Dragnet | Old Time Radio
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https://www.OldTimeRetroRadio.com The legendary police drama that defined realism in radio storytelling. Follow Sergeant Joe Friday through the streets of Los Angeles as he delivers “just the facts” in gripping true-crime episodes from the Golden Age. 🎧 Fully restored and professionally remastered with enhanced audio. Source: [OTRR.org] – Certified Public Domain Collection. Restoration and curation by Old Time Retro Radio.
Episodes
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Dragnet - "Big Revolt" (Old Time Radio, 1953)
Dragnet presents “Big Revolt,” episode 209 of the classic radio series, originally broadcast on June 21, 1953. Written by Paul Coates, the NBC broadcast stars Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday and Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith. Working the LAPD Missing Persons Detail during the night watch,...
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Dragnet - "Big Trial" (Old Time Radio, 1950)
Dragnet presents “Big Trial,” episode 45 of the classic radio series, originally broadcast April 20, 1950. Jack Webb stars as Sergeant Joe Friday, with Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero. Working the night watch in Los Angeles, Friday and Romero investigate a hit-and-run that leaves...
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Dragnet - "Big Picture" (Old Time Radio, 1950)
Dragnet presents “Big Picture,” episode 78 of the classic radio series, originally broadcast on December 7, 1950. Jack Webb stars as Los Angeles Sergeant Joe Friday, with Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero. Assigned to Juvenile Detail, Friday and Romero investigate reports of bogus talent...
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Dragnet - "Big Filth" (Old Time Radio, 1954)
Dragnet presents “Big Filth,” episode 233, originally broadcast on February 2, 1954. In this NBC Juvenile Detail case, Jack Webb stars as Sergeant Joe Friday, with June Whitley as Policewoman Irene Gardner. When a worried neighbor reports that four children may have been left alone and their…
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Dragnet - "Big Handsome Bandit" (Old Time Radio, 1954)
Dragnet presents “Big Handsome Bandit,” episode 268, originally broadcast on October 5, 1954. In this NBC crime drama, Jack Webb stars as Detective Sergeant Joe Friday, with Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith. Working Robbery Detail in Los Angeles, Friday and Smith investigate a violent holdup…
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Dragnet - "Big Honeymoon" (Old Time Radio, 1952)
Dragnet presents “Big Honeymoon,” episode 139, originally broadcast on NBC on February 7, 1952. Jack Webb stars as Sgt. Joe Friday, with Barney Phillips as Sgt. Ed Jacobs; the episode was written by James Moser. Friday and Jacobs take on a Los Angeles Bunco investigation after Dorothy Wagner’s...
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Dragnet - "Big Producer" (Old Time Radio, 1952)
Dragnet presents “Big Producer,” episode 141 of the classic NBC Radio Network series, originally broadcast February 21, 1952. Jack Webb stars as Sergeant Joe Friday, joined by Barney Phillips as Sergeant Ed Jacobs. Assigned to the Juvenile Division in Los Angeles, Friday and Jacobs investigate...
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Dragnet - "Big Whiff" (Old Time Radio, 1952)
Dragnet presents “Big Whiff,” episode 156 of the classic radio series, originally broadcast on June 5, 1952. Jack Webb stars as Detective Sergeant Joe Friday, with Herb Ellis as his partner, Frank Smith, in this NBC production written by Jim Moser. Working the Homicide Detail night watch in Los...
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Dragnet - "Big Daughter" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
Dragnet presents “Big Daughter,” episode 317 of the classic radio series, originally broadcast on NBC on September 13, 1955. Jack Webb stars as Sergeant Joe Friday, with Ben Alexander as Sergeant Frank Smith. Assigned to the Narcotics Detail, Friday and Smith follow an informant’s report of…
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Dragnet - "Big Cat" (Old Time Radio, 1954)
Dragnet presents “Big Cat,” originally broadcast on June 15, 1954. This is episode 252 of the classic NBC police drama, starring Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday and Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith. Assigned to Auto Theft Detail, Friday and Smith take an unusual report involving animals stolen...
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Dragnet - "Homicide" (Old Time Radio, 1949)
Dragnet presents “Homicide,” episode 4, originally broadcast on June 24, 1949. Also cataloged as “Quick Trigger Gun Men,” this early NBC sustaining broadcast stars Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday and Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero. After a police stakeout at a Los Angeles bar turns...
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Dragnet - "Big Set-Up" (Old Time Radio, 1951)
Dragnet presents “Big Set-Up,” episode 109 of the classic NBC radio series, originally broadcast July 12, 1951. Jack Webb stars as Sergeant Joe Friday, alongside Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero. Assigned to burglary detail in Los Angeles, Friday and Romero investigate a carefully planned...
