This is a list of episodes for the Dragnet television series that ran for three and 1/2 seasons, from January 12, 1967 to April 16, 1970. To differentiate it from the earlier Dragnet series, the year in which each season ended was made part of the on-screen title; i.e., the series started as Dragnet 1967 and ended as Dragnet 1970.
The entire series aired Thursdays at 9:30–10:00 pm (EST) and was directed by Jack Webb.
John Randolph Webb was an American actor, television producer, director, and screenwriter, who is most famous for his role as Sgt. Joe Friday in the Dragnet franchise. He was the founder of his own production company, Mark VII Limited.
All four seasons of this series have been released on DVD; Season 1 ("Dragnet 1967") by Universal Studios Home Entertainment, and seasons 2 ("1968"), 3 ("1969") and 4 ("1970") by Shout! Factory. [1]
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Season | On-screen title | Episodes | Premiered | Ended | DVD box sets | ||
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Release date | Company | ||||||
1 | Dragnet 1967 | 17 | January 12, 1967 | May 11, 1967 | June 7, 2005 | Universal | |
2 | Dragnet 1968 | 28 | September 14, 1967 | March 28, 1968 | July 6, 2010 | Shout! Factory | |
3 | Dragnet 1969 | 27 | September 19, 1968 | April 17, 1969 | December 17, 2010 | ||
4 | Dragnet 1970 | 26 | September 18, 1969 | April 16, 1970 | April 12, 2011 |
The intended pilot for this series was a 2-hour TV-movie titled Dragnet 1966 (with the promotional title World Premiere: Dragnet). This movie wasn't broadcast until 1969-01-27, about halfway through the third season of the series. [2] This movie is included as an extra in the Dragnet 1968 DVD set. [3]
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Title | Written by | Original air date | |
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Dragnet 1966 | Richard L. Breen | January 27, 1969 | |
Sgt. Joe Friday is called back from vacation to work with his partner, Officer Bill Gannon, on a missing persons case. Two amateur female models and a young war widow have vanished, having been last seen with one J. Johnson. In the course of tracking down Johnson and the young ladies, the detectives wind up with two different descriptions of the suspect, one of which closely resembles a dead body found in a vacant lot. But the dead man, later identified as Charles LeBorg of France, proves not to be J. Johnson, when a third young model disappears. [2] |
List of Dragnet (1967 TV series) episodes (1967 TV series) | |
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Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 17 |
Release | |
Original network | NBC |
Original release | January 12 – May 11, 1967 |
This is a list of episodes from the first season of the 1967 Dragnet series. The season was directed by Jack Webb.
The season originally aired Thursday at 9:30-10:00 pm (EST).
The DVD was released by Universal Studios Home Entertainment.
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | |
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1 | 1 | "The LSD Story" | John Randolph | January 12, 1967 | |
Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Bill Gannon encounter a freaked-out young LSD user. This is the famous "Blue Boy" episode, a reference to the LSD user painting himself blue at the beginning of the episode. A poor quality print of the episode is broadcast. In 1997, TV Guide ranked this episode #85 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes. [4] | |||||
2 | 2 | "The Big Explosion" | Robert C. Dennis | January 19, 1967 | |
