Dragnet: Season 6
Season 6 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 5.
- 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
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The Big Cat
Sep 27, 1956 · 30 min
A circus man reports that a tiger escaped from his truck and is now on the loose in Los Angeles.
The Big Misses
Oct 11, 1956 · 30 min
A frightened wife tells Friday and Smith that she's worried her husband is planning to pull a hold-up.
The Big Net
Oct 25, 1956 · 30 min
A group of police women act as decoys to draw a stick-up man out into the open.
The Big Convertable
Nov 1, 1956 · 30 min
A man forges checks to keep himself and his wife in an expensive lifestyle, but he goes too far when he buys a slick convertable.
The Big Limp
Nov 8, 1956 · 30 min
A teenage boy under arrest admits to police that his brother is planning to rob a loan company.
The Big Tattoo
Nov 15, 1956 · 30 min
Friday and Smith are looking for a robber with an unusual tattoo.
The Big Bill
Nov 29, 1956 · 30 min
Friday and Smith investigate reports of counterfeit money appearing all over the city.
The Big Search
Dec 6, 1956 · 30 min
A distraught father reports that his teenage daughter is missing, and things look more bleak when her murdered pet is discovered in her room.
The Big Talk
Dec 13, 1956 · 30 min
A watch salesman reports that he was robbed by two men whom he drank with the night before.
The Big Father
Jan 3, 1957 · 30 min
A father works as a day burglar so he can buy presents for his kids, now living with his ex wife.
The Big Manikin
Jan 24, 1957 · 30 min
A woman reports that her husband has failed to come home after going out with is business partner.
The Big No Tooth
Jan 31, 1957 · 30 min
A bandit carrying a sawed-off shotgun is robbing hotels in the down town area.
The Big Skip
Feb 7, 1957 · 30 min
A man is reported missing, by two different women, the description matches, but the names are different. He is married to these two and has apparently skipped out on both. Friday s
The Big Fin
Feb 14, 1957 · 30 min
A tourist leaves her purse in the back of a cab and it's up to Friday and Smith to track it down.
The Big Coins
Feb 28, 1957 · 30 min
Friday and Smith are on the trail of a robber/arsonist that takes nothing of value and then sets the house on fire.
The Big Close
Mar 7, 1957 · 30 min
Friday and Smith reopen a closed case because a tip leads them to believe they have the wrong person.
The Big Tie
Mar 14, 1957 · 30 min
Friday and Smith investigate the former employee of a tie manufacturing company.
The Big Cup
Mar 21, 1957 · 30 min
A howling dog leads to the unearthing of the battered body of an old woman in her garden.
The Big Truck
Mar 28, 1957 · 30 min
Friday and Smith investigate the hit and run of a little girl.
The Big Saint
Apr 4, 1957 · 30 min
Friday and Smith try to prove that a salvage yard operator is using his business to fix up stolen cars.
The Big Match
Apr 11, 1957 · 30 min
An auction house is held up and the only clue to the bandits lies in a dropped matchbook.
The Big Celebration
Apr 25, 1957 · 30 min
Friday and Smith are on the trail of a thief whose victims are attending weddings and funerals.
The Big Lesson
May 9, 1957 · 30 min
Friday and Smith are on the trail of three masked men responsible for over thirty robberies.
The Big Make
May 23, 1957 · 30 min
A bakery owner and his daughter are shot down during a robbery.