Season 3

September 24, 1953

Friday and Smith track down a confidence ring who are selling defective watches.

October 1, 1953

A teenage boy steals food for his starving family.

October 8, 1953

Friday and Smith are on the trail of a gang that is robbing local drugstores.

October 15, 1953

October 22, 1953

A police rookie is accused of assaulting a citizen and stealing his money.

October 29, 1953

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

November 5, 1953

A man is found dead in an alley and it's up to Friday and Smith to find his killer and notify the man's wife.

November 12, 1953

Friday and Smith investigate the murder of a rich man.

November 19, 1953

Friday and Smith try to capture a ring of truck hijackers.

November 26, 1953

December 3, 1953

A cop is gunned down at home by a vengeful ex con. Friday must go under cover in prison to obtain a full confession.

December 10, 1953

Friday and Smith investigate a con man that marries rich women just for their money.

December 17, 1953

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

December 24, 1953

A statue of the Child Jesus is stolen from a church. Friday and Smith must find it before the paritioners miss it on Christmas morning.

December 31, 1953

Friday and Smith overhear a suspicious conversation while on a coffee break in a diner.

January 7, 1954

Three men are taken into custody for the murder of a former vaudeville actress who owned a large steamer trunk. The three men maintain innocence.

January 14, 1954

Friday and Smith catch a boy who has been vandalising private property, but they discover that the boy's problems begin at home.

January 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.

January 28, 1954

Friday and Smith investigate the death of a young girl that is initially ruled a suicide but turns out to be murder.

February 4, 1954

Signs point to foul play when a highway patrolman disappears from his car along a deserted road.

February 11, 1954

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

February 18, 1954

An elderly couple suddenly disappears from a fashionable neighborhood.

February 25, 1954

A man posing as a doctor burgles the house of a woman who is mentally disturbed.

March 4, 1954

An elderly man appears to have killed himself with a rifle, but the cops soon learn that it was no accident.

March 11, 1954

Friday and Smith are surprised to find a wealthy house wife is a shoplifter, until they discover that she is a kleptomaniac.

March 18, 1954

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

March 25, 1954

April 1, 1954

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

April 8, 1954

Friday and Smith investigate a corrupt cop.

April 15, 1954

An elderly woman is badly beaten and robbed while on her way to the bank. The trail leads to an ex prize fighter.

April 22, 1954

A man's body is found in the gutter and the only clue is a pair of skid marks found nearby.

April 29, 1954

A woman disappears and her husband is the prime suspect, but Friday and Smith will have a hard time getting past his fierce guard dogs.

May 6, 1954

A check forger is victimizing small businessmen in a particular neighborhood.

May 13, 1954

A man is beaten and robbed, then the thieves intimidate him and his family so he'll refuse to testify against them.

May 20, 1954

A single mother is stabbed to death in her home. The list of suspects includes her teenage son and her many boyfriends.

May 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.