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Dragnet: Rifle for Christmas

Dragnet · December 22, 1949 · 29 min · 4,073 words

The transcript of “Rifle for Christmas”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast December 22, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Thanksgiving Radio plays Dragnet free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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His age, nine years. Follow play is suspected. Your job, find him. If you want a long cigarette, smoke the best of long cigarettes. Smoke Fatima. Fatima is the long cigarette, which contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos, superbly blended to make Fatima extra mild.

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Smoke Fatima. Dragnets, the documented drama of an actual crime. For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case from official police files.

From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. It was Thursday, December 22nd, it was cold in Los Angeles. We were working the night watch out of homicide.

My partner's Ben Romero, the boss is Thad Brown, Chief of Detectives. My name's Friday. I was on the way into work and it was 3.55 p.m. when I got to room 42. Homicide. Hi, Joe.

Ben, what's doing? Oh, pretty quiet. How's your mother? I went cold still hanging on bad cough. Doc says nothing serious. My kids got the same thing. There'll be some kind of a virus going around.

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