Dragnet 49-10-01 ep018 Truck Hi-jackers - Tom Laval

Dragnet

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Drama, Society & Culture, Fiction

5.0 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The show takes its name from the police term "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects. Dragnet is perhaps the most famous and influential police procedural drama in media history. The series gave audience members a feel for the danger and heroism of police work. Dragnet earned praise for improving the public opinion of police officers. Actor and producer Jack Webb's aims in Dragnet were for realism and unpretentious acting; he achieved both goals, and Dragnet remains a key influence on subsequent police dramas in many media..

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, the story you're about to hear is true.
0:13.9	Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
0:17.6	NBC brings you Dragnet.
0:19.9	Music NBC brings you drag net.
0:31.5	You're a detective sergeant.
0:33.6	You're assigned to burglary detail.
0:37.0	A gang of hijackers has started to work in your city. Truckloads of valuable merchandise
0:39.4	have vanished. The thieves are clever, seem to have a foolproof system. Your job, find them.
0:48.4	Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime, investigated and solved by the men who
0:53.6	unrelentingly stand watch
0:55.2	on the security of your home, your family, and your life. For the next 30 minutes in
1:00.4	cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on the side
1:05.0	of the law through an actual case from official police files. From beginning to end, from crime
1:10.6	to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your
1:13.4	police force in action. It was Thursday, March 6th. It was windy in Los Angeles. We were working
1:22.9	the night watch out of burglary detail. My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Ed Baxteran, Chief
1:27.9	Detective's. My name's Friday. I was on the way back from the record bureau, and it was 535
1:33.2	a.m. when I got to room 2A. Interrogation room. Read this to him, Ben. Yeah. 2,600 dozen
1:43.7	nylon stockings, 45 bolts of silk,
1:46.9	58 cases imported perfume.
1:49.0	Where you're dumping this stuff, LaValle? That's what we want to know.
1:50.9	I told you the truth. I have nothing to do with it. I don't know anything about it.
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