Season 4

1. The Big Producer

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

1954-08-26 • 30 min

2. The Big Fraud

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

1954-09-02 • 30 min

3. The Big Crime

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

1954-09-09 • 30 min

4. The Big Pair

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

1954-09-16 • 30 min

5. The Big Escape

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.

1954-09-23 • 30 min

6. The Big Kid

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.

1954-09-30 • 30 min

7. The Big Missing

Friday and Smith are looking for a missing businessman.

1954-10-07 • 30 min

8. The Big Bar

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.

1954-10-14 • 30 min

9. The Big Present

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.

1954-10-21 • 30 min

10. The Big Gangster (Part 1)

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

1954-10-28 • 30 min

11. The Big Gangster (Part 2)

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

1954-11-04 • 30 min

12. The Big New Years

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

1954-11-11 • 30 min

13. The Big Want Ad

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

1954-11-18 • 30 min

14. The Big Affair

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

1954-11-25 • 30 min

15. The Big Bible

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

1954-12-02 • 30 min

16. The Big Bindle

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

1954-12-09 • 30 min

17. The Big Office

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

1954-12-16 • 30 min

18. The Big Rod

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

1954-12-30 • 30 min

19. The Big Rescue

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

1955-01-06 • 30 min

20. The Big Family

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.

1955-01-13 • 30 min

21. The Big Shock

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

1955-01-20 • 30 min

22. The Big Screen

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

1955-01-27 • 30 min

23. The Big TV

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.

1955-02-03 • 30 min

24. The Big Dog

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

1955-02-10 • 30 min

25. The Big Underground

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

1955-02-17 • 30 min

26. The Big Key

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

1955-02-24 • 30 min

27. The Big Mailman

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

1955-03-03 • 30 min

28. The Big Customer

1955-03-10 • 30 min

29. The Big Tar Baby

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

1955-03-17 • 30 min

30. The Big Number

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

1955-03-24 • 30 min

31. The Big Mask

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

1955-03-31 • 30 min

32. The Big Sucker

A con artist is swindling jewelers using fake diamonds.

1955-04-07 • 30 min

33. The Big Moustache

Friday and Smith investigate the robbery of an appliance store.

1955-04-14 • 30 min

34. The Big Heel

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

1955-04-21 • 30 min

35. The Big Gone

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

1955-04-28 • 30 min

36. The Big Student

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

1955-05-05 • 30 min

37. The Big Watch

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

1955-05-12 • 30 min

38. The Big Dig

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

1955-05-19 • 30 min

39. The Big Mug

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

1955-05-26 • 30 min