Category: NBC

EP2434: Rocky Fortune: The Football Fix

Frank Sinatra

Rocky is hired as a bodyguard to a football quarterback who wants to turn down a request to throw the big game.

Original Air Date: February 2, 1954

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EP2433: Night Beat: The Man with the Red Hair

Frank Lovejoy

On his night off, Randy meets a woman at a bar. She turns to ice when she sees a man with red hair.

Original Air Date: August 21, 1952

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EP2432: Dragnet: The Big Smoke

Jack Webb

A man in his seventies is murdered and his bed-ridden wife brutally beaten. Friday and Smith search for the perpetrator.

Original Air Date: February 22, 1953

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EP2428: Rocky Fortune: Hollywood or Boom

Frank Sinatra

Rocky is hired to drive a truckload of Nitro from New York to Los Angeles.

Original Air Date: January 26, 1954

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EP2427: Night Beat: His Name is Luke

Frank Lovejoy

A former burlesque dancer, a shoeshine man, and a delicatessen owner are among those acting out of character and raising money for a mysterious “him.”

Original Air Date: August 14, 1952

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EP2426: Dragnet: The Big Tooth

Jack Webb

A woman fears her mother’s been murdered by her father.

Original Air Date: February 15, 1953

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EP2422: Rocky Fortune: The Museum Murder

Frank Sinatra

While working as a tour guide, Rocky takes his group to a museum and finds one of his party dead in a sarcophagus. When he goes back with Sergeant Finger, the body is gone.

Original Air Date: January 19, 1954

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EP2421: Night Beat: Somebody Stop Ann

Frank Lovejoy

A female columnist enlists Randy’s help because she fears her estranged husband will kill her and her children.

Original Air Date: August 7, 1952

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EP2420: Dragnet; The Big Press

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith search for forgers who’ve been passing fake payroll checks.

Original Air Date: February 8, 1953

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EP2416: Rocky Fortune: The Rodeo Murder Mystery

Frank Sinatra

Rocky is hired by the owner of a rodeo and finds himself framed for his employer’s murder.

Original Air Date: January 12, 1954

 

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EP2415: Night Beat: Flight from Fear

Frank Lovejoy

An elderly layout man pulls part of a columnist’s article on a young talented swimmer. The swimmer refused to try out for the Olympics and ends up threatening the columnist and Randy.

Original Air Date: July 31, 1952

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EP2414: Dragnet: The Big Strip

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith search for a gang of car strippers.

Original Air Date: February 1, 1953

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EP2410: Rocky Fortune: On the Trail of a Killer

Frank Sinatra

Rocky becomes suspicious that a friend was killed by her husband for her insurance money.

Original Air Date: January 5, 1954

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EP2409: Night Beat: The Smell of Peaches

Frank Lovejoy

Randy meets a recently paroled old-time gangster who suffered a nervous breakdown who swears he’s being followed by two men who want to kill him for $100,000.

Original Air Date: July 17, 1952

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EP2408: Dragnet: The Big Lay-Out

Jack Webb

A friend of Friday’s turns his son in for doing drugs.

Original Air Date: January 25, 1953

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