The Price of an Old Friendship
Aired: Jan 5th, 1950. When a jewelry store heist turns into a shootout that wounds his own partner, Sergeant Joe Friday discovers the getaway man he's chasing is an old army buddy down on his luck. Told in Dragnet's signature clipped, documentary style, this episode trades shootouts for something harder to watch: a cop forced to send a friend to prison and asked to look after the family left behind. A quietly devastating character study wrapped in a classic 1950s police procedural.
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