https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dragnet--7200271enSociety & CultureCopyright 07 Audio Networkhttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7d5d5203521fd8f05dc4bae1e99720b2.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/dragnet--7200271Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:06:43 +000007 Audio Network07 Audio Networkinfo@07audio.loveDragnet follows Los Angeles Police Sergeant Joe Friday, played by series creator Jack Webb, as he works real-case-inspired investigations with the clipped, just-the-facts narration that became instantly iconic. Airing from 1949 to 1957, it's often...falseb3615a3b-9118-5808-8f75-48f83b648861episodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-big-gangster-a-sanitarium-shooting--74762174https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74762174Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:01:09 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Mar 30th, 1950. A notorious Los Angeles hoodlum is gunned down inside a sanitarium, and Sergeant Friday and his partner Ben Romero race to find witnesses before a gang war erupts. Their leads take them from a shell-shocked receptionist to an...17601950s crime drama,dragnet,gang war,joe friday,los angeles,noir mystery,old time radio,police proceduralfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-big-gangster-part-1-machine-gun-on-sunset--74619743https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74619743Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:01:21 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Mar 23rd, 1950. A mob boss survives a daylight machine-gun ambush outside a Sunset Boulevard cafe, and Sergeant Friday and his partner Ben Romero are determined to stop a gang war before it starts. The hoodlum won't talk, the witnesses barely...17541950s los angeles,film noir,gangster drama,joe friday,old-time radio,police procedural,radio drama,true crime dramatizationfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-big-boys--74176413https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74176413Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:03:37 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Mar 16th, 1950. Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero pick up a tip from an unofficial source: a special-delivery letter from a cop's brother up north warning that four armed, cold-blooded young robbers are headed for Los Angeles. As...17531950s los angeles,detective fiction,film noir,joe friday,old time radio,police procedural,robbery detail,true crime dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-big-thank-you--74100887https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74100887Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:03:18 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Mar 9th, 1950. When a paroled murderess stops filing her monthly reports, Sgt. Joe Friday and Ben Romero notice her signature has changed — and the trail leads to a fog-shrouded house in Wilmington. A tense missing-persons case unfolds with the...17791950s los angeles,film noir,joe friday,missing person,old-time radio,parole case,police procedural,true crime dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-big-kill--74026737https://api.spreaker.com/episode/74026737Sat, 22 Aug 2026 09:02:54 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Mar 2nd, 1950. When a Los Angeles police officer is gunned down with a shotgun on his own front porch, Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero race against the clock to track down an ex-con who swore revenge at his sentencing. Built on...17631950s los angeles,detective story,manhunt,noir,old-time radio,police procedural,revenge plot,true crime dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-gentle-grifter-comes-home--73953082https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73953082Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:01:10 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Feb 23rd, 1950. A confidence man with a 35-year rap sheet resurfaces in Los Angeles, working a slick used-car swindle that leaves two dealers out $2,000 apiece — and too scared of a lawsuit to fight back. Sergeants Friday and Romero pull his...17611950s los angeles,bunko squad,con artist,confidence man,film noir,old-time radio,police procedural,used car scamfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-big-girl--73875535https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73875535Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:01:16 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Feb 9th, 1950. A robbery detail case turns grim when Sergeant Friday and Sgt. Romero track a beautiful, statuesque blonde who's been robbing and savagely beating lone men across Los Angeles. What starts as a string of muggings takes a darker...17601950s los angeles,film noir,joe friday,lapd case files,old-time radio,police procedural,robbery investigation,true crime dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-big-little-girl--73875532https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73875532Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:01:02 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Feb 2nd, 1950. When two seven-year-old girls vanish on a short walk home from the corner grocery store, Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero race against a gathering storm to find them. A grim discovery on a rain-soaked hillside turns...17611950s los angeles,joe friday,lapd case files,missing children,noir mystery,old-time radio,police procedural,true crimefalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-big-man-part-2-narcotics--73875529https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73875529Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:01:23 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Jan 19th, 1950. Sergeant Joe Friday returns from an exhausting undercover haul to launch the manhunt for Belmont, the elusive supplier behind a sprawling heroin pipeline. With federal and state narcotics agents joining forces across state...17681950s los angeles,drug trafficking,joe friday,narcotics investigation,old-time radio,police procedural,true crime drama,undercover operationfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-big-man-part-1-friday-goes-undercover--73875528https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73875528Mon, 17 Aug 2026 09:02:02 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Jan 12th, 1950. Joe Friday says goodbye to his mother and trades his badge for a fake ID as he goes deep undercover in the Narcotics Bureau's biggest case yet. Teaming with federal and state agents, Friday assumes the identity of "Joe Kyber" to...17591950s los angeles,dragnet,joe friday,narcotics investigation,old-time radio,police procedural,radio drama,undercover copfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-price-of-an-old-friendship--73875522https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73875522Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:03:17 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Jan 5th, 1950. When a jewelry store heist turns into a shootout that wounds his own partner, Sergeant Joe Friday discovers the getaway man he's chasing is an old army buddy down on his luck. Told in Dragnet's signature clipped, documentary...17581950s los angeles,crime drama,film noir,friendship and betrayal,jewelry store robbery,old-time radio,police procedural,prisonfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-night-depository-killing--73875519https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73875519Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:06:18 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Dec 29th, 1949. Sergeant Friday and his partner Ben Romero stake out a Los Angeles drugstore on a sweltering night, tailing tips on an armed robbery crew, before a radio call pulls them across town to a bank's night depository — where they find...18381949,detective fiction,film noir,los angeles,old time radio,police procedural,stakeout,true crime dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-rifle-for-christmas--73584601https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73584601Fri, 14 Aug 2026 09:01:23 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Dec 22nd, 1949. Days before Christmas, Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero race to find a nine-year-old boy who vanished from his own backyard, with fresh bloodstains and a spent rifle cartridge as their only leads. Told in Dragnet's...17671940s los angeles,christmas noir,crime drama,detective investigation,holiday mystery,missing child,old-time radio,police proceduralfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-jade-thumb-rings--73521999https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73521999Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:01:08 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Dec 8th, 1949. Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero are pulled off a retirement party at the police academy to investigate a brutal daylight robbery on Alvarado Street. The victim, gem cutter and jade expert George Quan, was savagely...17441940s los angeles,jack webb,jade heist,joe friday,noir crime drama,old-time radio,police procedural,robbery detailfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-big-timers--73521996https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73521996Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:01:12 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Dec 1st, 1949. A savage knife attack on a teenage boy in a vacant lot pulls Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero into the Juvenile Bureau's toughest case: a sprawling gang of young offenders behind a five-week crime wave across Los...17571940s los angeles,film noir,joe friday,juvenile delinquency,old-time radio,police procedural,radio drama,true crime dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-mother-in-law-murder--73406986https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73406986Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:00:52 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Nov 24th, 1949. Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Romero track down a killer after a 62-year-old laundress is found beaten to death in her own home. All signs point to her daughter-in-law, who claims innocence but can't account for a crucial...17581949 radio drama,film noir,interrogation,joe friday,los angeles,murder investigation,old time radio,police proceduralfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-big-freight-job--73406983https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73406983Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:00:55 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Oct 1st, 1949. A rash of hijacked trucks has left Los Angeles warehouses stripped of nylons, silk, and imported perfume worth tens of thousands of dollars. Sergeants Friday and Romero grind through an all-night interrogation with a driver who...17551949,crime drama,hijacking,interrogation,los angeles police,noir,old-time radio,police proceduralfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-brick-bat-slayer--73406980https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73406980Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:00:54 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Sep 24th, 1949. A killer is stalking Los Angeles apartment courts, slipping through cut window screens to murder women in their own homes—and leaving the murder weapon, an ordinary red brick, behind every time. Sergeant Joe Friday and his...17541949,crime drama,detective mystery,film noir,los angeles,old-time radio,police procedural,serial killer investigationfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-shooting-of-officer-bemis--73406978https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73406978Sat, 08 Aug 2026 09:01:00 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Sep 17th, 1949. A routine traffic stop turns fatal when a motorcycle officer is gunned down in the fog-shrouded streets of Los Angeles, and Friday and Romero race to track down the two men responsible before the trail goes cold. Built from an...17531940s crime drama,cop killing,detective investigation,los angeles,noir,old time radio,police procedural,radio dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-nursery-man--73262033https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73262033Fri, 07 Aug 2026 09:00:25 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Sep 3rd, 1949. When a nursery owner reports his wife missing, Sergeant Joe Friday and Ben Romero smell something wrong: her purse, her clothes, even her cash are all still at home. As the woman's teenage son secretly reaches out to police with...17911940s crime drama,dragnet,homicide investigation,joe friday,missing persons,old-time radio,police procedural,radio noirfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-auto-burglary-ring-myra-the-redhead--73240582https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73240582Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:00:17 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Sep 1st, 1949. Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Romero work the night shift on auto theft detail, chasing down the leaders of a gang responsible for more than 250 car burglaries across Los Angeles. When two teenage suspects are caught...17961940s crime drama,auto theft,dragnet,juvenile delinquency,los angeles,noir,old-time radio,police proceduralfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-blitz-bandits--73217299https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73217299Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:00:17 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Aug 25th, 1949. Sgt. Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero chase a fast-moving gang of armed stickup men who've hit eighteen liquor stores and restaurants in just over three weeks. Between narrowing down a list of twenty-two suspects with names...17591940s los angeles,dragnet,film noir,joe friday,old-time radio,police procedural,robbery detail,true crime dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/sixteen-nights-of-diamonds--73194136https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73194136Tue, 04 Aug 2026 09:00:16 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Aug 18th, 1949. Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero chase a jewel thief who's hit sixteen nights running, slipping into homes through cellophane-taped doors and vanishing with diamonds, sapphires, and one very confused pawnbroker's...17821940s los angeles,film noir,jewel thief,joe friday,old-time radio,pawn shop investigation,police procedural,true crime dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-lux-hotel-murders--73194133https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73194133Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:00:18 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Aug 11th, 1949. Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero race through a rain-soaked Los Angeles night chasing a killer who has struck twice at cheap downtown hotels, leaving behind only a hastily scrawled hotel register and a nervous...17941949 drama,ben romero,film noir,hotel murder mystery,joe friday,los angeles,old-time radio,police proceduralfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-tucker-building-lead--73194131https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73194131Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:00:18 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Aug 4th, 1949. A dying informant's last words send Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero into the underworld of a citywide narcotics ring. With only a scrawled name and an address to go on, the detectives piece together clues from a...17821940s crime drama,detective story,dragnet,film noir,narcotics investigation,old time radio,police procedural,true crime dramatizationfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-girl-who-stopped-writing-home--73194130https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73194130Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:00:20 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Jul 28th, 1949. A worried mother in a small Utah town calls the LAPD when her daughter, who moved to Los Angeles to find work, suddenly stops writing home after weeks of faithful letters. Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero take on...17941940s los angeles,detective story,film noir,joe friday,missing persons,old time radio,police procedural,true crime dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-sullivan-kidnapping--73190488https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73190488Fri, 31 Jul 2026 09:00:17 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Sep 10th, 1949. A bank vice president's 22-year-old daughter is lured out of business school with a lie about her dying father, and a ransom note signed 'The Wolf' demands $30,000 for her safe return. Sergeants Friday and Romero hide in the...17671949,joe friday,kidnapping,noir,old-time radio,police procedural,ransom note,true crime dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-red-light-bandit--73184601https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73184601Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:00:16 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Jul 14th, 1949. A fake motorcycle cop with a flashing red light is terrorizing Los Angeles, pulling over drivers and beating them senseless before robbing them blind. Sergeant Friday and his partner Ben Romero race from crime scene to crime...17761949 radio,fake police officer,joe friday,los angeles,noir crime,old-time radio,police procedural,true crime dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-case-of-the-steel-pipe--73184178https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73184178Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:00:15 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Jul 7th, 1949. A young waitress named Helen Corday is found bludgeoned to death in a foggy Los Angeles vacant lot, and Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Romero turn to the crime lab for answers. Paint chips, blood typing, hair samples, and a...17901940s crime drama,dragnet,film noir,forensic science,joe friday,murder investigation,old-time radio,police proceduralfalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-quick-trigger-boys--73184176https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73184176Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:00:29 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Jun 24th, 1949. When a stakeout tip leads to a stickup gone wrong, Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero are called to a bar where a gang of trigger-happy holdup men has left a fellow officer dead. As Friday works the case with his...1792falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-24-minute-bomb-at-city-hall--73193210https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73193210Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:13:26 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Jul 21st, 1949. Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero are called back on duty for a nightmare scenario: a man with a homemade bomb is holed up inside Los Angeles City Hall, threatening to level the block unless his jailed brother walks...17981940s los angeles,bomb threat,city hall,dragnet,hostage negotiation,old-time radio,police procedural,true crime dramafalsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-werewolf--73184175https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73184175Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:26:55 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Jun 17th, 1949. A masked attacker preys on lone women walking the early morning streets of Los Angeles, leaving eighteen victims beaten and robbed in six weeks. Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner race the clock through rain-soaked streets,...1773falsefullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-nickel-plated-gun--73128442https://api.spreaker.com/episode/73128442Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:33:17 +000007 Audio NetworkAired: Jun 10th, 1949. Two LAPD officers are gunned down without warning outside a rough south-side café, and Sergeant Joe Friday and partner Ben Romero catch the case. With one officer fighting for his life on the operating table, the detectives...1783falsefull