Episodi

  • The Lux Hotel Murders

    The Lux Hotel Murders
    Aug 3 2026
    Aired: Aug 11th, 1949. Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero race through a rain-soaked Los Angeles night chasing a killer who has struck twice at cheap downtown hotels, leaving behind only a hastily scrawled hotel register and a nervous manager's fading memory. This early Dragnet case, with Romero still at Friday's side, shows the show's documentary-style grit in its rawest form as detectives grind through interviews and evidence in real time. A tense, atmospheric slice of classic police procedural radio.
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    30 min
  • The Tucker Building Lead

    The Tucker Building Lead
    Aug 2 2026
    Aired: Aug 4th, 1949. A dying informant's last words send Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero into the underworld of a citywide narcotics ring. With only a scrawled name and an address to go on, the detectives piece together clues from a rooming house to a downtown office building in a case ripped from real LAPD files. Classic Dragnet: terse, procedural, and unflinching.
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    30 min
  • The Girl Who Stopped Writing Home

    The Girl Who Stopped Writing Home
    Aug 1 2026
    Aired: Jul 28th, 1949. A worried mother in a small Utah town calls the LAPD when her daughter, who moved to Los Angeles to find work, suddenly stops writing home after weeks of faithful letters. Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero take on the case, tracing the missing woman's last known address, a modest women's hotel, in a race to find her before Christmas. It's classic Dragnet minimalism, turning a simple missing-persons report into a tense study of a city that can swallow someone whole.
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    30 min
  • The Sullivan Kidnapping

    The Sullivan Kidnapping
    Jul 31 2026
    Aired: Sep 10th, 1949. A bank vice president's 22-year-old daughter is lured out of business school with a lie about her dying father, and a ransom note signed 'The Wolf' demands $30,000 for her safe return. Sergeants Friday and Romero hide in the trunk of the father's car for a tense, rain-soaked handoff in the dark hours before dawn. Told in Dragnet's clipped, documentary style, this is a tense, real-case-inspired race against a kidnapper's deadline.
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    29 min
  • The Red Light Bandit

    The Red Light Bandit
    Jul 30 2026
    Aired: Jul 14th, 1949. A fake motorcycle cop with a flashing red light is terrorizing Los Angeles, pulling over drivers and beating them senseless before robbing them blind. Sergeant Friday and his partner Ben Romero race from crime scene to crime scene as the attacks escalate, while a recently paroled ex-con with a grudge pays them an unsettling visit. Classic just-the-facts Dragnet tension as the detectives work to unmask a criminal hiding behind a badge.
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    30 min
  • The Case of the Steel Pipe

    The Case of the Steel Pipe
    Jul 29 2026
    Aired: Jul 7th, 1949. A young waitress named Helen Corday is found bludgeoned to death in a foggy Los Angeles vacant lot, and Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Romero turn to the crime lab for answers. Paint chips, blood typing, hair samples, and a single tennis shoe print become the building blocks of the investigation as detectives canvass her boss and union rep to find someone, anyone, who knew the real Helen Corday. A vivid look at how forensic science met old-fashioned legwork in the earliest days of the television-era police procedural.
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    30 min
  • The Quick Trigger Boys

    The Quick Trigger Boys
    Jul 28 2026
    Aired: Jun 24th, 1949. When a stakeout tip leads to a stickup gone wrong, Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero are called to a bar where a gang of trigger-happy holdup men has left a fellow officer dead. As Friday works the case with his usual no-nonsense method, a routine night of paperwork and dinner invitations turns into a manhunt for a crew that's put every cop in the city on notice. Classic Dragnet: procedural, tense, and true to the LAPD files.
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    30 min
  • The 24-Minute Bomb at City Hall

    The 24-Minute Bomb at City Hall
    Jul 27 2026
    Aired: Jul 21st, 1949. Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero are called back on duty for a nightmare scenario: a man with a homemade bomb is holed up inside Los Angeles City Hall, threatening to level the block unless his jailed brother walks free by 9 a.m. With the clock ticking and the building evacuated, Friday and Romero volunteer to walk into the room and talk him down. Based on an actual LAPD case file, it's Dragnet's terse, documentary-style storytelling at its tensest.
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    30 min