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Dragnet Season 4

Dragnet

Season 4

August 26, 1954 39 episodes

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The Big Producer
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E1. The Big Producer

30m Aug 26, 1954

A man claims to be a big Hollywood producer, but Friday and Smith discover that he's merely the leader of a pornography ring.

The Big Fraud
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E2. The Big Fraud

30m Sep 2, 1954

A group of con artists are posing as cops and victimizing out-of-town businessmen in fashionable hotels.

The Big Crime
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E3. The Big Crime

30m Sep 9, 1954

Four-year-old twin girls are abducted from the local park.

The Big Pair
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E4. The Big Pair

30m Sep 16, 1954

An old man and his granddaughter are burglarized, leaving them broke and starving.

The Big Escape
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E5. The Big Escape

30m Sep 23, 1954

A case hits too close to home for Friday when his old army buddy robs a liquor store and shoots his partner. Friday believes his friend wants to go straight after doing time, but things get worse when his friend breaks jail.

The Big Kid
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E6. The Big Kid

30m Sep 30, 1954

When Friday and Smith learn that a showdown between two teenage gangs is about to take place within 48 hours, they do their utmost to prevent it.

The Big Missing
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E7. The Big Missing

30m Oct 7, 1954

Friday and Smith are looking for a missing businessman.

The Big Bar
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E8. The Big Bar

30m Oct 14, 1954

A holdup man is sticking up bars. After he takes the money he kills many of his victims. Sergeant Friday has few leads other than that the holdup man likes a certain song on the jukebox.

The Big Present
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E9. The Big Present

30m Oct 21, 1954

Friday and Smith are looking for a burglar who leaves a milk bottle at the scene of the crime. They suspect a juvenile might be involved.

The Big Gangster (Part 1)
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E10. The Big Gangster (Part 1)

30m Oct 28, 1954

An attempt is made on the life of a gang leader. Friday and Smith must find the shooters before his followers seek revenge.

The Big Gangster (Part 2)
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E11. The Big Gangster (Part 2)

30m Nov 4, 1954

Friday and Smith must find the men who murdered a gang boss before an open gang war starts.

The Big New Years
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E12. The Big New Years

30m Nov 11, 1954

On New Year's Eve, Friday and Smith are working out of Central Receiving Hospital.

The Big Want Ad
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E13. The Big Want Ad

30m Nov 18, 1954

Friday and Smith investigate a man who is conning people by using the want ads.

The Big Affair
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E14. The Big Affair

30m Nov 25, 1954

Friday and Smith discover that the key to finding a hold-up artist lies in his married girlfriend.

The Big Bible
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E15. The Big Bible

30m Dec 2, 1954

A man locks himself in his study and threatens suicide if his wife leaves him.

The Big Bindle
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E16. The Big Bindle

30m Dec 9, 1954

Friday goes under cover to bust a drug ring that is operating out of a high-class hotel.

The Big Office
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E17. The Big Office

30m Dec 16, 1954

Friday and Smith are assigned to the business office, where they must deal with the paperwork on a busy weekend.

The Big Rod
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E18. The Big Rod

30m Dec 30, 1954

An expectant mother is run down and killed by two teenagers in a hot rod.

The Big Rescue
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E19. The Big Rescue

30m Jan 6, 1955

A group of bandits arm themselves and break their comrades out of jail.

The Big Family
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E20. The Big Family

30m Jan 13, 1955

Local businessman John Keith Jarrett disappears and evidence of suicide is discovered. Friday and Smith check on the surviving members of his family and find them not the least concerned about their father's death, with his son a tennis bum, his daughter promiscuous, and his wife drunken. The case gets even murkier when a report comes in of a traffic incident upstate involving a camper in which the driver was using Jarrett's license.

The Big Shock
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E21. The Big Shock

30m Jan 20, 1955

Friday and Smith go after a burglar who plans to break into a bank through an underground tunnel.

The Big Screen
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E22. The Big Screen

30m Jan 27, 1955

Friday and Smith team up with a newspaper reporter so they can investigate television repairmen who may be overcharging their customers.

The Big TV
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E23. The Big TV

30m Feb 3, 1955

The detectives search for a missing mother and child at the behest of her mother-in-law, unaware that the girl's husband has died in action and is not overseas as the woman had claimed.

The Big Dog
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E24. The Big Dog

30m Feb 10, 1955

An old man sits on his front porch with a shotgun, threatening to kill the man who poisoned his dog.

The Big Underground
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E25. The Big Underground

30m Feb 17, 1955

Friday and Smith use a stolen check as a lead to a series of used car lot robberies.

The Big Key
E26
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E26. The Big Key

30m Feb 24, 1955

A woman's badly mutilated body is found in a churchyard on Christmas eve. The only clue is a key lying under her.

The Big Mailman
E27
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E27. The Big Mailman

30m Mar 3, 1955

Friday and Smith go after a bandit who is robbing mailboxes and then trying to cash other people's checks.

The Big Customer
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E28. The Big Customer

30m Mar 10, 1955
The Big Tar Baby
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E29. The Big Tar Baby

30m Mar 17, 1955

A bartender's wife is kidnapped, beaten and rolled in hot tar.

The Big Number
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E30. The Big Number

30m Mar 24, 1955

Friday and Smith Investigate a Bank Robbery, but they don't have much to go on.

The Big Mask
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E31. The Big Mask

30m Mar 31, 1955

A masked bandit is holding up supermarkets and the police are not able to catch him.

The Big Sucker
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E32. The Big Sucker

30m Apr 7, 1955

A con artist is swindling jewelers using fake diamonds.

The Big Moustache
E33
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E33. The Big Moustache

30m Apr 14, 1955

Friday and Smith investigate the robbery of an appliance store.

The Big Heel
E34
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E34. The Big Heel

30m Apr 21, 1955

Friday and Smith use an unusual footprint to help solve a murder case.

The Big Gone
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E35. The Big Gone

30m Apr 28, 1955

The owner of a flower shop kills a man who is trying to rob him, but the corpse mysteriously vanishes.

The Big Student
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E36. The Big Student

30m May 5, 1955

Friday and Smith are on the trail of a bunch of teenagers selling fake magazine subscriptions.

The Big Watch
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E37. The Big Watch

30m May 12, 1955

Bandits are offering rides to hitch-hiking soldiers, then robbing and beating them.

The Big Dig
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E38. The Big Dig

30m May 19, 1955

Friday and Smith are looking into a report of a missing woman that turns into a murder investigation.

The Big Mug
E39
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E39. The Big Mug

30m May 26, 1955

Two hold-up men are robbing and beating pedestrians in the down town area.

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