Category: Video Theater

Video Theater 116: Dragnet: The Big Dance

Friday and Smith search for two young hold up men.

Season 2, Episode 33 (June 25, 1953)

Video Theater 115: Dragnet: Big Barrette

Friday and Smith investigate the death of a girl who apparently had no enemies.

Season 2, Episode 32

Air Date: June 18, 1953

Video Theater 114: Richard Diamond: The Torch Carriers

Diamond is hired to find a man, but finds out the client isn’t telling him the truth.

Original Air Date: August 26, 1957

Video Theater 113: Dragnet: The Big Hands

Friday and Smith search for a man who strangled a woman in a hotel room.

Season 2, Episode 28

Original Air Date: May 21, 1953

Video Theater 112: Richard Diamond: The Chess Player

The wife of an eccentric businessman hires Diamond to keep her husband safe, to do so he’ll need to brush up on his chess.

Season 1, Episode 8

Original Air Date: August 19, 1957

Video Theater 111: Dragnet: The Big Lease

Joe Friday and Frank Smith search for a missing landlord.

Season 2, Episode 27 (May 14, 1953)

Video Theater 110: Richard Diamond: The Big Score

Diamond goes undercover as a Canadian businessman to connect with a gambling racket and find out if a client’s husband actually witnessed a murder.

Original Air Date: August 12, 1957

Season 1, Episode 7

Video Theater 109: Dragnet: The Big Light

Friday and Smith investigate the death of a hated director on a Hollywood Sound Stage.

Season 2, Episode 20

Original Air Date: March 26, 1953

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Video Theater 108: Richard Diamond: Hit and Run

Richard Diamond tries to clear a young couple who are accused of a hit and run slaying.

Season 1, Episode 6

Original Air Date: August 5, 1957

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Video Theater 107: Dragnet: The Big Frank

Friday and Smith investigate when a man is ripped from his car and beaten.

Original Air Date: May 7, 1953

Season 2, Episode 26

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Video Theater 106: Richard Diamond: Escape from Oak Lane

A man leaving in town hires Diamond to serve as escort for his troubled wife. She runs away from dinner suddenly.

Season 1, Episode 3

Original Air Date: July 15, 1957

Video Theater 105: Dragnet: The Big Test

At their end of their shift, Friday and Smith meet a young man who came in to report the murder of his best friend while the two were in Mexico.

Original Air Date: April 9, 1953 (Season 2, Episode 22)

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Video Theater 104: Peter Gunn: Let’s Kill Timothy

Peter is hired to act as bodyguard for a seal.

Original Air Date: January 19, 1959

 

Video Theater 035: Decoy: Stranglehold

Casey Jones (Beverly Garland) is called in to befriend a young woman when police suspect that her boyfriend is behind a strangulation.

Originally Aired: 1957 (Episode 1)

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Video Theater 004: Cases of Eddie Drake: Shoot the Works

Eddie is hired by a wealthy woman to recover a watch that could reveal an indiscretion. Along the way, Eddie runs into murder.

Original Air Date: April 10, 1952

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