Dragnet: The Big Informant
Dragnet · March 22, 1953 · 29 min · 5,910 words
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The transcript of “The Big Informant”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast March 22, 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 is best for you. First cigarette with premium quality in both regular and king size. Chesterfield brings you dragnet. The story or about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocence.
You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a burglary detail. For the past two months, a gang of safe burglars have been operating in your city. In that time, they've hit a dozen places. You've got no lead to their identity.
Your job? Get them. Here's a report never before made about a cigarette. Note day after day by a group of people, smoking from 10 to 40 cigarettes a day for a full year. Here's Chesterfield's record.
A medical specialist giving this group thorough examinations every two months for a full year reports no adverse effects to their nose, throat and sinuses from smoking Chesterfield's. Don't you want to try a cigarette with a record like that?
You'll find Chesterfield's best for you. much milder with an extraordinarily good taste and for your pocketbook Chesterfield is America's best cigarette pie. 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 ends, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. Well it's Tuesday, August 10th, it was warm in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of burglary detail.
My partners Frank Smith, the boss is Captain Wisdom. My name's Friday. We were on the way back from lunch and it was 1.17pm when we got to room 45. Burgery. Joey, you got any stomach pills?
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