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.
Friday and Romero track down a drug ring through a small-time television actor who is hooked on heroin.
Friday poses as a hired killer for a man who wants his wife dead.
A new-born baby is stolen from a hospital nursery and the trail leads the police to a deranged mother.
The police interrogate a suspect whom they believe to have murdered more than a dozen men.
A doctor is beaten and robbed of prescription drugs.
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.
A divorced mother is killed in bed by a shotgun while her young boy sleeps beside her.
Friday testifies at the trial of a man accused of a hit-and-run, but the main witness against him suddenly disappears.
A secretary is beaten to death and the search for the killer leads police to a religious fanatic.
Friday confronts a jeweler with tape recorded evidence that proves he hired someone to rob his own store.
A man claims that his wife committed suicide right in front of him, but the evidence suggests otherwise.
Friday and Jacobs are out to catch a safe burglar who has been on the loose for seven months.
A man stands upon the ledge of a tall building and threatens to jump to his death below.
Friday must cope with the sudden death of his partner as he and his new partner track a pair of escaped convicts.
Friday and Smith search for the person who left a dead woman in a hospital elevator.
Friday and Smith investigate a group of teenagers who are using and selling drugs.
Friday and Smith investigate three traffic accidents in one night.
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.
Two small boys are missing, there are blood stains on the ground and a gun meant as a Christmas present is gone.
An elderly woman is passing bad checks, but no one suspects her because she looks harmless.
A woman is murdered when she is given an overdose of chloroform.
A seven-week-old baby is found abandoned in a bus station.
A woman receives threatening letters from an unknown stalker.
A prominent dentist denies that his wife is missing, but Friday and Smith can find no trace of her.
Two elderly women are struck down by a hit-and-run driver.
Friday and Smith track down an escaped convict who is armed and dangerous.
Friday and Smith must decide between accident or murder when a crewman working on a movie set is killed by a falling light.
An immigrant is brutally beaten to death and the trail may lead to the victim's abused wife.
A young man reports that he was robbed by bandits on horseback while he was down in Mexico.
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.
A land lord begins threatening his tenants so he can force them to move out of his building.
A man suddenly becomes ill and dies after eating his dinner at home.
Friday and Smith suspect a psycho killer when they find a woman with a broken neck in a hotel room.
Friday and Smith are torn between two suspects when a man reports that his wife has been strangled.
Friday and Smith investigate the report of a drug ring.
A woman reports her husband missing and Friday and Smith are assigned to find him.
Smith takes a personal interest when a strong-arm bandit threatens his family if he doesn't back off the case.
Friday and Smith track down a confidence ring who are selling defective watches.
A teenage boy steals food for his starving family.
Friday and Smith are on the trail of a gang that is robbing local drugstores.
In this episode, Edith Curtis (Virginia Brissac) contacts the police and calmly informs them that her son has been killed. Detectives Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are puzzled by the woman's calm demeanor and embark on an investigation into her troubled past in an attempt to uncover the truth.
A police rookie is accused of assaulting a citizen and stealing his money.
Friday and Smith investigate the murder of a girl who came to Los Angeles with a dream of being an actress.
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.
Joe and Frank investigate the murder of a man who has recently changed his will.
Friday and Smith try to capture a ring of truck hijackers.
Following an unknown tip, detectives Smith (Ben Alexander) and Friday (Jack Webb) investigate the death of a woman, Hazel Rockman. Her next-door neighbor and landlady offer contradictory and evasive evidence to her death, suggesting that she either took her own life or was murdered by her husband. Once the detectives establish the cause of Hazel's death, they must run against time to save her husband from committing suicide.
A cop is gunned down at home by a vengeful ex con. Friday must go under cover in prison to obtain a full confession.
Friday and Smith investigate a con man that marries rich women just for their money.
Doctors making house calls are being targeted by armed robbers posing as man and wife.
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.
Friday and Smith overhear a suspicious conversation while on a coffee break in a diner.
Friday and Smith investigate a woman found dead in her hotel room.
Friday and Smith catch a boy who has been vandalising private property, but they discover that the boy's problems begin at home.
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.
Ross is an actor on the way up, but then his girlfriend is found dead in his apartment. A suicide note is found, but things start to point to it being a homicide.
