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Dragnet 1967 Season 3 Episodes
Season 3 Episode Guide
27 Episodes 1968 - 1969
Episode 1
Public Affairs: DR-07
Thu, Sep 19, 196830 mins
A television show asks the question - who needs the police? Friday and Gannon are invited to sit on the panel to defend the police department from others that think the police are not needed.
Episode 2
Juvenile: DR-05
Thu, Sep 26, 196830 mins
Gannon & Friday work the evening shift in the Juvenile Department where they field a variety of calls. Calls include a runaway teenager, an abandoned baby, a boy high on drugs, and a girl accused of theft.
Episode 3
Community Relations: DR-10
Thu, Oct 3, 196830 mins
Friday and Gannon are at a community college to recruit potential new police officers. With race relations a little tense in late '60s Los Angeles, a majority of the men in the room are African-American. A few of them are dubious about joining the police service. But a few are open to the idea. Later, Officer Dave Roberts, also African-American, is rethinking returning to duty after being badly wounded during a robbery. Relations with his neighbors have soured and he thinks it's affecting him on the job. Friday and Gannon try to talk him out of resigning. Roberts left things up in the air. A few days later, Friday and Gannon are downtown when a call regarding a business disturbance comes over the radio. They are a few blocks away and decide to lend assistance. As it turns out Officer Roberts has responded to the call and is sorting things out on his own as Friday and Gannon observe. After everything is resolved, Roberts notices the two detectives watching from the doorway. Friday gives Roberts a knowing nod. Roberts nods back. They not only convince Roberts to stay on the job, but to help them with the recruiting as well.
Episode 4
Management Services: DR-11
Thu, Oct 10, 196830 mins
On an April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennesee. With riots erupting all over the United States, the Los Angeles Police Department braces for worse case scenarios such as rioting and bomb threats. Friday and Gannon are assigned to the command post and monitor the situation from there and wait for the first sign of trouble. However, as the weekend progresses Friday notes that Los Angeles is quieter than normal and that many of the people are doing their best to remember that Dr. King stood for peace.
Episode 5
Police Commission: DR-13
Thu, Oct 17, 196830 mins
Complaints are being received by the L.A.P.D. from people who are being made to pay inflated prices by a "Wildcat" tow truck driver (a "Wildcatter" is a tow company who is not endorsed by the LAPD and cruise the highways looking for people who are broken down hoping to make a quick buck). The tow company focused on has generated six complaints in one month. In one, the tow driver tows the car of a lady who speaks no English and makes her sign a blank contract. In another a driver runs into a telephone pole while driving drunk and so agrees to a 250.00 tow bill to get it towed before the police can show up. Friday and Gannon investigate further and find out the two owners are ex-convicts, and have been operating under a false permit. As a result of these complaints, the LAPD decides to start an official sanctioning body for tow companies.
Episode 6
Homicide: DR-06
Thu, Oct 24, 196830 mins
Friday and Gannon investigate the murder of a man found in an alley, with no leads or witnesses. Friday invites Gannon and his wife, and a date over to his apartment for a dinner party.
Episode 7
Robbery: DR-15
Thu, Nov 7, 196830 mins
Gannon & Friday work in the Robbery Division. Several victims identify the same man as being the criminal. The detectives try to find him, as well as evidence that will convict him.
Episode 8
Public Affairs: DR-12
Thu, Nov 14, 196826 mins
The LAPD has just been informed that The President of the United States will be making a trip to LA. They have only been given a few hours to prepare. They work with The Secret Service to secure the location at which The President will be holding a press conference.
Episode 9
Training: DR-18
Thu, Nov 21, 196830 mins
A reporter for a New York magazine wants to do a piece on female police cadets. She's known for not making the people she writes about very attractive. Friday is assigned to escort her around the Academy.
Episode 10
Public Affairs: DR-14
Thu, Nov 28, 196830 mins
Friday and Gannon are sent to meet with a group of business owners who are looking to organize a crime prevention group to help cut crime in their neighborhood. While doing a cursory inspection they identify a number of problems that may encourage burglaries. Most of the business owners don't feel that they are vulnerable to crime.
Episode 11
Narcotics: DR-16
Thu, Dec 5, 196830 mins
A business man helps Friday and Gannon get the teens involved in stopping the use of drugs. The teens form a club and make a promise not to use drugs and encourage others to stop using them.
Episode 12
Internal Affairs: DR-20
Thu, Dec 12, 196830 mins
Friday and Gannon work the Internal Affairs Division concerning an arrested man's accusation of police brutality by one of the officers. The main characters from Adam-12 appear as witnesses.
