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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.
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Episodes
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Canaries
Originally Aired: December 6, 1951 Dragnet #130, "The Big Canaries," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero are called to investigate a brutal murder…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Affair
Originally Aired: November 29, 1951 Dragnet #129, "The Big Affair," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero are hunting a dangerous jewelry store bandit…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Hands
Originally Aired: November 22, 1951 Dragnet #128, "The Big Hands," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Ben Romero investigate the brutal strangulation of an…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Bungalow
Originally Aired: November 15, 1951 Dragnet #127, "The Big Bungalow," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Ben Romero meet informant Red Smalley at Johnny Cokin's…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Hit and Run Killer
Originally Aired: November 8, 1951 Dragnet #126, "The Big Hit and Run Killer," Detective Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero are called to…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Lease
Originally Aired: November 1, 1951 Dragnet #125, "The Big Lease," finds Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero investigating the mysterious…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Market
Originally Aired: October 25, 1951 Dragnet #124, "The Big Market," finds Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero hunting a pair of elusive bandits who…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Story Man
Originally Aired: October 18, 1951 Dragnet #123, "The Big Story Man," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero interrogate three suspects in a string of…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Shoplift
Originally Aired: October 11, 1951 Dragnet #122, "The Big Shoplift," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Ben Romero are called to Anthony's store for women to…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Want Ad
Originally Aired: October 4, 1951 Dragnet #121, "The Big Want Ad," finds Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Ben Romero investigating a sophisticated auto theft…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big September Man
Originally Aired: September 27, 1951 Dragnet #120, "The Big September Man," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero investigate the brutal murder of…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Sour
Originally Aired: September 20, 1951 Dragnet #119, "The Big Sour," Sergeant Joe Friday and Detective Ben Romero investigate a brutal home invasion robbery…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Waiter
Originally Aired: September 13, 1951 Dragnet #118, "The Big Waiter," opens with Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero arriving at the Apex Men's Shop…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big 17
Originally Aired: September 6, 1951 Dragnet #117, "The Big 17," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero are called to a neighborhood movie theater on…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Crazy
Originally Aired: August 30, 1951 Dragnet #116, "The Big Crazy," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero investigate the puzzling disappearance of a…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big In-Laws
Originally Aired: August 23, 1951 Dragnet #115, "The Big In-Laws," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero investigate a sophisticated gang of hijackers…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Winchester
Originally Aired: August 16, 1951 Dragnet #114, "The Big Winchester," Sergeant Joe Friday is pulled away from his annual physical exam when his partner Ben…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Screen
Originally Aired: August 9, 1951 Dragnet #113, "The Big Screen," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero are assigned to Bunko Detail to investigate a…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Late Script
Originally Aired: July 26, 1951 Dragnet #111, "The Big Late Script," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero are called in when prominent businessman…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Sophomore
Originally Aired: July 19, 1951 Dragnet #110, "The Big Sophomore," finds Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero assigned to Juvenile Bureau…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Set-Up
Originally Aired: July 12, 1951 Dragnet #109, "The Big Set-Up," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero face mounting pressure as a sophisticated…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Love
Originally Aired: July 5, 1951 Dragnet #108, "The Big Love," begins when Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero investigate the mysterious…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Cliff
Originally Aired: June 28, 1951 Dragnet #107, "The Big Cliff," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero investigate the mysterious death of Gertrude…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Run
Originally Aired: June 21, 1951 Dragnet #106, "The Big Run," Friday and his partner Ben Romero are called away from a quiet Saturday evening to investigate a…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Building
Originally Aired: June 14, 1951 Dragnet #105, "The Big Building," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero investigate the puzzling disappearance of…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Imposter
Originally Aired: June 7, 1951 Dragnet #104, "The Big Imposter," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero are assigned to missing persons detail when…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Bindle
Originally Aired: May 31, 1951 Dragnet #103, "The Big Bindle," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero are called to investigate a sophisticated heroin…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Mailman
Originally Aired: May 24, 1951 Dragnet #102, "The Big Mailman," Sergeant Joe Friday and Detective Ben Romero are working the day watch out of forgery detail…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Blast
Originally Aired: May 17, 1951 Dragnet #101, "The Big Blast," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Ben Romero investigate a brutal shotgun murder on a sweltering…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Drills