Two men rob a construction site of multiple cases of extremely powerful dynamite, and after tracking down the getaway car Friday and Gannon find the primary thief, a neo-Nazi, has planted a bomb somewhere in Los Angeles; prolonged interrogation of the man goes nowhere until Friday is able to use his incessant demand for the time against him. Future Adam-12 star Kent McCord appears as a patrolman. He would appear at least twice more in the series as an undercover cop accused of malfeasence and in a Dragnet 1969 episode as his Adam-12 character Jim Reed. | |||||
3 | 3 | "The Kidnapping" | Preston Wood | January 26, 1967 | |
Friday and Gannon must help an employee of a cosmetics business rescue her boss, who has been taken hostage to assist in a bank robbery. | |||||
4 | 4 | "The Interrogation" | Preston Wood | February 9, 1967 | |
A new officer (Kent McCord) has been arrested for robbing a liquor store while on an undercover assignment. During interrogation the officer reveals that his girlfriend does not want him to be a police officer, which embitters him as the interrogation proceeds. Note:The score to this episode is a vast departure from the traditional orchestral score; the "music" is entirely performed on timpani drum at the beginning and on a lone oboe at the end followed by the timpani, with no other music in between. | |||||
5 | 5 | "The Masked Bandits" | David H. Vowell | February 16, 1967 | |
Four bandits wearing red masks commit a series of robberies and Friday and Gannon uncover the gang after they learn one of them is a teenager married to an older woman. | |||||
6 | 6 | "The Bank Examiner Swindle" | William O'Halloran | February 23, 1967 | |
Two con men, posing as bank examiners, are bilking the elderly out of their life savings. Harriet MacGibbon and Burt Mustin guest star as bunko con victims. | |||||
7 | 7 | "The Hammer" | Henry Irving | March 2, 1967 | |
An elderly apartment manager is found to have been beaten to death with a hammer. The report of a stolen car belonging to another tenant helps Friday and Gannon track the killer. | |||||
8 | 8 | "The Candy Store Robberies" | Robert C. Dennis | March 9, 1967 | |
Friday and Gannon try to figure out a pattern to a series of candy store hold-ups. The solution comes when they discover that there are two suspects. | |||||
9 | 9 | "The Fur Burglary" | David H. Vowell | March 16, 1967 | |
Gannon goes undercover as a buyer in order to trap fur thieves. | |||||
10 | 10 | "The Jade Story" | William O'Halloran | March 23, 1967 | |
Over $200,000 worth of Imperial Jade is reported stolen from the estate of a wealthy woman, but the clues don't add up and after talking to a jade dealer who does business with the woman as well as the insurance company's investigator Friday and Gannon believe a swindle is being made, even when it is found a man indeed broke into the woman's estate. | |||||
11 | 11 | "The Shooting" | David H. Vowell | March 30, 1967 | |
A police officer (Don Marshall) is shot while making a routine check on a pair of paroled convicts that are parked near a liquor store; the officer recovers but his memory of the shooting is wiped out, and there seems no chance of finding the suspects until an informant's tip brings Friday and Gannon to a flophouse, but even after arresting two men the officer cannot remember them — a fact Friday can use against the two suspects. | |||||
12 | 12 | "The Hit and Run Driver" | David H. Vowell | April 6, 1967 | |
Friday and Gannon use newspapers, radio and TV to publicize their clues to the identity of a hit-and-run driver. | |||||
13 | 13 | "The Big Bookie" | Preston Wood | April 13, 1967 | |
Friday goes undercover with the Department's chaplain in order to break up a gambling ring. | |||||