Signs point to foul play when a highway patrolman disappears from his car along a deserted road.
Sgt. Friday and Smith redoing to the report of 2 small children, going door-to-door, begging for ford. The catch? The kids are known as resident in a very tony neighbourhood, as living right next door.
An elderly couple suddenly disappears from a fashionable neighborhood.
A man posing as a doctor burgles the house of a woman who is mentally disturbed.
An elderly man appears to have killed himself with a rifle, but the cops soon learn that it was no accident.
Friday and Smith are surprised to find a wealthy house wife is a shoplifter, until they discover that she is a kleptomaniac.
A woman and her grandson are run down by a bakery truck, but the driver has an airtight alibi.
A woman is found dead in an empty lot. The body is discovered to belong to the wife of Mr. Ellis (Claude Akins). Detectives Smith (Ben Alexander) and Friday (Jack Webb) take on the task to find the facts behind the death. Mr. Ellis drowns himself in liquor as a way to drink down his sorrow. However, this behavior soon lands him in trouble as a suspect of the tragedy.
Friday and Smith hunt down the bandit queen; a tall, gorgeous woman who is on a rampage of robberies and shootings.
Friday and Smith investigate a corrupt cop.
An elderly woman is badly beaten and robbed while on her way to the bank. The trail leads to an ex-prize fighter.
A man's body is found in the gutter and the only clue is a pair of skid marks found nearby.
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.
A check forger is victimizing small businessmen in a particular neighborhood.
A man is beaten and robbed, then the thieves intimidate him and his family so he'll refuse to testify against them.
A single mother is stabbed to death in her home. The list of suspects includes her teenage son and her many boyfriends.
A store manager identifies a robbery suspect, but Friday and Smith think that the suspect is the wrong man.
A man claims to be a big Hollywood producer, but Friday and Smith discover that he's merely the leader of a pornography ring.
A group of con artists are posing as cops and victimizing out-of-town businessmen in fashionable hotels.
When two four year old twin girls turn up missing, Sgt. Friday and Officer Smith are called in. The girls are found, but were molested. The officers continue to investigate until they locate the perpetrator.
An old man and his granddaughter are burglarized, leaving them broke and starving.
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.
A holdup man is sticking up bars. After he takes the money he kills many of his victims. Sargeant Friday has few leads other than that the holdup man likes a certain song on the jukebox and likes to drink scotch and water.
Someone is burglarizing businesses but only taking part of the money and leaving an empty milk bottle. When officers Friday and Smith apprehend the young Elroy they discover he's not doing it for monetary reasons.
An attempt is made on the life of a gang leader. Friday and Smith must find the shooters before his followers seek revenge.
Friday and Smith must find the men who murdered a gang boss before an open gang war starts.
On New Year's Eve, Detectives Friday and Smith must investigate a cop killing.
Friday and Smith discover that the key to finding a hold-up artist lies in his married girlfriend.
A man locks himself in his study and threatens suicide if his wife leaves him.
Friday goes under cover to bust a drug ring that is operating out of a high-class hotel.
Friday and Smith are assigned to the business office, where they must deal with the paperwork on a busy weekend.
A pregnant woman is run down by teens out joyriding leaving Sgt Friday and his fellow officer Smith to track down those responsible. They find that kids are uncooperative, refusing to inform on their friends.
A group of bandits arm themselves and break their comrades out of jail.
Friday and Smith go after a burglar who plans to break into a bank through an underground tunnel.
Friday and Smith team up with a newspaper reporter so they can investigate television repairmen who may be overcharging their customers.
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.
An old man sits on his front porch with a shotgun, threatening to kill the man who poisoned his dog.
A woman's badly mutilated body is found in a churchyard on Christmas eve. The only clue is a key lying under her.
Friday and Smith go after a bandit who is robbing mailboxes and then trying to cash other people's checks.
A bartender's wife is kidnapped, beaten and rolled in hot tar.
A masked bandit is holding up supermarkets and the police are not able to catch him.
A con artist is swindling jewelers using fake diamonds.
The owner of a flower shop kills a man who is trying to rob him, but the corpse mysteriously vanishes.
Bandits are offering rides to hitch-hiking soldiers, then robbing and beating them.
