Dragnet: The Big Student (1955)
Friday (Jack Webb and Smith (Ben Alexander) are certain that career criminal Louis Roat (Paul Burke), recently released from prison, is the man behind a series of holdups. Retracing Roat's steps, the detectives discover that among other things, he'd been attending a night-school class--in criminology! Caught red-handed, Roat confesses to the holdups and is sent back to the same jail whence he came. As it turns out, however, Roat had been carefully preparing a breakout during his previous incarceration. . .and now he's on the loose again. This episode is based on the Dragnet radio broadcast of June 8, 1954. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Director(s):
- Jack Webb
Synopsis of Dragnet: The Big Student
Friday (Jack Webb and Smith (Ben Alexander) are certain that career criminal Louis Roat (Paul Burke), recently released from prison, is the man behind a series of holdups. Retracing Roat's steps, the detectives discover that among other things, he'd been attending a night-school class--in criminology! Caught red-handed, Roat confesses to the holdups and is sent back to the same jail whence he came. As it turns out, however, Roat had been carefully preparing a breakout during his previous incarceration. . .and now he's on the loose again. This episode is based on the Dragnet radio broadcast of June 8, 1954. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Complete Cast of Dragnet: The Big Student
- Paul Burke - Louis Roat
- Simon Scott - Calvin Niles
- Peggy Maley - Viola Clark
- William Tracy - Cab Driver
- Director(s):
- Jack Webb
- Writer(s):
- John Robinson
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