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Last April, when assassins murdered Mossadegh's police chief, the dragnet immediately went out for Zahedi, who took sanctuary in the Majlis for six weeks. When Mossadegh dissolved the Majlis, Zahedi fled secretly to the home of the commander of the Shah's Imperial Guards and continued to plot against Mossadegh...
21st Precinct (Tues. 9:30 p.m., CBS Radio) makes an effective half-hour of police drama (from Manhattan files), but loses a lot of sting from its resemblance to NBC's Dragnet (from Los Angeles iles). In its favor, the new show has Actors Everett Sloane and Joan Lorring and Director-Writer Stanley (Gangbusters) Niss, an expert at creating minor personalities. 21st Precinct captures the sounds and scenes of everyday police work; the characters are all underplayed, just like Dragnet (which pretty much originated that school of radio acting, and has lately begun underplaying its own underplaying). Unsponsored...
...Dragnet (Sun. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Police stories, with Jack Webb...
...Hope Show (Wed. 10 p.m., NBC). Guest: Dragnet's Jack Webb...
There is a strange television affinity between crime shows and tobacco. Tracy's good friend, Ralph Bellamy, stars in Man Against Crime for Camel cigarettes; The Adventures of Ellery Queen (starring Lee Bowman) touts Phillies cigars; Dragnet (with Jack Webb) hawks Fatimas, and The Plainclothesman (Ken Lynch) works for Edgeworth tobacco. Like many things about TV, this fact puzzles Tracy: "I guess there must be some tie-up between smoking and tension...