Dragnet - Season 3

Season 3
This is a list of episodes from the third season of the 1967 Dragnet series. The season was directed by Jack Webb.
Network
Episodes27
DatesSep 19, 1968 - Apr 17, 1969
Episodes

Season 3Episode 160 min
Public Affairs - DR-07
Joe and Bill appear on the TV talk show "Speak Your Mind" debating the topic "The Police, Who Needs Them?" with a professor, a hippie, some black power activists, and some (other) disgruntled citizens.
Sep 19, 1968

Season 3Episode 260 min
Juvenile - DR-05
Joe and Bill are working the night watch of Juvenile division. They handle a run away boy from New York, an underage marriage, an abandoned baby, a boy on drugs, and a girl accused of stealing money.
Sep 26, 1968

Season 3Episode 360 min
Community Relations - DR-10
Joe and Bill attend a meeting of the East LA Graduates Union, attempting to recruit recent minority high school graduates into the police academy. A black patrol officer joins their efforts until his house in vandalized and he decides to resign from the force. Joe tries to change his mind.
Oct 3, 1968

Season 3Episode 460 min
Management Services - DR-11
Joe and Bill are called back to work because of an emergency. It's April 4, 1968, and Dr Martin Luther King has been assassinated less than an hour ago. They are assigned to the police emergency control center to monitor potential unrest in the LA area.
Oct 10, 1968

Season 3Episode 560 min
Police Commission - DR-13
There is a police crackdown on dishonest tow truck operators. Joe and Bill are assigned to investigate 6 complaints against the same tow truck company.
Oct 17, 1968

Season 3Episode 660 min
Homicide - DR-06
Joe and Bill review the progress report of a homicide (thus the name of the episode). Joe has invited Bill and his wife to his apartment for dinner. The dinner is constantly interrupted by neighbors asking for advice and complaining about a loud party. One neighbor calls to say that someone is breaking into the coin boxes in the laundry room. Joe and Bill grab their guns and investigate.
Oct 24, 1968

Season 3Episode 760 min
Robbery - DR-15
Joe and Bill are working the robbery desk. They handle a variety of complaints about a truck hijacking, a bank robbery and a robbery of a neighborhood market. A woman complains about "thieving birds" and another thinks her wallet had been stolen, but misplaced it in her coat.
Nov 7, 1968

Season 3Episode 860 min
Public Affairs - DR-12
Joe and Bill are assigned to help arrange a press conference for the President of the United States at LAX.
Nov 14, 1968

Season 3Episode 960 min
Training - DR-18
Joe and Bill are temporarily assigned as instructors at the Police Academy. They are teaching a class of women cadets. Joe is asked to assist a woman reporter who is writing a story about women in the police force. On of the cadets is being pressured to resign by her boyfriend and Joe must convince her to stay.
Nov 21, 1968

Season 3Episode 1060 min
Public Affairs - DR-14
Joe and Bill have been asked by a store owner to help him form a crime prevention group of neighborhood story owners. Most of the story owners are not convinced they need such a group until two robberies occur.
Nov 28, 1968

Season 3Episode 1160 min
Narcotics - DR-16
Someone is selling LSD to teens. Joe and Bill are asked to speak to a local High School group that want to form an anti drug club "Smart Teens". They plan to create posters and Joe gets a Disney artist to draw them. But will the kids follow through?
Dec 5, 1968

Season 3Episode 1260 min
Internal Affairs - DR-20
Joe and Bill investigate a charge of police brutality against a patrolman. The patrolman was attempting to stop someone from driving drunk when things got out of hand and the drunk tears the patrolman's uniform.
Dec 12, 1968

Season 3Episode 1360 min
Community Relations - DR-17
Joe and Bill are sent to a Community Relations conference at Lake Arrowhead with other police officers. Their task is to discuss ways of improving community relations, and in the process find a few officers that have bigoted views.
Jan 2, 1969

Season 3Episode 1460 min
Homicide - DR-22
Joe and Bill are called to an apartment where the building manager has found a young woman bound and dead. The extremely chatty 91 year old manager, who is obsessed with crime novels, is their prime suspect.
Jan 9, 1969

Season 3Episode 1560 min
B.O.D. - DR-27
Joe and Bill are assigned to the Business Office Division. A priest is in the division to observe its operation. Joe and Bill work a series of problems from a potential tidal wave, a wino, protesters, a suicide, and a lost boy.
Jan 23, 1969

Season 3Episode 1660 min
Narcotics - DR-21
The Captain ask Joe and Bill to investigate having dogs trained to sniff out narcotics. They contact a dog trainer to train dogs for the job. Joe and Bill do a demonstration for Judges to prove the effectiveness of using a dog to detect marijuana.
Jan 30, 1969

Season 3Episode 1760 min
Administrative Vice - DR-29
Joe has a new partner, Lt. Chris Drucker, while Bill recovers from the flu. Joe and Chris go undercover as a pair of casual gamblers, then place their winnings in an envelope for evidence. The problem? $100 goes missing from the envelope, and Drucker says Joe took it.
Feb 6, 1969

Season 3Episode 1860 min
The Joy Riders
A 15-year-old car thief is given a tour of the jail in an attempt to impress him of the consequences for choosing crime. Unfortunately, it doesn't work - the young man later kills someone with a shotgun.
Feb 13, 1969

Season 3Episode 1960 min
Frauds - DR-28
Joe and Bill investigate someone who has fraudulently obtained disability checks. This person has been renting apartments and only using them as a mail drop. Joe and Bill meet with a group of apartment owners to ask for their help.
Feb 20, 1969

Season 3Episode 2060 min
Juvenile - DR-19
Joe and Bill are asked to investigate allegation of child abuse by his mother. The story deals with the difficulty of having a child removed from an abusive home.
Feb 27, 1969

Season 3Episode 2160 min
Burglary - DR-31
A costumed thief calling himself "The Crimson Crusader" has been stealing comic books, movie posters and publicity photos of various superheroes.
Mar 6, 1969

Season 3Episode 2260 min
Vice - DR-30
The Captain assigns Joe and Bill to find the location of a high stakes poke operation that has been preying on visitors. Bill and Joe pose as farmers and check into a hotel where an agricultural convention is occurring.
Mar 13, 1969

Season 3Episode 2360 min
Forgery - DR-33
An actress' pay checks have being stolen and someone have cashed them. Joe and Bill visit the actress' apartment and find her roommate the prime suspect. They try to track the roommate down, but are unsuccessful until her husband contacts them.
Mar 20, 1969

Season 3Episode 2460 min
Juvenile - DR-32
A child has been bitten by a dog and the child is allergic to the anti-rabies shot. Joe and Bill have less than two hours to locate the dog.
Mar 27, 1969

Season 3Episode 2560 min
Juvenile - DR-35
An infant girl is found in a garbage can; Joe and Bill use the child's blanket to track down the mother.
Apr 3, 1969

Season 3Episode 2660 min
Frauds - DR-36
Someone is embezzling from Summers Department Store by opening up false credit card accounts at the store. Joe and Bill figure it is an inside job and question employees in the credit department.
Apr 10, 1969

Season 3Episode 2760 min
Intelligence - DR-34
At a night school alumni party, Joe is approached to join the Fielder Militia, a right wing group. They want Joe to help one of the Militia’s members get a Federal firearms license. Joe works with the ATF to join the Militia to locate Militia’s cache of illegal automatic weapons.
Apr 17, 1969
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