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Dragnet: The Big Guilt

Dragnet · November 23, 1952 · 29 min · 5,361 words

The transcript of “The Big Guilt”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast November 23, 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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The names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a homicide detail. You get a call that the body of a man has been found in an alley. He's been strangled with his own necktie.

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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 files from beginning to end from crime to punishment dragnet is the story of your police force in action was Sunday February 10th was cold in Los

Angeles we're working today watch out of homicide my partners Frank Smith the boss is Thad Brown chief of detectives my name is Friday we got in the call at 836 a.m. and it was 849 a.m. when we got to the corner of 18th and Winfield the back Let's be it there.

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