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Dragnet: The Big Run

Dragnet · June 21, 1951 · 29 min · 4,693 words

The transcript of “The Big Run”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast June 21, 1951. 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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The story you're about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. Fatima cigarettes. Best of all, long cigarettes brings you dragnet. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to accident investigation, hit and run detail.

You receive a call that two elderly women have been struck down and across walk by a hit and run driver. The women lie in Georgia Street Hospital. Their condition is critical. your job, find the driver.

In Fatima, the difference is quality. Yes, in Fatima, the difference is quality. Quality of tobaccos. The finest domestic and Turkish variety is extra mild. Superbly blended to give you Fatima is much different. Much better, flavor and aroma.

Quality of manufacture. Smooth, round, perfect Fatima cigarettes. Rode in the finest paper money can buy. Manufactured in the newest and most modern of all cigarette factories. Quality. Even to the appearance of the bright, clean, golden yellow Fatima package.

So compare Fatima yourself. Today, you'll find Fatima gives you all the advantages of extra length. Plus Fatima quality. Which no other king's eye is cigarette has. Yes, light up of Fatima. Your first puff will tell you, ah, that's different.

Because infotema, the difference is quality. Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. For the next 30 minutes in cooperation of the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files.

From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Tragnet is the story of your police force in action. It was Saturday, September 5th, was mild in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of accident investigation, hit and run detail.

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