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Dragnet - "Big Dance" (Old Time Radio, 1951)
Dragnet presents “Big Dance,” episode 84 of the classic radio series, originally broadcast on January 18, 1951. This NBC episode stars Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday and Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero. On a rainy Sunday night, Friday and Romero work the LAPD Robbery detail as they...
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Dragnet - "Garbage Chute" (Old Time Radio, 1949)
Dragnet presents “Garbage Chute,” episode 29 of the classic radio series, originally broadcast on December 15, 1949. Jack Webb stars as LAPD Sergeant Joe Friday, with Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero, in this NBC Radio Network broadcast. Friday and Romero investigate the murder of...
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Dragnet - "Big Red - Part 1" (Old Time Radio, 1952)
Dragnet presents “Big Red - Part 1,” episode 134, originally broadcast on January 3, 1952. In this NBC installment, Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ed Jacobs take on a Los Angeles narcotics case. The script is by Jim Moser, with Jack Webb, Barney Phillips, and Stacy Harris featured in the…
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Dragnet - "Big Saw" (Old Time Radio, 1954)
Dragnet presents “Big Saw,” episode 242, originally broadcast April 6, 1954. In this NBC crime drama, Jack Webb stars as LAPD Sgt. Joe Friday alongside Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith. Friday and Smith of the Robbery Detail investigate a carefully planned Los Angeles bank holdup by two…
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Dragnet - "Big Impossible" (Old Time Radio, 1953)
Dragnet presents “Big Impossible,” episode 195 of the classic NBC police drama, originally broadcast on March 15, 1953. Produced by Jack Webb, the episode stars Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday alongside Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith. Friday and Smith investigate a string of Los Angeles supermarket...
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Dragnet - "Big Fraud" (Old Time Radio, 1953)
Dragnet presents “Big Fraud,” episode 219, originally broadcast October 27, 1953. In this NBC radio drama, Jack Webb stars as Sergeant Joe Friday alongside Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith. Working the LAPD Bunco-Fugitive Detail in Los Angeles, Friday and Smith investigate reports of a...
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Dragnet - "Big Watch" (Old Time Radio, 1954)
Dragnet presents “Big Watch,” episode 249, originally broadcast on NBC on May 25, 1954. Jack Webb stars as Sgt. Joe Friday, with Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith. On a cold February day in Los Angeles, Friday and Smith of the LAPD Robbery Detail pursue an informant’s lead in a market-robbery...
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Dragnet - "Big String" (Old Time Radio, 1953)
Dragnet presents “Big String,” episode 187 of the classic NBC radio series, originally broadcast on January 18, 1953. Jack Webb stars as Sgt. Joe Friday, with Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith. Assigned to Homicide, Friday and Smith investigate after a university professor reports his wife...
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Dragnet - "Big Girl" (Old Time Radio, 1950)
Dragnet presents “Big Girl,” episode 36 of the NBC radio series, originally broadcast February 9, 1950. Jack Webb stars as Sgt. Joe Friday, joined by Barton Yarborough as Sgt. Ben Romero. Friday and Romero investigate a series of violent robberies targeting male motorists. Witnesses describe a…
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Dragnet - "Big Gamble" (Old Time Radio, 1952)
Dragnet presents “Big Gamble,” episode 152 of the classic radio series, originally broadcast on May 8, 1952. Jack Webb stars as LAPD Sergeant Joe Friday, with Martin Milner as Officer Bill Lockwood, in a script by Jim Moser for the NBC Radio Network. Working the Vice Detail day watch in Los...
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Dragnet - "Big Border" (Old Time Radio, 1952)
Dragnet presents “Big Border,” episode 145, originally broadcast on March 20, 1952. In this NBC drama, Jack Webb stars as Sergeant Joe Friday alongside Barney Phillips as Sergeant Ed Jacobs. Friday and Jacobs of the LAPD Robbery Detail search for two armed San Quentin escapees believed to be…
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Dragnet - "Big Little Mother" (Old Time Radio, 1953)
Dragnet presents “Big Little Mother,” originally broadcast on October 6, 1953. This is episode 216 of the classic NBC crime drama. Sgt. Joe Friday, played by Jack Webb, and Officer Frank Smith, played by Ben Alexander, work the LAPD Forgery Detail on a persistent retail-fraud case. Their...
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Dragnet - "Big Key" (Old Time Radio, 1954)
Dragnet presents “Big Key,” episode 271 of the classic radio series, originally broadcast on October 26, 1954. Jack Webb stars as Detective Sergeant Joe Friday, with Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith. Assigned to LAPD Robbery Detail, Friday and Smith investigate a hold-up man targeting Los...