Originally Aired: May 10, 1951 Dragnet #100, "The Big Drills," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero are working burglary detail, chasing a highly…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Casing
Originally Aired: May 3, 1951 Dragnet #99, "The Big Casing," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero respond to a shooting at the Kelsey apartment…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Saint
Originally Aired: April 26, 1951 Dragnet #98, "The Big Saint," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero are assigned to auto theft detail to investigate…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Speech
Originally Aired: April 19, 1951 Dragnet #97, "The Big Speech," Sergeant Joe Friday receives a telegram at home inviting him to speak about police work at his…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Threat
Originally Aired: April 12, 1951 Dragnet #96, "The Big Threat," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero investigate a puzzling case after Dr. Hart…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Friend
Originally Aired: April 5, 1951 Dragnet #95, "The Big Friend," begins with a desperate phone call to Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero. Leonard…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Ben
Originally Aired: March 15, 1951 Dragnet #92, "The Big Ben," Sergeants Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a brutal early morning robbery on Commercial…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big New Years
Originally Aired: March 8, 1951 Dragnet #91, "The Big New Years," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero are assigned to special duty on New Year's…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Partner
Originally Aired: March 1, 1951 Dragnet #90, "The Big Partner," finds Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Ben Romero responding to a brazen jewelry store robbery…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Couple
Originally Aired: February 22, 1951 Dragnet #89, "The Big Couple," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero are called to investigate a heartbreaking…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Crime
Originally Aired: February 15, 1951 Dragnet #88, "The Big Crime," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero are called to investigate a terrifying case…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Cast
Originally Aired: February 8, 1951 Dragnet #87, "The Big Cast," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero are assigned to a perplexing homicide case…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Children
Originally Aired: February 1, 1951 Dragnet #86, "The Big Children," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Ben Romero from the Juvenile Bureau investigate a…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Tomato
Originally Aired: January 25, 1951 Dragnet #85, "The Big Tomato," Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero investigate a tragic case that hits close to home for…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Dance
Originally Aired: January 18, 1951 Dragnet #84, "The Big Dance," finds Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero tracking a pair of brutal young holdup…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Jump
Originally Aired: January 11, 1951 Dragnet #83, "The Big Jump," Sergeants Joe Friday and Ben Romero race against the clock when they receive a call about a…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Holdup
Originally Aired: January 4, 1951 Dragnet #82, "The Big Holdup," finds Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero hunting a dangerous criminal known as the…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Family
Originally Aired: December 28, 1950 Dragnet #81, "The Big Family," Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate the mysterious disappearance of John Keith Jarrett, a…
Friday - The Dragnet Podcast22 Rifle for Christmas
Originally Aired: December 21, 1950 Dragnet #80, "22 Rifle for Christmas," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero respond to what begins as a routine…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Break
Originally Aired: December 14, 1950 Dragnet #79, "The Big Break," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero close in on George R. Hoffman, a career…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Picture
Originally Aired: December 7, 1950 Dragnet #78, "The Big Picture," finds Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Ben Romero working the day watch out of Juvenile…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Car
Originally Aired: November 30, 1950 Dragnet #77, "The Big Car," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero are working the night watch out of robbery…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Betty
Originally Aired: November 23, 1950 Dragnet #76, "The Big Betty," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero of the Bunco Detail investigate a particularly…

Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Mother
A three-day-old newborn is abducted from a hospital nursery during a rain-soaked night, triggering a frantic citywide search. With no ransom demand and no…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Church
A young woman begins receiving anonymous letters and phone calls threatening her with death for attending a small neighborhood church. As Sergeant Joe Friday…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Meet
A gang of seasoned narcotics dealers moves into Los Angeles with $100,000 worth of heroin, confident their international-tested methods will keep them…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Grandma
For nearly a decade, an elderly woman known only as “Grandma” quietly bleeds Los Angeles merchants with forged checks—working just three…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Quack
When a fashionable Hollywood woman is robbed while under medical “treatment,” Sergeant Joe Friday and Ben Romero uncover a dangerous con man posing…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big 38
A masked bandit’s robbery spree turns deadly when grocery clerk Bert Matthews is gunned down without warning. Sergeant Joe Friday and Ben Romero chase a…
Friday - The Dragnet PodcastThe Big Death
A wealthy warehouse owner makes a stunning proposition: he wants his wife murdered—and he’s willing to pay for it. When a nervous acquaintance…