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Dragnet - "Big Bird" (Old Time Radio, 1955)
Dragnet presents “Big Bird,” episode 285 of the classic radio series, originally broadcast on NBC on February 1, 1955. Jack Webb stars as Detective Sergeant Joe Friday, alongside Officer Frank Smith.
Friday and Smith investigate a run of burglaries in Los Angeles’s newly built Valley-area housing tracts. The crimes share a disturbing detail involving household pet birds, giving the Burglary Detail a crucial pattern to follow. The original broadcast was sponsored by Chesterfield Cigarettes.
Dragnet presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing…
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