Category: NBC

EP2870: Dragnet: The Big Office

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith work a weekend shift at the business office.

Original Air Date: August 31, 1954

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EP2864: Dragnet: the Big Shock

Jack Webb
Friday and Smith investigate a series of tunnel burglaries.

Original Air Date: August 24, 1954

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EP2858: Dragnet: The Big Cad

Jack Webb

An addict provides Friday and Smith a lead in a case of stolen morphine.
Original Air Date: August 17, 1954

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EP2852: Dragnet: The Big Missus

Jack Webb

The wife of a escaped parolee from Michigan comes to Friday and Smith to bring her husband in for his own good.

Original Air Date: August 9, 1955

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EP2851: Dragnet: The Big Rod

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith search for the driver of a souped up car who hit a woman and left her for dead.

Original Air Date: March 16, 1954

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EP2850: Dragnet: The Big Impossible

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith have a positive ID for a suspect who committed several robberies. The only problem? He was in a sanitarium at time of the robberies.

Original Air Date: March 15, 1953

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EP2849: Dragnet: The Big Casing

Jack Webb

A woman is found dead of a gunshot wound, the husband claims it was suicide but the evidence seems to point towards murder.

Original Air Date: May 3, 1951

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EP2848: Dragnet: The Big Betty

Jack Webb

Joe Friday and Ben Romero go after a gang of conmen who are victimizing the families of recently deceased people.

Original Air Date: November 23, 1950

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EP2847: Dragnet: Production 6 (a.k.a Red Light Bandit)

Jack Webb

Friday and Romero hunt for a brutal bandit who robs and beats people while impersonating a police officer.

Original Air Date: July 14, 1949

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EP2846s: Dragnet: The Big Red Parts One and Two

Jack Webb

Following a tip from an informant, Friday goes undercover to bust up a new narcotics ring.

Original Air Dates: January 3 and 10, 1952

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EP2846: Dragnet: The Big Wish

Jack Webb
A boy comes into Juvenile division asking for help to break an addiction.

Original Air Date: August 10, 1954

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EP2841: Candy Matson: Devil in the Deep Freeze (Listener’s Choice (Standard Division #14)

Natalie Masters

Candy is hired by a restaurant owner who found a dead man in his freezer wearing a devil’s costume.

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EP2840: Dragnet: The Big Stand

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate the murder of a man on a street corner.

Original Air Date: August 3, 1954

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EP2834: Dragnet: The Big Match

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith have one clue to the identity of a robber of an auction house: a partially spent matchbook.

Original Air Date: July 27, 1954

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EP2829: Easy Money: The Gem Switch (Host’s Choice/Wild Card)

Larry Haines


A small jewelry store has a $5,000 ruby disappear and be replaced with a duplicate. Mike Trent thinks he knows how to get it back–with the aid of a third hand.

Original Air Date: December 19, 1954

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