Dragnet: The Big Shirt
Dragnet · November 30, 1952 · 29 min · 5,611 words
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The transcript of “The Big Shirt”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast November 30, 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 drag-net. 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. The body of a dead man has been found in the rear of his shop. He has been brutally beaten to death. The killer is unknown. Your job, find him.
Thousands are changing to Chesterfield, both regular and king size, because Chesterfield is the first and only cigarette to give you premium quality in both sizes. That means King-sized Chesterfield contains tobaccos of better quality and higher price than any other king-sized cigarette.
It's the same fine tobacco as in regular Chesterfield. There is absolutely no difference, except that King-sized Chesterfield is larger. Contain so much more of the same tobacco as it gives more than a fifth longer smoke.
Yes, more than a fifth longer smoke. So remember, Chesterfield is the only cigarette to give you premium quality in both regular and King-sized. By them, either way you like them. Premium quality Chesterfield. And much milder.
The document had drawn over 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 Monday, July 5th, it was hot in Los Angeles. We're working the day watch out of homicide detail my partners Frank Smith the boss is Captain Lorman. My name's Friday Was 758 a.m. When I got to room 42 homicide
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