Two hold-up men are robbing and beating pedestrians in the down town area.
A young woman is beaten to death with a led pipe and left in an empty office.
Joe and Frank try to find out who badly assaulted a woman in the street. Their two suspects are her husband and a mentally ill man. The woman can't help them because she is in a coma.
An organized gang of shoplifters is looting large department stores in the city.
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.
Friday and his partner Smith race against time to stop a series of brutal beatings of women in the Hollywood area. Just when they think they have their man, things change and very quickly.
A worried woman contacts Friday and Smith when her elderly mother mysteriously disappears and suspects her father of foul play, a suspicion that proves to be correct when blood is found at her old house.
Joe and Frank investigate a series of burglaries in new housing developments where the suspect's signature is the killing of pet birds.
A con man makes lonely women fall for his charms, then steals their money and disappears.
An elderly couple is brutally beaten and the trail leads police to a former handy man.
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. The search takes him to a former extra who has given up show business for crime.
A night club owner is shot down and there are no witnesses to the crime.
Friday and Smith happen to catch a man trying to sell a stolen ring at a pawn shop.
An anonymous note leads Friday and Smith to a group of teenage drug users and their neglectful parents.
During a quiet New Year's shift, Friday and Smith remember some of their past cases and why it is they became cops.
An elderly woman fakes a burglary report so she can get attention from the police and the media.
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.
A two-year-old child after drinking bleach from under the sink. Friday and Smith are unable to locate the mother for questioning.
A liquor store owner is shot and killed during a botched robbery, but police can find no trace of the fatal bullet.
Police find themselves in a stand-off when an armed bank robber takes a woman hostage in her home.
Friday and Smith hit a blank wall when a burglary suspect refuses to admit where he hid his stash.
A police officer is suspended from duty when he is accused of taking a bribe in exchange for a prisoner's release.
Two bandits turn cop killer when they gun down an off-duty policeman during a tavern hold-up.
An informant tips off police to a shipment of heroin coming into the country. Friday goes under cover to bust open the ring.
Friday and Smith attempt to solve a series of car thefts but are getting nowhere until they learn that the car thieves are selling the stolen cars illegally.
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.
A young man is found hiding in an empty train car with the strangled body of an older woman next to him.
A circus man reports that a tiger escaped from his truck and is now on the loose in Los Angeles.
A frightened wife tells Friday and Smith that she's worried her husband is planning to pull a hold-up.
A group of police women act as decoys to draw a stick-up man out into the open.
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.
A teenage boy under arrest admits to police that his brother is planning to rob a loan company.
A distraught father reports that his teenage daughter is missing, and things look more bleak when her murdered pet is discovered in her room.
A watch salesman reports that he was robbed by two men whom he drank with the night before.
A father works as a day burglar so he can buy presents for his kids, now living with his ex wife.
A woman reports that her husband has failed to come home after going out with is business partner.
A bandit carrying a sawed-off shotgun is robbing hotels in the down town area.
A howling dog leads to the unearthing of the battered body of an old woman in her garden.
Friday and Smith try to prove that a salvage yard operator is using his business to fix up stolen cars.
An auction house is held up and the only clue to the bandits lies in a dropped matchbook.
A bakery owner and his daughter are shot down during a robbery.
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.
An ex con called The Gentleman Bandit begins working again when he holds up a bank with two helpers.
Friday and Smith attempt to get ahold of the leaders of several street gangs in order to stop an approaching gang war.
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.
A con artist operating in the gentle swindle steals money from grieving relatives after their loved ones die.
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.
Friday and Smith must track a pair of escaped convicts across the Mexican border.
Two con artists are selling phony magazines subscriptions to unsuspecting suckers.
An elderly couple are beaten and robbed. The key to finding the bandits lies in a paper boy and an alert bartender.
A robber called ""The Rattlesnake Bandit"" takes pleasure in beating and shooting his victims after he takes their money.
A young girl commits suicide after she is tricked by a pair of movie talent scouts who are really operating a prostitution ring.
Cab drivers are being held up, but the descriptions given by the victims don't match.
A phony policeman, using the name of a deceased officer, confiscates the money of innocent citizens by telling them its counterfeit.
