Dragnet (Season 5)

The Big Pipe (Episode 1)

Air date: 1955-09-02

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: A young woman is beaten to death with a led pipe and left in an empty office.

The Big Chet (Episode 2)

Air date: 1955-09-09

Runtime: 30 min

The Big No Rain (Episode 3)

Air date: 1955-09-16

Runtime: 30 min

The Big Lift (Episode 4)

Air date: 1955-09-23

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: An organized gang of shoplifters is looting large department stores in the city.

The Big Confession (Episode 5)

Air date: 1955-09-30

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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.

The Big Gap (Episode 6)

Air date: 1955-10-07

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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 shop owner to sell him a gun.

The Big Look (Episode 7)

Air date: 1955-10-14

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: A woman is dragged from her home and badly beaten by an unknown attacker.

The Big Glasses (Episode 8)

Air date: 1955-10-21

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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 questioned, Shroder claims his wife left him and that, out of shame, he sold their house and put her items in storage.

The Big Bird (Episode 9)

Air date: 1955-10-28

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Sgt. Friday investigates a robber who only targets pet stores and homes that have pet birds.

The Big Laugh (Episode 10)

Air date: 1955-11-04

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: A con man makes lonely women fall for his charms, then steals their money and disappears.

The Big Smoke (Episode 11)

Air date: 1955-11-11

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: An elderly couple is brutally beaten and the trail leads police to a former handy man.

The Big Bounce (Episode 12)

Air date: 1955-11-18

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Joe Friday searches for a check forger who has been using the name of the old-time movie villain Parker Allington... who died three years ago.

The Big Shot (Episode 13)

Air date: 1955-11-25

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: A night club owner is shot down and there are no witnesses to the crime.

The Big Locker (Episode 14)

Air date: 1955-12-02

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Friday and Smith happen to catch a man trying to sell a stolen ring at a pawn shop.

The Big Note (Episode 15)

Air date: 1955-12-09

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: An anonymous note leads Friday and Smith to a group of teenage drug users and their neglectful parents.

The Big Genius (Episode 16)

Air date: 1955-12-16

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Friday and Smith investigate what seems to be the perfect crime.

The Big Reminisce (Episode 17)

Air date: 1955-12-30

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: During a quiet New Year's shift, Friday and Smith remember some of their past cases and why it is they became cops.

The Big Tour (Episode 18)

Air date: 1956-01-06

Runtime: 30 min

The Big Sisters (Episode 19)

Air date: 1956-01-13

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: An elderly woman fakes a burglary report so she can get attention from the police and the media.

The Big Ruling (Episode 20)

Air date: 1956-01-20

Runtime: 30 min

The Big Fall Guy (Episode 21)

Air date: 1956-01-27

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Friday and Smith are on the trail of a robbery suspect that has robbed two stores.

The Big Set (Episode 22)

Air date: 1956-02-03

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: A city councilman is beaten and robbed by two men outside a bar. When he dies from his injuries, Friday and Smith feel pressure to find the killers.

The Big Child (Episode 23)

Air date: 1956-02-10

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: A two-year-old child after drinking bleach from under the sink. Friday and Smith are unable to locate the mother for questioning.

The Big Slug (Episode 24)

Air date: 1956-02-17

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: A liquor store owner is shot and killed during a botched robbery, but police can find no trace of the fatal bullet.

The Big Daughter (Episode 25)

Air date: 1956-02-24

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Friday and Smith investigate a missing persons report.

The Big No Suicide (Episode 26)

Air date: 1956-03-02

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Friday gets a call from a former mental patient who is threatening to kill himself and his family.

The Big Siege (Episode 27)

Air date: 1956-03-09

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Police find themselves in a stand-off when an armed bank robber takes a woman hostage in her home.

The Big Mama (Episode 28)

Air date: 1956-03-16

Runtime: 30 min

The Big Revision (Episode 29)

Air date: 1956-03-23

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Friday and Smith hit a blank wall when a burglary suspect refuses to admit where he hid his stash.

The Big Ex-Blonde (Episode 30)

Air date: 1956-03-30

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Friday goes undercover to catch brothers who steal people's money by posing as real-estate agents.

The Big Bobo (Episode 31)

Air date: 1956-04-06

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: A police officer is suspended from duty when he is accused of taking a bribe in exchange for a prisoner's release.

The Big Rush (Episode 32)

Air date: 1956-04-13

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Two bandits turn cop killer when they gun down an off-duty policeman during a tavern hold-up.

The Big Setup (Episode 33)

Air date: 1956-04-20

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: An informant tips off police to a shipment of heroin coming into the country. Friday goes under cover to bust open the ring.

The Big Deal (Episode 34)

Air date: 1956-04-27

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: Friday and Smith are investigating a rash of car thefts. The stolen cars are being sold with forged pink slips.

The Big Wish (Episode 35)

Air date: 1956-05-04

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: A teenage boy turns himself in and confesses to being an addict, but he refuses to give up the names of his friends who supplied him.

The Big Hat (Episode 36)

Air date: 1956-05-11

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: A young man is found hiding in an empty train car with the strangled body of an older woman next to him.

The Big Housemaid (Episode 37)

Air date: 1956-05-18

Runtime: 30 min

The Big Gift (Episode 38)

Air date: 1956-05-25

Runtime: 30 min

The Big Salvage (Episode 39)

Air date: 1956-06-01

Runtime: 30 min