Friday - The Dragnet Podcast is your ultimate destination for reliving the thrilling world of the classic Dragnet radio show. Step back into the gritty streets of Los Angeles with Sergeant Joe Friday as he brings justice to life through captivating, true-to-form storytelling. This unparalleled collection features beautifully remastered audio, accurate transcriptions, and detailed episode descriptions to give listeners the most authentic Dragnet experience.Whether you're a longtime fan or a newcomer to old-time radio dramas, this podcast delivers the definitive version of Dragnet, preserving its iconic legacy for generations to come. Experience crime-solving at its finest with meticulous attention...
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Nov 13, 2026 · 27:48
Originally Aired: July 6, 1954 Dragnet #255, "The Big Search," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith are working the night watch out of juvenile detail when they receive an…
Nov 12, 2026 · 28:01
Originally Aired: June 29, 1954 Dragnet #254, "The Big Chick," opens with a grim discovery: the body of a man found floating in MacArthur Park Lake. When Sergeant Joe Friday and…
Nov 11, 2026 · 27:50
Originally Aired: June 22, 1954 Dragnet #253, "The Big Customer," finds Sergeants Joe Friday and Frank Smith investigating a violent robbery that has left a special officer shot…
Nov 10, 2026 · 27:29
Originally Aired: June 15, 1954 Dragnet #252, "The Big Cat," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith face an unusual case for the auto theft detail when Clarence Havill…
Nov 9, 2026 · 27:10
Originally Aired: June 8, 1954 Dragnet #251, "The Big Student," finds Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith pursuing a dangerous bank robber who has been systematically…
Nov 8, 2026 · 26:47
Originally Aired: June 1, 1954 Dragnet #250, "The Big Cowboy," Sergeants Joe Friday and Frank Smith respond to a Code 3 call for unknown trouble at an apartment court on La…
Nov 7, 2026 · 27:58
Originally Aired: May 25, 1954 Dragnet #249, "The Big Watch," Sergeants Joe Friday and Frank Smith catch their first break in a three-week-old supermarket robbery when an…
Nov 6, 2026 · 28:00
Originally Aired: May 18, 1954 Dragnet #248, "The Big Help," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith are working the forgery detail, pursuing a sophisticated gang of check…
Nov 5, 2026 · 28:22
Originally Aired: May 11, 1954 Dragnet #247, "The Big Look," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith respond to a brutal beating at 7982 Oakwood Avenue. The victim, Mrs.…
Nov 4, 2026 · 27:56
Originally Aired: May 4, 1954 Dragnet #246, "The Big Stop," begins with a routine morning at Los Angeles Police Department's Homicide Division, where Sergeant Joe Friday and his…
Nov 3, 2026 · 26:52
Originally Aired: April 27, 1954 Dragnet #245, "The Big Lift," Sergeants Joe Friday and Frank Smith are called to the Whitfield Department store to investigate an organized…
Nov 2, 2026 · 27:28
Originally Aired: April 20, 1954 Dragnet #244, "The Big Net," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith face a dangerous escalation in their city's crime wave. Fourteen…
Nov 1, 2026 · 25:12
Originally Aired: April 13, 1954 Dragnet #243, "The Big Note," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith start their day with some good-natured ribbing about Friday's failed…
Oct 31, 2026 · 27:25
Originally Aired: April 6, 1954 Dragnet #242, "The Big Saw," finds Sergeants Joe Friday and Frank Smith investigating a bank robbery carried out by two masked gunmen. The case…
Oct 30, 2026 · 27:19
Originally Aired: March 30, 1954 Dragnet #241, "The Big Confession," finds Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith confronting an unsettling case when a young man named…
Oct 29, 2026 · 27:08
Originally Aired: March 23, 1954 Dragnet #240, "The Big Mustache," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith are called to investigate an armed robbery at a local Los Angeles…
Oct 28, 2026 · 26:18
Originally Aired: March 16, 1954 Dragnet #239, "The Big Rod," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith investigate a vicious hit-and-run that leaves a young woman, Helen…
Oct 27, 2026 · 25:56
