Dragnet
Dragnet: Season 6

Air Date

September 27, 1956

Episodes

34 episodes

Dragnet

Season 6

Episodes

1. The Big Cat

September 27, 1956
30 min

A circus man reports that a tiger escaped from his truck and is now on the loose in Los Angeles.

2. The Big Misses

October 11, 1956
30 min

A frightened wife tells Friday and Smith that she's worried her husband is planning to pull a hold-up.

3. The Big Beer

October 18, 1956
30 min

4. The Big Net

October 25, 1956
30 min

A group of police women act as decoys to draw a stick-up man out into the open.

5. The Big Convertable

November 1, 1956
30 min

A man forges checks to keep himself and his wife in an expensive lifestyle, but he goes too far when he buys a slick convertable.

6. The Big Limp

November 8, 1956
30 min

A teenage boy under arrest admits to police that his brother is planning to rob a loan company.

7. The Big Tattoo

November 15, 1956
30 min

Friday and Smith are looking for a robber with an unusual tattoo.

8. The Big Odd

November 22, 1956
30 min

Friday and Smith investigate a gambling racket.

9. The Big Bill

November 29, 1956
30 min

Friday and Smith investigate reports of counterfeit money appearing all over the city.

10. The Big Search

December 6, 1956
30 min

A distraught father reports that his teenage daughter is missing, and things look more bleak when her murdered pet is discovered in her room.

11. The Big Talk

December 13, 1956
30 min

A watch salesman reports that he was robbed by two men whom he drank with the night before.

12. The Big Doting Mother

December 20, 1956
30 min

13. The Big Handcuffs

December 27, 1956
30 min

14. The Big Father

January 3, 1957
30 min

A father works as a day burglar so he can buy presents for his kids, now living with his ex wife.

15. The Big Switch

January 10, 1957
30 min

16. The Big Steal

January 17, 1957
30 min

Friday and Smith investigate a rash of burglaries.

17. The Big Manikin

January 24, 1957
30 min

A woman reports that her husband has failed to come home after going out with is business partner.

18. The Big No Tooth

January 31, 1957
30 min

A bandit carrying a sawed-off shotgun is robbing hotels in the down town area.

19. The Big Skip

February 7, 1957
30 min

A man is reported missing, by two different women, the description matches, but the names are different. He is married to these two and has apparently skipped out on both. Friday searches for him at various places.

20. The Big Fin

February 14, 1957
30 min

A tourist leaves her purse in the back of a cab and it's up to Friday and Smith to track it down.

21. The Big Game

February 21, 1957
30 min

22. The Big Coins

February 28, 1957
30 min

Friday and Smith are on the trail of a robber/arsonist that takes nothing of value and then sets the house on fire.

23. The Big Close

March 7, 1957
30 min

Friday and Smith reopen a closed case because a tip leads them to believe they have the wrong person.

24. The Big Tie

March 14, 1957
30 min

Friday and Smith investigate the former employee of a tie manufacturing company.

25. The Big Cup

March 21, 1957
30 min

A howling dog leads to the unearthing of the battered body of an old woman in her garden.

26. The Big Truck

March 28, 1957
30 min

Friday and Smith investigate the hit and run of a little girl.

27. The Big Saint

April 4, 1957
30 min

Friday and Smith try to prove that a salvage yard operator is using his business to fix up stolen cars.

28. The Big Match

April 11, 1957
30 min

An auction house is held up and the only clue to the bandits lies in a dropped matchbook.

29. The Big Help

April 18, 1957
30 min

30. The Big Celebration

April 25, 1957
30 min

Friday and Smith are on the trail of a thief whose victims are attending weddings and funerals.

31. The Big Cry Baby

May 2, 1957
30 min

32. The Big Lesson

May 9, 1957
30 min

Friday and Smith are on the trail of three masked men responsible for over thirty robberies.

33. The Big Soldier

May 16, 1957
30 min

34. The Big Make

May 23, 1957
30 min

A bakery owner and his daughter are shot down during a robbery.