Season 5

A young woman is beaten to death with a led pipe and left in an empty office.

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An organized gang of shoplifters is looting large department stores in the city.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Friday and Smith investigate a missing persons report.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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