Dragnet · S4 · E4
The Big Pair
An old man and his granddaughter are burglarized, leaving them broke and starving.
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An old man and his granddaughter are burglarized, leaving them broke and starving.
Season 4
1The Big Producer
30 minAug 26, 1954
A man claims to be a big Hollywood producer, but Friday and Smith discover that he's merely the leader of a pornography ring.
2The Big Fraud
30 minSep 2, 1954
A group of con artists are posing as cops and victimizing out-of-town businessmen in fashionable hotels.
3The Big Crime
30 minSep 9, 1954
Four-year-old twin girls are abducted from the local park.
4The Big Pair
30 minSep 16, 1954Now viewing
An old man and his granddaughter are burglarized, leaving them broke and starving.
5The Big Escape
30 minSep 23, 1954
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.
6The Big Kid
30 minSep 30, 1954
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.
7The Big Missing
30 minOct 7, 1954
Friday and Smith are looking for a missing businessman.
8The Big Bar
30 minOct 14, 1954
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.
9The Big Present
30 minOct 21, 1954
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.
10The Big Gangster (Part 1)
30 minOct 28, 1954
An attempt is made on the life of a gang leader. Friday and Smith must find the shooters before his followers seek revenge.
11The Big Gangster (Part 2)
30 minNov 4, 1954
Friday and Smith must find the men who murdered a gang boss before an open gang war starts.
12The Big New Years
30 minNov 11, 1954
On New Year's Eve, Friday and Smith are working out of Central Receiving Hospital.
13The Big Want Ad
30 minNov 18, 1954
Friday and Smith investigate a man who is conning people by using the want ads.
14The Big Affair
30 minNov 25, 1954
Friday and Smith discover that the key to finding a hold-up artist lies in his married girlfriend.
15The Big Bible
30 minDec 2, 1954
A man locks himself in his study and threatens suicide if his wife leaves him.
16The Big Bindle
30 minDec 9, 1954
Friday goes under cover to bust a drug ring that is operating out of a high-class hotel.
17The Big Office
30 minDec 16, 1954
Friday and Smith are assigned to the business office, where they must deal with the paperwork on a busy weekend.
18The Big Rod
30 minDec 30, 1954
An expectant mother is run down and killed by two teenagers in a hot rod.
19The Big Rescue
30 minJan 6, 1955
A group of bandits arm themselves and break their comrades out of jail.
20The Big Family
30 minJan 13, 1955
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.
21The Big Shock
30 minJan 20, 1955
Friday and Smith go after a burglar who plans to break into a bank through an underground tunnel.
22The Big Screen
30 minJan 27, 1955
Friday and Smith team up with a newspaper reporter so they can investigate television repairmen who may be overcharging their customers.
23The Big TV
30 minFeb 3, 1955
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.
24The Big Dog
30 minFeb 10, 1955
An old man sits on his front porch with a shotgun, threatening to kill the man who poisoned his dog.
25The Big Underground
30 minFeb 17, 1955
Friday and Smith use a stolen check as a lead to a series of used car lot robberies.
26The Big Key
30 minFeb 24, 1955
A woman's badly mutilated body is found in a churchyard on Christmas eve. The only clue is a key lying under her.
27The Big Mailman
30 minMar 3, 1955
Friday and Smith go after a bandit who is robbing mailboxes and then trying to cash other people's checks.
28The Big Customer
30 minMar 10, 1955
29The Big Tar Baby
30 minMar 17, 1955
A bartender's wife is kidnapped, beaten and rolled in hot tar.
30The Big Number
30 minMar 24, 1955
Friday and Smith Investigate a Bank Robbery, but they don't have much to go on.
31The Big Mask
30 minMar 31, 1955
A masked bandit is holding up supermarkets and the police are not able to catch him.
32The Big Sucker
30 minApr 7, 1955
A con artist is swindling jewelers using fake diamonds.
33The Big Moustache
30 minApr 14, 1955
Friday and Smith investigate the robbery of an appliance store.
34The Big Heel
30 minApr 21, 1955
Friday and Smith use an unusual footprint to help solve a murder case.
35The Big Gone
30 minApr 28, 1955
The owner of a flower shop kills a man who is trying to rob him, but the corpse mysteriously vanishes.
36The Big Student
30 minMay 5, 1955
Friday and Smith are on the trail of a bunch of teenagers selling fake magazine subscriptions.
37The Big Watch
30 minMay 12, 1955
Bandits are offering rides to hitch-hiking soldiers, then robbing and beating them.
38The Big Dig
30 minMay 19, 1955
Friday and Smith are looking into a report of a missing woman that turns into a murder investigation.
39The Big Mug
30 minMay 26, 1955
Two hold-up men are robbing and beating pedestrians in the down town area.
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