A suicide bomber enters City Hall with an explosives device strapped to his chest. He threatens to detonate it unless his convict brother is released from jail.
An actor addicted to heroin leads Friday and Jacobs to a drug trafficking ring.
In response to a classified ad, Friday poses as a hired killer for a man who wants to murder his wife.
A newborn baby is stolen from a hospital maternity ward and the trail leads to a mentally ill woman who believes that the child is her own.
Friday heads the interrogation of a suspect whom the police believe is responsible for at least a dozen murders.
Friday is on the scene after a doctor is assaulted and robbed of prescription drugs from his office.
This time, Friday investigates the murder of a couple who were killed along with their pet parrot.
Friday investigates the murder of a wealthy man.
A divorcee is killed in her bed by a shotgun blast. Making things even more grizzly is the fact that her young son was sleeping in the bed next to her.
The main witness against a hit-and-run driver disappears shortly before being scheduled to give testimony.
A secretary is found beaten to death and there seems to be no real motive for the crime. Eventually, the trail leads to a fanatically religious former beau whom she rejected.
Investigating a jewelry store robbery, Friday discovers tape recorded evidence that the store owner hired someone to commit the robbery.
A man claims his wife killed herself right before his very eyes. Friday investigates and finds that the evidence suggests otherwise.
Friday and Jacobs try to catch a safecracker.
Friday tries to talk a jumper down from the ledge of a tall building.
Friday tries to cope with his partner's sudden and unexpected death while tracking a pair of escaped cons with his new partner.
Friday and Smith are on the trail of someone who left the body of a dead woman in an elevator.
Teenage drug use is the theme of this episode as Friday and Smith investigate a group of teens who are using and selling dope.
It's a busy night for Friday and Smith when they work traffic detail. They have to investigate three accidents.
A missing young boy is found and returned to his grandfather but the man suspects that the lad might be an imposter.
Tragedy ensues when a young boy is given a gun as a Christmas present.
Friday goes after a corrupt officer who's on the take from a crime syndicate.
An elderly woman is passing a series of bad checks.
A woman is murdered. The weapon: an overdose of chloroform.
An infant baby is found abandoned in a bus station.
Friday and Smith are on the scene when an office safe goes missing.
A woman beging receiving threatening letters from a person or persons unknown.
Arrested for the murder of his fiancee, a suspect loudly proclaims his innocence to Friday and Smith.
Friday is assigned to discover which one of his police colleagues is on the take.
A murderer leaves a rose as his calling card. Friday and Smith are out to pay a call on him.
Friday and Smith can find no trace of the wife of a prominent dentist. To complicate things, the tooth puller denies that she is missing.
When a hit-and-run driver strikes down two elderly women, Friday and Smith are on the scene.
A convict escapes from custody and is considered armed and dangerous. Friday and Smith are assigned to bring him in.
On a movie set, a crewman is killed by a falling light. Was it an accident or murder? It's up to Friday and Smith to figure things out.
An immigrant is found brutally beaten to death? Did his abused wife have anything to do with it?
A young man reports being robbed by bandits riding on horseback.
Friday's pal asks for his help when he discovers that his son is using narcotics and might be selling them too.
In order to force his tenants out of his building, a landlord first tries threats then fire.
After eating dinner at home, a man suddenly becomes ill and passes away. Was it poisoning or just plain bad cooking?
Friday goes after the man who shot his partner, Officer Smith.
Friday and Smith suspect a serial killer when a dead woman with a broken neck is discovered in a hotel room.
On the Fourth of July, Friday and Smith are assigned to work out of Central Receiving Hospital.
Friday and Smith must decide between two suspects in the strangulation murder of a woman.
A 21 year old woman is brutally murdered. Friday and Smith are on the case.
Friday and Smith lead a manhunt for two hoods who appear to have gone underground.
Friday and Smith investigate yet another drug ring operating in the city.
A strong arm bandit threatens the family of Officer Smith unless he backs off the case.
Friday and Smith go after a gang of bunco artists who are selling defective watches.
A teenage boy is caught stealing food with which to feed his impoverished family.
Friday and Smith go after a gang that has been robbing drug stores.
A citizen accuses a rookie police officer of assault and robbery.
