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The Best Episodes of Dragnet

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The Best Episodes of Dragnet

Police Detective Sgt. Joe Friday and his partners investigate crimes in Los Angeles.

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    #1 - The LSD Story

    S1:E1

    Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Bill Gannon encounter a freaked-out young LSD user calling himself "Blue Boy"; before long, Blue Boy is "turning on" schoolchildren with the mysterious new drug.

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Jack Webb
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    #2 - The Big Explosion

    S1:E2

    A neo-Nazi psycho has planted a bomb somewhere in L.A. Friday and Gannon have to find it.

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    #3 - The Kidnapping

    S1:E3

    Friday and Gannon help an employee rescue her kidnapped boss.

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    Director:Jack Webb
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    #4 - The Interrogation

    S1:E4

    A new officer has been arrested for robbing a liquor store while on an undercover assignment.

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    Director:Jack Webb
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    #5 - The Masked Bandits

    S1:E5

    Four bandits wearing red masks commit a series of robberies.

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    Director:Jack Webb
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    #6 - The Bank Examiner Swindle

    S1:E6

    Two con men, posing as bank examiners, are bilking the elderly out of their life savings.

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    Director:Jack Webb
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    #7 - The Hammer

    S1:E7

    An elderly apartment manager is found to have been beaten to death with a hammer.

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    Director:Jack Webb
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    #8 - The Candy Store Robberies

    S1:E8

    Friday and Gannon try to figure out a pattern to a series of candy store hold-ups.

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    #9 - The Fur Job

    S1:E9

    Gannon goes undercover as a buyer in order to trap fur theives.

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    Director:Jack Webb
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    #10 - The Jade Story

    S1:E10

    Over $200,000 worth of Imperial Jade is reported stolen in a burglary, and Friday and Gannon are on the case.

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    #11 - The Shooting

    S1:E11

    A police officer is shot while making a routine check on a pair of paroled convicts that are parked near a liquor store.

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    #12 - The Hit and Run Driver

    S1:E12

    Friday and Gannon use newspapers, radio and TV to seek the public's help in identifying a hit and run driver.

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    #13 - The Bookie

    S1:E13

    Friday goes undercover with the Department's chaplain in order to break up a gambling ring.

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    #14 - The Subscription Racket

    S1:E14

    Friday learns about a scam artist with a novel twist: he uses an authentic Congressional Medal of Honor to solicit magazine subscriptions.

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    #15 - The Gun

    S1:E15

    A Japanese widow is senselessly murdered, leaving her small daughter an orphan. Friday has a hard time controlling his emotions while seeking the killer.

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    #16 - The Big Kids

    S1:E16

    A gang of juvenile thieves have been stealing petty items in order to gain membership into an exclusive club.

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    #17 - The Bullet

    S1:E17

    A dead man has been found in a locked room, along with a gun that could not have been the murder weapon.

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    #18 - The Grenade

    S2:E1

    A volatile teenager throws acid on the back of another student (played by a teen-aged Jan Michael Vincent), then crashes a party armed with a live hand grenade.

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    #19 - The Shooting Board

    S2:E2

    Joe tries to stop a burglary at an all night launderette and ends up exchanging fire with the suspect. When SID tries to find the bullet fired at Joe, they come up empty and Joe faces a shooting board with no proof the man ever fired at him.

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    #20 - The Badge Racket

    S2:E3

    Three con artists have been swindling businessmen from out-of-town by posing as a prostitute and two policemen. The detectives set a trap as Gannon pretends to be a manufacturer from Lincoln Nebraska.

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    #21 - The Bank Jobs

    S2:E4

    A nervy bank robber uses innocent women to help commit his crimes. Friday and Gannon are nearly sidetracked when one of the victims lies about her involvement and later proves to have a criminal record of her own.

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    #22 - The Big Neighbor

    S2:E5

    Bill invites Joe to dinner and a football game at his home in Eagle Rock. The only problem: Gannon's neighbors keep interrupting the visit with petty, and not-so-petty, problems.

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    #23 - The Big Frustration

    S2:E6

    Sgt. Carl Maxwell, a frustrated fellow detective, goes AWOL; Friday and Gannon have three days to track him down before Maxwell loses his badge for good.

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    Director:Jack Webb
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    #24 - The Senior Citizen

    S2:E7

    A series of daring daylight house burglaries are taking place. Friday and Gannon go undercover in a laundry truck to discover the perp.

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    Director:Jack Webb
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    #25 - The Big High

    S2:E8

    An elderly businessman, concerned about the welfare of his grandchild, informs Friday and Gannon that his daughter and son-in-law are using marijuana regularly. The young couple make no apologies for their lifestyle, which inevitably leads to disaster.

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Best Episodes Summary

"The LSD Story" is the best rated episode of "Dragnet". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Jack Webb and written by Jack Webb, it aired on 1/12/1967. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Big Explosion".