Log of the Black Pearl was the 2-hour pilot film for an unsold weekly TV adventure series. Kiel Martin plays a successful...
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Executive Producer
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1975
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This final episode of Emergency!'s fourth season was intended as the pilot for a spinoff series titled 905-WILD. The members...
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Director
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1975
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The seventh and final season of Adam-12 spends a bit more time on the private lives of LAPD officers Malloy (Martin Milner)...
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Executive Producer
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1974
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This final episode of Adam-12's sixth season is actually the pilot for a proposed spinoff series titled Fraud. After they...
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Director
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1974
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This drama chronicles the hard work of the rangers of the U.S. Forest Service who try to preserve human and animal life. ~...
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Executive Producer
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1974
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Although Adam-12 slipped a bit in the ratings during its sixth season, ranking 23rd as opposed to the previous season's...
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Executive Producer
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1973
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Director
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1973
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Season five of Adam-12 boasts a number of fascinating guest stars, backing up series leads Martin Milner (as Officer Pete...
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Executive Producer
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1972
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First telecast January 15, 1972, Emergency is of course the 2-hour pilot episode for the weekly series of the same name....
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Director, Executive Producer
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1972
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The Century Turns is the syndication title of the 2-hour pilot for the Hec Ramsey television series. Richard Boone stars as...
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Executive Producer
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1972
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Just as L.A. cop Jim Reed (Kent McCord) was promoted from rookie to full officer during the third season of Adam-12, so too...
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Executive Producer
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1971
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Director
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1971
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David Janssen stars in this Jack Webb production as James O'Hara, a small-town sheriff recruited by the US Treasury's Bureau...
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Director, Executive Producer
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1971
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As Adam-12 begins its third season, former rookie cop Jim Reed (Kent McCord) is promoted to full officer. No one is happier...
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Executive Producer
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1970
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Though the final season of the new Dragnet (aka Dragnet: 1970) represented the revived series' fourth year on NBC, in...
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Sgt. Joe Friday
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1969
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Filmed in 1966 (when screenwriter Richard Breen was still around), this made-for-TV feature marked the return of Jack Webb's...
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Director, Producer
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1969
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Officer Jim Reed (Kent McCord) is still on probationary status with the LAPD as Adam-12 begins its second season. However,...
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Executive Producer
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1969
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The most successful of producer Jack Webb's non-Dragnet TV projects, the weekly, half-hour Adam-12 was a realistic, unadorned...
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Executive Producer
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1968
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The premiere episode of Adam-12 finds veteran LAPD patrol officer Pete Malloy (Martin Milner), on the verge of retirement,...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1968
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Season one of Adam-12 gets underway with admirable rapidity, with the episode "Log 1: The Impossible Mission," directed by...
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Executive Producer
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1968
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Proving remarkably durable despite its venerable reputation and occasional lapses into silent majority hysteria (especially...
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Sgt. Joe Friday
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1968
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Although the second season of NBC's revived Dragnet debuted in the fall of 1967, the series' official title was Dragnet:...
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Sgt. Joe Friday
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1967
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In 1966, producer/director/actor Jack Webb filmed a new, TV-movie version of his classic 1950s series Dragnet for Universal...
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Sgt. Joe Friday
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1967
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This western served as the pilot film for Warner Bros.' Temple Houston television series. It is the tale of a young, brash...
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Executive Producer
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1963
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This brief, 30-minute biographical documentary looks at the early life and professional career of American astronaut John...
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1963
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A video with two programs about John Glenn. They tell of his life and of his career as an early astronaut. ~ Rovi...
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1962
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The title character in this standard comedy about the foibles of military life is Archie Hall (Robert Mitchum), a puffed-up...
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Director, Producer, Bill Bowers
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1961
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A family friend of 17-year-old Lois Brewster informs Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) that he has come into...
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Director
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1959
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A bandit posing as a salesman has robbed several LA food markets in the past few weeks. Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben...
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Director
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1959
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An out-of-town couple named Johnser are the latest victims of a sneak thief who preys upon hotel guests. Friday (Jack Webb)...
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Director
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1959
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are on the prowl for the criminals who have been robbing all-night restaurants...
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Director
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1959
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate the theft of a car containing a baby. The car is ultimately found...
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Director
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1959
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This time Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are on the hunt for an outlaw known as the "gourmet bandit." The thief...
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Director
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1959
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Working out of Bunco Detail, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) set their sights on Tim and Doris Hubert (Donald...
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Director
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1959
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Los Angeles is being terrorized by the "rattlesnake bandit", who preys upon young couples, pointlessly beating them up after...
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Director
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1959
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What can a blackmailer do when his victim can no longer afford to pay up? In this case, he apparently has no option other...
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Director
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1959
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It's late Thursday night at the local paper and a savvy city editor, a world-weary but upright writer, and a beleagured copy...
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Director, Producer
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1959
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The body of a woman who has been savagely beaten to death is found in a parked car. Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben...
