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22 Rifle for Christmas

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The disappearance of a nine-year-old boy leads detectives to troubling evidence and the realization that a second child is also missing.

This Dragnet broadcast aired on December 21, 1952. NBC Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, William Johnstone, and Sammy Ogg. Other credited names include James Moser as writer, George Fenneman as announcer, and Hal Gibney as announcer.

The surviving recording runs about 27 minutes.

Other versions or closely related recordings in the archive include 22 Rifle for Christmas (December 21, 1950), a remake.

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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