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Dragnet - "Big Impossible" (Old Time Radio, 1953)
Dragnet presents “Big Impossible,” episode 195 of the classic NBC police drama, originally broadcast on March 15, 1953. Produced by Jack Webb, the episode stars Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday alongside Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith.
Friday and Smith investigate a string of Los Angeles supermarket holdups. Witnesses identify reputed robbery-crew leader Bernie Hanson, but Hanson is seriously ill and confined to a hospital bed—leaving the detectives with an alibi that seems impossible to overcome.
Dragnet presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short…
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