Season 2 · Episode 8 — The Big High

A volatile teenager throws acid on the back of another student (played by a teen-aged Jan Michael Vincent), then crashes a party armed with…

Joe tries to stop a burglary at an all night launderette and ends up exchanging fire with the suspect. When SID tries to find the bullet fi…

Three con artists have been swindling businessmen from out-of-town by posing as a prostitute and two policemen. The detectives set a trap a…

A nervy bank robber uses innocent women to help commit his crimes. Friday and Gannon are nearly sidetracked when one of the victims lies ab…

Bill invites Joe to dinner and a football game at his home in Eagle Rock. The only problem: Gannon's neighbors keep interrupting the visit…

Sgt. Carl Maxwell, a frustrated fellow detective, goes AWOL; Friday and Gannon have three days to track him down before Maxwell loses his b…

A series of daring daylight house burglaries are taking place. Friday and Gannon go undercover in a laundry truck to discover the perp.

An ex-con named Steve Deal contacts Friday and Gannon when a classified ad that he placed, offering to do "anything" for money, results in…

A woman real-estate agent is missing and turns up dead in a vacant home. The detectives suspect her ex-boyfriend. Then credit card bills fo…

Friday and Gannon are on the case to find ... a purse-snatching dog? Making things more difficult, victims give different descriptions of t…

A female con-artist uses an evangelistic approach to lure buyers into her pyramid scheme. The Bunco division can't charge her with false ad…

Friday and Gannon investigate a scam involving a phony LAPD newsletter, which comes with a card for subscribers entitling the bearer to pre…

An officer accused of taking a bribe has chosen Sgt. Friday to represent him at his trial board hearing. Witnesses saw the officer accept t…

A statue of the child Jesus was stolen from a church. Joe and Bill have to get it back by Christmas. They have less than 48 hours.

Drugs are found aboard a plane that has crashed in the San Fernando Valley. The pilot is quickly traced, but in order to force him to name…

Two small girls, ages three and five, are missing. Their mother is certain that her ex-husband, an alcoholic, has kidnapped them. However,…

Friday and Gannon confront "Brother" William Bentley at his Temple of the Expanded Mind. They think he is using his new age religion as a f…

Citizens are full of praise for Officer Gideon C. Dengle - they want to bestow him with awards, honors and home-baked cookies. There's only…

A teenage runaway, intent on becoming a star, has instead wound up in pornographic films. Acting on behalf of the girl's aunt, Friday and G…

Sgt. Friday is offered a bribe to assist a gypsy family trying to gain control of the gypsy community.

When a nine-month old child is beaten, Friday and Gannon investigate the parents, who are more concerned about their failing relationship t…

An ex-con accused of extortion is interrogated. He calmly and smugly insists that he is innocent, but Friday and Gannon have a surprise for…

Friday and Gannon learn that a young man has called his mother from Hollywood "to say goodbye." With the help of the man's sister, the two…

Petty theft from drug and hardware stores leads to a group of four teens who are determined to start their own nation on a remote island of…

Friday and Gannon are screening applicants for the Police Academy. One seems to have all the right qualifications, except that six months a…

Over $100,000 has been embezzled from an industrial company. An investigation of the employees leads Friday and Gannon to a habitual gamble…

Community relations is the theme, as Friday and Gannon try to narrow the gap between the Department and the citizens it is sworn "to protec…