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Director
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1959
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate the savage murder of a lunch counter proprietor. The main piece of...
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Director
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1959
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An armored mail truck has been held up by three masked bandits, and 22 sacks of registered mail have been stolen. Though...
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Director
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1959
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Is someone really trying to murder George Byron (Dennis McCarthy? George thinks so, and so do Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith...
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Director
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1959
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate when an antique dealer loses $200 to a con artist. Posing as a...
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Director
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1959
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The 276th and final episode of the original 1950s version of Dragnet is an adaptation of a two-part radio drama, originally...
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Director
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1959
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With grim determination, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) search for a pair of armed bandits who have robbed and...
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Director
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1959
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Once again, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) leave the confines of their downtown police station to venture into...
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Director
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1959
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Several holdups have been pulled off by a tall, well-dressed and very nervous thief. When store clerk Bert Matthews is killed...
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Director
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1959
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are assigned to round up a bookie ring. The trail of clues leads the detective...
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Director
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1959
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Acting on information provided by a bartender, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate the apparent...
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Director
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1959
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Elderly Alter Fortner (Ralph Moody) tells Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) that he has lost his wallet, which...
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Director
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1959
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Two men have held up a mom-and-pop café, beating the 68-year-old owner within an inch of his life. Although one of the...
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Director
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1959
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are contacted by an accident-insurance adjuster, who is convinced that some...
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Director
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1959
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A fashionable neighborhood has been targetted by a gang of burglars, who specialize in lifting valuable furs and jewels....
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Director
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1959
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Once again, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) must stop a violent teenage gang war before hostilities have a...
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Director
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1958
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are on the trail of escaped convicts Powell and Selby, who after busting out of...
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Director
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1958
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A gang of phony charity solicitors has been preying on the citizens of Los Angeles, gathering money for at least ten...
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Director
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1958
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A worried mother (Grace Albertson) contacts detectives Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) after she finds a...
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Director
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1958
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The eighth and final season of the original TV version of Dragnet finds former police sergeant Joe Friday (played by the...
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Lt. Joe Friday
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1958
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An enterprising gang of crooks has been systematically syphoning oil from storage tankers. These thefts are tied in with an...
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Director
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1958
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander must wait an agonizingly long time to question Richard Tearson (Malcolm...
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Director
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1958
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The title character in this pivotal Dragnet episode is "Gentleman" Wallard (Jay Jostyn), a veteran con artist. Friday (Jack...
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Director
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1958
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Several robberies have occurred in LA's Chinatown district. Detectives Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) have but...
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Director
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1958
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Four hot rods have been stolen by thieves who intend to strip the cars for parts and accessories. Investigating, Friday (Jack...
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Director
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1958
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The only clue the police have to go on in the case of a man offering $1000 to anyone willing to commit a murder is the man's...
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Director
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1958
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Dragnet switches to "living color" for its eighth season (though existing episodes are in black-in-white), and that's not the...
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Director
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1958
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A gang of racketeers has set up an illegal juke-box racket in the LA area. Tavern and restaurant owners are being strongarmed...
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Director
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1958
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) respond to reports that obnoxious teenager Gordon Tolliver (Sammy Ogg) has been...
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Director
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1958
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Elderly Oskar Hovejg (Fay Roope) walks into police headquarters to tell Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) that he...
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Director
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1958
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40-year-old divorcee Florence Dickson is found brutally stabbed to death in her own bed. Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben...
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Director
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1958
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) must forsake their Christmas vacation when the body of a murdered woman is found...
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Director
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1958
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Lt. Friday (Jack Webb) and Sgt. Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate the disappearance of a Mrs. Muller. It seems that just...
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Director
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1958
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In the final episode of Dragnet's seventh TV season, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate the deaths of...
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Director
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1958
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Curvaceous blonde actress Barbara Nichols is typecast as a Monroe-like movie star in this episode. Friday (Jack Webb) and...
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Director
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1958
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate the reported kidnapping of wealthy businessman Tony Richman. The...
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Director
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1958
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Veteran funnyman Morey Amsterdam eschews his usual "Buddy Sorrell" cheekiness to essay a serious role in this episode....
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Director
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1958
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Sometimes it pays to specialize, but not when you're a criminal pursued by police detectives Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith...
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Director
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1958
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are off on another missing-persons case. While searching the missing man's...
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Director
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1958
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This unique Dragnet episode features real-life nurse's aide Mrs. Mary Bigler, portraying herself in a recreation of a...
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Director
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1958
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate when a moderately wealthy woman named Dorothy Wagner commits...
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Director
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1958
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) must put a fellow cop on the spot when young Officer Blanchard (William Vaughn)...
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Director
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1958
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) search for an elusive check forger with extremely expensive tastes. The forger...
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Director
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1958
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There's a con artist on the loose in Los Angeles, preying upon lonely, middle-aged women. Posing as "Count H. Bukary", the...
