Dragnet: The Big Chet 04/10/1956
episode
Choice Classic Radio Detectives | Old Time Radio
29 min
2 speakers
5 chapters
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What is the opening introduction and sponsor message for this Dragnet episode?
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Ladies and gentlemen. 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 the robbery detail. Pair of hold up men have been staging a series of robberies in your city. You have their description, you know their method of operation. Your job. Get 'em.
Yeah.
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Drag man, 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 to an actual case transcribed from official police firearms. From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.
It was Tuesday, September sixth. It was warm in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of robbery detail. My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Diddy and my name's Friday. I was on my way into the office and it was eight o two AM when I got to room twenty seven A. Robert.
Joe? Is that you? Yeah. Did you just get in? Yeah, a couple of minutes ago. The last room from the staff office come
in
yet? No, I called them. They said it'd be about ten. Hey, you look kind of
beat. Yeah, I had a little trouble sleeping last night. I went over this thing. Some place the guys must have made a mistake, I can't figure it.
Yeah.
I've been trying to figure an angle too.
Nothing asked how we were doing. I told him we had a couple of things cooking, he didn't say anything.
Guess he's getting plenty of heat from the front office. His pills are getting bigger. Stomach's giving him trouble again, I guess. Yeah, he had some this morning, looked big enough for a horse. I never saw such big pills, Joe. He could hardly swallow 'em. Purple, too. Well. Eleven jobs in three months, all the same MO, all the same descriptions, none of them matter if anything we can make.
Yeah. Skipper said he had a call from the insurance company that underwrote the jewelry store they hit last Thursday. But the guy was real nasty. Said if we couldn't clean it up he was going to the police
commission, get some action that way. Probably Friday. Oh. Oh yeah, right. Yeah, sure I remember. How's it going? Well, that's good. Yeah. Yeah, I guess he'd come right down. All right, sure. Okay, Rod, thanks. We'll be right there. Remember Rod Nealam, the guy we nailed for robbery five years ago?
Nealam?
Yeah, I know who you mean. He wants to see us, says he got some information. Yeah. About the guys we're after.
For the past three months a pair of hold up men had been victimizing the owners of large jewelry stores and supermarkets. In each case the descriptions of the two suspects was the same. Suspect number one was described as WMA, thirty to thirty five years old, red haired, tall and lean. Suspect number two was described as WMA, twenty five to thirty years old, five foot seven, one hundred and twenty pounds. Victims reported that the larger of the two bandits had a slight stutter, but neither of them had any visible marks of scars. In each instance the method of operation the bandits used was the same.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the opening introduction and sponsor message for this Dragnet episode?
0:00–7:28
2
How does the episode set up the robbery case and introduce the suspects?
7:28–10:59
3
What details are given about the two hold‑up men’s description and MO?
10:59–14:05
4
How does the informant Rod Nealan provide a lead on the suspects?
14:05–19:37
5
What information is uncovered during the interview with Dolly Keene?
19:37–29:51
Speakers
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