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The Big Stop
Originally Aired: May 4, 1954
Dragnet #246, "The Big Stop," begins with a routine morning at Los Angeles Police Department's Homicide Division, where Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith are wrapping up a suicide case. Their day takes a violent turn when they receive an urgent call about a shooting at the corner of Broadway and San Julian: a traffic officer has been gunned down in broad daylight.
When Friday and Smith arrive at the scene, they find the wounded officer lying in a pedestrian crosswalk with a gunshot wound to the chest, his service revolver still holstered. Witness…
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