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Director
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1958
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A burglar at large in Los Angeles has the curious habit of leaving small mementos at the scene of each crime. Unfortunately,...
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Director
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1958
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The LAPD receives a tip about an imminent turf war between five different teenage gangs. Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben...
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Director
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1958
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A series of jewel robberies leads Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) to begin surveillance of the city's pawnshops....
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Director
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1958
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Familiar Korean character actor Philip Ahn is cast as Chinese merchant Gerald Quon, the victim of a robbery. In their effort...
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Director
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1958
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Two men have been committing robberies throughout Los Angeles. Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) have a single...
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Director
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1958
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A gang of thieves has been prowling around local bars and stealing payroll checks from inebriated employees, then forging the...
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Director
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1958
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The "big hobby" of the title is photography, and the big hobbyist is an amateur cameraman (Kip King). This erstwhile...
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Director
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1958
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This episode is a one-part adaptation of a two-part Dragnet radio broadcast, originally heard on July 20 and 27, 1950....
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Director
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1958
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Several Los Angeles supermarkets have been burglarized over the past few weeks. Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander)...
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Director
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1958
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A thief who adheres slavishly to the same M.O. during each of his crimes is the quarry of police detectives Friday (Jack...
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Director
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1958
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) suspect that a gang of teenagers is responsible for a series of auto-accessory...
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Director
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1958
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are on the lookout for a hit-and-run driver. Their detective work includes a...
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Director
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1958
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Dave Garroway hosts this all-star celebration of network television's tenth anniversary (actually, NBC and CBS had signed on...
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1957
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are on the prowl for a man suspected of pulling a holdup. An anonymous tip leads...
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Director
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1957
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A Marine drill instructor (d.i. for short), Sgt. Jim Moore (Jack Webb) is responsible for the rigorous training of his...
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Director, Producer
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1957
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Although Dragnet was no longer the huge ratings lodestone it had been in previous years, NBC was determined to hold onto the...
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Sgt. Joe Friday
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1957
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This unusually grim episode finds Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigating the disappearance of Mrs....
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Director
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1957
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate a robbery at a liquor store in which several case lots of valuable...
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Director
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1957
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are summoned to a bakery where two of the owners have been shot during a holdup....
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Director
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1957
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In one of the sillier black-and-white Dragnet episodes, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are approached by a pair...
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Director
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1957
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Police detectives Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) race against time to rectify a potentially fatal error. The...
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Director
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1957
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Jack Webb serves and host and narrator of this justifiably infamous propaganda short, produced under the auspices of Warner...
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Narrator
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1957
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Wandering into the police station with a huge amount of money but absolutely no memory, a young girl (Cindy Robbins) sparks...
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Director
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1957
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are on hand when a pair of teenagers (Don Pathley, Jim Bridges) are arrested...
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Director
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1957
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Investigating a robbery at a supermarket, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) interview the owners, George and Alva...
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Director
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1957
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A hotel catering to the convention crowd has been victimized by a pickpocket. Investigating the thefts of several wallets and...
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Screenwriter
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1957
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The versatile Hans Conried appears in this episode as Paul Zavier, a mercurial artist whom Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben...
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Director
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1957
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$1200 in cash and various other items of value have been stolen from a restaurant safe. Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben...
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Director
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1957
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate when a young man reports that his wife is missing. The two...
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Director
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1957
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An elderly woman tells the police that her life savings, which she has stored in a candy box, has been stolen and replaced...
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Director
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1957
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The opening episode of Dragnet's seventh TV season finds police detectives Friday (Jack Webb and Smith (Ben Alexander)...
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Director
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1957
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Emmatine Haskell (Ernestine Barrier), an out-of-town buyer, reports that her purse, which contained $6000, is missing....
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Director
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1957
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A 15-year old boy dies as the result of a cruel prank during a high school club initiation. It is up to Friday (Jack Webb)...
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Director
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1957
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) chase after a gang of young punks who have pulled off some thirty holdups in the...
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Director
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1957
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$60,000 worth of phony checks, all obviously signed by the same person, have been cashed in various LA supermarkets. Friday...
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Director
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1957
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The perpetrator this time around is a burglar who manages to escape capture by playing on the sympathies of his victims....
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Director
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1957
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate when landlady Selma Bruttig (Isabelle Dwan) reports the...
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Director
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1957
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The owner of a fashionable Wilshire Boulevard auction house is slugged and robbed of $1200. Searching f or clues, Friday...
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Director
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1957
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are up against a well-organized gang of auto thieves, who seem to follow no...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1957
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Someone has stolen several hand-painted neckties from a tie manufacturing company. Questioning the company's personnel,...
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Director
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1957
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Young Emil Salter (Jody Baker) turns himself in to Friday (Joe Friday) and Smith (Ben Alexander), claiming he has committed a...
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Director
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1957
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) go after the Person or Persons Unknown who have been robbing homes while the...
