Category: NBC

EP2312: Dragnet: The Big Jolt

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith investigate when a formerly good’s student slide ends up with him causing a riot in class.

Original Air Date: October 5, 1952

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EP2307: Night Beat: Byline for Frank

Frank Lovejoy

A dying has-been reporter asks Randy to get the truth behind the man who framed him for liable and ruined his career.

Original Air Date: June 29, 1951

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EP2306: Dragnet: The Big Brain

Jack Webb

Friday and Smith search for a gang that are robbing motorists and then shoving them in the trunks of their car.

Original Air Date: September 28, 1952

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EP2301: Night Beat: Sanctuary

Frank Lovejoy

A mad man is holding a missing five year old boy in a church’s bell tower.

Original Air Date: June 22, 1951

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EP2300: Dragnet: The Big Shot

Jack Webb

The owner of a nightclub is killed in a robbery.

Original Air Date: September 21, 1952

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EP2295: Night Beat: Otto, the Music Man

Frank Lovejoy

Randy rescues a man from being roughed up. The man runs into a bar and leaves behind his hat. Randy runs right into the bar and finds no one has seen him, and then comes back to discover the mystery man plays a great clarinet.

Original Air Date: June 15, 1951

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EP2294: Dragnet: The Big Bull

Jack Webb

An escaped criminal threatens Frank Smith’s family.

Original Air Date: September 14, 1952

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EP2291: Richard Diamond: The Chapel Hill Case

Dick Powell

Diamond and Lieutenant Levinson travel to a police conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and meet a police woman who is murdered on the train.

Original Air Date: December 13, 1950

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EP2290: Bishop and the Gargoyle: The Jennifer Botts Case

Ken Lynch and Richard Gordon

The Gargoyle brings to the Bishop a young woman from a small town who has been ripped off by a con man. The Bishop sets out to get her money back, but finds the con man dead and himself and the Gargoyle involved in a mystery over a missing ruby.

Original Air Date: July 14, 1940

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EP2289: Night Beat: The Search for Fred

Frank Lovejoy

A woman’s dog has died of rabies, and she turns to Randy to help find a man the dog had bitten five days before.

Original Air Date: June 8, 1951

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EP2288: Dragnet: The Big Tear

Jack Webb

Friday searches for a burglar who has robbed dozens of houses.

Original Air Date: September 11, 1952

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EP2285: Richard Diamond: The Mona Lisa Murder

Dick Powell

A rich art collector hires Diamond to find grounds for him to divorce his art-hating wife and is then found murdered.

Original Air Date: November 15, 1950

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EP2283: Night Beat: The Will of Mrs. Orloff

Frank Lovejoy

Randy sees a cleaning woman die before his eyes and searches for her son to let him know.

Original Air Date: June 1, 1951

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EP2282: Dragnet: The Big Ray

Jack Webb
Friday investigates a man who suffered a routine heart attack, but a statement from his 9 year-old son changes the investigation.

Original Air Date: September 4, 1952

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EP2279: Richard Diamond: Dead Man’s Letter

Dick Powell

A man stumbles into Diamond’s office, gives him a letter, and dies. Two thugs immediately come after Diamond.

Original Air Date: November 8, 1950

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