The Old Time Dragnet Show With Adam Graham

Joe Friday and Frank Smith work the shift out of traffic division and deal with tragedy ahead of the 4th of July weekend. Original Air Date: July 3, 1952

Friday and Smith search for a missing man and the two men who robbed and beat him. Original Air Date: June 26, 1952

Joe Friday goes undercover to bust a big-time Heroine supplier. Original Air Date: June 19, 1952

Joe Friday and Frank Smith seek to find two con men who are tricking supporters of a home for crippled children into giving them the cash meant for the Children’s home. Original Air Date: June 12, 1952

Joe Friday and Frank Smith investigate the death of a woman that looks like a suicide. Original Air Date: June 6, 1952

Friday and Smith  investigate a series of kidnapping where babies are kidnapped only to be returned later, but missing one item of clothing. Original Air Date: May 29, 1952

A convicted bookmaker is blackmailed into increasing his bookmaking business in order to pay off a phony cop. Friday and Smith seek to track him down. Original Air Date: May 22, 1952

Joe Friday and Frank Smith investigate the robbery of a mail truck. Original Air Date: May 15, 1952

An investigation of a big gambling ring becomes deadly serious when a police officer gets killed in the raid. Original Air Date: May 8, 1952

Joe Friday and fill-in partner Frank Smith search for a serial safecracker. Original Air Date: May 1, 1952

Joe Friday and Bill Lockwood are called into investigate when a woman is found dead in a hospital elevator. Original Air Date: April 24, 1952

Joe Friday gets a new partner, Bill Lockwood. They team up to catch a man who is scamming women out of their life savings with a phony investment scheme. Original Air Date: April 17, 1952

When Pat Novak finds $1000 depsited in his bank account and a beautiful woman who wants him to find a Jack of Clubs, he runs into murder. Original Air Date: February 20, 1949

What appears affairs to be a by a prominent businessman becomes far more when Friday and Romero find conflicting clues at the scence of the crime. Original Air Date: December 28, 1950

Friday and Jacobs look for a mother who left her baby at a bus depot Original Air Date: April 10, 1952

Joe Friday and Ed Jacobs try track down a woman who shot her husband. Original Air Date: April 3, 1952

Friday and Romero question a man they suspect of being a serial killer. Original Air Date: February 8, 1951

Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a case of neglected children in one of Los Angeles’ wealthiest neighborhoods. Original Air Date: February 1, 1951

Joe Friday and Ben Romero hunt for 2 young hold up men. Original Air Date: January 18, 1951

Friday and Romero try to talk a suicidal man off a ledge. Original Air Date: January 11, 1951

Joe Friday and Ben Romero capture a dangerous armed robber who tries to prove no jail can hold him. Original Air Date: January 4, 1951

Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for an Armed robber with an exotic taste in cars. Original Air Date: November 30, 1950

Joe Friday and Ben Romero go after a gang of conmen who are victimizing the families of recently deceased people. Original Air Date: November 23, 1950

A baby is kidnapped in the dead of night from a local maternity ward and Friday and Romero must find him. Original Air Date: November 9, 1950

Joe Friday and Ben Romero look into threats on the life of a woman after she recently began attending a new church. Original Air Date: November 2, 1950

Joe Friday and Ben Romero are on the trail of a serial check forger whose been in operation for 9 years. Original Air Date: October 19, 1950

Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for a phony psychiatrist who robs the homes of his “patients.” Original Air Date: October 12, 1950

Joe Friday and Ben Romero think they’ve found an armed robber who committed a senseless shooting. They’re job: prove it.
Original Air Date: September 14, 2008

Joe Friday, Ben Romero and a team of officers from various police departments search for a missing Highway Patrolman. Original Air Date: August 24, 1950

A young lawyer’s office is vandalized and Ben Romero and Joe Friday must find the culprit. Original Air Date: August 17, 1950

Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for $100,000 in missing narcotics. Original Air Date: August 10, 1950

Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for a man who killed his girlfriend. Original Air Date: August 3, 1950

Joe Friday and Ben Romero’s search for the gentleman bandit continues. Original Air Date: July 27, 1950

Joe Friday and Ben Romero try and track down two hold up men responsible for a robbery and killing in San Diego. Original Air Date: July 20, 1950

