by Hal Erickson
synopsis
It's a personal matter for Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) when an off-duty police officer is killed by two stickup men in a downtown bar. The criminal pair has been terrorizing taverns throughout the LA area, but now it looks as though their days of freedom are numbered, thanks to a tipster who provides the detectives with some very valuable information. Featured in the cast is Paul Brinegar, best known to TV fans as "Wishbone" on the long-running western series Rawhide. This episode was adapted from the Dragnet radio broadcast of July 5, 1955.
