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The Big Light

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About This Broadcast

A movie director's death beneath a falling studio lamp appears accidental until detectives find reason to suspect the incident was deliberately arranged.

This Dragnet broadcast aired on November 2, 1952. NBC Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Whitfield Connor, and Jack Kruschen. Other credited names include John Robinson as writer, Hal Gibney as announcer, and George Fenneman as announcer.

The surviving recording runs about 29 minutes. The broadcast is also associated with Chesterfield.

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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