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Dragnet: The Big Crazy

Dragnet · August 30, 1951 · 29 min · 5,542 words

The transcript of “The Big Crazy”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast August 30, 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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From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, dragnet is the story of your police force in action. It was Monday, June 9th, was warm in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of homicide detail.

My partner's been Romero. The boss is that brown, she's a detective. My name's Friday. I was on the way back from the stats office and it was 10, 18 a.m. When I got to room 42.

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