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Sample shows - left click headphones to listen, right-click & save-as to download |
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The Werewolf | 6/17/49 | 6.7 | 00:29:14 | Joe & Ben enlist the whole force to catch a serial assaulter of women. |
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Quick Trigger Gunmen | 6/24/49 | 6.7 | 00:29:15 | Another cop is killed in the line of duty. |
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Red Light Bandit | 7/14/49 | 6.72 | 00:29:19 | A bitter ex-con goes on a tear. |
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Benny Trounsel | 8/4/49 | 6.85 | 00:29:53 | An informant is found murdered. Sounds like Raymond Burr as Friday's boss. |
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Homicide | 8/11/49 | 6.61 | 00:28:50 | Joe & Ben lead the force in a hunt for a serial killer. With Harry Morgan as a hotel clerk. |
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Police Academy | 8/25/49 | 6.72 | 00:29:18 | The short law enforcement career of Joe's army friend. |
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Eric Kelby | 9/3/49 | 6.71 | 00:29:18 | A man's wife is missing. He is strangely uncooperative. |
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James Vickers | 9/17/49 | 6.76 | 00:29:31 | A cop killed, a payroll robbery, a dead suspect. |
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Tom Laval | 10/1/49 | 6.91 | 00:30:09 | Ben & Joe have all kinds of grief running down a ring of hijackers. |
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Second Hand Killer | 10/6/49 | 6.63 | 00:28:56 | An open and shut case isn't. |
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Mother-In-Law Murder | 11/24/49 | 6.92 | 00:30:12 | An open & shut case suddenly isn't. |
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Roseland Murder | 12/29/49 | 7.02 | 00:30:37 | LA is plagued by a particularly violent gang of armed robbers. |
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The Big Grifter | 2/23/50 | 6.71 | 00:29:17 | Joe and Ben go after an expert con man. |
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The Big Thank You | 3/9/50 | 6.75 | 00:29:28 | No good deed goes unpunished. At least in this case. |
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The Big Boys | 3/16/50 | 6.4 | 00:27:56 | Joe and Ben follow up a tip about a group of robbers heading for L.A. |
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The Big Gangster(1 of 2) | 3/23/50 | 6.53 | 00:28:31 | Joe has to protect a local mob boss tp prevent a gang war from erupting. |
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The Big Gangster(2 of 2) | 3/23/50 | 6.58 | 00:29:10 | It was Barzini all along. (Not really, I just wanted an excuse to say that.) |
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The Big Badge | 5/4/50 | 6.62 | 00:28:54 | Joe and Ben on the trail of a serial robber/rapist who impersonates a police officer. And a glimpse of Friday's home life. |
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The Big Pug | 5/18/50 | 6.67 | 00:29:10 | Following the thinnest of leads, the boys track down two armed robbers. |
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The Big Frame | 7/6/50 | 6.81 | 00:29:44 | Joe & Ben investigate a hit-and-run death that turns out to be more than they expected. |
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The Big Bomb | 7/13/50 | 4.44 | 00:25:49 | A man with a bomb threatens to blow up city hall if his brother isn't released from jail. |
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The Big Pair | 9/21/50 | 6.78 | 00:29:35 | Families come back from trips and find their homes stripped, furniture & all. |
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The Big 38 | 10/5/50 | 6.71 | 00:29:18 | It takes a while, but Joe and Ben track down a pair of armed robbers. |
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The Big Betty | 11/23/50 | 5.41 | 00: 23:37 | If you think porn is a harmless vice, think again. |
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The Big Car | 11/30/50 | 6.72 | 00:29:21 | A series of market robberies by a guy with a borrowed set of wheels. |
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The Big Break | 12/14/50 | 6.68 | 00:29:12 | An armed robber turns out to be an escape artist. But not for long. |
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The Big New Years | 3/8/51 | 6.06 | 00:26:28 | One officer won't see in the new year. |
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The Big Drills | 5/10/51 | 6.05 | 00:26:27 | Joe tracks down a gang of thieves cracking supermarket safes. |
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The Big Blast | 5/17/51 | 6.65 | 00:29:02 | Joe and Ben solve a grisly murder. |
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The Big Bindle | 5/31/51 | 7.01 | 00:30:35 | Joe Friday goes undercover to break up a heroin operation. |
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The Big Impostor | 6/7/51 | 6.88 | 00:30:03 | A missing boy is finally found. At least they thought so. |
