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Dragnet: The Big Youngster

Dragnet · August 17, 1950 · 29 min · 5,093 words

The transcript of “The Big Youngster”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast August 17, 1950. 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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Ladies and gentlemen, next week, Thursday, August 24th. Dragnet will be heard one hour earlier at 9 p.m. Eastern Daylight Saving Time. The story you are about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.

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It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. Dragnet, the document a drama of an actual crime. For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step 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 Tuesday, April 10th, it was cool in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out at Juvenile Bureau. My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Inspector Bowling. My name's Friday. It was 9.35 AM when we got to 13.35 Georgia Street Captain's Office.

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