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The Worst Episodes of Dragnet

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

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  1. Background image for Community Relations - DR-17
    6.4/10(130 votes)

    #1 - Community Relations - DR-17

    S3:E13

    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.

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Narcotics - DR-16
    6.6/10(146 votes)

    #2 - Narcotics - DR-16

    S3:E11

    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?

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    Director:Jack Webb
  3. Background image for Public Affairs - DR-12
    6.8/10(139 votes)

    #3 - Public Affairs - DR-12

    S3:E8

    Joe and Bill are assigned to help arrange a press conference for the President of the United States at LAX.

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for The Masked Bandits
    7.0/10(194 votes)

    #4 - The Masked Bandits

    S1:E5

    Four bandits wearing red masks commit a series of robberies.

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Robbery - DR-15
    7.0/10(127 votes)

    #5 - Robbery - DR-15

    S3:E7

    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.

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for The Jade Story
    7.1/10(179 votes)

    #6 - 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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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for The Big Neighbor
    7.1/10(178 votes)

    #7 - 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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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for The Big Frustration
    7.1/10(158 votes)

    #8 - 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
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for The Big Prophet
    7.1/10(190 votes)

    #9 - The Big Prophet

    S2:E18

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for The Big Clan
    7.1/10(155 votes)

    #10 - The Big Clan

    S2:E21

    Sgt. Friday is offered a bribe to assist a gypsy family trying to gain control of the gypsy community.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for The Big Gambler
    7.1/10(140 votes)

    #11 - The Big Gambler

    S2:E27

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

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for Training - DR-18
    7.1/10(137 votes)

    #12 - Training - DR-18

    S3:E9

    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.

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  14. Background image for The Big Kids
    7.2/10(178 votes)

    #13 - 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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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Homicide - DR-06
    7.2/10(133 votes)

    #14 - Homicide - DR-06

    S3:E6

    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.

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  16. Background image for Internal Affairs - DR-20
    7.2/10(153 votes)

    #15 - Internal Affairs - DR-20

    S3:E12

    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.

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for Bunco - $9,000
    7.2/10(122 votes)

    #16 - Bunco - $9,000

    S4:E12

    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.

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
  18. Background image for Narco - Missing Hype
    7.2/10(126 votes)

    #17 - Narco - Missing Hype

    S4:E13

    A teenage Hype from a nice home has missed his parole officer meeting. Joe and Bill are asked to locate the teenager before he starts up his habit.

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    Director:Jack Webb
  19. Background image for The Subscription Racket
    7.3/10(173 votes)

    #18 - 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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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for The Big Shipment
    7.3/10(159 votes)

    #19 - The Big Shipment

    S2:E16

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  21. Background image for The Squeeze
    7.3/10(148 votes)

    #20 - The Squeeze

    S2:E23

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for The Suicide Attempt
    7.3/10(144 votes)

    #21 - The Suicide Attempt

    S2:E24

    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.

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for The Big Departure
    7.3/10(160 votes)

    #22 - The Big Departure

    S2:E25

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Public Affairs - DR-07
    7.3/10(177 votes)

    #23 - Public Affairs - DR-07

    S3:E1

    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.

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    Director:Jack Webb
  25. Background image for Community Relations - DR-10
    7.3/10(167 votes)

    #24 - Community Relations - DR-10

    S3:E3

    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.

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for Public Affairs - DR-14
    7.3/10(127 votes)

    #25 - Public Affairs - DR-14

    S3:E10

    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.

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    Director:Jack Webb
    Writer:Unknown

Worst Episodes Summary

"Community Relations - DR-17" is the worst rated episode of "Dragnet". It scored 6.4/10 based on 130 votes. Directed by Jack Webb and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/2/1969. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Narcotics - DR-16".