The Big Bounce

1The Big Pipe

30 minSep 2, 1955

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

2The Big Chet

30 minSep 9, 1955

3The Big No Rain

30 minSep 16, 1955

4The Big Lift

30 minSep 23, 1955

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

5The Big Confession

30 minSep 30, 1955

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.

6The Big Gap

30 minOct 7, 1955

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.

7The Big Look

30 minOct 14, 1955

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

8The Big Glasses

30 minOct 21, 1955

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.

9The Big Bird

30 minOct 28, 1955

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

10The Big Laugh

30 minNov 4, 1955

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

11The Big Smoke

30 minNov 11, 1955

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

12The Big Bounce

30 minNov 18, 1955Now viewing

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.

13The Big Shot

30 minNov 25, 1955

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

14The Big Locker

30 minDec 2, 1955

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

15The Big Note

30 minDec 9, 1955

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

16The Big Genius

30 minDec 16, 1955

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

17The Big Reminisce

30 minDec 30, 1955

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

18The Big Tour

30 minJan 6, 1956

19The Big Sisters

30 minJan 13, 1956

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

20The Big Ruling

30 minJan 20, 1956

21The Big Fall Guy

30 minJan 27, 1956

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

22The Big Set

30 minFeb 3, 1956

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.

23The Big Child

30 minFeb 10, 1956

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

24The Big Slug

30 minFeb 17, 1956

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

25The Big Daughter

30 minFeb 24, 1956

Friday and Smith investigate a missing persons report.

26The Big No Suicide

30 minMar 2, 1956

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

27The Big Siege

30 minMar 9, 1956

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

28The Big Mama

30 minMar 16, 1956

29The Big Revision

30 minMar 23, 1956

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

30The Big Ex-Blonde

30 minMar 30, 1956

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

31The Big Bobo

30 minApr 6, 1956

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

32The Big Rush

30 minApr 13, 1956

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

33The Big Setup

30 minApr 20, 1956

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

34The Big Deal

30 minApr 27, 1956

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

35The Big Wish

30 minMay 4, 1956

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.

36The Big Hat

30 minMay 11, 1956

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

37The Big Housemaid

30 minMay 18, 1956

38The Big Gift

30 minMay 25, 1956

39The Big Salvage

30 minJun 1, 1956