The Big Odd

A truck driver’s memory of things that happened while he was held captive in the back of his vehicle holds the key to Friday and Smith apprehending furniture thieves.

The Big Office

Friday and Smith serve a stint in the business office and put up with the crap associated with the job.

The Big Overtime

Friday and Romero are assigned to apprehend a bold kidnapper who has abducted the daughter of a banker.

The Big Paint

Friday and Smith track down the central operating point of an extensive car stripping racket.

The Big Pair

A little girl’s plea for help leads Friday and Romero to investigate a series of crimes in which the homes of vacationing families are stripped of all furniture.

The Big Paper

The Big Parrot

Friday and Romero investigate an elderly couple’s death in a fire which turns out to be an arson covering a double murder.

The Big Phone

The Big Picture

The Big Pill

Friday and Smith investigate the poisoning of two Marines who had been AWOL for two weeks.

The Big Plant

The Big Plea

Friday and Smith have captured a parole breaker they believe was behind a recent series of robberies, but the victims aren't entirely sure he's the right man.

The Big Poison

An elderly couple have disappeared, and Friday and Romero try to piece together clues as to their fate.

The Big Present

Friday and Smith investigate a series of petty burglaries which are being committed by either a kid or a midget.

The Big Press

Friday and Smith search for check forgers who use a flawed plate to print their checks.

The Big Producer

A youthful smut peddler leads Friday and Jacobs to a pornography czar exploiting teens.

The Big Pug

Friday and Romero search for thugs who brutally mugged a senior citizen.

The Big Quack

A burglary leads Friday and Romero on the trail of a con man posing as a psychiatrist.

The Big Rain

The Big Ray

A man has supposedly died from falling after a heart attack. But Friday and Smith have doubts when the man’s son lets slip that something was wrong that night…

The Big Red (two-parter)

Friday and Jacobs get word from a former narcotics pusher that some fellows from New York are setting up shop in L.A. with a large quantity of high-grade heroin.

The Big Rescue

Friday and Smith track down two robbers equipped with automatic weapons who have delusions about being Public Enemies Number One.

The Big Revision

Friday and Smith have their prime suspect in a major burglary, but to make it stick they have to find the stolen merchandise and the perp’s partner.

The Big Revolt

A man disappears on his way to work, and his wife wants Friday and Smith to find him.

See also The Boomerang (Tales of the Texas Rangers).

The Big Rip

Friday and Smith investigate a series of tightly run safecrackings of which there has been no word on the street on who might have done it.

The Big Rod

Friday and Smith track down a kid who ran down and killed a pregnant woman in his pseudo-hot rod.

The Big Roll

Friday and Smith investigate the abduction of an unidentified man off the street by a pair of thugs.

The Big Rose

The Big Run

Friday and Romero search for a kid who had run down and killed two elderly women.

The Big Rush

A string of robberies at taverns have Friday and Smith determined to bring in the thugs responsible.

The Big Safe

The Big Saint

Friday and Romero try to break the case of a car theft ring that specializes in specific model cars, with their investigation centering on a particular auto body shop.

The Big Saw

Friday and Smith investigate a bank robbery done by two masked men. They get a break when the robbers get a bit too free in spending their loot.

The Big Scrapbook

Friday and Smith get an A.P.B. on a trio of robbers who had cleaned out the safe of a San Diego hotel and are heading to L.A. to fence the loot.

The Big Screen

The Big Search

Friday and Smith are called in to search for a thirteen year old girl who is believed to have been kidnapped.

The Big September Man

Friday and Romero investigate the murder of a secretary where the only physical evidence available is the pipe she was beaten with.

The Big Set

Friday and Smith are under pressure to bring in a pair of nasty muggers.

The Big Set-up

Three clever robbers are pulling house burglaries where jewels and furs are stolen, until Friday and Romero figure out an angle on how they’re pulling them off…

A gang is distributing marijuana and heroin to high school kids, and to catch them Friday and Smith need the help of a police informant to set up a sting.

The Big Seventeen

Friday and Romero look into a seemingly spontaneous outbreak of lawbreaking among a neighborhood's teenagers.

The Big Shakedown

Friday and Smith are investigating accusations from a couple of merchants that they are being forced to pay “protection” to a man claiming to be a cop who knows their dirty little secrets.

The Big Sheet

Friday and Smith have all the goods on a recently captured burglar- but then he manages to escape from jail.

