Dragnet | Ep159 | "The Big Roll"

Originally Aired: June 26, 1952
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Audio Credit: "Dragnet" by The Old Time Radio Researchers Group is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0

[@davidswift7776]

June 26, 1952 “ The Big Roll” * Incredible 69 years later this and all these radio Dragnets are still compelling. Just really weird how everything they informed the wife was simply “just routine”… wonder if police always said that? Webb was a radio genius. Thanks for the KZbin post 👌

[@nativeroscoe64]

Lesson - Don't flash your money around in a bar. You will get "rolled."

[@wandahall4435]

Thanks for posting these programs. They are great 👍

[@rmedley22]

That's a first. The crook ask for a cigarette and Friday ignores him. Usually even when Friday and the crook are at each others throats and the suspect says hey got a smoke Joe says sure and then they go back at it.

[@misskim2058]

I appreciate all the old radio shows...after hearing a couple dozen episodes, I’m thinking that Dragnet was one long commercial for cigarettes...they’re offered and prominently displayed several times in every episode, normalizing them as a regular part of one’s daily routine.

[@heyoldman2003]

They were a part of there daily routine.. everyone smoked back then . I was told my Mom smoked in the hospital when I was born 😲 made it to 67 so far 👍🏼

[@heyoldman2003]

ZoneFighter1 General Hospital is a hour long show . Its really only 36 minutes long . Almost half commercials 😮

[@whackyjinak4978]

It was the American thing to do, everyone smoked. It was a normal thing to do, for everyone. The fact it’s sponsored by a cigarette company is the only reason you hear the ads so much.

[@raysraves474]

Jack Webb died from a ❤ attack at the age of 62 . 😢

[@davidfmaas]

Thank you for posting these episodes!

[@heyoldman2003]

Thug Life 😎

[@jeremyballs7099]

my partner is Frank Smith, my name's Friday. i'm a sergeant

[@heyoldman2003]

Funny the cigarettes offer protection.... from what ? I thought they were Mild 😎. Who would want to make a living running a bar “ in that kind of neighborhood “ 🤔💉 the 797 Club . Must have been something 🥳

[@whackyjinak4978]

Protection from burning yourself!

[@heyoldman2003]

Ouch !🚬.

[@wandahall4435]

Jack Webb is A Savage!!!

[@howardoller443]

Why do you hate the police Wanda?

[@dannygaines1352]

Cigarette break.

[@Nononsense1952]

Io kopp