Dragnet — 1953
44 episodes broadcast in 1953.
The masked-bandit case reaches its conclusion.
A kindly-looking old woman passes bad checks, and Friday tracks her.
A wife goes missing with foul play suspected, and Friday investigates.
A father reports his son as a drug addict, and Friday steps in.
A sixteen-year-old boy dies in a stolen-car chase, and Friday works the case.
Two men are passing bad checks, and Friday runs them down.
A woman's mother disappears, and Friday searches for her.
A man is killed and his wife beaten, and Friday works the homicide.
Friday pursues a wanted burglary suspect turned fugitive.
A smooth talker cheats a woman, and Friday goes after him.
An invalid robs a market, and Friday untangles the improbable case.
Three men are arrested for nine burglaries after Friday works an informant's tip.
An old man robs a liquor store, and Friday takes the case.
Two men rob a store and shoot it out, and Friday hunts them.
Friday traces a rash of phony emergency calls.
A run of office-safe burglaries keeps Friday on the trail.
Three jewel thieves from San Diego draw Friday's attention.
An eight-thousand-dollar necklace is stolen, and Friday works the theft.
A man is offered five thousand dollars to kill, and Friday intervenes.
A man confesses to a grocery-market robbery, and Friday tests the story.
A rental truck is stolen as Friday opens a two-part auto-theft case.
The stolen-truck case reaches its conclusion.
A fifty-five-year-old man is shot, and Friday works the homicide.
A woman is beaten by her husband, and Friday steps in.
Harry Borg goes missing, and Friday searches for him.
A young girl is killed with a .22, and Friday works the season's last case.
A lone thief robs a string of stores as the new season opens.
Seventeen residential burglaries draw Friday onto the trail.
A run of robberies and beatings keeps Friday on the hunt.
A dealer takes in a stolen car, and Friday works the auto-theft case.
Friday works to reach a man on the brink of suicide.
Friday tracks a woman forging checks.
Friday goes after two holdup men.
Friday hunts a ring of car thieves.
Friday breaks up an extortion ring.
A woman is found badly beaten in a gutter, and Friday works the case.
Friday steps into a teenage gang war.
Friday hunts three holdup men.
Friday tracks the 'Milk Bottle Kid' behind a run of market robberies.
Friday goes after a crew of truck hijackers.
Friday works to catch a ring of pickpockets and a fugitive.
Friday hunts a bank-robbery gang.
A statue of the infant Jesus is stolen from a parish church, and Friday works the case through the holidays.
Friday goes after a crew of fur-coat thieves.
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