Episode
Dragnet: The Big Bird
Overview
Sgt. Friday investigates a robber who only targets pet stores and homes that have pet birds.
Details
- Series
- Dragnet
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 9
- Air date
- 1955-10-28
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
The Big Bird is Episode 9 in Season 5 of Dragnet. It aired on 1955-10-28. The runtime is 30 min.
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Episode 8: The Big Glasses
A housewife, Ella Ryburn, reports to Friday and Smith that she cannot contact her mother, who is married to Alfred Rudolph Shroder. When he is questioned, Shroder claims his wife left him and that, out of shame, he sold their house and put her items in storage.
Episode 10: The Big Laugh
A con man makes lonely women fall for his charms, then steals their money and disappears.
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Episode 7: The Big Look
A woman is dragged from her home and badly beaten by an unknown attacker.
Episode 11: The Big Smoke
An elderly couple is brutally beaten and the trail leads police to a former handy man.
Episode 6: The Big Gap
A pawn shop owner alerts Friday and Smith when a man claimed to have purchased an expensive ring that turns out to be junk and then asked the pawn shop owner to sell him a gun.
Episode 12: The Big Bounce
Joe Friday searches for a check forger who has been using the name of the old-time movie villain Parker Allington... who died three years ago.
Episode 5: The Big Confession
A man walks into the station and tells Friday that he wants to confess to a murder, but the cops have a hard time varifying his story.
Episode 13: The Big Shot
A night club owner is shot down and there are no witnesses to the crime.
Episode 4: The Big Lift
An organized gang of shoplifters is looting large department stores in the city.
Episode 14: The Big Locker
Friday and Smith happen to catch a man trying to sell a stolen ring at a pawn shop.
Episode 3: The Big No Rain
Episode 15: The Big Note
An anonymous note leads Friday and Smith to a group of teenage drug users and their neglectful parents.