Dragnet - "Big Little Mother" (Old Time Radio, 1953)

Dragnet | Old Time Radio · Oct 12, 2026 · 29m · transcript

Dragnet presents “Big Little Mother,” originally broadcast on October 6, 1953. This is episode 216 of the classic NBC crime drama.

Sgt. Joe Friday, played by Jack Webb, and Officer Frank Smith, played by Ben Alexander, work the LAPD Forgery Detail on a persistent retail-fraud case. Their investigation begins at a Los Angeles department store, where a distinctive pattern of small purchases in the children’s department points to an unusually methodical suspect.

Dragnet presents the original broadcast with a newly produced contextual introduction, a short closing announcement, and gently…