Dragnet-COMPLETE
Detective Section

Catalog #

Detcd 1-2-2a-2c

Episodes in Collection

402

 

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Disk 2

 

Disk 3

 

Disk 4

 

Disk 5

 

Disk 6

 

Disk 7

 

Disk 8

 

Disk 9

update- 3/30/05-Episode # 1 does not exist or is not available and was discovered to be a poor copy of episode # 2 (deleted) BEWARE that alot of OTR sites have the same error files in their collections and I have bought them and checked already. Additionally Beware of Episode 19, which is actually a misdated dupe of Episode 26 and Episode 25 which is actually a misdated show of Episode 2.  Please ! Verify with the party that they check their versions if you think you find someone else who has them. I found 6 sites all having the same files of misdated duplicate shows. Having someone check these prevents the problem of spreading these bogus files into collections.  Fortunately none of these newly discovered problems, changes the Complete status of my Collection. Episode # 15 was replaced with a correct and better quality copy. Episode # 14 had a better quality duplicate so it replaced a poorer one and the poor version was deleted.- Replacement eligible for Disk 1. Send me a request and your date of purchase.

ABOUT THE SHOW: 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.

FIRST BROADCAST: June 3rd 1949

LAST BROADCAST: February 26th 1957

SPONSORS: Fatima Cigarettes, Chesterfield Cigarettes

CAST: Jack Webb, Barton Yarborough

ANNOUNCERS: George Fenneman, Hal Gibney

PRODUCERS/DIRECTORS: Bill Rousseau

WRITERS-ADAPTORS: James E Moser, John Robinson, Frank Burt

SOUND EFFECTS: Bud Tollefson, Wayne Kenworthy

ORCHESTRA AND ORGANIST:  

THEME: 'Dragnet March' by Walter Schumann