The Big Speech

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast · Mar 26, 2026 · 31m

Originally Aired: April 19, 1951 Dragnet #97, "The Big Speech," Sergeant Joe Friday receives a telegram at home inviting him to speak about police work at his old high school, but the pleasant request is quickly overshadowed by urgent police business. Friday and his partner Ben Romero are called to investigate a vicious robbery at a doctor's office on Georgia Street. A narcotics addict they've been tracking for seven weeks has escalated his crimes dramatically, pistol-whipping fifty-five-year-old Dr. Gannon and leaving him in critical condition with a fractured jaw, seven missing teeth, and…