The Big Bird

Friday and Smith hunt a serial burglar whose disturbing pattern includes killing pet birds in the homes he enters.

This Dragnet broadcast aired on February 1, 1955. NBC Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Jack Webb and Ben Alexander.

The surviving recording runs about 26 minutes.

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.