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Episode 1: The Big Pipe
1955-09-0230 min
A young woman is beaten to death with a led pipe and left in an empty office.
Season guide
Dragnet Season 5 — Episodes and Where to Watch
39 episodes · first aired 1955-09-02
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Episode 2: The Big Chet
1955-09-0930 min
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Episode 3: The Big No Rain
1955-09-1630 min
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Episode 4: The Big Lift
1955-09-2330 min
An organized gang of shoplifters is looting large department stores in the city.
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Episode 5: The Big Confession
1955-09-3030 min
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.
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Episode 6: The Big Gap
1955-10-0730 min
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.
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Episode 7: The Big Look
1955-10-1430 min
A woman is dragged from her home and badly beaten by an unknown attacker.
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Episode 8: The Big Glasses
1955-10-2130 min
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.
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Episode 9: The Big Bird
1955-10-2830 min
Sgt. Friday investigates a robber who only targets pet stores and homes that have pet birds.
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Episode 10: The Big Laugh
1955-11-0430 min
A con man makes lonely women fall for his charms, then steals their money and disappears.
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Episode 11: The Big Smoke
1955-11-1130 min
An elderly couple is brutally beaten and the trail leads police to a former handy man.
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Episode 12: The Big Bounce
1955-11-1830 min
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.
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Episode 13: The Big Shot
1955-11-2530 min
A night club owner is shot down and there are no witnesses to the crime.
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Episode 14: The Big Locker
1955-12-0230 min
Friday and Smith happen to catch a man trying to sell a stolen ring at a pawn shop.
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Episode 15: The Big Note
1955-12-0930 min
An anonymous note leads Friday and Smith to a group of teenage drug users and their neglectful parents.
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Episode 16: The Big Genius
1955-12-1630 min
Friday and Smith investigate what seems to be the perfect crime.
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Episode 17: The Big Reminisce
1955-12-3030 min
During a quiet New Year's shift, Friday and Smith remember some of their past cases and why it is they became cops.
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Episode 18: The Big Tour
1956-01-0630 min
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Episode 19: The Big Sisters
1956-01-1330 min
An elderly woman fakes a burglary report so she can get attention from the police and the media.
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Episode 20: The Big Ruling
1956-01-2030 min
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Episode 21: The Big Fall Guy
1956-01-2730 min
Friday and Smith are on the trail of a robbery suspect that has robbed two stores.
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Episode 22: The Big Set
1956-02-0330 min
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.
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Episode 23: The Big Child
1956-02-1030 min
A two-year-old child after drinking bleach from under the sink. Friday and Smith are unable to locate the mother for questioning.
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Episode 24: The Big Slug
1956-02-1730 min
A liquor store owner is shot and killed during a botched robbery, but police can find no trace of the fatal bullet.
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Episode 25: The Big Daughter
1956-02-2430 min
Friday and Smith investigate a missing persons report.
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Episode 26: The Big No Suicide
1956-03-0230 min
Friday gets a call from a former mental patient who is threatening to kill himself and his family.
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Episode 27: The Big Siege
1956-03-0930 min
Police find themselves in a stand-off when an armed bank robber takes a woman hostage in her home.
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Episode 28: The Big Mama
1956-03-1630 min
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Episode 29: The Big Revision
1956-03-2330 min
Friday and Smith hit a blank wall when a burglary suspect refuses to admit where he hid his stash.
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Episode 30: The Big Ex-Blonde
1956-03-3030 min
Friday goes undercover to catch brothers who steal people's money by posing as real-estate agents.
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Episode 31: The Big Bobo
1956-04-0630 min
A police officer is suspended from duty when he is accused of taking a bribe in exchange for a prisoner's release.
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Episode 32: The Big Rush
1956-04-1330 min
Two bandits turn cop killer when they gun down an off-duty policeman during a tavern hold-up.
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Episode 33: The Big Setup
1956-04-2030 min
An informant tips off police to a shipment of heroin coming into the country. Friday goes under cover to bust open the ring.
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Episode 34: The Big Deal
1956-04-2730 min
Friday and Smith are investigating a rash of car thefts. The stolen cars are being sold with forged pink slips.
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Episode 35: The Big Wish
1956-05-0430 min
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.
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Episode 36: The Big Hat
1956-05-1130 min
A young man is found hiding in an empty train car with the strangled body of an older woman next to him.
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Episode 37: The Big Housemaid
1956-05-1830 min
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Episode 38: The Big Gift
1956-05-2530 min
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Episode 39: The Big Salvage
1956-06-0130 min
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