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Dragnet: The Big Tear

Dragnet · September 11, 1952 · 27 min · 5,393 words

The transcript of “The Big Tear”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast September 11, 1952. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Search inside this transcript.

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You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a burglary detail. In a year's time a burglar has taken approximately $80,000 in money and jewelry. None of his victims can describe him. Your job? Get him. Frank, the document had drawn more of an actual crime.

Well, the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on the side of the law to an actual case Okay, and the official police From beginning to end Prime to punishment Dragnet is the story of your police force in action It was Tuesday July 10th

It was hot to watch all this We were working with a day watch out of burglary detail My partner is Frank Swift The boss is Captain Wisdom My old Friday It was 8.02 a.m. and I got to him 45 Is it a murder?

That you Joe? Yeah How about that fight left? I don't you see it on Channel 4? No, I start to watch it the set when I pick you cube I don't know Joe, because he got all fuzzy and started a while.

But you know, like when an airplane goes over, it's been a set and trying to go here. And I know that's been acting up lately. I thought it might be something wrong with the aerials, so I figured I'd take a look at it.

Mm-hmm. Got the ladder out there, up on the roof. Sure enough, one of the wires on the thing was off. Just hanging by a little bit of the rubber coating. Mm-hmm. Time back down to get the wire cutters to fix it.

Couldn't find them. How do you scissors to strip the insulation off the wire? Got the wire all fixed to put back on, then I couldn't find the wires. You got the nut off the aerial.

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