Friday and Smith investigate a series of jade robberies.

16. The Big Tip

Air Date: 1958-01-09

17. The Big Stubby

Air Date: 1958-01-16

18. The Big Baby Face

Air Date: 1958-01-23

19. The Big Lip

Air Date: 1958-01-30

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

20. The Big Boot

Air Date: 1958-02-13

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

21. The Big Rip

Air Date: 1958-02-20

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

22. The Big Excuse

Air Date: 1958-02-27

23. The Big Knot

Air Date: 1958-03-03

24. The Big Hobby

Air Date: 1958-03-13

25. The Big Organizer

Air Date: 1958-03-20

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.

26. The Big Gent

Air Date: 1958-03-27

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

27. The Big Wardrobe

Air Date: 1958-04-03

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

28. The Big War

Air Date: 1958-04-10

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

29. The Big Bad Count

Air Date: 1958-04-17

30. The Big Evans

Air Date: 1958-04-24

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.

31. The Big Pack Rat

Air Date: 1958-05-01

32. The Big Honeymoon

Air Date: 1958-05-08

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

33. The Big Eyes

Air Date: 1958-05-15

34. The Big Cracker Box

Air Date: 1958-05-22

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.

35. The Big Perfume Bottle

Air Date: 1958-05-29

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

36. The Big Bed

Air Date: 1958-06-05

37. The Big Ruthie

Air Date: 1958-06-12

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

38. The Big Grifter

Air Date: 1958-06-19

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

39. The Big Irony

Air Date: 1958-06-26

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

1. The Big Beating

Air Date: 1958-09-23

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

2. The Big Sweet Annie

Air Date: 1958-09-30

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

3. The Big Star

Air Date: 1958-10-07

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

4. The Big Oskar

Air Date: 1958-10-14

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.

5. The Big Little Boy

Air Date: 1958-10-21

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.

6. The Big Voice

Air Date: 1958-10-28

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

7. The Big Jukebox

Air Date: 1958-11-04

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

8. The Big Doll

Air Date: 1958-11-11

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.

9. The Big Border

Air Date: 1958-11-18

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

10. The Big Nazi

Air Date: 1958-11-25

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.

11. The Big Hot Rod

Air Date: 1958-12-02

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

12. The Big Green Monkey

Air Date: 1958-12-09

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

13. The Big Hype

Air Date: 1958-12-16

Friday attempts to track down a heroin pusher.

14. The Big Maria

Air Date: 1958-12-23

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

15. The Big Donation

Air Date: 1958-12-30

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

16. The Big Malcolm

Air Date: 1959-01-06

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

17. The Big Smart Girl

Air Date: 1959-01-13

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

18. The Big Doctor

Air Date: 1959-01-20

Friday goes undercover to investigate a bookie operation.

19. The Big Signet

Air Date: 1959-01-27

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

20. The Big Accident

Air Date: 1959-02-03

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

21. The Big Mailman

Air Date: 1959-02-10

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

22. The Big Roll

Air Date: 1959-02-17

23. The Big Thirteen

Air Date: 1959-02-24

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

24. The Big Sour

Air Date: 1959-03-10

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

25. The Big Starlet

Air Date: 1959-03-17

Friday investigates a young starlet under suspicion of check forgery.

26. The Big Holdup

Air Date: 1959-03-24

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

27. The Big Name

Air Date: 1959-03-31

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

28. The Big Couple

Air Date: 1959-04-07

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

29. The Big Squeeze

Air Date: 1959-04-14

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

30. The Big Picture

Air Date: 1959-04-21

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

31. The Big Carnation

Air Date: 1959-04-28

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

32. The Big Operator

Air Date: 1959-07-07

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

33. The Big Bray

Air Date: 1959-07-12

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

34. The Big Infant

Air Date: 1959-07-19

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

35. The Big Appetite

Air Date: 1959-07-26

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

36. The Big .38

Air Date: 1959-08-02

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

37. The Big Byron

Air Date: 1959-08-09

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

38. The Big Counterfeit

Air Date: 1959-08-16

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.

39. The Big Red

Air Date: 1959-08-23

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