Category: NBC

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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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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