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First Aired: December 16th, 1951
Status: Ended
Genre: Crime, Drama
Network: NBC
Summary: Follows the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from the police term "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.
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# of Episodes: 276
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Season 4
Episode 1: The Big Producer
Air Date: August 26th, 1954
Summary: A man claims to be a big Hollywood producer, but Friday and Smith discover that he's merely the leader of a pornography ring.
Episode 2: The Big Fraud
Air Date: September 2nd, 1954
Summary: A group of con artists are posing as cops and victimizing out-of-town businessmen in fashionable hotels.
Episode 3: The Big Crime
Air Date: September 9th, 1954
Summary: Four-year-old twin girls are abducted from the local park.
Episode 4: The Big Pair
Air Date: September 16th, 1954
Summary: An old man and his granddaughter are burglarized, leaving them broke and starving.
Episode 5: The Big Escape
Air Date: September 23rd, 1954
Summary: A case hits too close to home for Friday when his old army buddy robs a liquor store and shoots his partner. Friday believes his friend wants to go straight after doing time, but things get worse when his friend breaks jail.
Episode 6: The Big Kid
Air Date: September 30th, 1954
Summary: When Friday and Smith learn that a showdown between two teenage gangs is about to take place within 48 hours, they do their utmost to prevent it.
Episode 7: The Big Missing
Air Date: October 7th, 1954
Summary: Friday and Smith are looking for a missing businessman.
Episode 8: The Big Bar
Air Date: October 14th, 1954
Summary: A holdup man is sticking up bars. After he takes the money he kills many of his victims. Sergeant Friday has few leads other than that the holdup man likes a certain song on the jukebox.
Episode 9: The Big Present
Air Date: October 21st, 1954
Summary: Friday and Smith are looking for a burglar who leaves a milk bottle at the scene of the crime. They suspect a juvenile might be involved.
Episode 10: The Big Gangster (Part 1)
Air Date: October 28th, 1954
Summary: An attempt is made on the life of a gang leader. Friday and Smith must find the shooters before his followers seek revenge.
Episode 11: The Big Gangster (Part 2)
Air Date: November 4th, 1954
Summary: Friday and Smith must find the men who murdered a gang boss before an open gang war starts.
Episode 12: The Big New Years
Air Date: November 11st, 1954
Summary: On New Year's Eve, Friday and Smith are working out of Central Receiving Hospital.
Episode 13: The Big Want Ad
Air Date: November 18th, 1954
Summary: Friday and Smith investigate a man who is conning people by using the want ads.
Episode 14: The Big Affair
Air Date: November 25th, 1954
Summary: Friday and Smith discover that the key to finding a hold-up artist lies in his married girlfriend.
Episode 15: The Big Bible
Air Date: December 2nd, 1954
Summary: A man locks himself in his study and threatens suicide if his wife leaves him.
Episode 16: The Big Bindle
Air Date: December 9th, 1954
Summary: Friday goes under cover to bust a drug ring that is operating out of a high-class hotel.
Episode 17: The Big Office
Air Date: December 16th, 1954
Summary: Friday and Smith are assigned to the business office, where they must deal with the paperwork on a busy weekend.
Episode 18: The Big Rod
Air Date: December 30th, 1954
Summary: An expectant mother is run down and killed by two teenagers in a hot rod.
Episode 19: The Big Rescue
Air Date: January 6th, 1955
Summary: A group of bandits arm themselves and break their comrades out of jail.
Episode 20: The Big Family
Air Date: January 13rd, 1955
Summary: Local businessman John Keith Jarrett disappears and evidence of suicide is discovered. Friday and Smith check on the surviving members of his family and find them not the least concerned about their father's death, with his son a tennis bum, his daughter promiscuous, and his wife drunken. The case gets even murkier when a report comes in of a traffic incident upstate involving a camper in which the driver was using Jarrett's license.
Episode 21: The Big Shock
Air Date: January 20th, 1955
Summary: Friday and Smith go after a burglar who plans to break into a bank through an underground tunnel.
Episode 22: The Big Screen
Air Date: January 27th, 1955
Summary: Friday and Smith team up with a newspaper reporter so they can investigate television repairmen who may be overcharging their customers.
Episode 23: The Big TV
Air Date: February 3rd, 1955
Summary: 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.
Episode 24: The Big Dog
Air Date: February 10th, 1955
Summary: An old man sits on his front porch with a shotgun, threatening to kill the man who poisoned his dog.
Episode 25: The Big Underground
Air Date: February 17th, 1955
Summary: Friday and Smith use a stolen check as a lead to a series of used car lot robberies.
Episode 26: The Big Key
Air Date: February 24th, 1955
Summary: A woman's badly mutilated body is found in a churchyard on Christmas eve. The only clue is a key lying under her.
Episode 27: The Big Mailman
Air Date: March 3rd, 1955
Summary: Friday and Smith go after a bandit who is robbing mailboxes and then trying to cash other people's checks.
Episode 28: The Big Customer
Air Date: March 10th, 1955
Episode 29: The Big Tar Baby
Air Date: March 17th, 1955
Summary: A bartender's wife is kidnapped, beaten and rolled in hot tar.
Episode 30: The Big Number
Air Date: March 24th, 1955
Summary: Friday and Smith Investigate a Bank Robbery, but they don't have much to go on.
Episode 31: The Big Mask
Air Date: March 31st, 1955
Summary: A masked bandit is holding up supermarkets and the police are not able to catch him.
Episode 32: The Big Sucker
Air Date: April 7th, 1955
Summary: A con artist is swindling jewelers using fake diamonds.
Episode 33: The Big Moustache
Air Date: April 14th, 1955
Summary: Friday and Smith investigate the robbery of an appliance store.
Episode 34: The Big Heel
Air Date: April 21st, 1955
Summary: Friday and Smith use an unusual footprint to help solve a murder case.
Episode 35: The Big Gone
Air Date: April 28th, 1955
Summary: The owner of a flower shop kills a man who is trying to rob him, but the corpse mysteriously vanishes.
Episode 36: The Big Student
Air Date: May 5th, 1955
Summary: Friday and Smith are on the trail of a bunch of teenagers selling fake magazine subscriptions.
Episode 37: The Big Watch
Air Date: May 12nd, 1955
Summary: Bandits are offering rides to hitch-hiking soldiers, then robbing and beating them.
Episode 38: The Big Dig
Air Date: May 19th, 1955
Summary: Friday and Smith are looking into a report of a missing woman that turns into a murder investigation.
Episode 39: The Big Mug
Air Date: May 26th, 1955
Summary: Two hold-up men are robbing and beating pedestrians in the down town area.
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