Dragnet: The Big Mole 12/13/1955
episode
Choice Classic Radio Detectives | Old Time Radio
29 min
8 speakers
6 chapters
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What is the introduction to the Dragnet episode 'The Big Mole'?
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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 transcribed from official police files. From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.
It was Wednesday, January 23rd. It was cold in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of burglary detail. My partner's Frank Smith. The boss is Captain Wisdom. My name's Friday. We were on our way out from the office and it was 10.36 a.m. when we got to the corner of Constance and Westlake. Nichols Dry Goods Store.
Yes? Something I can do for you, gentlemen?
Yes, ma'am. We're police officers.
Oh, yes. About the robbery.
Yes, ma'am. Are you Gladys Nichols?
Yes, I am. I'm the owner. I found out that the safe had been robbed.
I think you mean your safe was burgled, Mrs. Nichols.
What crime is being investigated in this episode?
What?
Well, you're safe. It's a technical term. We refer to it as having been burgled, not robbed.
Burgled. Robbed. They took the money out of it.
Well, you see, ma'am, a lot of people make that same mistake. A safe is burgled and a man is robbed.
Oh, yeah. Well, I came in this morning. I didn't get your name.
I'm sorry. My name's Friday. This is my partner, Frank Smith.
Well, I'm pleased to meet you. Like I said, I'm Gladys Nichols.
Yes, ma'am. Now, if you'd just tell us what happened here.
Oh, sure. Well, I came in this morning, 8.30, just like I always do, been doing the same thing for the past ten years. Eight years at the old location. Always opened exactly 8.30 on the dot.
Yes, ma'am.
Miss... Miss Nichols. I took my maiden name when my husband died.
I'm sorry. Go right ahead, please. Oh, sure.
I came in at 8.30 this morning, opened the door, and came on in. Everything looked just like it should have. Hung up my coat, then I rolled up the shade on the front window. After that, I opened the safe, and that's when I knew that I'd been robbed, burgled.
That's right, ma'am.
I could tell that right away. The safe was empty. Not a bit of money left. Cleaned it right out.
Do you know how much money there was in the safe, Miss Nichols?
Oh, yes. $423.76. I know exactly. I can't understand it either. It should have gone off. It should have worked. I can't understand why it didn't.
What's that, ma'am?
Burglar alarm.
Oh.
Yeah, not a peep out of it. Nothing. The man that sold it to me said that if anybody so much as looked at something and thought about stealing it, the alarm would go off. But like I said, not a peep. Oh, I wonder if you'd excuse me for a minute there, Mrs. Johnson, old customer.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the introduction to the Dragnet episode 'The Big Mole'?
0:00–3:05
2
What crime is being investigated in this episode?
3:05–6:47
3
Who is Gladys Nichols and what does she report to the police?
6:47–8:47
4
What details about the burglar alarm does Gladys provide?
8:47–23:44
5
What similarities exist between the recent burglaries?
23:44–24:52
6
What leads are pursued regarding Alan Hoffman?
24:52–29:06
Speakers
8 identifiedMore from Choice Classic Radio Detectives | Old Time Radio
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