The Jade Thumb Rings
Aired: Dec 8th, 1949. Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero are pulled off a retirement party at the police academy to investigate a brutal daylight robbery on Alvarado Street. The victim, gem cutter and jade expert George Quan, was savagely beaten and robbed of thousands of dollars in rare Chinese jade—and now Friday and Romero race to piece together the case from a lone, reluctant witness while Quan fights for his life. A tense early entry in the Friday-Romero era, capturing Dragnet's trademark just-the-facts style at its bleakest.
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