Dragnet - Season 5
Season 5
Network
Episodes39
DatesSep 8, 1955 - May 31, 1956
Episodes
Season 5Episode 130 min
The Big Pipe
A young woman is beaten to death with a led pipe and left in an empty office.
Sep 19, 1955
Season 5Episode 230 min
The Big Chet
Sep 8, 1955
Season 5Episode 330 min
The Big No Rain
Sep 15, 1955
Season 5Episode 430 min
The Big Lift
An organized gang of shoplifters is looting large department stores in the city.
Sep 22, 1955
Season 5Episode 530 min
The Big Confession
A man walks into the station and tells Friday that he wants to confess to a murder, but the cops have a hard time varifying his story.
Sep 29, 1955
Season 5Episode 630 min
The Big Gap
A pawn shop owner alerts Friday and Smith when a man claimed to have purchased an expensive ring that turns out to be junk and then asked the pawn shop owner to sell him a gun.
Oct 6, 1955
Season 5Episode 730 min
The Big Look
A woman is dragged from her home and badly beaten by an unknown attacker.
Oct 13, 1955
Season 5Episode 830 min
The Big Glasses
A housewife, Ella Ryburn, reports to Friday and Smith that she cannot contact her mother, who is married to Alfred Rudolph Shroder. When he is questioned, Shroder claims his wife left him and that, out of shame, he sold their house and put her items in storage.
Oct 20, 1955
Season 5Episode 930 min
The Big Bird
Sgt. Friday investigates a robber who only targets pet stores and homes that have pet birds.
Oct 27, 1955
Season 5Episode 1030 min
The Big Laugh
A con man makes lonely women fall for his charms, then steals their money and disappears.
Nov 3, 1955
Season 5Episode 1130 min
The Big Smoke
An elderly couple is brutally beaten and the trail leads police to a former handy man.
Nov 10, 1955
Season 5Episode 1230 min
The Big Bounce
Joe Friday searches for a check forger who has been using the name of the old-time movie villain Parker Allington... who died three years ago.
Nov 17, 1955
Season 5Episode 1330 min
The Big Shot
A night club owner is shot down and there are no witnesses to the crime.
Nov 24, 1955
Season 5Episode 1430 min
The Big Locker
Friday and Smith happen to catch a man trying to sell a stolen ring at a pawn shop.
Dec 1, 1955
Season 5Episode 1530 min
The Big Note
An anonymous note leads Friday and Smith to a group of teenage drug users and their neglectful parents.
Dec 8, 1955
Season 5Episode 1630 min
The Big Genius
Friday and Smith investigate what seems to be the perfect crime.
Dec 15, 1955
Season 5Episode 1730 min
The Big Reminisce
During a quiet New Year's shift, Friday and Smith remember some of their past cases and why it is they became cops.
Dec 29, 1955
Season 5Episode 1830 min
The Big Tour
Jan 5, 1956
Season 5Episode 1930 min
The Big Sisters
An elderly woman fakes a burglary report so she can get attention from the police and the media.
Jan 12, 1956
Season 5Episode 2030 min
The Big Ruling
Jan 19, 1956
Season 5Episode 2130 min
The Big Fall Guy
Friday and Smith are on the trail of a robbery suspect that has robbed two stores.
Jan 26, 1956
Season 5Episode 2230 min
The Big Set
A city councilman is beaten and robbed by two men outside a bar. When he dies from his injuries, Friday and Smith feel pressure to find the killers.
Feb 2, 1956
Season 5Episode 2330 min
The Big Child
A two-year-old child after drinking bleach from under the sink. Friday and Smith are unable to locate the mother for questioning.
Feb 9, 1956
Season 5Episode 2430 min
The Big Slug
A liquor store owner is shot and killed during a botched robbery, but police can find no trace of the fatal bullet.
Feb 16, 1956
Season 5Episode 2530 min
The Big Daughter
Friday and Smith investigate a missing persons report.
Feb 23, 1956
Season 5Episode 2630 min
The Big No Suicide
Friday gets a call from a former mental patient who is threatening to kill himself and his family.
Mar 1, 1956
Season 5Episode 2730 min
The Big Siege
Police find themselves in a stand-off when an armed bank robber takes a woman hostage in her home.
Mar 8, 1956
Season 5Episode 2830 min
The Big Mama
Mar 15, 1956
Season 5Episode 2930 min
The Big Revision
Friday and Smith hit a blank wall when a burglary suspect refuses to admit where he hid his stash.
Mar 22, 1956
Season 5Episode 3030 min
The Big Ex-Blonde
Friday goes undercover to catch brothers who steal people's money by posing as real-estate agents.
Mar 29, 1956
Season 5Episode 3130 min
The Big Bobo
A police officer is suspended from duty when he is accused of taking a bribe in exchange for a prisoner's release.
Apr 5, 1956
Season 5Episode 3230 min
The Big Rush
Two bandits turn cop killer when they gun down an off-duty policeman during a tavern hold-up.
Apr 12, 1956
Season 5Episode 3330 min
The Big Setup
An informant tips off police to a shipment of heroin coming into the country. Friday goes under cover to bust open the ring.
Apr 19, 1956
Season 5Episode 3430 min
The Big Deal
Friday and Smith are investigating a rash of car thefts. The stolen cars are being sold with forged pink slips.
Apr 26, 1956
Season 5Episode 3530 min
The Big Wish
A teenage boy turns himself in and confesses to being an addict, but he refuses to give up the names of his friends who supplied him.
May 3, 1956
Season 5Episode 3630 min
The Big Hate
A young man is found hiding in an empty train car with the strangled body of an older woman next to him.
May 10, 1956
Season 5Episode 3730 min
The Big Housemaid
May 17, 1956
Season 5Episode 3830 min
The Big Gift
May 24, 1956
Season 5Episode 3930 min
The Big Savage
May 31, 1956
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