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Dragnet

Season 5

39 episodes · premiered Sep 2, 1955

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  1. E1 The Big Pipe

    Sep 2, 1955 · 30m

    A young woman is beaten to death with a led pipe and left in an empty office.

  2. E2 The Big Chet

    Sep 9, 1955 · 30m

  3. E3 The Big No Rain

    Sep 16, 1955 · 30m

  4. E4 The Big Lift

    Sep 23, 1955 · 30m

    An organized gang of shoplifters is looting large department stores in the city.

  5. E5 The Big Confession

    Sep 30, 1955 · 30m

    A man walks into the station and tells Friday that he wants to confess to a murder, but the cops have a hard time varifying his story.

  6. E6 The Big Gap

    Oct 7, 1955 · 30m

    A pawn shop owner alerts Friday and Smith when a man claimed to have purchased an expensive ring that turns out to be junk and then asked the pawn shop owner to sell him a gun.

  7. E7 The Big Look

    Oct 14, 1955 · 30m

    A woman is dragged from her home and badly beaten by an unknown attacker.

  8. E8 The Big Glasses

    Oct 21, 1955 · 30m

    A housewife, Ella Ryburn, reports to Friday and Smith that she cannot contact her mother, who is married to Alfred Rudolph Shroder. When he is questioned, Shroder claims his wife left him and that, out of shame, he sold their house and put her items in storage.

  9. E9 The Big Bird

    Oct 28, 1955 · 30m

    Sgt. Friday investigates a robber who only targets pet stores and homes that have pet birds.

  10. E10 The Big Laugh

    Nov 4, 1955 · 30m

    A con man makes lonely women fall for his charms, then steals their money and disappears.

  11. E11 The Big Smoke

    Nov 11, 1955 · 30m

    An elderly couple is brutally beaten and the trail leads police to a former handy man.

  12. E12 The Big Bounce

    Nov 18, 1955 · 30m

    Joe Friday searches for a check forger who has been using the name of the old-time movie villain Parker Allington... who died three years ago.

  13. E13 The Big Shot

    Nov 25, 1955 · 30m

    A night club owner is shot down and there are no witnesses to the crime.

  14. E14 The Big Locker

    Dec 2, 1955 · 30m

    Friday and Smith happen to catch a man trying to sell a stolen ring at a pawn shop.

  15. E15 The Big Note

    Dec 9, 1955 · 30m

    An anonymous note leads Friday and Smith to a group of teenage drug users and their neglectful parents.

  16. E16 The Big Genius

    Dec 16, 1955 · 30m

    Friday and Smith investigate what seems to be the perfect crime.

  17. E17 The Big Reminisce

    Dec 30, 1955 · 30m

    During a quiet New Year's shift, Friday and Smith remember some of their past cases and why it is they became cops.

  18. E18 The Big Tour

    Jan 6, 1956 · 30m

  19. E19 The Big Sisters

    Jan 13, 1956 · 30m

    An elderly woman fakes a burglary report so she can get attention from the police and the media.

  20. E20 The Big Ruling

    Jan 20, 1956 · 30m

  21. E21 The Big Fall Guy

    Jan 27, 1956 · 30m

    Friday and Smith are on the trail of a robbery suspect that has robbed two stores.

  22. E22 The Big Set

    Feb 3, 1956 · 30m

    A city councilman is beaten and robbed by two men outside a bar. When he dies from his injuries, Friday and Smith feel pressure to find the killers.

  23. E23 The Big Child

    Feb 10, 1956 · 30m

    A two-year-old child after drinking bleach from under the sink. Friday and Smith are unable to locate the mother for questioning.

  24. E24 The Big Slug

    Feb 17, 1956 · 30m

    A liquor store owner is shot and killed during a botched robbery, but police can find no trace of the fatal bullet.

  25. E25 The Big Daughter

    Feb 24, 1956 · 30m

    Friday and Smith investigate a missing persons report.

  26. E26 The Big No Suicide

    Mar 2, 1956 · 30m

    Friday gets a call from a former mental patient who is threatening to kill himself and his family.

  27. E27 The Big Siege

    Mar 9, 1956 · 30m

    Police find themselves in a stand-off when an armed bank robber takes a woman hostage in her home.

  28. E28 The Big Mama

    Mar 16, 1956 · 30m

  29. E29 The Big Revision

    Mar 23, 1956 · 30m

    Friday and Smith hit a blank wall when a burglary suspect refuses to admit where he hid his stash.

  30. E30 The Big Ex-Blonde

    Mar 30, 1956 · 30m

    Friday goes undercover to catch brothers who steal people's money by posing as real-estate agents.

  31. E31 The Big Bobo

    Apr 6, 1956 · 30m

    A police officer is suspended from duty when he is accused of taking a bribe in exchange for a prisoner's release.

  32. E32 The Big Rush

    Apr 13, 1956 · 30m

    Two bandits turn cop killer when they gun down an off-duty policeman during a tavern hold-up.

  33. E33 The Big Setup

    Apr 20, 1956 · 30m

    An informant tips off police to a shipment of heroin coming into the country. Friday goes under cover to bust open the ring.

  34. E34 The Big Deal

    Apr 27, 1956 · 30m

    Friday and Smith are investigating a rash of car thefts. The stolen cars are being sold with forged pink slips.

  35. E35 The Big Wish

    May 4, 1956 · 30m

    A teenage boy turns himself in and confesses to being an addict, but he refuses to give up the names of his friends who supplied him.

  36. E36 The Big Hat

    May 11, 1956 · 30m

    A young man is found hiding in an empty train car with the strangled body of an older woman next to him.

  37. E37 The Big Housemaid

    May 18, 1956 · 30m

  38. E38 The Big Gift

    May 25, 1956 · 30m

  39. E39 The Big Salvage

    Jun 1, 1956 · 30m