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Dragnet - "Big Manikin" (Old Time Radio, 1954)
Dragnet presents “Big Manikin,” episode 270, originally broadcast October 19, 1954. In this NBC radio mystery, Jack Webb stars as Sergeant Joe Friday alongside Ben Alexander as Sergeant Frank Smith.
Friday and Smith take a Missing Persons case when Jason Helmer, owner of a Los Angeles mannequin rental-and-sales business, fails to return home. With Helmer, his car, and an acquaintance who owed him money all unaccounted for, the detectives follow a thin trail through the city.
Dragnet presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement…
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