Benny Trounsel – Narcotics

After an informant is murdered, Friday and Romero race to dismantle the narcotics ring responsible.

This Dragnet broadcast aired on August 4, 1949. NBC Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough, and Raymond Burr.

The surviving recording runs about 29 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.