Dragnet: The Big Number
Dragnet · October 26, 1952 · 29 min · 5,911 words
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The transcript of “The Big Number”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast October 26, 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, only cigarette in America to give you premium quality and both regular and king size brings you drag men. 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 robbery detail. You got a call that a bank has been robbed. has been robbed. On the M.O., you know the job was done by a professional. He's made good, he's escaped.
Your job? Get him. Here's what leading tobacco publications have had to say about regular and king-sized Chesterfield. U.S. Tobacco Journal, Boston, Massachusetts. Chesterfield cigarettes in the new king-sized 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 new big brother, and tobacco leave reports from Chicago. More calls for Chesterfield king size cigarettes than for most brands being marketed.
The reason for King size Chesterfield's amazing success is this. All King size cigarettes give you quantity, but only Chesterfield king size gives you quantity plus quality. Premium quality. That means Chesterfield King's Eyes contains tobacco's of better quality and higher price than any other King's Eyes cigarette.
The same fine tobacco as in regular Chesterfield. Enough more of this tobacco to give you more than a fifth longer smoke. So remember, Chesterfield is the only cigarette to give you premium quality in both regular and King's Eyes.
By them, either way you like them. Chesterfield gives you the best possible smoke. 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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