Dragnet: The Big Market

or about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail. A pair of bandits are staging a rapid fire campaign of hold-ups in your city. In 21 days, 11 food markets have been robbed.

The hold-ups go on. The suspects are still unidentified. Your job? Get them. The documented drama of an actual crime. For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the 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. Was Tuesday September 26th, was hot in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of robbery detail.

My partner's Ben Romero, the boss is Captain Dydian, my name's Friday. It was 9.18am when I got to the record bureau, Lieutenant Cunningham's office. Joel, what's doing? Well, not too much. Got a job you can do for us, Frank. I'd like to have it as soon as you can get it out.

Oh, it's about. Only these market bandits. We've already gotten out of dozen teletypes and bulletins on them. I'd like to get out some semigraphs too, if we can. General distribution, then. What do you want on them?

Well, I'd better lay out the whole thing for you. A lot of the copies are going to the Retail Grosses Association, all their members. No luck with those two fees so far. No, no closer than we were three weeks ago.

Forget it's all a plug, another loophole. How many copies you figure you want on this by the thousand? Yeah, that's fine, that ought to do it. Okay, now what do you want to go on at, Joe?