The Big Timers
Aired: Dec 1st, 1949. A savage knife attack on a teenage boy in a vacant lot pulls Sergeant Joe Friday and his partner Ben Romero into the Juvenile Bureau's toughest case: a sprawling gang of young offenders behind a five-week crime wave across Los Angeles. As pushpins pile up on the precinct map, the trail leads to a late-night soda fountain where a small-time con man runs the show behind the counter. It's Dragnet's clipped, documentary style applied to a chilling look at juvenile crime in postwar L.A.
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