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Dragnet: The Big Gun Part 2

Dragnet · May 31, 1953 · 28 min · 5,654 words

The transcript of “The Big Gun Part 2”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast May 31, 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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Or Chesterfield, premium quality and best for you. Chesterfield brings you pregnant. 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 auto theft detail. You arrested one member of an organized ring of thieves. You're after the head man of the gang. Your job? There is Chesterfield's record with smokers. And important to you.

No adverse effects to the nose, throat, and sinuses from smoking Chesterfield. That's the report of a doctor who has been examining a group of Chesterfield smokers for a full year and two months. Don't you want to try a cigarette with a record like this?

Chesterfield, first with premium quality, first choice of young America. And that's from a survey made in 274 colleges and universities. Try Chesterfield's today. Chesterfield, regular or king size. They are much milder and best for you.

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 Wednesday, June 24th, it was warm in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of auto theft detail. My partner, Frank Smith, the boss is that brown, she detected. My name's Friday. We were at the main jail and it was 8.14 a.m. when we got to the second floor.

The interview room. Good afternoon, Sloan. Yeah. Right there. You guys start pretty early in the morning, don't you? Yeah, what's going on? You got a cigarette? Yeah, there you are. Thanks. I never feel like I'm alive, nor have I got a cigarette the morning.

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