7.5/10122 votes#1 - The Big Producer
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 8/26/1954
A man claims to be a big Hollywood producer, but Friday and Smith discover that he's merely the leader of a pornography ring.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 8.1/1058 votes
#2 - The Big Fraud
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 9/2/1954
A group of con artists are posing as cops and victimizing out-of-town businessmen in fashionable hotels.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1092 votes
#3 - The Big Crime
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 9/9/1954
Four-year-old twin girls are abducted from the local park.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 7.6/1068 votes
#4 - The Big Pair
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 9/16/1954
An old man and his granddaughter are burglarized, leaving them broke and starving.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#5 - The Big Escape
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 9/23/1954
A case hits too close to home for Friday when his old army buddy robs a liquor store and shoots his partner. Friday believes his friend wants to go straight after doing time, but things get worse when his friend breaks jail.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1027 votes
#6 - The Big Kid
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 9/30/1954
When Friday and Smith learn that a showdown between two teenage gangs is about to take place within 48 hours, they do their utmost to prevent it.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#7 - The Big Missing
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 10/7/1954
Friday and Smith are looking for a missing businessman.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1069 votes
#8 - The Big Bar
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 10/14/1954
A holdup man is sticking up bars. After he takes the money he kills many of his victims. Sergeant Friday has few leads other than that the holdup man likes a certain song on the jukebox.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1040 votes
#9 - The Big Present
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 10/21/1954
Friday and Smith are looking for a burglar who leaves a milk bottle at the scene of the crime. They suspect a juvenile might be involved.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#10 - The Big Gangster (Part 1)
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 10/28/1954
An attempt is made on the life of a gang leader. Friday and Smith must find the shooters before his followers seek revenge.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#11 - The Big Gangster (Part 2)
Season 4 Episode 11 - Aired 11/4/1954
Friday and Smith must find the men who murdered a gang boss before an open gang war starts.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1062 votes
#12 - The Big New Years
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 11/11/1954
On New Year's Eve, Friday and Smith are working out of Central Receiving Hospital.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#13 - The Big Want Ad
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 11/18/1954
Friday and Smith investigate a man who is conning people by using the want ads.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#14 - The Big Affair
Season 4 Episode 14 - Aired 11/25/1954
Friday and Smith discover that the key to finding a hold-up artist lies in his married girlfriend.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#15 - The Big Bible
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 12/2/1954
A man locks himself in his study and threatens suicide if his wife leaves him.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1029 votes
#16 - The Big Bindle
Season 4 Episode 16 - Aired 12/9/1954
Friday goes under cover to bust a drug ring that is operating out of a high-class hotel.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#17 - The Big Office
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 12/16/1954
Friday and Smith are assigned to the business office, where they must deal with the paperwork on a busy weekend.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1070 votes
#18 - The Big Rod
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 12/30/1954
An expectant mother is run down and killed by two teenagers in a hot rod.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#19 - The Big Rescue
Season 4 Episode 19 - Aired 1/6/1955
A group of bandits arm themselves and break their comrades out of jail.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 8.3/1051 votes
#20 - The Big Family
Season 4 Episode 20 - Aired 1/13/1955
Local businessman John Keith Jarrett disappears and evidence of suicide is discovered. Friday and Smith check on the surviving members of his family and find them not the least concerned about their father's death, with his son a tennis bum, his daughter promiscuous, and his wife drunken. The case gets even murkier when a report comes in of a traffic incident upstate involving a camper in which the driver was using Jarrett's license.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#21 - The Big Shock
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 1/20/1955
Friday and Smith go after a burglar who plans to break into a bank through an underground tunnel.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#22 - The Big Screen
Season 4 Episode 22 - Aired 1/27/1955
Friday and Smith team up with a newspaper reporter so they can investigate television repairmen who may be overcharging their customers.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1045 votes
#23 - The Big TV
Season 4 Episode 23 - Aired 2/3/1955
The detectives search for a missing mother and child at the behest of her mother-in-law, unaware that the girl's husband has died in action and is not overseas as the woman had claimed.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- 8.4/1024 votes
#24 - The Big Dog
Season 4 Episode 24 - Aired 2/10/1955
An old man sits on his front porch with a shotgun, threatening to kill the man who poisoned his dog.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
- NaN/100 votes
#25 - The Big Underground
Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 2/17/1955
Friday and Smith use a stolen check as a lead to a series of used car lot robberies.
Director: Jack Webb
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Dragnet Season 4
Every episode of Dragnet Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Dragnet Season 4!
Follows the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from the police term...
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Network:NBC
Season 4 Ratings Summary
"The Big Producer" is the best rated episode of "Dragnet" season 4. It scored 7.5/10 based on 122 votes. Directed by Jack Webb and written by N/A, it aired on 8/26/1954. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "The Big Fraud".