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Dragnet Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
14 Episodes 1951 - 1952
Episode 1
The Human Bomb
Sun, Dec 16, 195130 mins
An ex-con bears a grudge against the city of Los Angeles. He wants to blow up city hall unless his demands are met. He has a powerful bomb. The police find 28 sticks of dynamite in his apartment. Only Sergeant Friday has the power to stop this 1950s terrorist attack.
Episode 2
The Big Actor
Thu, Jan 3, 195230 mins
A trail of stolen narcotics lead Friday and Romero to a TV actor who is addicted to heroin.
Episode 3
The Big Death
Thu, Jan 17, 195230 mins
Detective Sergeant Friday has been assigned to homicide detail. A socially prominent citizen is plotting to kill his wife. He tells a friend the plans of his murder and hires him to do the killing. It's Friday's job to stop him by going undercover and posing as a hired killer.
Episode 4
The Big Mother
Thu, Jan 31, 195230 mins
Twins are born in a hospital, but soon one is kidnapped. The detectives must find the missing baby before it's too late.
Episode 5
The Big Cast
Thu, Feb 14, 195230 mins
Friday begins to question Henry Ross, a suspect in a man's disappearance, which Friday believes is actually a murder. Ross coolly and calmly denies any involvement in the disappearance, but Friday's relentless interrogation soon begin to crack the man's facade.
Episode 6
The Big Speech
Thu, Feb 28, 195230 mins
Sergeant Friday is asked to give a speech at his old high school while he is trying to apprehend a student addicted to narcotics, who viscously beats and robs a neighborhood druggist.
Episode 7
The Big Parrot
Thu, Mar 13, 195230 mins
Friday and Jacobs investigate a double murder in the remains of an arson fire. Among the dead is a parrot with a broken neck. The case leads them to a robbery and a chilling confession.
Episode 8
The Big Moody
Thu, Mar 27, 195230 mins
A man claims he awoke to find his wife dead in bed beside him. Neoghbors convince the detectives to hold him for murder, but the victim's sister provides an unexpected defense.
Episode 9
The Big Blast
Thu, Apr 10, 195230 mins
The hunt is on for the man who killed a woman while her young son looked on in horror.
Episode 10
The Big Trial
Thu, Apr 24, 195230 mins
Friday is counting on a woman to testify against the drunk driver who hit her, but she doesn't appear in court.
Episode 11
The Big September Man
Thu, May 8, 195230 mins
Someone murdered a secretary late at night in her office. She was beaten to death with a metal pipe wrapped in newspaper. Could it be the drunk found three blocks away beating his head against a wall?
Episode 12
The Big Phone Call
Thu, May 22, 195230 mins
Friday and Jacobs question a jeweler regarding the robbery of a colleague. The man takes offense at being questioned about the incident, but as the detectives begin to amass evidence, the jeweler's outrage quickly begins to lose credibility.
Episode 13
The Big Casing
Thu, Jun 5, 195230 mins
Friday and Jacobs are called to the apartment of a man who phoned in the fatal shooting of his wife. He claims it was suicide, but upon looking at the crime scene and talking to neighbors they begin to wonder if it was murder.
Episode 14
The Big Lamp
Thu, Jun 19, 195230 mins
A safe cracker Friday and Jacobs arrest for burglary is acquitted at trial, even though they believed it was an open-and-shut case. The man leaves town but returns a few years later. Friday and Jacobs believe he will return to his old tricks, but this time the detectives have an ace up their sleeve.