The Best Episodes of Dragnet

A bandit starts robbing people at local markets.

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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

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

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

Director: Jack Webb

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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

Director: Jack Webb

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

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

Director: Jack Webb

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

Director: Jack Webb

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

Director: Jack Webb

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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

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

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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.

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

Director: Jack Webb

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

Director: Jack Webb

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