The Best Episodes of L.A. Dragnet Season 1

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

Writer: N/A

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

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

Writer: N/A

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

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.

Director: N/A

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: N/A

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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

Writer: N/A

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

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

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: N/A

Writer: Walon Green

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

Writer: N/A