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Sergeant Joe Friday responds to an emergency at a downtown Los Angeles office building, where a distraught man named Walter Harrison is standing on a narrow ninth-floor ledge, threatening to jump at ten o’clock. Harrison is armed and violently resists anyone who approaches him. With time running out, Friday and the other officers must devise a way to bring him safely inside before he carries out his threat.

Original Television Air Date: September 11, 1952.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 11, 1951.

Cast:

• Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday

• Paul Richards as Walter Harrison

• Kenneth Patterson as Officer Bill Lockwood

• Alice Backes

• Lillian Buyeff

• Anthony Jochim

• Milburn Stone

Production: Jack Webb, director; James E. Moser, writer.

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