5x1 - The Big Pipe

September 2, 1955

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

5x2 - The Big Chet

September 9, 1955

5x3 - The Big No Rain

September 16, 1955

5x4 - The Big Lift

September 23, 1955

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

5x5 - The Big Confession

September 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.

5x6 - The Big Gap

October 7, 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.

5x7 - The Big Look

October 14, 1955

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

5x8 - The Big Glasses

October 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.

5x10 - The Big Laugh

November 4, 1955

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

5x11 - The Big Smoke

November 11, 1955

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

5x12 - The Big Bounce

November 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.

5x13 - The Big Shot

November 25, 1955

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

5x14 - The Big Locker

December 2, 1955

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

5x15 - The Big Note

December 9, 1955

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

5x16 - The Big Genius

December 16, 1955

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

5x17 - The Big Reminisce

December 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.

5x18 - The Big Tour

January 6, 1956

5x19 - The Big Sisters

January 13, 1956

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

5x20 - The Big Ruling

January 20, 1956

5x21 - The Big Fall Guy

January 27, 1956

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

5x22 - The Big Set

February 3, 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.

5x23 - The Big Child

February 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.

5x24 - The Big Slug

February 17, 1956

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

5x25 - The Big Daughter

February 24, 1956

Friday and Smith investigate a missing persons report.

5x26 - The Big No Suicide

March 2, 1956

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

5x27 - The Big Siege

March 9, 1956

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

5x28 - The Big Mama

March 16, 1956

5x29 - The Big Revision

March 23, 1956

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

5x30 - The Big Ex-Blonde

March 30, 1956

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

5x31 - The Big Bobo

April 6, 1956

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

5x32 - The Big Rush

April 13, 1956

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

5x33 - The Big Setup

April 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.

5x34 - The Big Deal

April 27, 1956

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

5x35 - The Big Wish

May 4, 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.

5x36 - The Big Hat

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.

5x37 - The Big Housemaid

May 18, 1956

5x38 - The Big Gift

May 25, 1956

5x39 - The Big Salvage

June 1, 1956