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 "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.
The best episode of "Dragnet" season 4 is "The Big Producer", rated 7.4/10 from 121 user votes. It was directed by Jack Webb and written by N/A. "The Big Producer" aired on 8/26/1954 and is rated 0.7 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Big Fraud".
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
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A group of con artists are posing as cops and victimizing out-of-town businessmen in fashionable hotels.
Director: Jack Webb
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Four-year-old twin girls are abducted from the local park.
Director: Jack Webb
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An old man and his granddaughter are burglarized, leaving them broke and starving.
Director: Jack Webb
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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
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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
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Friday and Smith are looking for a missing businessman.
Director: Jack Webb
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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
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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
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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
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Friday and Smith must find the men who murdered a gang boss before an open gang war starts.
Director: Jack Webb
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On New Year's Eve, Friday and Smith are working out of Central Receiving Hospital.
Director: Jack Webb
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Friday and Smith investigate a man who is conning people by using the want ads.
Director: Jack Webb
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Friday and Smith discover that the key to finding a hold-up artist lies in his married girlfriend.
Director: Jack Webb
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A man locks himself in his study and threatens suicide if his wife leaves him.
Director: Jack Webb
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Friday goes under cover to bust a drug ring that is operating out of a high-class hotel.
Director: Jack Webb
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Friday and Smith are assigned to the business office, where they must deal with the paperwork on a busy weekend.
Director: Jack Webb
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An expectant mother is run down and killed by two teenagers in a hot rod.
Director: Jack Webb
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A group of bandits arm themselves and break their comrades out of jail.
Director: Jack Webb
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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
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Friday and Smith go after a burglar who plans to break into a bank through an underground tunnel.
Director: Jack Webb
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Friday and Smith team up with a newspaper reporter so they can investigate television repairmen who may be overcharging their customers.
Director: Jack Webb
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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
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An old man sits on his front porch with a shotgun, threatening to kill the man who poisoned his dog.
Director: Jack Webb
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Friday and Smith use a stolen check as a lead to a series of used car lot robberies.
Director: Jack Webb
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