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Dragnet: The Big Look

Dragnet · May 11, 1954 · 28 min · 6,184 words

The transcript of “The Big Look”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast May 11, 1954. 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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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 ends, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.

It was Monday January 14th of the training in Los Angeles. We were working the night, watch out a robbery detail. My partner's Frank Smith, the boss of chief of detective's Thad Brown, my name is Friday. We're on our way out from the office. It It was 11.47pm. We got the 79.82 Oakwood Avenue.

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