Dragnet: The Big Badge (EP4418)
The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio| Daily Mystery Dramas
Adam Graham
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Original Radio Broadcast Date: May 4, 1950
Originating from Hollywood
Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Peggy Webber; Herb Butterfield
Blog post about the real-life badge bandit
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| 1:27.0 | Well now it is time for this week's episode of Dragnet. The original aeronade is May the 5th 1950 and the episode |
| 1:39.2 | is called The Big Batch. the big batch. The story you are about to |
| 1:49.0 | The story you are about to hear is true. |
| 1:52.0 | Only the names have been changed to in your city. |
| 2:15.0 | Men and women have been robbed, brutally attacked. |
| 2:18.0 | Your job. Get them. The DREAM. Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. |
| 2:34.0 | For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, |
| 2:39.0 | you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case from official police files. |
| 2:45.2 | From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force |
| 2:51.0 | in action. It was Wednesday, March 7th, was cloudy in Los Angeles. |
| 2:58.0 | We were working the night watch out of homicide. |
| 3:01.0 | My partner's Ben Romero, the boss of that Brown chief of detectives. My name's Friday. |
| 3:06.7 | I was on the way home from the office and it was 225 a.m. |
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