| Episode # | Title | Partner | Department | Original air date{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=32 | Title=Max Tyler – Escaped Convict | AltTitle=The Big Escape | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Robbery | 1950|01|05}} | ShortSummary=Two armed bandits have robbed large jewelry stores in the city. One suspect escapes but one is apprehended and identified as a friend of Friday's, Max Tyler. However, Tyler escapes from jail, and shoots and injures Romero. It's up to Friday to recapture him again.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=33 | Title=The Big Man Part 1 (Narcotics) | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Narcotics | 1950|01|12}} | ShortSummary=A vicious criminal has resumed his narcotics operations in the city. The police know his name and know he's guilty, so Friday goes undercover to try to get evidence on him by infiltrating a Flats gang of narcotics pushers.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=34 | Title=The Big Man Part 2 (Narcotics) | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Narcotics | 1950|01|19}} | ShortSummary=For seven months, Friday's been working with federal and state agents in breaking a narcotics ring. After returning to active duty from his undercover assignment (from part 1), he helped apprehended a small fry in the narcotics trade. The police then turn their attention to the number one man in the narcotics business on the west coast, the big man, Arthur Z. Belmont. A stakeout begins in Manhattan Beach.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=35 | Title=Claude Jimmerson - Child Killer | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Homicide | 1950|02|02}} | ShortSummary=Two little girls, aged seven and eleven, are reported missing at about 3:45pm. Somewhere between their homes and the neighborhood grocery store they dropped from sight. Foul play is suspected when their pet Collie is later found beaten to death.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=36 | Title=The Big Girl | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Robbery | 1950|02|09}} | ShortSummary=The cops search for a big blonde who shoots her victims in cold blood. So far sixteen persons have been robbed and beaten senseless. The victims describe the assailant as a tall, beautiful woman, but there is a possibility it could be a man wearing woman's clothing.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=37 | Title=The Big Grifter | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Bunco | 1950|02|23}} | ShortSummary=An expert confidence man, "Gentleman Wallace", has resumed operations in Los Angeles. His criminal record dates back thirty-five years. He's a born con-man, a master in the art of the gentle swindle whose taken advantage of two used-car dealers, and many others.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=38 | Title=The Big Kill | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Homicide | 1950|03|02}} | ShortSummary=A police officer is shot down on the front steps of his home. There's no apparent motive for the shooting and the assailant escaped in a blue sedan. Jack Carver, just out of Folsom, is later suspected of killing the cop for revenge for sending him to prison. Friday poses as a criminal in jail to find the missing murder weapon.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=39 | Title=The Big Thank You | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Homicide | 1950|03|09}} | ShortSummary=A confessed murderer, Annie Johnson, is paroled from the state prison for women from a murder conviction. After seven months the parole office loses contact with her. She is then suspected of harming Laura Muller, the woman responsible for her parole and has since disappeared. Foul play is suspected.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=40 | Title=The Big Boys | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Robbery | 1950|03|16}} | ShortSummary=A gang of four young hoodlums and their puppy have come to Los Angeles from San Francisco. They are already wanted for a series of robberies in San Francisco and are planning to pull a big job in Los Angeles. They're armed, reckless and cold-blooded, but a long stake-out with an alcoholic desk clerk might provide results.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=41 | Title=The Big Gangster Part 1 | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Homicide | 1950|03|23}} | ShortSummary=Attempts have been made on the life of a notorious gangster, Gus Valentine. If he dies, it could mean an open gang war. Even though he is on the wrong side of the law, the cops must protect him.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=42 | Title=The Big Gangster Part 2 | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Homicide | 1950|03|30}} | ShortSummary=Notorious gangster Gus Valentine has been shot to death, a gang war is threatened, and his gang members seek revenge. It is Friday and Romero's job to find his killers before the other gangsters do.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=43 | Title=The Big Book | AltTitle=The Big Smut Press | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Juvenile | 1950|04|06}} | ShortSummary=High schools have been flooded with obscene, filthy, pornographic "comic" book literature. The Police stamp out one source and a dozen more spring up. Friday and Romero make a presentation to the local PTA and a lead brings them to a cigar stand downtown and a man called "Barney" and then eventually to the printer.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=44 | Title=The Big Watch | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Robbery | 1950|04|13}} | ShortSummary=A gang of vicious "Hitch-Hike Bandits" are committing assaults, robberies and attempted murders. Their victims are army officers stationed in the city. After one of the victims is killed by the gunmen, a manhunt is on.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=45 | Title=The Big Trial | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Traffic: Accident Investigation
