Dragnet

Dec 16, 1951

A man walks into City hall carrying a live bomb. He threatens to blow up the building if his brother isn't released from jail.

Jan 03, 1952

Friday and Jacobs track down a drug ring through a small-time television actor who is hooked on heroin.

Jan 17, 1952

Friday poses as a hired killer for a man who wants his wife dead.

Jan 31, 1952

A new-born baby is stolen from a hospital nursery and the trail leads the police to a deranged mother.

Feb 14, 1952

The police interrogate a suspect whom they believe to have murdered more than a dozen men.

Feb 28, 1952

A doctor is beaten and robbed of prescription drugs.

Mar 13, 1952

A couple are robbed and murdered, along with their pet parrot. The killer uses a time bomb to start a fire and cover up his crime.

Mar 27, 1952

Apr 10, 1952

A divorced mother is killed in bed by a shotgun while her young boy sleeps beside her.

Apr 24, 1952

Friday testifies at the trial of a man accused of a hit-and-run, but the main witness against him suddenly disappears.

May 08, 1952

A secretary is beaten to death and the search for the killer leads police to a religious fanatic.

May 22, 1952

Friday confronts a jeweler with tape recorded evidence that proves he hired someone to rob his own store.

Jun 05, 1952

A man claims that his wife committed suicide right in front of him, but the evidence suggests otherwise.

Jun 19, 1952

Friday and Jacobs are out to catch a safe burglar who has been on the loose for seven months.

Sep 11, 1952

A man stands upon the ledge of a tall building and threatens to jump to his death below.

Sep 25, 1952

Friday must cope with the sudden death of his partner as he and his new partner track a pair of escaped convicts.

Oct 09, 1952

Friday and Smith search for the person who left a dead woman in a hospital elevator.

Nov 06, 1952

Friday and Smith investigate a group of teenagers who are using and selling drugs.

Nov 20, 1952

Friday and Smith investigate three traffic accidents in one night.

Dec 04, 1952

A missing young boy is found and returned to his grandfather, but the case gets complicated when the grandfather suspects that the boy is not his own grandson.

Dec 18, 1952

Two small boys are missing, there are blood stains on the ground and a gun meant as a Christmas present is gone.

Jan 02, 1953

Friday has to catch a bad cop who has been dealing with the mob.

Jan 08, 1953

An elderly woman is passing bad checks, but no one suspects her because she looks harmless.

Jan 15, 1953

A woman is murdered when she is given an overdose of chloroform.

Jan 22, 1953

A seven-week-old baby is found abandoned in a bus station.

Jan 29, 1953

Friday and Smith are investigating a missing office safe.

Feb 05, 1953

A woman receives threatening letters from an unknown stalker.

Feb 12, 1953

Gordon Miller, a young pianist, is found near an abandoned freight car holding the dead body of a woman in his arms. He claims he has killed her.

Feb 20, 1953

Friday is looking for a crooked cop.

Feb 26, 1953

Friday and Smith are looking for a missing woman that left her three children with her sister.

Mar 05, 1953

A prominent dentist denies that his wife is missing, but Friday and Smith can find no trace of her.

Mar 12, 1953

Two elderly women are struck down by a hit-and-run driver.

Mar 19, 1953

Friday and Smith track down an escaped convict who is armed and dangerous.

Mar 26, 1953

Friday and Smith must decide between accident or murder when a crewman working on a movie set is killed by a falling light.

Apr 02, 1953

An immigrant is brutally beaten to death and the trail may lead to the victim's abused wife.

Apr 09, 1953

A young man reports that he was robbed by bandits on horseback while he was down in Mexico.

Apr 16, 1953

A friend of Friday's asks him for help when he discovers that his son has been using drugs, and may be selling them as well.

Apr 23, 1953

A land lord begins threatening his tenants so he can force them to move out of his building.

Apr 30, 1953

A man suddenly becomes ill and dies after eating his dinner at home.

May 07, 1953

While investigating a routine robbery with Friday, Smith suffers a critical gunshot wound. Sergeant Friday is out for vengeance.

May 14, 1953

An elderly widower is missing, so Friday and Smith retrace his actions before his disappearance. Things point to a long vacation until the story of Mrs. Banner, who rented the man's house, doesn't add up.

