Category: NBC

EP2504: Dragnet: The Big False Move

Jack Webb

A man has confessed to holding up a store, but Friday suspects he’s not telling the truth.

Original Air Date: May 10, 1953

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EP2498: Dragnet: The Big Joke

Jack Webb

A bartender calls Friday and Smith when he receives a letter offering him $5,000 to kill a man.

Original Air Date: May 10, 1953

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EP2492: Dragnet: The Big Carney

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate a series of high-priced shopliftings.

Original Air Date: May 3, 1953

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EP2486: Dragnet: The Big Scrapbook

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith track down three robbers who pulled off a big jewel robbery in San Diego.

Original Air Date: April 26, 1953

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EP2482: Rocky Fortune: Boarding House Doublecross

Frank Sinatra

Rocky stays at a flophouse, but a small man insists that he and his wife had rented the room, but there’s no sign of his wife and the landlords claim not to know him.

Original Air Date: March 30, 1954

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EP2480: Dragnet: The Big Rip

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith get a tip on the identity of safe burglars from a suspect in a previous case.

Original Air Date: April 19, 1952

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EP2476: Rocky Fortune: Rocket Racket

Frank Sinatra

Rocky is hired for an odd job and dragged to Utah where he’s designated as the pilot of a private rocket ship to the moon.

Original Air Date: March 23, 1954

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EP2474: Dragnet: The Big Compulsion

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate a series of false alarms being called in.

Original Air Date: April 12, 1953

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EP2470: Rocky Fortune: Psychological Murder

Frank Sinatra

Rocky helps a woman who’s afraid she’ll murder her husband.

Original Air Date: March 16, 1954

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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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