Dragnet

A gang of con artists checks the obituary section of the paper, using the information they find to prey on the grief-stricken families of the dead.

Joe and Frank investigate the murder of a man who has recently changed his will.

When local physicians are robbed of their drugs and valuables after being called down to hotels, Friday and Smith are called in to put a stop to this.

It's Christmas Eve when the pastor at a local church discovers that the statue of the Infant Jesus has been stolen from the crib.

When a former vaudevillian actress is found beaten to death in her apartment, three men are suspected of her murder.

A four-man gang--two of whom are army deserters--have committed a series of robberies and auto thefts in San Francisco and are on their way to LA.

The girlfriend of a rising actor is found dead in his apartment. A suicide note is found, but things start to point to it being a homicide.

An elderly man apparently committed suicide by shooting himself with a rifle, but Friday and Smith soon discover that it was actually a homicide.

After a spate of recent thefts at retail stores around the city, Detective Joe Friday and his partner are on the case.

When a truck kills two people in a hit-run, the truck's owner claims that he lent it out, but he has little information about the man he lent it to.

The detectives hunt down a tall, beautiful woman who has been terrorizing the city by robbing men, beating them and, in some cases, shooting them.

Friday interrogates a gardener arrested for holding up a grocery store. However, in the midst of questioning, Friday begins to doubt the man's guilt.