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The Best Episodes of Dragnet

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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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  1. Background image for The Human Bomb
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #1 - The Human Bomb

    S1:E1

    A man walks into City hall carrying a live bomb. He threatens to blow up the building if his brother isn't released from jail.

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for The Big Actor
    10.0/10(2 votes)

    #2 - The Big Actor

    S1:E2

    Friday and Jacobs track down a drug ring through a small-time television actor who is hooked on heroin.

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
  3. Background image for The Big Cast
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - The Big Cast

    S1:E5

    The police interrogate a suspect whom they believe to have murdered more than a dozen men.

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for The Big Phone Call
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - The Big Phone Call

    S1:E12

    Friday confronts a jeweler with tape recorded evidence that proves he hired someone to rob his own store.

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for The Big Casing
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - The Big Casing

    S1:E13

    A man claims that his wife committed suicide right in front of him, but the evidence suggests otherwise.

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for The Big Producer
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - The Big Producer

    S4:E1

    A man claims to be a big Hollywood producer, but Friday and Smith discover that he's merely the leader of a pornography ring.

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for The Big Fraud
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - The Big Fraud

    S4:E2

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

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for The Big Crime
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - The Big Crime

    S4:E3

    Four-year-old twin girls are abducted from the local park.

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for The Big Pair
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - The Big Pair

    S4:E4

    An old man and his granddaughter are burglarized, leaving them broke and starving.

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for The Big Little Boy
    8.8/10(25 votes)

    #10 - The Big Little Boy

    S8:E5

    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.

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for The Big Dream
    8.7/10(28 votes)

    #11 - The Big Dream

    S3:E9

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

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for The Big Gift
    8.7/10(25 votes)

    #12 - The Big Gift

    S5:E38

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for The Big Run
    8.6/10(39 votes)

    #13 - The Big Run

    S2:E18

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for The Big Bounce
    8.5/10(36 votes)

    #14 - The Big Bounce

    S5:E12

    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.

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for The Big Chet
    8.4/10(27 votes)

    #15 - The Big Chet

    S5:E2

    No description available

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for The Big Glasses
    8.4/10(42 votes)

    #16 - The Big Glasses

    S5:E8

    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.

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for The Big Laugh
    8.4/10(24 votes)

    #17 - The Big Laugh

    S5:E10

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

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for The Big Market
    8.2/10(29 votes)

    #18 - The Big Market

    S2:E30

    A bandit starts robbing people at local markets.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for The Big Smoke
    8.2/10(44 votes)

    #19 - The Big Smoke

    S5:E11

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

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for The Big Lease
    8.1/10(57 votes)

    #20 - The Big Lease

    S2:E27

    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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for The Big Thief
    8.1/10(97 votes)

    #21 - The Big Thief

    S3:E16

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

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for The Big Wish
    8.1/10(29 votes)

    #22 - The Big Wish

    S5:E35

    A teenage boy turns himself in and confesses to being an addict, but he refuses to give up the names of his friends who supplied him.

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for The Big Sorrow
    8.0/10(59 votes)

    #23 - The Big Sorrow

    S2:E2

    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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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for The Big Barrette
    8.0/10(58 votes)

    #24 - The Big Barrette

    S2:E32

    Friday and Smith search for the brutal killer of a 21-year-old woman.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for The Big Children
    8.0/10(48 votes)

    #25 - The Big Children

    S3:E24

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

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"The Human Bomb" is the best rated episode of "Dragnet". It scored 10/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Jack Webb and written by Unknown, it aired on 12/16/1951. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Big Actor".