• Radio brought the news directly into listeners’ living rooms. Among the major news stories broken on radio: the Scopes monkey trial, carried live by Chicago station WGN in 1925; the Hindenburg zeppelin disaster, covered by WLS Chicago in 1937; and Edward R. Murrow’s CBS reports on the Blitz of Britain, airing in 1940.

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 54-12-28 (280) The Big Underground
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Dragnet 55-01-04 (281) The Big Mug
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Dragnet 55-01-11 (282) The Big Complex
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Dragnet 55-01-18 (283) The Big Token
 5.85 MB

Dragnet 55-01-25 (284) The Big Bounce
 5.71 MB

Dragnet 55-02-01 (285) The Big Bird
 5.93 MB

Dragnet 55-02-08 (286) The Big Gap
 5.85 MB

Dragnet 55-02-15 (287) The Big Hat
 5.77 MB

Dragnet 55-02-22 (288) The Big Slug
 5.9 MB

Dragnet 55-03-01 (289) The Big Set-Up
 5.92 MB

Dragnet 55-03-08 (290) The Big Father
 5.84 MB

Dragnet 55-03-15 (291) The Big Set
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Dragnet 55-03-22 (292) The Big Talk
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Dragnet 55-03-29 (293) The Big Death
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Dragnet 55-04-05 (294) The Big No Tooth
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Dragnet 55-04-12 (295) The Big Tie
 5.7 MB

Dragnet 55-04-19 (296) The Big Deal
 5.62 MB

Dragnet 55-04-26 (297) The Big Child
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Dragnet 55-05-03 (298) The Big Momma
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Dragnet 55-05-10 (299) The Big Revision
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Dragnet 55-05-17 (300) The Big Squealer
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Dragnet 55-05-24 (301) The Big Siege
 5.89 MB

Dragnet 55-05-31 (302) The Big Sisters
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Dragnet 55-06-07 (303) The Big Limp
 5.69 MB

Dragnet 55-06-14 (304) The Big Fall Guy
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Dragnet 55-06-21 (305) The Big Grab
 5.78 MB

Dragnet 55-06-28 (306) The Big Convertible
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Dragnet 55-07-05 (307) The Big Rush
 5.64 MB

Dragnet 55-07-12 (308) The Big Genius
 5.72 MB

Dragnet 55-07-19 (309) The Big Bobo
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