Dragnet — 1952
52 episodes broadcast in 1952.
Friday takes on a hundred-thousand-dollar narcotics ring in the first of a two-part case.
The narcotics-ring case reaches its conclusion.
Friday steps into a teenage gang war.
A case of mistaken identity complicates Friday's robbery investigation.
Ralph Tabor disappears, and Friday works the case.
Friday goes after a swindler who preys on women through marriage.
Friday questions a suspect in a robbery.
Friday traces obscene books circulating at a high school.
Florence Abbett goes missing, and Friday's inquiry turns grim.
Friday looks into a false charge leveled against a policeman.
An apartment owner plots arson, and Friday's case turns to homicide.
Friday joins the hunt for escapees from San Quentin.
Rose Baker goes missing, and Friday searches for her.
A wife shoots her husband, and a passing streetcar helps Friday pin down the scene.
A seven-week-old baby is abandoned, and Friday works the case as new partner Bill Lockwood joins him.
Friday goes after a swindler peddling a fake business opportunity.
A woman's body is found in an elevator, and Friday works the homicide.
Friday investigates a safe burglary.
Friday works a vice-detail case built around a night's big game.
A U.S. mail truck is robbed, and Friday hunts the crew.
Friday breaks up an extortion racket run by a phony cop.
An eight-month-old baby is stolen, and Friday races to recover the child.
A woman is killed with chloroform, and Friday works the homicide.
Friday goes after crooks running a phony-charity bunco racket.
Narcotics are pouring into the city, and Friday moves to cut off the supply.
Ken Gorman is abducted, and Friday works to bring him back.
Friday walks through three linked traffic-accident cases.
A man is found in a freight car beside a woman's body, and Friday investigates.
Two ex-cons rob an old man, and Friday hunts them down.
A jewelry salesman is robbed, and Friday works the case.
A body is found in a vacant lot, and Friday works the homicide.
A check forger is loose, and Friday goes after him.
A mother's son fakes his own killing in Mexico, and Friday untangles it.
A husband is poisoned at dinner and dies, and Friday works the case.
A burglar has made off with eighty thousand dollars, and Friday hunts him.
Friday works the Bull Bentley robbery as the show moves to Sundays for Chesterfield.
A man is shot at the Pink Rat nightclub as Officer Frank Smith joins Friday's beat.
A badly beaten man is found in a car trunk, and Friday works the case.
A high-school student sparks a near-riot in class, and Friday steps in.
Edith Curtis's son is killed, and Friday works the homicide.
Two Marines are poisoned, and Friday hunts the culprit.
A bank is robbed by a bandaged bandit, and Friday takes the case.
A death on a movie set draws Friday into a homicide inquiry.
A woman's body is found in an apartment closet, and Friday investigates.
Friday works a high-grade heroin bust in Los Angeles.
Friday hunts a necktie strangler.
A man is found dead in a pawnshop, and Friday works the case.
A burglary points to an inside job, and Friday finds the culprit.
A tip on a big heroin buy sends Friday after the dealers.
A nine-year-old boy vanishes just before Christmas, and Friday races the clock to bring him home.
December 21, 1952
Twenty-two Rifle for
A black-masked bandit strikes as Friday opens a two-part case.
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