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Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Bill Gannon are working in the Frauds Division, Bunco Section. Friday and Gannon are contacted by Dallas Andrews, a woman who has a long criminal record that sets up spiritual guidance and fortune tellers to steal money from clients. She wants Friday and Gannon to help her son in law, Billy Catcher, to become king of the clan by pushing another family's fortune tellers but keep her son in law's business safe. Friday and Gannon go undercover to catch her and her son in law in bribery.

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Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Bill Gannon are working in the Frauds Division, Bunco Section. Friday and Gannon are contacted by Dallas Andrews, A modern-day gypsy runs a woman who has a long criminal record that sets up spiritual guidance and fortune tellers business as a method to steal money from clients. She wants Friday and Gannon to help her son in law, Billy Catcher, to become king of the clan by pushing another family's fortune tellers but keep her son in law's business safe. Friday and Gannon go undercover to catch her in policy bribery to put other gypsies out of business and protect her son in law in bribery.
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* ActuallyIAmHim: Friday and Dorothy Miller arrest Mother Maria. Mother Maria says that her warrant is no longer valid as Sergeant Friday has taken care of it, not realizing that Sergeant Friday is the one arresting her. Billy Catcher and Dallas Andrews later on asks who was the cop who arrested her, when Friday says he was the one who personally arrested her.
* BribeBackfire: Friday and Gannon are offered a bribe by Dallas Andrews and Billy Catcher to push a rival family's business in order to protect Mother Maria, one of Billy Catcher's clients. Once Friday is given the money, Dallas Andrews gives a list of all of the rival family's businesses and Billy's businesses. However, Friday and Gannon arrest everyone on both lists and get enough proof to arrest Dallas Andrews and Billy Catcher.

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* ActuallyIAmHim: Friday and Dorothy Miller arrest Mother Maria. Mother Maria says that her warrant is no longer valid as Sergeant Friday has taken care of it, not realizing that Sergeant Friday is the one arresting her. Billy Catcher and Dallas Andrews later on asks who was the ask her which cop who arrested her, when and Friday says he was the one who personally arrested her.
* BribeBackfire: Friday and Gannon are offered a bribe by Dallas Andrews and Billy Catcher to push put a rival family's family out of business in order to protect Mother Maria, one of Billy Catcher's clients. Once Friday is given the money, Dallas Andrews gives a list of all of the rival family's businesses and Billy's businesses. However, Friday and Gannon arrest everyone on both lists and get enough proof to arrest Dallas Andrews and Billy Catcher.



* TheMole: Someone in the justice system is leaking information to the fortune tellers whenever a warrant is out for one of the fortune teller's arrest.
* PhonyPsychic: None of the fortune tellers are psychics, they are con artists running a scam out of people's money.

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* TheMole: Someone in the justice system is leaking information to the fortune tellers whenever a an arrest warrant is out for one of the fortune teller's arrest.
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* PhonyPsychic: None of the fortune tellers are psychics, they are con artists running a scam to bilk people out of people's their money.
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* ActuallyIAmHim: Friday and Dorothy Miller arrest Mother Maria. Mother Maria says that her warrant is no longer valid as Sergeant Friday has taken care of it, not realizing that Sergeant Friday is the one arresting her. Billy Catcher and Dallas Andrews later on asks who was the cop who arrested her, when Friday says he was the one who personally arrested her.

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* ElderAbuse: Almost all of the fortune tellers are mainly targeting senior citizens.
* FakeWizardry: The fortune tellers use fake magic tricks in order to scam their clients out of money. Both Friday and Gannon have seen and know all of their tricks.



* WouldHarmASenior: Almost all of the fortune tellers are targeting senior citizens,

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* WouldHarmASenior: Almost all PhonyPsychic: None of the fortune tellers are targeting senior citizens,psychics, they are con artists running a scam out of people's money.
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* TheMole: Someone in the justice system is leaking information to the fortune tellers whenever a warrant is out for one of the fortune teller's arrest.
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* BribeBackfire: Friday and Gannon are offered a bribe by Dallas Andrews and Billy Catcher to push a rival family's business in order to protect Mother Maria, one of Billy Catcher's clients. Once Friday is given the money, Dallas Andrews gives a list of all of the rival family's businesses and Billy's businesses. However, Friday and Gannon arrest Mother Maria and get enough proof to arrest Dallas Andrews and Billy Catcher.

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* BribeBackfire: Friday and Gannon are offered a bribe by Dallas Andrews and Billy Catcher to push a rival family's business in order to protect Mother Maria, one of Billy Catcher's clients. Once Friday is given the money, Dallas Andrews gives a list of all of the rival family's businesses and Billy's businesses. However, Friday and Gannon arrest Mother Maria everyone on both lists and get enough proof to arrest Dallas Andrews and Billy Catcher.

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Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Bill Gannon are working in the Frauds Division, Bunco Section. Friday and Gannon are contacted by Dallas Andrews, a woman who has a long criminal record that sets up spiritual guidance and fortune tellers to steal money from clients. She wants Friday and Gannon to help her son in law, Billy Catcher, to become king of the clan by arresting another family's fortune tellers but keep her son in law's business safe. Friday and Gannon go undercover to catch her and her son in law in bribery along with arresting all of the business.

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Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Bill Gannon are working in the Frauds Division, Bunco Section. Friday and Gannon are contacted by Dallas Andrews, a woman who has a long criminal record that sets up spiritual guidance and fortune tellers to steal money from clients. She wants Friday and Gannon to help her son in law, Billy Catcher, to become king of the clan by arresting pushing another family's fortune tellers but keep her son in law's business safe. Friday and Gannon go undercover to catch her and her son in law in bribery along with arresting all of the business.
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* BribeBackfire: Friday and Gannon are offered a bribe by Dallas Andrews and Billy Catcher to arrest a rival family's business. Once Friday is given the money, Dallas Andrews gives a list of all of the rival family's businesses and Billy's businesses. However, Friday and Gannon arrest everyone on the list.

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* BribeBackfire: Friday and Gannon are offered a bribe by Dallas Andrews and Billy Catcher to arrest push a rival family's business.business in order to protect Mother Maria, one of Billy Catcher's clients. Once Friday is given the money, Dallas Andrews gives a list of all of the rival family's businesses and Billy's businesses. However, Friday and Gannon arrest everyone on the list.Mother Maria and get enough proof to arrest Dallas Andrews and Billy Catcher.
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First Aired - February 8th, 1968

Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Bill Gannon are working in the Frauds Division, Bunco Section. Friday and Gannon are contacted by Dallas Andrews, a woman who has a long criminal record that sets up spiritual guidance and fortune tellers to steal money from clients. She wants Friday and Gannon to help her son in law, Billy Catcher, to become king of the clan by arresting another family's fortune tellers but keep her son in law's business safe. Friday and Gannon go undercover to catch her and her son in law in bribery along with arresting all of the business.

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* BribeBackfire: Friday and Gannon are offered a bribe by Dallas Andrews and Billy Catcher to arrest a rival family's business. Once Friday is given the money, Dallas Andrews gives a list of all of the rival family's businesses and Billy's businesses. However, Friday and Gannon arrest everyone on the list.
* {{Brownface}}: None of the actors playing the fortune tellers are Romanian.
* WouldHarmASenior: Almost all of the fortune tellers are targeting senior citizens,

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