Season 4 · Episode 128
The Dragnet Radio Podcast #128- The Big Honeymoon
Radio Retropolis · Radio Retropolis
December 2, 202529m 5s
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Show Notes
A woman kills herself after her fiance', a serial swindler, has disappeared with her $10,000. Commentary on this being the first broadcast in which Dragnet experienced technical difficulties. Listen for the announcement and then the show in progress. Plus, the Dragnet phenomenon from 1950-1970 and if the LAPD used the series as a propaganda tool to dispel complaints of brutality which eventually led to the Watts Riots in 1965.