Episodi

  • 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 Werewolf

    The Werewolf
    Jul 26 2026
    Aired: Jun 17th, 1949. A masked attacker preys on lone women walking the early morning streets of Los Angeles, leaving eighteen victims beaten and robbed in six weeks. Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner race the clock through rain-soaked streets, thin leads, and a chilling eyewitness description as the tabloids brand the culprit with a monstrous nickname. Classic just-the-facts Dragnet tension as the LAPD hunts a predator who refuses to stay hidden.
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    30 min
  • The Nickel-Plated Gun

    The Nickel-Plated Gun
    Jul 23 2026
    Aired: Jun 10th, 1949. Two LAPD officers are gunned down without warning outside a rough south-side café, and Sergeant Joe Friday and partner Ben Romero catch the case. With one officer fighting for his life on the operating table, the detectives trace the recovered bullet to a Smith & Wesson already tied to a liquor store killing a month earlier. A gripping early Dragnet from 1949, complete with vintage police work — ballistics matching and punch-card crime records run through an IBM machine.
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    30 min