Episodi

  • The Big Gangster: A Sanitarium Shooting

    The Big Gangster: A Sanitarium Shooting
    Sep 6 2026
    Aired: Mar 30th, 1950. A notorious Los Angeles hoodlum is gunned down inside a sanitarium, and Sergeant Friday and his partner Ben Romero race to find witnesses before a gang war erupts. Their leads take them from a shell-shocked receptionist to an elderly deaf patient who can only answer questions by scrawling on a slate. Authentic, clipped, and quietly tense, it's classic Dragnet procedural storytelling at its best.
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    29 min
  • The Big Gangster, Part 1: Machine Gun on Sunset

    The Big Gangster, Part 1: Machine Gun on Sunset
    Aug 30 2026
    Aired: Mar 23rd, 1950. A mob boss survives a daylight machine-gun ambush outside a Sunset Boulevard cafe, and Sergeant Friday and his partner Ben Romero are determined to stop a gang war before it starts. The hoodlum won't talk, the witnesses barely saw the car, and Friday makes it clear the streets of Los Angeles won't become anyone's battlefield. Classic clipped Dragnet dialogue drives this tense procedural opener from 1950.
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    29 min
  • The Big Boys

    The Big Boys
    Aug 24 2026
    Aired: Mar 16th, 1950. Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero pick up a tip from an unofficial source: a special-delivery letter from a cop's brother up north warning that four armed, cold-blooded young robbers are headed for Los Angeles. As the pair chase down leads, including two young women who unknowingly caught a ride with dangerous men, this episode captures Dragnet's trademark blend of deadpan procedure and street-level tension.
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    29 min
  • The Big Thank You

    The Big Thank You
    Aug 23 2026
    Aired: Mar 9th, 1950. When a paroled murderess stops filing her monthly reports, Sgt. Joe Friday and Ben Romero notice her signature has changed — and the trail leads to a fog-shrouded house in Wilmington. A tense missing-persons case unfolds with the deadpan realism that made Dragnet a landmark of the police procedural genre.
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    30 min
  • The Big Kill

    The Big Kill
    Aug 22 2026
    Aired: Mar 2nd, 1950. When a Los Angeles police officer is gunned down with a shotgun on his own front porch, Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero race against the clock to track down an ex-con who swore revenge at his sentencing. Built on stark, documentary-style realism, this early Dragnet case follows the detectives through predawn stakeouts, roadblocks, and a network of underworld contacts as they close in on a killer's trail.
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    29 min
  • The Gentle Grifter Comes Home

    The Gentle Grifter Comes Home
    Aug 21 2026
    Aired: Feb 23rd, 1950. A confidence man with a 35-year rap sheet resurfaces in Los Angeles, working a slick used-car swindle that leaves two dealers out $2,000 apiece — and too scared of a lawsuit to fight back. Sergeants Friday and Romero pull his mile-long rap sheet and haul him in, but with no crime they can pin on paper, they can only warn him to get out of town before he runs the con again. A sharp, understated look at how a career swindler stays just inside the law.
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    29 min
  • The Big Girl

    The Big Girl
    Aug 20 2026
    Aired: Feb 9th, 1950. A robbery detail case turns grim when Sergeant Friday and Sgt. Romero track a beautiful, statuesque blonde who's been robbing and savagely beating lone men across Los Angeles. What starts as a string of muggings takes a darker turn when one victim is left permanently paralyzed, raising the stakes of the manhunt beyond simple theft. Classic just-the-facts Dragnet storytelling built from an actual LAPD case file.
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    29 min
  • The Big Little Girl

    The Big Little Girl
    Aug 19 2026
    Aired: Feb 2nd, 1950. When two seven-year-old girls vanish on a short walk home from the corner grocery store, Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero race against a gathering storm to find them. A grim discovery on a rain-soaked hillside turns a missing-persons case into something far darker, as the detectives piece together the last known movements of two children who never made it home. Vintage 1950 Dragnet at its most unflinching, based on an actual LAPD case file.
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    29 min