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Dragnet

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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

5 available

Dragnet 1968

Episodes

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E01

Episode 1

The Grenade

1967-09-14 · 30m

A 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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E02

Episode 2

The Shooting Board

1967-09-21 · 30m

Joe 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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E03

Episode 3

The Badge Racket

1967-09-28 · 30m

Three 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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E04

Episode 4

★ 7.0

The Bank Jobs

1967-10-05 · 30m

A 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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E05

Episode 5

★ 5.0

The Big Neighbor

1967-10-12 · 30m

Bill 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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E06

Episode 6

The Big Frustration

1967-10-19 · 30m

Sgt. 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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E07

Episode 7

The Senior Citizen

1967-10-26 · 30m

A 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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E08

Episode 8

The Big High

1967-11-02 · 30m

An 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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E09

Episode 9

★ 6.0

The Big Ad

1967-11-09 · 30m

An 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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E10

Episode 10

★ 5.0

The Missing Realtor

1967-11-16 · 30m

A 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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E11

Episode 11

The Big Dog

1967-11-23 · 30m

Friday 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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E12

Episode 12

The Pyramid Swindle

1967-11-30 · 30m

A 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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E13

Episode 13

The Phony Police Racket

1967-12-07 · 30m

Friday 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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E14

Episode 14

The Trial Board

1967-12-14 · 30m

An 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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E15

Episode 15

The Christmas Story

1967-12-21 · 30m

A 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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Episode 16

The Big Shipment

1967-12-28 · 30m

Drugs 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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Episode 17

The Big Search

1968-01-04 · 30m

Two 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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Episode 18

The Big Prophet

1968-01-11 · 30m

Friday 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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Episode 19

The Big Amateur

1968-01-25 · 30m

Citizens 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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E20

Episode 20

The Starlet

1968-02-01 · 30m

A 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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E21

Episode 21

The Big Clan

1968-02-08 · 30m

Sgt. Friday is offered a bribe to assist a gypsy family trying to gain control of the gypsy community.

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E22

Episode 22

The Little Victim

1968-02-15 · 30m

When 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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E23

Episode 23

The Squeeze

1968-02-22 · 30m

An 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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Episode 24

The Suicide Attempt

1968-02-29 · 30m

Friday 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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Episode 25

The Big Departure

1968-03-07 · 30m

Petty 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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E26

Episode 26

The Investigation

1968-03-14 · 30m

Friday 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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Episode 27

The Big Gambler

1968-03-21 · 30m

Over $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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Episode 28

★ 9.0

The Big Problem

1968-03-28 · 30m

Community 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.

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Cast

Jack Webb

Jack Webb

Joe Friday

Harry Morgan

Harry Morgan

Gannon

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