Originally Aired: March 9, 1954 Dragnet #238, "The Big Cup," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith investigate the brutal murder of an elderly woman, Ethel Lawrence, who…
Oct 26, 2026 · 26:51
Originally Aired: March 2, 1954 Dragnet #237, "The Big Tv," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young mother named Harriet…
Oct 25, 2026 · 27:34
Originally Aired: February 23, 1954 Dragnet #236, "The Big Pipe," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith investigate the brutal murder of an accountant found beaten to death…
Oct 24, 2026 · 27:13
Originally Aired: February 16, 1954 Dragnet #235, "The Big Sucker," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith investigate a sophisticated diamond swindle operating in Los…
Oct 23, 2026 · 27:04
Originally Aired: February 9, 1954 Dragnet #234, "The Big Broad," Sergeant Joe Friday and his temporary partner, Sergeant Slats Henry, are hunting a dangerous pair of robbery…
Oct 22, 2026 · 27:43
Originally Aired: February 2, 1954 Dragnet #233, "The Big Filth," Sergeant Joe Friday and policewoman Irene Gardner investigate a disturbing call from a concerned neighbor, Mrs.…
Oct 21, 2026 · 26:31
Originally Aired: January 26, 1954 Dragnet #232, "The Big Bid," finds Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith investigating a puzzling burglary at a men's clothing store on…
Oct 20, 2026 · 26:42
Originally Aired: January 19, 1954 Dragnet #231, "The Big Bill," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith investigate the mysterious disappearance of Bertha Gillespie, an…
Oct 19, 2026 · 26:50
Originally Aired: January 12, 1954 Dragnet #230, "The Big Switch," Sergeants Joe Friday and Frank Smith investigate what initially appears to be a young woman's suicide attempt…
Oct 18, 2026 · 26:41
Originally Aired: January 5, 1954 Dragnet #229, "The Big Listen," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith respond to a tip from Del, the manager of a Turkish bath. Del…
Oct 17, 2026 · 27:05
Originally Aired: December 29, 1953 Dragnet #228, "The Big Steal," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith investigate a series of sophisticated burglaries plaguing Los…
Oct 16, 2026 · 28:37
Originally Aired: December 22, 1953 Dragnet #227, "The Big Little Jesus," Sergeants Joe Friday and Frank Smith are called away from their Christmas preparations when a priceless…
Oct 15, 2026 · 27:17
Originally Aired: December 15, 1953 Dragnet #226, "The Big Brink," Detective Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith are working the night watch out of robbery detail…
Oct 14, 2026 · 27:40
Originally Aired: December 8, 1953 Dragnet #225, "The Big Pick," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith of the Bunco Fugitive Division tackle an organized gang of…
Oct 13, 2026 · 27:50
Originally Aired: December 1, 1953 Dragnet #224, "The Big Odd," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith investigate a brutal truck hijacking that leaves driver Russell…
Oct 12, 2026 · 28:33
Originally Aired: November 24, 1953 Dragnet #223, "The Big Present," finds Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith working burglary detail on a puzzling string of market…
Oct 11, 2026 · 27:56
Originally Aired: November 17, 1953 Dragnet #222, "The Big Flight," begins when Sergeants Joe Friday and Frank Smith respond to a brutal robbery at a corner market on Lockwood…
Oct 10, 2026 · 27:14
Originally Aired: November 10, 1953 Dragnet #221, "The Big Kid," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith are working the juvenile detail when rumors surface of an impending…
Oct 9, 2026 · 30:36
Originally Aired: November 3, 1953 Dragnet #220, "The Big Rain," Sergeants Joe Friday and Frank Smith are working the night watch in homicide when they catch a brutal assault…
Oct 8, 2026 · 31:17
Originally Aired: October 27, 1953 Dragnet #219, "The Big Fraud," Sergeant Joe Friday and Frank Smith find themselves juggling two disturbing complaints that may be connected.…
Oct 7, 2026 · 27:18
Originally Aired: October 20, 1953 Dragnet #218, "The Big Paint," finds Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith facing a sophisticated organized crime operation. An…
Oct 6, 2026 · 30:57
