The BEST episodes of Dragnet (1951)

#1 - The Big Barrette

Season 2 - Episode 32 - Aired 6/18/1953

#2 - The Big Plant

Season 3 - Episode 35 - Aired 4/29/1954

A woman disappears and her husband is the prime suspect, but Friday and Smith will have a hard time getting past his fierce guard dogs.

#3 - The Big Test

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/9/1953

A young man reports that he was robbed by bandits on horseback while he was down in Mexico.

#4 - The Big Phone Call

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/22/1952

Friday confronts a jeweler with tape recorded evidence that proves he hired someone to rob his own store.

#5 - The Big Cast

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/14/1952

The police interrogate a suspect whom they believe to have murdered more than a dozen men.

#6 - The Big September Man

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/8/1952

A secretary is beaten to death and the search for the killer leads police to a religious fanatic.

#7 - The Big Grandma

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/8/1953

An elderly woman is passing bad checks, but no one suspects her because she looks harmless.

#8 - The Big Little Jesus

Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 12/24/1953

A statue of the Child Jesus is stolen from a church. Friday and Smith must find it before the paritioners miss it on Christmas morning.

#9 - The Big Hit-Run Killer

Season 3 - Episode 29 - Aired 3/18/1954

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

#10 - The Big Girl

Season 3 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/1/1954

Friday and Smith hunt down the bandit queen; a tall, gorgeous woman who is on a rampage of robberies and shootings.

#11 - The Big Family

Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/13/1955

#12 - The Big Red

Season 8 - Episode 39 - Aired 8/23/1959

#13 - The Big War

Season 7 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/10/1958

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

#14 - The Big Crime

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/9/1954

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

#15 - The Big Shoplift

Season 3 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/11/1954

Friday and Smith are surprised to find a wealthy house wife is a shoplifter, until they discover that she is a kleptomaniac.

#16 - The Big .22 Rifle for Christmas

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/18/1952

Two small boys are missing, there are blood stains on the ground and a gun meant as a Christmas present is gone.

#17 - The Big Boys

Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 1/21/1954

The cops must stake out a hotel lobby and deal with a drunken desk clerk as they wait for four juvenile armed robbers to show up.

#18 - The Big Frank

Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/7/1953

#19 - The Big Frame

Season 3 - Episode 34 - Aired 4/22/1954

A man's body is found in the gutter and the only clue is a pair of skid marks found nearby.

#20 - The Big Seventeen

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/6/1952

Friday and Smith investigate a group of teenagers who are using and selling drugs.

#21 - The Big Break

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/19/1953

Friday and Smith track down an escaped convict who is armed and dangerous.

#22 - The Big Betty

Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/24/1953

Friday and Smith track down a confidence ring who are selling defective watches.

#23 - The Big Bar

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/14/1954

A holdup man is sticking up bars. After he takes the money he kills many of his victims. Sargeant Friday has few leads other than that the holdup man likes a certain song on the jukebox and likes to drink scotch and water.

#24 - The Big Actor

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/3/1952

Friday and Romero track down a drug ring through a small-time television actor who is hooked on heroin.

#25 - The Big Ham

Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 1/28/1954

Ross is an actor on the way up, but then his girlfriend is found dead in his apartment. A suicide note is found, but things start to point to it being a homicide.