Dragnet
Drama • Series

Dragnet

6.4/10 1951 8 Seasons 276 Episodes Ended

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.

Season: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Season 4 Episodes

E1
The Big Producer
30 min 1954

A man claims to be a big Hollywood producer, but Friday and Smith discover that he's merely the leader of a pornography …

E2
The Big Fraud
30 min 1954

A group of con artists are posing as cops and victimizing out-of-town businessmen in fashionable hotels.

E3
The Big Crime
30 min 1954

Four-year-old twin girls are abducted from the local park.

E4
The Big Pair
30 min 1954

An old man and his granddaughter are burglarized, leaving them broke and starving.

E5
The Big Escape
30 min 1954

A case hits too close to home for Friday when his old army buddy robs a liquor store and shoots his partner. Friday beli…

E6
The Big Kid
30 min 1954

When Friday and Smith learn that a showdown between two teenage gangs is about to take place within 48 hours, they do th…

E7
The Big Missing
30 min 1954

Friday and Smith are looking for a missing businessman.

E8
The Big Bar
30 min 1954

A holdup man is sticking up bars. After he takes the money he kills many of his victims. Sergeant Friday has few leads o…

E9
The Big Present
30 min 1954

Friday and Smith are looking for a burglar who leaves a milk bottle at the scene of the crime. They suspect a juvenile m…

E10
The Big Gangster (Part 1)
30 min 1954

An attempt is made on the life of a gang leader. Friday and Smith must find the shooters before his followers seek reven…

E11
The Big Gangster (Part 2)
30 min 1954

Friday and Smith must find the men who murdered a gang boss before an open gang war starts.

E12
The Big New Years
30 min 1954

On New Year's Eve, Friday and Smith are working out of Central Receiving Hospital.

E13
The Big Want Ad
30 min 1954

Friday and Smith investigate a man who is conning people by using the want ads.

E14
The Big Affair
30 min 1954

Friday and Smith discover that the key to finding a hold-up artist lies in his married girlfriend.

E15
The Big Bible
30 min 1954

A man locks himself in his study and threatens suicide if his wife leaves him.

E16
The Big Bindle
30 min 1954

Friday goes under cover to bust a drug ring that is operating out of a high-class hotel.

E17
The Big Office
30 min 1954

Friday and Smith are assigned to the business office, where they must deal with the paperwork on a busy weekend.

E18
The Big Rod
30 min 1954

An expectant mother is run down and killed by two teenagers in a hot rod.

E19
The Big Rescue
30 min 1955

A group of bandits arm themselves and break their comrades out of jail.

E20
The Big Family
30 min 1955

Local businessman John Keith Jarrett disappears and evidence of suicide is discovered. Friday and Smith check on the sur…

E21
The Big Shock
30 min 1955

Friday and Smith go after a burglar who plans to break into a bank through an underground tunnel.

E22
The Big Screen
30 min 1955

Friday and Smith team up with a newspaper reporter so they can investigate television repairmen who may be overcharging …

E23
The Big TV
30 min 1955

The detectives search for a missing mother and child at the behest of her mother-in-law, unaware that the girl's husband…

E24
The Big Dog
30 min 1955

An old man sits on his front porch with a shotgun, threatening to kill the man who poisoned his dog.

E25
The Big Underground
30 min 1955

Friday and Smith use a stolen check as a lead to a series of used car lot robberies.

E26
The Big Key
30 min 1955

A woman's badly mutilated body is found in a churchyard on Christmas eve. The only clue is a key lying under her.

E27
The Big Mailman
30 min 1955

Friday and Smith go after a bandit who is robbing mailboxes and then trying to cash other people's checks.

E28
The Big Customer
30 min 1955
E29
The Big Tar Baby
30 min 1955

A bartender's wife is kidnapped, beaten and rolled in hot tar.

E30
The Big Number
30 min 1955

Friday and Smith Investigate a Bank Robbery, but they don't have much to go on.

E31
The Big Mask
30 min 1955

A masked bandit is holding up supermarkets and the police are not able to catch him.

E32
The Big Sucker
30 min 1955

A con artist is swindling jewelers using fake diamonds.

E33
The Big Moustache
30 min 1955

Friday and Smith investigate the robbery of an appliance store.

E34
The Big Heel
30 min 1955

Friday and Smith use an unusual footprint to help solve a murder case.

E35
The Big Gone
30 min 1955

The owner of a flower shop kills a man who is trying to rob him, but the corpse mysteriously vanishes.

E36
The Big Student
30 min 1955

Friday and Smith are on the trail of a bunch of teenagers selling fake magazine subscriptions.

E37
The Big Watch
30 min 1955

Bandits are offering rides to hitch-hiking soldiers, then robbing and beating them.

E38
The Big Dig
30 min 1955

Friday and Smith are looking into a report of a missing woman that turns into a murder investigation.

E39
The Big Mug
30 min 1955

Two hold-up men are robbing and beating pedestrians in the down town area.

Cast

Jack Webb
Jack Webb
Joe Friday
Ben Alexander
Ben Alexander
Frank Smith

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