Season 2 Breakdown

Normal Episodes: 28
TV Specials: 0
TV Movies: 0

Dragnet (1967) Season 2 (1967-1968)

Dragnet (1967) The Grenade 2x01 The Grenade
Friday and Gannon try to track down Gerald Paulson, an unbalanced teen who's carrying a live hand grenade.
Sep. 14, 1967
Dragnet (1967) The Shooting Board 2x02 The Shooting Board
Joe Friday himself is under investigation when he shoots and kills a young armed robber who fired at him. There's only one problem--the police can't find the bullet fired from the robber's ...
Sep. 21, 1967
Dragnet (1967) The Badge Racket 2x03 The Badge Racket
After a visiting businessman is swindled by con men posing as vice officers, Gannon goes undercover to trap the culprits posing as a Nebraska businessman.
Sep. 28, 1967
Dragnet (1967) The Bank Jobs 2x04 The Bank Jobs
Friday and Gannon receive unexpected assistance in the case of a bank robber who forces women to accompany him on his criminal activities.
Oct. 05, 1967
Dragnet (1967) The Big Neighbor 2x05 The Big Neighbor
Gannon invites Friday to his home for dinner and a ballgame but they keep getting interrupted by Gannon's neighbors wanting to consult with him on police related matters.
Oct. 12, 1967
Dragnet (1967) The Big Frustration 2x06 The Big Frustration
Gannon and Friday are assigned to find Carl Maxwell, an LAPD officer for 12 years who has disappeared.
Oct. 19, 1967
Dragnet (1967) The Big Senior Citizen 2x07 The Big Senior Citizen
An octogenarian thief commits a series of brazen daytime burglaries.
Oct. 26, 1967
Dragnet (1967) The Big High 2x08 The Big High
A wealthy businessman asks Friday for help when he discovers that his daughter and son-in-law are experimenting heavily with marijuana. Friday's efforts have no effect on the young ...
Nov. 02, 1967
Dragnet (1967) The Big Ad 2x09 The Big Ad
Ex-convict Steve Deal, who's broke and in desperate need of money, places an ad in the paper stating that he will do anything to earn $1,000. Deal gets a response to his ad but it's ...
Nov. 09, 1967
Dragnet (1967) The Missing Realtor 2x10 The Missing Realtor
A female realtor is reported missing and her murdered body turns up inside a vacant house a few miles from her office. The woman's boyfriend is the prime suspect--at first.
Nov. 16, 1967
Dragnet (1967) The Big Dog 2x11 The Big Dog
Someone is training canines to snatch women's purses. Friday, Gannon, and Dorothy Miller go on stakeout to uncover things.
Nov. 23, 1967
Dragnet (1967) The Pyramid Swindle 2x12 The Pyramid Swindle
Friday and Gannon arrest Bonnie Bates, a woman who runs a religious-flavored pyramid scheme. Then they aid the prosecution in making sure she gets convicted of the charges.
Nov. 30, 1967
Dragnet (1967) The Phony Police Racket 2x13 The Phony Police Racket
A phony police captain is selling fake magazine subscriptions to a publication called the National Association for Law Enforcement journal. Friday and Gannon are assigned to get to ...
Dec. 07, 1967
Dragnet (1967) The Trial Board 2x14 The Trial Board
Eyewitnesses claim they saw a police officer accept money from a known bookie and the officer's statement appears at first glance to corroborate the charge. Friday and Gannon think ...
Dec. 14, 1967
Dragnet (1967) The Christmas Story 2x15 The Christmas Story
Friday and Gannon are on the scene when a statue of baby Jesus is stolen from a nativity scene at a church.
Dec. 21, 1967
Dragnet (1967) The Big Shipment 2x16 The Big Shipment
Friday and Gannon search for the missing pilot of a plane that crashed while carrying a shipment of narcotics.
Dec. 28, 1967
Dragnet (1967) The Big Search 2x17 The Big Search
A mother reports her two young girls missing. She believes they were taken by her alcoholic ex-husband.
Jan. 04, 1968
Dragnet (1967) The Big Prophet 2x18 The Big Prophet
William Bentley, aka Brother William, is the leader of a psychadelic cult called the Temple of the Expanded Mind. This religion of Brother William's is mainly concerned with legalizing ...
Jan. 11, 1968
Dragnet (1967) The Big Amateur Cop 2x19 The Big Amateur Cop
A businessman's club selects Officer Gideon C. Dengle as its All-American Policeman and wants to present him with the award but the LAPD has no record of any such officer on its rolls. ...
Jan. 25, 1968
Dragnet (1967) The Big Starlet 2x20 The Big Starlet
Friday and Gannon search for a teenage girl who ran away from home to become a movie star. As might be expected, her trail leads to the pornographic film industry.
Feb. 01, 1968
Dragnet (1967) The Big Clan 2x21 The Big Clan
After the death of a gypsy king, Friday and Gannon get involved in Los Angeles's burgeoning fortune telling racket.
Feb. 08, 1968
Dragnet (1967) The Big Little Victim 2x22 The Big Little Victim
When a nine month old child is injured, his parents claim he fell down the stairs but the evidence points to child abuse.
Feb. 15, 1968
Dragnet (1967) The Big Squeeze 2x23 The Big Squeeze
Friday and Gannon interrogate an extortionist who's been targeting an electronics business.
Feb. 22, 1968
Dragnet (1967) The Suicide Attempt 2x24 The Suicide Attempt
A man calls his mother in New York from an undisclosed location in Los Angeles and announces the he's going to take an overdose of sleeping pills. Friday and Gannon race to prevent ...
Feb. 29, 1968
Dragnet (1967) The Big Departure 2x25 The Big Departure
A gang of juvenile hippies begins burglarizing a series of businesses in order to steal provisions so they can create their own utopian society on an offshore island.
Mar. 07, 1968
Dragnet (1967) The Big Investigation 2x26 The Big Investigation
Friday and Gannon dig into the background of a candidate for admission to the L.A. Police Academy. The applicant seems to be a model candidate until Friday and Gannon discover that ...
Mar. 14, 1968
Dragnet (1967) The Big Gambler 2x27 The Big Gambler
Friday and Gannon are on the case when $100,000 is embezzled from an industrial firm. They quickly narrow the suspect list down to three but from there it gets tougher.
Mar. 21, 1968
Dragnet (1967) The Big Problem 2x28 The Big Problem
Friday and Gannon give a talk to representatives of the black community in order to maintain good relations between them and the LAPD.
Mar. 28, 1968
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Season 2 Characters

