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.

A bandit starts robbing people at local markets.

The detectives are trying to solve the case of the milk bottle bandit when they catch a break and apprehend a diminutive fifteen year old.

Two elderly women are struck down by a hit-and-run driver.

Friday and Smith investigate the murder of a girl who came to Los Angeles with a dream of being an actress.

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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 ago.

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Friday goes under cover to bust a drug ring that is operating out of a high-class hotel.

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A housewife, Ella Ryburn, reports to Friday and Smith that she cannot contact her mother, who is married to Alfred Rudolph Shroder. When he is questioned, Shroder claims his wife left him and that, out of shame, he sold their house and put her items in storage.

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

Local businessman John Keith Jarrett disappears and evidence of suicide is discovered. Friday and Smith check on the surviving members of his family and find them not the least concerned about their father's death, with his son a tennis bum, his daughter promiscuous, and his wife drunken. The case gets even murkier when a report comes in of a traffic incident upstate involving a camper in which the driver was using Jarrett's license.

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

A group of police women act as decoys to draw a stick-up man out into the open.

Friday and Smith investigate a rash of supermarket robberies, and the burglar's calling card is leaving crackers scattered all over the floor of the store.

A unique and costly perfume bottle is taken from an upscale home and it's up to Friday and Smith to get it back.

An elderly widower is missing, so Friday and Smith retrace his actions before his disappearance. Things point to a long vacation until the story of Mrs. Banner, who rented the man's house, doesn't add up.

Robbers phone doctors for house calls then assault them and steal their drugs.

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

An expectant mother is run down and killed by two teenagers in a hot rod.