(Hit and Run Felony Detail) | 1950|04|20}} | ShortSummary=In the early hours of the morning Sheila Gordon is struck down by a hit-and-run driver. After three months of grueling police work, she takes a payoff not to show up for the trial of the guy who struck her down. Friday and Romero have to chase her down.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=46 | Title=The Big Job | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Homicide | 1950|04|27}} | ShortSummary=The Police receive information that an escaped criminal, called Alfred Garvey, is hiding out in the City. While searching for him at a hotel Garvey shoots an off-duty cop, and friend of Friday and Romero, John Maxwell. He was about to go on vacation but decided to visit Friday and Romero first. Soon a Police manhunt is launched to find Garvey.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=47 | Title=The Big Badge | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Homicide | 1950|05|04}} | ShortSummary=For two months, "The Badge Bandit", a depraved criminal who pretends to be a police officer, has struck fifteen times. Men and women have been robbed, brutally attacked. Friday and Policewoman Dorothy Rivers go on stake out to catch him, along with several other members of the LAPD.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=48 | Title=The Big Knife | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Juvenile | 1950|05|11}} | ShortSummary=Twenty one girls have been knifed while at a high school. So far there's only been assaults, no murders, but with a potential killer roaming the halls of the high school, the Police are called in.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=49 | Title=The Big Pug | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Robbery | 1950|05|18}} | ShortSummary=Two criminals rob and beat up Myrtle Shaw, an elderly woman, who was on her way to the bank. The suspects are cruel and ruthless, so it's the police and Friday's job to find them.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=50 | Title=The Big Key | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Homicide | 1950|05|25}} | ShortSummary=Maria Comacho is found murdered in a churchyard; her body shows the marks of a savage attack. The clues are meager: a key, a pen, and some shoe polish smear.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=51 | Title=The Big Fake | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Personnel | 1950|06|01}} | ShortSummary=A drunk files a report of robbery and assault (including breaking his arm) against a rookie police officer. The Rookie cop denies the accusations.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=52 | Title=The Big Smart Guy | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Homicide | 1950|06|08}} | ShortSummary=Elizabeth Benham has been shot to death. The apparent motive, according to her husband, was robbery. The killer, Jack Morrison, also known as Tommy Kane, is suspected to have committed the murder, but it is believed that he had help.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=53 | Title=The Big Purse | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Robbery | 1950|06|15}} | ShortSummary=Scores of lone women have been beaten and robbed by two young purse-snatchers working in a downtown neighborhood. The victims have been unable to identify the two young hoodlums.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=54 | Title=The Big Mink | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Homicide | 1950|06|22}} | ShortSummary=The owner of a fur store, Albert Criver, has been shot and killed; his wife found the body. The only lead is a missing mink fur coat which had been taken before the murder. Albert's 1940 Oldsmobile is also missing and his wife mentions the license keychain tag distributed by the Veteran's Administration.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=55 | Title=The Big Grab | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Homicide | 1950|06|29}} | ShortSummary=A woman, Mrs. Kessell, has been kidnapped, taken from her home by a man posing as a police officer.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=56 | Title=The Big Frame | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Traffic: Accident Investigation
(Hit and Run Felony Detail) | 1950|07|06}} | ShortSummary=A dead body is found in the streets in the early hours of the morning. He is later identified as Edward Stokes, a victim of a hit and run driver.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=57 | Title=The Big Bomb | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Unassigned | 1950|07|13}} | ShortSummary=Friday has been off-duty for 2 hours when he receives an emergency phone call from the Deputy Chief of Police. An entire block in the heart of the city has been threatened with complete destruction by Vernon Carney. He is threatening to blow up City Hall with a bomb if his brother, Elwood Carney, isn't freed from jail by nine o'clock.- Remake of "Attempted City Hall Bombing".
