Season 5

1955–1956

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E1. The Big Pipe

Sep 2, 1955 · 30m

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

Joe and Frank try to find out who badly assaulted a woman in the street. Their two suspects are her husband and a mentally ill man. The woman can't help them because she is in a coma.

E4. The Big Lift

Sep 23, 1955 · 30m

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

E5. The Big Confession

Sep 30, 1955 · 30m

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.

E6. The Big Gap

Oct 7, 1955 · 30m

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.

E7. The Big Look

Oct 14, 1955 · 30m

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

E8. The Big Glasses

Oct 21, 1955 · 30m

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.

E9. The Big Bird

Oct 28, 1955 · 30m

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

E10. The Big Laugh

Nov 4, 1955 · 30m

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

E11. The Big Smoke

Nov 11, 1955 · 30m

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

E12. The Big Bounce

Nov 18, 1955 · 30m

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.

E13. The Big Shot

Nov 25, 1955 · 30m

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

E14. The Big Locker

Dec 2, 1955 · 30m

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

E15. The Big Note

Dec 9, 1955 · 30m

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

E16. The Big Genius

Dec 16, 1955 · 30m

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

E17. The Big Reminisce

Dec 30, 1955 · 30m

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

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

E20. The Big Ruling

Jan 20, 1956 · 30m

E21. The Big Fall Guy

Jan 27, 1956 · 30m

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

E22. The Big Set

Feb 3, 1956 · 30m

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.

E23. The Big Child

Feb 10, 1956 · 30m

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

E24. The Big Slug

Feb 17, 1956 · 30m

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

E25. The Big Daughter

Feb 24, 1956 · 30m

Friday and Smith investigate a missing persons report.

E26. The Big No Suicide

Mar 2, 1956 · 30m

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

E27. The Big Siege

Mar 9, 1956 · 30m

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

E28. The Big Mama

Mar 16, 1956 · 30m

E29. The Big Revision

Mar 23, 1956 · 30m

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

E30. The Big Ex-Blonde

Mar 30, 1956 · 30m

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