Dragnet: The Big Want
Dragnet · March 1, 1953 · 29 min · 4,915 words
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The transcript of “The Big Want”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast March 1, 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, first cigarette with premium quality throughout 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 Bunko fugitive detail. You got a call from another city to pick up a burglary suspect. You know the name is using, you know where he's living. Your job, pick him up.
When you're asked to try a cigarette, you want to know and you ought to know what that cigarette is meant to people who smoke it and who smoke it all the time. For almost a year now, a medical specialist has given a group of Chesterfield smokers thorough examinations every two months.
He reports no adverse effects to their noses, their throats or sinuses from smoking Chester Fields. More and more men and women all over the country are finding out every day that Chester Field is best for them. Enjoy your smoking. Try Chester Fields today. You'll find Chester Field much more with an extraordinarily good taste.
The documented drama of an actual crime. For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los The Sanjuous 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.
It was Tuesday, June 4th, it was hot in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out a Bunkle fugitive detail. My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Steed. My name is Friday. We're on our way out from the office and it was 9.42 a.m.
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