Dragnet: The Big Listen

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 give you a complete line of quality cigarettes.

You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail. You get a call from an informant telling you the three known gangsters have moved into your city. You don't know who they are or why they're in Los Angeles.

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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 files. From From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.

It was Wednesday, August 4th. It was warm in Los Angeles. We were working the daywatch out of robbery detail. My partner's Frank Smith, the boss's chief of detective's, Thad Brown. My name's Friday. We're on our way out from the office, and it was 942 AM when we got to the Osbourne, Tricky's Bath, steam room.