• 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 51-05-03 (099) The Big Casing
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Dragnet 51-05-10 (100) The Big Drills
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Dragnet 51-05-17 (101) The Big Blast
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Dragnet 51-05-24 (102) The Big Mailman
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Dragnet 51-05-31 (103) The Big Bindle
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Dragnet 51-06-07 (104) The Big Imposter
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Dragnet 51-06-14 (105) The Big Building
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Dragnet 51-06-21 (106) The Big Run
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Dragnet 51-06-28 (107) The Big Cliff
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Dragnet 51-07-05 (108) The Big Love
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Dragnet 51-07-12 (109) The Big Set-Up
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Dragnet 51-07-19 (110) The Big Sophomore
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Dragnet 51-07-26 (111) The Big Late Script
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Dragnet 51-08-09 (113) The Big Screen
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Dragnet 51-08-16 (114) The Big Winchester
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Dragnet 51-08-23 (115) The Big In-Laws
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Dragnet 51-08-30 (116) The Big Crazy
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Dragnet 51-09-06 (117) The Big 17
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Dragnet 51-09-13 (118) The Big Waiter
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Dragnet 51-09-20 (119) The Big Sour
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Dragnet 51-09-27 (120) The Big September Man
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Dragnet 51-10-04 (121) The Big Want Ad
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Dragnet 51-10-11 (122) The Big Shoplift
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Dragnet 51-10-18 (123) The Big Story Man
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Dragnet 51-10-25 (124) The Big Market
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Dragnet 51-11-01 (125) The Big Lease
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Dragnet 51-11-08 (126) The Big Hit and Run Killer
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Dragnet 51-11-15 (127) The Big Bungalow
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Dragnet 51-11-22 (128) The Big Hands
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Dragnet 51-11-29 (129) The Big Affair
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