Dragnet — Season 4

Aug 26, 1954 · 30m

A man claims to be a big Hollywood producer, but Friday and Smith discover that he's merely the leader of a pornography ring.

Sep 2, 1954 · 30m

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

Sep 9, 1954 · 30m

Four-year-old twin girls are abducted from the local park.

Sep 16, 1954 · 30m

An old man and his granddaughter are burglarized, leaving them broke and starving.

Sep 23, 1954 · 30m

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.

Sep 30, 1954 · 30m

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.

Oct 7, 1954 · 30m

Friday and Smith are looking for a missing businessman.

Oct 14, 1954 · 30m

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.

Oct 21, 1954 · 30m

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.

Oct 28, 1954 · 30m

An attempt is made on the life of a gang leader. Friday and Smith must find the shooters before his followers seek revenge.

Nov 4, 1954 · 30m

Friday and Smith must find the men who murdered a gang boss before an open gang war starts.

Nov 11, 1954 · 30m

On New Year's Eve, Friday and Smith are working out of Central Receiving Hospital.

Nov 18, 1954 · 30m

Friday and Smith investigate a man who is conning people by using the want ads.

Nov 25, 1954 · 30m

Friday and Smith discover that the key to finding a hold-up artist lies in his married girlfriend.

Dec 2, 1954 · 30m

A man locks himself in his study and threatens suicide if his wife leaves him.

Dec 9, 1954 · 30m

Friday goes under cover to bust a drug ring that is operating out of a high-class hotel.

Dec 16, 1954 · 30m

Friday and Smith are assigned to the business office, where they must deal with the paperwork on a busy weekend.

Dec 30, 1954 · 30m

An expectant mother is run down and killed by two teenagers in a hot rod.

Jan 6, 1955 · 30m

A group of bandits arm themselves and break their comrades out of jail.

Jan 13, 1955 · 30m

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.

Jan 20, 1955 · 30m

Friday and Smith go after a burglar who plans to break into a bank through an underground tunnel.

Jan 27, 1955 · 30m

Friday and Smith team up with a newspaper reporter so they can investigate television repairmen who may be overcharging their customers.

Feb 3, 1955 · 30m

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.

Feb 10, 1955 · 30m

An old man sits on his front porch with a shotgun, threatening to kill the man who poisoned his dog.

Feb 17, 1955 · 30m

Friday and Smith use a stolen check as a lead to a series of used car lot robberies.

Feb 24, 1955 · 30m

A woman's badly mutilated body is found in a churchyard on Christmas eve. The only clue is a key lying under her.

Mar 3, 1955 · 30m

Friday and Smith go after a bandit who is robbing mailboxes and then trying to cash other people's checks.

Mar 10, 1955 · 30m

Mar 17, 1955 · 30m

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

Mar 24, 1955 · 30m

Friday and Smith Investigate a Bank Robbery, but they don't have much to go on.

Mar 31, 1955 · 30m

A masked bandit is holding up supermarkets and the police are not able to catch him.

Apr 7, 1955 · 30m

A con artist is swindling jewelers using fake diamonds.

Apr 14, 1955 · 30m

Friday and Smith investigate the robbery of an appliance store.

Apr 21, 1955 · 30m

Friday and Smith use an unusual footprint to help solve a murder case.

Apr 28, 1955 · 30m

The owner of a flower shop kills a man who is trying to rob him, but the corpse mysteriously vanishes.

May 5, 1955 · 30m

Friday and Smith are on the trail of a bunch of teenagers selling fake magazine subscriptions.

May 12, 1955 · 30m

Bandits are offering rides to hitch-hiking soldiers, then robbing and beating them.

May 19, 1955 · 30m

Friday and Smith are looking into a report of a missing woman that turns into a murder investigation.

May 26, 1955 · 30m

Two hold-up men are robbing and beating pedestrians in the down town area.