Season 1

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  8.2/10381 votes

  The LSD Story

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/12/1967

  Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Bill Gannon encounter a freaked-out young LSD user calling himself "Blue Boy"; before long, Blue Boy is "turning on" schoolchildren with the mysterious new drug.

  Director: Jack Webb

  Writer: Jack Webb

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  7.8/10259 votes

  The Big Explosion

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/19/1967

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

  Director: Jack Webb

  Writer: Robert C. Dennis

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  7.7/10209 votes

  The Kidnapping

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/26/1967

  Friday and Gannon help an employee rescue her kidnapped boss.

  Director: Jack Webb

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.4/10256 votes

  The Interrogation

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 2/9/1967

  A new officer has been arrested for robbing a liquor store while on an undercover assignment.

  Director: Jack Webb

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.1/10198 votes

  The Masked Bandits

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/16/1967

  Four bandits wearing red masks commit a series of robberies.

  Director: Jack Webb

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.6/10198 votes

  The Bank Examiner Swindle

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/23/1967

  Two con men, posing as bank examiners, are bilking the elderly out of their life savings.

  Director: Jack Webb

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.6/10190 votes

  The Hammer

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 3/2/1967

  An elderly apartment manager is found to have been beaten to death with a hammer.

  Director: Jack Webb

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.5/10196 votes

  The Candy Store Robberies

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 3/9/1967

  Friday and Gannon try to figure out a pattern to a series of candy store hold-ups.

  Director: Jack Webb

  Writer: Robert C. Dennis

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  7.8/10194 votes

  The Fur Job

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 3/16/1967

  Gannon goes undercover as a buyer in order to trap fur theives.

  Director: Jack Webb

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.2/10182 votes

  The Jade Story

  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/23/1967

  Over $200,000 worth of Imperial Jade is reported stolen in a burglary, and Friday and Gannon are on the case.

  Director: Jack Webb

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.9/10175 votes

  The Shooting

  Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 3/30/1967

  A police officer is shot while making a routine check on a pair of paroled convicts that are parked near a liquor store.

  Director: Jack Webb

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.8/10184 votes

  The Hit and Run Driver

  Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 4/6/1967

  Friday and Gannon use newspapers, radio and TV to seek the public's help in identifying a hit and run driver.

  Director: Jack Webb

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.6/10178 votes

  The Bookie

  Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 4/13/1967

  Friday goes undercover with the Department's chaplain in order to break up a gambling ring.

  Director: Jack Webb

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.4/10174 votes

  The Subscription Racket

  Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/20/1967

  Friday learns about a scam artist with a novel twist: he uses an authentic Congressional Medal of Honor to solicit magazine subscriptions.

  Director: Jack Webb

  Writer: Unknown

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  8.0/10205 votes

  The Gun

  Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 4/27/1967

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

  Director: Jack Webb

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.2/10180 votes

  The Big Kids

  Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 5/4/1967

  A gang of juvenile thieves have been stealing petty items in order to gain membership into an exclusive club.

  Director: Jack Webb

  Writer: Unknown

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  7.7/10176 votes

  The Bullet

  Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 5/11/1967

  A dead man has been found in a locked room, along with a gun that could not have been the murder weapon.

  Director: Jack Webb

  Writer: Unknown