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The Big New Years
Originally Aired: March 8, 1951 Dragnet #91, "The Big New Years," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero are assigned to special duty on New Year's Eve, working the night watch out of homicide as thousands crowd downtown Los Angeles. What begins as a routine evening of handling street fights, drunk drivers, and minor disturbances takes a devastating turn when an officer needs help call escalates to a shooting at East Main and Darwin. Friday and Romero rush to the scene and discover the victim lying face down on the pavement with six bullet wounds. The dead man is Jack Conley, serial…
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