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Dragnet - "Big Laugh" (Old Time Radio, 1953)
Dragnet presents “Big Laugh,” episode 194, originally broadcast March 8, 1953. In this NBC, Chesterfield-sponsored radio drama, Detective Sergeant Joe Friday is played by Jack Webb, alongside Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith.
Assigned to the LAPD’s Bunco Detail, Friday investigates a confidence man who has spent a year exploiting women with false promises of marriage. As a lead emerges, Friday and Smith bring patient police work to a case built on deception and vulnerable victims. Written by John Robinson.
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