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Dragnet - "Big Bounce" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
Dragnet presents “Big Bounce,” episode 284 of the classic radio series, originally broadcast January 25, 1955. Jack Webb stars as Sergeant Joe Friday. On a foggy Los Angeles case for the LAPD Forgery Detail, Friday and Officer Frank Smith investigate a run of worthless checks passed by a man…
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Dragnet - "Big Bindle" (Old Time Radio, 1951)
Dragnet presents “Big Bindle,” episode 103 of the classic NBC Radio Network series, originally broadcast May 31, 1951. Jack Webb stars as Sgt. Joe Friday, with Barton Yarborough as Sgt. Ben Romero. Friday and Romero investigate reports that high-grade heroin traffickers have arrived in Los…
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Dragnet - "Second Hand Killer" (Old Time Radio, 1949)
Dragnet presents “Second Hand Killer,” episode 19 of the classic radio series, originally broadcast on October 6, 1949. Starring Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday alongside Barton Yarborough as Sgt. Ben Romero, this early NBC-era episode is set in the Los Angeles Police Department’s jurisdiction.…
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Dragnet - "Big Number" (Old Time Radio, 1952)
Dragnet presents “Big Number,” episode 175, originally broadcast on October 26, 1952. This NBC radio episode stars Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday and Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith. Assigned to the LAPD Robbery Division, Friday and Smith investigate an armed bank holdup after the thief…
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Dragnet - "Big Missing" (Old Time Radio, 1949)
Dragnet presents “Big Missing,” episode 8 of the classic NBC radio series, originally broadcast July 28, 1949. This early sustaining broadcast stars Jack Webb as Los Angeles police Sergeant Joe Friday, with Barton Yarborough as his partner, Sergeant Ben Romero. As Christmas approaches, Friday and...
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Dragnet - "Big Partner" (Old Time Radio, 1951)
Dragnet presents “Big Partner,” episode 90 of the classic NBC police drama, originally broadcast March 1, 1951. Jack Webb stars as Sergeant Joe Friday, with Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero. Assigned to LAPD Robbery Detail, Friday and Romero investigate a bold daylight jewelry-store…
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Dragnet - "Big Threat" (Old Time Radio, 1951)
Dragnet presents “Big Threat,” episode 96 of the classic NBC radio series, originally broadcast April 12, 1951. Jack Webb stars as Sergeant Joe Friday, with Barton Yarborough as his early radio partner, Sergeant Ben Romero. Assigned to Los Angeles Robbery Detail, Friday and Romero investigate a...
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Dragnet - "Big Winchester" (Old Time Radio, 1951)
Dragnet presents “Big Winchester,” episode 114 of the classic NBC radio series, originally broadcast August 16, 1951. Jack Webb stars as Los Angeles Homicide Sergeant Joe Friday, with Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero. Friday and Romero investigate the shooting death of retired grocer…
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Dragnet - "Big Rip" (Old Time Radio, 1953)
Dragnet presents “Big Rip,” the series’ 200th episode, originally broadcast on April 19, 1953. In this NBC radio case, Jack Webb stars as Sgt. Joe Friday alongside Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith. Working the Burglary Detail on the day watch in Los Angeles, Friday and Smith investigate a...
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Dragnet - "Big Bop" (Old Time Radio, 1953)
Dragnet presents “Big Bop,” episode 211, originally broadcast on September 1, 1953. In this NBC radio drama, Detective Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith of the LAPD Robbery Detail investigate a lone thief targeting stores and check-cashing services across Los Angeles. As the robberies...
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Dragnet - "Big Fire" (Old Time Radio, 1952)
Dragnet presents “Big Fire,” episode 144, originally broadcast on NBC Radio on March 13, 1952. Jack Webb stars as Sergeant Joe Friday, with Barney Phillips as Sergeant Ed Jacobs. Friday and Jacobs investigate after prospective tenants at a recently renovated Los Angeles apartment building find...
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Dragnet - "Big Shock" (Old Time Radio, 1954)
Dragnet presents “Big Shock,” episode 262, originally broadcast on NBC on August 24, 1954. Jack Webb stars as Sgt. Joe Friday, with Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith. Assigned to the LAPD burglary detail in Los Angeles, Friday and Smith investigate a string of break-ins at neighborhood stores....
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Dragnet - "Big Net" (Old Time Radio, 1954)
Dragnet presents “Big Net,” episode 244, originally broadcast on NBC on April 20, 1954. Jack Webb stars as Sgt. Joe Friday, with Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith; Webb also directed this Chesterfield-sponsored broadcast. Friday and Smith investigate a citywide series of robberies and assaults...