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Director
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1957
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The body of a man is found in a Sepulveda hotel, only a few days after he registered. Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben...
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Director
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1957
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) team up with a fire marshal to determine the cause of several recent house...
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Director
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1957
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are puzzled when two different women report that their husbands are missing. The...
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Director
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1957
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The story you are about to see would probably be more at home on a contemporary "procedural" series like CSI or Bones. While...
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Director
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1957
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are dispatched to a cheap hotel room, where young drug addict Mona Fenton has...
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Director
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1957
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A number of police stakeout posts are set up around Los Angeles, the better to capture a bandit who has been robbing hotels...
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Director
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1957
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) answer a call from a Mrs. Halmer (Lucille Vance), whose husband Jason, a...
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Director
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1957
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There's a robber at large in Los Angeles, and a particularly bold one at that: he commits all his burglaries in broad...
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Director
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1957
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This week's Person of Interest is a slippery thief who specializes in swiping brand-new fur coats. In the course of their...
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Director
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1957
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Responding to viewer requests that he "freshen up" his now five-year-old series, Jack Webb, the producer, director, and star...
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Sgt. Joe Friday
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1956
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A truly kinky holdup man is the target of police detectives Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander). The perpetrator...
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Director
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1956
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) spring into action when a divorced mother's baby is stolen. It turns out that...
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Director
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1956
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Out-of-town watch salesman Herbert Liggins (Kort Falkenberg) claims that he was robbed of his sample case by two men with...
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Director
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1956
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are summoned to the home of wealthy Mr. and Mrs. Moran (Tom Brown, Virginia...
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Director
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1956
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Elderly Bertha Gillespie is reported missing, and Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are assigned to find her. The...
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Director
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1956
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are assigned to find out who has hijacked fourteen trucks in the past few weeks....
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Director
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1956
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A juvenile delinquent in the "holding tank" lets slip that his older brother is planning to rob a loan office. Though Friday...
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Director
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1956
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) set their sights on a forger who has been passing phony payroll checks all over...
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Director
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1956
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Even though it's Thanksgiving Week, all days off at the LAPD are cancelled in hopes of capturing a brutal holdup man who...
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Director
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1956
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Night watchman Clyde Matik has been stabbed to death in an appliance store warehouse. One of the dead man's fellow employees...
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Director
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1956
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are contacted by a woman identifying herself as Mrs. Flint, who is worried that...
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Director
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1956
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In the final episode of Dragnet's fifth TV season, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate a series of...
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Director
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1956
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Popular LA radio deejay Dick Whittinghill more or less plays himself in this episode, in which Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith...
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Director
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1956
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Mrs. Sarah Vesper (Grace Field), a lifelong friend of police detective Frank Smith (Ben Alexander), reports that several...
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Director
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1956
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In their search for a diamond thief, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) visit a bar frequented by the suspect....
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Director
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1956
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Kip King, a future member of the Groundlings comedy troupe (and the father of comedian Chris Kattan), here essays a serious...
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Director
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1956
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The owner of a liquor store is killed during a holdup--in which, curiously, no money was stolen. Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith...
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Director
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1956
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Joe Friday (Jack Webb) and Frank Smith (Ben Alexander) are tipped off to a huge shipment of European heroin (three kilos,...
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Director
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1956
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Swindled out of $40,000, a Los Angeles man is the latest victim of a phony real-estate investment racket operated by a woman...
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Director
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1956
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are none too pleased when fellow police officer James Sorvell (Scott Douglas) is...
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Director
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1956
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The rate of recovery for stolen vehicles has dropped to an all-time low, and Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander)...
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Director
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1956
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) haul in a suspect on suspicion of pulling off a $200,000 robbery. But it looks...
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Director
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1956
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Secretary Clara Gibbons (Barbara Bestar) tells Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) that her employer, stockbroker...
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Director
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1956
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There's danger ahead for police detectives Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) when a former mental patient...
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Director
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1956
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Bank robber Bud Carey goes on the lam after brutally killing a bank guard during his latest heist. Taking no chances, Friday...
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Director
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1956
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It's a personal matter for Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) when an off-duty police officer is killed by two...
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Director
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1956
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) receive a tip that middle-aged dope addict Denson (Rodney Bell) has recently...
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Director
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1956
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The higher-ups exert a great deal of pressure on Sgt. Friday's boss Captain Donahoe (Walter Sande) to nab the two men who...
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Director
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1956
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate when a woman reports that her two-year-old niece Melissa has died of...
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Director
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1956
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This first episode of Dragnet's sixth TV season was adapted from a radio drama first broadcast on June 15, 1954. Identifying...
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Director
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1956
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) search for the man who has robbed two stores. In both cases, the man handed a...
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Director
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1956
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Based on the Dragnet radio broadcast of September 6, 1955, this episode focuses on the frustrating legal limitations placed...
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Director
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1956
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) answer the call when elderly Martha Dunbetter (Sarah Padden) reports that a...
