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Dragnet: The Big Fall Guy

Dragnet · June 14, 1955 · 29 min · 5,430 words

The transcript of “The Big Fall Guy”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast June 14, 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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You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a robbery detail. The owner of a small delicatessen reports that he's been robbed. He says the thief casually walked out of his store and disappeared. Your job? Find him.

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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 Sunday, October 9th, it was overcast in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of the robbery detail. My partners Frank Smith, the boss of Chief of the Techors, Dad Brown. My name is Friday.

I was on my way back from communications. It was 3.48 PM when I got to room 27A. Robbery. Hi guys. Robbery Friday. Yeah, just a second. You gonna have to pan them? Yeah. All right, go ahead, please.

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