Dragnet 55-05-17 ep300 The Big Squealer

Dragnet

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Society & Culture, Fiction, Drama

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 25 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	Drag net.
0:03.0	Ladies and gentlemen, the story you're about to hear is true.
0:10.0	The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
0:13.0	You're a detective sergeant. You're a detective sergeant.
0:23.1	You're assigned to juvenile detail.
0:25.4	You get a report that a teenage boy has been found in a downtown alley.
0:29.3	He's in critical condition.
0:31.0	Your job? Check it out.
0:37.3	It was Wednesday, November 16th. It was cool in Los Angeles. We were working the day, watch out of juvenile detail. My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Powers. My name's Friday. We're on our way into the office, and it was 9.17 p.m. when we got to the second floor of Georgia Street Juvenile. Squadron.
0:52.4	I don't know, Joe. What? You see a kid like that, you start wondering.
0:56.4	Yeah.
0:57.3	Fifteen years old, John, hold up a liquor store.
0:59.6	What kind of worries the guy?
1:00.6	What you mean?
1:01.3	What about your own kids?
1:02.3	How are they going to turn out?
1:03.7	Oh, most of them turn out, okay.
1:05.2	Yeah, I can't help worrying, though.
1:06.8	Well, you're a father. Maybe you're better off, Joe, not having the worries. Do you really believe that?
1:11.5	I guess so.
1:12.5	Why don't you stop down and marry me off?
1:14.6	Oh, say that reminds me.
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