7.6/10203 votes#1 - The Grenade
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1967
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.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
- 8.5/10208 votes
#2 - The Shooting Board
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/21/1967
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10159 votes
#3 - The Badge Racket
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/28/1967
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10159 votes
#4 - The Bank Jobs
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/5/1967
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/10170 votes
#5 - The Big Neighbor
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/12/1967
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/10153 votes
#6 - The Big Frustration
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/1967
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.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/10181 votes
#7 - The Senior Citizen
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/1967
A series of daring daylight house burglaries are taking place. Friday and Gannon go undercover in a laundry truck to discover the perp.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10231 votes
#8 - The Big High
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/1967
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10154 votes
#9 - The Big Ad
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/9/1967
An ex-con named Steve Deal contacts Friday and Gannon when a classified ad that he placed, offering to do "anything" for money, results in an offer to commit murder. Friday goes undercover as Deal.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/10176 votes
#10 - The Missing Realtor
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/16/1967
A woman real-estate agent is missing and turns up dead in a vacant home. The detectives suspect her ex-boyfriend. Then credit card bills for purchases made after the woman's death start appearing.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10163 votes
#11 - The Big Dog
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/23/1967
Friday and Gannon are on the case to find ... a purse-snatching dog? Making things more difficult, victims give different descriptions of the four-legged thief.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/10165 votes
#12 - The Pyramid Swindle
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 11/30/1967
A female con-artist uses an evangelistic approach to lure buyers into her pyramid scheme. The Bunco division can't charge her with false advertising, so they prosecute her for operating a lottery.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: Norman Lessing
- 7.4/10152 votes
#13 - The Phony Police Racket
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/7/1967
Friday and Gannon investigate a scam involving a phony LAPD newsletter, which comes with a card for subscribers entitling the bearer to preferential treatment from the police.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10132 votes
#14 - The Trial Board
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/14/1967
An officer accused of taking a bribe has chosen Sgt. Friday to represent him at his trial board hearing. Witnesses saw the officer accept the money, but he insists it was for the payback of a loan made years ago.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/10194 votes
#15 - The Christmas Story
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 12/21/1967
A statue of the child Jesus was stolen from a church. Joe and Bill have to get it back by Christmas. They have less than 48 hours.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/10149 votes
#16 - The Big Shipment
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 12/28/1967
Drugs are found aboard a plane that has crashed in the San Fernando Valley. The pilot is quickly traced, but in order to force him to name his connection, Friday and Gannon ask the press to sit on the story for a few hours.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10152 votes
#17 - The Big Search
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/4/1968
Two small girls, ages three and five, are missing. Their mother is certain that her ex-husband, an alcoholic, has kidnapped them. However, he is now in recovery and has no knowledge of the girls' whereabouts. The search seems hopeless until Friday and Gannon, acting on information from a former neighbor, follow a hunch.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/10177 votes
#18 - The Big Prophet
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1/11/1968
Friday and Gannon confront "Brother" William Bentley at his Temple of the Expanded Mind. They think he is using his new age religion as a front to push drugs to the nearby elementary school.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/10150 votes
#19 - The Big Amateur
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 1/25/1968
Citizens are full of praise for Officer Gideon C. Dengle - they want to bestow him with awards, honors and home-baked cookies. There's only one problem: there's no such officer in the LAPD.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10165 votes
#20 - The Starlet
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 2/1/1968
A teenage runaway, intent on becoming a star, has instead wound up in pornographic films. Acting on behalf of the girl's aunt, Friday and Gannon try to find the young "starlet."
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/10144 votes
#21 - The Big Clan
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 2/8/1968
Sgt. Friday is offered a bribe to assist a gypsy family trying to gain control of the gypsy community.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/10167 votes
#22 - The Little Victim
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 2/15/1968
When a nine-month old child is beaten, Friday and Gannon investigate the parents, who are more concerned about their failing relationship than their baby son.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/10141 votes
#23 - The Squeeze
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 2/22/1968
An ex-con accused of extortion is interrogated. He calmly and smugly insists that he is innocent, but Friday and Gannon have a surprise for him: taped conversations and a voice analysis device.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10138 votes
#24 - The Suicide Attempt
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 2/29/1968
Friday and Gannon learn that a young man has called his mother from Hollywood "to say goodbye." With the help of the man's sister, the two detectives trace the impending suicide to a hotel with over 1,200 rooms.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/10153 votes
#25 - The Big Departure
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 3/7/1968
Petty theft from drug and hardware stores leads to a group of four teens who are determined to start their own nation on a remote island off the California coast.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Dragnet Season 2
Every episode of Dragnet Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Dragnet Season 2!
Police Detective Sgt. Joe Friday and his partners investigate crimes in Los Angeles.
Genres:CrimeDramaMystery
Network:NBC
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"The Grenade" is the best rated episode of "Dragnet" season 2. It scored 7.6/10 based on 203 votes. Directed by Jack Webb and written by Robert C. Dennis, it aired on 9/14/1967. This episode is rated 0.9 points higher than the second-best, "The Shooting Board".