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Dragnet: The Big Gun Part 1

Dragnet · May 24, 1953 · 30 min · 5,510 words

The transcript of “The Big Gun Part 1”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast May 24, 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 just a field. Just a field first with premium quality and best for you. Just a field brings you drag men. 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 auto theft detail. You get a call from a truck rental service. One of their trucks has disappeared. There's no sign of the man who rented it. Your job, Chesterfield is years ahead of them all.

The quality contrast between Chesterfield and other leading brands is a revealing story. Recent chemical analyses give an index of good quality for the country's sixth leading cigarette brand. The index of good quality table, which is a ratio of high sugar to low nicotine, shows Chesterfield quality highest.

Chesterfield quality highest. Fifteen percent higher than its nearest competitor. Chesterfield quality highest. Thirty-one percent higher than the average of the five other leading brands. Yes, Chesterfield is first with premium quality in both regular and king size.

Don't you want to try a cigarette with a record like this? Chesterfield. You meant a drum of an actual crime. For the next thirty minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, You will travel step by step on the side of the law to 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 Monday, April 20th, in war in the Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of auto theft detail.

My partner's Frank Smith, the boss of Captain Nelson's planning's Friday. I got my way into the opposite. It was 8.02 a.m. when I got to room 40. Auto theft. There. All right, Ray. All right.

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