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Dragnet: The Big Lie

Dragnet · October 12, 1952 · 29 min · 5,618 words

The transcript of “The Big Lie”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast October 12, 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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Sound off, or Chesterfield. Chesterfield, first cigarette in America to give you premium quality in both regular and king size. It brings you dragman. Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true.

The names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a homicide detail. You got a call that a man has been murdered. murdered. His killer is unknown. Your job? Get him. Here's what the tobacco trade press is had to say about Chesterfield's U.S. tobacco journal, Boston, Massachusetts.

Chesterfield's cigarettes in the new king size is still maintaining large turnovers in this area. Dealers report that sales continue to climb on this size and it seems that volume on the regular size has climbed to new heights with its speak brother and tobacco leave reports from Chicago more calls for Chesterfield King size cigarettes and for most brands being marketed dealers all over the country

tell us no product they ever handled has grown so fast in so short a time as King size Chesterfield King size cigarettes give you quantity but only Chesterfield King size gives you quantity plus quality premium quality Chesterfield King size contains tobacco's a better quality and higher price than any other king-size cigarette. In fact, the only difference between Chesterfield king-size and Chesterfield

regular is that the king-size is larger, contains more of these same tobacco's, enough to give you more than a one-fifth longer smoke. So remember, Chesterfield is the only cigarette to give smokers premium quality in both regular and king-size.

Ask your dealer for Chesterfield. Either way you like them. Premium quality Chesterfields. And much milder. 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.

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