Tag: Joe Friday

Dragnet: The Big Friend (EP4730)

Today’s Mystery:

An intoxicated man reports that his wife was murdered.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: April 5, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero

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Dragnet: The Big Trunk (TV Soundtrack) (EP4724)

Today’s Mystery:

A former vaudeville performer is murdered over worthless possessions in an old trunk.

TV Soundtrack from a TV Episode that AIred January 4, 1954 based on a radio script from March 22, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Ben Alexander as Officer Frank Smith; Dayton Lummis; Richard Garland; James Anderson; Lillian Powell; Emlen Davies

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Dragnet: The Big Ben (EP4718)

Today’s Mystery:

Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate a carjacking.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 15, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Stacy Harris

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Dragnet: The Big September Man (Video Theater 294)

Joe Friday and Ed Jacobs investigate the brutal murder of a woman.

Season 1, Episode 11

Original Air Date: May 8, 1952

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Dragnet: The Big New Years (EP4706)

Today’s Mystery:

Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigates the murder of a cop on New Year’s Eve.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 8, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero

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Dragnet: The Big Partner (EP4700)

Today’s Mystery:

Joe Friday hunts for an escaped robber.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: March 1, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Ralph Moody; Barney Phillips

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Dragnet: The Big Couple (EP4694)

Today’s Mystery:

Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for husband-and-wife con artists who are swindling local churches.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 22, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday, Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero

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Dragnet: The Big Crime (EP4688)

Todays Mystery:

Joe Friday and Ben Romero search for two missing four-year-old twin girls.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 15, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Herb Butterfield

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Dragnet: The Big Children (EP4670)

Today’s Mystery:

Joe Friday and Ben Romero are called in to investigate when children in a wealthy neighborhood are begging door-to-door.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: February 1, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Stacy Harris

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Dragnet: The Big Tomato (EP4664)

Today’s Mystery:

Joe Friday and Ben Romero investigate who sold drugs to a high school senior who ended up dying under the influence in a car accident.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 25, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero

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Dragnet: The Big Dance (EP4658)

Today’s Mystery:

Joe Friday investigates a series of hold-ups.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 18, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero

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Dragnet: The Big Jump (EP4652)

Today’s Mystery:

Joe Friday and Ben Romero go to a building where a mentally disturbed man is threatening to jump off a 13-story building.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 11, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Stacy Harris

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Dragnet: The Big Hold-Up (EP4646)

Today’s Mystery:

Joe Friday and Ben Romero are on the trail of The Rattlesnake Bandit, a sadistic robber who holds up couples in cars and inflicts violence for the pleasure of it.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: January 4, 1951

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero

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Dragnet: The Big Family (EP4640)

Today’s Mystery:

A prominent businessman disappears without a trace.

Original Radio Broadcast Date: December 28, 1950

Originating from Hollywood

Starring: Jack Webb as Sergeant Joe Friday; Barton Yarborough as Sergeant Ben Romero; Herb Butterfield

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Dragnet: The Big Actor (Video Theater 288)

Join us as we follow Sergeants Joe Friday and Ben Romero on a complex case involving a robbery at All Saints Hospital’s pharmacy, where $10,000 worth of narcotics goes missing. With a wounded intern and a trail of clues leading to the dark underbelly of drug distribution, the detectives race against time to catch the culprit before the stolen drugs can be sold on the streets.

Original Air Date: January 3, 1952

Season 1, Episode 2

Referenced:
Radio Version of The Big Actor

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