Dragnet: The Big Tie

Dragnet. Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true. The names have been chained to protect the innocent. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a burglary detail. You get a call that someone has broken into an acti manufacturers.

A large supply of hand-painted ties have been stolen. Your job? Check it out. With Saturday, September 10th was Hoppenwald saying, once we were working the day watch out of burglary detail, my partner's bank smith the boss is Captain Bernard.

My name's Friday. I was on my way into the office and it was 8.31 a.m. when I got to room 45. Burdery. Hi, John. Why, anything for us? I have to throw a car, picked up a couple of high school kids about 3 a.m.

Well. Found them hanging around a filling station over on Jefferson. Mm-hmm. Juvenile's checking them against those other filling station jobs last week. Let's let us know. Okay. All right, it's gonna be a scorcher. Yeah.

You noticed it last night? Mm-hmm. The heat. Oh yeah, sure I do. I don't think I slept more in 30 minutes. I wonder about air conditioning the house. What? It's pretty expensive, isn't it? Well, I guess it depends on it.

Yeah. It'd be worth it, though, whether like this. Well, we don't get these spells too often. I don't know, Joe. Lots of the new houses have air conditioning. Yeah. Just the bedroom might not cost too much.

You know, one of those portable units. I got it. Curie Friday. Yes, sir. Just a second. By what the address? Mm-hmm. Yes, or I see. Time manufacturing company out on West End. Somebody cleaned him out last night over a hundred dozen neckties.