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Friday - The Dragnet Podcast

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

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The Big Informant

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast ·

2026/09/15

Originally Aired: March 22, 1953Dragnet #196, "The Big Informant," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith are under pressure to crack a string of safe burglaries that have plagued Los Angeles for two months. With a dozen jobs completed and no solid leads, the detectives are feeling the heat from Captain Wisdom and the press. When an informant named Ernie calls requesting a meeting, Friday hopes for a breakthrough. Meanwhile, a routine field interrogation report leads

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32:13

The Big Impossible

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast ·

2026/09/14

Originally Aired: March 15, 1953Dragnet #195, "The Big Impossible," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith investigate a bold daylight robbery at Lamont Brothers Market. Market manager Larry Haskins is shaken but cooperative as he describes how two armed men burst into his office while he was preparing a bank deposit containing thousands in weekend receipts. The larger suspect, a mountain of a man over six feet tall with distinctive dark features and a small scar on his

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31:54

The Big Laugh

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast ·

2026/09/13

Originally Aired: March 8, 1953Dragnet #194, "The Big Laugh," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith are working bunco detail, tracking a confidence man who has been preying on lonely women for the past year. When they meet with Miss Harris, a victim who works at the Armstrong Thomas Department Store, she tells them about a charming man who romanced her with dinners, moonlit drives, and promises of marriage. After courting her with phone calls and affection, he left town

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28:01

The Big Want

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast ·

2026/09/12

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 receive a call to pick up a burglary suspect named George Richmond, who's been using an alias and living at the Carlton Hotel. When they arrive at the hotel, the harried desk clerk informs them that Richmond checked out two days earlier, leaving no forwarding address. The detectives begin methodically tracing

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31:48

The Big Smoke

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast ·

2026/09/11

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 72-year-old man has been murdered, and his invalid wife, Patricia Stone, has been severely beaten. Mrs. Stone, confined to a wheelchair following an earlier auto accident, crawled to her neighbor Mrs. Hurley's back door after the attack. The neighbor heard scratching and moaning at her door around seven

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31:09

The Big Tooth

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast ·

2026/09/10

Originally Aired: February 15, 1953Dragnet #191, "The Big Tooth," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith are called to investigate the mysterious disappearance of an elderly woman. Ella Randall contacts the detectives with disturbing concerns about her mother, who has vanished without a trace. When Ella tried to reach her mother by phone, she discovered the number had been disconnected. Upon visiting the family home, she finds strangers living there who claim they've been

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31:31

The Big Press

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast ·

2026/09/09

Originally Aired: February 8, 1953Dragnet #190, "The Big Press," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith take over a frustrating forgery case that has been plaguing Los Angeles for over a year. Two men have been passing phony payroll checks throughout the southern part of the state, scoring an impressive $70,000 from unsuspecting victims. The forgers use checks from various legitimate companies—rubber firms, oil companies, department stores, aircraft manufacturers—but all

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29:29

The Big Strip

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast ·

2026/09/08

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 strippers who have stolen over $12,000 in automobile accessories across Los Angeles. While staking out a parking lot late one Tuesday night, they spot a suspect breaking into a Cadillac. When they move in to make the arrest, the young thief flees in the stolen vehicle and crashes into traffic at a crowded

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32:10

The Big Lay Out

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast ·

2026/09/07

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 discovered a narcotics layout hidden in his 18-year-old son Gary's bedroom, and all signs point to the high school senior being a heroin addict. The discovery devastates Ed and his wife Helen, who cannot understand how their son, a good student from a comfortable home with everything he could want, has

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25:19

The Big String

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast ·

2026/09/06

Originally Aired: January 18, 1953Dragnet #187, "The Big String," Friday and Smith are called to the home of Henry Wagley, a university political science professor who has discovered his wife Myra missing and a ransom note on the coffee table. The note demands ten thousand dollars in unmarked bills to be dropped at a specific location on Beer Canyon Drive. Wagley is frantic with worry and uncertain how he'll raise the money, insisting his wife would never stage such a thing. As

