Marvelous Innocence

[Bill Miller]

Merry Christmas Hanno,

Where did you get that little "news" item?? That is actually the plot of an episode of the crime drama "Dragnet". Late at night they still play old radio shows (in some AM markets), I happened to hear this particular Christmas episode of Dragnet from 1953 last week when I was driving home late from the office. It's called the "Big Little Jesus".

I found a link to download the whole show if you want to listen to it:
http://www.orble.com/dragnet-radio-show/

OR:
http://www.archive.org/details/Dragnet_OTR
It's episode #227 (#209 in the list of all available Dragnet Radio episodes )

It's a good story, and supposedly the ONLY completely fictional story. Dragnet was based on real case files from the Los Angeles Police Department.

Apparently, it was so popular an episode that it was remade for the TV version of Dragnet in 1953 and again for the "New" Dragnet in 1967.

“Ladies and gentlemen, the story you're about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.”