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Director
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1956
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In this vintage black-and-white Dragnet episode, Sgt. Joe Friday (Jack Webb) is given a guided tour through the LAPD's new...
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Director
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1956
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Working out of Homicide, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate when accountant Ada Fitzgerald is found in...
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Director
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1955
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An elusive gang of thieves have robbed four bars, tunnelling into the premises from adjoining buildings. Collaring a likely...
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Director
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1955
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A particularly vicious "strong-arm" bandit has been preying on innocent downtown pedestrians. Police detectives Friday (Jack...
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Director
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1955
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Eleven unsolved holdups have occurred in the past three months. The robbers invariably target jewely stores and supermarkets,...
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Director
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1955
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A woman has been missing for two weeks, and her sister (Barbara Eiler) suspects foul play. She further informs Friday (Jack...
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Director
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1955
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Beginning with its fifth season on the air, the popular NBC cop show Dragnet was filmed at a small studio next to Republic...
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Sgt. Joe Friday
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1955
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Pete Kelly's Blues is arguably the most stylish of director/star Jack Webb's theatrical features. Beginning with a...
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Director, Producer, Pete Kelly
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1955
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate when the family of wealthy John Jarrett (Herb Butterfield) reports...
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Director
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1955
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate reports of a TV repair racket, in which customers are charged for...
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Director
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1955
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Reporting the disappearance of young mother Harriet Shipley and her nine-month-old baby, the woman's mother-in-law Mrs....
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Director
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1955
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The object of the search conducted by police detectives Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) is a thief who...
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Director
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1955
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Several large markets have been robbed by a bandit who hides his features with something resembling a black mask. After...
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Director
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1955
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Once again, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are on the trail of a supermarket bandit. The first big break in the...
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Director
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1955
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A robbery has occurred, and Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) arrive on the crime scene. The victim tells the...
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Director
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1955
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A teenage girl named Edna (played by a young Carolyn Jones) tells Sgt. Friday (Jack Webb) that her best friend Kathryn...
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Director
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1955
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are under pressure from practically everyone in Los Angeles-- their superiors at...
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Director
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1955
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Future TV producer Aaron Spelling appears in this episode as Bruce Marcus, a nerdish young man who walks into Police...
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Director
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1955
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It looks like a case of attempted murder when a middle-aged woman is found unconscious in a gutter; preliminary evidence...
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Director
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1955
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This time the criminal at large is a con artist who poses as a "displaced person" in need of quick cash. Each of the con...
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Director
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1955
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate the armed holdup of an appliance store. The witnesses state that one...
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Director
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1955
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Two well-armed criminals terrorize the city with a three-week robbery spree. Though one of the outlaws is captured and held...
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Director
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1955
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A mysterious thief has been stealing groceries and other necessities from a suburban LA neighborhood. The only clue the thief...
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Director
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1955
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) respond to a call from the LAPD's San Fernando Valley division. Several new...
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Director
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1955
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Anyone who thinks that the cost-cutting strategy known as "the clip show" is unique to TV sitcoms should take a gander at...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1955
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A nightclub manager has been murdered, and it is the job of Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) to find the killer....
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Director
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1955
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Included are four Christmas episodes from '50s television shows: A Date with the Angels, Racket Squad, The Ruggles and...
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1955
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An old couple has been brutally beaten; the husband is dead, the wife not far from it. Neighbor lady Mrs. Hurley (Barbara...
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Director
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1955
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A con artist specializes in fleecing lonely middle-aged women whom he meets via the lonely-hearts columns. He promises to...
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Director
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1955
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) search for a check forger who has been using the name of old-time movie villain...
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Director
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1955
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The wife of elderly Alfred Shroder (Edward Keane) is missing, and Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) have been...
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Director
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1955
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) will not rest until they catch up with the sadistic prowler who has been beating...
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Director
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1955
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Working in cooperation with a US Postal Service inspector (Douglas Kennedy), Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander)...
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Director
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1955
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) answer reports that a reclusive old man named Peter Collins (Vic Rodman) is...
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Director
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1955
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Working in concert with FBI agent Tom Ashford (Douglas Kennedy), Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) inaugurate an...
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Director
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1955
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A storekeeper has been robbed and killed by two thieves, who have also wounded a police officer. The wife of the unfortunate...
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Director
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1955
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) really have their work cut out for them when bartender George Cabot (Nesdon...
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Director
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1955
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Friday (Jack Webb and Smith (Ben Alexander) are certain that career criminal Louis Roat (Paul Burke), recently released from...
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Director
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1955
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Why would James Fader (Than Wyenn) walk up to a pawnbroker and offer to sell a ring worth thousands of dollars for only...
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Director
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1955
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Investigating a missing-persons report, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are handed a clue when a ring worth...
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Director
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1955
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Working out the Forgery Division, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate reports that a con artist, posing...
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Director
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1955
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A number of drugstores have been robbed of money and narcotics. Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) step up their...