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The Big Impostor | 6/7/51 | 6.88 | 00:30:03 | A missing boy is finally found. At least they thought so. |
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The Big Building | 6/14/51 | 6.76 | 00:29:33 | A dentist's wife has been gone for 2 months before she's reported missing. |
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The Big Cop | 8/2/51 | 6.79 | 00:29:41 | A burglary ring has an unlikely leader. |
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The Big Screen | 8/9/51 | 6.62 | 00:28:54 | Times have sure changed, and not for the better. |
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The Big Seventeen | 9/6/51 | 6.3 | 00:27:31 | Local teenagers start running wild and rioting after the introduction of drugs. |
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The Big Sour | 9/20/51 | 6.87 | 00:29:59 | An elerly couple is robbed an beaten in their home by two men. Your job - get em. |
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Big September Man | 9/27/51 | 6.55 | 00:28:34 | The windup of a particularly nasty divorce. |
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The Big Want Ad | 10/4/51 | 6.32 | 00:27:35 | A gang of car thieves is using the want ads to prospect for merchandise. |
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The Big Shoplift | 10/11/51 | 6.79 | 00:29:38 | A rash of shoplifting plagues exclusive stores LA. |
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The Big Bungalow | 11/15/51 | 6.93 | 00:30:15 | A tip leads to a burglary suspect. |
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The Big Hand | 11/22/51 | 6.86 | 00:29:58 | An unidentified woman is found dead in a hotel room. |
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The Big Canaries | 12/6/51 | 6.77 | 00:29:32 | A young sociopath practices her technique on pet canaries. |
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The Big Overtime | 12/13/51 | 6.68 | 00:29:09 | Joe and Ben work the kidnapping of a banker's daughter. The last appearance of Barton Yarborough as Ben Romero. |
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The Big Sorrow | 12/27/51 | 6.69 | 00:29:12 | This show is dedicated to the memory of Barton Yarborough, who played Sgt. Ben Romero, and who died Dec. 19, 1951. |
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The Big Court | 1/24/52 | 6.75 | 00:28:29 | A robbery and murder investigation continues even through the trial process. |
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The Big Almost No Show | 1/31/52 | 6.74 | 00:29:26 | A woman is worried about her missing brother. She has reason to be. |
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The Big Producer | 2/21/52 | 6.74 | 00:29:26 | Sure, honey, I'll get you into pictures. |
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The Big Evans | 3/6/52 | 6.65 | 00:29:02 | Joe and Ben investigate a charge of police brutality. |
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The Big Fire | 3/13/52 | 6.73 | 00:29:21 | If you think your landlord is crazy, wait till you meet this guy. |
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The Big Border | 3/20/52 | 6.74 | 00:29:24 | Joe Friday and his partner track a couple of escaped criminals across the border. |
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Big Rose | 3/27/52 | 6.65 | 00:29:03 | A mother of four goes missing. |
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The Big Streetcar | 4/3/52 | 6.74 | 00:28:44 | Ah, romance. Ain't it wonderful. |
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The Big Bunco | 4/17/52 | 6.7 | 00:29:15 | Joe takes on Ben Romero's nephew(played by Martin Milner)as a partner for a bunco investigation. |
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The Big Gamble | 5/8/52 | 6.8 | 00:29:42 | A raid on an illegal card game leaves an officer fatally wounded. |
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The Big Shakedown | 5/22/52 | 6.74 | 00:29:25 | A jailed bookie tells Joe and Frank how he's been regularly shaken down by a cop. |
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The Big Whiff | 6/5/52 | 6.7 | 00:29:13 | An unidentified woman is found dead from chloroform poisoning. |
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The Big Donation | 6/12/52 | 6.72 | 00:29:19 | A couple of con men pose as solicitors for legitimate charities, robbing both the donor and the cause. |
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Big Jules | 6/19/52 | 6.25 | 00:27:19 | Joe goes undercover to bust a heroin dealer. |
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The Big Roll | 6/26/52 | 6.91 | 00:30:09 | A guy is beaten and stuffed into a car. The boys have to find him. |
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The Big Trio | 7/3/52 | 6.65 | 00:29:02 | Joe Friday investigating traffic accidents on July 4th weekend? This one starts with a real bang. |
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The Big Hat | 7/10/52 | 6.01 | 00:26:17 | A young man is found in a freight car with a dead middle-aged woman. |
