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Dragnet
Dragnet follows Los Angeles Police Sergeant Joe Friday, played by series creator Jack Webb, as he works real-case-inspired investigations with the clipped, just-the-facts narration that became instantly iconic. Airing from 1949 to 1957, it's often credited as the show that invented the police procedural, prized for its stark sound design, terse dialogue, and documentary-style realism. Friday's partner changed more than once over the run—Barton Yarborough's Sgt. Ben Romero held the role in the…
Episodes
DragnetThe Big Thank You
Aired: Mar 9th, 1950. When a paroled murderess stops filing her monthly reports, Sgt. Joe Friday and Ben Romero notice her signature has changed — and the…
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The Big Kill
Aired: Mar 2nd, 1950. When a Los Angeles police officer is gunned down with a shotgun on his own front porch, Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero…
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The Gentle Grifter Comes Home
Aired: Feb 23rd, 1950. A confidence man with a 35-year rap sheet resurfaces in Los Angeles, working a slick used-car swindle that leaves two dealers out $2,000…
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The Big Girl
Aired: Feb 9th, 1950. A robbery detail case turns grim when Sergeant Friday and Sgt. Romero track a beautiful, statuesque blonde who's been robbing and…
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The Big Little Girl
Aired: Feb 2nd, 1950. When two seven-year-old girls vanish on a short walk home from the corner grocery store, Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero…
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The Big Man, Part 2: Narcotics
Aired: Jan 19th, 1950. Sergeant Joe Friday returns from an exhausting undercover haul to launch the manhunt for Belmont, the elusive supplier behind a…
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The Big Man, Part 1: Friday Goes Undercover
Aired: Jan 12th, 1950. Joe Friday says goodbye to his mother and trades his badge for a fake ID as he goes deep undercover in the Narcotics Bureau's biggest…
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The Price of an Old Friendship
Aired: Jan 5th, 1950. When a jewelry store heist turns into a shootout that wounds his own partner, Sergeant Joe Friday discovers the getaway man he's chasing…
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The Night Depository Killing
Aired: Dec 29th, 1949. Sergeant Friday and his partner Ben Romero stake out a Los Angeles drugstore on a sweltering night, tailing tips on an armed robbery…
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The Rifle for Christmas
Aired: Dec 22nd, 1949. Days before Christmas, Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero race to find a nine-year-old boy who vanished from his own…
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The Jade Thumb Rings
Aired: Dec 8th, 1949. Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero are pulled off a retirement party at the police academy to investigate a brutal daylight…
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The Big Timers
Aired: Dec 1st, 1949. A savage knife attack on a teenage boy in a vacant lot pulls Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero into the Juvenile Bureau's…
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The Mother-In-Law Murder
Aired: Nov 24th, 1949. Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Romero track down a killer after a 62-year-old laundress is found beaten to death in her own home…
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The Big Freight Job
Aired: Oct 1st, 1949. A rash of hijacked trucks has left Los Angeles warehouses stripped of nylons, silk, and imported perfume worth tens of thousands of…
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The Brick-Bat Slayer
Aired: Sep 24th, 1949. A killer is stalking Los Angeles apartment courts, slipping through cut window screens to murder women in their own homes—and leaving…
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The Shooting of Officer Bemis
Aired: Sep 17th, 1949. A routine traffic stop turns fatal when a motorcycle officer is gunned down in the fog-shrouded streets of Los Angeles, and Friday and…
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The Nursery Man
Aired: Sep 3rd, 1949. When a nursery owner reports his wife missing, Sergeant Joe Friday and Ben Romero smell something wrong: her purse, her clothes, even her…
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The Auto Burglary Ring: Myra the Redhead
Aired: Sep 1st, 1949. Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Romero work the night shift on auto theft detail, chasing down the leaders of a gang responsible for…
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The Blitz Bandits
Aired: Aug 25th, 1949. Sgt. Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero chase a fast-moving gang of armed stickup men who've hit eighteen liquor stores and…
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Sixteen Nights of Diamonds
Aired: Aug 18th, 1949. Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero chase a jewel thief who's hit sixteen nights running, slipping into homes through…
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The Lux Hotel Murders
Aired: Aug 11th, 1949. Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero race through a rain-soaked Los Angeles night chasing a killer who has struck twice at…
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The Tucker Building Lead
Aired: Aug 4th, 1949. A dying informant's last words send Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero into the underworld of a citywide narcotics ring. With…
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The Girl Who Stopped Writing Home
Aired: Jul 28th, 1949. A worried mother in a small Utah town calls the LAPD when her daughter, who moved to Los Angeles to find work, suddenly stops writing…
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The Sullivan Kidnapping
Aired: Sep 10th, 1949. A bank vice president's 22-year-old daughter is lured out of business school with a lie about her dying father, and a ransom note signed…
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The Red Light Bandit
Aired: Jul 14th, 1949. A fake motorcycle cop with a flashing red light is terrorizing Los Angeles, pulling over drivers and beating them senseless before…
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The Case of the Steel Pipe
Aired: Jul 7th, 1949. A young waitress named Helen Corday is found bludgeoned to death in a foggy Los Angeles vacant lot, and Sergeant Joe Friday and his…
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The Quick Trigger Boys
Aired: Jun 24th, 1949. When a stakeout tip leads to a stickup gone wrong, Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero are called to a bar where a gang of…
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The 24-Minute Bomb at City Hall
Aired: Jul 21st, 1949. Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero are called back on duty for a nightmare scenario: a man with a homemade bomb is holed up…
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The Werewolf
Aired: Jun 17th, 1949. A masked attacker preys on lone women walking the early morning streets of Los Angeles, leaving eighteen victims beaten and robbed in…
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The Nickel-Plated Gun
Aired: Jun 10th, 1949. Two LAPD officers are gunned down without warning outside a rough south-side café, and Sergeant Joe Friday and partner Ben Romero catch…