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=58 | Title=The Big Gent Part 1 | AltTitle=Frank Chaney - The Gentleman Bandit: Part 1 | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Robbery | 1950|07|20}} | ShortSummary=A hold-up has been committed in a neighbouring city where a bystander is shot to death and two others are wounded. The bandits are ruthless, well armed and currently known to be in the area. Friday and Romero identify one of them as Frank Cheney, The Gentleman Bandit, a rich man who robs and kills for fun, even after an eighteen year stay in Folsom State Prison. Soon, Stanley Turk Webber, Cheney's partner in crime, is captured, but Cheney remains at large.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=59 | Title=The Big Gent Part 2 | AltTitle=Frank Chaney - The Gentleman Bandit: Part 2 | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Robbery | 1950|07|27}} | ShortSummary=Three persons are shot down in a twelve thousand dollar hold up. One of the bandits, Stanley Turk Webber, is apprehended, convicted and sent to prison for life. The other one, Frank Chaney, is still at large. But thanks to a tip from Cheney's father, he is captured at a freighter loading dynamite in the harbor. Meanwhile in an unrelated subplot, Friday calls fellow officer, Dorothy Rivers, about her lost purse and their date at the movies the previous night. Friday works up the courage to ask her to have dinner with him at his mother's next week.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=60 | Title=The Big Dare | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Homicide | 1950|08|03}} | ShortSummary=A woman is knifed to death, and her body bears the mark of a brutally slain attack. The Police are called in by the woman's son who had found the body. During the investigation, it's revealed the mom had several boyfriends, and one of her current boyfriends was jealous of her having other boyfriends. As the Dragnet closes in on the killer, his sister arranges for the suspects surrender.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=61 | Title=The Big Actor | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Narcotics | 1950|08|10}} | ShortSummary=St. Christopher's Hospital pharmacy is held up and $10,000 worth of high grade narcotics are stolen. The Police are called but the bandits escape.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=62 | Title=The Big Youngster | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Juvenile | 1950|08|17}} | ShortSummary=A vicious case of wanton and willful destruction of private property occurs to a lawyers office and suspicion points to a juvenile. The police try to find out who did it and why. Meanwhile, a young boy named Arnold Waterman confesses to a murder. When no body is found, Waterman is suspected of being the vandal Friday is looking for.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=63 | Title=The Big Chance | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Homicide | 1950|08|24}} | ShortSummary=A highway patrolman has disappeared from his cruiser, out in the countryside. His cruiser was found with the motor running and lights on.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=64 | Title=The Big Check | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Forgery | 1950|08|31}} | ShortSummary=Friday and Romero must track down an accomplished check forger who passes dozens of small checks—all of them bad. He has started working the city and his victims are small businessmen. The police know his MO but not his identity; soon they get a name Harry Johansson and the Dragnet closes in.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=65 | Title=The Big Poison | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Homicide | 1950|09|07}} | ShortSummary=Mr. and Mrs. Apperson, an elderly couple, living in a fashionable neighborhood of the city, have disappeared. There is no trace of them; not a clue to their whereabouts. Foul play is suspected and soon a bottle of cyanide points to a grim conclusion, involving the live-in nephew.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=66 | Title=The Big Make | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Robbery | 1950|09|14}} | ShortSummary=A small bakery, "Stendahl's Bakery Shop", is held up. The perpetrator shot the shop owner and his daughter down without reason.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=67 | Title=The Big Pair | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Burglary | 1950|09|21}} | ShortSummary=A couple of unidentified thieves start a campaign of burglaries in the city. Homes are broken into and stripped of their furnishings, with the thieves selling all the furniture from the homes they break into to families out of town, starting with the house of a little girl and her grandfather.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=68 | Title=The Big Death | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Homicide | 1950|09|28}} | ShortSummary=A socially prominent man decides to plot to kill his wife and hires Joe Friday for the job.