Friday and Smith investigate the murder of a young woman who came to Hollywood with dreams of becoming a movie star.
A wealthy man is murdered. Was the culprit one of his heirs?
This time, Friday and Smith are out to nail a ring of truck hijackers.
Friday goes undercover in prison to obtain a confession from a convict who earlier killed a police officer.
A statue of the Baby Jesus is stolen from a church and Friday and Smith must find it before Christmas morning services.
Taking a coffee and doughnuts break in a diner, Friday and Smith overhear a suspicious conversation and decide to pursue the matter further.
Three winos are the chief suspects in the murder of a woman who was found dead in a motel room tied to a chair.
Friday and Smith apprehend a boy who has been vandalizing private property but when they delve into his home life they discover that the apple does not fall too far from the tree.
The police stakeout a hotel lobby awaiting the arrival of four juvenile armed robbers and must deal with an inebriated desk clerk.
A young girl commits suicide. Friday and Smith are assigned to investigate.
Foul play is suspected when a highway patrolman disappears from his car alongside a deserted road.
Friday and Smith charge a mother with neglecting her three children after they are found abandoned, dirty, and hungry.
Friday and Smith investigate the case of an elderly couple who mysteriously disappeared from the ritzy neighborhood in which they resided.
A burglar poses as a doctor in order to rob the house of a mentally ill woman.
An elderly man apparently committed suicide by shooting himself with a rifle but Friday and Smith soon discover that it was actually a homicide.
On shoplifting detail, Friday and Smith apprehend the culprit--a wealthy housewife who's a kleptomaniac.
A woman and her grandson are runover by a bakery truck but the driver has an ironclad alibi.
Friday and Smith go after a pistol packin' mama who's on a robbery rampage.
Friday and Smith go after a corrupt fellow officer.
When an elderly woman is beaten and robbed on her way to the bank, the trail leads to a washed-up prizefighter.
When a dead body is discovered lying in the gutter, the only clue is a pair of skid marks discovered nearby.
A man with fierce guard dogs is the prime suspect in the disappearance of his wife.
Neighborhood small businesses are inundated with forged checks. Friday and Smith are soon on the scene.
After a man is beaten and robbed, the thieves try intimidating his family so that the man won't testify against them.
A single mother is found stabbed to death in her home. On the suspect list are her estranged teenage son and numerous boyfriends.
After a store manager identifies a robbery suspect, Friday and Smith think he might have identified the wrong man.
Friday and Smith discover that a man claiming to be a Hollywood producer is in reality the head of a pornography ring.
Con artists posing as policemen are victimizing out of town businessmen at a swanky hotel.
Friday and Smith rush to the scene when four year old twin girls are abducted from a city park.
A burglar robs the residence of an old man and his granddaughter leaving them penniless and hungry.
Friday arrests an old Army buddy for a liquor store robbery. Then the old chum escapes from jail.
A businessman is reported missing. Friday and Smith are assigned to the case.
Friday and Smith are on the trail of a serial killer who murders bartenders.
In this two-parter, Friday and Smith search for the shooters of a gangland boss.
Friday and Smith must find the killer of a gangland boss before open gang war begins.
On New Year's Eve, Friday and Smith have a busy evening.
On bunco detail, Friday and Smith go after a con artist who's using the want ads.
An unfaithful wife holds the key to the location of a wanted hold-up man with whom she's been having an affair.
A wife plans to leave her husband but he locks himself in his den and threatens to commit suicide if she proceeds.
Friday is tabbed to go undercover in order to bust a narcotics ring that is operating out of a swank hotel.
Friday and Smith pull weekend duty at the business office where they must deal with a mountain of paperwork.
Two teenagers driving a souped up car run over and kill an expectant mother.
Heavily armed bandits break a couple of their comrades out of jail.
Friday and Smith are on the trail of a family of con artists who are pulling scams all over Los Angeles.
A burglar plans to break into a bank vault through an undeground tunnel. It's up to Friday and Smith to stop him.
Friday and Smith team up with a reporter to investigate TV repairmen who are scamming their customers.
Friday and Smith attempt to track down a stolen television set.
An ornery old coot grabs his shotgun and threatens to kill the man who poisoned his beloved canine.
