The Big Family

January 13, 1955
30 min
Season 4 - Episode 20: The Big Family

Season 4 - Episode 20: The Big Family

Dragnet - Backdrop

Overview

Local businessman John Keith Jarrett disappears and evidence of suicide is discovered. Friday and Smith check on the surviving members of his family and find them not the least concerned about their father's death, with his son a tennis bum, his daughter promiscuous, and his wife drunken. The case gets even murkier when a report comes in of a traffic incident upstate involving a camper in which the driver was using Jarrett's license.

Episode Information

TV Show

Dragnet

Season

Season 4

Episode Number

20

Air Date

January 13, 1955

Runtime

30 minutes

Crew

Jack Webb

Jack Webb

Director

O

Orville Beckett

Electrician