Seasons & episodes

Friday is called back from vacation to work with his partner, Bill Gannon, on a missing persons case.

A biography of Jack Webb through the eyes of people who knew him. This is a bonus feature included on disc 6 of the second season DVD.

Jack Webb last appeared as Sergeant Joe Friday on the Jack Benny Second Farewell Special which aired on January 24, 1974. Webb and Dragnet co-star, Harry Morgan as Officer Bill Gannon performed a comedic skit with Jack Benny involving an alleged 484 PS-Purse theft. Webb's daughter Stacy recalled, "Dad was not only a lifetime fan of Jack Benny, he was also a longtime friend and considered it an honor to make an appearance on the show."

An elderly couple is brutally beaten and the trail leads police to a former handy man.

Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Bill Gannon encounter a freaked-out young LSD user calling himself "Blue Boy"; before long, Blue Boy is "turning on" schoolchildren with the mysterious new drug.

A neo-Nazi psycho has planted a bomb somewhere in L.A. Friday and Gannon have to find it.

Friday and Gannon help an employee rescue her kidnapped boss.

A new officer has been arrested for robbing a liquor store while on an undercover assignment.

Four bandits wearing red masks commit a series of robberies.

Two con men, posing as bank examiners, are bilking the elderly out of their life savings.

An elderly apartment manager is found to have been beaten to death with a hammer.

Friday and Gannon try to figure out a pattern to a series of candy store hold-ups.

Gannon goes undercover as a buyer in order to trap fur theives.

Over $200,000 worth of Imperial Jade is reported stolen in a burglary, and Friday and Gannon are on the case.

A police officer is shot while making a routine check on a pair of paroled convicts that are parked near a liquor store.

Friday and Gannon use newspapers, radio and TV to seek the public's help in identifying a hit and run driver.

Friday goes undercover with the Department's chaplain in order to break up a gambling ring.

Friday learns about a scam artist with a novel twist: he uses an authentic Congressional Medal of Honor to solicit magazine subscriptions.

A Japanese widow is senselessly murdered, leaving her small daughter an orphan. Friday has a hard time controlling his emotions while seeking the killer.

A gang of juvenile thieves have been stealing petty items in order to gain membership into an exclusive club.

A dead man has been found in a locked room, along with a gun that could not have been the murder weapon.

A volatile teenager throws acid on the back of another student (played by a teen-aged Jan Michael Vincent), then crashes a party armed with a live hand grenade.

Joe tries to stop a burglary at an all night launderette and ends up exchanging fire with the suspect. When SID tries to find the bullet fired at Joe, they come up empty and Joe faces a shooting board with no proof the man ever fired at him.

Three con artists have been swindling businessmen from out-of-town by posing as a prostitute and two policemen. The detectives set a trap as Gannon pretends to be a manufacturer from Lincoln Nebraska.