A stolen check is a key lead in a series of used car lot robberies.
It's another rough Christmas Eve for Friday and Smith when a woman's badly mutilated body is found in a churchyard. The only clue happens to be a key found lying underneath her body.
A thief is robbing mailboxes and trying to cash the checks of others.
Friday and Smith are after a man who's been writing a whole slew of bad checks.
Friday and Smith investigate the case of a woman who was abducted, beaten, and rolled in hot tar.
Friday and Smith work with the FBI on a bank robbery and are aided by a witness getting three numbers from the robber's car license plate.
A masked bandit who's been holding up grocery stores keeps eluding the police.
A con artist uses fake diamonds to swindle jewelers. Friday and Smith are on his trail.
Friday and Smith investigate the robbery of an appliance store.
An unusual footprint helps Friday and Smith solve a murder case.
A flower shop owner shoots and kills a robber but then the corpse disappears.
Friday and Smith go after teens selling fraudulent magazine subscriptions.
An informant gives Friday and Smith a hot tip about a criminal.
The search for a missing woman turns into a murder investigation for Friday and Smith.
The targets this time are two hold-up men who are robbing and beating pedestrians in the downtown area.
Friday and Smith investigate the murder of a young woman who was beaten to death with a led pipe.
A gang begins looting large department stores in Los Angeles.
A man walks into the police station and confesses to a murder but the police have a hard time verifying his story.
Friday and Smith investigate yet another robbery.
This time, Friday and Smith take on the case of a woman who was assaulted outside her home.
Friday goes after a robber who only steals from pet stores and homes that have pet birds.
Friday and Smith go after a con man who preys on lonely women.
A handyman is the leading suspect in the brutal beating of an elderly couple.
Friday and Smith go after a forger who's been using a dead man's account to write bad checks.
A nightclub owner gets shot down and there are no witnesses to the shooting.
Friday and Smith apprehend a young man trying to pawn a stolen ring.
An anonymous note leads Friday and Smith to a group of drug using teens.
Friday and Smith are called upon to solve a seemingly perfect crime.
On the New Year's Eve shift, Friday and Smith reminisce about some of their past cases.
An elderly woman files a false burglary report.
After robbing two stores, a suspect has Friday and Smith on his trail.
When a city councilman is beaten to death outside a crawl and fall it's up to Friday and Smith to find his killer.
Friday and Smith rush to track down the mother of a two year old child who was reported drinking bleach.
Friday and Smith are called into investigate the fatal shooting of the owner of a liquor store.
Friday tries to talk a former mental patient out of killing both himself and his family.
The police are in a Mexican stand-off with a fleeing bank robber who has taken a woman hostage in her own home.
Friday and Smith interrogate a robbery suspect who proves that he's a tough nut to crack.
Friday is assigned to undercover duty to apprehend a pair of brothers who pose as real estate agents in order to steal people's money.
A police officer is accused of taking a bribe in order to arrange a prisoner's unauthorized release.
Two men kill an off-duty police officer in a downtown bar. Friday and Smith are assigned to the case.
Acting on an informant's tip, Friday goes undercover to intercept a shipment of heroin that's supposed to be entering the country.
Assigned to bunco duty, Friday and Smith get on the trail of another con artist.
A teen turns himself into the police and confesses to being addicted to drugs but he refuses to narc on his suppliers.
Police find a young man hiding in an empty train car. The youth has a big problem--there's the strangled body of a woman next to him.
A tiger escapes from its circus cage and goes on the loose in Los Angeles.
A wife calls the police and reports that her husband is about to commit a crime. Friday and Smith investigate.
A group of policewomen acts as decoys in order to apprehend a stick-up artist preying on women.
A man is forging checks to keep himself and his wife in a plush lifestyle but when he buys a slick convertable it puts Friday and Smith on his trail.
A teenager under arrest informs the police that his brother is planning a robbery.
The major clue to identifying a robber is the unusual tattoo on his body.
Friday and Smith are assigned to investigate a gambling ring.
A father reports that his teenaged daughter is missing and a murdered pet is discovered in her room.
A salesman informs police that he was robbed by two men with whom he soaked suds the night before at a crawl and fall.