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30:30

The Big Small

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast ·

2026/09/05

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 systematically targeting Los Angeles merchants. The suspect is a deceptively innocent-looking woman in her sixties—small, well-dressed, with pure white hair styled in an old-fashioned bun. She uses letters supposedly from her son in the East as identification and wears expensive French perfume that seems oddly out

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30:27

The Big Mask Part 2

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast ·

2026/09/04

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 been terrorizing large market managers across Los Angeles for six months. Their investigation leads them to a bakery on Memois Street, where owner Mr. Jenkins has just survived a harrowing encounter with the suspect. The small, elderly bandit entered at 6:30 in the morning, calmly sat and ate a chocolate

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32:09

The Big Mask Part 1

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast ·

2026/09/03

Originally Aired: December 28, 1952Dragnet #184, "The Big Mask Part 1," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith face mounting pressure as a string of brazen supermarket robberies continues to plague Los Angeles. The mysterious bandit, known as the Black Masked Bandit, has successfully hit seven markets using the same calculated method: waiting for managers to open, forcing them at gunpoint to fill shopping carts with expensive items, emptying the safe, and locking the

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27:58

The Big Eavesdrop

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast ·

2026/09/02

Originally Aired: December 14, 1952Dragnet #182, "The Big Eavesdrop," finds Sergeants Joe Friday and Frank Smith working the narcotics detail when they stake out the 617 Club on Pico and Clemens to intercept a big heroin buy. While waiting in an adjacent booth, the detectives overhear a conversation between two men that changes the direction of their investigation entirely. One man mentions killing an old lady in San Francisco, prompting Friday and Smith to abandon their drug

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32:28

The Big Mole

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast ·

2026/09/01

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 Angeles businesses. The detectives arrive at Nichols Dry Goods Store on the corner of Constance and Westlake, where owner Gladys Nichols reports that $423.76 has been taken from her safe. The crime is particularly baffling because the burglar alarm never sounded, despite the shop owner's assurance that she

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31:50

The Big Shirt

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast ·

2026/08/31

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 Angeles. When George Armstrong arrives to open the small neighborhood pawn shop he co-owns, he discovers a scene of devastation: smashed glass cases, clothing strewn across the floor, and the body of his business partner, Mark Williams, brutally beaten to death and stuffed in a closet. Armstrong tells

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31:07

The Big Guilt

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast ·

2026/08/30

Originally Aired: November 23, 1952Dragnet #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 well-dressed man has been found strangled with his own necktie, his pockets turned inside out, robbed of everything. Officer Harper has detained Alexander Jones, a man found stumbling out of the alley that morning. Jones appears severely hungover and shaken by what he's witnessed. As the crime lab

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31:54

The Big Walk

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast ·

2026/08/29

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 who's been booked on drug charges. Anderson is suffering through withdrawal, desperately sick and begging for relief, but Friday and Smith need information first. High-grade heroin has been flooding Los Angeles for three months, and Anderson is their only lead to the key men running the operation. As

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27:10

The Big Dive

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast ·

2026/08/28

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 Georgia opens a closet in apartment 406 to clean, she finds the body of an unidentified woman on the bedroom floor. The apartment's tenant, Raymond Bartlett, has mysteriously vanished, leaving behind no personal belongings despite having a week remaining on his rent. Building manager Mrs. Holden can

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31:56

The Big Light

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast ·

2026/08/27

Originally Aired: November 2, 1952Dragnet #176, "The Big Light," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith respond to what appears to be a fatal accident at Winton Picture Studio. Director Henry Wilson has been critically injured when a massive sun arc lamp fell from scaffolding 40 feet above the stage floor, striking him during the lunch break. Production supervisor Gerald Adams discovered the victim after a greenery man found Wilson's body, and an ambulance rushed him to

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