May 21, 1953

Friday and Smith suspect a psycho killer when they find a woman with a broken neck in a hotel room.

May 28, 1953

Several babies are stolen in the city.

Jun 04, 1953

A bandit starts robbing people at local markets.

Jun 11, 1953

Friday and Smith are torn between two suspects when a man reports that his wife has been strangled.

Jun 18, 1953

Friday and Smith search for the brutal killer of a 21-year-old woman.

Jun 25, 1953

Friday and Smith are looking for two thugs that seem to have disappeared from the city.

Sep 03, 1953

Friday and Smith respond to and investigate reports of a drug ring.

Sep 10, 1953

A woman reports her husband missing and Friday and Smith are assigned to find him.

Sep 17, 1953

Smith takes a personal interest when a strong-arm bandit threatens his family if he doesn't back off the case.

Sep 24, 1953

Friday and Smith track down a confidence ring who are selling defective watches.

Oct 01, 1953

A teenage boy steals food for his starving family.

Oct 08, 1953

Friday and Smith are on the trail of a gang that is robbing local drugstores.

Oct 15, 1953

Oct 22, 1953

A police rookie is accused of assaulting a citizen and stealing his money.

Oct 29, 1953

Friday and Smith investigate the murder of a girl who came to Los Angeles with a dream of being an actress.

Nov 05, 1953

A man is found dead in an alley and it's up to Friday and Smith to find his killer and notify the man's wife.

Nov 12, 1953

Friday and Smith investigate the murder of a rich man.

Nov 19, 1953

Friday and Smith try to capture a ring of truck hijackers.

Nov 26, 1953

Dec 03, 1953

A cop is gunned down at home by a vengeful ex con. Friday must go under cover in prison to obtain a full confession.

Dec 10, 1953

Friday and Smith investigate a con man that marries rich women just for their money.

Dec 17, 1953

Robbers phone doctors for house calls then assault them and steal their drugs.

Dec 24, 1953

A statue of the Child Jesus is stolen from a church. Friday and Smith must find it before the paritioners miss it on Christmas morning.

Dec 31, 1953

Friday and Smith overhear a suspicious conversation while on a coffee break in a diner.

Jan 07, 1954

Three men are taken into custody for the murder of a former vaudeville actress who owned a large steamer trunk. The three men maintain innocence.

Jan 14, 1954

Friday and Smith catch a boy who has been vandalising private property, but they discover that the boy's problems begin at home.

Jan 21, 1954

The cops must stake out a hotel lobby and deal with a drunken desk clerk as they wait for four juvenile armed robbers to show up.

Jan 28, 1954

Friday and Smith investigate the death of a young girl that is initially ruled a suicide but turns out to be murder.

Feb 04, 1954

Signs point to foul play when a highway patrolman disappears from his car along a deserted road.

Feb 11, 1954

Three children are found abandoned, filthy and starving. Friday and Smith charge the mother with neglect.

Feb 18, 1954

An elderly couple suddenly disappears from a fashionable neighborhood.

Feb 25, 1954

A man posing as a doctor burgles the house of a woman who is mentally disturbed.

Mar 04, 1954

An elderly man appears to have killed himself with a rifle, but the cops soon learn that it was no accident.

Mar 11, 1954

Friday and Smith are surprised to find a wealthy house wife is a shoplifter, until they discover that she is a kleptomaniac.

Mar 18, 1954

A woman and her grandson are run down by a bakery truck, but the driver has an airtight alibi.

Mar 25, 1954

Apr 01, 1954

Friday and Smith hunt down the bandit queen; a tall, gorgeous woman who is on a rampage of robberies and shootings.

Apr 08, 1954

Friday and Smith investigate a corrupt cop.

Apr 15, 1954

An elderly woman is badly beaten and robbed while on her way to the bank. The trail leads to an ex prize fighter.

Apr 22, 1954

A man's body is found in the gutter and the only clue is a pair of skid marks found nearby.

Apr 29, 1954

A woman disappears and her husband is the prime suspect, but Friday and Smith will have a hard time getting past his fierce guard dogs.

May 06, 1954

A check forger is victimizing small businessmen in a particular neighborhood.

