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The Best Episodes of Dragnet

Every episode of Dragnet ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Dragnet!

Follows the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from the police term...
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Network:NBC

Best Episodes Summary

"The Big Market" is the best rated episode of "Dragnet". It scored 8.8/10 based on 27 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 6/4/1953. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Big Little Boy".

  • The Big Market
    8.8/1027 votes
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    #1 - The Big Market

    Season 2 Episode 30 - Aired 6/4/1953

    A bandit starts robbing people at local markets.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Little Boy
    8.8/1024 votes
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    #2 - The Big Little Boy

    Season 8 Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/1958

    The detectives are trying to solve the case of the milk bottle bandit when they catch a break and apprehend a diminutive fifteen year old.

    Director: Jack Webb

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Run
    8.7/1037 votes
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    #3 - The Big Run

    Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/12/1953

    Two elderly women are struck down by a hit-and-run driver.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Dream
    8.7/1027 votes
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    #4 - The Big Dream

    Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 10/29/1953

    Friday and Smith investigate the murder of a girl who came to Los Angeles with a dream of being an actress.

    Director: Jack Webb

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Gift
    8.7/1024 votes
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    #5 - The Big Gift

    Season 5 Episode 38 - Aired 5/25/1956

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    Director: Jack Webb

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Bed
    8.6/1029 votes
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    #6 - The Big Bed

    Season 7 Episode 36 - Aired 6/5/1958

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    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Trial
    8.5/1029 votes
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    #7 - The Big Trial

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 4/24/1952

    Friday testifies at the trial of a man accused of a hit-and-run, but the main witness against him suddenly disappears.

    Director: Jack Webb

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Bounce
    8.5/1035 votes
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    #8 - The Big Bounce

    Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 11/18/1955

    Joe Friday searches for a check forger who has been using the name of the old-time movie villain Parker Allington... who died three years ago.

    Director: Jack Webb

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Bindle
    8.4/1029 votes
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    #9 - The Big Bindle

    Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 12/9/1954

    Friday goes under cover to bust a drug ring that is operating out of a high-class hotel.

    Director: Jack Webb

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Chet
    8.4/1026 votes
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    #10 - The Big Chet

    Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 9/9/1955

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    Director: Jack Webb

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Glasses
    8.4/1041 votes
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    #11 - The Big Glasses

    Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 10/21/1955

    A housewife, Ella Ryburn, reports to Friday and Smith that she cannot contact her mother, who is married to Alfred Rudolph Shroder. When he is questioned, Shroder claims his wife left him and that, out of shame, he sold their house and put her items in storage.

    Director: Jack Webb

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Laugh
    8.4/1023 votes
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    #12 - The Big Laugh

    Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 11/4/1955

    A con man makes lonely women fall for his charms, then steals their money and disappears.

    Director: Jack Webb

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Perfume Bottle
    8.4/1028 votes
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    #13 - The Big Perfume Bottle

    Season 7 Episode 35 - Aired 5/29/1958

    A unique and costly perfume bottle is taken from an upscale home and it's up to Friday and Smith to get it back.

    Director: Jack Webb

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Family
    8.3/1053 votes
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    #14 - The Big Family

    Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 1/13/1955

    Local businessman John Keith Jarrett disappears and evidence of suicide is discovered. Friday and Smith check on the surviving members of his family and find them not the least concerned about their father's death, with his son a tennis bum, his daughter promiscuous, and his wife drunken. The case gets even murkier when a report comes in of a traffic incident upstate involving a camper in which the driver was using Jarrett's license.

    Director: Jack Webb

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Switch
    8.3/1028 votes
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    #15 - The Big Switch

    Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 1/10/1957

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    Director: Jack Webb

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Blast
    8.2/1028 votes
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    #16 - The Big Blast

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 4/10/1952

    A divorced mother is killed in bed by a shotgun while her young boy sleeps beside her.

    Director: Jack Webb

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Children
    8.2/1043 votes
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    #17 - The Big Children

    Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 2/11/1954

    Three children are found abandoned, filthy and starving. Friday and Smith charge the mother with neglect.

    Director: Jack Webb

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Fraud
    8.2/1059 votes
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    #18 - The Big Fraud

    Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/2/1954

    A group of con artists are posing as cops and victimizing out-of-town businessmen in fashionable hotels.

    Director: Jack Webb

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Smoke
    8.2/1042 votes
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    #19 - The Big Smoke

    Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 11/11/1955

    An elderly couple is brutally beaten and the trail leads police to a former handy man.

    Director: Jack Webb

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Net
    8.2/1039 votes
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    #20 - The Big Net

    Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/1956

    A group of police women act as decoys to draw a stick-up man out into the open.

    Director: Jack Webb

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Cracker Box
    8.2/1029 votes
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    #21 - The Big Cracker Box

    Season 7 Episode 34 - Aired 5/22/1958

    Friday and Smith investigate a rash of supermarket robberies, and the burglar's calling card is leaving crackers scattered all over the floor of the store.

    Director: Jack Webb

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Sorrow
    8.1/1055 votes
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    #22 - The Big Sorrow

    Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/25/1952

    Friday must cope with the sudden death of his partner as he and his new partner track a pair of escaped convicts.

    Director: Jack Webb

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Lease
    8.1/1054 votes
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    #23 - The Big Lease

    Season 2 Episode 27 - Aired 5/14/1953

    An elderly widower is missing, so Friday and Smith retrace his actions before his disappearance. Things point to a long vacation until the story of Mrs. Banner, who rented the man's house, doesn't add up.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Thief
    8.1/1089 votes
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    #24 - The Big Thief

    Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 12/17/1953

    Robbers phone doctors for house calls then assault them and steal their drugs.

    Director: Jack Webb

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Rod
    8.1/1071 votes
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    #25 - The Big Rod

    Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 12/30/1954

    An expectant mother is run down and killed by two teenagers in a hot rod.

    Director: Jack Webb

    Writer: N/A