Friday and Smith are on the trail of a burglar who operates in broad daylight.
Once again Friday and Smith are assigned to investigate a series of burglaries.
A man fails to return home after going out with a business partner.
A bandit with a sawed-off shotgun is robbing hotels in downtown Los Angeles. A clue to his identity is that he's missing a front tooth.
In this change of pace episode, Friday and Smith try to track down a tourist's purse which was left in the back seat of a taxicab.
Friday and Smith are on bunco detail again.
Friday and Smith pursue an unusual robber/arsonist. He takes nothing of value from a house and then sets it on fire.
Friday and Smith investigate a former employee of a tie manufacturing company in connection with a robbery.
A dog that continually howls leads to the discovery of the body of a woman buried in her garden.
Friday and Smith are on the trail of a hit-and-run driver who ran over a little girl.
Friday and Smith go after a salvage yard operator who's been fixing up stolen cars.
A dropped matchbook is the key to the identity of robbers who stuck up an auction house.
A thief takes to robbing the homes of people who are in attendance at weddings and funerals.
Three masked bandits are responsible for over thirty robberies but their streak comes to an end when Friday and Smith are assigned to the case.
A bakery owner and his daughter are killed during a robbery.
Friday and Smith investigate a swindle that involves fake license plates.
A husband reports that his wife ran off with their small daughter and the man with whom she was having an affair.
A woman picks up the wrong prescription which could lead to fatal consequences. Friday and Smith hurry to find her before it's too late.
There's a fulll moon out on Friday and Smith's night shift. That means all sorts of weird things are happening.
Friday and Smith are on the case investigating a series of jade robberies.
Once again, Friday and Smith must track down a hit and run motorist.
A father accuses his son of stabbing him but the youth has an ironclad alibi.
Friday and Smith go after a bank robber known as the Gentleman Bandit.
A crook writes bad checks to purchase clothes and then sells the duds for a profit.
Friday and Smith get involved in a turf war between rival teenage gangs.
Friday and Smith investigate a man's claim that a police officer blackmailed him for money and then beat him up.
A supermarket bandit's calling card is leaving crackers strewn all over the floors of the stores he robs.
An ex-convict is Friday and Smith's ally in taking down a forgery ring that has cashed thousands of dollars in payroll checks.
Friday and Smith go after a con man who swindles grieving relatives after their loved ones pass away.
A husband and wife are found dead of an apparent murder-suicide. Friday and Smith investigate.
Friday and Smith investigate a report of a man physically abusing his wife.
Friday and Smith go after a seemingly mild and innocent con woman known as Sweet Annie.
Another day, another robbery case for Friday and Smith.
A man steals worthless objects from a woman and gets Friday and Smith on his trail.
It's a missing persons case for Friday and Smith who search for a child.
Friday and Smith are after a gang of hoods in this episode.
Friday goes undercover as a bar owner to smash an illegal jukebox racket.
Friday and Smith pursue two escaped convicts across the Mexican border.
Friday is assigned to undercover detail in order to nab a murderous neo-Nazi.
A gang of teens are swiping expensive sports cars.
Friday and Smith try to retrieve a woman's stolen jade collection.
On bunco detail again, Friday and Smith go after con artists selling phony magazine subscriptions.
A doctor making fraudulent insurance claims is the latest quarry of Friday and Smith.
Friday and Smith are after a man selling forged passports.
An insurance adjuster files a report with Friday about fraudulent insurance claims.
Friday and a postal inspector try to nab a gang using the mail to scam their victims.
A paper boy and a bartender are the keys to finding the suspects who beat and robbed an elderly couple.
Friday and Smith go after a robber nicknamed the Rattlesnake Bandit.
Friday and Smith go after husband and wife con artists.
A blackmail victim refuses to pay his blackmailer so he's beaten and robbed.
A young girl commits suicide after she's tricked into prostitution by procurers posing as talent agents.
Friday and Smith investigate whether or not someone attempted to kill a man.
Cabbies are the victims of a series of robberies but their descriptions of the suspects don't match.
Friday and Smith set out to stop a phony police officer who's asking for donations from his victims for the police widows and orphans fund.
In the series finale, Friday and Smith once again investigate a series of robberies.