Ep.190 Dragnet: The Big Pair

Nostalgic Mystery Radio

Stevie K.

Detective, Fiction, Crime, Arts, Radio Show, Mystery, Tv & Film, Performing Arts, Drama, Old Time Radio

4.8 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Dragnet ran from June 3rd,1949 to February 26th,1957 on NBC at various times and days and starred Jack Webb as Detective Sergeant Joe Friday. Various partners throughout the show's run were Sergeant Ben Romero (Barton Yarborough), Ed Jacobs (Barney Phillips), and Officer Frank Smith (Ben Alexander). Webb was the creator/Director of the series and wanted everything to be as authentic as possible, down to the last sound effect. The stories were based on actual police files and "the names were c...

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome to another episode of Nostologic Mystery Radio. I'm your host Stevie K. And it's my honor to bring you the radio shows of yesterday year. For this episode, I bring you Dragnet, episode title The Big Pair, originally aired September 21st, 1950, where a couple run a racket of selling all the furniture in the houses of
0:39.5	families out of town, starting with the little girl and her grandfather.
0:44.0	So sit back and relax, and I hope you enjoy this nostalgic mystery radio.
0:50.0	Thank you for listening.
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