Dragnet - Season 3 (1953)

A gang of con artists checks the obituary section of the daily newspaper, then uses the information they gather to prey on the grief-stricken families of those who have recently died.

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Joe and Frank investigate the murder of a man who has recently changed his will.

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A gang of robbers are calling Los Angeles physicians down to hotels and mugging and robbing them of drugs and valuables. Sargeants Friday and Smith are called in to put a stop to this.

It's Christmas Eve when Father Rojas at the Old Mission Plaza Church in Los Angeles discovers that the statue of the Infant Jesus is stolen from the crib. The statue's worth is only a few dollars, but it is of great sentimental value for the parish. Friday and Smith promise to try to get it back before mass on Christmas Day, but this means that they have less than 24 hours to catch the thief.

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Three men are the suspects in the beating death of a former vaudevillian actress found in her apartment. The possible reason for her murder could be among the contents of an old steamer trunk which she kept locked in her room. Surveillance equipment is used to solve the mystery.

A statue of the infant Jesus is missing from an impoverished churches crèche.

Friday and Smith receive a bulletin about an armed four-man gang, two of whom are army deserters, who have committed a series of robberies and auto thefts in San Francisco and are on their way to Los Angeles.

Ross is an actor on the way up, but then his girlfriend is found dead in his apartment. A suicide note is found, but things start to point to it being a homicide.

Friday must investigate the disappearance of a uniformed officer on a stretch of highway.

Sgt. Friday and Smith responding to the report of 2 small children, going door-to-door, begging for food. The catch? The kids are known as residents in a very high class neighborhood, living right next door.

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The victim of a so-called "mental therapist", a young woman commits suicide after being robbed of her furs and jewels. It is up to Friday and Smith to trace the man and to stop him from striking any more.

An apparent suicide turns out to be murder.

There's a spate of recent theft at retail stores in the city and Joe Friday and his partner are on the case. The detectives question a salesgirl from a big department store downtown, but she denies any involvement. They talk to a witness who saw another woman leave a parcel containing an expensive fur coat at a local bus station. Friday then talks to a teenage girl who saw a woman discard boxes of new items in a vacant lot. The girl knows the woman's identity and soon the officers are interrogating the shoplifter, a doctor's wife with a lot of time on her hands.

A truck kills an old lady and her little grandson at a crossing and drives away. The owner of the truck asserts that he let a man called Paul borrow the truck for one hour, but he doesn't know the last name of this man or where he lives. The police must investigate all circumstances, but should Friday and Smith really spend lots of resources on trying to find a man they hardly believe exists at all?

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The detectives try to track down a tall, beautiful woman who has been terrorizing the city by robbing men, beating them up and in some cases shooting them. Their job is made more difficult by the fact that there are many inconsistencies in the victims' reports.

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A man is found dead in the gutter. At first it seems as a hit-run case, but Friday and Smith become suspicious when all witnesses from the night before give exactly the same story. Usually witnesses are at variance in some respects.

A housewife disappears and the police suspect her husband but questioning is made difficult by the man's guard dogs.

Friday and Smith find themselves with a difficult case when a number of businesses report receiving forged checks.

Detectives Friday and Smith interview several victims of theft who are afraid to press charges against the man responsible. The police must convince them they won't receive retribution.

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Joe Friday interrogates a local gardener who's been arrested for holding up a grocery store. While questioning the suspect, Friday begins to doubt the man's guilt, even though he's identified as the robber by the woman who manages the store, and sets out to discover why the gardener has confessed to a crime he apparently did not commit.