Category: NBC

EP2360: Dragnet: The Big Shirt

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate the murder of a pawnbroker.

Original Air Date: November 30, 1952

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EP2356: Rocky Fortune: The Pint-Sized Payroll Bandit

Frank Sinatra

An 8-year-old boy shows up at a diner Rocky’s working with a bag he says contains $50,000.

Original Air Date: November 3, 1953

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EP2355: Night Beat: The Death of Riley

Frank Lovejoy

The owner of the factory is giving it to the workers and wants to be clear he’s not doing so for humanitarian reasons.

Original Air Date: May 15, 1952

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EP2354: Dragnet: The Big Guilt

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate a dead man found in a bad part of town.

Original Air Date: November 23, 1952

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EP2350: Rocky Fortune: The Shipboard Jewel Robbery

Frank Sinatra

Rocky gets a job as a steward on a cruise ship. He finds a passenger dead and becomes the prime suspect.

Original Air Date: October 27, 1953

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EP2349: Night Beat: Long Live the Clown

Frank Lovejoy

The wife of an acrobat clown comes to Randy to sell a story about her husband being a spy.

Original Air Date: May 8, 1952

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EP2348: Dragnet: The Big Walk

Jack Webb

Friday goes undercover as an out of town drug dealer in order to find out who is behind a potent new supply of heroin.

Original Air Date: November 16, 1952

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EP2344: Rocky Fortune: Double Identity

Frank Sinatra

Rocky is sent by the employment agency about a job as a chauffeur. He wakes up in a sanitarium in Denver, Colorado.

Original Air Date: October 20, 1953

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EP2343: Night Beat: Pay Up or Die

Frank Lovejoy

A friend of Randy’s owes $3,000 to a notorious wanted racketeer.

Original Air Date: May 1, 1952

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EP2342: Dragnet: The Big Dive

Jack Webb

An unidentified woman is found dead in the apartment of a rented room.

Original Air Date: November 9, 1952

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EP2338: Rocky Fortune: Oyster Shucker at The Fifty Fathoms

Frank Sinatra

Rocky is assigned to work as an oyster shucker at a sea food restaurant. He finds pearls in twelve consecutive oysters.

Original Air Date: October 6, 1953

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EP2337: Night Beat: Expectant Father

Frank Lovejoy

Randy keeps company with a colleague whose wife is having a baby.

Original Air Date: December 28, 1951

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EP2336: Dragnet: The Big Light

Jack WebbFriday and Smith investigate a murder on a movie sound stage.

Original Air Date: November 2, 1952

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EP2331: Night Beat: Mr. and Mrs. Carothers

Frank Lovejoy

A cute elderly couple from rural Illinois asks Randy’s help to plan a big splurge in Chicago, but Randy senses something troubling.

Original Air Date: October 26, 1951

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EP2330: Dragnet: The Big Number

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate a bank robbery.

Original Air Date: October 26, 1952

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