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L.A. Dragnet (2003)
TV Show

From Emmy Award-winning producer Dick Wolf, one of television's most successful creators and architect of the long-running Law & Order franchise, comes this modern-day take on the classic police drama. Filmed on locations throughout Los Angeles, this updated version of Dragnet features a group of detectives in the LAPD Robbery/Homicide Squad investigating crimes that could only take place in Los Angeles, one of the world's most glamorous and intriguing cities.

Genre: Drama

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Seasons: 2

Seasons episode list: 1 2

Season 1 - Episode list

1. The Silver Slayer

Airdate: 2003-02-02

There is a series of murders involving woman and silver found on their bodies. Detectives Friday and Smith think that they have their killer, a man they caught near the second crime scene but he is greatly wounded during the chase. He dies soon after.

2. The Big Ruckus

Airdate: 2003-02-09

Friday and Smith are assigned to a case which involves a body found at MacArthur Park. The body is a rich college student. They figure that it was a drug deal that had gone bad but as they find more clues, they find that it had nothing to do with drugs.

3. All That Glitters

Airdate: 2003-02-16

Detective Friday is concerned that a small-time movie executive isn't telling all she knows regarding her investors and the gangland style murder in Malibu of one of her co-workers.

4. Well Endowed

Airdate: 2003-02-23

While investigating the brutal murder of a little-known actress, Detectives Friday and Smith come across a number of people who might have information including a tabloid journalist, a wannabe porn star and a socially prominent Los Angeles family.

5. The Cutting of the Swath

Airdate: 2003-03-02

Detectives Friday and Smith race to find the young son of a deranged man who's on a rampage to kill his entire family; and Smith takes the case a little too personally.

6. The Brass Ring

Airdate: 2003-03-09

The fiancÃ© of a rising young Hollywood actress is found stabbed to death in the Hollywood Hills. Detectives Friday and Smith visit a movie studio head and a drug dealer to look for clues and find a shocking secret.

7. The Artful Dodger

Airdate: 2003-03-16

A customer is killed during a multimillion dollar jewelry robbery. During the investigation, Friday and Smith meet a British insurance company P.I. who attempts to use them to recover the stolen jewels. Friday also knocks heads with the arrogant owner of a private security company.

8. Sticks and Stones

Airdate: 2003-03-30

Detectives Friday and Smith investigate the satanic ritual killing of a teen girl. They look at her classmates including one who admits he should be the prime suspect.

9. Redemption

Airdate: 2003-04-06

Detective Friday and Detective Beltran find out a hidden secret behind a run of the mill suicide.

10. Let's Make a Deal

Airdate: 2003-04-13

A Hollywood super-agent's infant son is kidnapped. It is discovered that the infant is the nanny's. That is the least of the problems for the Detectives on this case.

11. For Whom the Whistle Blows

Airdate: 2003-04-27

A woman, missing for six years, is found dead in her car in a canyon. The suspects in her death include her son, her husband, a lawyer, and the company she worked for.

12. The Little Guy

Airdate: 2003-05-11

While trying to protect an innocent suspect linked to the Sanchez brothers, Friday puts his career on the line by killing a cop.

Season 2 - Episode list

1. Daddy's Girl

Airdate: 2003-10-04

Joe and his crew investigate the murder of a teenager who was burned and left for dead. Family honor is put to the test when the victom's father wants justice while assailant's father protects his child from the law.

2. Coyote

Airdate: 2003-10-11

The detectives discover a major prostitution ring while investigating a woman's murder.

3. 17 in 6

Airdate: 2003-10-18

Detective Cooper looks for help to find those involved in a deadly gang war.

4. The Magic Bullet

Airdate: 2003-10-25

The death of a fan at a wild Hollywood party lead the detectives to a record producer with a gun fetish.

5. Slice of Life

Airdate: 2003-11-01

When fishermen find a woman's headless body offshore, detectives discover she had recently given birth, but there was no sign of the baby.

6. Abduction

Airdate: 2004-04-21

The detectives investagate the abduction and killing of the son of a couple involved in an alternative lifestyle.

7. Frame of Mind

Airdate: 2004-04-28

The killing of a travelling salesman maybe connected to the unsolved murder of an adult movie star's father.

8. Retribution

Airdate: 2004-05-05

Detectives suspect an alleged victim of sexual abuse is responsible for decapitating an Orthodox priest.

9. Riddance

Airdate: 2004-12-04

The deaths of an artist an his girlfriend leads the detectives to a case of poisoned drugs. when they arrest the dealer they have to prevent more people from dying and find the man who made the drugs.

10. Killing Field

Airdate: 2004-12-04

When a man is arrested for shoplift, using a missing person's car, police finds in the car the belongings of two other missing people. While in custody the suspect kills himself. Soon after, the detectives find in his house not only torture elements and videos but also human bones and several graves. One of the videos indicates that there was an accomplice.