Jack Webb
Director
Dragnet (1951)
Season 4
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.
Released Dec. 16, 1951
Episode 30 min
10+
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Production Companies: Mark VII Ltd., Universal Television
Network: NBC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
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S4E1 - The Big Producer
A man claims to be a big Hollywood producer, but Friday and Smith discover that he's merely the leader of a pornography ring.
Aug. 26, 1954, midnight
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S4E2 - The Big Fraud
A group of con artists are posing as cops and victimizing out-of-town businessmen in fashionable hotels.
Sept. 2, 1954, midnight
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S4E3 - The Big Crime
Four-year-old twin girls are abducted from the local park.
Sept. 9, 1954, midnight
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S4E4 - The Big Pair
An old man and his granddaughter are burglarized, leaving them broke and starving.
Sept. 16, 1954, midnight
S4E5 - The Big Escape
A 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.
Sept. 23, 1954, midnight
S4E6 - The Big Kid
When 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.
Sept. 30, 1954, midnight
S4E7 - The Big Missing
Friday and Smith are looking for a missing businessman.
Oct. 7, 1954, midnight
S4E8 - The Big Bar
A 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.
Oct. 14, 1954, midnight
S4E9 - The Big Present
Friday 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.
Oct. 21, 1954, midnight
S4E10 - The Big Gangster (Part 1)
An attempt is made on the life of a gang leader. Friday and Smith must find the shooters before his followers seek revenge.
Oct. 28, 1954, midnight
S4E11 - The Big Gangster (Part 2)
Friday and Smith must find the men who murdered a gang boss before an open gang war starts.
Nov. 4, 1954, midnight
S4E12 - The Big New Years
On New Year's Eve, Friday and Smith are working out of Central Receiving Hospital.
Nov. 11, 1954, midnight
S4E13 - The Big Want Ad
Friday and Smith investigate a man who is conning people by using the want ads.
Nov. 18, 1954, midnight
S4E14 - The Big Affair
Friday and Smith discover that the key to finding a hold-up artist lies in his married girlfriend.
Nov. 25, 1954, midnight
S4E15 - The Big Bible
A man locks himself in his study and threatens suicide if his wife leaves him.
Dec. 2, 1954, midnight
S4E16 - The Big Bindle
Friday goes under cover to bust a drug ring that is operating out of a high-class hotel.
Dec. 9, 1954, midnight
S4E17 - The Big Office
Friday and Smith are assigned to the business office, where they must deal with the paperwork on a busy weekend.
Dec. 16, 1954, midnight
S4E18 - The Big Rod
An expectant mother is run down and killed by two teenagers in a hot rod.
Dec. 30, 1954, midnight
S4E19 - The Big Rescue
A group of bandits arm themselves and break their comrades out of jail.
Jan. 6, 1955, midnight
S4E20 - The Big Family
Local 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.
Jan. 13, 1955, midnight
S4E21 - The Big Shock
Friday and Smith go after a burglar who plans to break into a bank through an underground tunnel.
Jan. 20, 1955, midnight
S4E22 - The Big Screen
Friday and Smith team up with a newspaper reporter so they can investigate television repairmen who may be overcharging their customers.
Jan. 27, 1955, midnight
S4E23 - The Big TV
The 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.
Feb. 3, 1955, midnight
S4E24 - The Big Dog
An old man sits on his front porch with a shotgun, threatening to kill the man who poisoned his dog.
Feb. 10, 1955, midnight
S4E25 - The Big Underground
Friday and Smith use a stolen check as a lead to a series of used car lot robberies.
Feb. 17, 1955, midnight
S4E26 - The Big Key
A woman's badly mutilated body is found in a churchyard on Christmas eve. The only clue is a key lying under her.
Feb. 24, 1955, midnight
S4E27 - The Big Mailman
Friday and Smith go after a bandit who is robbing mailboxes and then trying to cash other people's checks.
March 3, 1955, midnight
S4E28 - The Big Customer
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March 10, 1955, midnight
S4E29 - The Big Tar Baby
A bartender's wife is kidnapped, beaten and rolled in hot tar.
March 17, 1955, midnight
S4E30 - The Big Number
Friday and Smith Investigate a Bank Robbery, but they don't have much to go on.
March 24, 1955, midnight
S4E31 - The Big Mask
A masked bandit is holding up supermarkets and the police are not able to catch him.
March 31, 1955, midnight
S4E32 - The Big Sucker
A con artist is swindling jewelers using fake diamonds.
April 7, 1955, midnight
S4E33 - The Big Moustache
Friday and Smith investigate the robbery of an appliance store.
April 14, 1955, midnight
S4E34 - The Big Heel
Friday and Smith use an unusual footprint to help solve a murder case.
April 21, 1955, midnight
S4E35 - The Big Gone
The owner of a flower shop kills a man who is trying to rob him, but the corpse mysteriously vanishes.
April 28, 1955, midnight
S4E36 - The Big Student
Friday and Smith are on the trail of a bunch of teenagers selling fake magazine subscriptions.
May 5, 1955, midnight
S4E37 - The Big Watch
Bandits are offering rides to hitch-hiking soldiers, then robbing and beating them.
May 12, 1955, midnight
S4E38 - The Big Dig
Friday and Smith are looking into a report of a missing woman that turns into a murder investigation.
May 19, 1955, midnight
S4E39 - The Big Mug
Two hold-up men are robbing and beating pedestrians in the down town area.
May 26, 1955, midnight
Network: NBC
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 8280 min.
Released: Dec. 16, 1951
Last Air Date: Aug. 23, 1959, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-PG / 10+
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