Officer Bill Gannon played by Harry Morgan
Sergeant Joe Friday played by Jack Webb
Main Title Announcer voiced by George Fenneman
Narrator voiced by John Stephenson
Policewoman Dorothy Miller played by Merry Anders
Captain Lambert played by Art Gilmore
Capt. Lambert played by Art Gilmore
Captain Mack played by Byron Morrow
Capt. Brown played by Art Balinger
Officer Jim Reed played by Kent McCord
Capt. Merton Howe played by Art Gilmore
Sgt. Joe Friday played by Jack Webb
Sgt. Gene Markley played by Robert Patten
Paul Seever played by Kevin Coughlin
Charles Augustus William Smith played by Burt Mustin
Dallas Andrews played by Virginia Gregg
Off. Phil Waverly played by Steve Carlson
Marian Stanley played by Peggy Webber
Jerry Frank played by Fred Vincent
Louise Marshall played by Brooke Bundy
Jean Shipley played by Brenda Scott
Jana Altman played by Kipp Hamilton
Himself played by Tom Reddin

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Season 2 Videos

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Season 2 Quotes

02x07 - The Big Senior Citizen Season 2 / Episode 7: - The Big Senior Citizen

Officer Bill Gannon: [Smith posing as a dry cleaner] Are you their dry cleaner.
Charles Augustus William Smith: No I came to make love to the upstairs maid.
02x09 - The Big Ad Season 2 / Episode 9: - The Big Ad

Harvey Forrester: Lousy stinking drunk.
Friday: Don't knock her, Forrester, she had a reason to drink - she was married to you.
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Season 2 Trivia

  • Episode 20 - Goof (revealing mistake): When the four detectives are at the office building to catch the pornographer, one says that the office is up on the fifth floor. As Friday approaches the elevator, he pushes the down button.
  • Episode 04 - Goof (continuity error): Supposedly on site at a recently robbed bank, Friday and Gannon are briefed by Officer Whitman; but the three are obviously in a studio -- with flimsy, off-yellow, sound stage walls as a backdrop. Then, when the camera cuts to a wider shot they are suddenly standing in front of the bank --
  • Episode 13 - Kent McCord makes an appearance as "Officer Reed", almost a year before he would take the role of another officer named Reed on Jack Webb's Adam-12 (1968).
  • Episode 04 - Goof (continuity error): At the scene of the first bank robbery, when Friday and Gannon are being briefed by Officer Whitman, the three are obviously in a studio -- with flimsy, off-yellow, sound stage walls as a backdrop. But, then, when the camera cuts to a wider shot they are suddenly standing in front of the b
  • Episode 15 - A remake of "The Big Baby Jesus" from the original "Dragnet" series, the only of its kind, and one of Richard L. Breen's only two contributions to this revival version of the series.

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