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Todays Mystery: Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith investigate an armed robbery at a Los Angeles restaurant in which an elderly owner is brutally beaten and a valuable family heirloom stolen. Although one robber is shot by police, his accomplice escapes, leaving the detectives to track him down.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: July 31, 1952

Originating from Hollywood

Cast:

• Jack Webb as Sgt. Joe Friday

• Herb Ellis as Sgt. Frank Smith

• Vic Perrin

• Virginia Gregg

• Harry Bartell

• Ralph Moody

• Jim Moser, writer

• Walter Schumann, music

• Technical advice from the office of Chief W.H. Parker

• Captain Jack Donahoe, Sgt. Marty Wynn, and Sgt. Vance Brasher, technical advisors

• Hal Gibney, announcer

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