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Dragnet: The Big Love

Dragnet · July 5, 1951 · 29 min · 5,343 words

The transcript of “The Big Love”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast July 5, 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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Ladies and gentlemen, this program is for you, not your children. The story you're about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. Fatima Cigarette, best of all, long cigarettes, bring chute dragnet.

You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a homicide detail. A woman in her two-year-old child disappears suddenly. There's no apparent reason for it. Five days pass. No trace of them. Your job. Find them. Webster's Dictionary.

Definition of the word, compare. Compare. Examine for purpose of discovering resemblance or difference. Now, let's compare Fatima with any other king-size cigarette. The resemblance. Fatima's are the same length as other king-sized cigarettes, 85 mm.

Fatima has the same circumference, 1 1 1 64th cinches around. And Fatima filters the smoke exactly the same long distance as other king-sized cigarettes. The difference in Fatima, the difference is quality. You see, Fatima contains the finest domestic and Turkish tobaccos superbly blended to make Fatima extra mild.

You get all the advantages of extra length plus Fatima quality, which no other king size cigarette has. So compare Fatima yourself. Your first pup will tell you. Ah, that's different. Yes, in Fatima, the difference is quality.

By Fatima. Best of all, long cigarettes. Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 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.

Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. It was Tuesday April 20th. It was overcast in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of homicide. My partner's Ben Romero, the boss is Captain Blaine Steve, my name's Friday. I was on the way back from communications and it was 1.35

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