The Big Blast
The episode opens with Fatima proudly introducing its Academy Award-winning radio program, though the film industry's Academy never actually awarded honors for radio broadcasts. Josephine Stevens is found murdered by shotgun while her seven-year-old son witnesses the crime. This is a well-crafted and engaging episode.
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Three trigger-happy gunmen shoot and kill a police officer during surveillance, then get cornered inside an apartment building.
Dragnet is an American radio series, enacting the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show took its name from the police term "dragnet", meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.
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“The Big Blast.” Dragnet. Radio broadcast, May 17, 1951.
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