Dragnet - Season 2

Dragnet - Season 2

Season 2

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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Episodes28
DatesSep 14, 1967 - Mar 28, 1968
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Episodes

The Grenade
Season 2Episode 160 min

The Grenade

A surly 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.
Sep 14, 1967
The Shooting Board
Season 2Episode 260 min

The Shooting Board

Joe 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.
Sep 21, 1967
The Badge Racket
Season 2Episode 360 min

The Badge Racket

Three 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.
Sep 28, 1967
The Bank Jobs
Season 2Episode 460 min

The Bank Jobs

A 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.
Oct 5, 1967
The Big Neighbor
Season 2Episode 560 min

The Big Neighbor

In this lighthearted, well-written episode, Bill 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.
Oct 12, 1967
The Big Frustration
Season 2Episode 660 min

The Big Frustration

Sgt. 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.
Oct 19, 1967
The Senior Citizen
Season 2Episode 760 min

The Senior Citizen

A series of daring daylight house burglaries are taking place. Friday and Gannon go undercover in a laundry truck to discover the perp.
Oct 26, 1967
The Big High
Season 2Episode 860 min

The Big High

An 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.
Nov 2, 1967
The Big Ad
Season 2Episode 960 min

The Big Ad

An 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.
Nov 9, 1967
The Missing Realtor
Season 2Episode 1060 min

The Missing Realtor

A woman real-estate agent is missing and turns up dead in a vacant home. The detectives' one suspect - the woman's ex-boyfriend - is cleared; then credit card bills for purchases made after the woman's death start appearing.
Nov 16, 1967
The Big Dog
Season 2Episode 1160 min

The Big Dog

A purse-snatching dog? This is the case Friday and Gannon must solve. Making things more difficult, victims give different descriptions of the four-legged thief.
Nov 23, 1967
The Pyramid Swindle
Season 2Episode 1260 min

The Pyramid Swindle

A 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.
Nov 30, 1967
The Phony Police Racket
Season 2Episode 1360 min

The Phony Police Racket

Friday 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.
Dec 7, 1967
The Trial Board
Season 2Episode 1460 min

The Trial Board

An 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.
Dec 14, 1967
The Christmas Story
Season 2Episode 1560 min

The Christmas Story

A 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. Briefly appearing in this episode is Barry Williams, best known as Greg Brady on the 1970s sitcom THE BRADY BUNCH.
Dec 21, 1967
The Big Shipment
Season 2Episode 1660 min

The Big Shipment

Drugs 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.
Dec 28, 1967
The Big Search
Season 2Episode 1760 min

The Big Search

Two 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.
Jan 4, 1968
The Big Prophet
Season 2Episode 1860 min

The Big Prophet

Friday 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.
Jan 11, 1968
The Big Amateur
Season 2Episode 1960 min

The Big Amateur

Citizens 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.
Jan 25, 1968
The Starlet
Season 2Episode 2060 min

The Starlet

A 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."
Feb 1, 1968
The Big Clan
Season 2Episode 2160 min

The Big Clan

Sgt. Friday is offered a bribe to assist a gypsy family trying to gain control of the gypsy community.
Feb 8, 1968
The Little Victim
Season 2Episode 2260 min

The Little Victim

When 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.
Feb 15, 1968
The Squeeze
Season 2Episode 2360 min

The Squeeze

An 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.
Feb 22, 1968
The Suicide Attempt
Season 2Episode 2460 min

The Suicide Attempt

Friday 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.
Feb 29, 1968
The Big Departure
Season 2Episode 2560 min

The Big Departure

Petty 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.
Mar 7, 1968
The Investigation
Season 2Episode 2660 min

The Investigation

Friday 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.
Mar 14, 1968
The Big Gambler
Season 2Episode 2760 min

The Big Gambler

Over $100,000 has been embezzled from an industrial company. An investigation of the employees leads Friday and Gannon to a habitual gambler.
Mar 21, 1968
The Big Problem
Season 2Episode 2860 min

The Big Problem

Community 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.
Mar 28, 1968

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