Dragnet '67 - '70
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- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganJudith McConnellIt's Friday evening, Bill's wife is out of town and Joe has agreed to spend the weekend with him for some R & R, starting with a little pinochle with two neighbors. The next day the partners plan to "sleep in, watch the ball game on the tube, and have a dinner fit for kings. We're gonna live like sultans for two days, without harems, of course." What could go wrong with this plan?
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganRandy StuartA sailor gets swindled a second time and goes to the detectives to report it. In order to unwind Gannon invites Friday over for a peaceful dinner. It turns out to be not so peaceful when the neighbors keep interrupting their peaceful dinner.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganArt BalingerOn an April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennesee. With riots erupting all over the United States, the Los Angeles Police Department braces for worse case scenarios such as rioting and bomb threats. Friday and Gannon are assigned to the command post and monitor the situation from there and wait for the first sign of trouble. However, as the weekend progresses Friday notes that Los Angeles is quieter than normal and that many of the people are doing their best to remember that Dr. King stood for peace.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganJohn LuptonA fellow officer gets frustrated with the job, starts missing work and drinking. Friday and Gannon go looking for him, seeking to straighten him out.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganBurt MustinFriday and Gannon investigate a series of burglaries that are taking place during the day, and the victims are those with a recent wedding or death in the family. A senior citizen uses the paper to find homes that are empty during the day.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganAnthony EisleyA television show asks the question - who needs the police? Friday and Gannon are invited to sit on the panel to defend the police department from others that think the police are not needed.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganLew BrownThe LAPD has just been informed that The President of the United States will be making a trip to LA. They have only been given a few hours to prepare. They work with The Secret Service to secure the location at which The President will be holding a press conference.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganVirginia GreggA reporter for a New York magazine wants to do a piece on female police cadets. She's known for not making the people she writes about very attractive. Friday is assigned to escort her around the Academy.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganFred VincentThe crash of a small aircraft offers Friday and Gannon an opportunity. Inside the plane officers discover marijuana and heroin with a total street value over a million. If they can find the pilot, and get the drop location from him, they may be able to follow the chain of criminals to the very top. But they only have five hours: after that the criminals will realize their shipment is missing and disappear. Canvassing neighborhoods at 1:45am eventually puts them onto the pilot, but he won't cooperate. Of course, as Friday reminds him, when he fails to make his shipment on time his criminal bosses are likely to be murderously unhappy. His insurance plan - an article in the newspaper about the crash - won't help him, since Friday has persuaded the news hounds to withhold that item. Stuck, he puts them onto the drop site, and that leads them to the pick up men. If they can get the pick up men to talk, they might just cage the top dog.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganMartin MilnerFriday and Gannon work the Internal Affairs Division concerning an arrested man's accusation of police brutality by one of the officers. The main characters from Adam-12 appear as witnesses.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganDon MarshallFriday and Gannon are at a community college to recruit potential new police officers. With race relations a little tense in late '60s Los Angeles, a majority of the men in the room are African-American. A few of them are dubious about joining the police service. But a few are open to the idea. Later, Officer Dave Roberts, also African-American, is rethinking returning to duty after being badly wounded during a robbery. Relations with his neighbors have soured and he thinks it's affecting him on the job. Friday and Gannon try to talk him out of resigning. Roberts left things up in the air. A few days later, Friday and Gannon are downtown when a call regarding a business disturbance comes over the radio. They are a few blocks away and decide to lend assistance. As it turns out Officer Roberts has responded to the call and is sorting things out on his own as Friday and Gannon observe. After everything is resolved, Roberts notices the two detectives watching from the doorway. Friday gives Roberts a knowing nod. Roberts nods back. They not only convince Roberts to stay on the job, but to help them with the recruiting as well.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganBurt MustinWhile investigating the murder of a pretty young career girl, Friday and Gannon meet a little old man named Calvin Lampe who is more than a little interested in their investigation. In fact, he even is looked at as a suspect because of his attention to every detail in the case. However, the two detectives are in for a big shock when they find out that Mr. Lampe is a retired chief of detectives and that he is a good friend of their boss, Captain Hugh Brown. Lampe's know how and good old fashioned detective work are a big help as Joe and Bill try to solve a very difficult case.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganAnthony EisleyFriday has a temporary partner when Gannon is out for the day. The new partner is from the Vice Department. He tests Friday by offering a bribe.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganBert HollandFriday and Gannon work in the Frauds Department. Disability payments are being sent to deceased persons, and evidence suggests an insider is involved.