• 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 52-07-03 (160) The Big Trio
 6.77 MB

Dragnet 52-07-10 (161) The Big Hate
 6.69 MB

Dragnet 52-07-31 (162) The Big Signet
 6.74 MB

Dragnet 52-08-07 (163) The Big Impression
 6.76 MB

Dragnet 52-08-14 (164) The Big Drive
 6.71 MB

Dragnet 52-08-21 (165) The Big Paper
 6.78 MB

Dragnet 52-08-28 (166) The Big Test
 6.75 MB

Dragnet 52-09-04 (167) The Big Ray
 6.77 MB

Dragnet 52-09-11 (168) The Big Tear
 6.33 MB

Dragnet 52-09-14 (169) The Big Bull
 6.78 MB

Dragnet 52-09-21 (170) The Big Shot
 6.72 MB

Dragnet 52-09-28 (171) The Big Brain
 5.79 MB

Dragnet 52-10-05 (172) The Big Jolt
 6.7 MB

Dragnet 52-10-12 (173) The Big Lie
 6.77 MB

Dragnet 52-10-19 (174) The Big Pill
 6.77 MB

Dragnet 52-10-26 (175) The Big Number
 6.79 MB

Dragnet 52-11-02 (176) The Big Light
 6.8 MB

Dragnet 52-11-09 (177) The Big Dive
 6.74 MB

Dragnet 52-11-16 (178) The Big Walk
 6.72 MB

Dragnet 52-11-23 (179) The Big Guilt
 6.73 MB

Dragnet 52-11-30 (180) The Big Shirt
 6.73 MB

Dragnet 52-12-07 (181) The Big Mole
 6.75 MB

Dragnet 52-12-14 (182) The Big Eavesdrop
 6.63 MB

Dragnet 52-12-21 (183) 22 Rifle for Christmas
 6.13 MB

Dragnet 52-12-28 (184) The Big Mask Part 1
 6.84 MB

Dragnet 53-01-04 (185) The Big Mask Part 2
 6.49 MB

Dragnet 53-01-11 (186) The Big Small
 6.74 MB

Dragnet 53-01-18 (187) The Big String
 6.73 MB

Dragnet 53-01-25 (188) The Big Lay-Out
 6.8 MB

Dragnet 53-02-01 (189) The Big Strip
 6.8 MB

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