by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) chase after a gang of young punks who have pulled off some thirty holdups in the LA area. The best clue the detectives have to go on is that one of gang members has an itchy trigger finger, firing a pistol without point or purpose at the scene of each crime. Thus far, no one has been killed--but there's a first time for everything. This is one of a handful of sixth-season Dragnet episodes written expressly for television, with no previous radio version.
