Dragnet: The Big Tarbaby
Dragnet · October 12, 1954 · 29 min · 5,378 words
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The transcript of “The Big Tarbaby”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast October 12, 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 about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Tragnet brought to you by Chesterfield. America's most popular two-way cigarettes. Chesterfield king size at the new low price and Chesterfield regular. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a homicide detail. You get a call from a man who tells you his wife has failed to keep an appointment. There's no trace of
as evidence of foul play. Your job, finder. This is the best. Chesterfield and the time to change today. In choosing your cigarette, be sure to remember this. You will like Chesterfield best because only Chesterfield has the right combination of the world's best tobaccos.
tobacco that are highest in quality, low in nicotine, best for you. All of a smoke for relaxation, for comfort, for satisfaction, and in the whole wide world, no cigarette satisfies like a Chesterfield. Get a carton of Chesterfield today.
Chesterfield regular, Chesterfield king's eye, both at the same price in most places. This is the best Chesterfield and the time to change today. In regular or king size you can get them either way. The best smoke ever made for Chesterfield you buy today.
Smokers coast to coast are changing it to things to do. Here's all you have to say to get the one that's best for you. Chesterfield's for me, Chesterfield's for me. You just say it's Chesterfield's for me.
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 Friday August 7th, with Warrman Los Angeles. We were working tonight to watch out on homicide detail.
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