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The Worst Episodes of Dragnet

Every episode of Dragnet ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Dragnet!

Police Detective Sgt. Joe Friday and his partners investigate crimes in Los Angeles.
Genres:CrimeDramaMystery
Network:NBC

Worst Episodes Summary

"Community Relations - DR-17" is the worst rated episode of "Dragnet". It scored 6.5/10 based on 123 votes. Directed by Jack Webb and written by N/A, it aired on 1/2/1969. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Narcotics - DR-16".

  • Community Relations - DR-17
    6.5/10123 votes
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    #1 - 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

  • Narcotics - DR-16
    6.8/10139 votes
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    #2 - 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

  • The Masked Bandits
    7.0/10181 votes
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    #3 - The Masked Bandits

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/16/1967

    Four bandits wearing red masks commit a series of robberies.

    Director: Jack Webb

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Prophet
    7.0/10177 votes
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    #4 - 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

  • The Big Clan
    7.0/10144 votes
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    #5 - 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

  • Robbery - DR-15
    7.0/10120 votes
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    #6 - 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

  • Public Affairs - DR-12
    7.0/10135 votes
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    #7 - 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

  • The Jade Story
    7.1/10169 votes
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    #8 - The Jade Story

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 3/23/1967

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

    Director: Jack Webb

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Kids
    7.1/10171 votes
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    #9 - The Big Kids

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 5/4/1967

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

    Director: Jack Webb

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Neighbor
    7.1/10170 votes
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    #10 - 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

  • The Big Frustration
    7.1/10153 votes
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    #11 - 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

  • Internal Affairs - DR-20
    7.1/10148 votes
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    #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

  • The Big Shipment
    7.2/10149 votes
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    #13 - 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

  • The Squeeze
    7.2/10141 votes
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    #14 - 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

  • Homicide - DR-06
    7.2/10128 votes
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    #15 - 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

  • Training - DR-18
    7.2/10131 votes
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    #16 - 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

  • Bunco - $9,000
    7.2/10117 votes
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    #17 - Bunco - $9,000

    Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 12/11/1969

    Charlie Feeney, a wino police informant, calls Joe and claims he was swindled out of $9,000. The problem is the money wasn't his. Feeney turns the money over to someone claiming to be a private detective whose client is a big Las Vegas gambler. Joe and Bill track down the phony detective and start looking for the rightful owner of the money.

    Director: Jack Webb

    Writer: N/A

  • The Subscription Racket
    7.3/10168 votes
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    #18 - The Subscription Racket

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 4/20/1967

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

    Director: Jack Webb

    Writer: N/A

  • The Big Departure
    7.3/10153 votes
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    #19 - 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 Big Gambler
    7.3/10133 votes
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    #20 - The Big Gambler

    Season 2 Episode 27 - Aired 3/21/1968

    Over $100,000 has been embezzled from an industrial company. An investigation of the employees leads Friday and Gannon to a habitual gambler.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

  • Public Affairs - DR-07
    7.3/10172 votes
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    #21 - 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

  • Juvenile - DR-05
    7.3/10144 votes
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    #22 - 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

  • Community Relations - DR-10
    7.3/10163 votes
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    #23 - 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

  • Public Affairs - DR-14
    7.3/10124 votes
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    #24 - 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

  • Intelligence - DR-34
    7.3/10117 votes
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    #25 - Intelligence - DR-34

    Season 3 Episode 27 - Aired 4/17/1969

    At a night school alumni party, Joe is approached to join the Fielder Militia, a right wing group. They want Joe to help one of the Militia’s members get a Federal firearms license. Joe works with the ATF to join the Militia to locate Militia’s cache of illegal automatic weapons.

    Director: Jack Webb

    Writer: N/A