The Big Almost No Show

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast · Jul 21, 2026 · 31m

Originally Aired: January 31, 1952 Dragnet #138, "The Big Almost No Show," presents Friday and his partner, Ed Jacobs, with a puzzling missing persons case. Edith Tabor reports that her younger brother Ralph, a 30-year-old interior decorator, has vanished without a trace since Sunday evening. The disappearance is particularly alarming because Ralph missed their standing Sunday dinner date and a movie they had specifically planned for Tuesday night—behavior completely out of character for a man his sister describes as stable and reliable. The siblings have been close since their mother's…