Dragnet: Dragnet 1969
This is a list of episodes from the third season of the 1967 Dragnet series. The season was directed by Jack Webb.
Season 3 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 2.
- 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.
Season overview
This is a list of episodes from the third season of the 1967 Dragnet series. The season was directed by Jack Webb.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Public Affairs - DR-07
Sep 19, 1968 · 30 min
Joe and Bill appear on the TV talk show "Speak Your Mind" debating the topic "The Police, Who Needs Them?" with a professor, a hippie, some black power activists, and some (other)
Juvenile - DR-05
Sep 26, 1968 · 30 min
Joe and Bill are working the night watch of Juvenile division. They handle a run away boy from New York, an underage marriage, an abandoned baby, a boy on drugs, and a girl accused
Community Relations - DR-10
Oct 3, 1968 · 30 min
Joe and Bill attend a meeting of the East LA Graduates Union, attempting to recruit recent minority high school graduates into the police academy. A black patrol officer joins thei
Management Services - DR-11
Oct 10, 1968 · 30 min
Joe and Bill are called back to work because of an emergency. It's April 4, 1968, and Dr Martin Luther King has been assassinated less than an hour ago. They are assigned to the po
Police Commission - DR-13
Oct 17, 1968 · 30 min
There is a police crackdown on dishonest tow truck operators. Joe and Bill are assigned to investigate 6 complaints against the same tow truck company.
Homicide - DR-06
Oct 24, 1968 · 30 min
Joe and Bill review the progress report of a homicide (thus the name of the episode). Joe has invited Bill and his wife to his apartment for dinner. The dinner is constantly interr
Robbery - DR-15
Nov 7, 1968 · 30 min
Joe and Bill are working the robbery desk. They handle a variety of complaints about a truck hijacking, a bank robbery and a robbery of a neighborhood market. A woman complains abo
Public Affairs - DR-12
Nov 14, 1968 · 30 min
Joe and Bill are assigned to help arrange a press conference for the President of the United States at LAX.
Training - DR-18
Nov 21, 1968 · 30 min
Joe and Bill are temporarily assigned as instructors at the Police Academy. They are teaching a class of women cadets. Joe is asked to assist a woman reporter who is writing a stor
Public Affairs - DR-14
Nov 28, 1968 · 30 min
Joe and Bill have been asked by a store owner to help him form a crime prevention group of neighborhood story owners. Most of the story owners are not convinced they need such a gr
Narcotics - DR-16
Dec 5, 1968 · 30 min
Someone is selling LSD to teens. Joe and Bill are asked to speak to a local High School group that want to form an anti drug club "Smart Teens". They plan to create posters and Joe
Internal Affairs - DR-20
Dec 12, 1968 · 30 min
Joe and Bill investigate a charge of police brutality against a patrolman. The patrolman was attempting to stop someone from driving drunk when things got out of hand and the drunk
Community Relations - DR-17
Jan 2, 1969 · 30 min
Joe and Bill are sent to a Community Relations conference at Lake Arrowhead with other police officers. Their task is to discuss ways of improving community relations, and in the p
Homicide - DR-22
Jan 9, 1969 · 30 min
Joe and Bill are called to an apartment where the building manager has found a young woman bound and dead. The extremely chatty 91 year old manager, who is obsessed with crime nove
B.O.D. - DR-27
Jan 23, 1969 · 30 min
Joe and Bill are assigned to the Business Office Division. A priest is in the division to observe its operation. Joe and Bill work a series of problems from a potential tidal wave,
Narcotics - DR-21
Jan 30, 1969 · 30 min
The Captain ask Joe and Bill to investigate having dogs trained to sniff out narcotics. They contact a dog trainer to train dogs for the job. Joe and Bill do a demonstration for Ju
Administrative Vice - DR-29
Feb 6, 1969 · 30 min
Joe has a new partner, Lt. Chris Drucker, while Bill recovers from the flu. Joe and Chris go undercover as a pair of casual gamblers, then place their winnings in an envelope for e
The Joy Riders
Feb 13, 1969 · 30 min
A 15-year-old car thief is given a tour of the jail in an attempt to impress him of the consequences for choosing crime. Unfortunately, it doesn't work - the young man later kills
Frauds - DR-28
Feb 20, 1969 · 30 min
Joe and Bill investigate someone who has fraudulently obtained disability checks. This person has been renting apartments and only using them as a mail drop. Joe and Bill meet with
Juvenile - DR-19
Feb 27, 1969 · 30 min
Joe and Bill are asked to investigate allegation of child abuse by his mother. The story deals with the difficulty of having a child removed from an abusive home.
Burglary - DR-31
Mar 6, 1969 · 30 min
A costumed thief calling himself "The Crimson Crusader" has been stealing comic books, movie posters and publicity photos of various superheroes.
Vice - DR-30
Mar 13, 1969 · 30 min
The Captain assigns Joe and Bill to find the location of a high stakes poke operation that has been preying on visitors. Bill and Joe pose as farmers and check into a hotel where a
Forgery - DR-33
Mar 20, 1969 · 30 min
An actress' pay checks have being stolen and someone have cashed them. Joe and Bill visit the actress' apartment and find her roommate the prime suspect. They try to track the room
Juvenile - DR-32
Mar 27, 1969 · 30 min
A child has been bitten by a dog and the child is allergic to the anti-rabies shot. Joe and Bill have less than two hours to locate the dog.
Juvenile - DR-35
Apr 3, 1969 · 30 min
An infant girl is found in a garbage can; Joe and Bill use the child's blanket to track down the mother.
Frauds - DR-36
Apr 10, 1969 · 30 min
Someone is embezzling from Summers Department Store by opening up false credit card accounts at the store. Joe and Bill figure it is an inside job and question employees in the cre
Intelligence - DR-34
Apr 17, 1969 · 30 min
At a night school alumni party, Joe is approached to join the Fielder Militia, a right wing group. They want Joe to help one of the Militia’s members get a Federal firearms license