Category: NBC

EP2216: Dragnet: The Big Whiff

Jack Webb

A woman without identification is found murdered by chloroform.

Original Air Date: June 5, 1952

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EP2213: Richard Diamond: The Edna Wolfe Murder Case

Dick Powell

A beautiful woman hires Diamond to find out if her husband’s having an affair. Diamond finds him fleeing from the home of a woman who had just been murdered.

Original Air Date: August 9, 1950

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EP2211: Night Beat: The Hunter Becomes the Hunted

Frank Lovejoy

A man escapes from death row and captures Randy and the DA who prosecuted him and promises to kill them.

Original Air Date: September 11, 1950

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EP2210: Dragnet: The Big Fourth

Jack Webb

Joe Friday searches for a kidnapper who steals babies and leaves them abandoned to be recovered after about a day.

Original Air Date: May 29, 1952

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EP2207: Richard Diamond: The Frank Bowers Case

Dick Powell

A fight manager and gym owner friend of Diamond’s is found dead in the river with three people witnessing him jump to his death, but Diamond doesn’t believe it.

Original Air Date: August 2, 1950

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EP2205: Night Beat: Old Home Week

Frank Lovejoy

Randy takes a short vacation and finds himself mixed up with a wife, ex-wife, and two ex-girlfriends with plenty of malice.

Original Air Date: September 4, 1950

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EP2204: Dragnet: The Big Shakedown

Jack Webb

Joe searches a phony policeman who is blackmailing citizens with secrets.

Original Air Date: May 22, 1952

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EP2201: Richard Diamond: The Martha Campbell Ransom Case

Dick Powell

Diamond is hired to deliver ransom for a woman’s beloved kidnapped aunt.

Original Air Date: July 26, 1950
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EP2199: Night Beat: Doctor’s Secret

Frank Lovejoy

A doctor, the father of a man executed in the electric chair, keeps calling the warden asking to see the chair.

Original Air Date: August 21, 1950

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EP2198: Dragnet: The Big Mail

Jack Webb

Friday investigates a mail truck robbery.

Original Air Date: May 15, 1952

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EP2195: Richard Diamond: The Ice Pick Murder Case

Dick Powell

Diamond finds a man dead on his office door step with an ice pick in his chest.

Original Air Date: July 12, 1950

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EP2193: Night Beat: Gunner’s Last Fight

Frank Lovejoy

A down-on-his-luck boxer refuses to take a bribe to take a fall and his wife is leaving him over it.

Original Air Date: August 14, 1951

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EP2192: Dragnet: The Big Gamble

Jack Webb

Friday and Lockwood try to break up a floating gambling game.

Original Air Date: May 8, 1952

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EP2189: Richard Diamond: The Tobias P. Briggs Case

Dick Powell

A wrestler hires Diamond to find out what happened to a truck driver who was an old wrestling buddy.

Original Air Date: July 5, 1950

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EP2187: Night Beat: Old Blind Pop

Frank Lovejoy

Randy finds out a blind street musician traded his violin into a pawn shop in exchange for a loaded gun.

Original Air Date: August 7, 1950

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