May 13, 1954

A man is beaten and robbed, then the thieves intimidate him and his family so he'll refuse to testify against them.

May 20, 1954

A single mother is stabbed to death in her home. The list of suspects includes her teenage son and her many boyfriends.

May 27, 1954

Friday begins to question a local gardener, who has been arrested for holding up a grocery store. During the interrogation Friday begins to have strong doubts about the man's confession.

Aug 26, 1954

A man claims to be a big Hollywood producer, but Friday and Smith discover that he's merely the leader of a pornography ring.

Sep 02, 1954

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

Sep 09, 1954

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

Sep 16, 1954

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

Sep 23, 1954

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.

Sep 30, 1954

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.

Oct 07, 1954

Friday and Smith are looking for a missing businessman.

Oct 14, 1954

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.

Oct 21, 1954

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.

Oct 28, 1954

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

Nov 04, 1954

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

Nov 11, 1954

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

Nov 18, 1954

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

Nov 25, 1954

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

Dec 02, 1954

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

Dec 09, 1954

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

Dec 16, 1954

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

Dec 30, 1954

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

Jan 06, 1955

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

Jan 13, 1955

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.

Jan 20, 1955

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

Jan 27, 1955

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

Feb 03, 1955

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.

Feb 10, 1955

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

Feb 17, 1955

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

Feb 24, 1955

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

Mar 03, 1955

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

Mar 10, 1955

Mar 17, 1955

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

Mar 24, 1955

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

Mar 31, 1955

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

Apr 07, 1955

A con artist is swindling jewelers using fake diamonds.

Apr 14, 1955

Friday and Smith investigate the robbery of an appliance store.

Apr 21, 1955

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

Apr 28, 1955

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

May 05, 1955

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

May 12, 1955

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

May 19, 1955

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

May 26, 1955

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

Sep 02, 1955

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

Sep 09, 1955

Sep 16, 1955

Sep 23, 1955

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

Sep 30, 1955

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.

Oct 07, 1955

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.

Oct 14, 1955

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

Oct 21, 1955

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.

Oct 28, 1955

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

Nov 04, 1955

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

Nov 11, 1955

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

Nov 18, 1955

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.

Nov 25, 1955

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

Dec 02, 1955

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

Dec 09, 1955

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

Dec 16, 1955

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

Dec 30, 1955

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

Jan 06, 1956

Jan 13, 1956

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

Jan 20, 1956

Jan 27, 1956

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

Feb 03, 1956

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.

Feb 10, 1956

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

Feb 17, 1956

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

Feb 24, 1956

Friday and Smith investigate a missing persons report.

Mar 02, 1956

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

Mar 09, 1956

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

Mar 16, 1956

Mar 23, 1956

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

Mar 30, 1956

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

Apr 06, 1956

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

Apr 13, 1956

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

Apr 20, 1956

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

Apr 27, 1956

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

May 04, 1956

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.

May 11, 1956

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

May 18, 1956

May 25, 1956

Jun 01, 1956

Sep 27, 1956

A circus man reports that a tiger escaped from his truck and is now on the loose in Los Angeles.

Oct 11, 1956

A frightened wife tells Friday and Smith that she's worried her husband is planning to pull a hold-up.

Oct 18, 1956

Oct 25, 1956

A group of police women act as decoys to draw a stick-up man out into the open.

Nov 01, 1956

A man forges checks to keep himself and his wife in an expensive lifestyle, but he goes too far when he buys a slick convertable.

Nov 08, 1956

A teenage boy under arrest admits to police that his brother is planning to rob a loan company.

Nov 15, 1956

Friday and Smith are looking for a robber with an unusual tattoo.

Nov 22, 1956

Friday and Smith investigate a gambling racket.

Nov 29, 1956

Friday and Smith investigate reports of counterfeit money appearing all over the city.

Dec 06, 1956

A distraught father reports that his teenage daughter is missing, and things look more bleak when her murdered pet is discovered in her room.

Dec 13, 1956

A watch salesman reports that he was robbed by two men whom he drank with the night before.

Dec 20, 1956

Dec 27, 1956

Jan 03, 1957

A father works as a day burglar so he can buy presents for his kids, now living with his ex wife.

