The BEST episodes written by John Robinson

#1 - The Big Family

Dragnet (1951) - Season 4 - Episode 20

#2 - The Big Ham

Dragnet (1951) - Season 3 - Episode 22

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.

#3 - The Big False Make

Dragnet (1951) - Season 3 - Episode 39

A store manager identifies a robbery suspect, but Friday and Smith think that the suspect is the wrong man.

#4 - The Big Fraud

Dragnet (1951) - Season 4 - Episode 2

A group of con artists are posing as cops and victimizing out-of-town businessmen in fashionable hotels.

#5 - The Big Lift

Dragnet (1951) - Season 5 - Episode 4

An organized gang of shoplifters is looting large department stores in the city.

#6 - The Big Will

Dragnet (1951) - Season 3 - Episode 11

Joe and Frank investigate the murder of a man who has recently changed his will.

#7 - The Big Rod

Dragnet (1951) - Season 4 - Episode 18

A pregnant woman is run down by teens out joyriding leaving Sgt Friday and his fellow officer Smith to track down those responsible. They find that kids are uncooperative, refusing to inform on their friends.

#8 - The Big TV

Dragnet (1951) - Season 4 - Episode 23

The detectives search for a missing mother and child at the behest of her mother-in-law, unaware that the girl's husband has died in action and is not overseas as the woman had claimed.

#9 - The Big No Rain

Dragnet (1951) - Season 5 - Episode 3

Joe and Frank try to find out who badly assaulted a woman in the street. Their two suspects are her husband and a mentally ill man. The woman can't help them because she is in a coma.

#10 - The Big Tar Baby

Dragnet (1951) - Season 4 - Episode 29

A bartender's wife is kidnapped, beaten and rolled in hot tar.

#11 - The Big Look

Dragnet (1951) - Season 5 - Episode 7

Friday and his partner Smith race against time to stop a series of brutal beatings of women in the Hollywood area. Just when they think they have their man, things change and very quickly.

#12 - The Big Glasses

Dragnet (1951) - Season 5 - Episode 8

A worried woman contacts Friday and Smith when her elderly mother mysteriously disappears and suspects her father of foul play, a suspicion that proves to be correct when blood is found at her old house.

#13 - The Big Smoke

Dragnet (1951) - Season 5 - Episode 11

An elderly couple is brutally beaten and the trail leads police to a former handy man.

#14 - The Big Deal

Dragnet (1951) - Season 5 - Episode 34

Friday and Smith attempt to solve a series of car thefts but are getting nowhere until they learn that the car thieves are selling the stolen cars illegally.

#15 - The Big Wish

Dragnet (1951) - Season 5 - Episode 35

A teenage boy turns himself in and confesses to being an addict, but he refuses to give up the names of his friends who supplied him.

#16 - The Big Net

Dragnet (1951) - Season 6 - Episode 4

A group of police women act as decoys to draw a stick-up man out into the open.

#17 - The Big Switch

Dragnet (1951) - Season 6 - Episode 15