Dragnet — 1951
54 episodes broadcast in 1951.
Friday hunts the 'Rattlesnake Bandit' behind a deadly holdup.
Friday works to talk a man down from a thirteenth-floor ledge.
A crew of young bandits strikes, and Friday moves to stop them.
Marijuana is being sold to teenagers, and Friday goes after the dealers.
Three children are found abandoned, and Friday searches for answers.
Twelve men vanish, and Friday works a baffling case.
Four-year-old twins go missing, and Friday races to find them.
Friday goes after a husband-and-wife bunco team.
A bandit robs a jewelry store, and Friday hunts him down.
A cop-killer is loose on New Year's Eve, and Friday takes up the chase.
A man is robbed, beaten, and left without his car, and Friday works the case.
A former actress is murdered, and Friday investigates.
Friday pursues a con man swindling trusting women.
A woman is killed by someone close to her, and Friday finds the truth.
Robbery victims are being beaten, and Friday moves to stop the attacker.
A young drug addict shoots a doctor, and Friday takes the case.
Friday's inquiry into an auto-theft ring leads to Herman's salvage yard.
Friday investigates the death of Mrs. Robinson, found dead at home.
A string of grocery-store burglaries draws Friday's attention.
A mother is murdered in her bed, and Friday works the homicide.
Friday goes after a thief looting mailboxes across the city.
Heroin pushers are working the streets, and Friday moves against them.
A ten-year-old boy disappears, and Friday searches for him.
A dentist's wife goes missing, and Friday's case turns grim.
Two elderly women are run down, and Friday hunts the driver.
An old man's wife is found dead, and Friday works the case.
A wife and child vanish, and Friday's search leads toward homicide.
Thieves are looting the homes of the wealthy, and Friday closes in.
A boy turns to stealing to feed his family, and Friday steps in.
A man is kidnapped for ransom, and Friday races to recover him.
An organized burglary gang strikes, and Friday moves to break it.
Friday shuts down a crooked TV-repair racket.
An elderly man is killed, and Friday works the homicide.
Truck hijackers strike again, and Friday takes up the trail.
A thirty-year-old woman's twin sister goes missing, and Friday investigates.
Friday breaks up a teenage narcotics ring.
September 6, 1951
Big Seventeen
A sixty-four-year-old shopkeeper is killed, and Friday finds the culprit.
An elderly couple is robbed, and Friday hunts the thieves.
A secretary is beaten to death by a steel-pipe killer, and Friday tracks him.
Friday goes after crooked dealers running an auto-theft scheme.
Friday works to catch a compulsive shoplifter.
Churches are being burglarized, and Friday moves to stop the thief.
Eleven food markets are held up, and Friday hunts the crew.
Chester Dillon goes missing, and Friday's inquiry turns to homicide.
A bakery truck runs down a woman and boy, and Friday hunts the driver.
An informer fingers a burglar, and Friday moves in.
An unidentified woman is found killed, and Friday works to name her.
Jewelry stores are being held up, and Friday goes after the robbers.
A forty-year-old mother is knifed to death, and Friday works the case.
A banker's daughter is abducted, and Friday races to recover her.
A nine-year-old boy vanishes just before Christmas, and Friday races the clock to bring him home.
December 20, 1951
Twenty-two Rifle for
Sgt. Ben Romero dies of a heart attack as Friday takes on two escaped convicts, in an episode dedicated to the late Barton Yarborough.
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