• 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 56-02-14 (339) The Big Tooth
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Dragnet 56-02-21 (340) The Big Smoke
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Dragnet 56-02-28 (341) The Big Want
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Dragnet 56-03-06 (342) The Big Laugh
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Dragnet 56-03-13 (343) The Big Impossible
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Dragnet 56-03-20 (344) 22 Rifle for Christmas
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Dragnet 56-03-27 (345) The Big Informant
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Dragnet 56-04-03 (346) The Big Dream
 6.04 MB

Dragnet 56-04-10 (347) The Big Chet
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Dragnet 56-04-17 (348) The Big Compulsion
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Dragnet 56-04-24 (349) The Big Rip
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Dragnet 56-05-01 (350) The Big Scrapbook
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Dragnet 56-05-08 (351) The Big Carney
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Dragnet 56-05-15 (352) The Big Joke
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Dragnet 56-05-22 (353) The Big False Move
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Dragnet 56-05-29 (354) The Big Gun Part 1
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Dragnet 56-06-05 (355) The Big Gun Part 2
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Dragnet 56-06-12 (356) The Big Will
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Dragnet 56-06-19 (357) The Big Lilly
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Dragnet 56-06-26 (358) The Big Revolt
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Dragnet 56-09-18 (359) The Big Ham
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Dragnet 56-09-25 (360) The Big Bop
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Dragnet 56-10-02 (361) The Big Lift
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Dragnet 56-10-09 (362) The Big Cab
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Dragnet 56-10-16 (363) The Big Slip
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Dragnet 56-10-23 (364) The Big Flight
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Dragnet 56-10-30 (365) The Big Present
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Dragnet 56-11-06 (366) The Big Odd
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Dragnet 56-11-13 (367) The Big Pick
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Dragnet 56-11-20 (368) The Big Brink
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