Dragnet (1951)
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.
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Episode 1 - The Big Producer
Release Date: 1954-08-26A 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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Episode 2 - The Big Fraud
Release Date: 1954-09-02A group of con artists are posing as cops and victimizing out-of-town businessmen in fashionable hotels.
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Episode 3 - The Big Crime
Release Date: 1954-09-09Four-year-old twin girls are abducted from the local park.
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Episode 4 - The Big Pair
Release Date: 1954-09-16An old man and his granddaughter are burglarized, leaving them broke and starving.
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Episode 5 - The Big Escape
Release Date: 1954-09-23A 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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Episode 6 - The Big Kid
Release Date: 1954-09-30When 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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Episode 7 - The Big Missing
Release Date: 1954-10-07Friday and Smith are looking for a missing businessman.
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Episode 8 - The Big Bar
Release Date: 1954-10-14A 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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Episode 9 - The Big Present
Release Date: 1954-10-21Friday 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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Episode 10 - The Big Gangster (Part 1)
Release Date: 1954-10-28An 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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Episode 11 - The Big Gangster (Part 2)
Release Date: 1954-11-04Friday and Smith must find the men who murdered a gang boss before an open gang war starts.
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Episode 12 - The Big New Years
Release Date: 1954-11-11On New Year's Eve, Friday and Smith are working out of Central Receiving Hospital.
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Episode 13 - The Big Want Ad
Release Date: 1954-11-18Friday and Smith investigate a man who is conning people by using the want ads.
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Episode 14 - The Big Affair
Release Date: 1954-11-25Friday and Smith discover that the key to finding a hold-up artist lies in his married girlfriend.
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Episode 15 - The Big Bible
Release Date: 1954-12-02A man locks himself in his study and threatens suicide if his wife leaves him.
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Episode 16 - The Big Bindle
Release Date: 1954-12-09Friday goes under cover to bust a drug ring that is operating out of a high-class hotel.
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Episode 17 - The Big Office
Release Date: 1954-12-16Friday and Smith are assigned to the business office, where they must deal with the paperwork on a busy weekend.
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Episode 18 - The Big Rod
Release Date: 1954-12-30An expectant mother is run down and killed by two teenagers in a hot rod.
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Episode 19 - The Big Rescue
Release Date: 1955-01-06A group of bandits arm themselves and break their comrades out of jail.
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Episode 20 - The Big Family
Release Date: 1955-01-13Local 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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Episode 21 - The Big Shock
Release Date: 1955-01-20Friday and Smith go after a burglar who plans to break into a bank through an underground tunnel.
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Episode 22 - The Big Screen
Release Date: 1955-01-27Friday and Smith team up with a newspaper reporter so they can investigate television repairmen who may be overcharging their customers.
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Episode 23 - The Big TV
Release Date: 1955-02-03The 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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Episode 24 - The Big Dog
Release Date: 1955-02-10An old man sits on his front porch with a shotgun, threatening to kill the man who poisoned his dog.
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Episode 25 - The Big Underground
Release Date: 1955-02-17Friday and Smith use a stolen check as a lead to a series of used car lot robberies.
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Episode 26 - The Big Key
Release Date: 1955-02-24A 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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Episode 27 - The Big Mailman
Release Date: 1955-03-03Friday and Smith go after a bandit who is robbing mailboxes and then trying to cash other people's checks.
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Episode 28 - The Big Customer
Release Date: 1955-03-10 -
Episode 29 - The Big Tar Baby
Release Date: 1955-03-17A bartender's wife is kidnapped, beaten and rolled in hot tar.
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Episode 30 - The Big Number
Release Date: 1955-03-24Friday and Smith Investigate a Bank Robbery, but they don't have much to go on.
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Episode 31 - The Big Mask
Release Date: 1955-03-31A masked bandit is holding up supermarkets and the police are not able to catch him.
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Episode 32 - The Big Sucker
Release Date: 1955-04-07A con artist is swindling jewelers using fake diamonds.
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Episode 33 - The Big Moustache
Release Date: 1955-04-14Friday and Smith investigate the robbery of an appliance store.
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Episode 34 - The Big Heel
Release Date: 1955-04-21Friday and Smith use an unusual footprint to help solve a murder case.
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Episode 35 - The Big Gone
Release Date: 1955-04-28The owner of a flower shop kills a man who is trying to rob him, but the corpse mysteriously vanishes.
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Episode 36 - The Big Student
Release Date: 1955-05-05Friday and Smith are on the trail of a bunch of teenagers selling fake magazine subscriptions.
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Episode 37 - The Big Watch
Release Date: 1955-05-12Bandits are offering rides to hitch-hiking soldiers, then robbing and beating them.
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Episode 38 - The Big Dig
Release Date: 1955-05-19Friday and Smith are looking into a report of a missing woman that turns into a murder investigation.
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Episode 39 - The Big Mug
Release Date: 1955-05-26Two hold-up men are robbing and beating pedestrians in the down town area.