Dragnet

Seasons

1951

7.5

Follows Sergeant Joe Friday of the Los Angels Police Department (LAPD) and his various partners as they methodically investigate a different verity of crimes in Los Angeles, California.

Episode List

S1 • E1

The Human Bomb

An ex-con bears a grudge against the city of Los Angeles. He wants to blow up city hall unless his demands are met. He has a powerful bomb. The police find 28 sticks of dynamite in his apartment. Only Sergeant Friday has the power to stop this 1950s terrorist attack.

S1 • E2

The Big Actor

A trail of stolen narcotics lead Friday and Romero to a TV actor who is addicted to heroin.

S1 • E3

The Big Death

Detective Sergeant Friday has been assigned to homicide detail. A socially prominent citizen is plotting to kill his wife. He tells a friend the plans of his murder and hires him to do the killing. It's Friday's job to stop him by going undercover and posing as a hired killer.

S1 • E4

The Big Mother

Twins are born in a hospital, but soon one is kidnapped. The detectives must find the missing baby before it's too late.

S1 • E5

The Big Cast

Friday begins to question Henry Ross, a suspect in a man's disappearance, which Friday believes is actually a murder. Ross coolly and calmly denies any involvement in the disappearance, but Friday's relentless interrogation soon begin to crack the man's facade.

S1 • E6

The Big Speech

Sergeant Friday is asked to give a speech at his old high school while he is trying to apprehend a student addicted to narcotics, who viscously beats and robs a neighborhood druggist.

S1 • E7

The Big Parrot

Friday and Jacobs investigate a double murder in the remains of an arson fire. Among the dead is a parrot with a broken neck. The case leads them to a robbery and a chilling confession.

S1 • E8

The Big Moody

A man claims he awoke to find his wife dead in bed beside him. Neoghbors convince the detectives to hold him for murder, but the victim's sister provides an unexpected defense.

S1 • E9

The Big Blast

The hunt is on for the man who killed a woman while her young son looked on in horror.

S1 • E10

The Big Trial

Friday is counting on a woman to testify against the drunk driver who hit her, but she doesn't appear in court.

S1 • E11

The Big September Man

Someone murdered a secretary late at night in her office. She was beaten to death with a metal pipe wrapped in newspaper. Could it be the drunk found three blocks away beating his head against a wall?

S1 • E12

The Big Phone Call

Friday and Jacobs question a jeweler regarding the robbery of a colleague. The man takes offense at being questioned about the incident, but as the detectives begin to amass evidence, the jeweler's outrage quickly begins to lose credibility.

S1 • E13

The Big Casing

Friday and Jacobs are called to the apartment of a man who phoned in the fatal shooting of his wife. He claims it was suicide, but upon looking at the crime scene and talking to neighbors they begin to wonder if it was murder.