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Dragnet: The Big Shoplift

Dragnet · October 11, 1951 · 29 min · 5,478 words

The transcript of “The Big Shoplift”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast October 11, 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. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Fatima cigarettes. Best of all, king-sized cigarettes. Brings you dragnet. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a burglary detail.

A way of a shoplifting breaks out in your city. There's no pattern to the thief's operations. There are no leads. Weeks mass. The number of thefts keep growing. Your job? Stop them. In Fatima, the difference is quality.

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The documented drama 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 transcribed from official police fires.

From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. in action. It was Tuesday, August 22nd, was hot in Los Angeles. We were working the day to watch out of burglary detail.

My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Captain Wisdom. My name's Friday. It was 2.18 p.m. and we got the Anthony Store for Women, the General Man of your office. Mr. Adion? Come right in. Thank you.

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