14 | 14 | "The Subscription Racket" | Henry Irving | April 20, 1967 | |
After an appearance on a local television talk show, Friday learns about a scam artist with a novel twist: the scammer uses an authentic Congressional Medal of Honor to solicit magazine subscriptions. Friday and Gannon root out the con artist when a check paid by one of the victims is altered and the scammer's former partner dimes him out. | |||||
15 | 15 | "The Big Gun" | Henry Irving | April 27, 1967 | |
A Japanese widow is senselessly murdered, leaving her small daughter an orphan, a murder so brutal that even the normally-unflappable Friday has a hard time controlling his emotions while seeking the killer. The killer isn't found until a woman who was accosted by a painter that same day identifies the killer's truck. | |||||
16 | 16 | "The Big Kids" | David H. Vowell | May 4, 1967 | |
A gang of juvenile thieves have been stealing petty items in order to gain membership into an exclusive club. | |||||
17 | 17 | "The Big Bullet" | John Robinson | May 11, 1967 | |
A man is found shot to death in a locked room. The case is initially ruled a suicide until further investigation proves the gun the man had could not have been the murder weapon. This is a remake of an episode of the original series. |
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Nº | Ep | Title | Written by | Original air date |
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18 | 1 | "The Grenade" | Robert C. Dennis | September 14, 1967 |
19 | 2 | "The Shooting Board" | David H. Vowell | September 21, 1967 |
20 | 3 | "The Badge Racket" | Robert C. Dennis | September 28, 1967 |
21 | 4 | "The Bank Jobs" | Robert C. Dennis | October 5, 1967 |
22 | 5 | "The Big Neighbor" | Robert C. Dennis | October 12, 1967 |
23 | 6 | "The Big Frustration" | Sidney Morse | October 19, 1967 |
24 | 7 | "The Senior Citizen" | Henry Irving | October 26, 1967 |
25 | 8 | "The Big High" | David H. Vowell | November 2, 1967 |
26 | 9 | "The Big Ad" | Charles McDaniel | November 9, 1967 |
27 | 10 | "The Missing Realtor" | Robert C. Dennis | November 16, 1967 |
28 | 11 | "The Big Dog" | Henry Irving | November 23, 1967 |
29 | 12 | "The Pyramid Swindle" | Norman Lessing | November 30, 1967 |
30 | 13 | "The Phony Police Racket" | Henry Irving | December 7, 1967 |
31 | 14 | "The Trial Board" | Sidney Morse | December 14, 1967 |
32 | 15 | "The Christmas Story" | Richard L. Breen | December 21, 1967 |
33 | 16 | "The Big Shipment" | David H. Vowell | December 28, 1967 |
34 | 17 | "The Big Search" | Preston Wood and Robert Soderberg | January 4, 1968 |
35 | 18 | "The Big Prophet" | David H. Vowell | January 11, 1968 |
36 | 19 | "The Big Amateur Cop" | Henry Irving | January 25, 1968 |
37 | 20 | "The Big Starlet" | Robert C. Dennis | February 1, 1968 |
38 | 21 | "The Big Clan" | Michael Donovan | February 8, 1968 |
39 | 22 | "The Little Victim" | Robert Soderberg | February 15, 1968 |
40 | 23 | "The Squeeze" | Jerry D. Lewis | February 22, 1968 |
41 | 24 | "The Suicide Attempt" | Robert C. Dennis | February 29, 1968 |
42 | 25 | "The Big Departure" | Preston Wood | March 7, 1968 |
43 | 26 | "The Big Investigation" | Robert C. Dennis | March 14, 1968 |
44 | 27 | "The Big Gambler" | Robert Soderberg | March 21, 1968 |
45 | 28 | "The Big Problem" | Michael Donovan | March 28, 1968 |
Nº | Ep | Title | Written by | Original air date |
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46 | 1 | "Public Affairs (DR-07)" | Burt Prelutsky | September 19, 1968 |
47 | 2 | "Juvenile (DR-05)" | Robert C. Dennis | September 26, 1968 |
48 | 3 | "Community Relations (DR-10)" | Alf Harris | October 3, 1968 |
