Season 4

E1. The Big Producer

Aug 26, 1954 · 30m

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

E2. The Big Fraud

Sep 2, 1954 · 30m

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

E3. The Big Crime

Sep 9, 1954 · 30m

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

E4. The Big Pair

Sep 16, 1954 · 30m

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

E5. The Big Escape

Sep 23, 1954 · 30m

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.

E6. The Big Kid

Sep 30, 1954 · 30m

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.

E7. The Big Missing

Oct 7, 1954 · 30m

Friday and Smith are looking for a missing businessman.

E8. The Big Bar

Oct 14, 1954 · 30m

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.

E9. The Big Present

Oct 21, 1954 · 30m

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.

E10. The Big Gangster (Part 1)

Oct 28, 1954 · 30m

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

E11. The Big Gangster (Part 2)

Nov 4, 1954 · 30m

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

E12. The Big New Years

Nov 11, 1954 · 30m

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

E13. The Big Want Ad

Nov 18, 1954 · 30m

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

E14. The Big Affair

Nov 25, 1954 · 30m

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

E15. The Big Bible

Dec 2, 1954 · 30m

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

E16. The Big Bindle

Dec 9, 1954 · 30m

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

E17. The Big Office

Dec 16, 1954 · 30m

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

E18. The Big Rod

Dec 30, 1954 · 30m

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

E19. The Big Rescue

Jan 6, 1955 · 30m

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

E20. The Big Family

Jan 13, 1955 · 30m

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.

E21. The Big Shock

Jan 20, 1955 · 30m

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

E22. The Big Screen

Jan 27, 1955 · 30m

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

E23. The Big TV

Feb 3, 1955 · 30m

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.

E24. The Big Dog

Feb 10, 1955 · 30m

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

E25. The Big Underground

Feb 17, 1955 · 30m

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

E26. The Big Key

Feb 24, 1955 · 30m

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

E27. The Big Mailman

Mar 3, 1955 · 30m

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

E28. The Big Customer

Mar 10, 1955 · 30m

E29. The Big Tar Baby

Mar 17, 1955 · 30m

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

E30. The Big Number

Mar 24, 1955 · 30m

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