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The Big Joke

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Friday investigates a plan to have an elderly man killed and uncovers an unexpected family connection behind the murder-for-hire scheme.

This Dragnet broadcast aired on May 10, 1953. NBC Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, and Vic Perrin. Other credited names include John Robinson as writer, Hal Gibney as announcer, and George Fenneman as announcer.

The surviving recording runs about 30 minutes. The broadcast is also associated with Chesterfield and Fatima.

NBC police procedural based on actual LAPD cases and developed around documentary realism.

Listeners can expect crime, episodic drama in format, and serious and gritty in tone.

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