Season 5

1. The Big Pipe

A young woman is beaten to death with a led pipe and left in an empty office.

1955-09-02 • 30 min

2. The Big Chet

1955-09-09 • 30 min

3. The Big No Rain

1955-09-16 • 30 min

4. The Big Lift

An organized gang of shoplifters is looting large department stores in the city.

1955-09-23 • 30 min

5. The Big Confession

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.

1955-09-30 • 30 min

6. The Big Gap

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.

1955-10-07 • 30 min

7. The Big Look

A woman is dragged from her home and badly beaten by an unknown attacker.

1955-10-14 • 30 min

8. The Big Glasses

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.

1955-10-21 • 30 min

9. The Big Bird

Sgt. Friday investigates a robber who only targets pet stores and homes that have pet birds.

1955-10-28 • 30 min

10. The Big Laugh

A con man makes lonely women fall for his charms, then steals their money and disappears.

1955-11-04 • 30 min

11. The Big Smoke

An elderly couple is brutally beaten and the trail leads police to a former handy man.

1955-11-11 • 30 min

12. The Big Bounce

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.

1955-11-18 • 30 min

13. The Big Shot

A night club owner is shot down and there are no witnesses to the crime.

1955-11-25 • 30 min

14. The Big Locker

Friday and Smith happen to catch a man trying to sell a stolen ring at a pawn shop.

1955-12-02 • 30 min

15. The Big Note

An anonymous note leads Friday and Smith to a group of teenage drug users and their neglectful parents.

1955-12-09 • 30 min

16. The Big Genius

Friday and Smith investigate what seems to be the perfect crime.

1955-12-16 • 30 min

17. The Big Reminisce

During a quiet New Year's shift, Friday and Smith remember some of their past cases and why it is they became cops.

1955-12-30 • 30 min

18. The Big Tour

1956-01-06 • 30 min

19. The Big Sisters

An elderly woman fakes a burglary report so she can get attention from the police and the media.

1956-01-13 • 30 min

20. The Big Ruling

1956-01-20 • 30 min

21. The Big Fall Guy

Friday and Smith are on the trail of a robbery suspect that has robbed two stores.

1956-01-27 • 30 min

22. The Big Set

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.

1956-02-03 • 30 min

23. The Big Child

A two-year-old child after drinking bleach from under the sink. Friday and Smith are unable to locate the mother for questioning.

1956-02-10 • 30 min

24. The Big Slug

A liquor store owner is shot and killed during a botched robbery, but police can find no trace of the fatal bullet.

1956-02-17 • 30 min

25. The Big Daughter

Friday and Smith investigate a missing persons report.

1956-02-24 • 30 min

26. The Big No Suicide

Friday gets a call from a former mental patient who is threatening to kill himself and his family.

1956-03-02 • 30 min

27. The Big Siege

Police find themselves in a stand-off when an armed bank robber takes a woman hostage in her home.

1956-03-09 • 30 min

28. The Big Mama

1956-03-16 • 30 min

29. The Big Revision

Friday and Smith hit a blank wall when a burglary suspect refuses to admit where he hid his stash.

1956-03-23 • 30 min

30. The Big Ex-Blonde

Friday goes undercover to catch brothers who steal people's money by posing as real-estate agents.

1956-03-30 • 30 min

31. The Big Bobo

A police officer is suspended from duty when he is accused of taking a bribe in exchange for a prisoner's release.

1956-04-06 • 30 min

32. The Big Rush

Two bandits turn cop killer when they gun down an off-duty policeman during a tavern hold-up.

1956-04-13 • 30 min

33. The Big Setup

An informant tips off police to a shipment of heroin coming into the country. Friday goes under cover to bust open the ring.

1956-04-20 • 30 min

34. The Big Deal

Friday and Smith are investigating a rash of car thefts. The stolen cars are being sold with forged pink slips.

1956-04-27 • 30 min

35. The Big Wish

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.

1956-05-04 • 30 min

36. The Big Hat

A young man is found hiding in an empty train car with the strangled body of an older woman next to him.

1956-05-11 • 30 min

37. The Big Housemaid

1956-05-18 • 30 min

38. The Big Gift

1956-05-25 • 30 min

39. The Big Salvage

1956-06-01 • 30 min