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"Dragnet" The Big Frame (1954)
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"Dragnet" (1951)Original Air Date:
22 April 1954 (Season 3, Episode 34)Plot:
A man is found dead in the gutter. At first it seems as a hit-run case, but Friday and Smith become suspicious when all witnesses from the night before give exactly the same story. Usually witnesses are at variance in some respects. | add synopsisUser Comments:
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(Episode Complete credited cast) | Jack Webb | ... | Sgt. Joe Friday |
 | Ben Alexander | ... | Officer Frank Smith |
 | Carolyn Jones | ... | Marian Fuller (as Caroline Jones) |
| Tony Barrett | ... | Henry John Baxter |
| Lawrence Ryle | ... | Jonathan Larrimore |
| Jack Kruschen | ... | Karl Jansen |
| Herb Vigran | ... | Eugene Murray |
| Natalie Masters | ... | Katy Stokes |
| Roy Whaley | ... | William Huddy |
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Routine entry, but one that shows how the creators could take a highly unglamorous crime and turn it into an entertaining half-hour. A bar-fly is found dead in a downtown gutter. Was it an accident or murder. Friday and Smith follow the leads, including an interview with a very hung-over girlfriend of the deceased. Carolyn Jones again shines in a tacky role showing why she was a Dragnet favorite. Good procedure episode, especially since our two cops take back-up with them for the arrest-- an often neglected aspect of police work in the series, maybe because of the additional expense. The segue from Friday's snarling arrest to a humorous wrap-up is, nevertheless, clumsily handled. Even so, an impacted wisdom tooth is never self-correcting. Friday should listen to Frank's nagging.