When an alleged hit and run felony doesn’t add up, Joe Friday and Ben Romero have to find out what seven witnesses are covering up. Original Air Date: July 6, 1950

Joe Friday and Ben Romero hunt for the killer of a local mink merchant. Original Air Date: June 22, 1950

Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a purse snatching spree. Original Air Date: June 15, 1950 Johnny Madero continues his search for the elusive Pete Sutro. Original Air Date: June 19, 1947

Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for a Christmas murderer. Original Air Date: May 25, 1950

Joe Friday and Ben Romero hunt for a no-name boxer accused of robbery and grand theft auto. Original Air Date: May 18, 1950

In 1953 Radio version of Dragnet’s Christmas episode, a statue of the Baby Jesus is missing. Joe Friday and Frank Smith must find it before Christmas day. Original Air Date: December 22, 1953

A police officer is charged with robbing a man and breaking his arm, while the police officer insists that his accuser was a drunk who broke his own arm falling down the steps after a fight. Joe Friday and Ben Romero must find whose telling the truth. Original Air Date: June 1, 1950

Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for a robber who pretends to be a police officer in order to commit robbery and rape. Original Air Date: May 4, 1950

A con man becomes a cop killer and it falls to Joe Friday and Ben Romero to bring him to justice. Original Air Date: April 27, 1950

Joe Friday and Ben Romero spend months of police work tracking down a hit and run driver. But will it fall apart at trial? Original Air Date: April 20, 1950 Plus Jeff Regan, the Lady with the Golden Hair, Part Two Original Air Date: July 31, 1948

Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for a gang that is beating and robbing Army Officers. Original Air Date: April 6, 1950 Bonus: Jeff Regan, lady with the Golden Hair, Guest Starring Barton Yarborough. Original Air Date: July 31, 1948

Joe Friday and Ben Romero must find the killers of a big time criminal to avoid a gang war. Original Air Date: March 30, 1950

Someone’s out to kill a local crime kingpin. Joe Friday and Ben Romero must find the would-be killers and stop the murder attempts from breaking out into an all-out gang war. Original Air Date: March 23, 1950

Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for four young men wanted for robbery. Original Air Date: March 9, 1950

Joe Friday and Ben Romero try to put a double murderer away for good in this week’s episode of Dragnet. Original Air Date: March 2, 1950

Joe Friday and Ben Romero try to put a double murderer away for good in this week’s episode of Dragnet. Original Air Date: March 2, 1950

Joe Friday and Ben Romero match wits with a con man who has a 35 year criminal record. Original Air Date: February 9, 1950

Joe Friday and his partner Detective Hope are on the trail of a killer in this Jello-filled episode. Original Air Date: February 4, 1953

Friday and Romero search for the murderer of two young girls. Disclaimer: “Ladies and Gentlemen, this program is for you, not your children. The subject is of vital importance to you as parents. This is the story of a vicious man” Original Air Date: February 2, 1950

Joe Friday goes undercover to catch one of the biggest drug dealers on the West Coast. Original Air Date: January 12, 1950

When one of Joe Friday’s army buddies is arrested for Armed Robbery and cooperates in catching the other robber, Friday tries to help him on the path to reform in prison, but finds himself tasked with bringing him in when he escapes. Original Air Date: January 5, 1950

Joe Friday and Ben Romero are after a gang of robbers. Original Air Date: December 29, 1949

A young boy disappears with a newly discovered Christmas present. A .22 rifle and a box of shells. Original Air Date: December 22, 1949

Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for a killer with an unusual method of entry Original Air Date: December 15, 1949

A Chinese man is beaten after buying two jade thumb rings. Joe and Ben must find the thief and their only witness is a six year old with an overactive imagination. Original Air Date: December 8, 1949

Joe and Ben are on the trail of a gang of criminals and need to catch them before they kill again. Original Air Date: September 17, 1949

Joe and Ben try and tie down a gang of youth to a series of thefts and robberies, while a shady soda fountain owner comes under suspicion as a fence for the stolen merchandise. Original Air Date: December 1, 1949

A clear cut case of a woman murdering her mother-in-law to hide an affair falls apart, leaving Joe and Ben to search for the real killer. Original Air Date: November 24, 1949

