Set in Los Angeles, and starring Jack Webb as the stoic Sergeant Joe Friday, Dragnet is perhaps the most famous and influential police procedural drama of all time, having made extensive runs on both radio and television. Webb, also the producer of the show, took the series to new highs, insisting on realism in every facet of the program. The dialogue was clipped and sparse, taking its cue from hard-boiled crime fiction à la Raymond Chandler and...

A bunco gang of petty swindlers have set up operations in the city. They work the obituary racket, selling worthless merchandise to the relatives of the deceased. They're experienced, cunning and they work fast.

A stuttering robber and his partner are tracked down with the help of a stoolie, who is trying to go straight

An old man, poorly dressed, robs a liquor store and is very apologetic about it.

Thomas Stanford confesses to robbing a store, but Sgt. Friday proves that he was at work at the time of the robbery!

For the past two months a gang of safe burglars have been operating in Los Angeles. In that time, they've hit a dozen places. The police have no lead to their identity. It's Sergeant Friday's job to get them...

Jack Carver, just out of Folsom, is suspected of killing a cop for revenge. Friday poses as a criminal in jail to find the missing murder weapon.

Mrs. Rockman has been beaten to death... no, she's been shot... no, she killed herself!

A bank robber using a sawed-off shotgun is traced through the first three digits of his license plate number.

In the past two months a thief has broken in to eighteen markets in Los Angeles. There is no lead to his whereabouts and no clue to his identity.