Dragnet 53-10-06 ep216 The Big Little Mother

Dragnet

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Drama, Society & Culture, Fiction

5.0 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 30 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	Sound off for Chesterfield.
0:07.0	Chesterfield, low in nicotine, highest in quality, best for you.
0:15.0	Chesterfield brings you dragnet. He'll bring you drag men.
0:28.5	Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true.
0:31.4	The names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to forgery detail. For the past six years, a forger has been working in your city. The victims described the suspect as a woman. Her M.O. is simple, but it continues to work. Your job, stop her.
1:03.0	Smokers by the thousands are now changing to Chesterfield. No wonder. More and more smokers are learning this fact for themselves.
1:07.0	Chesterfield, low in nicotine, highest in quality.
1:11.6	A published fact proved by chemical analyses of the country's six leading cigarette brands.
1:18.6	Chesterfield, the only cigarette ever with a record like this.
1:23.6	Regular ore king size, Chesterfield is best for you.
1:28.3	Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime.
1:38.3	For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
1:43.3	you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files.
1:50.0	From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.
2:06.6	It was Friday, September 18th. It was warm in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of forgery detail.
2:08.6	My partner is Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Welsh. My name's Friday.
2:11.6	We were on our way out from the office and it was 10.42 a.m.
2:14.6	when we got to the ninth floor of the Beckworthworth department store the credit manager's office yes we'd like to see mr donelson please may i say who's calling
2:23.9	sergeant friday los angeles police department oh yes he's expecting you just a moment thank you
2:27.8	yes the gentleman from the police department are here mr donaldson send them in please
2:32.6	yes sir you want to go right in that's the door thank you very much Police Department are here, Mr. Donaldson. Send them in, please. Yes, sir.
2:35.9	You want to go right in, that's the door.
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