Dragnet: The Big Lens
Dragnet · December 14, 1954 · 26 min · 4,672 words
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The transcript of “The Big Lens”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast December 14, 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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Ladies and gentlemen, the story you're about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Dragnet. Detective Sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail. You get a call from the Georgia Street Hospital.
A woman has been brought in to receive emergency treatment. She says she was kidnapped in Rob. Your job? He meant a drama of an actual crime. Well, the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you 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 Wednesday, February 4th. It's cool in Los Angeles. We were working tonight, watch out a robbery detail.
My partner's Frank Smith, the boss at Chief at E. P.E.E. His dad, Brown, my name is Friday. We're on our way out from the office and it was 832 when we got to Georgia Street Hospital, the treatment room.
Dr. Hall? Hi Frank, be right with him. Excuse me. Certainly, Doctor. Have the Austin woman? Yep. How is she? Rose is about to face, not too serious. She can live when you finish with her.
Good. We go in now? Sure. Let me know when you throw with her. Alright, thanks, Doc. Yeah? We're police officers. This Frank's meant to be my name is Friday. How you do? I do, man.
Doctors just told us that you could return home when we finished questioning you. So we're trying to keep you too long. Thank you. I'm not really hurt much. I don't really hurt much. I was more frightened than anything else.
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