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Dragnet: The Big Overtime

Dragnet · December 13, 1951 · 29 min · 4,490 words

The transcript of “The Big Overtime”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast December 13, 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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Buy Fatima. Best of all, king size cigarettes. 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 prescribed from official police violence.

From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. It was Tuesday, October 18th, it was cloudy in Los Angeles. We were working the early morning watch out of homicide.

My partner has been Romero. The boss is Thad Brown. She put detectives. My name is Friday. I was on the way back from the stats office and it was 3 26 a.m. when I got to room 42 homicide.

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