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The Big Impression | 8/7/52 | 5.76 | 00:25:09 | A watch salesman's sample case is stolen, but his story sounds fishy. |
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The Big Drive | 8/14/52 | 6.72 | 00:29:20 | A young man gives a couple of guys a lift, with disastrous results. |
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The Big Paper | 8/21/52 | 6.72 | 00:29:19 | Joe & Frank find out who's been passing forged payroll checks. |
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The Big Test | 8/28/52 | 6.62 | 00:28:54 | A teenager wanders into Homicide with an improbable story about murder and Mexican bandits. |
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The Big Ray | 9/4/52 | 6.62 | 00:28:53 | A man dies. 3 witnesses, 3 stories. |
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The Big Lie | 10/12/52 | 6.75 | 00:29:26 | The boys investigate a murder. |
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The Big Dive | 11/9/52 | 6.74 | 00:29:28 | An unidentified woman is found dead in a hotel closet. |
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The Big Walk | 11/16/52 | 6.73 | 00:29:23 | Joe Friday goes undercover to bust a heroin operation. |
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The Big Guilt | 11/23/52 | 6.7 | 00:29:14 | A body is found in an alley. Joe and Frank investigate. |
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The Big Shirt | 11/30/52 | 6.65 | 00:29:01 | A discarded shirt leads to the killer of a store owner. |
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The Big Mole | 12/7/52 | 6.76 | 00:29:33 | Joe and Ben investigate a series of store burglaries. |
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Big Little Jesus | 12/22/52 | 4.59 | 00:26:45 | A Joe Friday Christmas story. The only time Joe ever let a perp go. |
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The Big Mask(1 of 2) | 12/28/52 | 6.55 | 00:28:36 | The Black Mask Bandit is holding up food markets in LA and Sacramento. |
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The Big Mask(2 of 2) | 1/4/53 | 6.55 | 00:28:36 | Joe and Frank get their man. |
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The Big Small | 1/11/53 | 6.51 | 00:28:25 | Character actors aren't just in the movies. |
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The Big Layout | 1/25/53 | 6.71 | 00:29:16 | A friend of Joe finds out his son is a drug addict. |
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The Big Strip | 2/1/53 | 6.59 | 00:28:47 | Stripped cars, that is. |
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The Big Wanted | 3/1/53 | 6.74 | 00:29:26 | A fugitive pickup turns into a cop killing. |
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The Big Laugh | 3/8/53 | 6.78 | 00:29:39 | The boys go after a bunco artist. |
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The Big Impossible | 3/15/53 | 6.67 | 00:29:10 | The only logical suspect in a string of supermarket robberies is confined to a convalescent home. |
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The Big Informant | 3/22/53 | 6.75 | 00:29:28 | Joe & Frank track down a gang of safeblowers. |
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The Big Dream | 3/29/53 | 6.74 | 00:29:28 | An elderly man starts committing a string of armed robberies. |
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The Big Chet | 4/5/53 | 6.5 | 00:28:26 | An informer helps Joe and Frank nab a couple of armed robbers. |
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The Big Compulsion | 4/12/53 | 6.71 | 00:29:18 | A man is causing all kinds of trouble by making phony 911 calls. |
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The Big Rip | 4/19/53 | 6.63 | 00:28:58 | A pissed-off informant helps Joe & Frank nab a gang of safecrackers. |
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The Big Joke | 5/10/53 | 6.73 | 00:29:24 | A bartender is offered $5,000 to kill a man |
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The Big Lily | 6/14/53 | 6.71 | 00:29:18 | A woman is found beaten. Joe & Ben investigate. |
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The Big Revolt | 6/21/53 | 6.77 | 00:29:33 | Henry Borg is missing and faking amnesia. |
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The Big Cab | 9/15/53 | 6.8 | 00:29:43 | A four cent dispute proves the undoing of an armed robber. |
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The Big Slip | 9/22/53 | 6.78 | 00:29:39 | Somebody stiffs a used car dealer. Kind of breaks your heart. |
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The Big Little Mother | 10/6/53 | 6.58 | 00:28:43 | A female forger called Little Mother is charging childrens clothes in department stores all over town. |
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The Big Flight | 11/17/53 | 5.91 | 00:25:47 | I guess people commute to all kinds of jobs. |
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The Big Present | 11/24/53 | 6.73 | 00:29:21 | The story of the pint-sized 'Milk Bottle Bandit'. |
