Episode guide
Dragnet: Season 5
39 episodes · premiered Sep 2, 1955
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- Episode 1: The Big Pipe Sep 2, 1955 · 30m A young woman is beaten to death with a led pipe and left in an empty office.
- Episode 2: The Big Chet Sep 9, 1955 · 30m
- Episode 3: The Big No Rain Sep 16, 1955 · 30m
- Episode 4: The Big Lift Sep 23, 1955 · 30m An organized gang of shoplifters is looting large department stores in the city.
- Episode 5: 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.
- Episode 6: 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.
- Episode 7: The Big Look Oct 14, 1955 · 30m A woman is dragged from her home and badly beaten by an unknown attacker.
- Episode 8: 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…
- Episode 9: The Big Bird Oct 28, 1955 · 30m Sgt. Friday investigates a robber who only targets pet stores and homes that have pet birds.
- Episode 10: The Big Laugh Nov 4, 1955 · 30m A con man makes lonely women fall for his charms, then steals their money and disappears.
- Episode 11: The Big Smoke Nov 11, 1955 · 30m An elderly couple is brutally beaten and the trail leads police to a former handy man.
- Episode 12: 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.
- Episode 13: The Big Shot Nov 25, 1955 · 30m A night club owner is shot down and there are no witnesses to the crime.
- Episode 14: 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.
- Episode 15: 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.
- Episode 16: The Big Genius Dec 16, 1955 · 30m Friday and Smith investigate what seems to be the perfect crime.
- Episode 17: 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.
- Episode 18: The Big Tour Jan 6, 1956 · 30m
- Episode 19: 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.
- Episode 20: The Big Ruling Jan 20, 1956 · 30m
- Episode 21: The Big Fall Guy Jan 27, 1956 · 30m Friday and Smith are on the trail of a robbery suspect that has robbed two stores.
- Episode 22: 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.
- Episode 23: 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.
- Episode 24: 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.
- Episode 25: The Big Daughter Feb 24, 1956 · 30m Friday and Smith investigate a missing persons report.
- Episode 26: 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.
- Episode 27: 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.
- Episode 28: The Big Mama Mar 16, 1956 · 30m
- Episode 29: 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.
- Episode 30: 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.
- Episode 31: 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.
- Episode 32: 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.
- Episode 33: 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.
- Episode 34: 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.
- Episode 35: 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.
- Episode 36: 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.
- Episode 37: The Big Housemaid May 18, 1956 · 30m
- Episode 38: The Big Gift May 25, 1956 · 30m
- Episode 39: The Big Salvage Jun 1, 1956 · 30m