Dragnet — Season 4
39 episodesFirst aired 26 August 1954
E1The Big Producer
10.0Aug 195430m
A man claims to be a big Hollywood producer, but Friday and Smith discover that he's merely the leader of a pornography ring.
- E2
The Big Fraud
10.0Sept 195430m
A group of con artists are posing as cops and victimizing out-of-town businessmen in fashionable hotels.
- E3
The Big Crime
10.0Sept 195430m
Four-year-old twin girls are abducted from the local park.
- E4
The Big Pair
10.0Sept 195430m
An old man and his granddaughter are burglarized, leaving them broke and starving.
- E5
The Big Escape
Sept 195430m
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.
- E6
The Big Kid
Sept 195430m
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.
- E7
The Big Missing
Oct 195430m
Friday and Smith are looking for a missing businessman.
- E8
The Big Bar
Oct 195430m
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.
- E9
The Big Present
Oct 195430m
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.
- E10
The Big Gangster (Part 1)
Oct 195430m
An attempt is made on the life of a gang leader. Friday and Smith must find the shooters before his followers seek revenge.
- E11
The Big Gangster (Part 2)
Nov 195430m
Friday and Smith must find the men who murdered a gang boss before an open gang war starts.
- E12
The Big New Years
Nov 195430m
On New Year's Eve, Friday and Smith are working out of Central Receiving Hospital.
- E13
The Big Want Ad
Nov 195430m
Friday and Smith investigate a man who is conning people by using the want ads.
- E14
The Big Affair
Nov 195430m
Friday and Smith discover that the key to finding a hold-up artist lies in his married girlfriend.
- E15
The Big Bible
Dec 195430m
A man locks himself in his study and threatens suicide if his wife leaves him.
- E16
The Big Bindle
Dec 195430m
Friday goes under cover to bust a drug ring that is operating out of a high-class hotel.
- E17
The Big Office
Dec 195430m
Friday and Smith are assigned to the business office, where they must deal with the paperwork on a busy weekend.
- E18
The Big Rod
Dec 195430m
An expectant mother is run down and killed by two teenagers in a hot rod.
- E19
The Big Rescue
Jan 195530m
A group of bandits arm themselves and break their comrades out of jail.
- E20
The Big Family
Jan 195530m
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.
- E21
The Big Shock
Jan 195530m
Friday and Smith go after a burglar who plans to break into a bank through an underground tunnel.
- E22
The Big Screen
Jan 195530m
Friday and Smith team up with a newspaper reporter so they can investigate television repairmen who may be overcharging their customers.
- E23
The Big TV
Feb 195530m
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.
- E24
The Big Dog
Feb 195530m
An old man sits on his front porch with a shotgun, threatening to kill the man who poisoned his dog.
- E25
The Big Underground
Feb 195530m
Friday and Smith use a stolen check as a lead to a series of used car lot robberies.
- E26
The Big Key
Feb 195530m
A woman's badly mutilated body is found in a churchyard on Christmas eve. The only clue is a key lying under her.
- E27
The Big Mailman
Mar 195530m
Friday and Smith go after a bandit who is robbing mailboxes and then trying to cash other people's checks.
- E28
The Big Customer
Mar 195530m
- E29
The Big Tar Baby
Mar 195530m
A bartender's wife is kidnapped, beaten and rolled in hot tar.
- E30
The Big Number
Mar 195530m
Friday and Smith Investigate a Bank Robbery, but they don't have much to go on.
- E31
The Big Mask
Mar 195530m
A masked bandit is holding up supermarkets and the police are not able to catch him.
- E32
The Big Sucker
Apr 195530m
A con artist is swindling jewelers using fake diamonds.
- E33
The Big Moustache
Apr 195530m
Friday and Smith investigate the robbery of an appliance store.
- E34
The Big Heel
Apr 195530m
Friday and Smith use an unusual footprint to help solve a murder case.
- E35
The Big Gone
Apr 195530m
The owner of a flower shop kills a man who is trying to rob him, but the corpse mysteriously vanishes.
- E36
The Big Student
May 195530m
Friday and Smith are on the trail of a bunch of teenagers selling fake magazine subscriptions.
- E37
The Big Watch
May 195530m
Bandits are offering rides to hitch-hiking soldiers, then robbing and beating them.
- E38
The Big Dig
May 195530m
Friday and Smith are looking into a report of a missing woman that turns into a murder investigation.
- E39
The Big Mug
May 195530m
Two hold-up men are robbing and beating pedestrians in the down town area.
