Dragnet (1967 series) (season 1)

Dragnet 1967
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	17
Release
Original network	NBC
Original release	January 12 – May 11, 1967

This is a list of episodes from the first season of the 1967 Dragnet series. The season was directed by Jack Webb.

Broadcast history

The season originally aired Thursday at 9:30-10:00 pm (EST).

DVD release

The DVD was released by Universal Studios Home Entertainment.

Episodes

Nº	Ep	Title	Written by	Original air date
1	1	"The LSD Story"	John Randolph	January 12, 1967
Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Bill Gannon encounter a freaked-out young LSD user. This is the famous "Blue Boy" episode, a reference to the LSD user painting himself blue at the beginning of the episode. A poor quality print of the episode is broadcast. In 1997, TV Guide ranked this episode #85 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes.[1]
2	2	"The Big Explosion"	Robert C. Dennis	January 19, 1967
Two men rob a construction site of multiple cases of extremely powerful dynamite, and after tracking down the getaway car Friday and Gannon find the primary thief, a neo-Nazi, has planted a bomb somewhere in Los Angeles; prolonged interrogation of the man goes nowhere until Friday is able to use his incessant demand for the time against him. Future Adam-12 star Kent McCord appears as a patrolman. He would appear at least twice more in the series as an undercover cop accused of malfeasence and in a Dragnet 1969 episode as his Adam-12 character Jim Reed.
3	3	"The Kidnapping"	Preston Wood	January 26, 1967
Friday and Gannon must help an employee of a cosmetics business rescue her boss, who has been taken hostage to assist in a bank robbery.
4	4	"The Interrogation"	Preston Wood	February 9, 1967
A new officer (Kent McCord) has been arrested for robbing a liquor store while on an undercover assignment. During interrogation the officer reveals that his girlfriend does not want him to be a police officer, which embitters him as the interrogation proceeds. Note: The score to this episode is a vast departure from the traditional orchestral score. The "music" is entirely performed on timpani drum.
5	5	"The Masked Bandits"	David H. Vowell	February 16, 1967
Four bandits wearing red masks commit a series of robberies and Friday and Gannon uncover the gang after they learn one of them is a teenager married to an older woman.
6	6	"The Bank Examiner Swindle"	William O'Halloran	February 23, 1967
Two con men, posing as bank examiners, are bilking the elderly out of their life savings. Harriet MacGibbon and Burt Mustin guest star as bunko con victims.
7	7	"The Hammer"	Henry Irving	March 2, 1967
An elderly apartment manager is found to have been beaten to death with a hammer. The report of a stolen car belonging to another tenant helps Friday and Gannon track the killer.
8	8	"The Candy Store Robberies"	Robert C. Dennis	March 9, 1967
Friday and Gannon try to figure out a pattern to a series of candy store hold-ups. The solution comes when they discover that there are two suspects.
9	9	"The Fur Burglary"	David H. Vowell	March 16, 1967
Gannon goes undercover as a buyer in order to trap fur thieves.
10	10	"The Jade Story"	William O'Halloran	March 23, 1967
Over $200,000 worth of Imperial Jade is reported stolen from the estate of a wealthy woman, but the clues don't add up and after talking to a jade dealer who does business with the woman as well as the insurance company's investigator Friday and Gannon believe a swindle is being made, even when it is found a man indeed broke into the woman's estate.
11	11	"The Shooting"	David H. Vowell	March 30, 1967
A police officer (Don Marshall) is shot while making a routine check on a pair of paroled convicts that are parked near a liquor store; the officer recovers but his memory of the shooting is wiped out, and there seems no chance of finding the suspects until an informant's tip brings Friday and Gannon to a flophouse, but even after arresting two men the officer cannot remember them — a fact Friday can use against the two suspects.
12	12	"The Hit and Run Driver"	David H. Vowell	April 6, 1967
Friday and Gannon use newspapers, radio and TV to publicize their clues to the identity of a hit-and-run driver.
13	13	"The Big Bookie"	Preston Wood	April 13, 1967
Friday goes undercover with the Department's chaplain in order to break up a gambling ring.
14	14	"The Subscription Racket"	Henry Irving	April 20, 1967
After an appearance on a local television talk show, Friday learns about a scam artist with a novel twist: the scammer uses an authentic Congressional Medal of Honor to solicit magazine subscriptions. Friday and Gannon root out the con artist when a check paid by one of the victims is altered and the scammer's former partner dimes him out.
15	15	"The Big Gun"	Henry Irving	April 27, 1967
A Japanese widow is senselessly murdered, leaving her small daughter an orphan, a murder so brutal that even the normally-unflappable Friday has a hard time controlling his emotions while seeking the killer. The killer isn't found until a woman who was accosted by a painter that same day identifies the killer's truck.
16	16	"The Big Kids"	David H. Vowell	May 4, 1967
A gang of juvenile thieves have been stealing petty items in order to gain membership into an exclusive club.
17	17	"The Big Bullet"	John Robinson	May 11, 1967
A man is found shot to death in a locked room. The case is initially ruled a suicide until further investigation proves the gun the man had could not have been the murder weapon. This is a remake of an episode of the original series.

References

1. "Special Collector's Issue: 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time". TV Guide (June 28-July 4). 1997.