The Big Show

Originally Aired: April 10, 1952

Dragnet #148, "The Big Show,"

Sergeants Joe Friday and Ed Jacobs from Juvenile Division respond to a troubling case at the Los Angeles bus depot. A woman named Marjorie Lewis, in town to meet her husband returning from overseas, reports that a fellow passenger has abandoned a seven-week-old baby boy. The mother, identified as Dorothy Miller from Tucson, sat next to Mrs. Lewis during the long bus ride from Arizona. Upon arriving at the depot, Miller asked Mrs. Lewis to hold her infant son Stephen while she retrieved her luggage from the check stand, then vanished without a trace.

Mrs. Lewis describes Miller as a seemingly devoted mother who took wonderful care of her baby throughout the journey. The young woman appeared perfectly normal—a pretty, dark-haired twenty-year-old who gave no indication anything was wrong. As Friday and Jacobs interview Mrs. Lewis and examine the baby, they're left with a baffling question: why would a caring mother abandon her healthy infant with a complete stranger? With no leads on Dorothy Miller's whereabouts and a helpless baby in their care, the detectives begin their investigation to find answers.

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