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- Friday investigates a young starlet under suspicion of check forgery.
- An informant's tip puts Friday on the trail of a narcotics ring.
- Friday and Smith are following up on a missing persons report when they do find the man -- folded up in a wall bed with fatal hammer blows to the head.
- A routine check of local pawn shops leads Friday and Smith to the investigation of a jewelry theft.
- Friday peruses the elusive armed robber Mark Hoffman after the man repeatedly escapes from both State and military prisons. Can Friday convince the man to surrender or will he go down in a hail of bullets.
- 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. The youngster, under questioning, explains he just wants to be a big deal for once.
- 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. The search takes him to a former extra who has given up show business for crime.
- Executive leaves suicide note in his car with pistol, two bullets spent and no trace of the body. Friday and Smith working Homicide, Missing Persons Detail, begin their search for the man.
- Sgt. Friday and Smith responding to the report of 2 small children, going door-to-door, begging for food. The catch? The kids are known as residents in a very high class neighborhood, living right next door.
- A worried woman contacts Friday and Smith when her elderly mother mysteriously disappears and suspects her father of foul play, a suspicion that proves to be correct when blood is found at her old house.
- Friday and Smith attempt to stop a robber accused of assaulting and robbing women.
- Friday begins to question Henry Ross, a suspect in a man's disappearance, which Friday believes is actually a murder. Ross coolly and calmly denies any involvement in the disappearance, but Friday's relentless interrogation soon begin to crack the man's facade.
- Three men swindle, two posing as cops, Friday nabs them at their game.
- An elderly man and his invalid daughter are severely beaten during a home invasion. When the father dies and the daughter ID's one of the perps Friday and Smith start the hunt.
- Just hours after the sudden death of his partner Ben Romero, Joe must set aside his emotions to help track down a pair of desperate escaped convicts who are headed towards Los Angeles.
- 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.
- A pregnant woman is run down by teens out joyriding leaving Sgt Friday and his fellow officer Smith to track down those responsible. They find that kids are uncooperative, refusing to inform on their friends.
- A suicide attempt leaves a woman in a coma. Friday, Smith need to find the reason.
- A man claims that his friend was killed by bandits in Mexico. Friday and Smith don't believe his story.
- A gang of robbers is calling Los Angeles physicians down to hotels and mugging and robbing them of drugs and valuables. Sergeants Friday and Smith are called in to put a stop to this.
- Friday and Smith have considerable physical evidence but very few genuine leads to help them solve the mysterious beating death of a well-liked young woman.
- A man is pulled from his car, beaten and robbed. The criminal apparently makes his escape in the man's car. Friday and Smith have to find him.
- Someone is burglarizing businesses but only taking part of the money and leaving an empty milk bottle. When officers Friday and Smith apprehend the young Elroy they discover he's not doing it for monetary reasons.
- A teenager voluntarily turns himself into police for his drug addiction. He initially refuses to provide police with the suppliers.
- A series of eleven grocery and jewelry store robberies seem to be connected but Sgt Friday has no leads. But a reformed thief clues in the detectives that a man named Chet may be responsible.
- Henry Wilson, a Hollywood movie director, has been killed by a falling arc light. Was it really an accident? To answer this question, Friday and Smith go Hollywood with a wonderful excuse to visit the studios. But the two men do not fail to mix business with pleasure and they will wind up solving the mystery.
- It's Christmas Eve when Father Rojas at the Old Mission Plaza Church in Los Angeles discovers that the statue of the Infant Jesus is stolen from the crib. The statue's worth is only a few dollars, but it is of great sentimental value for the parish. Friday and Smith promise to try to get it back before mass on Christmas Day, but this means that they have less than 24 hours to catch the thief.
- Friday and Jacobs investigate a double murder in the remains of an arson fire. Among the dead is a parrot with a broken neck. The case leads them to a robbery and a chilling confession.
- An ex-con bears a grudge against the city of Los Angeles. He wants to blow up city hall unless his demands are met. He has a powerful bomb. The police find 28 sticks of dynamite in his apartment. Only Sergeant Friday has the power to stop this 1950s terrorist attack.
- Friday and Smith search for a missing boy. The first sign that the case is serious is when blood is found. Further probing reveals the boy's parents had purchased him a .22-caliber rifle for Christmas -- and the weapon is missing, removed from its wrapped package.
