Dragnet 55-05-24 ep301 The Big Siege

Dragnet

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Society & Culture, Fiction, Drama

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2020

⏱️ 26 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.
0:04.0	Ladies and gentlemen, the story you are about to hear is true.
0:11.0	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.
0:24.3	You're assigned to robbery detail.
0:26.9	A gunman has robbed a bank in your city.
0:29.4	From his method of operation, you know he's dangerous.
0:32.2	Your job, get him.
0:43.3	Drag men, the documented drama of an actual crime. For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
0:47.3	you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official police files.
0:53.3	From beginning to end, from
0:55.8	crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.
1:04.5	It was Wednesday, May 4th. It was warm in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out
1:08.1	of robbery detail. My partner is Frank Smith, the boss of Chief of Detective Stad Brown. My name was Friday. It was 12.36 p.m. when I got the call and it took me
1:15.7	eight minutes to get back to the city hall. Robbery squad room.
1:19.6	Got you, Joe? Yeah. Back here. What's up?
1:22.8	No, bank job and slugging. We've got a rule on where corner melrose fountain anybody else on it yeah j j and murph
1:28.1	all right let's go right roddy smith yeah yeah you two gonna cover the bank hold of yeah we're just leaving
1:33.4	donno called in he's out with j j and murf uh-huh they got it covered out there skipper wants you to tag
1:37.5	georgia street and talk to the guard see if you can get any information out of him. All right. What's the name? I haven't got it. There's a uniform man with him. Old guy's in pretty bad shape.
1:44.9	Yeah.
1:45.3	When the thief left the bank, the guard tried to stop him.
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