Category: NBC

EP2468: Dragnet: The Big Chet

Jack Webb

An ex-con gives Friday and Smith a tip in a series of robberies.

Original Air Date: April 5, 1953

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EP2464: Rocky Fortune: The Twice-Murdered Man

Frank Sinatra

In a bar, Rocky and a friend who’s an insurance actuary search the bar for the one person in the building who’s a murderer.

Original Air Date: March 9, 1954

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EP2462: Dragnet: The Big Dream

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate a $5,000 liquor store hold up.

Original Air Date: March 29, 1953

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EP2458: Rocky Fortune: Honor Among Thieves

Frank Sinatra

Rocky tries to help a doctor who has to account for $25,000 in missing drugs and a drug addict son who is behind it.

Original Air Date: March 2, 1954

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EP2457: Night Beat: The “Bug” Killings

Frank Lovejoy

Randy is investigating a series of murders where the killer calls the police in advance of each killing.

Original Air Date: September 25, 1952

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EP2456: Dragnet: The Big Informant

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith are trying to track down a team of safe burglars. Their search leads them to a man who denies involvement but is glad to help.

Original Air Date: March 22, 1953

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EP2452: Rocky Fortune: A Sitting Duck for Death

Frank Sinatra

A killer who Rocky put away escapes prison threatening to murder Rocky and those who sent him up. Rocky tries to get out of town, but one of the men on the list wants to use Rocky as a decoy to draw out the killer.

Original Air Date: February 23, 1954

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EP2451: Night Beat: The Policy Wheel Racket

Frank Lovejoy

A blind man tells Randy the leader of a local rescue mission has been severely beaten. Randy wants to find out why but the man won’t tell him.

Original Air Date: September 18, 1952

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EP2450: Dragnet: The Big Impossible

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith think they’ve found the man behind a series of robberies. The only problem? He couldn’t have possibly done it because he was in a sanitarium.

Original Air Date: March 15, 1953

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EP2446: Rocky Fortune: One Husband Too Many

Frank Sinatra

A woman with two husbands wants Rocky to murder one of them for her.

Original Air Date: February 9, 1954

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EP2445:Night Beat: Larry, the Understudy

Frank Lovejoy

A young dancer’s understudy puts on an impressive dancing performance that has the show’s owner ready to make him a star. However, he quits and disappears from the theater.

Original Air Date: September 11, 1952

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EP2444: Dragnet: The Big Laugh

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate a man who is taking advantage of lonely single women.

Original Air Date: March 8, 1953

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EP2440: Rocky Fortune: The Catskills Cover-Up

Frank Sinatra

Rocky is hired as a social director at a Catskills bed and breakfast but finds the owner needs help with her fugitive son.

Original Air Date: February 9, 1954

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EP2439: Night Beat: The Bomb On Flight 63

Frank Lovejoy

Randy receives a tip that there’s a bomb on a plane to Denver.

Original Air Date: September 4, 1952

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EP2438: Dragnet: The Big Want

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith search for a fugitive from another city.

Original Air Date: March 1, 1953

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