In my opinion the thing that set this show apart from others, but tombstone territory was the fact that it included information on them being convicted and how much time they would be doing in prison 👍👍👍🤠
Yes. You were born in 1955, a newborn with ZERO MEMORY OF THE 1950S. 0 YEARS OLD, doing nothing except in a crib and a house wearing BABY'S CLOTHING. YOU WERE NOT BORN IN THE GREATEST GENERATION 1900 TO 1924 AND DON'T REMEMBER A SINGLE THING ABOUT THE 1950S. You ONLY remember 1962 to 1980s because you WERE 7 years old NOT EVEN WEARING ADULT OR TEENAGE CLOTHING, ONLY A KIDDIE DOING CHILDISH THINGS NOT EVEN A FEDORA. HAHAHAHA.
The part where that woman is looking for Ethel’s picture is sooo hilarious that I think she should have won an academy award 🥇 for it. I nearly died when she stuck that recipe in her bra. 😂😂😂😂😂
Webb essentially invented the teleprompter with a mechanical dialogue cue system, and he insisted that everyone just read their dialogue with as little emotion or "acting" as possible. He also loved to reuse the same actors, the ones who understood the rhythms of his dialogue, for new characters, over and over. If you acted on DRAGNET, it was one take, and you read it right off the prompter!
@@harlankrissoff9966 Actually it ran from the 40's onward. You can find the old radio shows here, or you can even find the TV shows from the 50's on youtube
This was filmed before I was born, and I was accustomed to seeing the more elaborate, color sets in the mid- to late-1960s Dragnet episodes. This B&W episode with minimal sets is really intriguing due to the intense acting and some pretty fast-moving dialogue. Really fine drama. Thanks for posting.
Fun facts about Jack Webb: 1. That was his hand with the hammer at the end. 2. His production company was called Mark VII Productions because seven was his lucky number. 3. His badge number was 714 for the same reason. 4. The LAPD retired badge number 714 in Webb's honor and memory shortly after his death.
The series was made to give the LAPD a humane image. They were bigger thugs than the crooks in the early part of the last century. In the 20's, the police commissioner told his men they'd be fired if they brought a felony suspect in alive. Not kidding. The movie with Angelina Jolie called "The Changeling" showed some of this. They forced a woman who's kid went missing to take a kid she never saw before, and when she griped, they had her thrown in a mental institution. Her real son was murdered by a serial killing homosexual pedophile. They changed the name of the town later when they started to build homes on the farm land where the killings occurred. I think it's called Loma Vista now, something like that.
@@Catquick1957 In the 1920s and 30s, the LAPD was called "The Best Cops Money Can Buy", because it was said that at least half of the entire force were on the take.
Makes you want to grab a Clipper Craft suit and bottle of Petri wine on the way home. Ha., ha... That's the ads I remember5 from the radio show recordings...
Jack Webb is a real gentleman when he interviews anyone. This was such a great show. The way they provide the insight on how they work. Today's detective shows are pale in comparison.
Interesting how back then a friend, who was a boy, was simply a boyfriend. Nothing else to think about. Also, when the detective said the kid would eat standing up for a few days, speaks to the times.
@@PatrickStPaul-sw9op If more of these bratty kids got their behinds spanked like we did when we were kids they would have more respect for their elders and peers!
I 100% agree because everything has to be computer-generated with special instead of just simple facts as it was. You look at some of these other movies and they say the same thing with all these new technical words and you would know what the hell they was talking about. And they always tell you what penal code in California was broken 😮😂😅😊
"Wife has been gone for 1/2 hour" : "We'll be right down". THAT's a laugh! The first case was a young boy at his "Boyfriend's house". Times have changed. Polie would have probably not have raced out now.
Just another clue that Dragnet is not a "this story is true" - it's purely the result of the scriptwriter's tired imagination while working on a deadline of one episode a week. Along with the ham acting and the business with the matches to imply he's nervous. In reality if you go to a police station to tell them something, you don't get past the front desk until you have been thoroughly grilled by some pissed off uniform sergeant who has been given an easy job while he gets over a work injury, and thinks because you walked in you must be guilty of something. Bu the time you get past him, if you ever do, you are pretty pissed off too.
