Dragnet: The Big Dive
Dragnet · November 9, 1952 · 29 min · 5,569 words
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The transcript of “The Big Dive”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast November 9, 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. The only cigarette in America to give you premium quality in both regular and king size brings you dragnet. 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 get a call that the body of a dead woman has been found in the closet. There are no leads to her identification.
The identity of the killer is unknown. Your job? Investigate. Here's what a leading tobacco publication and the nation's press have had to say about king-sized Chesterfields. Tobacco leave. More calls for Chesterfield king-sized cigarettes than for most brands being marketed.
Marketed and the Cleveland Press reported, Dealers Everywhere report the big-pack sale phenomenal. Last week in Cleveland, some areas reported the long-sized Chesterfield outsold all other brands. 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 size contains tobacco as a better quality and higher price than any other king size 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.
By them, 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.
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