Season 5 · Episode 1 — The Big Pipe

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

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.

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 t…

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

A housewife, Ella Ryburn, reports to Friday and Smith that she cannot contact her mother, who is married to Alfred Rudolph Shroder. When he…

Sgt. Friday investigates a robber who only targets pet stores and homes that have pet birds.

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

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

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 a…

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

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

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

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

During a quiet New Year's shift, Friday and Smith remember some of their past cases and why it is they became cops.

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

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

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…

A two-year-old child after drinking bleach from under the sink. Friday and Smith are unable to locate the mother for questioning.

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

Friday and Smith investigate a missing persons report.

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

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

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

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

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

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

An informant tips off police to a shipment of heroin coming into the country. Friday goes under cover to bust open the ring.

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

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.

A young man is found hiding in an empty train car with the strangled body of an older woman next to him.