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=69 | Title=The Big 38 | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Robbery | 1950|10|05}} | ShortSummary=A store clerk has been murdered, shot to death in a robbery. The holdup man is described as tall, well dressed. Witnesses say he escaped in a taxi cab. The Number of the cab was covered up some way. Seven other armed robberies have been committed in the past 16 days by the same man with the same M.O.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=70 | Title=The Big Quack | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Burglary | 1950|10|12}} | ShortSummary=A man posing as a doctor is burglarizing homes in the city. Marla Hutchins commits suicide after being robbed by the phony Dr. Schulte, owner of the Los Angeles College of Psychotherapeutics. The police have his description and must find him.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=71 | Title=The Big Grandma | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Forgery | 1950|10|19}} | ShortSummary=An elderly woman has been passing bad checks for the last nine years. She is an accomplished forger and looks like everyone's grandmother, and never passes a bad check between May and October. She's written more than twenty thousand dollars in bad checks.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=72 | Title=The Big Meet | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Narcotics | 1950|10|26}} | ShortSummary=A gang of veteran dope peddlers moves into LA. They offer a hundred thousand dollars worth of heroin for sale. Sergeant Friday tries to trap Howard Scully, a careful narcotics wholesaler, who leads the gang. Friday goes undercover and poses as a buyer; he meets the leaders contacts and they're ready to do business.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=73 | Title=The Big Church | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Homicide | 1950|11|02}} | ShortSummary=A new member of the congregation receives anonymous letters and phone calls threatening her with murder. The notes bear the mark of a fanatic, but police suspect fraud until a faked attack confirms their suspicion.- The Second Reformed Church of the Holy Book is the name of the church.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=74 | Title=The Big Mother | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Homicide | 1950|11|09}} | ShortSummary=A newborn, one of the three-day-old Striker baby twins, has been stolen from Mercy Hospital nursery. There is no trace of the infant and there is no trace of the abductor.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=75 | Title=The Big Parrot | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Homicide | 1950|11|16}} | ShortSummary=A man and his wife are found strangled to death in a rooming house, and the killer has set fire to the room to cover his tracks. Also a dead parrot, who's also been strangled, lies on the floor beside the bodies.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=76 | Title=The Big Betty | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Bunco | 1950|11|23}} | ShortSummary=A bunco gang of petty swindlers have set up operations in the city. They work the obituary racket, selling worthless merchandise to the relatives of the deceased. They're experienced, cunning and they work fast.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=77 | Title=The Big Car | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Robbery | 1950|11|30}} | ShortSummary=In four months, fifteen food markets in Los Angeles have been held up and robbed. The bandit is well-dressed and well-armed, and a bright red Pontiac looks like a clue for the police.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=78 | Title=The Big Picture | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Juvenile | 1950|12|07}} | ShortSummary=A pair of fake talent scouts are at work in the city; their victims are young girls seeking careers in Hollywood. The criminals are vicious and relentless.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=79 | Title=The Big Break | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Robbery | 1950|12|14}} | ShortSummary=Friday and Romero have been tracking a hold up man for months. They finally get a line on where he's hiding but he's dangerous and well armed. After a shoot-out, the criminal, George Hoffman, is arrested but escapes at his arraignment by climbing down the side of a building.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=80/30 | Title=.22 Rifle for Christmas | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Homicide | 1950|12|21}}
(Re-recording of
{{Start date|1949|12|22}}) | ShortSummary=A young boy, aged 9 years old, named Stanley Johnstone is reported missing from his home and so is the .22 caliber rifle he was going to get for Christmas. Foul play is suspected.- This is a re-recording of the previous year's Christmas episode.
}}{{Episode list | EpisodeNumber=81 | Title=The Big Family | Aux1=Ben Romero | Aux2=Missing Persons | 1950|12|28}} | ShortSummary=A wealthy businessman in the city drops from sight. His car is found on the dock—an apparent suicide scenario—but there's no body. Friday and Romero start to search for him, but after a lot of missing persons police work, no laws are broken and the man is found just trying to get away from it all.
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