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Dragnet
Follows the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from the police term "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.
- Created by:
- Jack Webb
- Cast:
- Jack Webb, Ben Alexander
- Language:
- English
- Country:
- United States of America
- Network:
- NBC
Episode guide
Seasons
Season 4
Episodes
Episode 1
★ 10.0The Big Producer
1954-08-26 · 30mA man claims to be a big Hollywood producer, but Friday and Smith discover that he's merely the leader of a pornography ring.
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★ 10.0The Big Fraud
1954-09-02 · 30mA group of con artists are posing as cops and victimizing out-of-town businessmen in fashionable hotels.
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★ 10.0The Big Crime
1954-09-09 · 30mFour-year-old twin girls are abducted from the local park.
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★ 10.0The Big Pair
1954-09-16 · 30mAn old man and his granddaughter are burglarized, leaving them broke and starving.
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The Big Escape
1954-09-23 · 30mA case hits too close to home for Friday when his old army buddy robs a liquor store and shoots his partner. Friday believes his friend wants to go straight after doing time, but things get worse when his friend breaks jail.
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The Big Kid
1954-09-30 · 30mWhen Friday and Smith learn that a showdown between two teenage gangs is about to take place within 48 hours, they do their utmost to prevent it.
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The Big Missing
1954-10-07 · 30mFriday and Smith are looking for a missing businessman.
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The Big Bar
1954-10-14 · 30mA holdup man is sticking up bars. After he takes the money he kills many of his victims. Sergeant Friday has few leads other than that the holdup man likes a certain song on the jukebox.
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The Big Present
1954-10-21 · 30mFriday and Smith are looking for a burglar who leaves a milk bottle at the scene of the crime. They suspect a juvenile might be involved.
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The Big Gangster (Part 1)
1954-10-28 · 30mAn attempt is made on the life of a gang leader. Friday and Smith must find the shooters before his followers seek revenge.
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The Big Gangster (Part 2)
1954-11-04 · 30mFriday and Smith must find the men who murdered a gang boss before an open gang war starts.
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The Big New Years
1954-11-11 · 30mOn New Year's Eve, Friday and Smith are working out of Central Receiving Hospital.
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The Big Want Ad
1954-11-18 · 30mFriday and Smith investigate a man who is conning people by using the want ads.
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The Big Affair
1954-11-25 · 30mFriday and Smith discover that the key to finding a hold-up artist lies in his married girlfriend.
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The Big Bible
1954-12-02 · 30mA man locks himself in his study and threatens suicide if his wife leaves him.
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The Big Bindle
1954-12-09 · 30mFriday goes under cover to bust a drug ring that is operating out of a high-class hotel.
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The Big Office
1954-12-16 · 30mFriday and Smith are assigned to the business office, where they must deal with the paperwork on a busy weekend.
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The Big Rod
1954-12-30 · 30mAn expectant mother is run down and killed by two teenagers in a hot rod.
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The Big Rescue
1955-01-06 · 30mA group of bandits arm themselves and break their comrades out of jail.
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The Big Family
1955-01-13 · 30mLocal businessman John Keith Jarrett disappears and evidence of suicide is discovered. Friday and Smith check on the surviving members of his family and find them not the least concerned about their father's death, with his son a tennis bum, his daughter promiscuous, and his wife drunken. The case gets even murkier when a report comes in of a traffic incident upstate involving a camper in which the driver was using Jarrett's license.
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The Big Shock
1955-01-20 · 30mFriday and Smith go after a burglar who plans to break into a bank through an underground tunnel.
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The Big Screen
1955-01-27 · 30mFriday and Smith team up with a newspaper reporter so they can investigate television repairmen who may be overcharging their customers.
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The Big TV
1955-02-03 · 30mThe detectives search for a missing mother and child at the behest of her mother-in-law, unaware that the girl's husband has died in action and is not overseas as the woman had claimed.
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The Big Dog
1955-02-10 · 30mAn old man sits on his front porch with a shotgun, threatening to kill the man who poisoned his dog.
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The Big Underground
1955-02-17 · 30mFriday and Smith use a stolen check as a lead to a series of used car lot robberies.
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The Big Key
1955-02-24 · 30mA woman's badly mutilated body is found in a churchyard on Christmas eve. The only clue is a key lying under her.
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The Big Mailman
1955-03-03 · 30mFriday and Smith go after a bandit who is robbing mailboxes and then trying to cash other people's checks.
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The Big Customer
1955-03-10 · 30mEpisode overview is not available yet.
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The Big Tar Baby
1955-03-17 · 30mA bartender's wife is kidnapped, beaten and rolled in hot tar.
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The Big Number
1955-03-24 · 30mFriday and Smith Investigate a Bank Robbery, but they don't have much to go on.
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The Big Mask
1955-03-31 · 30mA masked bandit is holding up supermarkets and the police are not able to catch him.
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The Big Sucker
1955-04-07 · 30mA con artist is swindling jewelers using fake diamonds.
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The Big Moustache
1955-04-14 · 30mFriday and Smith investigate the robbery of an appliance store.
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The Big Heel
1955-04-21 · 30mFriday and Smith use an unusual footprint to help solve a murder case.
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The Big Gone
1955-04-28 · 30mThe owner of a flower shop kills a man who is trying to rob him, but the corpse mysteriously vanishes.
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The Big Student
1955-05-05 · 30mFriday and Smith are on the trail of a bunch of teenagers selling fake magazine subscriptions.
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The Big Watch
1955-05-12 · 30mBandits are offering rides to hitch-hiking soldiers, then robbing and beating them.
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The Big Dig
1955-05-19 · 30mFriday and Smith are looking into a report of a missing woman that turns into a murder investigation.
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The Big Mug
1955-05-26 · 30mTwo hold-up men are robbing and beating pedestrians in the down town area.
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Jack Webb
Joe Friday
Ben Alexander
Frank Smith
