Name: Dragnet
Uploaded: 1952-02-14T00:00:00.000Z
Description: The granddaddy of all TV cop shows. Jack Webb stars as Sgt. Joe Friday, a plainclothes detective who solves crimes for the Los Angeles Police Department. The story lines were taken from real life case files of the LAPD.

The granddaddy of all TV cop shows. Jack Webb stars as Sgt. Joe Friday, a plainclothes detective who solves crimes for the Los Angeles Police Department. The story lines were taken from real life case files of the LAPD. 

Friday must relentlessly interrogate a steely, denying suspect in a man's disappearance, which Friday believes is actually a murder.

The Big Cast

A secretary is beaten to death with a newspaper-wrapped steel pipe and the main suspect is a drunk found blocks away, beating his head against a wall.

The Big September Man

Friday and Jacobs question a jeweler after a colleague of theirs is assaulted and robbed of $20,000 worth of precious stones.

The Big Phone Call

After investigating a man's claims that the fatal shooting of his wife was a suicide, Friday and Jacobs begin to wonder if it was murder.

The Big Casing

When an office building safe is burgled, all evidence points to an ex-con. But on the day of the trial, the jury isn't so sure of his guilt.

The Big Lamp

A man threatens to jump from the ninth floor ledge of a building at ten o'clock.

The Big Jump

When upper middle-class teenagers go crazy--vandalizing a theater and assaulting the staff--Friday must get to the bottom of what is causing this.

The Big Seventeen

In the search for a missing boy, blood is found and it is discovered that the boy's parents purchased him a .22-caliber rifle for Christmas.

The Big .22 Rifle For Christmas

Friday and Jacobs look for an elderly woman who has been passing bad checks just three different months a year for nearly 10 years.

The Big Grandma

A lady reports an abandoned baby at a bus depot. Officers Friday and Smith investigate, and realize her story doesn't quite hold water.

The Big Show

A young pianist is found holding the dead body of a woman, claiming he has killed her. Called to interrogate him, Friday and Smith have their doubts.

The Big Hate

Friday leads a team in a raid on the house of a very dangerous armed robber, which results in a bloody shootout.

The Big Break

An elderly widower is missing, so Friday and Smith retrace his actions before his disappearance.

The Big Lease

Friday and Smith investigate the murder of a Jane Doe. With no leads or clues and no idea who she is, they must start from scratch to find her killer.

The Big Hands

While trying to track down some brutal thieves, the only clue Friday and Smith have to aid their investigation is a matchbook.

The Big Dance

A gang of con artists checks the obituary section of the paper, using the information they find to prey on the grief-stricken families of the dead.

The Big Betty

When local physicians are robbed of their drugs and valuables after being called down to hotels, Friday and Smith are called in to put a stop to this.

The Big Thief

It's Christmas Eve when the pastor at a local church discovers that the statue of the Infant Jesus has been stolen from the crib.

The Big Little Jesus

When a former vaudevillian actress is found beaten to death in her apartment, three men are suspected of her murder.

The Big Trunk

A four-man gang--two of whom are army deserters--have committed a series of robberies and auto thefts in San Francisco and are on their way to LA.

The Big Boys

The girlfriend of a rising actor is found dead in his apartment. A suicide note is found, but things start to point to it being a homicide.

The Big Ham

An elderly man apparently committed suicide by shooting himself with a rifle, but Friday and Smith soon discover that it was actually a homicide.

The Big Winchester

After a spate of recent thefts at retail stores around the city, Detective Joe Friday and his partner are on the case.

The Big Shoplift

A woman and her grandson are run down by a bakery truck, but the driver has an airtight alibi.

The Big Hit Run Killer

The detectives hunt down a tall, beautiful woman who has been terrorizing the city by robbing men, beating them and, in some cases, shooting them.

The Big Girl

When a man is found dead in a gutter, it seems to be a hit-run case. But suspicions arise when all witnesses from the night give the exact same story.

The Big Frame

Friday interrogates a gardener arrested for holding up a grocery store. However, in the midst of questioning, Friday begins to doubt the man's guilt.

The Big False Make

When obscene literature and pictures are spread among youngsters at a local school, the supplier is discovered to be a former silent film producer.

The Big Producer

When two four year old twin girls turn up missing, Friday and Smith are called in. The girls are found, but were molested. The officers continue to investigate until they locate the perpetrator.

The Big Crime

Sergeants Friday, Smith and Austin investigate a string of robberies taking place while people are on vacation.

The Big Pair

When a man robs bars and kills many of his victims, Friday has few leads other than a certain song on the jukebox and a drink of scotch and water.

The Big Bar

On New Year's Eve, Detectives Friday and Smith must investigate a cop killing.

The Big New Year

Friday and Smith attempt to get a hold of the leaders of several street gangs in order to stop an approaching gang war.

The Big War

The detectives take a report of valuables stolen from the home of a somewhat eccentric old lady, who claims to have the "scoop" on local crimes.

Dragnet

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