Dragnet 54-10-19 ep270 The Big Mannikin

Dragnet

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Drama, Society & Culture, Fiction

5.0 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 27 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 were about to hear is true.
0:12.2	The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
0:14.8	Dragnet.
0:25.5	Your detective. You're a detective sergeant.
0:27.8	You're assigned to missing persons detail.
0:31.5	You get a call that a man has failed to return to his home.
0:34.2	There's reason to suspect Powell play.
0:37.0	Your job, investigate.
0:45.8	It was Friday, January 2nd. It was overcast in Los Angeles. We were working tonight, watch out a homicide division, missing persons detail. My partner's Frank Smith,
0:49.9	the boss is Captain Warman. My name's Friday. I was on my way back from communications,
0:57.6	and it was 812 a.m. when I got to room 24. Squad room.
1:06.3	Well, it's hard to believe, isn't it? Hmm? January 2nd. Another year gone by. Yeah.
1:12.1	You see this evening sports page? No, I didn't. Why? Still talking about that Rose Bowl game.
1:12.8	Oh, is that so?
1:17.8	You know, Joe looks to me like that last play of the game's going to end up like the Dempsey-Tuney thing.
1:18.9	The what?
1:20.3	The Dempsey-Tuny fight.
1:21.9	Oh, no, I don't think it will.
1:22.8	Oh, yeah.
1:24.8	Big controversy over that last play.
1:27.5	Well, since when all All the sports writers agree.
1:29.5	Well, that's where you're wrong, Joe.
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