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- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganMickey SholdarFriday and Gannon are working out of the juvenile division when they get called to a movie theater to investigate an attack on a high school student who had acid thrown on his back. The suspect is another boy named Gerald Paulson, who is emotionally disturbed. Later, Gerald has an argument with his stepfather and runs out of the house carrying a live hand grenade. Eventually, Friday and Gannon trail him to a house where a girl he attends high school with is throwing a party and he is holding them hostage and threatening to pull the pin. It is now up to the two detectives to get the grenade out of his hands before he kills himself and seriously wounds several other people.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganArt BalingerAfter work Joe Friday goes by a laundromat to buy cigarettes. He interrupts a burglar stealing from the coin box, and shots are fired. The burglar dies, and Friday is investigated by the shooting board to see if it is a justified shot.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganArt GilmoreGannon goes undercover, with Friday as backup, to catch a pair posing as police officers in a scam at a local hotel.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganKipp HamiltonA man is forcing different young women to help him rob banks, and Friday and Gannon have to find out who he is and stop him.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganBurt MustinFriday and Gannon investigate a series of burglaries that are taking place during the day, and the victims are those with a recent wedding or death in the family. A senior citizen uses the paper to find homes that are empty during the day.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganBrenda ScottFriday and Gannon are assigned to Narcotics. An elderly businessman, concerned about the welfare of his grandchild, informs them that his daughter and son-in-law are using marijuana regularly. They make no apologies for their lifestyle and the officers' hands are legally tied, but the couple's refusal to listen leads to a terrible conclusion.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganAnthony EisleyA television show asks the question - who needs the police? Friday and Gannon are invited to sit on the panel to defend the police department from others that think the police are not needed.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganMerry AndersGannon & Friday work the evening shift in the Juvenile Department where they field a variety of calls. Calls include a runaway teenager, an abandoned baby, a boy high on drugs, and a girl accused of theft.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganDon MarshallFriday and Gannon are at a community college to recruit potential new police officers. With race relations a little tense in late '60s Los Angeles, a majority of the men in the room are African-American. A few of them are dubious about joining the police service. But a few are open to the idea. Later, Officer Dave Roberts, also African-American, is rethinking returning to duty after being badly wounded during a robbery. Relations with his neighbors have soured and he thinks it's affecting him on the job. Friday and Gannon try to talk him out of resigning. Roberts left things up in the air. A few days later, Friday and Gannon are downtown when a call regarding a business disturbance comes over the radio. They are a few blocks away and decide to lend assistance. As it turns out Officer Roberts has responded to the call and is sorting things out on his own as Friday and Gannon observe. After everything is resolved, Roberts notices the two detectives watching from the doorway. Friday gives Roberts a knowing nod. Roberts nods back. They not only convince Roberts to stay on the job, but to help them with the recruiting as well.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganArt BalingerOn an April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennesee. With riots erupting all over the United States, the Los Angeles Police Department braces for worse case scenarios such as rioting and bomb threats. Friday and Gannon are assigned to the command post and monitor the situation from there and wait for the first sign of trouble. However, as the weekend progresses Friday notes that Los Angeles is quieter than normal and that many of the people are doing their best to remember that Dr. King stood for peace.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganLarry PennellFriday and Gannon are assigned to investigate complaints from motorists about a tow truck driver who takes advantage of those who are in trouble on the highway.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganRandy StuartFriday and Gannon investigate the murder of a man found in an alley, with no leads or witnesses. Friday invites Gannon and his wife, and a date over to his apartment for a dinner party.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganVirginia GreggA reporter for a New York magazine wants to do a piece on female police cadets. She's known for not making the people she writes about very attractive. Friday is assigned to escort her around the Academy.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganLew BrownThe LAPD has just been informed that The President of the United States will be making a trip to LA. They have only been given a few hours to prepare. They work with The Secret Service to secure the location at which The President will be holding a press conference.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganRobert PattenGannon & Friday work in the Robbery Division. Several victims identify the same man as being the criminal. The detectives try to find him, as well as evidence that will convict him.