Jan 10, 1957

Jan 17, 1957

Friday and Smith investigate a rash of burglaries.

Jan 24, 1957

A woman reports that her husband has failed to come home after going out with is business partner.

Jan 31, 1957

A bandit carrying a sawed-off shotgun is robbing hotels in the down town area.

Feb 07, 1957

A man is reported missing, by two different women, the description matches, but the names are different. He is married to these two and has apparently skipped out on both. Friday searches for him at various places.

Feb 14, 1957

A tourist leaves her purse in the back of a cab and it's up to Friday and Smith to track it down.

Feb 21, 1957

Feb 28, 1957

Friday and Smith are on the trail of a robber/arsonist that takes nothing of value and then sets the house on fire.

Mar 07, 1957

Friday and Smith reopen a closed case because a tip leads them to believe they have the wrong person.

Mar 14, 1957

Friday and Smith investigate the former employee of a tie manufacturing company.

Mar 21, 1957

A howling dog leads to the unearthing of the battered body of an old woman in her garden.

Mar 28, 1957

Friday and Smith investigate the hit and run of a little girl.

Apr 04, 1957

Friday and Smith try to prove that a salvage yard operator is using his business to fix up stolen cars.

Apr 11, 1957

An auction house is held up and the only clue to the bandits lies in a dropped matchbook.

Apr 18, 1957

Apr 25, 1957

Friday and Smith are on the trail of a thief whose victims are attending weddings and funerals.

May 02, 1957

May 09, 1957

Friday and Smith are on the trail of three masked men responsible for over thirty robberies.

May 16, 1957

May 23, 1957

A bakery owner and his daughter are shot down during a robbery.

Sep 26, 1957

Oct 03, 1957

Oct 10, 1957

Oct 17, 1957

Oct 24, 1957

Oct 31, 1957

Nov 07, 1957

Friday and Smith investigate money being taken from a department store's registers with the help of store security.

Nov 14, 1957

Nov 21, 1957

A bunch of forged checks are popping up all over the city and it's up to Friday and Smith to catch the forger.

Nov 28, 1957

Dec 25, 1957

A man reports that his wife ran off with his little girl and the man she was having an affair with. The trail leads Friday and Smith to a suicide pact.

Dec 12, 1957

Dec 19, 1957

Mrs. Eileen Multon picks up the wrong prescription. Now it's up to Friday and Smith to find her before it's too late.

Dec 26, 1957

Jan 02, 1958

Friday and Smith investigate a series of jade robberies.

Jan 09, 1958

Jan 16, 1958

Jan 23, 1958

Jan 30, 1958

Friday and Smith are on the trail of a hit-and-run driver.

Feb 13, 1958

Friday and Smith investigate a home invasion and their only clue is a boot print in the mud by a window.

Feb 20, 1958

A man accuses his son of stabbing him, but Friday and Smith find out that his son has an airtight alibi.

Feb 27, 1958

Mar 03, 1958

Mar 13, 1958

Mar 20, 1958

Friday and Smith are trying to bring down a street gang but are having a hard time getting to the top man known as The Organizer.

Mar 27, 1958

An ex con called The Gentleman Bandit begins working again when he holds up a bank with two helpers.

Apr 03, 1958

Friday and Smith track a man who writes bad checks for expensive clothes and then sells the clothes for a profit.

Apr 10, 1958

Friday and Smith investigate a report of a teen gang war in the middle of Los Angeles.

Apr 17, 1958

Apr 24, 1958

A man reports that a police officer blackmailed him for money and then beat him up, and he has the bruises to prove his story.

May 01, 1958

May 08, 1958

Friday and Smith are looking for a man who sells fake honeymoon trips to unsuspecting couples.

May 15, 1958

May 22, 1958

Friday and Smith investigate a rash of supermarket robberies, and the burglar's calling card is leaving crackers scattered all over the floor of the store.

May 29, 1958

A unique and costly perfume bottle is taken from an upscale home and it's up to Friday and Smith to get it back.

Jun 05, 1958

Jun 12, 1958

A disgruntled ex-con helps Friday and Smith take down a forgery ring that has cashed thousands of dollars in forged payroll checks.

Jun 19, 1958

A con artist operating in the gentle swindle steals money from grieving relatives after their loved ones die.