Originally Aired: October 13, 1953 Dragnet #217, "The Big Plea," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith are tracking down two holdup men operating in Los Angeles. Their…
Oct 5, 2026 · 31:20
Originally Aired: October 6, 1953 Dragnet #216, "The Big Little Mother," Detectives Joe Friday and Frank Smith are called to the Beckworth department store to investigate a…
Oct 4, 2026 · 31:09
Originally Aired: September 29, 1953 Dragnet #215, "The Big Try," Friday and Smith's quiet morning at homicide is interrupted when reporter Sid Hughes calls with an urgent case.…
Oct 3, 2026 · 28:59
Originally Aired: September 22, 1953 In Dragnet #214, "The Big Slip," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith are working the day watch on the Auto Theft detail when they…
Oct 2, 2026 · 29:11
Originally Aired: September 15, 1953 Dragnet #213, "The Big Cab," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith are called to the hospital in the early morning hours of February…
Oct 1, 2026 · 26:49
Originally Aired: September 8, 1953 Dragnet #212, "The Big Lift," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith find themselves frustrated by an elusive burglar who has been…
Sep 30, 2026 · 28:56
Originally Aired: September 1, 1953 Dragnet #211, "The Big Bop," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith investigate a series of holdups that have plagued Los Angeles for…
Sep 29, 2026 · 30:37
Originally Aired: June 28, 1953 Dragnet #210, "The Big Ham," Sergeant Joe Friday and Frank Smith are called to investigate what appears to be a suicide in the Westlake Park…
Sep 28, 2026 · 31:27
Originally Aired: June 21, 1953 Dragnet #209, "The Big Revolt," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith of the Missing Persons Detail investigate the disappearance of Henry…
Sep 27, 2026 · 32:37
Originally Aired: June 14, 1953 Dragnet #208, "The Big Lilly," finds Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith responding to a cryptic phone call about a woman who has been…
Sep 26, 2026 · 31:38
Originally Aired: June 7, 1953 Dragnet #207, "The Big Will," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith respond to a shooting call on a rainy Sunday night in Los Angeles. When…
Sep 25, 2026 · 31:16
Originally Aired: May 31, 1953 Dragnet #206, "The Big Gun Part 2," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith continue their investigation of an organized car theft ring,…
Sep 24, 2026 · 32:58
Originally Aired: May 24, 1953 Dragnet #205, "The Big Gun Part 1," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith catch a case involving a missing rental truck. After Frank recounts…
Sep 23, 2026 · 32:02
Originally Aired: May 17, 1953 Dragnet #204, "The Big False Move," opens with Sergeant Joe Friday arriving at the Robbery division office suffering from debilitating headaches…
Sep 22, 2026 · 32:12
Originally Aired: May 10, 1953 Dragnet #203, "The Big Joke," Friday and Smith receive an unusual early morning call from Johnny Bronson, a bartender they know from 6th Street.…
Sep 21, 2026 · 32:03
Originally Aired: May 3, 1953 Dragnet #202, "The Big Carney," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith investigate a brazen theft at the Armstrong Schneider Jewelry Company,…
Sep 20, 2026 · 32:07
Originally Aired: April 26, 1953 Dragnet #201, "The Big Scrapbook," finds Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith responding to an urgent call from the San Diego Police…
Sep 19, 2026 · 26:47
Originally Aired: April 19, 1953 Dragnet #200, "The Big Rip," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith face one of their toughest cases yet: a sophisticated gang has…
Sep 18, 2026 · 28:19
Originally Aired: April 12, 1953 Dragnet #199, "The Big Compulsion," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith investigate a dangerous pattern of false emergency calls that…
Sep 17, 2026 · 31:59
Originally Aired: April 5, 1953 Dragnet #198, "The Big Chet," finds Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith struggling with a frustrating three-month case involving a pair of…
Sep 16, 2026 · 32:17
Originally Aired: March 29, 1953 Dragnet #197, "The Big Dream," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith respond to an early morning robbery at a large liquor and grocery…
