Dragnet — Season 1

Syndication Ended Drama Comedy Crime

26 Episodes · Premiered October 24, 1989 · Ended January 21, 1990

Episodes

A woman claims that she was raped in the middle of the day in the elevator leading to her apartment. Her rich and influential husband demands immediate police action, but as Daniels and Molina vigorously pursue the investigation, elements of the woman's story don't seem to quite add up.

When factory worker Joe Flynn's body is found inside a parked car, Molina and Daniels have their hands full with a long list of suspects, all of whom are happy to learn that the universally disliked man is dead.

Daniels and Molina are assigned to the homicide of Darrell Fowler, a reclusive ex-Marine turned wealthy real estate developer. The investigation begins with an interview of Fowler's business partner, Emmett Stone, which leads the detectives to investigate the source of Fowler's wealth; Fowler had grown up in foster homes and joined the Marine Corps virtually penniless, but when he was discharged four years later he was a multimillionaire.

Distraught Lauren Taylor arrives at the station claiming that her husband has stolen all her possessions and cleaned out their bank accounts. Daniels and Molina explain to her that her husband did nothing wrong but agree to take one shot at finding him. They go to his place of employment only to discover that he quit without notice. After talking to an employee, they pull the man's office phone records and follow up on a number that appears frequently. There, they find another woman claiming to be his wife who has a similar story to Lauren's.

Daniels and Molina are called to the upscale Mayfield Hotel, where Steven Lewis was found dead from an apparent heart attack. Although the case seems routine, a few small details — the doctor leaving the scene hurriedly because he can't stand the sight of a dead body, and the victim never being seen the hotel staff — don't add up and, during a lull in police work, the detectives decide to look deeper into the deceased's life.

Daniels and Molina are assigned to work a series of robberies where a lone gunman holds up individuals after they have made withdrawals from an automated teller machine. One curious aspect of the investigation is that every robbery takes place when patrol cars in the area are occupied on other calls.

Working out of Homicide, Daniels and Moilna catch the case of star high school quarterback Rick Randall, who is found dead in a park with crack in his possession. Yet as they pursue the investigation, everyone tells them that Rick was a clean, fit and healthy athlete who would never touch drugs.

While working out of Accident Investigation Division, Daniels and Molina are assigned the case of Marianna Stringer, a flight attendant who, upon stepping out of her car, was run down and killed in the early hours of the morning.

The theft of Greg Elias' boat is reported by his lawyer, and Daniels and Molina investigate why Elias is reluctant to talk to them. The boat is a speedboat whose main use is drug smuggling and the man has long been suspected of being involved with drugs, but the police have never been able to prove anything.

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