The Big Set-Up

Friday goes undercover inside a large narcotics organization responsible for flooding Los Angeles with heroin and marijuana.

This Dragnet broadcast aired on March 1, 1955. NBC Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Jack Webb and Ben Alexander. Other credited names include George Fenneman as announcer and Hal Gibney as announcer.

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.