The BEST episodes of L.A. Dragnet
Every episode of L.A. Dragnet ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of L.A. Dragnet!
From Emmy Award-winning producer Dick Wolf, one of television's most successful creators and architect of the long-running Law & Order franchise, comes this modern-day take on the classic police drama. Filmed on locations throughout Los Angeles, this updated version of Dragnet features a group of detectives in the LAPD Robbery/Homicide Squad investigating crimes that could only take place in Los Angeles, one of the world's most glamorous and intriguing cities.
#1 - The Little Guy
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 5/11/2003
While trying to protect an innocent suspect linked to the Sanchez brothers, Friday puts his career on the line by killing a cop.
#2 - The Artful Dodger
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/16/2003
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.
#3 - 17 in 6
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/2003
Detective Cooper looks for help to find those involved in a deadly gang war.
#4 - Killing Field
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/2004
When a man is arrested for shoplift, using a missing person's car, police finds in the car the belongings of two other missing people. While in custody the suspect kills himself. Soon after, the detectives find in his house not only torture elements and videos but also human bones and several graves. One of the videos indicates that there was an accomplice.
#5 - The Silver Slayer
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/2/2003
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.
#6 - The Big Ruckus
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/9/2003
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.
#7 - The Brass Ring
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/9/2003
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.
#8 - Daddy's Girl
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/4/2003
Joe and his crew investigate the murder of a teenager who was burned and left for dead. Family honor is put to the test when the victom's father wants justice while assailant's father protects his child from the law.
#9 - Retribution
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/5/2004
Detectives suspect an alleged victim of sexual abuse is responsible for decapitating an Orthodox priest.
#10 - Frame of Mind
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/28/2004
The killing of a travelling salesman maybe connected to the unsolved murder of an adult movie star's father.
#11 - Slice of Life
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/1/2003
When fishermen find a woman's headless body offshore, detectives discover she had recently given birth, but there was no sign of the baby.
#12 - Coyote
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/11/2003
The detectives discover a major prostitution ring while investigating a woman's murder.
#13 - Let's Make a Deal
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/13/2003
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.
#14 - Redemption
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/6/2003
Detective Friday and Detective Beltran find out a hidden secret behind a run of the mill suicide.
#15 - Sticks and Stones
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/30/2003
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.
#16 - The Cutting of the Swath
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/2/2003
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.
#17 - All That Glitters
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/16/2003
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.
#18 - Well Endowed
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/23/2003
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.
#19 - For Whom the Whistle Blows
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 4/27/2003
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.
#20 - The Magic Bullet
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/2003
The death of a fan at a wild Hollywood party lead the detectives to a record producer with a gun fetish.
#21 - Abduction
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/21/2004
The detectives investagate the abduction and killing of the son of a couple involved in an alternative lifestyle.
#22 - Riddance
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/4/2004
The deaths of an artist an his girlfriend leads the detectives to a case of poisoned drugs. when they arrest the dealer they have to prevent more people from dying and find the man who made the drugs.
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