Name: Dragnet (1951)
Released: 1951-12-15T16:00:00.000Z
Cast: Jack Webb

Dragnet (1951)

TV Show · Drama · Crime

Dragnet is an American radio, television and film series, following the exploits of dedicated Los Angeles Police Department Detective Joe Friday and his partners, created by actor and producer Jack Webb. The show took its name from the police term "dragnet", a term for a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects. Dragnet is perhaps the most famous and influential police procedural crime drama in American media history.

1951 · 30m

Starring Jack Webb

EPISODE 11

The Big September Man

Someone murdered a secretary late at night in her office. She was beaten to death with a metal pipe wrapped in newspaper. Could it be the drunk found three blocks away beating his head against a wall?

24 min
EPISODE 2

The Big Sorrow

Friday must cope with the sudden death of his partner as he and his new partner track a pair of escaped convicts.

24 min
EPISODE 4

The Big Seventeen

Upper middle-class teenagers in Los Angeles are going crazy. They trash a movie theater, beating up the manager and pushing a young man through a plate glass window. Sergeant Friday must get to the bottom of what is causing this to happen.

24 min
EPISODE 7

The Big .22 Rifle for Christmas

Friday and Smith search for a missing boy. The first sign that the case is serious is when blood is found. Further probing reveals the boy's parents had purchased him a .22-caliber rifle for Christmas -- and the weapon is missing, removed from its wrapped package.

26 min
EPISODE 11

The Big Show

A lady reports an abandoned baby at a bus depot. Officers Friday and Smith investigate, and realize her story doesn't quite hold water.

24 min
EPISODE 18

The Big Run

Friday peruses the elusive armed robber Mark Hoffman after the man repeatedly escapes from both State and military prisons. Can Friday convince the man to surrender or will he go down in a hail of bullets.

26 min