7.3/10171 votes#1 - Public Affairs - DR-07
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1968
Joe and Bill appear on the TV talk show "Speak Your Mind" debating the topic "The Police, Who Needs Them?" with a professor, a hippie, some black power activists, and some (other) disgruntled citizens.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: Burt Prelutsky
- 7.3/10144 votes
#2 - Juvenile - DR-05
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1968
Joe and Bill are working the night watch of Juvenile division. They handle a run away boy from New York, an underage marriage, an abandoned baby, a boy on drugs, and a girl accused of stealing money.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
- 7.3/10162 votes
#3 - Community Relations - DR-10
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1968
Joe and Bill attend a meeting of the East LA Graduates Union, attempting to recruit recent minority high school graduates into the police academy. A black patrol officer joins their efforts until his house in vandalized and he decides to resign from the force. Joe tries to change his mind.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10137 votes
#4 - Management Services - DR-11
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1968
Joe and Bill are called back to work because of an emergency. It's April 4, 1968, and Dr Martin Luther King has been assassinated less than an hour ago. They are assigned to the police emergency control center to monitor potential unrest in the LA area.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/10122 votes
#5 - Police Commission - DR-13
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/1968
There is a police crackdown on dishonest tow truck operators. Joe and Bill are assigned to investigate 6 complaints against the same tow truck company.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/10128 votes
#6 - Homicide - DR-06
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1968
Joe and Bill review the progress report of a homicide (thus the name of the episode). Joe has invited Bill and his wife to his apartment for dinner. The dinner is constantly interrupted by neighbors asking for advice and complaining about a loud party. One neighbor calls to say that someone is breaking into the coin boxes in the laundry room. Joe and Bill grab their guns and investigate.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
- 7.0/10120 votes
#7 - Robbery - DR-15
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/7/1968
Joe and Bill are working the robbery desk. They handle a variety of complaints about a truck hijacking, a bank robbery and a robbery of a neighborhood market. A woman complains about "thieving birds" and another thinks her wallet had been stolen, but misplaced it in her coat.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/10134 votes
#8 - Public Affairs - DR-12
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/1968
Joe and Bill are assigned to help arrange a press conference for the President of the United States at LAX.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/10130 votes
#9 - Training - DR-18
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/1968
Joe and Bill are temporarily assigned as instructors at the Police Academy. They are teaching a class of women cadets. Joe is asked to assist a woman reporter who is writing a story about women in the police force. On of the cadets is being pressured to resign by her boyfriend and Joe must convince her to stay.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
- 7.3/10123 votes
#10 - Public Affairs - DR-14
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 11/28/1968
Joe and Bill have been asked by a store owner to help him form a crime prevention group of neighborhood story owners. Most of the story owners are not convinced they need such a group until two robberies occur.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/10138 votes
#11 - Narcotics - DR-16
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 12/5/1968
Someone is selling LSD to teens. Joe and Bill are asked to speak to a local High School group that want to form an anti drug club "Smart Teens". They plan to create posters and Joe gets a Disney artist to draw them. But will the kids follow through?
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: Burt Prelutsky
- 7.1/10145 votes
#12 - Internal Affairs - DR-20
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 12/12/1968
Joe and Bill investigate a charge of police brutality against a patrolman. The patrolman was attempting to stop someone from driving drunk when things got out of hand and the drunk tears the patrolman's uniform.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 6.4/10122 votes
#13 - Community Relations - DR-17
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 1/2/1969
Joe and Bill are sent to a Community Relations conference at Lake Arrowhead with other police officers. Their task is to discuss ways of improving community relations, and in the process find a few officers that have bigoted views.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 8.6/10194 votes
#14 - Homicide - DR-22
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 1/9/1969
Joe and Bill are called to an apartment where the building manager has found a young woman bound and dead. The extremely chatty 91 year old manager, who is obsessed with crime novels, is their prime suspect.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/10131 votes
#15 - B.O.D. - DR-27
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/23/1969
Joe and Bill are assigned to the Business Office Division. A priest is in the division to observe its operation. Joe and Bill work a series of problems from a potential tidal wave, a wino, protesters, a suicide, and a lost boy.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10140 votes
#16 - Narcotics - DR-21
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/30/1969
The Captain ask Joe and Bill to investigate having dogs trained to sniff out narcotics. They contact a dog trainer to train dogs for the job. Joe and Bill do a demonstration for Judges to prove the effectiveness of using a dog to detect marijuana.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: Burt Prelutsky
- 7.7/10127 votes
#17 - Administrative Vice - DR-29
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 2/6/1969
Joe has a new partner, Lt. Chris Drucker, while Bill recovers from the flu. Joe and Chris go undercover as a pair of casual gamblers, then place their winnings in an envelope for evidence. The problem? $100 goes missing from the envelope, and Drucker says Joe took it.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/10129 votes
#18 - The Joy Riders
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 2/13/1969
A 15-year-old car thief is given a tour of the jail in an attempt to impress him of the consequences for choosing crime. Unfortunately, it doesn't work - the young man later kills someone with a shotgun.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/10121 votes
#19 - Frauds - DR-28
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 2/20/1969
Joe and Bill investigate someone who has fraudulently obtained disability checks. This person has been renting apartments and only using them as a mail drop. Joe and Bill meet with a group of apartment owners to ask for their help.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: Burt Prelutsky
- 7.5/10146 votes
#20 - Juvenile - DR-19
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 2/27/1969
Joe and Bill are asked to investigate allegation of child abuse by his mother. The story deals with the difficulty of having a child removed from an abusive home.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: Robert C. Dennis
- 7.8/10119 votes
#21 - Burglary - DR-31
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 3/6/1969
A costumed thief calling himself "The Crimson Crusader" has been stealing comic books, movie posters and publicity photos of various superheroes.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: Burt Prelutsky
- 7.9/10134 votes
#22 - Vice - DR-30
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 3/13/1969
The Captain assigns Joe and Bill to find the location of a high stakes poke operation that has been preying on visitors. Bill and Joe pose as farmers and check into a hotel where an agricultural convention is occurring.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/10139 votes
#23 - Forgery - DR-33
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 3/20/1969
An actress' pay checks have being stolen and someone have cashed them. Joe and Bill visit the actress' apartment and find her roommate the prime suspect. They try to track the roommate down, but are unsuccessful until her husband contacts them.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: Burt Prelutsky
- 7.6/10125 votes
#24 - Juvenile - DR-32
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 3/27/1969
A child has been bitten by a dog and the child is allergic to the anti-rabies shot. Joe and Bill have less than two hours to locate the dog.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/10118 votes
#25 - Juvenile - DR-35
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 4/3/1969
An infant girl is found in a garbage can; Joe and Bill use the child's blanket to track down the mother.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: Burt Prelutsky
The Best Episodes of Dragnet Season 3
Every episode of Dragnet Season 3 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Dragnet Season 3!
Police Detective Sgt. Joe Friday and his partners investigate crimes in Los Angeles.
Genres:CrimeDramaMystery
Network:NBC
Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Public Affairs - DR-07" is the best rated episode of "Dragnet" season 3. It scored 7.3/10 based on 171 votes. Directed by Jack Webb and written by Burt Prelutsky, it aired on 9/19/1968. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Juvenile - DR-05".