Season 3

E1. The Big White Rat

Sep 3, 1953 · 30m

Friday and Smith respond to and investigate reports of a drug ring.

E2. The Big Revolt

Sep 10, 1953 · 30m

A woman reports her husband missing and Friday and Smith are assigned to find him.

E3. The Big Bull

Sep 17, 1953 · 30m

Smith takes a personal interest when a strong-arm bandit threatens his family if he doesn't back off the case.

E4. The Big Betty

Sep 24, 1953 · 30m

Friday and Smith track down a confidence ring who are selling defective watches.

E5. The Big Sophomore

Oct 1, 1953 · 30m

A teenage boy steals food for his starving family.

E6. The Big Pill

Oct 8, 1953 · 30m

Friday and Smith are on the trail of a gang that is robbing local drugstores.

E7. The Big Lie

Oct 15, 1953 · 30m

In this episode, Edith Curtis (Virginia Brissac) contacts the police and calmly informs them that her son has been killed. Detectives Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are puzzled by the woman's calm demeanor and embark on an investigation into her troubled past in an attempt to uncover the truth.

E8. The Big Fake

Oct 22, 1953 · 30m

A police rookie is accused of assaulting a citizen and stealing his money.

E9. The Big Dream

Oct 29, 1953 · 30m

Friday and Smith investigate the murder of a girl who came to Los Angeles with a dream of being an actress.

E10. The Big Guilt

Nov 5, 1953 · 30m

A man is found dead in an alley and it's up to Friday and Smith to find his killer and notify the man's wife.

E11. The Big Will

Nov 12, 1953 · 30m

Friday and Smith investigate the murder of a rich man.

E12. The Big In-Laws

Nov 19, 1953 · 30m

Friday and Smith try to capture a ring of truck hijackers.

E13. The Big Lilly

Nov 26, 1953 · 30m

Following an unknown tip, detectives Smith (Ben Alexander) and Friday (Jack Webb) investigate the death of a woman, Hazel Rockman. Her next-door neighbor and landlady offer contradictory and evasive evidence to her death, suggesting that she either took her own life or was murdered by her husband. Once the detectives establish the cause of Hazel's death, they must run against time to save her husband from committing suicide.

E14. The Big Kill

Dec 3, 1953 · 30m

A cop is gunned down at home by a vengeful ex con. Friday must go under cover in prison to obtain a full confession.

E15. The Big Lover

Dec 10, 1953 · 30m

Friday and Smith investigate a con man that marries rich women just for their money.

E16. The Big Thief

Dec 17, 1953 · 30m

Robbers phone doctors for house calls then assault them and steal their drugs.

E17. The Big Little Jesus

Dec 24, 1953 · 30m

A statue of the Child Jesus is stolen from a church. Friday and Smith must find it before the paritioners miss it on Christmas morning.

E18. The Big Eavesdrop

Dec 31, 1953 · 30m

Friday and Smith overhear a suspicious conversation while on a coffee break in a diner.

E19. The Big Trunk

Jan 7, 1954 · 30m

Three men are taken into custody for the murder of a former vaudeville actress who owned a large steamer trunk. The three men maintain innocence.

E20. The Big Youngster

Jan 14, 1954 · 30m

Friday and Smith catch a boy who has been vandalising private property, but they discover that the boy's problems begin at home.

E21. The Big Boys

Jan 21, 1954 · 30m

The cops must stake out a hotel lobby and deal with a drunken desk clerk as they wait for four juvenile armed robbers to show up.

E22. The Big Ham

Jan 28, 1954 · 30m

Friday and Smith investigate the death of a young girl that is initially ruled a suicide but turns out to be murder.

E23. The Big Chance

Feb 4, 1954 · 30m

Signs point to foul play when a highway patrolman disappears from his car along a deserted road.

E24. The Big Children

Feb 11, 1954 · 30m

Three children are found abandoned, filthy and starving. Friday and Smith charge the mother with neglect.

E25. The Big Poison

Feb 18, 1954 · 30m

An elderly couple suddenly disappears from a fashionable neighborhood.

E26. The Big Quack

Feb 25, 1954 · 30m

A man posing as a doctor burgles the house of a woman who is mentally disturbed.

E27. The Big Winchester

Mar 4, 1954 · 30m

An elderly man appears to have killed himself with a rifle, but the cops soon learn that it was no accident.

E28. The Big Shoplift

Mar 11, 1954 · 30m

Friday and Smith are surprised to find a wealthy house wife is a shoplifter, until they discover that she is a kleptomaniac.

E29. The Big Hit-Run Killer

Mar 18, 1954 · 30m

A woman and her grandson are run down by a bakery truck, but the driver has an airtight alibi.

E30. The Big Drink

Mar 25, 1954 · 30m

A woman is found dead in an empty lot. The body is discovered to belong to the wife of Mr. Ellis (Claude Akins). Detectives Smith (Ben Alexander) and Friday (Jack Webb) take on the task to find the facts behind the death. Mr. Ellis drowns himself in liquor as a way to drink down his sorrow. However, this behavior soon lands him in trouble as a suspect of the tragedy.