Dragnet: The Big Cad
Dragnet · August 17, 1954 · 26 min · 4,986 words
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The transcript of “The Big Cad”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast August 17, 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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You're assigned a robbery detail. A wholesale drug company has been held up. $4,000 in narcotics has been taken. Your job? Document a 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 Tuesday July 10th. It was Hoppen, Los Angeles. We were working the night watch out a robbery detail. My partner Frank Smith, the boss of Chief of Detectives, Dad Brown, my name is Friday. We're on our way out from the office and it was 10.51 p.m. when we got
to Highland Park Division. The coffee room. Go Frank over here. Hello. Hi Roxy. Want a cup of coffee? Yes. I'll get it. Okay. How's it going Luke? Pretty good. It's pretty hot. Makes me wish I'd booked that patio out that are for now but I'm a change job now when I go to some change
no I got about you want some more no no what he got for us look I gave you the call as soon as we got it way it builds is a patrolman picked him up over on my divista I spotted him in a parked car checked on it and found the guy was pretty sick
first he thought it might be a 502 but after he got a good look figured it was a heart attack follow us out cold could tell anything on the cold name of the lint and I took the guy over to Lincoln Heights was safe and gave him treatment there. Checking it out, they found several puncture marks on his arm, thought he might be a diabetic. His appearance
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