The Big Producer

S04 E01 • Thursday, Aug 26, 1954 • Aug 26 • 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.

The Big Fraud

S04 E02 • Thursday, Sep 2, 1954 • Sep 2 • 30m

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

The Big Crime

S04 E03 • Thursday, Sep 9, 1954 • Sep 9 • 30m

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

The Big Pair

S04 E04 • Thursday, Sep 16, 1954 • Sep 16 • 30m

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

The Big Escape

S04 E05 • Thursday, Sep 23, 1954 • Sep 23 • 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.

The Big Kid

S04 E06 • Thursday, Sep 30, 1954 • Sep 30 • 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.

The Big Missing

S04 E07 • Thursday, Oct 7, 1954 • Oct 7 • 30m

Friday and Smith are looking for a missing businessman.

The Big Bar

S04 E08 • Thursday, Oct 14, 1954 • Oct 14 • 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.

The Big Present

S04 E09 • Thursday, Oct 21, 1954 • Oct 21 • 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.

The Big Gangster (Part 1)

S04 E10 • Thursday, Oct 28, 1954 • Oct 28 • 30m

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

The Big Gangster (Part 2)

S04 E11 • Thursday, Nov 4, 1954 • Nov 4 • 30m

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

The Big New Years

S04 E12 • Thursday, Nov 11, 1954 • Nov 11 • 30m

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

The Big Want Ad

S04 E13 • Thursday, Nov 18, 1954 • Nov 18 • 30m

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

The Big Affair

S04 E14 • Thursday, Nov 25, 1954 • Nov 25 • 30m

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

The Big Bible

S04 E15 • Thursday, Dec 2, 1954 • Dec 2 • 30m

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

The Big Bindle

S04 E16 • Thursday, Dec 9, 1954 • Dec 9 • 30m

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

The Big Office

S04 E17 • Thursday, Dec 16, 1954 • Dec 16 • 30m

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

The Big Rod

S04 E18 • Thursday, Dec 30, 1954 • Dec 30 • 30m

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

The Big Rescue

S04 E19 • Thursday, Jan 6, 1955 • Jan 6 • 30m

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

The Big Family

S04 E20 • Thursday, Jan 13, 1955 • Jan 13 • 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.

The Big Shock

S04 E21 • Thursday, Jan 20, 1955 • Jan 20 • 30m

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

The Big Screen

S04 E22 • Thursday, Jan 27, 1955 • Jan 27 • 30m

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

The Big TV

S04 E23 • Thursday, Feb 3, 1955 • Feb 3 • 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.

The Big Dog

S04 E24 • Thursday, Feb 10, 1955 • Feb 10 • 30m

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

The Big Underground

S04 E25 • Thursday, Feb 17, 1955 • Feb 17 • 30m

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

The Big Key

S04 E26 • Thursday, Feb 24, 1955 • Feb 24 • 30m

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

The Big Mailman

S04 E27 • Thursday, Mar 3, 1955 • Mar 3 • 30m

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

The Big Customer

S04 E28 • Thursday, Mar 10, 1955 • Mar 10 • 30m

The Big Tar Baby

S04 E29 • Thursday, Mar 17, 1955 • Mar 17 • 30m

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

The Big Number

S04 E30 • Thursday, Mar 24, 1955 • Mar 24 • 30m

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

The Big Mask

S04 E31 • Thursday, Mar 31, 1955 • Mar 31 • 30m

A masked bandit is holding up supermarkets and the police are not able to catch him.

The Big Sucker

S04 E32 • Thursday, Apr 7, 1955 • Apr 7 • 30m

A con artist is swindling jewelers using fake diamonds.

The Big Moustache

S04 E33 • Thursday, Apr 14, 1955 • Apr 14 • 30m

Friday and Smith investigate the robbery of an appliance store.

The Big Heel

S04 E34 • Thursday, Apr 21, 1955 • Apr 21 • 30m

Friday and Smith use an unusual footprint to help solve a murder case.

The Big Gone

S04 E35 • Thursday, Apr 28, 1955 • Apr 28 • 30m

The owner of a flower shop kills a man who is trying to rob him, but the corpse mysteriously vanishes.

The Big Student

S04 E36 • Thursday, May 5, 1955 • May 5 • 30m

Friday and Smith are on the trail of a bunch of teenagers selling fake magazine subscriptions.

The Big Watch

S04 E37 • Thursday, May 12, 1955 • May 12 • 30m

Bandits are offering rides to hitch-hiking soldiers, then robbing and beating them.

The Big Dig

S04 E38 • Thursday, May 19, 1955 • May 19 • 30m

Friday and Smith are looking into a report of a missing woman that turns into a murder investigation.

The Big Mug

S04 E39 • Thursday, May 26, 1955 • May 26 • 30m

Two hold-up men are robbing and beating pedestrians in the down town area.