Dragnet 55-08-30 ep315 The Big Fellow

Dragnet

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Society & Culture, Fiction, Drama

5 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 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're about to hear is true.
0:10.0	The names have been changed to protect the innocent.
0:17.0	You're a detective sergeant.
0:23.0	You're assigned to robbery detail.
0:25.3	You get a teletype warning you that two hold-up men are heading for your city.
0:29.2	You know they're armed and dangerous.
0:31.3	Your job?
0:32.4	Be ready for them.
0:33.5	You know, Dragman, the document a drama of an actual crime.
0:47.7	For the next 30 minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,
0:51.9	you will travel step by step on the side of the law to an actual
0:55.2	case transcribed from official police files. From beginning to end, from crime to punishment,
1:01.5	Dragnest is the story of your police force in action.
1:10.4	It was Tuesday, April 5th.
1:11.9	It was raining in Los Angeles.
1:13.2	We were working the day watch out of robbery detail.
1:15.0	My partner is Frank Smith, the boss,
1:16.4	and she was Detective's Bad Brown.
1:17.9	My name's Friday.
1:19.1	I'd go my way back from R&I,
1:20.3	and it was 8.46 a.m.
1:21.5	when I got to room 27A.
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