Seasons & episodes
S4 · E1The Big Producer 1954-08-26 · 30 min
A man claims to be a big Hollywood producer, but Friday and Smith discover that he's merely the leader of a pornography ring.
S4 · E2The Big Fraud 1954-09-02 · 30 min
A group of con artists are posing as cops and victimizing out-of-town businessmen in fashionable hotels.
S4 · E3The Big Crime 1954-09-09 · 30 min
Four-year-old twin girls are abducted from the local park.
S4 · E4The Big Pair 1954-09-16 · 30 min
An old man and his granddaughter are burglarized, leaving them broke and starving.
S4 · E5The Big Escape 1954-09-23 · 30 min
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.
S4 · E6The Big Kid 1954-09-30 · 30 min
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.
S4 · E7The Big Missing 1954-10-07 · 30 min
Friday and Smith are looking for a missing businessman.
S4 · E8The Big Bar 1954-10-14 · 30 min
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.
S4 · E9The Big Present 1954-10-21 · 30 min
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.
S4 · E10The Big Gangster (Part 1) 1954-10-28 · 30 min
An attempt is made on the life of a gang leader. Friday and Smith must find the shooters before his followers seek revenge.
S4 · E11The Big Gangster (Part 2) 1954-11-04 · 30 min
Friday and Smith must find the men who murdered a gang boss before an open gang war starts.
S4 · E12The Big New Years 1954-11-11 · 30 min
On New Year's Eve, Friday and Smith are working out of Central Receiving Hospital.
S4 · E13The Big Want Ad 1954-11-18 · 30 min
Friday and Smith investigate a man who is conning people by using the want ads.
S4 · E14The Big Affair 1954-11-25 · 30 min
Friday and Smith discover that the key to finding a hold-up artist lies in his married girlfriend.
S4 · E15The Big Bible 1954-12-02 · 30 min
A man locks himself in his study and threatens suicide if his wife leaves him.
S4 · E16The Big Bindle 1954-12-09 · 30 min
Friday goes under cover to bust a drug ring that is operating out of a high-class hotel.
S4 · E17The Big Office 1954-12-16 · 30 min
Friday and Smith are assigned to the business office, where they must deal with the paperwork on a busy weekend.
S4 · E18The Big Rod 1954-12-30 · 30 min
An expectant mother is run down and killed by two teenagers in a hot rod.
S4 · E19The Big Rescue 1955-01-06 · 30 min
A group of bandits arm themselves and break their comrades out of jail.
S4 · E20The Big Family 1955-01-13 · 30 min
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.
S4 · E21The Big Shock 1955-01-20 · 30 min
Friday and Smith go after a burglar who plans to break into a bank through an underground tunnel.
S4 · E22The Big Screen 1955-01-27 · 30 min
Friday and Smith team up with a newspaper reporter so they can investigate television repairmen who may be overcharging their customers.
S4 · E23The Big TV 1955-02-03 · 30 min
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.
S4 · E24The Big Dog 1955-02-10 · 30 min
An old man sits on his front porch with a shotgun, threatening to kill the man who poisoned his dog.