Dragnet 1968
28 episodes · Sep 14, 1967
This is a list of episodes from the second season of the 1967 Dragnet series. The season was directed by Jack Webb.
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- S2E1
The Grenade
Sep 14, 196730mA volatile teenager throws acid on the back of another student (played by a teen-aged Jan Michael Vincent), then crashes a party armed with a live hand grenade.
- S2E2
The Shooting Board
Sep 21, 196730mJoe tries to stop a burglary at an all night launderette and ends up exchanging fire with the suspect. When SID tries to find the bullet fired at Joe, they come up empty and Joe faces a shooting board with no proof the man ever fired at him.
- S2E3
The Badge Racket
Sep 28, 196730mThree con artists have been swindling businessmen from out-of-town by posing as a prostitute and two policemen. The detectives set a trap as Gannon pretends to be a manufacturer from Lincoln Nebraska.
- S2E4
The Bank Jobs
Oct 5, 196730mA nervy bank robber uses innocent women to help commit his crimes. Friday and Gannon are nearly sidetracked when one of the victims lies about her involvement and later proves to have a criminal record of her own.
- S2E5
The Big Neighbor
Oct 12, 196730mBill invites Joe to dinner and a football game at his home in Eagle Rock. The only problem: Gannon's neighbors keep interrupting the visit with petty, and not-so-petty, problems.
- S2E6
The Big Frustration
Oct 19, 196730mSgt. Carl Maxwell, a frustrated fellow detective, goes AWOL; Friday and Gannon have three days to track him down before Maxwell loses his badge for good.
- S2E7
The Senior Citizen
Oct 26, 196730mA series of daring daylight house burglaries are taking place. Friday and Gannon go undercover in a laundry truck to discover the perp.
- S2E8
The Big High
Nov 2, 196730mAn elderly businessman, concerned about the welfare of his grandchild, informs Friday and Gannon that his daughter and son-in-law are using marijuana regularly. The young couple make no apologies for their lifestyle, which inevitably leads to disaster.
- S2E9
The Big Ad
Nov 9, 196730mAn ex-con named Steve Deal contacts Friday and Gannon when a classified ad that he placed, offering to do "anything" for money, results in an offer to commit murder. Friday goes undercover as Deal.
- S2E10
The Missing Realtor
Nov 16, 196730mA woman real-estate agent is missing and turns up dead in a vacant home. The detectives suspect her ex-boyfriend. Then credit card bills for purchases made after the woman's death start appearing.
- S2E11
The Big Dog
Nov 23, 196730mFriday and Gannon are on the case to find ... a purse-snatching dog? Making things more difficult, victims give different descriptions of the four-legged thief.
- S2E12
The Pyramid Swindle
Nov 30, 196730mA female con-artist uses an evangelistic approach to lure buyers into her pyramid scheme. The Bunco division can't charge her with false advertising, so they prosecute her for operating a lottery.
- S2E13
The Phony Police Racket
Dec 7, 196730mFriday and Gannon investigate a scam involving a phony LAPD newsletter, which comes with a card for subscribers entitling the bearer to preferential treatment from the police.
- S2E14
The Trial Board
Dec 14, 196730mAn officer accused of taking a bribe has chosen Sgt. Friday to represent him at his trial board hearing. Witnesses saw the officer accept the money, but he insists it was for the payback of a loan made years ago.
- S2E15
The Christmas Story
Dec 21, 196730mA statue of the child Jesus was stolen from a church. Joe and Bill have to get it back by Christmas. They have less than 48 hours.
- S2E16
The Big Shipment
Dec 28, 196730mDrugs are found aboard a plane that has crashed in the San Fernando Valley. The pilot is quickly traced, but in order to force him to name his connection, Friday and Gannon ask the press to sit on the story for a few hours.
- S2E17
The Big Search
Jan 4, 196830mTwo small girls, ages three and five, are missing. Their mother is certain that her ex-husband, an alcoholic, has kidnapped them. However, he is now in recovery and has no knowledge of the girls' whereabouts. The search seems hopeless until Friday and Gannon, acting on information from a former neighbor, follow a hunch.
- S2E18
The Big Prophet
Jan 11, 196830mFriday and Gannon confront "Brother" William Bentley at his Temple of the Expanded Mind. They think he is using his new age religion as a front to push drugs to the nearby elementary school.
- S2E19
The Big Amateur
Jan 25, 196830mCitizens are full of praise for Officer Gideon C. Dengle - they want to bestow him with awards, honors and home-baked cookies. There's only one problem: there's no such officer in the LAPD.
- S2E20
The Starlet
Feb 1, 196830mA teenage runaway, intent on becoming a star, has instead wound up in pornographic films. Acting on behalf of the girl's aunt, Friday and Gannon try to find the young "starlet."
- S2E21
The Big Clan
Feb 8, 196830mSgt. Friday is offered a bribe to assist a gypsy family trying to gain control of the gypsy community.
- S2E22
The Little Victim
Feb 15, 196830mWhen a nine-month old child is beaten, Friday and Gannon investigate the parents, who are more concerned about their failing relationship than their baby son.
- S2E23
The Squeeze
Feb 22, 196830mAn ex-con accused of extortion is interrogated. He calmly and smugly insists that he is innocent, but Friday and Gannon have a surprise for him: taped conversations and a voice analysis device.
- S2E24
The Suicide Attempt
Feb 29, 196830mFriday and Gannon learn that a young man has called his mother from Hollywood "to say goodbye." With the help of the man's sister, the two detectives trace the impending suicide to a hotel with over 1,200 rooms.
- S2E25
The Big Departure
Mar 7, 196830mPetty theft from drug and hardware stores leads to a group of four teens who are determined to start their own nation on a remote island off the California coast.
- S2E26
The Investigation
Mar 14, 196830mFriday and Gannon are screening applicants for the Police Academy. One seems to have all the right qualifications, except that six months are missing from his application.
- S2E27
The Big Gambler
Mar 21, 196830mOver $100,000 has been embezzled from an industrial company. An investigation of the employees leads Friday and Gannon to a habitual gambler.
- S2E28
The Big Problem
Mar 28, 196830mCommunity relations is the theme, as Friday and Gannon try to narrow the gap between the Department and the citizens it is sworn "to protect and to serve." The gap is especially wide between African-Americans and the primarily Caucasian LAPD, as demonstrated when a young - and slightly militant - black man barracades himself in his apartment rather than submit to a traffic warrant.