HeyJaredFriday - The Dragnet Podcast
Friday - The Dragnet Podcast is your ultimate destination for reliving the thrilling world of the classic Dragnet radio show. Step back into the gritty streets of Los Angeles with Sergeant Joe Friday as he brings justice to life through captivating, true-to-form storytelling.
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The Big Press (opens the original)
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Originally Aired: February 8, 1953 Dragnet #190, "The Big Press," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith take over a frustrating forgery case that has been plaguing Los Angeles for over a year. Two men have been passing phony payroll checks throughout the southern part of the state, scoring an impressive $70,000 from unsuspecting victims. The forgers use checks from various legitimate companies—rubber firms, oil companies, department stores, aircraft manufacturers—but all share one telltale
The Big Strip (opens the original)
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Originally Aired: February 1, 1953 Dragnet #189, "The Big Strip," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith are working auto theft detail, tracking a professional gang of car strippers who have stolen over $12,000 in automobile accessories across Los Angeles. While staking out a parking lot late one Tuesday night, they spot a suspect breaking into a Cadillac. When they move in to make the arrest, the young thief flees in the stolen vehicle and crashes into traffic at a crowded intersection. Th
The Big Lay Out (opens the original)
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Originally Aired: January 25, 1953 Dragnet #188, "The Big Lay Out," Sergeant Joe Friday faces a deeply personal case when his friend Ed Field reaches out in desperation. Ed has discovered a narcotics layout hidden in his 18-year-old son Gary's bedroom, and all signs point to the high school senior being a heroin addict. The discovery devastates Ed and his wife Helen, who cannot understand how their son, a good student from a comfortable home with everything he could want, has fallen into drug us
The Big String (opens the original)
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Originally Aired: January 18, 1953 Dragnet #187, "The Big String," Friday and Smith are called to the home of Henry Wagley, a university political science professor who has discovered his wife Myra missing and a ransom note on the coffee table. The note demands ten thousand dollars in unmarked bills to be dropped at a specific location on Beer Canyon Drive. Wagley is frantic with worry and uncertain how he'll raise the money, insisting his wife would never stage such a thing. As Friday and Smith
The Big Small (opens the original)
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Originally Aired: January 11, 1953 Dragnet #186, "The Big Small," finds Sergeants Joe Friday and Frank Smith on the trail of a sophisticated check forger who has been systematically targeting Los Angeles merchants. The suspect is a deceptively innocent-looking woman in her sixties—small, well-dressed, with pure white hair styled in an old-fashioned bun. She uses letters supposedly from her son in the East as identification and wears expensive French perfume that seems oddly out of place with her
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