Sep 15, 2026 · 32:16
Originally Aired: March 22, 1953 Dragnet #196, "The Big Informant," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith are under pressure to crack a string of safe burglaries that…
Sep 14, 2026 · 32:13
Originally Aired: March 15, 1953 Dragnet #195, "The Big Impossible," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith investigate a bold daylight robbery at Lamont Brothers Market.…
Sep 13, 2026 · 31:54
Originally Aired: March 8, 1953 Dragnet #194, "The Big Laugh," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith are working bunco detail, tracking a confidence man who has been…
Sep 12, 2026 · 28:01
Originally Aired: March 1, 1953 Dragnet #193, "The Big Want," finds Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith working the day watch out of Bunco-Fugitive Detail when they…
Sep 11, 2026 · 31:48
Originally Aired: February 22, 1953 Dragnet #192, "The Big Smoke," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith respond to a brutal home invasion at 8469 North Brighton Avenue. A…
Sep 10, 2026 · 31:09
Originally Aired: February 15, 1953 Dragnet #191, "The Big Tooth," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith are called to investigate the mysterious disappearance of an…
Sep 9, 2026 · 31:31
Originally Aired: February 8, 1953 Dragnet #190, "The Big Press," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith take over a frustrating forgery case that has been plaguing Los…
Sep 8, 2026 · 29:29
Originally Aired: February 1, 1953 Dragnet #189, "The Big Strip," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith are working auto theft detail, tracking a professional gang of car…
Sep 7, 2026 · 32:10
Originally Aired: January 25, 1953 Dragnet #188, "The Big Lay Out," Sergeant Joe Friday faces a deeply personal case when his friend Ed Field reaches out in desperation. Ed has…
Sep 6, 2026 · 25:19
Originally Aired: January 18, 1953 Dragnet #187, "The Big String," Friday and Smith are called to the home of Henry Wagley, a university political science professor who has…
Sep 5, 2026 · 30:30
Originally Aired: January 11, 1953 Dragnet #186, "The Big Small," finds Sergeants Joe Friday and Frank Smith on the trail of a sophisticated check forger who has been…
Sep 4, 2026 · 30:27
Originally Aired: January 4, 1953 Dragnet #185, "The Big Mask Part 2," Sergeants Joe Friday and Frank Smith continue their hunt for the "Black Mask Bandit," a holdup man who has…
Sep 3, 2026 · 32:09
Originally Aired: December 28, 1952 Dragnet #184, "The Big Mask Part 1," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith face mounting pressure as a string of brazen supermarket…
Sep 2, 2026 · 27:58
Originally Aired: December 14, 1952 Dragnet #182, "The Big Eavesdrop," finds Sergeants Joe Friday and Frank Smith working the narcotics detail when they stake out the 617 Club on…
Sep 1, 2026 · 32:28
Originally Aired: December 7, 1952 Dragnet #181, "The Big Mole," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith investigate a puzzling series of nighttime burglaries plaguing Los…
Aug 31, 2026 · 31:50
Originally Aired: November 30, 1952 Dragnet #180, "The Big Shirt," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith catch a brutal homicide case on a sweltering July morning in Los…
Aug 30, 2026 · 31:07
Originally Aired: November 23, 1952 Dragnet #179, "The Big Guilt," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith respond to a grim discovery in a back alley at 18th and Winfield. A…
Aug 29, 2026 · 31:54
Originally Aired: November 16, 1952 Dragnet #178, "The Big Walk," Sergeants Joe Friday and Frank Smith head to the main jail to interrogate Fred J. Anderson, a narcotics suspect…
Aug 28, 2026 · 27:10
Originally Aired: November 9, 1952 Dragnet #177, "The Big Dive," Sergeants Joe Friday and Frank Smith respond to a grisly discovery at the Greenleaf Apartment Hotel. When maid…
Aug 27, 2026 · 31:56
Originally Aired: November 2, 1952 Dragnet #176, "The Big Light," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith respond to what appears to be a fatal accident at Winton Picture…
Aug 26, 2026 · 31:36
Originally Aired: October 26, 1952 Dragnet #175, "The Big Number," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith respond to a bank robbery in progress at the corner of Lebanon and…