- Friday and Jacobs are called to the apartment of a man who phoned in the fatal shooting of his wife. He claims it was suicide, but upon looking at the crime scene and talking to neighbors they begin to wonder if it was murder.
- A young man confesses to an armed robbery of a grocery store, but his story doesn't add up to the details of the stick-up.
- Friday and Smith attempt to solve a series of car thefts but are getting nowhere until they learn that the car thieves are selling the stolen cars illegally.
- Detective Sergeant Friday has been assigned to homicide detail. A socially prominent citizen is plotting to kill his wife. He tells a friend the plans of his murder and hires him to do the killing. It's Friday's job to stop him by going undercover and posing as a hired killer.
- A man threatens to jump from a 9th-floor building ledge by ten o'clock.
- Friday after a safe burglar on the loose.
- A lady reports an abandoned baby at a bus depot. Officers Friday and Smith investigate, and realize her story doesn't quite hold water.
- Friday and Smith are faced with a lack of clues, except for a matchbook when trying to track down some brutal thieves.
- 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. Called to interrogate him, Friday and Smith remain skeptical.
- Friday, Smith respond to a bank robbery in progress. Car description, partial plate leaves many cars to check.
- A man calls to report his wife has been kidnapped. Friday, Smith go to his place, he has changed his mind. When the wife is found in a hospital, beaten, tarred, the husband cannot be found.
- An apparent suicide turns out to be murder.
- Friday and Jacobs look for an elderly woman who has been passing bad checks just three different months a year for nearly 10 years.
- 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. But for all their efforts a drama occurs: an eleven-year-old boy is killed.
- On New Year's Eve, Detectives Friday and Smith must investigate a cop killing.
- Sgt. Friday, Smith and newly married Sgt. 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.
- There's a spate of recent theft at retail stores in the city and Joe Friday and his partner are on the case. The detectives question a salesgirl from a big department store downtown, but she denies any involvement. They talk to a witness who saw another woman leave a parcel containing an expensive fur coat at a local bus station. Friday then talks to a teenage girl who saw a woman discard boxes of new items in a vacant lot. The girl knows the woman's identity and soon the officers are interrogating the shoplifter, a doctor's wife with a lot of time on her hands.
- A trail of stolen narcotics lead Friday and Romero to a TV actor who is addicted to heroin.
- Friday leads a team in a raid on the house of a very dangerous armed robber, which results in a bloody shootout.
- When two four year old twin girls turn up missing, Sgt. Friday and Officer Smith are called in. The girls are found, but were molested. The officers continue to investigate until they locate the perpetrator.
- The detectives try to track down a tall, beautiful woman who has been terrorizing the city by robbing men, beating them up and in some cases shooting them. Their job is made more difficult by the fact that there are many inconsistencies in the victims' reports.
- Friday and Smith are assigned to investigate the strangulation of an unidentified woman in a hotel room. With no leads and no clues, and no idea of who she is, they must start from scratch to find her killer.
- Obscene literature and pictures are spread among youngster at a school in Los Angeles. The supplier of this illegal stuff turns out to be a former film producer from the days of silent movies.
- Someone murdered a secretary late at night in her office. She was beaten to death with a metal pipe wrapped in newspaper. Could it be the drunk found three blocks away beating his head against a wall?
- Sergeant Friday is asked to give a speech at his old high school while he is trying to apprehend a student addicted to narcotics, who viscously beats and robs a neighborhood druggist.
- Three men are the suspects in the beating death of a former vaudevillian actress found in her apartment. The possible reason for her murder could be among the contents of an old steamer trunk which she kept locked in her room. Surveillance equipment is used to solve the mystery.
- Joe and Frank investigate the murder of a man who has recently changed his will.
- A gang of con artists checks the obituary section of the daily newspaper, then uses the information they gather to prey on the grief-stricken families of those who have recently died.
- Joe and Frank investigate a series of burglaries in new housing developments where the suspect's signature is the killing of pet birds.
- A phony policeman, using the name of a deceased officer, confiscates the money of innocent citizens by telling them its counterfeit.
- Friday and Jacobs question a jeweler regarding the robbery of a colleague. The man takes offense at being questioned about the incident, but as the detectives begin to amass evidence, the jeweler's outrage quickly begins to lose credibility.
