The Big String

Friday - The Dragnet Podcast · Sep 6, 2026 · 25m

Originally Aired: January 18, 1953

Dragnet #187, "The Big String," Friday and Smith are called to the home of Henry Wagley, a university political science professor who has discovered his wife Myra missing and a ransom note on the coffee table. The note demands ten thousand dollars in unmarked bills to be dropped at a specific location on Beer Canyon Drive. Wagley is frantic with worry and uncertain how he'll raise the money, insisting his wife would never stage such a thing. As Friday and Smith investigate, they learn that Myra was last heard from when her husband called her around…