Season 4
(1954)
Cast
as Joe Friday
as Frank Smith
Episodes
The Big Producer 10.0
August 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…
The Big Fraud 10.0
September 2, 1954
A group of con artists are posing as cops and victimizing out-of-town businessmen in fashionable hotels.
The Big Crime 10.0
September 9, 1954
Four-year-old twin girls are abducted from the local park.
The Big Pair 10.0
September 16, 1954
An old man and his granddaughter are burglarized, leaving them broke and starving.
The Big Escape 0.0
September 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 bel…
The Big Kid 0.0
September 30, 1954
When Friday and Smith learn that a showdown between two teenage gangs is about to take place within 48 hours, they do t…
The Big Missing 0.0
October 7, 1954
Friday and Smith are looking for a missing businessman.
The Big Bar 0.0
October 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 …
The Big Present 0.0
October 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 …
The Big Gangster (Part 1) 0.0
October 28, 1954
An attempt is made on the life of a gang leader. Friday and Smith must find the shooters before his followers seek reve…
The Big Gangster (Part 2) 0.0
November 4, 1954
Friday and Smith must find the men who murdered a gang boss before an open gang war starts.
The Big New Years 0.0
November 11, 1954
On New Year's Eve, Friday and Smith are working out of Central Receiving Hospital.
The Big Want Ad 0.0
November 18, 1954
Friday and Smith investigate a man who is conning people by using the want ads.
The Big Affair 0.0
November 25, 1954
Friday and Smith discover that the key to finding a hold-up artist lies in his married girlfriend.
The Big Bible 0.0
December 2, 1954
A man locks himself in his study and threatens suicide if his wife leaves him.
The Big Bindle 0.0
December 9, 1954
Friday goes under cover to bust a drug ring that is operating out of a high-class hotel.
The Big Office 0.0
December 16, 1954
Friday and Smith are assigned to the business office, where they must deal with the paperwork on a busy weekend.
The Big Rod 0.0
December 30, 1954
An expectant mother is run down and killed by two teenagers in a hot rod.
The Big Rescue 0.0
January 6, 1955
A group of bandits arm themselves and break their comrades out of jail.
The Big Family 0.0
January 13, 1955
Local businessman John Keith Jarrett disappears and evidence of suicide is discovered. Friday and Smith check on the su…
The Big Shock 0.0
January 20, 1955
Friday and Smith go after a burglar who plans to break into a bank through an underground tunnel.
The Big Screen 0.0
January 27, 1955
Friday and Smith team up with a newspaper reporter so they can investigate television repairmen who may be overcharging…
The Big TV 0.0
February 3, 1955
The detectives search for a missing mother and child at the behest of her mother-in-law, unaware that the girl's husban…
The Big Dog 0.0
February 10, 1955
An old man sits on his front porch with a shotgun, threatening to kill the man who poisoned his dog.
The Big Underground 0.0
February 17, 1955
Friday and Smith use a stolen check as a lead to a series of used car lot robberies.
The Big Key 0.0
February 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.
The Big Mailman 0.0
March 3, 1955
Friday and Smith go after a bandit who is robbing mailboxes and then trying to cash other people's checks.
The Big Customer 0.0
March 10, 1955
The Big Tar Baby 0.0
March 17, 1955
A bartender's wife is kidnapped, beaten and rolled in hot tar.
The Big Number 0.0
March 24, 1955
Friday and Smith Investigate a Bank Robbery, but they don't have much to go on.
The Big Mask 0.0
March 31, 1955
A masked bandit is holding up supermarkets and the police are not able to catch him.
The Big Sucker 0.0
April 7, 1955
A con artist is swindling jewelers using fake diamonds.
The Big Moustache 0.0
April 14, 1955
Friday and Smith investigate the robbery of an appliance store.
The Big Heel 0.0
April 21, 1955
Friday and Smith use an unusual footprint to help solve a murder case.
The Big Gone 0.0
April 28, 1955
The owner of a flower shop kills a man who is trying to rob him, but the corpse mysteriously vanishes.
The Big Student 0.0
May 5, 1955
Friday and Smith are on the trail of a bunch of teenagers selling fake magazine subscriptions.
The Big Watch 0.0
May 12, 1955
Bandits are offering rides to hitch-hiking soldiers, then robbing and beating them.
The Big Dig 0.0
May 19, 1955
Friday and Smith are looking into a report of a missing woman that turns into a murder investigation.
The Big Mug 0.0
May 26, 1955
Two hold-up men are robbing and beating pedestrians in the down town area.