Dragnet: The Big Press
Dragnet · February 8, 1953 · 29 min · 5,667 words
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The transcript of “The Big Press”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast February 8, 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 or Chesterfield? Chesterfield, the first and 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 to forgery detail. Two men have been passing bad checks in your city. You have descriptions of both of them. Both of them. You know the names on the checks.
Your job, get them. First, we read you the six month report, then the eight month report. Now here is ten full months of scientific evidence on smoking Chesterfield. A medical specialist is making regular bi-monthly examinations of a group of people from various walks of life.
Forty-five percent of this group have smoked Chesterfield for an average of over ten years. After ten full months, almost a year now, the specialist reports he observed no adverse effects on the nose, throat, and sinuses of the group from smoking Chesterfield.
That's the report. And Chesterfield is the first and only premium quality cigarette throughout, in both regular and king's eyes. Fine, tobaccos. The world's best kept tasty and fresh, wrapped in the finest cigarette paper money can buy.
Yes, everything that goes into your Chesterfield makes it the premium quality cigarette. And it's the only cigarette that gives you scientific evidence of real smoking pleasure. Try much milder Chesterfield today. Their best for you.
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 from beginning to end from crime to punishment dragnet is the story of your police force in action it was Thursday April 8th was
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