All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 The Big Cast

    • February 14, 1952
    • NBC

  • S01E02 The Big Hands

    • May 21, 1953
    • NBC

    Friday and Smith investigate the suspicious death of a woman

  • S01E03 The Big Phone Call

    • May 22, 1952
    • NBC

    Friday and Jacobs question a jeweler regarding the robbery of a colleague. He takes offense at being questioned, but as the detectives amass evidence, the jeweler begins to lose credibility.

  • S01E04 The Big Trunk

    • January 7, 1954
    • NBC

    A woman is found murdered in her apartment and the only clue is a trunk that she never opened.

  • S01E05 The Big Little Jesus

    • December 24, 1953
    • NBC

    A statue of the infant Jesus is missing from an impoverished church's creche.

Season 2

  • S02E01 The Big War

    • April 10, 1958
    • NBC

    Friday and Smith try to prevent a teenage gang war. They go after one of the leaders, but his mother is convinced he is blameless.

  • S02E02 The Big Frame

    • April 22, 1954
    • NBC

    Frank and Joe suspect a hit-and-run victim was murdered. With Carolyn Jones.

  • S02E03 The Big Frank

    • May 7, 1953
    • NBC

    Friday wants vengeance when Smith is critically wounded while the two investigate a robbery.

  • S02E04 The Big False Make

    • May 27, 1954
    • NBC

    Friday has doubts about the guilt of a gardener who has confessed to a crime.

  • S02E05 The Big Break

    • March 19, 1953
    • NBC

    A convict escapes from San Quentin and goes on a crime spree.

Season 3

  • S03E01 The Big Betty

    • September 24, 1953
    • NBC

    Friday must catch con artists who use the names of dead people in their crimes.

  • S03E02 The Big Bar

    • October 14, 1954
    • NBC

    Friday hunts for a holdup man who is targeting bars and killing some of his victims.

  • S03E03 The Big .22 Rifle for Christmas

    • December 18, 1952
    • NBC

    Tragedy ensues when a young boy is given a gun as a Christmas present.

  • S03E04 The Big Boys

    • January 21, 1954
    • NBC

    Friday seeks four robbers who have escaped from San Francisco.

  • S03E05 The Big Seventeen

    • November 6, 1952
    • NBC

    When the teenage crime rate begins to increase, Friday discovers that drugs are involved.

Season 4

  • S04E01 The Big Crime

    • September 9, 1954
    • NBC

    Friday goes after missing children and their kidnappers in Los Angeles.

  • S04E02 The Big Girl

    • April 1, 1954
    • NBC

    A gun leads Friday to a hitchhiker committing violent robberies.

  • S04E03 The Big Pair

    • September 16, 1954
    • NBC

    Burglars posing as a couple pawn items taken from vacationers' homes.

  • S04E04 The Big Thief

    • December 17, 1953
    • NBC

    Friday feels shaken after killing a drug thief in a shootout.

  • S04E05 The Big Shoplift

    • March 11, 1954
    • NBC

    An investigation into a shoplifting spree leads Friday to suspect a mentally unstable woman.

Season 5

  • S05E01 The Big Show

    • January 22, 1953
    • NBC

    A woman gives a baby to Frank and Joe, claiming a stranger left it with her.

  • S05E02 The Big Bird

    • October 27, 1955
    • NBC

    Friday and Smith investigate burglars in a new housing development who kill pet birds.

  • S05E03 The Big Hit-Run Killer

    • March 18, 1954
    • NBC

    Friday searches for a delivery truck involved in a hit-and-run homicide.

  • S05E04 The Big September Man

    • May 8, 1952
    • NBC

    The investigation into a woman's untimely death leads investigators to a drunk and her former boyfriend.

  • S05E05 The Big Producer

    • August 26, 1954
    • NBC

    Joe Friday investigates a case of obscene literature being sold to children in public schools.