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Dragnet - "Big Manikin" (Old Time Radio, 1954)
Dragnet presents “Big Manikin,” episode 270, originally broadcast October 19, 1954. In this NBC radio mystery, Jack Webb stars as Sergeant Joe Friday alongside Ben Alexander as Sergeant Frank Smith. Friday and Smith take a Missing Persons case when Jason Helmer, owner of a Los Angeles mannequin...
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Dragnet - "Big Couple" (Old Time Radio, 1951)
Dragnet presents “Big Couple,” episode 89 of the classic NBC radio series, originally broadcast February 22, 1951. Jack Webb stars as Sergeant Joe Friday, with Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero. Working Bunco Detail, Friday and Romero investigate a husband-and-wife confidence team preying…
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Dragnet - "Big Grandma" (Old Time Radio, 1950)
Dragnet presents “Big Grandma,” episode 71 of the classic NBC radio series, originally broadcast on October 19, 1950. Jack Webb stars as Detective Sergeant Joe Friday, with Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero. Assigned to LAPD Forgery Detail in Los Angeles, Friday and Romero investigate a...
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Dragnet - "Big Pipe" (Old Time Radio, 1954)
Dragnet presents “Big Pipe,” episode 236 of the classic NBC Radio series, originally broadcast February 23, 1954. Jack Webb stars as Sgt. Joe Friday, alongside Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith. When Ada Fitzgerald is found murdered in a downtown Los Angeles office building, Friday and Smith...
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Dragnet - "Twenty-Two Rifle for Christmas" (Old Time Radio, 1950)
Dragnet presents “Twenty-Two Rifle for Christmas,” episode 80, originally broadcast on December 21, 1950. This NBC radio drama stars Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday and Barton Yarborough as Sgt. Ben Romero. In the days before Christmas, Friday and Romero join a Homicide detail search for a missing...
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Dragnet - "Big In-Laws" (Old Time Radio, 1951)
Dragnet presents “Big In-Laws,” episode 115, originally broadcast on August 23, 1951. In this NBC radio drama, Jack Webb stars as LAPD Sergeant Joe Friday, with Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero. Working the Robbery Detail in Los Angeles, Friday and Romero investigate a coordinated string…
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Dragnet - "Big Dig" (Old Time Radio, 1954)
Dragnet presents “Big Dig,” episode 277 of the classic radio series, originally broadcast on December 7, 1954. Jack Webb stars as Sergeant Joe Friday, with Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith, in this NBC production written by John Robinson and Earl Schley and directed by Webb. When Karen Moffit...
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Dragnet - "Big Switch" (Old Time Radio, 1954)
Dragnet presents “Big Switch,” episode 230, originally broadcast on January 12, 1954. In this NBC crime drama, Jack Webb stars as LAPD Detective Sergeant Joe Friday, with Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith. Called to a low-cost Los Angeles hotel after Mona Fenton is found unconscious in a...
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Dragnet - "Big Rush" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
Dragnet presents “Big Rush,” episode 307 of the classic radio series, originally broadcast on July 5, 1955. Starring Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday and Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith, this NBC broadcast was sponsored by Chesterfield. Assigned to Robbery Detail in Los Angeles, Friday and...
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Dragnet - "Big Bobo" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
Dragnet presents “Big Bobo,” episode 309, originally broadcast on July 19, 1955. In this NBC crime drama, Jack Webb stars as Detective Sergeant Joe Friday. Assigned to the LAPD’s Internal Affairs Division, Friday investigates a bribery complaint involving a man who claimed he could arrange a...
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Dragnet - "Big Court" (Old Time Radio, 1952)
Dragnet presents “Big Court,” episode 137 of the classic radio series, originally broadcast on January 24, 1952. Jack Webb stars as Los Angeles Sergeant Joe Friday, with Barney Phillips as his partner, Ed Jacobs. A tavern holdup and killing brings Friday and Jacobs from Robbery Detail to…
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Dragnet - "Big Carney" (Old Time Radio, 1953)
Dragnet presents “Big Carney,” episode 202 of the classic NBC radio series, originally broadcast May 3, 1953. Jack Webb stars as Detective Sergeant Joe Friday, with Ben Alexander as Sergeant Frank Smith. Assigned to Los Angeles Burglary Detail during the Christmas shopping season, Friday and…
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https://www.OldTimeRetroRadio.com The legendary police drama that defined realism in radio storytelling. Follow Sergeant Joe Friday through the streets of Los Angeles as he delivers “just the facts” in gripping true-crime episodes from the Golden Age.
🎧 Fully restored and professionally remastered with enhanced audio. Source: [OTRR.org] – Certified Public Domain Collection. Restoration and curation by Old Time Retro Radio.
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