
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 finds himself in trouble after he kills a man in self-defense and can't find the suspect's spent bullet.

Friday and Gannon bait the trap for a pair of shakedown artists who pose as vice officers.

A bank robber forces women to help him while he holds bank employees at gunpoint.

Friday and Gannon find it difficult to enjoy a football game on TV due to Gannon's neighbors.