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Season 5
September 2, 1955

Season 5

01. The Big Pipe

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

30min
September 2, 1955

02. The Big Chet

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30min
September 9, 1955

03. The Big No Rain

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30min
September 16, 1955

04. The Big Lift

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

30min
September 23, 1955

05. The Big Confession

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.

30min
September 30, 1955

06. The Big Gap

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.

30min
October 7, 1955

07. The Big Look

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

30min
October 14, 1955

08. The Big Glasses

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.

30min
October 21, 1955

09. The Big Bird

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

30min
October 28, 1955

10. The Big Laugh

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

30min
November 4, 1955

11. The Big Smoke

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

30min
November 11, 1955

12. The Big Bounce

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.

30min
November 18, 1955

13. The Big Shot

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

30min
November 25, 1955

14. The Big Locker

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

30min
December 2, 1955

15. The Big Note

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

30min
December 9, 1955

16. The Big Genius

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

30min
December 16, 1955

17. The Big Reminisce

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

30min
December 30, 1955

18. The Big Tour

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30min
January 6, 1956

19. The Big Sisters

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

30min
January 13, 1956

20. The Big Ruling

No details

30min
January 20, 1956

21. The Big Fall Guy

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

30min
January 27, 1956

22. The Big Set

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.

30min
February 3, 1956

23. The Big Child

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

30min
February 10, 1956

24. The Big Slug

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

30min
February 17, 1956

25. The Big Daughter

Friday and Smith investigate a missing persons report.

30min
February 24, 1956

26. The Big No Suicide

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

30min
March 2, 1956

27. The Big Siege

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

30min
March 9, 1956

28. The Big Mama

No details

30min
March 16, 1956

29. The Big Revision

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

30min
March 23, 1956

30. The Big Ex-Blonde

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

30min
March 30, 1956

31. The Big Bobo

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

30min
April 6, 1956

32. The Big Rush

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

30min
April 13, 1956

33. The Big Setup

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

30min
April 20, 1956

34. The Big Deal

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

30min
April 27, 1956

35. The Big Wish

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.

30min
May 4, 1956

36. The Big Hat

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

30min
May 11, 1956

37. The Big Housemaid

No details

30min
May 18, 1956

38. The Big Gift

No details

30min
May 25, 1956

39. The Big Salvage

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30min
June 1, 1956