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much for your support Anton. now it's time to not play an old-time radio program

for you let me go ahead and explain we're returning to the order of episodes we were in before Christmas and actually after the truck

hijackers there are seven straight weeks of lost episodes by far the longest gap in the Dragnet radio show and make up the vast

majority of missing episodes. However, many of these programs were turned into TV programs and did not have their copyright

renewed, so are in the public domain.

I found that the TV soundtracks of

ragnet episodes that were originally written as radio programs

still work as audio only.

It's a bit different with Agnet episodes that were originally

written for television. I looked into playing the audio version of the

big thief but I found that you really did need the visuals for that but again

those that were written for radio work fine as just listening to the soundtracks

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