49 | 4 | "Management Services (DR-11)" | James Doherty | October 10, 1968 |
50 | 5 | "Police Commission (DR-13)" | Robert I. Holt | October 17, 1968 |
51 | 6 | "Homicide (DR-06)" | Robert C. Dennis | October 24, 1968 |
52 | 7 | "Robbery (DR-15)" | James Doherty | November 7, 1968 |
53 | 8 | "Public Affairs (DR-12)" | James Doherty | November 14, 1968 |
54 | 9 | "Training (DR-18)" | Robert C. Dennis | November 21, 1968 |
55 | 10 | "Public Affairs (DR-14)" | Alf Harris | November 28, 1968 |
56 | 11 | "Narcotics (DR-16)" | Burt Prelutsky | December 5, 1968 |
57 | 12 | "Internal Affairs (DR-20)" | James Doherty | December 12, 1968 |
58 | 13 | "Community Relations (DR-17)" | Alf Harris | January 2, 1969 |
59 | 14 | "Homicide (DR-22)" | James Doherty | January 9, 1969 |
60 | 15 | "B.O.D. (DR-27)" | James Doherty | January 23, 1969 |
61 | 16 | "Narcotics (DR-21)" | Burt Prelutsky | January 30, 1969 |
62 | 17 | "Administrative Vice (DR-29)" | James Doherty | February 6, 1969 |
63 | 18 | "The Joy Riders" | Preston Wood | February 13, 1969 |
64 | 19 | "Frauds (DR-28)" | Burt Prelutsky | February 20, 1969 |
65 | 20 | "Juvenile (DR-19)" | Robert C. Dennis and James Doherty | February 27, 1969 |
66 | 21 | "Burglary (DR-31)" | Burt Prelutsky | March 6, 1969 |
67 | 22 | "Vice (DR-30)" | James Doherty | March 13, 1969 |
68 | 23 | "Forgery (DR-33)" | Burt Prelutsky | March 20, 1969 |
69 | 24 | "Juvenile (DR-32)" | Jack E. Barrett and James Doherty | March 27, 1969 |
70 | 25 | "Juvenile (DR-35)" | Burt Prelutsky | April 3, 1969 |
71 | 26 | "Frauds (DR-36)" | James Doherty | April 10, 1969 |
72 | 27 | "Intelligence (DR-34)" | James Doherty | April 17, 1969 |
Nº | Ep | Title | Written by | Original air date |
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73 | 1 | "Personnel – The Shooting" | Michael Donovan | September 18, 1969 |
74 | 2 | "Homicide – The Student" | Jack Smith | September 25, 1969 |
75 | 3 | "S.I.U. – The Ring" | Robert C. Dennis | October 2, 1969 |
76 | 4 | "D.H.Q. – Medical" | Robert C. Dennis | October 9, 1969 |
77 | 5 | "Burglary – Mister" | Burt Prelutsky | October 16, 1969 |
78 | 6 | "Juvenile – The Little Pusher" | James Doherty | October 23, 1969 |
79 | 7 | "Homicide – Cigarette Butt" | Alf Harris | October 30, 1969 |
80 | 8 | "D.H.Q. – Missing Person" | Alf Harris | November 13, 1969 |
81 | 9 | "Burglary Auto – Courtroom" | Jack Barrett | November 20, 1969 |
82 | 10 | "Internal Affairs – Parolee" | Michael Donovan | November 27, 1969 |
83 | 11 | "Burglary Auto – Juvenile Genius" | Michael Donovan | December 4, 1969 |
84 | 12 | "Bunco – $9,000" | Don Kilburn | December 11, 1969 |
85 | 13 | "Narco – Missing Hype" | Michael Donovan | January 8, 1970 |
86 | 14 | "Burglary – Helpful Woman" | Michael Donovan | January 22, 1970 |
87 | 15 | "Homicide – Who Killed Who?" | Michael Donovan | January 29, 1970 |
88 | 16 | "Burglary – The Son" | Robert C. Dennis | February 5, 1970 |
89 | 17 | "A.I.D. – The Weekend" | Richard Morgan | February 12, 1970 |
90 | 18 | "Narco – Pill Maker" | Alf Harris | February 19, 1970 |
91 | 19 | "Burglary – The Dognappers" | Michael Donovan | February 26, 1970 |
92 | 20 | "Missing Persons – The Body" | Robert C. Dennis | March 5, 1970 |
93 | 21 | "Forgery – The Ranger" | Don Kilburn | March 12, 1970 |
94 | 22 | "D.H.Q. – Night School" | Dick Morgan | March 19, 1970 |
95 | 23 | "I.A.D. – The Receipt" | Michael Donovan | March 26, 1970 |
96 | 24 | "Robbery – The Harassing Wife" | Alf Harris | April 2, 1970 |
97 | 25 | "Burglary – Baseball" | Robert C. Dennis | April 9, 1970 |
98 | 26 | "D.H.Q. – The Victims" | Michael Donovan | April 16, 1970 |
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