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The Big Number

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About This Broadcast

Friday and Smith pursue an experienced bank robber whose distinctive but effective technique makes his crimes difficult to trace.

This Dragnet broadcast aired on October 26, 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, Walter Schumann 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 (health claims are made for Chesterfields).

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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