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 5 is "The Big Pipe", rated 9.2/10 from 26 user votes. It was directed by Jack Webb and written by N/A. "The Big Pipe" aired on 9/2/1955 and is rated 1.0 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Big Chet".
A young woman is beaten to death with a led pipe and left in an empty office.
Director: Jack Webb
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Director: Jack Webb
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Director: Jack Webb
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An organized gang of shoplifters is looting large department stores in the city.
Director: Jack Webb
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A man walks into the station and tells Friday that he wants to confess to a murder, but the cops have a hard time varifying his story.
Director: Jack Webb
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A pawn shop owner alerts Friday and Smith when a man claimed to have purchased an expensive ring that turns out to be junk and then asked the pawn shop owner to sell him a gun.
Director: Jack Webb
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A woman is dragged from her home and badly beaten by an unknown attacker.
Director: Jack Webb
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A housewife, Ella Ryburn, reports to Friday and Smith that she cannot contact her mother, who is married to Alfred Rudolph Shroder. When he is questioned, Shroder claims his wife left him and that, out of shame, he sold their house and put her items in storage.
Director: Jack Webb
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Sgt. Friday investigates a robber who only targets pet stores and homes that have pet birds.
Director: Jack Webb
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A con man makes lonely women fall for his charms, then steals their money and disappears.
Director: Jack Webb
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An elderly couple is brutally beaten and the trail leads police to a former handy man.
Director: Jack Webb
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Joe Friday searches for a check forger who has been using the name of the old-time movie villain Parker Allington... who died three years ago.
Director: Jack Webb
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A night club owner is shot down and there are no witnesses to the crime.
Director: Jack Webb
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Friday and Smith happen to catch a man trying to sell a stolen ring at a pawn shop.
Director: Jack Webb
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An anonymous note leads Friday and Smith to a group of teenage drug users and their neglectful parents.
Director: Jack Webb
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Friday and Smith investigate what seems to be the perfect crime.
Director: Jack Webb
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During a quiet New Year's shift, Friday and Smith remember some of their past cases and why it is they became cops.
Director: Jack Webb
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Director: Jack Webb
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An elderly woman fakes a burglary report so she can get attention from the police and the media.
Director: Jack Webb
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Director: Jack Webb
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Friday and Smith are on the trail of a robbery suspect that has robbed two stores.
Director: Jack Webb
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A city councilman is beaten and robbed by two men outside a bar. When he dies from his injuries, Friday and Smith feel pressure to find the killers.
Director: Jack Webb
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A two-year-old child after drinking bleach from under the sink. Friday and Smith are unable to locate the mother for questioning.
Director: Jack Webb
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A liquor store owner is shot and killed during a botched robbery, but police can find no trace of the fatal bullet.
Director: Jack Webb
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Friday and Smith investigate a missing persons report.
Director: Jack Webb
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