
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.
After an apartment house manager is bludgeoned to death, Friday and Gannon track the murderer to a small Arizona town.
Friday and Gannon try to make things easier for the wives of two officers shot in the line of duty.
The suspect in a double slaying turns out to be an ardent reader of stories about strange attitudes toward death.
A gunman successfully holds up 10 stores in a confectionery chain.