Jun 26, 1958

Friday and Smith investigate a murder-suicide of a husband and wife.

Sep 23, 1958

Friday and Smith investigate a woman's claim that her neighbors are abusing their child.

Sep 30, 1958

Friday investigates a woman's disappearance after a convicted murderer is paroled into her custody.

Oct 07, 1958

Friday and Smith investigate anonymous threats to disfigure a a famous actress.

Oct 14, 1958

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

Oct 21, 1958

The detectives are trying to solve the case of the milk bottle bandit when they catch a break and apprehend a diminutive fifteen year old.

Oct 28, 1958

A mysterious telephone caller offers a man $1000 for a contract killing, and Friday must identify the caller before it's too late.

Nov 04, 1958

Friday goes undercover as a bar owner in order to break up an illegal jukebox operation.

Nov 11, 1958

As Friday and Smith investigate a woman's death, they are disturbed to find that her daughter is more interested in discussing her collection of dolls.

Nov 18, 1958

Friday and Smith must track a pair of escaped convicts across the Mexican border.

Nov 25, 1958

While investigating reports of teenagers involved in a gunfight, Friday and Smith are shocked to find one of the teens involved wearing a Nazi uniform.

Dec 02, 1958

Friday is on the hunt for a group of teens that are stealing sports cars.

Dec 09, 1958

Friday and Smith investigate a robbery, and their only clue to the suspect's identity is a green jade monkey.

Dec 16, 1958

Friday attempts to track down a heroin pusher.

Dec 23, 1958

Friday and Smith investigate the death of a woman found murdered in a churchyard on Christmas Eve.

Dec 30, 1958

Two con artists are selling phony magazines subscriptions to unsuspecting suckers.

Jan 06, 1959

Friday and Smith investigate a criminal gang that preys on all-night restaurants.

Jan 13, 1959

Friday and Smith investigate a series of robberies in fashionable homes.

Jan 20, 1959

Friday goes undercover to investigate a bookie operation.

Jan 27, 1959

Friday and Smith have to find a man selling forged passports and paperwork.

Feb 03, 1959

An insurance adjuster files a report with Friday about possible fraudulent insurance claims.

Feb 10, 1959

Friday works with a postal inspector to catch a gang using the mail to scam money from people.

Feb 17, 1959

Feb 24, 1959

An elderly man reports a loss of money to the LAPD, then subsequently denies making the report. Friday and Smith must investigate.

Mar 10, 1959

An elderly couple are beaten and robbed. The key to finding the bandits lies in a paper boy and an alert bartender.

Mar 17, 1959

Friday investigates a young starlet under suspicion of check forgery.

Mar 24, 1959

A robber called "The Rattlesnake Bandit" takes pleasure in beating and shooting his victims after he takes their money.

Mar 31, 1959

The only clue to a murder investigated by Friday is the tape on a knife handle.

Apr 07, 1959

Friday and Smith investigate a husband and wife con team that have a long criminal record.

Apr 14, 1959

Friday investigates a robbery that is caused by a blackmail victim's refusal to pay.

Apr 21, 1959

A young girl commits suicide after she is tricked by a pair of movie talent scouts who are really operating a prostitution ring.

Apr 28, 1959

Friday and Smith hunt "The Carnation Kid," a suspect in a series of hotel burglaries.

Jul 07, 1959

Friday and Smith investigate a the death of a woman found beaten in her car, and suspect that her husband is somehow involved.

Jul 12, 1959

Friday and Smith investigate a series of food market robberies, where the bandit has been posing as a salesman.

Jul 19, 1959

Friday and Smith's investigation of a stolen car - containing a sleeping baby - leads them to two juvenile suspects.

Jul 26, 1959

Friday and Smith track a burglar who breaks into homes and businesses to steal gourmet food items.

Aug 02, 1959

Cab drivers are being held up, but the descriptions given by the victims don't match.

Aug 09, 1959

A man reports that his fiance's former boyfriend has taken shots at him.

Aug 16, 1959

A man impersonating a police officer is going to local businesses and asking for donations for the widows and orphans fund. Smith and Friday set out to stop the con man.

Aug 23, 1959

An informant's tip puts Friday on the trail of a narcotics ring.