Aug 25, 2026 · 31:32
Originally Aired: October 19, 1952 Dragnet #174, "The Big Pill," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith are called in by Naval Intelligence when two young Marines are…
Aug 24, 2026 · 31:27
Originally Aired: October 12, 1952 Dragnet #173, "The Big Lie," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith respond to a homicide call on Byrne Street, where they meet Edith…
Aug 23, 2026 · 31:16
Originally Aired: October 5, 1952 In Dragnet #172, "The Big Jolt," Detective Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith respond to a call from Adams High School, where a…
Aug 22, 2026 · 27:10
Originally Aired: September 28, 1952 Dragnet #171, "The Big Brain," opens on a rainy Los Angeles night as Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith respond to a disturbing…
Aug 21, 2026 · 31:27
Originally Aired: September 21, 1952 Dragnet #170, "The Big Shot," opens with Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith investigating the robbery and murder of a nightclub…
Aug 20, 2026 · 31:34
Originally Aired: September 14, 1952 Dragnet #169, "The Big Bull," Detective Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith are closing in on the last member of a vicious…
Aug 19, 2026 · 29:33
Originally Aired: September 11, 1952 Dragnet #168, "The Big Tear," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith take on a cunning burglar who has stolen approximately $80,000 in…
Aug 18, 2026 · 31:32
Originally Aired: September 4, 1952 Dragnet #167, "The Big Ray," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith respond to what appears to be a straightforward accidental death at…
Aug 17, 2026 · 31:29
Originally Aired: August 28, 1952 Dragnet #166, "The Big Test," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith face a harrowing case when a young man named Bruce Hamilton staggers…
Aug 16, 2026 · 31:36
Originally Aired: August 21, 1952 Dragnet #165, "The Big Paper," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith are called to forgery detail when small neighborhood merchants…
Aug 15, 2026 · 31:18
Originally Aired: August 14, 1952 Dragnet #164, "The Big Drive," finds Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith investigating a brutal homicide in a vacant lot near Fountain…
Aug 14, 2026 · 31:30
Originally Aired: August 7, 1952 Dragnet #163, "The Big Impression," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith respond to a brutal robbery at the Morgan Hotel, where elderly…
Aug 13, 2026 · 31:24
Originally Aired: July 31, 1952 Dragnet #162, "The Big Signet," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith investigate a vicious robbery at a South Hill cafe where 68-year-old…
Aug 12, 2026 · 31:12
Originally Aired: July 10, 1952 Dragnet #161, "The Big Hate," presents Sergeant Joe Friday and Frank Smith with a haunting mystery. A 25-year-old man named Gordon John Miller is…
Aug 11, 2026 · 31:32
Originally Aired: July 3, 1952 Dragnet #160, "The Big Trio," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith investigate a devastating traffic accident involving four teenagers and…
Aug 10, 2026 · 31:15
Originally Aired: June 26, 1952 Dragnet #159, "The Big Roll," opens with Sergeants Joe Friday and Frank Smith investigating a violent abduction on a downtown Los Angeles street.…
Aug 9, 2026 · 29:21
Originally Aired: June 19, 1952 Dragnet #158, "The Big Jules," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith are assigned to narcotics detail, attempting to track down the…
Aug 8, 2026 · 31:22
Originally Aired: June 5, 1952 Dragnet #156, "The Big Whiff," begins when an unidentified woman is found dying in a vacant lot at 7th and Union. Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer…
Aug 7, 2026 · 31:25
Originally Aired: May 29, 1952 Dragnet #155, "The Big Fourth," finds Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith assigned to juvenile detail, investigating a disturbing pattern…
Aug 6, 2026 · 31:17
Originally Aired: May 22, 1952 Dragnet #154, "The Big Shakedown," finds Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith called to the main jail interview room to meet with Lawrence…
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