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganG.D. SpradlinCon artists convince business owners to pay for an ad for their business in a police magazine and in return, they receive a card which allows them to not have to pay for police tickets. The magazine is not real, and the cards have no value.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganSteve CarlsonA beat police officer asks Sergeant Friday to be his counselor before a review board. The office is accused of accepting a bribe.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganGary CrosbyFriday and Gannon work in the fraud department. Payroll checks are stolen from a studio, as well as driver licenses and credit cards so the checks can be cashed. After they find a suspect, Friday & Gannon realize there is more to the case.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganShannon FarnonFriday and Gannon have less than two hours to find the dog that bit a little girl five days earlier. Normally, treatment consists of serum injections followed by vaccine inoculations, but in this case the girl is highly allergic to the anti-rabies serum and it could kill her.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganStacy HarrisFrank Barker, wants Joe to help him get a firearms license for the Fielder Militia. The LAPD knows that the militia's weapons are stolen from the Army, so they have Joe string Barker along until they can arrest him and grab the weapons.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganVirginia GreggFriday and Gannon are working day watch and must go to the hospital when a veteran police officer and his young partner are seriously wounded in a liquor store holdup where they deal with very different reactions of the wives.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganDave WillockAn old Vaudevillian finds 9 one thousand dollar bills on the street. He uses one to buy his friends drinks at a dive. The next morning a private detective claims that the money was lost by a big time gambler and pressures him to give it back. he does and discovers that the detective was a con man.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganVic PerrinAn addict on parole who's succeeding with his rehabilitation disappears and his parole officer asks the detectives for help finding him before he gets back on the habit.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganNydia WestmanFriday and Gannon are working the day watch out of Frauds Division, Bunco Section. An expert pair of confidence men have moved from Seattle into L.A. Their victims are the elderly and they have been very successful. They pose as bank examiners out to catch crooked tellers and cheat their victims out of their savings. Friday and Gannon will have to catch them in the process of an actual swindle if they are to make a case against them stick.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganMerry AndersThe manager of an apartment building is beaten to death with a hammer. Clues at the scene point to a man named 'Fred', who was playing cards with the victim. Fred has fled, possibly in another tenant's car. Later, Friday gets a call notifying him that Frederick Tosca and his girlfriend are in custody in Arizona. Extradition papers are prepared and Friday, Gannon, and Policewoman Dorothy Miller head to Cottonwood. Tosca admits nothing, but a search of the stolen car turns up a key piece of evidence.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganVirginia GreggA woman claims someone broke into her home and stole her valuable jade jewelery. When Friday and Gannon investigate, they cannot get a straight story from the woman, and they start to think it might be insurance fraud.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganDon MarshallA police officer is shot during a routine stop of a car. Friday and Gannon find the driver and passenger, and learn they are paroled convicts. The police officer cannot remember anything about the shooting event to help convict the two men.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganMerry AndersJoe and Bill are assigned a task to find a purse snatcher. They are surprised to learn it is a dog snatching the purses.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganVirginia GreggBonnie Bates is keeping her late husband's pyramid scheme alive by selling ten-year memberships in his "Dollar-Wise" buying club. Friday and Gannon arrest her and she goes on trial where she starts obscuring the full picture of the scheme.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganDon DubbinsAn ex-con who places an ad in a newspaper gets a reply referring to making a killing for $1000. He turns the reply over to Friday and Gannon who investigate the possibility that the replier is soliciting murder.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganGene BolandA realtor has been missing for several days. Friday and Gannon must find out what happened to her.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganGrant WilliamsFriday and Gannon man the desk at the Business Office Division and deal with radicals, a threatened suicide, a lost child, a diabetic drunk, and an impending tidal wave.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganDon DubbinsFriday and Gannon come up with the idea of using dogs to sniff out marijuana smugglers. They'll have to find a dog and demonstrate it works while enduring their colleagues' skepticism of the wild idea.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganBert HollandFriday and Gannon work in the Frauds Department. Disability payments are being sent to deceased persons, and evidence suggests an insider is involved.