The Big Children

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast · Feb 28, 2026 · 30m

Originally Aired: February 1, 1951 Dragnet #86, "The Big Children," Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Ben Romero from the Juvenile Bureau investigate a disturbing report from a neighbor in the wealthy Bel Air district. Miss Jeanette Bajan, a cook working in one of the area's colonial mansions, has called in a complaint about two children from next door—seven-year-old Richard Kessler and his five-year-old sister Judy—who have been going door to door begging for food for the past several days. Despite living in a neighborhood of $50,000 homes, the children appear half-starved. When…