The Nickel-Plated Gun
Aired: Jun 10th, 1949. Two LAPD officers are gunned down without warning outside a rough south-side café, and Sergeant Joe Friday and partner Ben Romero catch the case. With one officer fighting for his life on the operating table, the detectives trace the recovered bullet to a Smith & Wesson already tied to a liquor store killing a month earlier. A gripping early Dragnet from 1949, complete with vintage police work — ballistics matching and punch-card crime records run through an IBM machine.
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