Dragnet: The Big Broad

Ladies and gentlemen, the story you're about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Dragnet is brought to you by Chesterfield made by Liggett and Myers. First major tobacco company to bring you a complete line of quality cigarettes. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail.

A pair of thieves has been terrorizing the merchants in your city. They described as a man and a woman. From their actions you know they're capable of murder. Your job, stop them. Today you'll hear these three words everywhere.

Chesterfields for me. The cigarette with a proven good record with smokers. Here is the record. By monthly examinations of a group of smokers show no adverse effects to the nose, throat and sinuses from smoking Chesterfields. Chesterfields for me. The cigarette tested and approved by by 30 years of scientific tobacco research.

Chesterfield's for me. Chesterfield gives you proof of highest quality, low nicotine, the taste you want, the mildness you want. The Chesterfield you smoke today is the best cigarette ever made, and 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 Wednesday, July 23rd. It was warm in Los Angeles. We were working tonight, watch out a robbery detail. My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is Chief of Detective Staff Brown. My name is Friday.

I was on my way back from the main jail and it was 816 PM when I got to room 27A. Robbery detail. Hi, Slat. Joe? Any word from Frank? Yeah, I talked to Skipper this morning.