- A man swindled out of $1,500 life savings from a familiar bunco scam, substitute jewelry for cash, jewelry is imitation.
- Ross is an actor on the way up, but then his girlfriend is found dead in his apartment. A suicide note is found, but things start to point to it being a homicide.
- A truck kills an old lady and her little grandson at a crossing and drives away. The owner of the truck asserts that he let a man called Paul borrow the truck for one hour, but he doesn't know the last name of this man or where he lives. The police must investigate all circumstances, but should Friday and Smith really spend lots of resources on trying to find a man they hardly believe exists at all?
- Friday and his partner Smith race against time to stop a series of brutal beatings of women in the Hollywood area. Just when they think they have their man, things change and very quickly.
- Twins are born in a hospital, but soon one is kidnapped. The detectives must find the missing baby before it's too late.
- 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.
- Friday and Smith attempt to get ahold of the leaders of several street gangs in order to stop an approaching gang war.
- A holdup man is sticking up bars. After he takes the money he kills many of his victims. Sargeant Friday has few leads other than that the holdup man likes a certain song on the jukebox and likes to drink scotch and water.
- Friday and Smith receive a bulletin about an armed four-man gang, two of whom are army deserters, who have committed a series of robberies and auto thefts in San Francisco and are on their way to Los Angeles.
- Joe Friday interrogates a local gardener who's been arrested for holding up a grocery store. While questioning the suspect, Friday begins to doubt the man's guilt, even though he's identified as the robber by the woman who manages the store, and sets out to discover why the gardener has confessed to a crime he apparently did not commit.
- A man is found dead in the gutter. At first it seems as a hit-run case, but Friday and Smith become suspicious when all witnesses from the night before give exactly the same story. Usually witnesses are at variance in some respects.
- Sgt Joe Friday and officer Smith struggle to crack a case involving a cat burglar. With all their leads going nowhere and evidence scarce the case seems to be leading to a dead end. Then their luck changes.
- Joe and Frank try to find out who badly assaulted a woman in the street. Their two suspects are her husband and a mentally ill man. The woman can't help them because she is in a coma.
- Upper middle-class teenagers in Los Angeles are going crazy. They trash a movie theater, beating up the manager and pushing a young man through a plate glass window. Sergeant Friday must get to the bottom of what is causing this to happen.
- Detectives Friday and Smith interview several victims of theft who are afraid to press charges against the man responsible. The police must convince them they won't receive retribution.
- 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.
- Friday and Smith attempt to track down an armed robber suspected of shooting a store clerk.
- Friday and Smith investigate insurance fraud.
- Friday and Smith track a burglar who breaks into homes and businesses to steal gourmet food items.
- Friday and Smith stalk a dapper confidence man who drugged a 37 year old lady and stole her savings.
- Friday and Smith investigate a woman's claim that her neighbors are abusing their child.
- The hunt is on for the man who killed a woman while her young son looked on in horror.
- Two brothers have perfected a real estate scam that relieves prospective homeowners of their money. Sgt Friday must develop a plan that will send the grifters away to prison.
- Friday's search for a pair of escaped convicts leads him across the Mexican border.
- Friday and Smith investigate a series of food market robberies, where the bandit has been posing as a salesman.
- A man reports that his fiance's former boyfriend has taken shots at him. Friday and Smith are skeptical.
- Friday and Smith hunt "The Carnation Kid," a suspect in a series of hotel burglaries.
- Friday must investigate the disappearance of a uniformed officer on a stretch of highway.
- Friday and Smith find themselves with a difficult case when a number of businesses report receiving forged checks.
- Friday and Smith investigate a woman suspected of murdering her two-year-old daughter.
- A printer provides Friday and Smith with a lead on a husband and wife confidence team.
- A string of supermarket robberies have one thing in common: crackers are strewn about the scene of the crime.
- Friday goes undercover to investigate a bookie operation.
- 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.
- Friday and Smith investigate a bogus charity collection racket.
- Friday and Smith investigate the death of a woman found in a hospital elevator.
- A man Joe Friday knew in the US Army is arrested for armed robbery. Joe helps as best he can, and looks after the man's wife and two sons. But, a month before his parole, the man escapes with the help of his wife.
