Friday tries to track down a recently acquitted burglar who has been cracking safes.

S01E14 The Big Lamp

Bearing a grudge against the city of Los Angeles, an ex-con wants to blow up city hall unless his demands are met. Only Sergeant Friday has the ability to stop this terrorist attack after discovering dynamite in his apartment.?

S01E01 The Human Bomb

Season 1

Friday and Smith are faced with a lack of clues, except for a matchbook, when trying to track down some brutal thieves.

S02E33 The Big Dance

Friday and Smith investigate the suspicious death of a woman. With no leads or clues and no idea of who she is, they must start from scratch to find her killer.

S02E28 The Big Hands

The apparent suicide of a wealthy man is suspicious, so Smith and Friday investigate. Things point to a long vacation until the story of Mrs. Banner, who rented the man's house, doesn't add up.

S02E27 The Big Lease

Friday leads a team of officers in a raid on the home of a dangerous armed robber, which ends in a bloody shootout.

S02E19 The Big Break

Gordon Miller, a young pianist, is found near an abandoned freight car, holding the dead body of a woman in his arms. Friday and Smith question him after he claims to have murdered her, but they remain skeptical. 

S02E14 The Big Hate

When a lady reports an abandoned baby at a bus depot, officers Friday and Smith investigate, and realise that her story doesn't quite hold up.

S02E11 The Big Show

Tragedy ensues when a young boy is given a gun as a Christmas present.

S02E07 The Big .22 Rifle for Christmas

Just hours after the unexpected death of his partner Ben Romero, Friday must set aside his emotions to assist in the capture of two desperate escaped convicts on their way to Los Angeles.

S02E02 The Big Sorrow

A man threatens to jump to his death from a 9th-floor window ledge by ten o'clock.

S02E01 The Big Jump

Season 2

Friday questions a gardener who has been arrested for holding up a grocery store. During the interrogation, Friday begins to have doubts about the man's guilt and sets out to discover why he has confessed to a crime he believes he didn't commit.

S03E39 The Big FalMake

A man is found dead in the gutter. At first it seems like a hit-and-run case, but Friday and Smith become suspicious when all witnesses from the night before give exactly the same story.

S03E34 The Big Frame

Friday is looking for a delivery truck that was involved in a hit-and-run homicide. The owner of the truck asserts that he let a man named Paul lend the truck for one hour, but he doesn't know the last name of this man or where he lives.

S03E29 The Big Hit-Run Killer

Friday suspects a mentally unstable woman after an investigation into a shoplifting spree. 

S03E28 The Big Shoplift

An elderly man apparently commits suicide by shooting himself with a rifle, but Friday and Smith soon discover that it was actually a homicide.

S03E27 The Big Winchester

A gang of robbers is luring Los Angeles doctors to hotels and robbing them of drugs and valuables. Sargeants Friday and Smith are called in to put a stop to this.

S03E16 The Big Thief

A gang of con artists peruses the obituary section of the daily newspaper in order to exploit it in infuriating ways. They use the information they gather to prey on the grief-stricken families of those who have recently died.

S03E04 The Big Betty

Season 3

Friday enlists the help of a bank security guard to catch a robber.

S04E30 The Big Number

A man calls to report that his wife has been kidnapped. Friday and Smith go to his place, but he has changed his mind. When the wife is discovered in a hospital, battered and tarred, the husband is nowhere to be found.

S04E29 The Big Tar Baby

A businessman vanishes, leaving two bullets and a suicide note. Friday and Smith, working homicide and missing persons detail, begin their search for the man.

S04E20 The Big Family

Friday and Smith work out of Central Receiving Hospital on New Year's Eve to investigate a cop killing.

S04E12 The Big New Year

Friday, Smith and newly married Sergeant Austin investigate a string of robberies taking place when people are on vacation. They track some of the property and learn of a moving van that appears at the empty houses.

S04E04 The Big Pair

When two four-year-old twin girls turn up missing, Sgt. Friday and Officer Smith are called in. The girls have been found, but they have been abused. The officers continue to investigate until they locate the perpetrator.

S04E03 The Big Crime

Friday investigates a case of obscene literature being sold to children in public schools.

S04E01 The Big Producer

Season 4

Friday and Smith are assigned to investigate a string of car thefts, but they struggle to make any progress. Their breakthrough comes when they discover that the thieves are selling the stolen vehicles through an illegal underground operation.

S05E34 The Big Deal

Friday and Smith investigate burglars in a new housing development who kill pet birds.

S05E09 The Big Bird

A man was duped out of his $1,500 life savings by a common bunco scam that substituted jewellery for cash

S05E06 The Big Gap

Season 5

Friday and Smith must hunt for a man who beats and robs women.

S06E04 The Big Net

Season 6

Friday and Smith try to prevent a teenage gang war. They go after one of the leaders, but his mother is convinced he is blameless.

S07E28 The Big War

Season 7

The detectives receive a report of valuables stolen from the home of a somewhat eccentric old lady. They begin to suspect something is amiss when she talks about how she gets the "scoop" on crimes by being the first to report them to the local newspaper.

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