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The Big Cat
Originally Aired: June 15, 1954
Dragnet #252, "The Big Cat," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Frank Smith face an unusual case for the auto theft detail when Clarence Havill reports a bizarre theft. While his carnival truck was broken down at the corner of Fountain and De Longpre, someone broke into the animal cages. Missing are two monkeys, two raccoons, and most alarmingly, a seven-foot black panther named Dandy. Havill managed to recover the shivering monkeys from atop a telephone pole using lettuce as bait, but the panther remains at large somewhere in Los Angeles.
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