Seasons & episodes
S5 · E1The Big Pipe 1955-09-02 · 30 min
A young woman is beaten to death with a led pipe and left in an empty office.
S5 · E2The Big Chet 1955-09-09 · 30 min
No episode summary available yet.
S5 · E3The Big No Rain 1955-09-16 · 30 min
No episode summary available yet.
S5 · E4The Big Lift 1955-09-23 · 30 min
An organized gang of shoplifters is looting large department stores in the city.
S5 · E5The Big Confession 1955-09-30 · 30 min
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.
S5 · E6The Big Gap 1955-10-07 · 30 min
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.
S5 · E7The Big Look 1955-10-14 · 30 min
A woman is dragged from her home and badly beaten by an unknown attacker.
S5 · E8The Big Glasses 1955-10-21 · 30 min
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.
S5 · E9The Big Bird 1955-10-28 · 30 min
Sgt. Friday investigates a robber who only targets pet stores and homes that have pet birds.
S5 · E10The Big Laugh 1955-11-04 · 30 min
A con man makes lonely women fall for his charms, then steals their money and disappears.
S5 · E11The Big Smoke 1955-11-11 · 30 min
An elderly couple is brutally beaten and the trail leads police to a former handy man.
S5 · E12The Big Bounce 1955-11-18 · 30 min
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.
S5 · E13The Big Shot 1955-11-25 · 30 min
A night club owner is shot down and there are no witnesses to the crime.
S5 · E14The Big Locker 1955-12-02 · 30 min
Friday and Smith happen to catch a man trying to sell a stolen ring at a pawn shop.
S5 · E15The Big Note 1955-12-09 · 30 min
An anonymous note leads Friday and Smith to a group of teenage drug users and their neglectful parents.
S5 · E16The Big Genius 1955-12-16 · 30 min
Friday and Smith investigate what seems to be the perfect crime.
S5 · E17The Big Reminisce 1955-12-30 · 30 min
During a quiet New Year's shift, Friday and Smith remember some of their past cases and why it is they became cops.
S5 · E18The Big Tour 1956-01-06 · 30 min
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S5 · E19The Big Sisters 1956-01-13 · 30 min
An elderly woman fakes a burglary report so she can get attention from the police and the media.
S5 · E20The Big Ruling 1956-01-20 · 30 min
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S5 · E21The Big Fall Guy 1956-01-27 · 30 min
Friday and Smith are on the trail of a robbery suspect that has robbed two stores.
S5 · E22The Big Set 1956-02-03 · 30 min
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.
S5 · E23The Big Child 1956-02-10 · 30 min
A two-year-old child after drinking bleach from under the sink. Friday and Smith are unable to locate the mother for questioning.
S5 · E24The Big Slug 1956-02-17 · 30 min
A liquor store owner is shot and killed during a botched robbery, but police can find no trace of the fatal bullet.