Old time radio drama exists because of hobbyists and radio personnel, who rescued episodes of shows on transcription tapes and on glass or vinyl records. Some radio programs are presumed lost, primarily those from the 1930s – few programs from the 1920s were recorded

Dragnet

Dragnet

Broadcast History: 3 June 1949 to 26 February 1957
Theme Tune: ‘Dragnet March’ by Walter Schumann

Dragnet was a thirty-minute police drama featuring actual cases taken from the files of the Los Angeles Police Department. Jack Webb directed Dragnet and also played Detective Sergeant Joe Friday, the star of the show, who had remained a bachelor and still lived at home with his mother. It was one of the first radio shows to break the silence against dramatising sex crimes and child murders

Dragnet 49-06-10 (002) Production 2 aka Homicide aka The Nickel Plated Gun
 6.8 MB

Dragnet 49-06-17 (003) Production 3 aka The Werewolf
 6.74 MB

Dragnet 49-06-24 (004) Production 4 aka Homicide aka Quick Trigger Gun Men
 6.84 MB

Dragnet 49-07-07 (005) The Helen Corday Murder
 6.83 MB

Dragnet 49-07-14 (006) Red Light Bandit
 6.78 MB

Dragnet 49-07-21 (007) Attempted City Hall Bombing
 6.86 MB

Dragnet 49-07-28 (008) Missing Persons - Juanita Lasky
 6.85 MB

Dragnet 49-08-04 (009) Benny Trounsel - Narcotics
 6.8 MB

Dragnet 49-08-11 (010) Production 10 aka Homicide aka Maniac Murderer aka Mad Killer At Large
 6.85 MB

Dragnet 49-08-18 (011) Production 11 aka Sixteen Jewel Thieves
 6.8 MB

Dragnet 49-08-25 (012) Police Academy - Mario Koski
 6.71 MB

Dragnet 49-09-01 (013) Auto Burglaries - Myra, the Redhead
 6.85 MB

Dragnet 49-09-03 (014) Eric Kelby - Body Buried In Nursery
 6.84 MB

Dragnet 49-09-10 (015) Sullivan Kidnapping
 6.74 MB

Dragnet 49-09-17 (016) James Vickers - Cop Killing - Tunnel Chase
 6.7 MB

Dragnet 49-09-24 (017) Brick-Bat Slayer
 6.7 MB

Dragnet 49-10-01 (018) Truck Hi-jackers - Tom Laval
 6.7 MB

Dragnet 49-11-24 (026) Mrs Rinard, Albert Barry - Mother-In-Law Murder
 6.71 MB

Dragnet 49-12-01 (027) Spring Street Gang - Juveniles
 6.71 MB

Dragnet 49-12-08 (028) George Quan - The Jade Thumb Rings
 6.69 MB

Dragnet 49-12-15 (029) The Garbage Chute Murder - Laura Barkley
 6.71 MB

Dragnet 49-12-22 (030) 22 Rifle for Christmas
 6.24 MB

Dragnet 49-12-29 (031) The Roseland Roof Murders
 7.04 MB

Dragnet 50-01-05 (032) Max Tyler - Escaped Convict
 6.72 MB

Dragnet 50-01-12 (033) The Big Man Part 1 (Narcotics)
 6.72 MB

Dragnet 50-01-19 (034) The Big Man Part 2 (Narcotics)
 6.74 MB

Dragnet 50-02-02 (035) Claude Jimmerson, Child Killer
 6.73 MB

Dragnet 50-02-09 (036) The Big Girl
 6.72 MB

Dragnet 50-02-23 (037) The Big Grifter
 6.73 MB

Dragnet 50-03-02 (038) The Big Kill
 6.72 MB

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