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The Big Lift
Originally Aired: September 8, 1953
Dragnet #212, "The Big Lift," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith find themselves frustrated by an elusive burglar who has been plaguing Los Angeles for five weeks. Seventeen homes have been stripped of valuables by a thief with a consistent method of operation: punching holes in window screens, jimmying windows, and making off with jewelry between 6:00 and 9:00 p.m. When Friday and Smith stop for a meal at a local diner, the talkative proprietor unknowingly lectures the two detectives about how the burglar is running the cops in circles, even as…
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