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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Friday testifies at the trial of a man accused of a hit-and-run, but the main witness against him suddenly disappears.

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.

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.

A divorced mother is killed in bed by a shotgun while her young boy sleeps beside her.

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.

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

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.

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

A teenage boy turns himself in and confesses to being an addict, but he refuses to give up the names of his friends who supplied him.

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Friday poses as a hired killer for a man who wants his wife dead.

A couple are robbed and murdered, along with their pet parrot. The killer uses a time bomb to start a fire and cover up his crime.

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 search for the brutal killer of a 21-year-old woman.