This program does not use the familiar "Dragnet" theme music. A nickel  plated .44 caliber Smith and Wesson is used to shoot two cops and a lot  more people. The police make extensive use of "I. B. M. machines" and a  tape recorder to solve the case. "The story you are about to hear is  true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent." Dragnet  is a documented drama of an actual crime provided from the Los Angeles  police files. This story commences on a cold Tuesday night in LA  Detective Sergeant Joe Friday is working the night watch with his  partner Ben Romero when a call comes in to homicide that 2 police  officers had been shot.