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganElizabeth KnowlesA woman invites Friday and Gannon to talk to her Woman's Club about battered children. They train the women to be on the lookout for children who might be abused, and how they can help by becoming foster parents.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganTim DonnellySeveral stores report theft of comic books, posters, and pictures about superheroes. The stores say the thief is in costume.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganChanin HaleFriday and Gannon go undercover at a hotel to find the location of an illegal gambling operation. Soon after spreading the word they're looking for some action they are driven to a late-night game in the Hollywood Hills. After the game the detectives give the location of the residence to their boss and a raid is set for the following night.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganDel MooreThe police department starts to get calls of praise for Officer Dengle who has been helpful and gone above the call of duty. Since there is no Officer Dengle, Friday and Gannon track down the person impersonating an officer.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganSusan Seaforth HayesFriday and Gannon are asked by a woman from Oregon to try to find her niece who has run away from home. Their search eventually leads them into the world of pornography and they soon become involved in the arrest of a pornographer who may have info on where she might be located.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganJill BannerWhen a girl mysteriously disappears from school, Friday and Gannon try to find her and they find out that there are more questions than answers. One question is 'was she abducted by a man named Harper'.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganLew BrownFriday and Gannon are in the courtroom testifying in a case in which the probable cause for them to conduct a search of the suspect's car is in question. The probable cause is to be provided by a witness who is late arriving to court.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganSam EdwardsWhen a man is arrested for possession of illegal pills, he provides information that may help him at trial. The information leads Friday and Gannon to a home used as a pill making factory and the detectives must try to locate the man running the factory.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganBert HollandBrought to their attention by a member of the Department of Animal Regulation, and with an okay from the Captain, Friday and Gannon investigate a rash of reports of lost dogs from a shopping center. Since only one lost dog had been previously reported from the same area, Friday and Gannon suspect criminal activity.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganAnthony EisleyA woman's body is found with no identification on it. Friday and Gannon must try to identify her and their only clue is an unique ring she had on.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganStacy HarrisA forest ranger is brought in when checks and credit cards bearing other names than his own are found in his possession after he is stopped for a traffic violation. Even though he seems to be knowledgeable on the subject of forestry, his answers about the cards and checks lead Friday and Gannon to suspect he is a thief just posing as a ranger.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganLeonard StoneFriday arrests a fellow student after their night school class and incurs the wrath of Professor Grant, who expels him after a vote of the other students at their next meeting. Friday demands a chance to plead his case to the students before a second vote is taken. Grant says he must garner 2/3 of the votes to be reinstated.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganVirginia GreggFriday and Gannon are assigned to investigate Norm Bivins and Earl Malone, veteran homicide investigators accused of stealing $800 from a dead man. Agnes Emerson, who handled the man's business affairs, claims she gave Bivins and Malone his personal property, including $1000. They say the amount received was $200. Unfortunately, neither side can produce a receipt.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganMichael BurnsFriday and Gannon encounter Benjy "Blue Boy" Carver, an LSD user. Because of the then-lack of any laws against the use of LSD, they are unable to make a case against him, and Carver's parents are of no help. Finally, legislation is passed against LSD use and sale, but by then it may be too late for "Blue Boy".
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganHoward CulverIn this final episode, Friday and Gannon talk to a new policeman about the importance of police officers and detectives working together, and understanding the victims and criminals.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganKent McCordFriday and Gannon question Officer Paul Culver, on the job only 114 days and currently working undercover out of the narcotics division, about the armed robbery of a liquor store in Hollywood. Despite a positive identification in the line-up and thinking he failed the lie-detector tests, Culver swears he is innocent.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganRon RussellFriday and Gannon try to stop a string of robberies by men wearing red masks. A red Cadillac and tip from a drive-in theater waitress lead the pair to a juvenile who may be the key to discovering the identity of the gang members.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganAudrey DaltonFriday and Gannon try to track down the driver who hit and run with a pedestrian.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganWilliam ReynoldsThe detectives break up a gambling ring. Friday is undercover.