The Big Evans

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

Originally Aired: March 6, 1952 Dragnet #143, "The Big Evans," Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ed Jacobs are assigned to personnel division to investigate a serious complaint against one of their own. Officer Blanchard, a patrolman working South Central, stands accused of assault and battery by George Evans, a boarding house operator whom Blanchard arrested the previous day on narcotics charges. Evans claims the young officer beat him savagely and dislocated his shoulder, and he has two witnesses to back up his story. Blanchard insists he's innocent, explaining that Evans was already…