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Dragnet: The Big Trio

Dragnet · July 3, 1952 · 29 min · 5,535 words

The transcript of “The Big Trio”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast July 3, 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 assigned a traffic division, AID. Death and tragedy is forecast for the people in your city. You don't know who the victims will be. You don't know how many there will be. Your job? Try and stop it.

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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 violence.

From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. It was Thursday, July 3rd, it was warm in Los Angeles. We were working tonight, watch out of traffic division, accident investigation.

My partner, Frank Smith, the boss, his deputy chief, Caldwell, my name's Friday. I was on the way back from the scene of the accident, and it was 9.42pm when I got to Georgia Street receiving hospital second floor.

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