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Director
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1955
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The departmental rotation wheel spins once more, and Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are assigned to the LAPD...
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Director
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1954
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The estranged husband of Nora Hamlin (Marian Richman) has apparently committed sucide: he was found with the gun in his hand...
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Director
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1954
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A small LA business district has been plague by a series of jewelry store holdups, in which the perpetrator violently...
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Director
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1954
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) go on the prowl for a holdup man who has hit several bars in a period of a few...
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Director
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1954
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A hit and run driver has struck and killed a pregnant woman and her unborn child. The only clue Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith...
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Director
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1954
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In the conclusion of a two-part story, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) rush to the small sanitarium where...
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Director
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1954
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) go after an enterprising gang of auto thieves who double as con artists. Using...
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Director
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1954
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In the past several weekends, a number of stores have been burglarized in the same neighborhood. Curiously, the thief takes...
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Director
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1954
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) receive a tip that the Plaza Royale, a fancy downtown hotel, is being used as a...
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Director
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1954
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In the first episode of a two-part story, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) zero in on Gus Valentine (Harlan...
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Director
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1954
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The police department receives at tip that a war between two teenage gangs, the Orchids and the Pink Rats, is scheduled to...
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Director
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1954
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It's a personal matter for Joe Friday (Jack Webb) when his old army buddy Max Tyler (Harlan Warde) is arrested. Out of...
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Director
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1954
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) receive a frantic long distance call from the mother of a girl who had recently...
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Director
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1954
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In the 100th TV episode of Dragnet (albeit the 89th to be telecast), Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate...
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Director
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1954
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In a scenario that could as easily be set in the early 21st century as in the mid-20th century, a married couple driving a...
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Director
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1954
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Working out of the Bunco division, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) make it their personal mission to capture two...
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Director
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1954
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In the first episode of Dragnet's fourth season, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) search for a pornographer who...
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Director
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1954
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Under normal circumstances, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) would have had suspected holdup man Tom Stanford...
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Director
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1954
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Single mother Betty Dixon has been savagely stabbed to death with a bollo knife. A lack of additional evidence makes it...
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Director
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1954
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Friday (Joe Friday) and Smith (Ben Alexander) spend the better part of a year trying to crack a case in this episode, which...
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Director
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1954
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When police officer Jack Conley is murdered in cold blood on New Years' Eve, Joe Friday (Jack Webb) has the unenviable task...
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Director
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1954
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Chester Abbott (James Bell) tells the police that his wife is missing. Abbott's 17-year-old stepson, however, suspects that...
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Director
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1954
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It appears to be a simple case of hit-and-run when the body of Eddie Stokes is found in a gutter. When they question Stokes'...
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Director
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1954
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are summoned to the Nevada Hotel, where tenant Theodore Benham (James Bell)...
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Director
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1954
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Working out of the bunco division, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) go after a self-proclaimed "mental therapist"...
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Director
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1954
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A elderly woman is robbed and beaten in a bank parking lot. Investigating, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are...
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Director
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1954
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Claude Akins is cast as Mr. Ellis, whose wife's dead body has been found in a vacant lot. As Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith...
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Director
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1954
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) swing into action to find the hit-and-run driver who killed an old woman and her...
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Director
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1954
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Old Martin Latimer is found dead in his home, a bullet hole in his chest. At first, it looks like a case of suicide, wherein...
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Director
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1954
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Sixteen men have been robbed, beaten and in some cases shot by a hitchhiker. What sets this case apart from the rest is the...
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Director
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1954
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In one of the best-remembered of the original black and white Dragnet episodes, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander)...
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Director
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1954
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The police receive a report that an elderly couple, Walter and Kate Apperson, are missing. Detectives Friday (Jack Webb) and...
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Director
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1954
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) follow up reports that a shabbily dressed eight-year-old boy and a six-year-old...
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Director
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1954
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate the death of young Gloria Paul, who left behind a suicide note. When...
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Director
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1954
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate when 33 small businessmen have been victimized by forged checks...
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Director
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1954
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Highway patrolman Eugene Brewer disappears without a trace, leaving his car unattended with the motor running. Friday (Jack...
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Director
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1954
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are summoned to the office of a young lawyer, where an unknown vandal has...
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Director
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1954
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The scene is a dingy rooming house, where the body of a former vaudeville actress is found tied to a chair. The woman has...
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Director
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1954
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Sergeant Joe Friday (Jack Webb) and Officer Frank Smith (Ben Alexander) continue to seek out "just the facts, ma'am" as...
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Sgt. Joe Friday
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1954
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Detective Frank Smith (Ben Alexander) gets word that four vicious hoodlums who have cut quite a swath of crime and terror in...
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Director
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1954
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At the height of the popularity of his Dragnet TV series, producer/director/star Jack Webb struck a deal with Warner Bros. to...