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganHarry BartellFriday and Gannon investigate the theft of a statue of the baby Jesus from a church's nativity scene on Christmas Eve. The figure itself has little monetary value. Father Xavier Rojas explains this Jesus statue has been at the church for decades and has great sentimental value to the parishioners. The detectives pursue a lead but come up empty. As they return to Father Rojas, a small boy is pulling a wagon with the statue in it. The boy had prayed for a new wagon and promised the baby Jesus the first ride if he received it. The episode is a remake of "The Big Little Baby Jesus" from the original series, with three cast members (in addition to Jack Webb) reprising their original roles.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganFred VincentThe crash of a small aircraft offers Friday and Gannon an opportunity. Inside the plane officers discover marijuana and heroin with a total street value over a million. If they can find the pilot, and get the drop location from him, they may be able to follow the chain of criminals to the very top. But they only have five hours: after that the criminals will realize their shipment is missing and disappear. Canvassing neighborhoods at 1:45am eventually puts them onto the pilot, but he won't cooperate. Of course, as Friday reminds him, when he fails to make his shipment on time his criminal bosses are likely to be murderously unhappy. His insurance plan - an article in the newspaper about the crash - won't help him, since Friday has persuaded the news hounds to withhold that item. Stuck, he puts them onto the drop site, and that leads them to the pick up men. If they can get the pick up men to talk, they might just cage the top dog.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganJill DonohueA woman calls the police department with the news that her son called her and said he is going to kill himself. All that Gannon and Friday know - he is somewhere in a hotel with 1200 rooms.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganJohn SebastianA known extortionist claims he is innocent of recent charges. Gannon and Friday interrogate him about different incidents, and then bring out a surprise device which proves his guilt.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganRoger MobleyA teenage shoplifting gang is targeting a group of stores. It turns out the kids belong to a club, The Mod Squad, which requires them to steal $20 in clothes. Friday and Gannon go to the high school to talk to the boys before they get into more trouble.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganCarol ByronFriday and Gannon are working the day watch out of homicide when they respond to a late night call at the house of Jessie Gaynor. Her daughter Nora Hamlin is staying with her due to a separation from her husband. The call involves a gunshot heard from a locked study where Carl Hamlin's body is discovered. It is assumed at first that he killed himself but when Ray Murray from SID tells them that the bullet doesn't match the gun it turns into a murder case.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganVirginia GreggA modern-day gypsy runs a spiritual guidance business as a method to steal money from clients. Friday and Gannon go undercover to catch her in policy bribery to put other gypsies out of business and protect her own business.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganBrooke BundyFriday and Gannon investigate abuse to babies. One mother claims her child fell down the stairs, but they find the father beat the child. The baby dies. The parents never wanted the child.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganAlice BackesA man is eligible for parole from a Colorado prison. There's only one problem, there is an outstanding felony warrant on him in LA fourteen years ago. The Colorado authorities will not release him until they are informed on the disposition of the warrant. Friday and Gannon must re-investigate the case to see whether the case is prosecutable.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganBert HollandThere have been a number of business burglaries the latest of which is a chemical supply firm. If properly combined, chemicals that were taken can be made into explosives such as TNT and gun cotton. One missing chemical will act as a catalyst in the explosives and Friday and Gannon must find the suspects before the thieves realize it.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganNydia WestmanThe police ask the press to publicize the M.O. of a woman who burglarizes elderly people in an effort to either catch her or scare her out of Los Angeles. She claims that an employment agency sent her out and when told that they never asked for help, she gains their confidence by doing things for them and steals valuables while doing it.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganJim B. SmithA horrifying mass murder at a rooming house leaves no discernible suspects, unless a witness who fled the scene can be found. Meanwhile, still another corpse shows up in an upstairs bedroom.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganAnthony EisleyFriday has a temporary partner when Gannon is out for the day. The new partner is from the Vice Department. He tests Friday by offering a bribe.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganMichael BurnsA teenager is caught after taking a car for joy riding. Friday and Gannon try to help the boy realize he is on the wrong path for life, and should change his way.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganVic PerrinSelf-defense or murder one? The title object plays a key part in determining which occurred when a man shot his girlfriend's lover during an argument.