Dragnet: Season 4
Season 4 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Dragnet Season 3.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 4 Progress Shield
The Big Producer
Aug 26, 1954
A man claims to be a big Hollywood producer, but Friday and Smith discover that he's merely the leader of a pornography ring.
The Big Fraud
Sep 2, 1954
A group of con artists are posing as cops and victimizing out-of-town businessmen in fashionable hotels.
The Big Pair
Sep 16, 1954
An old man and his granddaughter are burglarized, leaving them broke and starving.
The Big Escape
Sep 23, 1954
A case hits too close to home for Friday when his old army buddy robs a liquor store and shoots his partner. Friday believes his friend wants to go straight after doing time, but t
The Big Kid
Sep 30, 1954
When Friday and Smith learn that a showdown between two teenage gangs is about to take place within 48 hours, they do their utmost to prevent it.
The Big Bar
Oct 14, 1954
A holdup man is sticking up bars. After he takes the money he kills many of his victims. Sergeant Friday has few leads other than that the holdup man likes a certain song on the ju
The Big Present
Oct 21, 1954
Friday and Smith are looking for a burglar who leaves a milk bottle at the scene of the crime. They suspect a juvenile might be involved.
The Big Gangster (Part 1)
Oct 28, 1954
An attempt is made on the life of a gang leader. Friday and Smith must find the shooters before his followers seek revenge.
The Big Gangster (Part 2)
Nov 4, 1954
Friday and Smith must find the men who murdered a gang boss before an open gang war starts.
The Big New Years
Nov 11, 1954
On New Year's Eve, Friday and Smith are working out of Central Receiving Hospital.
The Big Want Ad
Nov 18, 1954
Friday and Smith investigate a man who is conning people by using the want ads.
The Big Affair
Nov 25, 1954
Friday and Smith discover that the key to finding a hold-up artist lies in his married girlfriend.
The Big Bible
Dec 2, 1954
A man locks himself in his study and threatens suicide if his wife leaves him.
The Big Bindle
Dec 9, 1954
Friday goes under cover to bust a drug ring that is operating out of a high-class hotel.
The Big Office
Dec 16, 1954
Friday and Smith are assigned to the business office, where they must deal with the paperwork on a busy weekend.
The Big Rod
Dec 30, 1954
An expectant mother is run down and killed by two teenagers in a hot rod.
The Big Rescue
Jan 6, 1955
A group of bandits arm themselves and break their comrades out of jail.
The Big Family
Jan 13, 1955
Local businessman John Keith Jarrett disappears and evidence of suicide is discovered. Friday and Smith check on the surviving members of his family and find them not the least con
The Big Shock
Jan 20, 1955
Friday and Smith go after a burglar who plans to break into a bank through an underground tunnel.
The Big Screen
Jan 27, 1955
Friday and Smith team up with a newspaper reporter so they can investigate television repairmen who may be overcharging their customers.
The Big TV
Feb 3, 1955
The detectives search for a missing mother and child at the behest of her mother-in-law, unaware that the girl's husband has died in action and is not overseas as the woman had cla
The Big Dog
Feb 10, 1955
An old man sits on his front porch with a shotgun, threatening to kill the man who poisoned his dog.
The Big Underground
Feb 17, 1955
Friday and Smith use a stolen check as a lead to a series of used car lot robberies.
The Big Key
Feb 24, 1955
A woman's badly mutilated body is found in a churchyard on Christmas eve. The only clue is a key lying under her.
The Big Mailman
Mar 3, 1955
Friday and Smith go after a bandit who is robbing mailboxes and then trying to cash other people's checks.
The Big Tar Baby
Mar 17, 1955
A bartender's wife is kidnapped, beaten and rolled in hot tar.
The Big Number
Mar 24, 1955
Friday and Smith Investigate a Bank Robbery, but they don't have much to go on.
The Big Mask
Mar 31, 1955
A masked bandit is holding up supermarkets and the police are not able to catch him.
The Big Moustache
Apr 14, 1955
Friday and Smith investigate the robbery of an appliance store.
The Big Heel
Apr 21, 1955
Friday and Smith use an unusual footprint to help solve a murder case.
The Big Gone
Apr 28, 1955
The owner of a flower shop kills a man who is trying to rob him, but the corpse mysteriously vanishes.
The Big Student
May 5, 1955
Friday and Smith are on the trail of a bunch of teenagers selling fake magazine subscriptions.
The Big Watch
May 12, 1955
Bandits are offering rides to hitch-hiking soldiers, then robbing and beating them.
The Big Dig
May 19, 1955
Friday and Smith are looking into a report of a missing woman that turns into a murder investigation.
The Big Mug
May 26, 1955
Two hold-up men are robbing and beating pedestrians in the down town area.