The Big Test

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast · Aug 17, 2026 · 31m

Originally Aired: August 28, 1952 Dragnet #166, "The Big Test," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith face a harrowing case when a young man named Bruce Hamilton staggers into the homicide division with his face badly cut and bruised. Bruce tells a shocking story: he and his best friend Kevin had been prospecting in Mexico during summer vacation when a group of horsemen rode into their camp. After the leader spoke to them in Spanish, which they couldn't understand, the situation turned violent. When Kevin tried to stop the men from ransacking their supplies, he was shot twice and…