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This is your host, Adam Graham.

In a moment, we are going to bring you this week's episode of Dragnet.

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$2 per month. But now, from September 20th, 1951, here is The Big Sour.

Ladies and gentlemen, Dragnet has a very important announcement for all of you

at the close of tonight's program.

The story you are about to hear is true.

The names have been changed to protect the innocent.

You're a detective sergeant.

You're assigned to robbery detail.

Two armed bandits invade the home of an elderly couple in your city.

The aging husband is tortured unmercifully before he reveals the hiding place of his valuables.

The two thieves make good their escape.

Your job?

Get them.

The Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime.

For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department,

you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case

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