Friday and Romero  are on the trail of hijackers who have made off with more than $80,000 in merchandise. Original Air Date: October 1, 1949

Joe and Ben are on the trail of a killer who uses red bricks to kill his victims. Original Air Date: September 24, 1949

Joe and Ben try and catch a kidnapper known as The Wolf. Dedicated to the memory of Sgt. Lee Newbillof the Moscow (ID) Police Department who died in the line of duty: May 19, 2007. Original Air Date: September 10, 1949

Joe and Ben try to get to the root of a car theft ring that’s pulled off more than 250 jobs in the past few months. Original Air Date: September 1, 1949

Joe and Ben search for a gang of robbers while of Joe’s Army buddies joins the police force. Original Air Date: August 25, 1949

Joe Friday and Ben Romero are on the trail of a psychotic serial killer. Original Air Date: August 11, 1949

Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for the murderer of an informant as they delve into the Narcotics culture of the 1940s. Guest Commentator: David Oatney. Original Air Date: August 4, 1949

A woman from Utah stops writing to her mother and disappers. Joe and Ben follow several blind alleys. Will they find her in time for a Christmas reunion? Original Air Date: July 28, 1949

A man disguises himself as a police officer and goes on a crime spree.  Friday and Romero must bring him in. Original Air Date: July 14, 1949

Ben Romero and Joe Friday hunt down the killer of a well-liked woman with no enemies down a perplexing trail of false leads in search of the truth. Original Air Date: June 7, 1949

Friday and Romero go after a cop killer, with Chief of Detectives Ed Backstrand wanting the killers caught before the next Sunrise. Original Air Date: June 24, 1949

Joe and Ben go searching for a criminal nicknamed the “werewolf” who is terrorizing young women in LA’s Central district Original Air Date: June 17, 1949

Welcome to the Dragnet Radio show blog. We’ll go through the entire Dragnet series episode by episode.From 1949, we have the earliest dragnet episode in existence. Joe Friday and his partner, Ben Ramirez on the trail of a killer, but confusing weapons and descriptions of the assailant create a unique challenge. Original Air Date: June 10, 1949 Click here to take our listener survey.

A high schooler in a car accident sends Joe Friday and Ben Romero up the narcotics foodchain in search of an elusive Drug Kingpin known only by his odd nickname. Original Air Date: January 25, 1951 IMPORTANT Click here to take our listener survey. Click here to download, click here to add this podcast to […]

Joe Friday and Ben Romero capture a dangerous armed robber who tries to prove no jail can hold him. Original Air Date: December 14, 1950 IMPORTANT Click here to take our listener survey. Click here to watch the Big Break for free online. Click here to download, click here to add this podcast to your […]

Joe Friday and Ben Romero track down two phony talent scouts who are victimizing teenage girls with Hollywood dreams. Original Air Date: December 7, 1950 IMPORTANT Click here to take our listener survey. Click here to download, click here to add this podcast to your Itunes, click here to add this podcast to Zune,  click […]

Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a murder that’s covered up by an arson. Original Air Date: November 16, 1950 IMPORTANT Click here to take our listener survey. Click here to download, click here to add this podcast to your Itunes, click here to add this podcast to Zune,  click here to subscribe to this […]

Joe Friday goes undercover to catch a big time drug smuggler. Original Air Date: October 26, 1950 Click here to take our listener survey. Click here to download, click here to add this podcast to your Itunes, click here to add this podcast to Zune,  click here to subscribe to this podcast using any other […]

Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for a robber who uses a taxi cab to escape the scene of the crime. Bonus: Pat Novak for Hire “Dixie Gillan, Part Two”: Novak confronts the woman who hired them. Original Air Date: October 5, 1950 Pat Novak Air Date: November 24, 1946 Click here to take our […]

Podcast Show Notes Joe Friday goes undercover and is hired to kill the wife of a prominent busiessman. Bonus: Pat Novak for Hire “Dixie Gillan, Part One”: Novak is hired to frighten someone into leaving town. Original Air Date: September 28, 1950 Pat Novak Air Date: November 24, 1946 Midget Auto Racing Click here to […]

Joe Friday and Ben Romero must find two robbers who are cleaning out the homes of vacationers. Also, we feature a special preview of the Old Time Radio Superman show. Dragnet Original Date: September 21, 1950 Superman Original Air Date: April 29, 1940 Click here to take our listener survey. Click here to download, click […]

