The Best Episodes Directed By Jack Webb

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   #1 - Clinic on 18th Street

   S6:E243/19/1974

   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.

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   #2 - The Big Actor

   S1:E21/3/1952

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

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   #3 - The Big Cast

   S1:E52/14/1952

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

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   #4 - The Big Casing

   S1:E136/5/1952

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

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   #5 - The Human Bomb

   S1:E112/16/1951

   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.

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   #6 - The Big Boys

   S3:E211/21/1954

   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.

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   #7 - The Big Hit-Run Killer

   S3:E293/18/1954

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

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   #8 - The Big Girl

   S3:E314/1/1954

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

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   #9 - The Big False Make

   S3:E395/27/1954

   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.

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    #10 - The Big Producer

    S4:E18/26/1954

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

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    #11 - The Big Fraud

    S4:E29/2/1954

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

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    #12 - The Big Crime

    S4:E39/9/1954

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

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    #13 - The Big Pair

    S4:E49/16/1954

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

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    #14 - The Big Phone Call

    S1:E125/22/1952

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

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    #15 - Intelligence - DR-34

    S3:E274/17/1969

    At a night school alumni party, Joe is approached to join the Fielder Militia, a right wing group. They want Joe to help one of the Militia’s members get a Federal firearms license. Joe works with the ATF to join the Militia to locate Militia’s cache of illegal automatic weapons.

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    #16 - D.H.Q. - Night School

    S4:E223/19/1970

    Joe is enrolled in night school and busts a classmate for possession of marijuana. The professor threatens to give Joe an F for the bust. He puts removing Joe up for a vote by the class. An unexpected classmate comes to Joe's aid.

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    #17 - Log 001: The Impossible Mission

    S1:E19/21/1968

    Pilot Episode: Working out of a patrol car designated "Adam-12," Officers Malloy and Reed perform a typical day's work, which includes a high speed auto-chase, the capture of two robbers, and an emergency call to save a suffocating baby. Malloy decides to turn in his badge after his young partner was killed a few weeks earlier. But at the end of the shift, he comes around and decides that he can't let inexperienced Jim Reed loose on another officer, so he decides not to leave the force.

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    #18 - The Big Children

    S3:E242/11/1954

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

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    #19 - The Big Sorrow

    S2:E29/25/1952

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

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    #20 - The Big Light

    S2:E203/26/1953

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

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    #21 - The Big Explosion

    S1:E21/19/1967

    A neo-Nazi psycho has planted a bomb somewhere in L.A. Friday and Gannon have to find it.

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    #22 - The Gun

    S1:E154/27/1967

    A Japanese widow is senselessly murdered, leaving her small daughter an orphan. Friday has a hard time controlling his emotions while seeking the killer.

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    #23 - Public Affairs - DR-07

    S3:E19/19/1968

    Joe and Bill appear on the TV talk show "Speak Your Mind" debating the topic "The Police, Who Needs Them?" with a professor, a hippie, some black power activists, and some (other) disgruntled citizens.

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    #24 - Public Affairs - DR-12

    S3:E811/14/1968

    Joe and Bill are assigned to help arrange a press conference for the President of the United States at LAX.

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    #25 - Burglary - Helpful Woman

    S4:E141/22/1970

    A woman befriends elderly people and then steals from them. Joe and Bill contact a radio personality and ask to have him talk about the scam. The radio broadcast turns up a lead, and a stakeout is set up where Bill poses as an invalid.

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