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Director, Sgt. Joe Friday
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1954
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While on Narcotics detail, Joe (Jack Webb) and Frank (Ben Alexander) takes a coffee break in the small bar where they plan to...
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Director
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1953
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In this pivotal episode (written directly for television, with no previous radio version) Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben...
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Director
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1953
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) begin by investigating a series of truck hijackings, and end up with a strange...
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Director
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1953
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An unidentified woman has been found strangled to death in a hotel room. The only clue to go on is the obvious that that the...
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Director
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1953
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Acting on an anonymous tip, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate the apparent beating death of Hazel...
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Director
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1953
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Operating out of the Bunco division, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) set their sights on a "lonely hearts" con...
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Director
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1953
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A twelve-block residential area has been targeted by an elusive thief who preys on small businesses. The thief's MO is a...
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Director
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1953
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Investigating the murder of 50-year-old Charles Stahl, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) interview snappish motel...
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Director
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1953
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It's business as usual for police detectives Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) when two AWOL marines are robbed...
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Director
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1953
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There's no obvious motive when a police officer is killed in a drive-by shooting on the steps of his own house. But after...
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Director
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1953
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Edith Curtis (Virginia Brissac) informs the police that her son Jeff has been murdered in his own home. Detectives Friday...
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Director
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1953
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) go after a particularly vicious gang of con artists who prey on the grieving...
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Director
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1953
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The LAPD scours the city in search of "The Bull", vicious leader of a robbery gang. Although his henchmen have all been...
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Director
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1953
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Friday (Joe Friday) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate when the body of 21-year-old Helen Corday, who has been bludgeoned...
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Director
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1953
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With only a book of matches as evidence, Joe Friday (Jack Webb) and Frank Smith (Ben Alexander) hope to capture a pair of...
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Director
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1953
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Working out of Missing Persons, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate when Martha Borg (Irene Tedrow)...
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Director
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1953
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In a break from tradition, the third-seasoner opener of Dragnet is not based on a radio broadcast, but was written...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1953
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Based on a radio play first broadcast on March 15, 1951, this episode focuses on the relationship between Sgt. Joe Friday...
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Director
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1953
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate the reported suicide of wealthy retiree Chester Dillon. Everyone who...
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Director
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1953
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Leonard Gray (Paul Richards) contacts Sgt. Joe Friday (Jack Webb) to report the murder of his wife Hazel. In a somewhat...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1953
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Joe (Jack Webb) and Frank (Ben Alexander) are assigned to probe the mysterious kidnapping of three infants in as many weeks,...
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Director
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1953
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Eleven food markets have been held up in the past three weeks; there's clearly a pattern, but the police have trouble...
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Director
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1953
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Robbery victim Arthur McKinley is found strangled with his own necktie in a dingy alley. Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben...
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Director
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1953
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Things get personal for Sgt. Joe Friday (Jack Webb) when he finds out that honor student Gary Field (Ralph Votrian),the son...
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Director
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1953
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Representing the Homicide Division, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) arrive at the home of a Mr. Atkins, who has...
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Director
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1953
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigates the murder of shopkeeper John Wilford, whose bound-and-beaten body...
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Director
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1953
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Erstwhile bookie Harry Lawrence (Paul Bryar) contacts Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) to inform them that a "bad...
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Director
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1953
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A young man (Bob Crosson) identifying himself as Bruce Hamilton drags himself into an LA police station, battered and...
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Director
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1953
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate when a young wife and mother (Frances Rafferty) claims that she and...
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Director
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1953
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Arriving at a medical building, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate the disappearance of society matron...
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Director
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1953
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This time, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) "go Hollywood" to investigate a fatal accident at a movie studio. The...
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Director
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1953
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There's a lot more physical action than usual in this episode, in which Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) chase...
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Director
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1953
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Two elderly women have been killed by a hit-and-run driver--and the lack of skid marks at the death scene indicates that the...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1953
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate when Rose Baker, a no-good, slovenly "party girl", disappears. The...
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Director
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1953
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are stymied by a series of well-planned safe burglaries, pulled off right under...
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Director
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1953
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Working out of Homicide, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are dispatched to an old rail yard, where a dazed young...
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Director
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1953
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate when a "Jane Doe" is found dead of chloroform poisoning. It looks...
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Director
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1953
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Rookie officer Russell Clark (Todd Karns) is accused of robbing and assaulting a drunken man at a prizefight arena. The...
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Director
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1953
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This controversial episode (adapted from a Dragnet radio broadcast first heard on April 10 1952) finds detectives Friday...
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Director
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1953
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) are summoned to a church by a Reverend Small (Lawrence Ryle), who reports that...
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Director
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1953
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Someone has been forging checks and spreading them throughout the city. Once all the evidence is in, Friday (Jack Webb) and...
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Director
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1953
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Investigating a series of robberies, Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) find out that off-duty patrolman Paul...
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Director
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1953
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One sure sign that NBC's Dragnet was the most popular filmed dramatic series on TV during its third season was the number of...