An Elderly Couple disappears and Joe Friday and Ben Romero suspsect foul play. Original Air Date: September 7, 1950 Click here to take our listener survey. Click here to download, click here to add this podcast to your Itunes, click here to add this podcast to Zune,  click here to subscribe to this podcast using […]

Joe Friday and Ben Romero track down a serial check forger. Original Air Date: August 31, 1950 Click here to take our listener survey. Click here to download, click here to add this podcast to your Itunes, click here to add this podcast to Zune,  click here to subscribe to this podcast using any other […]

A man has threatened to blow up city if his brother’s not released by 9 o’clock. Joe Friday and Ben Romero must get the bomb away from him. Original Air Date: July 13, 1950 Click here to take our listener survey. Click here to download, click here to add this podcast to your Itunes, click […]

Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for a kidnapped woman. Original Air Time: June 15, 1950 Click here to take our listener survey. Click here to download, click here to add this podcast to your Itunes, click here to add this podcast to Zune,  click here to subscribe to this podcast using any other service. […]

A woman is murdered in her apartment and Joe Friday and Ben Romero suspsect her husband was involved. Original Air Date: June 8, 1950 Bonus: Johnny Madero, Pier 23: Johnny is hired to find a man that his client has only heard of in his dreams. Original Air Date: June 19, 1947 Click here to […]

A woman is missing, with foul play suspected. Joe Friday and Ben Romero must either find her or her killer. Original Air Date: September 3, 1949 Click here to take our listener survey.  Click here to download, click here to add this podcast to your Itunes, click here to add this podcast to Zune,  click […]

21 girls have been knifed at a local high school. Joe Friday and Ben Romero must catch the perpetrator before he kills one of his victims. Original Air Date: May 11, 1950 Click here to take our listener survey.  Click here to download, click here to add this podcast to your Itunes, click here to […]

Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for the source of pornography distribution in Los Angeles. Original Air Date: April 6, 1950 Click here to take our listener survey.  Click here to download, click here to add this podcast to your Itunes, click here to add this podcast to Zune,  click here to subscribe to this […]

Joe Friday and Ben Romero hunt for a suspect identified as a beautiful woman who hitches rides with men, then robs and beats them. Original Air Date: February 9, 1950 Click here to take our listener survey.  Click here to download, click here to add this podcast to your Itunes, click here to add this […]

Joe Friday and Ben Romero close in on the Pacific’s top drug distributor, Original Air Date: January 19, 1950 Click here to take our listener survey.  Click here to download, click here to add this podcast to your Itunes, click here to add this podcast to Zune,  click here to subscribe to this podcast using […]

Friday and Romero search for a jewel thief’s hidden loot. Original Air Date: August 18, 1949 Click here to take our listener survey.  Click here to download, click here to add this podcast to your Itunes, click here to add this podcast to Zune,  click here to subscribe to this podcast using any other service. […]

A man with a package threatens to blow up city hall if the police don’t release his brother. Friday and Romero have to get the bomb away before it is too late. Original Air Date: July 21, 1949 Click here to take our listener survey.  Click here to download, click here to add this podcast […]

Jeff Regan investigates a fishy insurance claim. Original Air Date: July 24, 1948 IMPORTANT: Click here to take our listener survey. Click here to download, click here to add this podcast to your Itunes, click here to add this podcast to Zune,  click here to subscribe to this podcast using any other service. Click here […]

Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for a man who has robbed a string of jewelry stores. Original Air Date: November 29, 1951 IMPORTANT: Click here to take our listener survey. Click here to download, click here to add this podcast to your Itunes, click here to add this podcast to Zune,  click here to […]

Joe Friday and Ben Romero must unravel the secret life of a murder victim in order to find her killer. Original Air Date: November 22, 1951 IMPORTANT: Click here to take our listener survey. Click here to download, click here to add this podcast to your Itunes, click here to add this podcast to Zune, […]

Joe Friday and Ben Romero pick up a lead in a string of burglaries based on an informant’s tip. Is it good or are they being led down a blind alley? Original Air Date: November 15, 1951 IMPORTANT: Click here to take our listener survey. Click here to download, click here to add this podcast […]