Dragnet: The Big Mail

Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to read a telegram we just received. Final Ballot tabulation shows Dragnet has won Michael Award for Best Radio and also for Best Television Mystery Program in 1952. 20,090 qualified members participated in nominations in Final Ballot.

Congratulations and best wishes. Ed Bobley, President Academy of Radio and Television Arts and Sciences. For about to hear is cruel. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Fatima cigarettes. Best of all, king-size cigarettes brings you dragnet on both radio and television.

You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail. A United States mail truck is held up in Rob. Twenty-two sacks of registered mail are taken. The hold up men escape. There's no lead to their identity. Your job? Get them.

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Best of all, king-size cigarettes. Dragnet, 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 files.

From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. It was Monday, August 4th. It was hot in Los Angeles. We were working the night, watch out of robbery detail. My partner's Frank Smith, the boss's Captain Diddian. My name's Friday.