The Big Fire

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast · Jul 27, 2026 · 31m

Originally Aired: March 13, 1952 Dragnet #144, "The Big Fire," finds Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ed Jacobs investigating a bizarre landlord-tenant dispute that has taken a dangerous turn. Mrs. Cameron and her friend Doris Ashby, both young mothers who recently relocated to Los Angeles with their husbands for work at an aircraft plant, have leased apartments in a building recently purchased by a man named Daniels. Despite signing leases and paying rent in advance, when the women attempt to move in with their furniture, Daniels appears on the scene and flies into a rage, making various…