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Dragnet: The Big Token

Dragnet · January 18, 1955 · 25 min · 4,406 words

The transcript of “The Big Token”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast January 18, 1955. 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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Ladies and gentlemen, the story you're about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Dragnet. Your detective Sergeant, you're assigned a robbery detail. For the past ten days, the gunman has been terrorizing the downtown area of your city.

You know he's armed and dangerous. Your job. 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 to an actual case transcribed from official police buyers. From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, dragnet is the story of your

police force in action. There was two of the October 5th with Jamie Los Angeles. We were working the night watch out of robbery details. My partner Frank Smith, the boss of TV detective, Fat Brown. My name I don't want to be back from the Parliament Division. It was 756 p.m. when I got to the City Hall.

Robby Squadroom. Hey buddy, you didn't have to make a special trip in the bring the tie? Well, I might have forgotten it till my lips is in the car again. We are. No thanks. I had a card still in the box. What?

No. Hey, look at this. Real pretty. You're so good with the brown suit. Real silk too. Mm-hmm. That's a pretty clever idea. Put the name on a tie like that. I like that. Yeah. Yeah, you could do the same thing with ink and paper when I was a kid, you know, put a God

ink on the paper and then fold it over. Mm-hmm. And you had some pretty weird looking pictures. This name business makes a nice neat type, I don't think, Joe. Yeah, if you don't mind the switch.

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