Dragnet: The Big Almost No Show (EP4964)
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
Adam Graham
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 31, 1952
Originating from Hollywood
Starred: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday, Barney Phillips as Sergeant Ed Jacobs, Joyce McCluskey, Virginia Gregg,
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| 0:00.0 | The Welcome to the great detectives of old time radio from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, I'm going to bring you this week's |
| 0:40.8 | episode of Dragnet. But first, I do want to encourage you, if you're enjoying the podcast, |
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| 1:16.4 | Just go to patreon.gretactives.net. |
| 1:21.0 | But now, from January 31st, 1952, here is The Big Almost No Show. |
| 1:35.0 | The story you are about to hear is true. |
| 1:40.9 | The names have been changed to protect the innocent. |
| 1:51.3 | The true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to homicide detail. A woman reports the |
| 1:56.5 | disappearance of her 30-year-old brother. He's been missing for only two days, but the manner of his disappearance |
| 2:01.8 | was sudden, out of the ordinary. |
| 2:04.7 | Your job? Investigate. |
| 2:16.1 | Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. |
| 2:19.3 | For the next 30 minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, |
| 2:23.3 | you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case |
| 2:27.3 | transcribed from official police files. |
| 2:30.3 | From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, |
| 2:33.3 | Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. |
| 2:41.3 | It was Wednesday, November 14th. It was overcast in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of homicide detail. My partner's Ed Jacobs. The boss is Captain Lorman. My name's Friday. We were on the way out from the office and it was 8.56 a.m. when we got to the S&H paper company on 4th Street. The rear entrance. Where do we find her, Joe? Upstairs? No, main floor. She told me we'd find her in the timekeeper's office. She said it was near the back door entrance. We couldn't miss it. Let's give a look down the corridor, huh? Maybe one of the workers can tell us. |
| 3:09.1 | Yeah, right. |
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