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Dragnet
Police Detective Sgt. Joe Friday and his partners investigate crimes in Los Angeles.
- Created by:
- Jack Webb
- Cast:
- Jack Webb, Harry Morgan
- Language:
- English
- Country:
- United States of America
- Network:
- NBC
Episode guide
Seasons
Dragnet 1968
Episodes
Episode 1
The Grenade
1967-09-14 · 30mA volatile teenager throws acid on the back of another student (played by a teen-aged Jan Michael Vincent), then crashes a party armed with a live hand grenade.
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The Shooting Board
1967-09-21 · 30mJoe tries to stop a burglary at an all night launderette and ends up exchanging fire with the suspect. When SID tries to find the bullet fired at Joe, they come up empty and Joe faces a shooting board with no proof the man ever fired at him.
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The Badge Racket
1967-09-28 · 30mThree con artists have been swindling businessmen from out-of-town by posing as a prostitute and two policemen. The detectives set a trap as Gannon pretends to be a manufacturer from Lincoln Nebraska.
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★ 7.0The Bank Jobs
1967-10-05 · 30mA nervy bank robber uses innocent women to help commit his crimes. Friday and Gannon are nearly sidetracked when one of the victims lies about her involvement and later proves to have a criminal record of her own.
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★ 5.0The Big Neighbor
1967-10-12 · 30mBill invites Joe to dinner and a football game at his home in Eagle Rock. The only problem: Gannon's neighbors keep interrupting the visit with petty, and not-so-petty, problems.
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The Big Frustration
1967-10-19 · 30mSgt. Carl Maxwell, a frustrated fellow detective, goes AWOL; Friday and Gannon have three days to track him down before Maxwell loses his badge for good.
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The Senior Citizen
1967-10-26 · 30mA series of daring daylight house burglaries are taking place. Friday and Gannon go undercover in a laundry truck to discover the perp.
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The Big High
1967-11-02 · 30mAn elderly businessman, concerned about the welfare of his grandchild, informs Friday and Gannon that his daughter and son-in-law are using marijuana regularly. The young couple make no apologies for their lifestyle, which inevitably leads to disaster.
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★ 6.0The Big Ad
1967-11-09 · 30mAn ex-con named Steve Deal contacts Friday and Gannon when a classified ad that he placed, offering to do "anything" for money, results in an offer to commit murder. Friday goes undercover as Deal.
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★ 5.0The Missing Realtor
1967-11-16 · 30mA woman real-estate agent is missing and turns up dead in a vacant home. The detectives suspect her ex-boyfriend. Then credit card bills for purchases made after the woman's death start appearing.
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The Big Dog
1967-11-23 · 30mFriday and Gannon are on the case to find ... a purse-snatching dog? Making things more difficult, victims give different descriptions of the four-legged thief.
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The Pyramid Swindle
1967-11-30 · 30mA female con-artist uses an evangelistic approach to lure buyers into her pyramid scheme. The Bunco division can't charge her with false advertising, so they prosecute her for operating a lottery.
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The Phony Police Racket
1967-12-07 · 30mFriday and Gannon investigate a scam involving a phony LAPD newsletter, which comes with a card for subscribers entitling the bearer to preferential treatment from the police.
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The Trial Board
1967-12-14 · 30mAn officer accused of taking a bribe has chosen Sgt. Friday to represent him at his trial board hearing. Witnesses saw the officer accept the money, but he insists it was for the payback of a loan made years ago.
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The Christmas Story
1967-12-21 · 30mA statue of the child Jesus was stolen from a church. Joe and Bill have to get it back by Christmas. They have less than 48 hours.
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The Big Shipment
1967-12-28 · 30mDrugs are found aboard a plane that has crashed in the San Fernando Valley. The pilot is quickly traced, but in order to force him to name his connection, Friday and Gannon ask the press to sit on the story for a few hours.
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The Big Search
1968-01-04 · 30mTwo small girls, ages three and five, are missing. Their mother is certain that her ex-husband, an alcoholic, has kidnapped them. However, he is now in recovery and has no knowledge of the girls' whereabouts. The search seems hopeless until Friday and Gannon, acting on information from a former neighbor, follow a hunch.
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The Big Prophet
1968-01-11 · 30mFriday and Gannon confront "Brother" William Bentley at his Temple of the Expanded Mind. They think he is using his new age religion as a front to push drugs to the nearby elementary school.
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The Big Amateur
1968-01-25 · 30mCitizens are full of praise for Officer Gideon C. Dengle - they want to bestow him with awards, honors and home-baked cookies. There's only one problem: there's no such officer in the LAPD.
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The Starlet
1968-02-01 · 30mA teenage runaway, intent on becoming a star, has instead wound up in pornographic films. Acting on behalf of the girl's aunt, Friday and Gannon try to find the young "starlet."
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The Big Clan
1968-02-08 · 30mSgt. Friday is offered a bribe to assist a gypsy family trying to gain control of the gypsy community.
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The Little Victim
1968-02-15 · 30mWhen a nine-month old child is beaten, Friday and Gannon investigate the parents, who are more concerned about their failing relationship than their baby son.
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The Squeeze
1968-02-22 · 30mAn ex-con accused of extortion is interrogated. He calmly and smugly insists that he is innocent, but Friday and Gannon have a surprise for him: taped conversations and a voice analysis device.
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The Suicide Attempt
1968-02-29 · 30mFriday and Gannon learn that a young man has called his mother from Hollywood "to say goodbye." With the help of the man's sister, the two detectives trace the impending suicide to a hotel with over 1,200 rooms.
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The Big Departure
1968-03-07 · 30mPetty theft from drug and hardware stores leads to a group of four teens who are determined to start their own nation on a remote island off the California coast.
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The Investigation
1968-03-14 · 30mFriday and Gannon are screening applicants for the Police Academy. One seems to have all the right qualifications, except that six months are missing from his application.
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The Big Gambler
1968-03-21 · 30mOver $100,000 has been embezzled from an industrial company. An investigation of the employees leads Friday and Gannon to a habitual gambler.
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★ 9.0The Big Problem
1968-03-28 · 30mCommunity relations is the theme, as Friday and Gannon try to narrow the gap between the Department and the citizens it is sworn "to protect and to serve." The gap is especially wide between African-Americans and the primarily Caucasian LAPD, as demonstrated when a young - and slightly militant - black man barracades himself in his apartment rather than submit to a traffic warrant.
Watch progress · Not trackedCast
Jack Webb
Joe Friday
Harry Morgan
Gannon