- A disc jockey receives a watch - which turns out to be stolen - from a female fan. Joe and Frank must track down the thief.
- Friday and Smith investigate a robbery, and their only clue to the suspect's identity is a green jade monkey.
- Friday and Smith attempt to track down a vicious robber who sadistically beats his victims.
- Friday and Smith investigate the a rash of hot-rod thefts.
- Mrs. Vesper, an old friend of detective Frank Smith, reports bring robbed and suspects a newly hired maid. The police learn of falsified references and after apprehension bizarre explanations for the thefts.
- Friday attempts to track down a heroin pusher.
- Friday and Smith's investigation of a stolen car - containing a sleeping baby - leads them to two juvenile suspects.
- Friday goes undercover as bartender in an attempt to crack a jukebox racket.
- Friday and Smith are on the trail of a con artist who preys on lonely women with promises of marriage.
- Joe Friday's old friend and his wife suspect their son is using drugs so they ask the police sergeant to look into it as a favor. As Joe and his partner check it out they suspect the son is also a dealer.
- Friday and Smith investigate the hijacking of an armored truck.
- Friday and Smith investigate a criminal gang that preys on all-night restaurants.
- Friday and Smith investigate the death of a woman found murdered in a churchyard on Christmas Eve.
- Joe Friday receives a call from a worried mother who has not heard from her daughter in over a month.
- A man claims he awoke to find his wife dead in bed beside him. Neoghbors convince the detectives to hold him for murder, but the victim's sister provides an unexpected defense.
- The only clue to a murder investigated by Friday is the tape on a knife handle.
- 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.
- Friday and Smith investigate a the death of a woman found beaten in her car, and suspect that her husband is somehow involved.
- The boys believe they are looking for a female cat burglar due to the strong smell of perfume left behind after the burglaries. They set to interviewing a long list of shady women, when they come to one who claims to know who the thief is.
- Friday and Smith investigate two con men posing as Hollywood talent scouts.
- A housewife disappears and the police suspect her husband but questioning is made difficult by the man's guard dogs.
- The victim of a so-called "mental therapist", a young woman commits suicide after being robbed of her furs and jewels. It is up to Friday and Smith to trace the man and to stop him from striking any more.
- A slow New Year's Eve shift gives Friday and Smith a chance to remember some of their previous cases.
- Friday and Smith investigate a kidnapping.
- Friday and Smith search for a woman who left her children with her sister.
- Friday and Smith are investigating a missing office safe.
- Sgt. Friday and Officer Smith solve a series of burglaries at car-rental shops around Los Angeles.
- This story is based on real life LAPD cases and real LAPD Officers, written by Jack Webb. In 1954 Los Angeles California was the center of development on the West Coast, bristling with growth, new suburbs and citrus field abound. With this vast development brought dreams of new jobs, new beginnings and new crimes, particularly Consumer Fraud Schemes. Dave Rotbart, a WWII Veteran Army Communications Tech, was now a Los Angeles Police Crime Lab Technician. It was Dave's job to combat crime by using his technical knowledge, working behinds the scenes to give Detectives the upper hand in solving crimes on the streets of L.A. Detectives seek Dave's help during a one-of-kind Bunko Investigation. Only Dave's behind the scene's police technical investigative skills make the case. WHERE'S DAVE ROTBART: In real life and after working almost decade for the City of LA, Dave became a very successful Satellite Communications Engineer working for Hughes Aircraft, he has since retired and is an avid ARRL Volunteer Examiner, teaching ham radio to high school and holds an "Extra Class Amateur Radio Operator with the Call Sign of W6ODF and resides in Murrieta, CA.).
- Friday and Smith search for two holdup men who rob restaurants and bars.
- An informant tips off Joe and Frank about a major narcotics shipment arriving in Los Angeles, and Joe goes undercover to trace the heroin to its source.
- Friday and Smith investigate the murder of a nightclub owner,
- Friday and Smith investigate the assault of a restaurant owner.
- The Big Skip: 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.
- Friday and Smith investigate a series of robberies in fashionable homes.
- An elderly couple is tortured and robbed. Friday and Smith must investigate.
- Friday investigates the shooting of a cocktail-lounge owner, which leads him to a widespread protection racket.
- Friday and Smith investigate anonymous threats to disfigure a a famous actress.