Dragnet

6.9
196730m

Production

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Police Detective Sgt. Joe Friday and his partners investigate crimes in Los Angeles.

Seasons

17 Episodes • Premiered 1967

This is a list of episodes from the first season of the 1967 Dragnet series. The season was directed by Jack Webb.

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1. The LSD Story

7.0

Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Bill Gannon encounter a freaked-out young LSD user calling himself "Blue Boy"; before long, Blue Boy is "turning on" schoolchildren with the mysterious new drug.

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2. The Big Explosion

8.0

A neo-Nazi psycho has planted a bomb somewhere in L.A. Friday and Gannon have to find it.

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3. The Kidnapping

Friday and Gannon help an employee rescue her kidnapped boss.

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4. The Interrogation

A new officer has been arrested for robbing a liquor store while on an undercover assignment.

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5. The Masked Bandits

6.0

Four bandits wearing red masks commit a series of robberies.

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6. The Bank Examiner Swindle

6.0

Two con men, posing as bank examiners, are bilking the elderly out of their life savings.

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7. The Hammer

An elderly apartment manager is found to have been beaten to death with a hammer.

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8. The Candy Store Robberies

7.0

Friday and Gannon try to figure out a pattern to a series of candy store hold-ups.

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9. The Fur Job

7.0

Gannon goes undercover as a buyer in order to trap fur theives.

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10. The Jade Story

5.0

Over $200,000 worth of Imperial Jade is reported stolen in a burglary, and Friday and Gannon are on the case.

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11. The Shooting

6.0

A police officer is shot while making a routine check on a pair of paroled convicts that are parked near a liquor store.

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12. The Hit and Run Driver

7.0

Friday and Gannon use newspapers, radio and TV to seek the public's help in identifying a hit and run driver.

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13. The Bookie

Friday goes undercover with the Department's chaplain in order to break up a gambling ring.

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14. The Subscription Racket

Friday learns about a scam artist with a novel twist: he uses an authentic Congressional Medal of Honor to solicit magazine subscriptions.

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15. The Gun

8.0

A Japanese widow is senselessly murdered, leaving her small daughter an orphan. Friday has a hard time controlling his emotions while seeking the killer.

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16. The Big Kids

7.0

A gang of juvenile thieves have been stealing petty items in order to gain membership into an exclusive club.

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17. The Bullet

A dead man has been found in a locked room, along with a gun that could not have been the murder weapon.

Cast

Photo of Harry Morgan

Harry Morgan

Officer Bill Gannon

Photo of Jack Webb

Jack Webb

Sergeant Joe Friday

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