Dragnet -- Twenty Two Rifle for Christmas

One of old-time radio's most famous and controversial broadcasts. Three days before Christmas 1949, Sergeant Joe Friday is called out when nine-year-old Stanley Johnstone goes missing and bloodstains turn up in the backyard. What Friday uncovers -- a Christmas rifle, two boys at play, and a tragic accident -- makes for one of Dragnet's most quietly devastating stories, and a finale of unexpected grace. Jack Webb's stripped-down realism at its most powerful.