The Best Episodes Directed By Jack Webb

A man walks into City hall carrying a live bomb. He threatens to blow up the building if his brother isn't released from jail.

Friday and Jacobs track down a drug ring through a small-time television actor who is hooked on heroin.

The police interrogate a suspect whom they believe to have murdered more than a dozen men.

Friday confronts a jeweler with tape recorded evidence that proves he hired someone to rob his own store.

A man claims that his wife committed suicide right in front of him, but the evidence suggests otherwise.

The cops must stake out a hotel lobby and deal with a drunken desk clerk as they wait for four juvenile armed robbers to show up.

A woman and her grandson are run down by a bakery truck, but the driver has an airtight alibi.

Friday and Smith hunt down the bandit queen; a tall, gorgeous woman who is on a rampage of robberies and shootings.

Friday begins to question a local gardener, who has been arrested for holding up a grocery store. During the interrogation Friday begins to have strong doubts about the man's confession.

A man claims to be a big Hollywood producer, but Friday and Smith discover that he's merely the leader of a pornography ring.

A group of con artists are posing as cops and victimizing out-of-town businessmen in fashionable hotels.

Four-year-old twin girls are abducted from the local park.

An old man and his granddaughter are burglarized, leaving them broke and starving.

Malloy and Reed investigate the death of an old man wearing an unusual belt, which leads to the case being turned over to Frauds Division, who finds that Dr. Gantman, running a clinic, is treating a blind seven-year-old patient with a pituitary gland condition but his "treatment" is worthless and preventing a real treatment (removal of the gland). Later, a TV repairman who makes oscillator belts for Gantman is busted for bookmaking and agrees to testify against the doctor, but Gantman demonstrates his "treatment" in open court and fails miserably. Note: This episode, in which Reed and Malloy appear only briefly, was intended to be the pilot for a new Mark VII series focusing on the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office, and was directed by Webb himself. However, no such series came to be.

Friday must cope with the sudden death of his partner as he and his new partner track a pair of escaped convicts.

Friday and Smith must decide between accident or murder when a crewman working on a movie set is killed by a falling light.

Three children are found abandoned, filthy and starving. Friday and Smith charge the mother with neglect.

A secretary is beaten to death and the search for the killer leads police to a religious fanatic.

Gordon Miller, a young pianist, is found near an abandoned freight car holding the dead body of a woman in his arms. He claims he has killed her.

A statue of the Child Jesus is stolen from a church. Friday and Smith must find it before the paritioners miss it on Christmas morning.

Three men are taken into custody for the murder of a former vaudeville actress who owned a large steamer trunk. The three men maintain innocence.

Friday and Smith are surprised to find a wealthy house wife is a shoplifter, until they discover that she is a kleptomaniac.

A man's body is found in the gutter and the only clue is a pair of skid marks found nearby.

Two small boys are missing, there are blood stains on the ground and a gun meant as a Christmas present is gone.

A seven-week-old baby is found abandoned in a bus station.