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Post by timbabwe 8/10/2022, 7:56 pm

I'm looking for the title of  Dragnet episode I recall.
Something nasty has happened in Los Angeles and
the next of kin in Idaho must be informed.

In a twenty-five minute program, several minutes
are devoted to Friday making the call, getting passed
from operator to operator, lots of internal clanging
and routing tones as the connections are made
up the line.

I started working at a historical Museum of Communications.
There is an old switchboard display.  I'm imagining a button
to play this sequence through the headset.

Is Dragnet on the forbidden list for this type of sampling?
The museum policy is meticulous about copyright.

In my memory, this sequence is rather grim.  Friday finally reaches
the party and delivers the horrible news. It might need
to be edited, as much of the audience is school groups.

Any advice?
Tim Szeliga
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Post by timbabwe 8/24/2022, 6:27 pm

Juanita Lasky

Found it!  Episode 7.  Friday calls Salt Lake City, gets passed from operator to operator.
Happily, the news is good.
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Post by artatoldotr 8/26/2022, 1:41 pm

Actually the missing episode is
# 8 1949-07-28 (008) Missing Persons - Juanita Lasky

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Post by timbabwe 10/2/2022, 7:04 pm

As I remembered the sequence of long distance operators trying to make a connection running much longer than the 60 seconds it took Joe Friday to reach Juanita Lasky's mother.

Today I found the play called (of course) "Long Distance", episode 1 of Radio City Playhouse.  That's the one!  A full twenty minutes of Jan Miner hysterically cursing, pleading, prodding operators to please reach the judge in California, the only man who can prevent her husband's execution.

I conflated the two shows in my memory.  The sixty second Joe Friday sample will work much better for a museum exhibit.

The ending of the Dragnet episode was a real letdown.  The writers gave Juanita a case of the 48-hour amnesia, but she's much better now and ready to talk to her mother, just in time for Christmas.
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