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Dragnet: The Big Casing

Dragnet · May 3, 1951 · 29 min · 5,131 words

The transcript of “The Big Casing”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast May 3, 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 a homicide detail.

You go to an apartment house and answer to a shooting in dead body calm. Her husband tells you it's suicide. The facts show it to be murder. Your job? Find out. You'll be amazed when you compare Fatima with other long cigarettes.

You'll find they now cost the same. But in Fatima, the difference is quality. You see Fatima is the quality king-sized cigarette because it contains the finest domestic and Turkish tobaccos superbly blended. And Fatima is extra mild, with a much different, much better flavor and aroma than any other long cigarette.

So compare Fatima yourself. Fatima's now cost the same as other long cigarettes, but your first pup will tell you Ah, that's different. Yes, in Fatima, the difference is quality. Ask your dealer for Fatima, the quality king-size cigarette.

Best of all, long cigarettes. Start enjoying Fatima tomorrow. The document had drawn over an actual crime. Until 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 transcribed from official police files.

From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. It was Sunday, March 9th. It was Wendy in Los Angeles. We were working the daywatch out of homicide detail.

My partner's Ben Romero, the boss is Thad Brown, Chief of Detectives. My name's Friday. It was 4.35 p.m. when we got to the first floor of the Kelsey apartment hotel. Department 112. Hi Joe. Ben.

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