
Season 5
Season 5

Season 5
Season 5
- Air date:1955-09-02
- User score:0.0
- Number of episodes:39
List of Episodes
Air date: 1955-09-02
Runtime: 30 min
A young woman is beaten to death with a led pipe and left in an empty office.
Air date: 1955-09-23
Runtime: 30 min
An organized gang of shoplifters is looting large department stores in the city.
Air date: 1955-09-30
Runtime: 30 min
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.
Air date: 1955-10-07
Runtime: 30 min
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.
Air date: 1955-10-14
Runtime: 30 min
A woman is dragged from her home and badly beaten by an unknown attacker.
Air date: 1955-10-21
Runtime: 30 min
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.
Air date: 1955-10-28
Runtime: 30 min
Sgt. Friday investigates a robber who only targets pet stores and homes that have pet birds.
Air date: 1955-11-04
Runtime: 30 min
A con man makes lonely women fall for his charms, then steals their money and disappears.
Air date: 1955-11-11
Runtime: 30 min
An elderly couple is brutally beaten and the trail leads police to a former handy man.
Air date: 1955-11-18
Runtime: 30 min
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.
Air date: 1955-11-25
Runtime: 30 min
A night club owner is shot down and there are no witnesses to the crime.
Air date: 1955-12-02
Runtime: 30 min
Friday and Smith happen to catch a man trying to sell a stolen ring at a pawn shop.
Air date: 1955-12-09
Runtime: 30 min
An anonymous note leads Friday and Smith to a group of teenage drug users and their neglectful parents.
Air date: 1955-12-16
Runtime: 30 min
Friday and Smith investigate what seems to be the perfect crime.
Air date: 1955-12-30
Runtime: 30 min
During a quiet New Year's shift, Friday and Smith remember some of their past cases and why it is they became cops.
Air date: 1956-01-13
Runtime: 30 min
An elderly woman fakes a burglary report so she can get attention from the police and the media.
Air date: 1956-01-27
Runtime: 30 min
Friday and Smith are on the trail of a robbery suspect that has robbed two stores.
Air date: 1956-02-03
Runtime: 30 min
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.
Air date: 1956-02-10
Runtime: 30 min
A two-year-old child after drinking bleach from under the sink. Friday and Smith are unable to locate the mother for questioning.
Air date: 1956-02-17
Runtime: 30 min
A liquor store owner is shot and killed during a botched robbery, but police can find no trace of the fatal bullet.
Air date: 1956-03-02
Runtime: 30 min
Friday gets a call from a former mental patient who is threatening to kill himself and his family.
Air date: 1956-03-09
Runtime: 30 min
Police find themselves in a stand-off when an armed bank robber takes a woman hostage in her home.
Air date: 1956-03-23
Runtime: 30 min
Friday and Smith hit a blank wall when a burglary suspect refuses to admit where he hid his stash.
Air date: 1956-03-30
Runtime: 30 min
Friday goes undercover to catch brothers who steal people's money by posing as real-estate agents.
Air date: 1956-04-06
Runtime: 30 min
A police officer is suspended from duty when he is accused of taking a bribe in exchange for a prisoner's release.
Air date: 1956-04-13
Runtime: 30 min
Two bandits turn cop killer when they gun down an off-duty policeman during a tavern hold-up.
Air date: 1956-04-20
Runtime: 30 min
An informant tips off police to a shipment of heroin coming into the country. Friday goes under cover to bust open the ring.
Air date: 1956-04-27
Runtime: 30 min
Friday and Smith are investigating a rash of car thefts. The stolen cars are being sold with forged pink slips.
Air date: 1956-05-04
Runtime: 30 min
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.
Air date: 1956-05-11
Runtime: 30 min
A young man is found hiding in an empty train car with the strangled body of an older woman next to him.
Top Cast

Jack Webb
Joe Friday

Ben Alexander
Frank Smith
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