The Best Episodes of L.A. Dragnet

While trying to protect an innocent suspect linked to the Sanchez brothers, Friday puts his career on the line by killing a cop.

Director: Donna Deitch

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When a man is arrested for shoplift, using a missing person's car, police finds in the car the belongings of two other missing people. While in custody the suspect kills himself. Soon after, the detectives find in his house not only torture elements and videos but also human bones and several graves. One of the videos indicates that there was an accomplice.

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The killing of a travelling salesman maybe connected to the unsolved murder of an adult movie star's father.

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Detectives suspect an alleged victim of sexual abuse is responsible for decapitating an Orthodox priest.

Director: Jeffrey Reiner

Writer: Philippe Browning

Detectives Friday and Smith race to find the young son of a deranged man who's on a rampage to kill his entire family; and Smith takes the case a little too personally.

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Detectives Friday and Smith investigate the satanic ritual killing of a teen girl. They look at her classmates including one who admits he should be the prime suspect.

Director: Kevin Dowling

Writer: Shannon Goss

Detective Friday and Detective Beltran find out a hidden secret behind a run of the mill suicide.

Director: Darnell Martin

Writer: N/A

Detective Friday is concerned that a small-time movie executive isn't telling all she knows regarding her investors and the gangland style murder in Malibu of one of her co-workers.

Director: Darnell Martin

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While investigating the brutal murder of a little-known actress, Detectives Friday and Smith come across a number of people who might have information including a tabloid journalist, a wannabe porn star and a socially prominent Los Angeles family.

Director: Andy Wolk

Writer: Walon Green

A customer is killed during a multimillion dollar jewelry robbery. During the investigation, Friday and Smith meet a British insurance company P.I. who attempts to use them to recover the stolen jewels. Friday also knocks heads with the arrogant owner of a private security company.

Director: Thomas J. Wright

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The death of a fan at a wild Hollywood party lead the detectives to a record producer with a gun fetish.

Director: Aaron Lipstadt

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The detectives discover a major prostitution ring while investigating a woman's murder.

Director: Kevin Dowling

Writer: David Wilcox

When fishermen find a woman's headless body offshore, detectives discover she had recently given birth, but there was no sign of the baby.

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The fiancé of a rising young Hollywood actress is found stabbed to death in the Hollywood Hills. Detectives Friday and Smith visit a movie studio head and a drug dealer to look for clues and find a shocking secret.

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A Hollywood super-agent's infant son is kidnapped. It is discovered that the infant is the nanny's. That is the least of the problems for the Detectives on this case.

Director: Jean de Segonzac

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There is a series of murders involving woman and silver found on their bodies. Detectives Friday and Smith think that they have their killer, a man they caught near the second crime scene but he is greatly wounded during the chase. He dies soon after.

Director: Jean de Segonzac

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Joe and his crew investigate the murder of a teenager who was burned and left for dead. Family honor is put to the test when the victom's father wants justice while assailant's father protects his child from the law.

Director: Steve Shill

Writer: Carter Harris

The detectives investagate the abduction and killing of the son of a couple involved in an alternative lifestyle.

Director: Keith Samples

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Friday and Smith are assigned to a case which involves a body found at MacArthur Park. The body is a rich college student. They figure that it was a drug deal that had gone bad but as they find more clues, they find that it had nothing to do with drugs.

Director: Kevin Hooks

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The deaths of an artist an his girlfriend leads the detectives to a case of poisoned drugs. when they arrest the dealer they have to prevent more people from dying and find the man who made the drugs.

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A woman, missing for six years, is found dead in her car in a canyon. The suspects in her death include her son, her husband, a lawyer, and the company she worked for.

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Writer: Walon Green

Detective Cooper looks for help to find those involved in a deadly gang war.

Director: Paul Shapiro

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