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Season 5

39 episodes · 1955

  1. 1

    The Big Pipe

    Sep 2, 195530 min★ 7.4

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

  2. 2

    The Big Chet

    Sep 9, 195530 min★ 8.5

  3. 3

    The Big No Rain

    Sep 16, 195530 min★ 7.3

  4. 4

    The Big Lift

    Sep 23, 195530 min★ 7.4

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

  5. 5

    The Big Confession

    Sep 30, 195530 min★ 7.7

    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.

  6. 6

    The Big Gap

    Oct 7, 195530 min★ 7.4

    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.

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    The Big Look

    Oct 14, 195530 min★ 7.4

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

  8. 8

    The Big Glasses

    Oct 21, 195530 min★ 8.4

    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.

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    The Big Bird

    Oct 28, 195530 min★ 7.3

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

  10. 10

    The Big Laugh

    Nov 4, 195530 min

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

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    The Big Smoke

    Nov 11, 195530 min★ 8.0

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

  12. 12

    The Big Bounce

    Nov 18, 195530 min★ 8.4

    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.

  13. 13

    The Big Shot

    Nov 25, 195530 min

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

  14. 14

    The Big Locker

    Dec 2, 195530 min★ 7.0

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

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    The Big Note

    Dec 9, 195530 min★ 7.8

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

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    The Big Genius

    Dec 16, 195530 min

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

  17. 17

    The Big Reminisce

    Dec 30, 195530 min

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

  18. 18

    The Big Tour

    Jan 6, 195630 min

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    The Big Sisters

    Jan 13, 195630 min

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

  20. 20

    The Big Ruling

    Jan 20, 195630 min

  21. 21

    The Big Fall Guy

    Jan 27, 195630 min

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

  22. 22

    The Big Set

    Feb 3, 195630 min

    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.

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    The Big Child

    Feb 10, 195630 min

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

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    The Big Slug

    Feb 17, 195630 min

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

  25. 25

    The Big Daughter

    Feb 24, 195630 min

    Friday and Smith investigate a missing persons report.

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    The Big No Suicide

    Mar 2, 195630 min

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

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    The Big Siege

    Mar 9, 195630 min

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

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    The Big Mama

    Mar 16, 195630 min

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    The Big Revision

    Mar 23, 195630 min

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

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    The Big Ex-Blonde

    Mar 30, 195630 min

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

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    The Big Bobo

    Apr 6, 195630 min

    A police officer is suspended from duty when he is accused of taking a bribe in exchange for a prisoner's release.

  32. 32

    The Big Rush

    Apr 13, 195630 min

    Two bandits turn cop killer when they gun down an off-duty policeman during a tavern hold-up.

  33. 33

    The Big Setup

    Apr 20, 195630 min

    An informant tips off police to a shipment of heroin coming into the country. Friday goes under cover to bust open the ring.

  34. 34

    The Big Deal

    Apr 27, 195630 min★ 7.9

    Friday and Smith are investigating a rash of car thefts. The stolen cars are being sold with forged pink slips.

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    The Big Wish

    May 4, 195630 min★ 8.1

    A teenage boy turns himself in and confesses to being an addict, but he refuses to give up the names of his friends who supplied him.

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    The Big Hat

    May 11, 195630 min

    A young man is found hiding in an empty train car with the strangled body of an older woman next to him.

  37. 37

    The Big Housemaid

    May 18, 195630 min

  38. 38

    The Big Gift

    May 25, 195630 min★ 8.7

  39. 39

    The Big Salvage

    Jun 1, 195630 min