Episode 13
Community Relations: DR-17
Thu, Jan 2, 196926 mins
Friday and Gannon are assigned to attend a conference at Lake Arrowhead where focus groups are formed to develop suggestions to improve community relations and have to deal with bias and prejudice.
Episode 14
Homicide: DR-22
Thu, Jan 9, 196930 mins
While investigating the murder of a pretty young career girl, Friday and Gannon meet a little old man named Calvin Lampe who is more than a little interested in their investigation. In fact, he even is looked at as a suspect because of his attention to every detail in the case. However, the two detectives are in for a big shock when they find out that Mr. Lampe is a retired chief of detectives and that he is a good friend of their boss, Captain Hugh Brown. Lampe's know how and good old fashioned detective work are a big help as Joe and Bill try to solve a very difficult case.
Episode 15
B.O.D.: DR-27
Thu, Jan 23, 196930 mins
Friday and Gannon man the desk at the Business Office Division and deal with radicals, a threatened suicide, a lost child, a diabetic drunk, and an impending tidal wave.
Episode 16
Narcotics: DR-21
Thu, Jan 30, 196930 mins
Friday and Gannon come up with the idea of using dogs to sniff out marijuana smugglers. They'll have to find a dog and demonstrate it works while enduring their colleagues' skepticism of the wild idea.
Episode 17
Administrative Vice: DR-29
Thu, Feb 6, 196930 mins
Friday has a temporary partner when Gannon is out for the day. The new partner is from the Vice Department. He tests Friday by offering a bribe.
Episode 18
The Joy Riders
Thu, Feb 13, 196930 mins
Friday and Gannon are working out of juvenile division and one night they encounter a young man named Harold Rustin who was arrested for car stripping. He seems to come from a nice home, but he has a penchant for getting into trouble, much to the frustration of his mother. Even though the officers use scare tactics on him, for the next several months they keep getting reports on car thefts usually surrounding kids from Fletcher High School, which happens to be where Harold is attending. However, one day things turn serious when Harold and his gang crash a party and start a brawl and in the process a shotgun is stolen. Things really take a turn for the worse when Harold is implicated in the murder of an elderly gentleman. Now Friday and Gannon must find Harold before things get any worse for him.
Episode 19
Juvenile Division: DR-19
Thu, Feb 27, 196930 mins
A woman invites Friday and Gannon to talk to her Woman's Club about battered children. They train the women to be on the lookout for children who might be abused, and how they can help by becoming foster parents.
Episode 20
Burglary: DR-31
Thu, Mar 6, 196930 mins
Several stores report theft of comic books, posters, and pictures about superheroes. The stores say the thief is in costume.
Episode 21
Frauds: DR-28
Thu, Feb 20, 196930 mins
Friday and Gannon work in the Frauds Department. Disability payments are being sent to deceased persons, and evidence suggests an insider is involved.
Episode 22
Vice: DR-30
Thu, Mar 13, 196930 mins
Friday and Gannon go undercover at a hotel to find the location of an illegal gambling operation. Soon after spreading the word they're looking for some action they are driven to a late-night game in the Hollywood Hills. After the game the detectives give the location of the residence to their boss and a raid is set for the following night.
Episode 23
Forgery: DR-33
Thu, Mar 20, 196930 mins
Friday and Gannon work in the fraud department. Payroll checks are stolen from a studio, as well as driver licenses and credit cards so the checks can be cashed. After they find a suspect, Friday & Gannon realize there is more to the case.
Episode 24
Juvenile: DR-32
Thu, Mar 27, 196930 mins
Friday and Gannon have less than two hours to find the dog that bit a little girl five days earlier. Normally, treatment consists of serum injections followed by vaccine inoculations, but in this case the girl is highly allergic to the anti-rabies serum and it could kill her.
Episode 25
Juvenile: DR-35
Thu, Apr 3, 196930 mins
When a four-day-old baby is found barely alive in an apartment trash receptacle, Friday and Gannon search for the person who abandoned the newborn.
Episode 26
Frauds: DR-36
Thu, Apr 10, 196930 mins
When an audit of a department store chain shows a loss of $100k in merchandise, the Credit Manager asks Friday and Gannon to investigate who may have been responsible.
Episode 27
Intelligence: DR-34
Thu, Apr 17, 196930 mins
Frank Barker, wants Joe to help him get a firearms license for the Fielder Militia. The LAPD knows that the militia's weapons are stolen from the Army, so they have Joe string Barker along until they can arrest him and grab the weapons.
