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Dragnet - "The Big Make" (Old Time Radio, 1950)
Dragnet presents “The Big Make,” episode 66, originally broadcast on NBC on September 14, 1950. Jack Webb stars as Los Angeles police sergeant Joe Friday, with Barton Yarborough as his partner, Sergeant Ben Romero.
Friday and Romero investigate a violent holdup at Stendahl’s Bakery Shop, where the proprietor and his daughter have been wounded. With only limited information from the neighborhood bakery crime scene, the detectives begin assembling the facts in this early, tightly focused Dragnet robbery-detail procedural. The broadcast was sponsored by Fatima Cigarettes.
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