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The Big Strip

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About This Broadcast

Friday and Smith pursue a gang that steals automobiles for parts, and the investigation becomes more urgent when the stripping operation turns deadly.

This Dragnet broadcast aired on February 1, 1953. NBC Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Sarah Selby, and Art Gilmore. Other credited names include John Robinson 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.

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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