I found this to be a very tense and even scary episode, perhaps because I grew up in the 1950s and everybody was fearful of atomic explosions. I still remember the civil defense shelters and the drills we had to go through, including crouching under one's desk at school as though that was any protection against a nuclear explosion. But to see the radioactive container pass from person to person, all the time hoping they wouldn't try to open it, made this a swift moving episode. The tracing of the container involved both luck and cop smarts. The ham operating business was interesting - it was a very popular hobby back then. I wonder if that is still so. Remember until next time: "It isn't what you drive but how you drive."
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Ham radio "stars" in this episode
mstax28 October 2009
Warning: Spoilers
Amateur Radio is featured... but a lot of the details are wrong. The 'ARRL ham station' identifies as "This is Amateur station QTQRT2, of the Amateur Radio Relay League." (The ARRL has a real station, W1AW, which mainly runs Morse code practice transmissions) The announcers are all old-school (but typical of the era) well-modulated, deep voiced and super articulate... rare today! Hams will notice all the arcane details, but anyone who enjoys the pre-satellite days of law enforcement and the obvious pacing typical of TV shows from the mid 1950's will find this and other episodes amusing and full of "drinking game" moments. The "10-4" catchphrase so associated with Broderick Crawford isn't heard much, if at all, in this episode.
where was this episode filmed?
lchaim713 September 2019
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