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Sgt. Joe Friday
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1953
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In one of the most famous Dragnet episodes of all time, Joe Friday (Jack Webb) and Frank Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate...
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Director
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1953
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Friday (Joe Friday) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate the holdup of a liquor store. The thief is described as an old...
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Director
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1953
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It's a tough shift for Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Herb Ellis) as they work the Accident Detail on the eve of the July 4th...
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Director
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1952
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Sgt. Friday (Jack Webb) is outraged when safecracker Conrad Buckley (Eddie Firestone) is acquitted by a jury on a...
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Director
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1952
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In a curious "stolen identity" episode (based on a Dragnet radio program first heard on July 7, 1951), Friday (Jack Webb)...
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Director
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1952
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This episode is based on the Dragnet radio broadcast of December 27, 1951, which was originally written to acknowledge the...
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Director
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1952
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In the most controversial Dragnet episode to date, Sgt. Friday (Jack Webb) must put off his Christmas vacation to investigate...
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Director
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1952
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Season Two of the original TV version of Dragnet begins with an episode adapted from a Dragnet radio program first heard on...
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Director
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1952
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Working out of Homicide, Friday (Jack Webb) and Jacobs (Barney Phillips) investigate the murder of Josephine Stevens, who was...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1952
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Jacobs (Barney Phillips) put in a lot of long, hard hours to locate the hit-and-run driver who struck...
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Director
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1952
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Investigating the shooting death of Mrs. Marie Robertson, Friday and Jacobs are calmly assured by the victim's husband (Harry...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1952
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Familiar Dragnet supporting player Vic Perrin goes into his patented snivelling-weasel act as shady jeweler Ernest Garvey....
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Director
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1952
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Friday (Jack Webb) investigates the theft of $10,000 worth of medicinal narcotics from a Catholic Hospital. The trail of...
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Director
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1952
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Friday (Jack Webb) again teams up with Sgt. Ed Jacobs (Barney Phillips) to investigate the seemingly unmotivated murder of a...
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Director
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1952
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Sgt. Friday (Jack Webb) is invited to deliver a speech before a high school assembly, detailing the pitfalls of drug...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1952
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Based on a radio episode first heard on February 8, 1951, this early Dragnet TV episode marks a turning point in the career...
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Director
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1952
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Sergeants Friday (Jack Webb) and Jacobs (Barney Phillips) investigate when an elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. Guthrie, are found...
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Director
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1952
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Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Herb Ellis) investigate the trashing of a movie theater by a gang of teenagers. In typical...
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Director
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1952
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Joe Friday (Jack Webb) and Frank Smith (here played by Herb Ellis) arrive at a hospital to investigate the discovery of a...
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Director
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1952
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In this TV adaptation of a Dragnet radio episode originally heard on June 28, 1951, Friday (Jack Webb) and Jacobs (Barney...
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Director
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1952
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Based on a radio episode which first aired on November 9, 1950, this classic Dragnet TV episode finds Sgt. Joe Friday (Jack...
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Director
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1952
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Working undercover, Friday (Jack Webb) poses as a hit man, hired by Charles Stone (Vic Perrin) to kill Stone's wife (Helen...
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Director
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1952
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Tentatively added to NBC's Thursday-night schedule on alternate weeks in December of 1951, the TV version of the long-running...
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Sgt. Joe Friday
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1951
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Gary Cooper stars in this broad naval farce, directed by Henry Hathaway and based upon a John W. Hazard New Yorker magazine...
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1951
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The surprise hit of the 1951-1952 TV season, the semi-documentary cop series Dragnet was renewed by NBC for a second season,...
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Sgt. Joe Friday
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1951
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The television saga of Jack Webb's Dragnet (the original, black and white version, that is) began on December 16, 1951, with...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1951
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Al Goddard, (Alan Ladd) special investigator for the U.S. post office, is assigned to collar two criminals who've murdered a...
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Joe Regas
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1951
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"The story you are about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent." Thus began each and every...
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Executive Producer, Show Creator, Sgt. [Lt.] Joe Friday
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1951
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Fred Zinnemann's sensitive film on the plight of paraplegic WWII veterans features Marlon Brando in his superbly moving...
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Norm
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1950
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Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard ranks among the most scathing satires of Hollywood and the cruel fickleness of movie fandom....
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1950
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In Halls of Montezuma, Richard Widmark stars as Lt. Carl Anderson, a former schoolteacher who serves as a no-nonsense Marine...
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Correspondent Dickerman
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1950
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1950
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Sword in the Desert is set in Palestine during World War II. Dana Andrews plays an American seaman engaged in smuggling...
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1949
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The "He" of the title is Richard Basehart, a clever but psychopathic burglar (based on real-life criminal Erwin Walker)...
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1948
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John Muller (Paul Henreid), an intelligent, arrogant criminal who has been a medical student and a phony psychoanalyst,...
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1948
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