The Big Shirt

Friday and Smith get on the track of the murderer of a pawn shop owner when they find a bloodstained shirt near the scene of the crime.

The Big Shock

Friday and Smith attempt to track down a pair of burglars even though what precious few leads they manage to get seem to invariably fail to pan out.

The Big Shot

Friday and Smith investigate the murder of a nightclub manager who was killed during a robbery at the establishment.

The Big Show

Friday and Jacobs are called in to investigate a report on an abandoned baby at a bus terminal. But it soon turns out the woman who claimed to have found him has a lot of explaining to do.

Note: This particular episode managed to create a storm of protest from listeners over its subject matter. It does have one of the most famous heart-touching endings in the series.

The Big Siege

Friday and Smith are part of the force that has to get a bank robber and murderer who is holed up inside a house.

The Big Signet

Friday and Smith are working on the case of a diner robbery where one of the suspects got shot and the other got away with a diamond ring.

The Big Sisters

Friday and Smith check on a complaint from a grandmotherly woman who said she was robbed of $300 by a burglar.

The Big Slip

The owner of a used car dealership tells Friday and Smith he suspects the car he recently bought from a man might be stolen.

The Big Slug

While investigating a murder at a liquor store, Friday and Smith discover that the fatal bullet, which passed through the victim, can’t be found.

The Big Small

Friday and Smith investigate a series of bad checks being passed by a sweet-looking little old lady.

The Big Smart Guy

The Big Smoke

Friday and Smith investigate the killing of an old man and his wife's near-killing. There are precious few leads and they mostly dead end.

Review: This episode has the most perversely hilarious way in which the crook ends up confessing.- Webmaster

The Big Sophomore

Friday and Romero investigate a series of petty thefts believed to have been done by a high school student.

The Big Sorrow

Two escaped armed convicts are heading to L.A., and Friday and Jacobs have to recapture them; Joe is given the news about the death of Ben Romero.

Note: This episode is dedicated to the memory of Barton Yarborough, who had passed away two weeks previous.

The Big Sour

Friday and Romero search for two men who had robbed and tortured an elderly couple.

The Big Speech

A narcotics addict is robbing doctors and pharmacies to feed his habit, and Friday and Romero must stop him; Friday is asked to give a speech on police work at his old high school.

The Big Squealer

Friday and Smith investigate when a teenager is found with a knife in his back in an alleyway downtown.

The Big Stand

Friday and Smith investigate the murder of a man at a bus stop whose personal effects were left intact.

The Big Steal

Friday and Smith investigate a series of burglaries where the linking factor is that in each case, a mink coat which had been purchased a few days earlier was stolen.

The Big Stop

Friday and Smith track down a hothead who had shot a traffic cop.

The Big Streetcar

Friday and Jacobs investigate a shooting where the gunman turns out to be the victim’s wife, who has disappeared into the neighborhood.

The Big String

Friday and Smith investigate the kidnapping of the wife of a university professor who can't afford the ransom demanded of him.

The Big Strip

Friday and Smith attempt to track down a gang of car strippers who are adept at hitting fast and leaving no traces.

The Big Student

Friday and Smith must recapture a robber who has escaped from prison.

The Big Sucker

Friday and Smith are out to find a con man who’s pulling a swindle involving blue-cut diamonds.

The Big Switch

Friday and Smith are called in to investigate the murder of a man who was killed while he slept, and find that they must also handle the victim’s distraught wife.

The Big Tar Baby

Friday and Smith are called in to investigate a kidnapping in which the victim’s husband is very uncooperative.

The Big Test

A young man comes in off the street to report that his best friend was killed by bandits in Mexico. But Friday and Smith soon find many holes in the man’s story…

The Big Thank You

While investigating a forged report from a paroled murderer, Friday and Romero discover that the woman’s sponsor has disappeared.

The Big Threat

Friday and Romero investigate a robbery where the victim was threatened with further violence if he reports to the police.

The Big Tie

Friday and Smith are assigned the unusual case of apprehending someone who stole hand-painted neckties from a clothing factory.

The Big Token

Friday and Smith search for a drug junkie who robbed a liquor store while on a high and killed one of the bystanders when he’s dissatisfied with the paltry takings.

The Big Tomato

Friday and Romero track down the anonymous supplier of marijuana being peddled in L.A.'s schools.

The Big Tooth

A woman calls Friday and Smith about her missing mother whom she believes was killed by her abusive husband.

