by Hal Erickson
synopsis
Friday (Jack Webb) and Smith (Ben Alexander) investigate the armed holdup of an appliance store. The witnesses state that one of the two robbers sported a 1920s-style handlebar mustache. This clue comes in handy when it is discovered that a similarly mustachioed gentleman used to work for the store as a delivery man. Featured in the cast is Georgia Ellis, the original "Miss Kitty" in the radio version of Gunsmoke, and Howard Culver, who had played Marshal Dillon in the unsold Gunsmoke pilot of 1949 (Culver was of course replaced by William Conrad when the series debuted in 1952). This episode was adapted from the Dragnet radio broadcast of March 23, 1954.