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganMerry AndersGannon & Friday work the evening shift in the Juvenile Department where they field a variety of calls. Calls include a runaway teenager, an abandoned baby, a boy high on drugs, and a girl accused of theft.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganElizabeth KnowlesA woman invites Friday and Gannon to talk to her Woman's Club about battered children. They train the women to be on the lookout for children who might be abused, and how they can help by becoming foster parents.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganGary CrosbyFriday and Gannon work in the fraud department. Payroll checks are stolen from a studio, as well as driver licenses and credit cards so the checks can be cashed. After they find a suspect, Friday & Gannon realize there is more to the case.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganVirginia GreggFriday and Gannon are working day watch and must go to the hospital when a veteran police officer and his young partner are seriously wounded in a liquor store holdup where they deal with very different reactions of the wives.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganJohn HudsonA woman reports her husband robbed her grandmother's home, taking everything, even the cane for the blind grandmother. The husband demands respect, saying everyone has to call him Mr Lumis.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganRobert BrubakerFriday and Gannon work the day watch in the Juvenile Division. Their first call is for a 12-year-old who overdosed on drugs. The detectives search for his seller to get him off the street.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganSusan Seaforth HayesFriday and Gannon are asked by a woman from Oregon to try to find her niece who has run away from home. Their search eventually leads them into the world of pornography and they soon become involved in the arrest of a pornographer who may have info on where she might be located.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganRobert BrubakerThe detectives try to solve a series of residential burglaries. One victim reported that a jewelry case was taken containing $380. A stolen double-barrel shotgun was found at a pawn shop giving the detectives their first clue as to who may have burglarized one home.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganVirginia GreggFriday and Gannon are assigned to investigate Norm Bivins and Earl Malone, veteran homicide investigators accused of stealing $800 from a dead man. Agnes Emerson, who handled the man's business affairs, claims she gave Bivins and Malone his personal property, including $1000. They say the amount received was $200. Unfortunately, neither side can produce a receipt.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganHoward CulverIn this final episode, Friday and Gannon talk to a new policeman about the importance of police officers and detectives working together, and understanding the victims and criminals.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganG.D. SpradlinThe detectives work in the Burglary Division. They are called to a company where a safe has been opened and the contents stolen.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganDon DubbinsFriday and Gannon are working the day watch out of burglary division when a report comes in that a large quantity of high velocity gelatin dynamite has been stolen from a construction site. When the detectives interview the night watchman who says he tried to stop the crime in progress, they ascertain the license plate number of the car involved. Further investigation leads them to a bar patron nicknamed Ziggy. When they finally track him down and locate the stolen goods, they discover that four of the eight cases are empty and the dynamite that was removed is set to go off somewhere in the city.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganNydia WestmanFriday and Gannon are working the day watch out of Frauds Division, Bunco Section. An expert pair of confidence men have moved from Seattle into L.A. Their victims are the elderly and they have been very successful. They pose as bank examiners out to catch crooked tellers and cheat their victims out of their savings. Friday and Gannon will have to catch them in the process of an actual swindle if they are to make a case against them stick.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganArt BalingerFriday becomes emotionally involved in a rape-murder case of a Japanese-American war widow, especially after he sees how beautiful she was and after he finds out that she left a young daughter behind. Also, there might be a connection with the rape of another woman the previous night. Now Friday and Gannon must search for the rapist before he strikes again.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganMickey SholdarFriday and Gannon are working out of the juvenile division when they get called to a movie theater to investigate an attack on a high school student who had acid thrown on his back. The suspect is another boy named Gerald Paulson, who is emotionally disturbed. Later, Gerald has an argument with his stepfather and runs out of the house carrying a live hand grenade. Eventually, Friday and Gannon trail him to a house where a girl he attends high school with is throwing a party and he is holding them hostage and threatening to pull the pin. It is now up to the two detectives to get the grenade out of his hands before he kills himself and seriously wounds several other people.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganArt GilmoreGannon goes undercover, with Friday as backup, to catch a pair posing as police officers in a scam at a local hotel.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganArt BalingerAfter work Joe Friday goes by a laundromat to buy cigarettes. He interrupts a burglar stealing from the coin box, and shots are fired. The burglar dies, and Friday is investigated by the shooting board to see if it is a justified shot.
- DirectorJack WebbStarsJack WebbHarry MorganVic PerrinAn addict on parole who's succeeding with his rehabilitation disappears and his parole officer asks the detectives for help finding him before he gets back on the habit.