
Just the facts, ma'am. Every week, Sgt. Joe Friday follows the clues, interviews witnesses and spews a lot of crime jargon as he tries to catch one perp or another. For the majority of the show's 1950s run, he was partnered with Officer Smith, but when the show was brought back in 1967, he had Officer Gannon as a partner.

Friday and Gannon are helped by an ex-con when a reply to a newspaper ad indicates that someone wants to hire a killer.

The disappearance of a real estate agent leads Friday and Gannon to a vacant house -- and to a murder.

Dogs come out as the main suspects in a rash of purse snatchings.

An evangelizing woman lures "prospectors" into her illegal money-making scheme.