Dragnet 55-04-05 ep294 The Big No Tooth

Dragnet

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Society & Culture, Fiction, Drama

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 24 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 are about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
0:14.0	You're a detective sergeant. You're a detective sergeant. You're a detective sergeant.
0:24.6	You're assigned to robbery detail.
0:26.8	You get a call that a downtown hotel has been held up by a bandit who carries a sawd-off shotgun.
0:32.2	Your job? Find him.
0:42.7	The Find them. The documentary
0:44.2	of an actual crime.
0:46.3	For the next 30 minutes,
0:47.5	in cooperation with the Los Angeles
0:49.1	Police Department,
0:50.4	you will travel step by step on the side of the law
0:52.7	through an actual case
0:53.9	transcribed from official police files.
0:56.6	From beginning to end, from crime to punishment.
0:59.7	Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.
1:07.1	It was Sunday, October 9th. It was cool in Los Angeles.
1:09.8	We were working the night and watch out a robbery detail.
1:11.6	My partner's Frank Smith, the boss, Chief of Detective's Thad Brown.
1:14.6	My name's Friday.
1:15.8	We're on our way out from the office, and it was 206 a.m.
1:18.1	When we got to the corner of Sinabar Street and Grand Avenue, the Brinton Hotel.
1:23.6	Well, I just done what he told me. I figured there was no point in getting myself all roiled up.
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