Usually I post these on Tuesday, but posting this one on Memorial Day seemed appropriate. It’s an emotional story with Friday and Gannon working out of Personnel division and dealing with the shooting of two officers and the pain the officers’ wives go through. Virginia Gregg turns in a solid performance as the wife of the veteran officer.
*Friday and Smith investigate the death of a florist found dead in an alley.
Original Air Date: November 23, 1952
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This is the second of the TV episodes featuring elderly character actor Bust Martin to make my list as Friday and Gannon investigate a string of burglaries. The mystery is pretty clever and the captured perpetrator is surprising as well.
This episode is noteworthy for Friday and Gannon’s use of “Soft clothes.” Usually, they’re in stiff suits, but when they’re trying to catch the burglar and hiding about the neighborhood in suits that screamed, “Cops!,” they dressed in what we would now call “business casual” so as not to be spotted and seeing Joe Friday in anything other than a suit is always different.
Joe Friday goes undercover to make a drug buy in order to catch the supplier behind recent sales of high grade heroin.
Original Air Date: November 16, 1952
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This is one of the more chilling episodes of Dragnet, a heart-rending story of child abuse and neglect. In the wake of Dragnet’s drug episodes, it’s popular to pretend that was all Webb talked about.
A more persistent theme throughout the 1960s Series, and even earlier shows was its willingness to speak of crimes against children. Often, it was a taboo topic that left children suffering in silence.
What makes this episode of Dragnet so poignant is that not only could it happen today, but that it still does.
Friday and Smith search for the unidentified killer of an unidentified victim
Original Air Date: November 9, 1952
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Dragnet 1966 is coming to DVD July 6 as part of the Dragnet 1968 Season 2 Set. Here’s a preview clip:
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This episode finds Joe with a temporary partner in the LAPD Chaplain, as they go undercover to find and bust a bookie. A fascinating episode in its focus on the chaplain having to balance the duties of enforcement and mercy.
Joe Friday and Frank Smith are called to a movie set where an apparent accident caused the death of a director, but was it really an accident?
Original Air Date: November 2, 1952
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This Season 3 episode was a real gem, a “nuts and bolts” show about the City of Los Angeles prepares for a potential emergency. In this case, the feared cause was the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr which occured only a few months before this episode of Dragnet aired.
This episode was relevant then, and is really a time capsule of a show that takes viewers back in time forty years. It captures the real mood of the moment, and the concerns that the working policeman dealt with while keeping his city safe in a world that oftentimes seemed to have gone mad.
Joe Friday and Frank Smith have done a thorough investigation and have their man in a jewelry robbery. Now, all they want is to get a confession.
Original Air Date: May 22, 1952
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Friday and Smith investigate a bank robbery where their best clue is the first three numbers of a license plate and a robber wearing a bandage.
Original Air Date: October 26, 1952
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