The Big Trial

Friday and Romero investigate a hit-and-run incident that requires them to check out over four thousand possible cars.

The Big Trio

Friday and Smith experience the living Hell that is the life of a traffic cop.

The Big Trunk

Friday and Smith investigate the murder of a woman whose corpse was found stuffed in a trunk bound with sailor's knots.

The Big Try

A teenager turns himself in to Friday and Smith, claiming to have been responsible for a hit-and-run. But further investigation casts doubt on his claim.

The Big TV

Friday and Smith investigate the disappearance of a young widow and her baby- and discover that her overbearing mother-in-law may have something to do with it.

The Big Underground

A break-in at a car dealership leads Friday and Smith to a very clever cat burglar.

The Big Waiter

Friday and Romero investigate the murder of a shopkeeper who was both beaten and strangled.

The Big Walk

Friday and Smith attempt to smoke out the man behind a stream of high-grade heroin being shipped into L.A.

The Big Want

Friday and Smith track down a pair of fugitives who aren’t adverse to adding a cop killing to their list of crimes.

The Big Watch

Friday and Smith get on the track of a robber when they obtain a watch he discarded.

The Big Whiff

The Big Will

Friday and Smith investigate a murder where their best hope for solving it comes from the fact that the victim had been planning to change his will.

The Big Winchester

Friday and Romero investigate the death of an elderly man who had seemingly rigged a shotgun to take his own life. But a patrolman’s sharp eye puts them on another trail.

The Big Wish

A teenager who has been addicted to a variety of narcotics over the past year turns himself in to Friday and Smith.

The Big Youngster

Some nasty cases of vandalism have Friday and Romero looking for the juvenile delinquent who did it.

Brick-Bat Slayer

Friday and Romero are after a madman who’s been using bricks as his tool for murder.

Claude Jimmerman, Child Killer

When two little girls disappear while performing a shopping errand, Friday and Romero canvas the neighborhood to find them- and discover some unsettling truths about a friendly neighbor who has been helping in the search.

Note: This is one of the most brutal and unflinching episodes done in the series, and includes a parental warning from Jack Webb about this story not being suitable for children.

Eric Kelby--Buried Body in Nursery

To find out the fate of a woman who disappeared from her home, Friday and Romero have to deal with her antagonistic husband, his slick lawyer, her missing son, and a pack of guard dogs.

The Garbage Chute

Friday and Romero investigate a murder of an organist, which appears to have been done inside a locked room- until Joe figures out how the murderer made his entrance and exit.

Note: This episode features the first appearance of Chief Thad Brown.

George Quan--The Jade Thumb Rings

In order to catch the man who brutally mugged and robbed a jeweler of some historical artifacts, Friday and Romero need information from a six year old boy who saw what happened.

Helen Corday Murder

Friday and Romero investigate the killing of an inoffensive waitress and are stuck with a bunch of physical evidence that doesn’t amount to much.

Homicide

James Vickers--Cop Killing

Maniac Murder

Master Jewel Thief

Missing Persons--Juanita Lansky

Friday and Romero spend Christmas Eve searching L.A. for a troubled young woman from Salt Lake City who’s disappeared.

The Nickel Plated Gun

It’s an unusual case for Friday and Romero: a series of robberies and murders in which the same guns are used but the descriptions of the gunmen don’t match up.

Police Academy--Mario Koski

The Red Light Bandit

Friday and Romero are after a psycho who has been posing as a cop and brutalizing a number of civilians in lover’s lanes and in their homes.

The Redhead

Friday and Romero are after a woman who’s the Fagan figure to a gang of youthful thieves specializing in car break-ins.

The Roseland Roof Murder

Four heavily armed robbers have started a crime spree in L.A., and when it turns deadly Friday and Romero must bring them in.

Spring Street Gang--Juveniles

A neighborhood in L.A. is experiencing a rash of various crimes by teen delinquents. Friday and Romero’s prime suspect for the ringleader is the owner of a malt shop catering to reckless youth.

Sullivan Kidnapping

Tom Laval-- Truck Hijackers

While investigating a series of truck highjackings, the main suspect hurls himself out of a window, and Friday and Romero find themselves accused of murder.

The Werewolf

A mugger- dubbed “The Werewolf Bandit” due to his size and his hairstyle- has been robbing and brutally beating women late at night. Friday and Romero are out to stop him, but it seems they’ll need the help of the entire force to stop this creep.

Note: This is the first episode to use Walter Schumann’s famed theme music.