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This unique Dragnet episode features real-life nurse's aide Mrs. Mary Bigler, portraying herself in a recreation of a robbery-kidnapping case in which she was a key witness. Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) have managed to capture a prime suspect (Brett King), but of the three witnesses to the crime, only Mrs. Bigler can make a positive identification--of the man's eyes. When the case goes to court, defense attorney Eric Potter (Robert Brubaker) uses a clever ploy in an effort to discredit Mrs. Bigler's testimony; but though the witness may be nervous, she refuses to back down from her story. Contemporary critics singled out Mary Bigler as giving one of the best performances of the 1957-58 season--and what matter that she was a nonprofessional who had never before appeared on camera, and never would again?