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Police Detective Sgt. Joe Friday and his partners investigate crimes in Los Angeles.
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Police Detective Sgt. Joe Friday and his partners investigate crimes in Los Angeles.
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Episode 1
Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Bill Gannon encounter a freaked-out young LSD user calling himself "Blue Boy"; before long, Blue Boy is "turning on" schoolchildren with the mysterious new drug.
Directed by Jack WebbWritten by Jack WebbGuest stars John Stephenson, Michael Burns, Art Balinger, Eve Brent, Jerry Douglas, Alfred Shelly, Heather Menzies, Don Ross
Episode 2
A neo-Nazi psycho has planted a bomb somewhere in L.A. Friday and Gannon have to find it.
Directed by Jack WebbWritten by Robert C. DennisGuest stars Olan Soule, Don Dubbins, Bobby Troup, Harlan Warde, Kent McCord, Ralph Manza, Val Avery, Ralph Moody
Episode 3
Friday and Gannon help an employee rescue her kidnapped boss.
Directed by Jack WebbWritten by Preston WoodGuest stars Art Balinger, John Stephenson, Alfred Shelly, Peggy Webber, Harry Bartell, Ronnie Rondell Jr.
Episode 4
A new officer has been arrested for robbing a liquor store while on an undercover assignment.
Directed by Jack WebbWritten by Preston WoodGuest stars Kent McCord
Episode 5
Four bandits wearing red masks commit a series of robberies.
Directed by Jack WebbGuest stars Tani Guthrie
Episode 6
Two con men, posing as bank examiners, are bilking the elderly out of their life savings.
Directed by Jack WebbGuest stars Don 'Red' Barry, Don Ross, Burt Mustin, Bert Holland
Episode 7
An elderly apartment manager is found to have been beaten to death with a hammer.
Directed by Jack WebbGuest stars Merry Anders, Art Balinger, Natalie Masters, Dick Simmons, John Stephenson, Ben Morris, Ralph Moody, Jill Banner
Episode 8
Friday and Gannon try to figure out a pattern to a series of candy store hold-ups.
Directed by Jack WebbWritten by Robert C. DennisGuest stars John Stephenson, Art Gilmore, Virginia Gregg, Alfred Shelly, Vince Howard, Don Ross
Episode 9
Gannon goes undercover as a buyer in order to trap fur theives.
Directed by Jack WebbGuest stars Merry Anders, Clark Howat, Henry Corden, Frank Gerstle, John Stephenson, Herbert Ellis, Alfred Shelly, John Nolan
Episode 10
Over $200,000 worth of Imperial Jade is reported stolen in a burglary, and Friday and Gannon are on the case.
Directed by Jack WebbGuest stars Virginia Gregg, Harry Hickox, Keye Luke, Don Ross, Annazette Chase
Episode 11
A police officer is shot while making a routine check on a pair of paroled convicts that are parked near a liquor store.
Directed by Jack WebbGuest stars Art Balinger, John Stephenson, Alfred Shelly, Dick Miller, Howard Culver, Don Ross, Don Marshall, Bert Holland
Episode 12
Friday and Gannon use newspapers, radio and TV to seek the public's help in identifying a hit and run driver.
Directed by Jack WebbGuest stars Olan Soule, Audrey Dalton, Robert Clarke, Harlan Warde, King Moody, Julian Burton
Episode 13
Friday goes undercover with the Department's chaplain in order to break up a gambling ring.
Directed by Jack WebbGuest stars William Reynolds, Sidney Miller, Bobby Troup, Art Gilmore, Luana Patten
Episode 14
Friday learns about a scam artist with a novel twist: he uses an authentic Congressional Medal of Honor to solicit magazine subscriptions.
Directed by Jack WebbGuest stars Art Balinger, Jerry Dexter, Larry D. Mann, Marianne Gordon, Doodles Weaver
Episode 15
A Japanese widow is senselessly murdered, leaving her small daughter an orphan. Friday has a hard time controlling his emotions while seeking the killer.
Directed by Jack WebbGuest stars Art Balinger, Herbert Anderson, Don Ross, Raymond Mayo, Olan Soule, Kathleen Freeman
Episode 16
A gang of juvenile thieves have been stealing petty items in order to gain membership into an exclusive club.
Directed by Jack WebbGuest stars Art Balinger, Andrea King, Russell Arms
Episode 17
A dead man has been found in a locked room, along with a gun that could not have been the murder weapon.
Directed by Jack WebbGuest stars Olan Soule
Episode information updated Jul 23, 2026
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Jack WebbJoe Friday
Harry MorganGannon
John StephensonNarrator (voice) (uncredited)
Herb VigranDesk Clerk
Marshall ReedOfficer Whitney
Robert PattenOfficer Young
NBCUnited States
Universal TelevisionUnited States