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The Big Steal | 12/29/53 | 6.66 | 00:29:05 | What kind of a world is it when a guy can't run a quiet little burglary racket without interference from Joe Friday. |
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The Big Bill | 1/9/54 | 5.65 | 00:24:41 | An old lady who runs a tea shop is missing. |
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The Big Broad | 2/9/54 | 13.4 | 00:29:27 | This episode with the delightfully un-PC title, deals with a series of liquor store holdups. |
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The Big Pipe | 2/23/54 | 6.84 | 00:29:50 | A woman is found beaten with a hunk of pipe. |
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The Big Tar Baby | 10/12/54 | 6.04 | 00:26:21 | A bartender's wife is missing and may have been kidnapped. |
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The Big Manikin | 10/19/54 | 5.76 | 00:25:09 | A misnamed episode in which a man tries to collect a bad debt. |
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The Big Coins | 11/9/54 | 5.95 | 00:25:58 | One very strange thief. |
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The Big Gone | 11/30/54 | 5.95 | 00:25:59 | An armed robbery of a flower shop. One robber, thought dead, is gone. |
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The Big No Tooth | 4/5/55 | 5.49 | 00:23:56 | At least he'll get his teeth fixed in prison. |
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The Big Revision | 5/10/55 | 5.96 | 00:26:02 | The boys investigate a fur robbery. |
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The Big Siege | 5/24/55 | 6.02 | 00:26:15 | Joe and Ben are called to a hostage situation. |
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The Big Limp | 6/7/55 | 5.67 | 00:24:44 | Joe and Frank run down a tip about a robbery. |
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The Big Genius | 7/12/55 | 5.82 | 00:25:24 | A teenaged boy is discovered living in a cave, stealing food and studying physics. |
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The Big Bobo | 7/19/55 | 5.88 | 00:25:39 | Joe investigates a report of an officer demanding bribes. |
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The Big Housemaid | 7/26/55 | 5.88 | 00:25:40 | A woman posing as a housemaid is stealing cash and jewelry from houses. |
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The Big Sheet | 8/2/55 | 5.7 | 00:24:52 | A burglar breaks jail and shoots 2 hostages, till the boys get him. |
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The Big Missus | 8/9/55 | 5.94 | 00:25:57 | A wife, worried about her ex-con husband, calls Friday. |
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The Big Beer | 8/16/55 | 5.73 | 00:25:00 | Beer bottles lead to the killer of an apliance store watchman. |
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The Big Blonde | 8/23/55 | 5.67 | 00:24:45 | Joe goes undercover as a high roller to bust a crew of con artists. |
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The Big Fellow | 8/30/55 | 5.53 | 00:24:09 | A couple of hopped-up armed robbers blow into town. |
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The Big Ruling | 9/6/55 | 6.68 | 00:29:09 | Joe and Frank come up against the exclusionary rule, and a heroin dealer goes free. |
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The Big Daughter | 9/13/55 | 25 | 00: | One heck of a place to hide your drugs. |
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The Big Shirt | 12/6/55 | 6.79 | 00:29:38 | A soiled shirt leads to a killer. |
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The Big Small | 1/10/56 | 9.71 | 00:28:16 | Joe and Frank go after a little old lady check forger. |
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The Big Layout | 1/24/56 | 6.9 | 00:30:08 | Joe Friday's neighbor comes to him for help when he discovers that his son is an addict. |
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The Big Strip | 1/31/56 | 6.68 | 00:29:10 | Joe & Ben track down a midnight auto supply. |
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The Big Tooth | 2/14/56 | 9.92 | 00:28:53 | Warning: The ending is not for the squeamish. |
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The Big Smoke | 2/21/56 | 10.1 | 00:29:34 | Joe and Frank investigate a brutal home invasion. |
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The Big Want | 2/28/56 | 8.84 | 00:25:43 | While hunting a fugitive, an officer is shot and killed. |
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The Big Laugh | 3/6/56 | 10.2 | 00:29:41 | Joe & Frank, working bunco, bust a con man taking advantage of lonely women. |
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The Big Compulsion | 4/17/56 | 6.07 | 00:26:31 | Somebody is making false 911 calls. |
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The Big Rip | 4/24/56 | 5.57 | 00:24:18 | Through an informant, Joe & Ben catch a gang of safeblowers in the act. |
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The Big False Move | 5/22/56 | 6.83 | 00:29:50 | Joe finds something fishy about a confession. |