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Dragnet: The Big Close

Dragnet · September 20, 1955 · 25 min · 4,819 words

The transcript of “The Big Close”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast September 20, 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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The name has been changed to protect the innocent. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned a homicide detail. You get a call telling you that the body of a man is been found in the motel room.

There's no lead to his true identity. Your job? Check it out. The document is drama of an actual crime. It was the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department. Department. You will travel step by step on the side of the law to an actual case transcribed from official police fire from beginning to end from crime to

punishment. Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. It was Tuesday July 19th with hot in Los Angeles we were working tonight watch out a homicide detail. My partner Frank Smith, the boss has got more on him. I'm only back from the main jail and it was 5.27 p.m. when I got to room 42.

I'm a guy. All right, how'd it go? He's willing to make a statement and he coped the whole thing. It's gonna save us some time. Yeah, it's gonna save a lot more if he's going with his last week though.

Yeah, but you got paperwork. Want to give me a hand? Yeah. Here. Okay. How's the family? I think we're good. But I think she's got a panda side. Hey, I think she has a panda side.

She woke me up at 2.30 this morning. Got a pain on her side. Sure. It was a panda side. I told her to call a doctor. No, she didn't think it was that bad. Ooh, not to call a doctor.

This enough to keep me awake worrying about it. Ooh. I'm just warning the whole thing's gone. No. Okay. Well, this is probably a hard turn. I'd like to give her a cup of your pepidope held.

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