Dragnet: The Big String
Dragnet · January 18, 1953 · 29 min · 5,764 words
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The transcript of “The Big String”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast January 18, 1953. 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 in 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. A man walks into your office and tells you he returned to his home to find that his wife was gone. She left no indication where she was going.
Paul Playa suspected. Your job, finder. The modern way to sell cigarettes is the Chesterfield way. Premium quality in both regular and king sides. And we're the only one that does it. Premium quality in a cigarette means the world's best tobaccos, the best ingredients, the best cigarette paper.
Only Chesterfield gives you this premium quality in both popular sizes. King-sized Chesterfield contains tobacco's of better quality and higher price than any other King-sized cigarette. That's certainly important to every King-sized smoker. Of course, it's the same fine tobacco as in regular Chesterfield.
There is absolutely no difference, except that King-sized Chesterfield gives you more than a fifth longer smoke. Yes, the modern way to sell cigarettes is the Chesterfield way. Premium quality, both regular and king size. Chesterfield is much milder.
Chesterfield is best for you. Document a drum 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 ends, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. It was Tuesday, July 7th, it was hot in Los Angeles. We were working the night watch out of homicide detail.
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