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Dragnet Season 2 |
| Dragnet Season 2 : |
| This is a list of episodes from the second season of the 1967 Dragnet series. The season was directed by Jack Webb. |
| Episode 1 - [The Grenade] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Jack Webb | Writer : Robert C. Dennis | |
| Air Date : Sep. 14, 1967 |
| Episode 2 - [The Shooting Board] |
| Details : Joe stops at an all night launderette to buy cigarettes and interrupts a burglar working the coin changer. When he shouts Freeze the criminal comes up shooting. Joe returns fire hitting the man who flees with the help of his girlfriend. He's later found dead. 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. A great surprise ending. |
| Air Date : Sep. 21, 1967 |
| Episode 3 - [The Badge Racket] |
| Details : 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. |
| Air Date : Sep. 28, 1967 |
| Episode 4 - [The Bank Jobs] |
| Details : 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. |
| Air Date : Oct. 05, 1967 |
| Episode 5 - [The Big Neighbor] |
| Details : 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. |
| Air Date : Oct. 12, 1967 |
| Episode 6 - [The Big Frustration] |
| Details : 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. |
| Air Date : Oct. 19, 1967 |
| Episode 7 - [The Senior Citizen] |
| Details : A series of daring daylight house burglaries are taking place; perpetrated by an octegenarian who uses the wedding and obituary notices in the paper to select his victims. |
| Air Date : Oct. 26, 1967 |
| Episode 8 - [The Big High] |
| Details : 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. |
| Air Date : Nov. 02, 1967 |
| Episode 9 - [The Big Ad] |
| Details : 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. |
| Air Date : Nov. 09, 1967 |
| Episode 10 - [The Missing Realtor] |
| Details : 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. |
| Air Date : Nov. 16, 1967 |
| Episode 11 - [The Big Dog] |
| Details : 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. |
| Air Date : Nov. 23, 1967 |
| Episode 12 - [The Pyramid Swindle] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Norman Lessing | Director : Jack Webb | |
| Air Date : Nov. 30, 1967 |
| Episode 13 - [The Phony Police Racket] |
| Details : 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. |
| Air Date : Dec. 07, 1967 |
| Episode 14 - [The Trial Board] |
| Details : 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. |
| Air Date : Dec. 14, 1967 |
| Episode 15 - [The Christmas Story] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Director : Jack Webb | |
| Air Date : Dec. 21, 1967 |
| Episode 16 - [The Big Shipment] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Lorraine Gary as Mrs. Frank | |
| Air Date : Dec. 28, 1967 |
| Episode 17 - [The Big Search] |
| Details : 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. |
| Air Date : Jan. 04, 1968 |
| Episode 18 - [The Big Prophet] |
| Details : Friday and Gannon are convinced that Brother William Bentley's Temple of the Expanded Mind is just a sham - a front for Bentley to sell LSD to the students of a nearby elementary school. |
| Air Date : Jan. 11, 1968 |
| Episode 19 - [The Big Amateur] |
| Details : 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. |
| Air Date : Jan. 25, 1968 |
| Episode 20 - [The Starlet] |
| Details : 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. |
| Air Date : Feb. 01, 1968 |
| Episode 21 - [The Big Clan] |
| Details : Sgt. Friday is offered a bribe to assist a gypsy family trying to gain control of the gypsy community. |
| Air Date : Feb. 08, 1968 |
| Episode 22 - [The Little Victim] |
| Details : 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. |
| Air Date : Feb. 15, 1968 |
| Episode 23 - [The Squeeze] |
| Details : 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. |
| Air Date : Feb. 22, 1968 |
| Episode 24 - [The Suicide Attempt] |
| Details : 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 1200 rooms. |
| Air Date : Feb. 29, 1968 |
| Episode 25 - [The Big Departure] |
| Details : 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. |
| Air Date : Mar. 07, 1968 |
| Episode 26 - [The Investigation] |
| Details : 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. |
| Air Date : Mar. 14, 1968 |
| Episode 27 - [The Big Gambler] |
| Details : Over $100000 has been embezzled from an industrial company. An investigation of the employees leads Friday and Gannon to a habitual gambler. |
| Air Date : Mar. 21, 1968 |
| Episode 28 - [The Big Problem] |
| Details : 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. |
| Air Date : Mar. 28, 1968 |