Dragnet: The Big Light
Dragnet · November 2, 1952 · 29 min · 6,157 words
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The transcript of “The Big Light”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast November 2, 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 for Chesterfield. Chesterfield, the only cigarette in America to give you premium quality and both regular and king size brings you dragnet. Ladies and gentlemen, the story you're 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. receive a call that a fatal accident has occurred at a Hollywood motion picture studio. Your job...investigate. Here's what a leading tobacco publication in the nation's press have had to say about King-sized Chesterfield's U.S. Tobacco Journal, Atlanta, Georgia.
Chesterfield King-size is going strong. One jobber reordered twice this week, in addition to his regular order, and the Harold Tribune reported, King-size is a sellout. supplies of Chesterfield's rush to dealers here. The reason for King-sized Chesterfield's amazing success is this. All King-sized cigarettes give you quantity, but only Chesterfield King-sized gives you quantity plus quality, premium quality. That means Chesterfield King-sized contains
tobacco's of better quality and higher price than any other King-sized cigarette. The same fine tobacco as in regular Chesterfield. Enough more of this tobacco to give you more than a one-fifth longer smoke. So remember, Chesterfield is the only cigarette to give you premium quality in both regular and king size.
Vyum, either way you like them. Chesterfield gives you the best possible smoke. 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 violence.
From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. It was Friday August 5th. It was warm in Los Angeles. We were working today, watch out of homicide detail.
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