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Synopsis
In the gripping episode titled The Big Show from Dragnet, a routine day for the detectives of the Juvenile Division takes a dramatic turn when they receive a call about a seven-week-old baby abandoned at a bus station in Los Angeles. The detectives, Sergeant Friday and his partner, Ed Jacobs, arrive at the scene to find a distraught woman, Mrs. Lewis, who has been left holding the baby by a woman named Dorothy Miller. As they begin their investigation, the urgency of the situation becomes clear; they must locate the mother and understand the circumstances that led to this abandonment.
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