Dragnet
Follows the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from the police term "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.
A man walks into City hall carrying a live bomb. He threatens to blow up the building if his brother isn't released from jail.
Friday and Jacobs track down a drug ring through a small-time television actor who is hooked on heroin.
A new-born baby is stolen from a hospital nursery and the trail leads the police to a deranged mother.
The police interrogate a suspect whom they believe to have murdered more than a dozen men.
A couple are robbed and murdered, along with their pet parrot. The killer uses a time bomb to start a fire and cover up his crime.
A man stands upon the ledge of a tall building and threatens to jump to his death below.
Friday must cope with the sudden death of his partner as he and his new partner track a pair of escaped convicts.
Friday and Smith search for the person who left a dead woman in a hospital elevator.
Friday and Smith investigate a group of teenagers who are using and selling drugs.
A missing young boy is found and returned to his grandfather, but the case gets complicated when the grandfather suspects that the boy is not his own... Read More
Two small boys are missing, there are blood stains on the ground and a gun meant as a Christmas present is gone.
Friday and Smith respond to and investigate reports of a drug ring.
A woman reports her husband missing and Friday and Smith are assigned to find him.
Smith takes a personal interest when a strong-arm bandit threatens his family if he doesn't back off the case.
Friday and Smith track down a confidence ring who are selling defective watches.
Friday and Smith are on the trail of a gang that is robbing local drugstores.
A police rookie is accused of assaulting a citizen and stealing his money.
A man claims to be a big Hollywood producer, but Friday and Smith discover that he's merely the leader of a pornography ring.
A group of con artists are posing as cops and victimizing out-of-town businessmen in fashionable hotels.
An old man and his granddaughter are burglarized, leaving them broke and starving.
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 st... Read More
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.
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... Read More
A young woman is beaten to death with a led pipe and left in an empty office.
An organized gang of shoplifters is looting large department stores in the city.
A man walks into the station and tells Friday that he wants to confess to a murder, but the cops have a hard time varifying his story.
A pawn shop owner alerts Friday and Smith when a man claimed to have purchased an expensive ring that turns out to be junk and then asked the pawn sho... Read More
A woman is dragged from her home and badly beaten by an unknown attacker.
A housewife, Ella Ryburn, reports to Friday and Smith that she cannot contact her mother, who is married to Alfred Rudolph Shroder. When he is questio... Read More
A circus man reports that a tiger escaped from his truck and is now on the loose in Los Angeles.
A frightened wife tells Friday and Smith that she's worried her husband is planning to pull a hold-up.
A group of police women act as decoys to draw a stick-up man out into the open.
A man forges checks to keep himself and his wife in an expensive lifestyle, but he goes too far when he buys a slick convertable.
A teenage boy under arrest admits to police that his brother is planning to rob a loan company.
Friday and Smith investigate money being taken from a department store's registers with the help of store security.
Friday and Smith investigate a woman's claim that her neighbors are abusing their child.
Friday investigates a woman's disappearance after a convicted murderer is paroled into her custody.
Friday and Smith investigate anonymous threats to disfigure a a famous actress.
The detectives take a report of valuables stolen from the home of a somewhat eccentric old lady. They begin to suspect something is amiss when she sta... Read More
The detectives are trying to solve the case of the milk bottle bandit when they catch a break and apprehend a diminutive fifteen year old.
A mysterious telephone caller offers a man $1000 for a contract killing, and Friday must identify the caller before it's too late.
Friday goes undercover as a bar owner in order to break up an illegal jukebox operation.
As Friday and Smith investigate a woman's death, they are disturbed to find that her daughter is more interested in discussing her collection of dolls... Read More
2 Reviews for Dragnet
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Super Admin
2025-12-15
Loved every minute of this film.
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Super Admin
2026-03-11
A beautifully crafted piece of cinema.
