Category: NBC

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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EP2404: Rocky Fortune: The Prize Fight Fix

Frank Sinatra

Rocky is a dead ringer for a has-been Bolivian fighter whose managers have arranged a dive but has disappeared. Rocky has to fill in for him.

Original Air Date: December 29, 1953

 

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EP2403: Night Beat: The Old Itch

Frank Lovejoy

Randy gets scooped by an intrepid, globe-trotting, female reporter.

Original Air Date: July 3, 1952

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EP2402: Dragnet: The Big String

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate the kidnapping of a college professor’s wife.

Original Air Date: January 18, 1953

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EP2398: Rocky Fortune: Companion to a Chimp

Frank Sinatra

Rocky is hired as a companion to a TV star chimp. Rocky is waylaid and the chimp stolen.

Original Air Date: December 15, 1953

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EP2397: Night Beat: Reformer

Frank Lovejoy

A farmer from rural Illinois comes to Chicago determined to take down a corrupt political boss “with love.”

Original Air Date: June 26, 1952

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EP2396: Dragnet: The Big Small

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith search for an elderly lady forger.

Original Air Date: January 11, 1953

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EP2392: Rocky Fortune: Murder on the Midway

Frank Sinatra

Rocky befriends an orphan boy and finds himself suspected of kidnapping the boy from his guardian when he disappears.

Original Air Date: December 8, 1953

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EP2391: Night Beat: Lost Souls

Frank Lovejoy

Randy meets a woman who treats everyone on skid row to champagne, steaks, and fresh sheets, and is being haunted across the country by a childhood friend who promises to kill her on her thirtieth birthday but died herself when she was eleven.

Original Air Date: November 16, 1951

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