Seasons & episodes
S2 · E11The Big Show 1953-01-22 · 30 min
A seven-week-old baby is found abandoned in a bus station.
S2 · E12The Big Safe 1953-01-29 · 30 min
Friday and Smith are investigating a missing office safe.
S2 · E13The Big Church 1953-02-05 · 30 min
A woman receives threatening letters from an unknown stalker.
S2 · E14The Big Hate 1953-02-12 · 30 min
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.
S2 · E15The Big Shakedown 1953-02-20 · 30 min
Friday is looking for a crooked cop.
S2 · E16The Big Rose 1953-02-26 · 30 min
Friday and Smith are looking for a missing woman that left her three children with her sister.
S2 · E17The Big Building 1953-03-05 · 30 min
A prominent dentist denies that his wife is missing, but Friday and Smith can find no trace of her.
S2 · E18The Big Run 1953-03-12 · 30 min
Two elderly women are struck down by a hit-and-run driver.
S2 · E19The Big Break 1953-03-19 · 30 min
Friday and Smith track down an escaped convict who is armed and dangerous.
S2 · E20The Big Light 1953-03-26 · 30 min
Friday and Smith must decide between accident or murder when a crewman working on a movie set is killed by a falling light.
S2 · E21The Big Waiter 1953-04-02 · 30 min
An immigrant is brutally beaten to death and the trail may lead to the victim's abused wife.
S2 · E22The Big Test 1953-04-09 · 30 min
A young man reports that he was robbed by bandits on horseback while he was down in Mexico.
S2 · E23The Big Lay-Out 1953-04-16 · 30 min
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.
S2 · E24The Big Fire 1953-04-23 · 30 min
A land lord begins threatening his tenants so he can force them to move out of his building.
S2 · E25The Big Ray 1953-04-30 · 30 min
A man suddenly becomes ill and dies after eating his dinner at home.
S2 · E26The Big Frank 1953-05-07 · 30 min
While investigating a routine robbery with Friday, Smith suffers a critical gunshot wound. Sergeant Friday is out for vengeance.
S2 · E27The Big Lease 1953-05-14 · 30 min
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.
S2 · E28The Big Hands 1953-05-21 · 30 min
Friday and Smith suspect a psycho killer when they find a woman with a broken neck in a hotel room.
S2 · E29The Big Fourth 1953-05-28 · 30 min
Several babies are stolen in the city.
S2 · E30The Big Market 1953-06-04 · 30 min
A bandit starts robbing people at local markets.
S2 · E31The Big Friend 1953-06-11 · 30 min
Friday and Smith are torn between two suspects when a man reports that his wife has been strangled.
S2 · E32The Big Barrette 1953-06-18 · 30 min
Friday and Smith search for the brutal killer of a 21-year-old woman.
S2 · E33The Big Dance 1953-06-25 · 30 min
Friday and Smith are looking for two thugs that seem to have disappeared from the city.
S3 · E1The Big White Rat 1953-09-03 · 30 min
Friday and Smith respond to and investigate reports of a drug ring.