Season 5

September 30, 1955

A man walks into the station and tells Friday that he wants to confess to a murder, but the cops have a hard time varifying his story.

October 7, 1955

A pawn shop owner alerts Friday and Smith when a man claimed to have purchased an expensive ring that turns out to be junk and then asked the pawn shop owner to sell him a gun.

October 14, 1955

A woman is dragged from her home and badly beaten by an unknown attacker.

October 21, 1955

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.

October 28, 1955

Sgt. Friday investigates a robber who only targets pet stores and homes that have pet birds.

November 4, 1955

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

November 11, 1955

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

November 18, 1955

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.

November 25, 1955

A night club owner is shot down and there are no witnesses to the crime.

December 2, 1955

Friday and Smith happen to catch a man trying to sell a stolen ring at a pawn shop.

December 9, 1955

An anonymous note leads Friday and Smith to a group of teenage drug users and their neglectful parents.

December 16, 1955

Friday and Smith investigate what seems to be the perfect crime.

December 30, 1955

During a quiet New Year's shift, Friday and Smith remember some of their past cases and why it is they became cops.

January 6, 1956

January 13, 1956

An elderly woman fakes a burglary report so she can get attention from the police and the media.

January 20, 1956

January 27, 1956

Friday and Smith are on the trail of a robbery suspect that has robbed two stores.

February 3, 1956

A city councilman is beaten and robbed by two men outside a bar. When he dies from his injuries, Friday and Smith feel pressure to find the killers.

February 10, 1956

A two-year-old child after drinking bleach from under the sink. Friday and Smith are unable to locate the mother for questioning.

February 17, 1956

A liquor store owner is shot and killed during a botched robbery, but police can find no trace of the fatal bullet.

February 24, 1956

Friday and Smith investigate a missing persons report.

March 2, 1956

Friday gets a call from a former mental patient who is threatening to kill himself and his family.

March 9, 1956

Police find themselves in a stand-off when an armed bank robber takes a woman hostage in her home.

March 16, 1956

March 23, 1956

Friday and Smith hit a blank wall when a burglary suspect refuses to admit where he hid his stash.

March 30, 1956

Friday goes undercover to catch brothers who steal people's money by posing as real-estate agents.

April 6, 1956

A police officer is suspended from duty when he is accused of taking a bribe in exchange for a prisoner's release.

April 13, 1956

Two bandits turn cop killer when they gun down an off-duty policeman during a tavern hold-up.

April 20, 1956

An informant tips off police to a shipment of heroin coming into the country. Friday goes under cover to bust open the ring.

April 27, 1956

Friday and Smith are investigating a rash of car thefts. The stolen cars are being sold with forged pink slips.

May 4, 1956

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.

May 11, 1956

A young man is found hiding in an empty train car with the strangled body of an older woman next to him.

May 18, 1956

May 25, 1956

June 1, 1956