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Dragnet: The Big Drive

Dragnet · August 14, 1952 · 29 min · 6,074 words

The transcript of “The Big Drive”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast August 14, 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 homicide division. You get a call that the body of a dead man has been found in a vacant lot. the man has been beaten to death. Your job, investigate.

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You will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police violence. From beginning to ends, from crime to punishment, dragnet is the story of your police force in action.

It was Wednesday, February 6th, it was cold in Los Angeles. We were working a day watch out of homicide division. My partner, Frank Smith, the boss is Captain Lorman. My name's Friday. It was 10, 14 a.m.

And I got to room 42, homicide. Bye. I didn't hurt y'all. Right. Hi, morning, Skipper. Joe, Smith says you ran into a bed when I was out there in Fountain. Yeah, we did. Must've been quite a fight out there.

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