Which values are you talking about ? The kidnapping and pouring hot tar over an innocent person kind ? Or the shooting at the police kind ? The good old days weren't always good.
That's because there was no formula in the new medium of television. Now everything is cookie cutter. Movies too. No chances taken.It's why indy films are so much better. The directors have license to do as they please without a studio bigwig looking over their shoulder.
The guy that the husband is pounding on, Howard Culver, appeared in a lot of 60s Dragnet episodes. He also was Mike Brady's boss, Mr. Phillips, in the Brady Bunch. He wore glasses later on. I barely recognized him.
For the few people who don’t know, the picture is from the later, colorized version with Harry Morgan. This episode is from the earlier version, B&W, with Ben Alexander.
I liked seeing neon lights illuminating the tower atop the Richfield Building in the opening scene. That beautiful art deco high rise was scrapped in 1969, and the Arco Towers stands in its place.
@12:00 most people don't know how common it was to throw things on the floor, when you were looking for a photo in the 1950s. Also, @20:30 when you spoke to the police, it was common to pull matches from a matchbook and throw the on the cop's desk. It was such a normal thing that the cops didn't even react.
That's wild. I didn't even know there was a Dragnet series in the 1950s. I thought it was just the 1967-70 show. Funny how it only played during wartime...
Webb was great at rattling off his lines like a Tommy gun, but he had nothing on Broderick Crawford. How that guy could talk so fast and so clearly is incredible. Great shows, something TV today knows nothing about.
My favorite episode was the high school kid had a grenade at a party and pulled the pin. Then he turned up the music real loud and gave everybody steely glares. You don't want a steely glare from a guy with a grenade I tell you what.
"The Grenade" stared off with Gerald Paulson pouring acid on another kid at the movies, getting into a fight with his step father running away with a live grenade showing up at the record party. Friday slowly inched towards the extension cord, kicking the plug out with his shoe stopping the record player. Then he and Gannon rush Gerald.
Agreed. After decades with crime lab, it didn’t get easier, it actually got more difficult over time... it gets old, and the public doesn’t need to see that.
Webb used to read his lines from an "idiot board" (before they invented the teleprompter).The trombone music is a hang up from previous radio days where musicians were part of the studio casts
Thanks for uploading. I'm a bit surprised that in this case (which is based on a real case), the 2 perpetrators only got one to 25 years for kidnapping. What about assault? Even assault with intent to commit great bodily harm? They beat the woman, shaved her head and dragged her in hot tar. That's a second or third degree burn. And if it was over a large percentage of her body, she could have developed infection or even died.
California. Of course, recently, Texas prosecutors decided to NOT seek the death penalty in the case of the Wal-Mart killer. And he murdered 25 people in a rampage.
This is how it was. Today when we look at crime not only are we amazed at how much and the kinds of crime it has become two cultures; the ciminal culture that goes in and out of the jails like a revolving door and the regular population that works hard and abides by the law.
The informant at 22:00 appeared in numerous episodes of the later Dragnet 67 series, including the ‘stagey’ furrier, and the violinist apartment dweller.
Jack Webb had a running cast of the "Dragnet Mafia". Many of them appeared in Dragnet from the beginning, sometimes in Highway Patrol which Webb was not involved in, and again Dragnet 1967-1970. Most went on to appear regularly in Adam-12 and even Emergency!. Virginia Gregg was the winner appearing in more Mk7 Productions than anyone else. Webb was a genius as a Producer.
Lots of people had them. But a police officer or anyone dealing with the public knew better than to carry one. You loaned it and never got it back. Matches = no problem.
The show is Great Jack Webb and Dragnet was one of the best shows I still catch the reruns ('67-'70) But the title for this episode sounds all wrong just saying
My husband’s sister said that her husband was at a bar and she sent her their little boy to tell him to come home. The little boy stepped inside the door and said, Daddy momma said if you didn’t come home right now she’s gonna “shop” your head off. Sadly now that same little boy is now about 65 years old and he’s in jail for having shot and killed his wife several years ago. He’s still in jail because he’s not mentally stable enough to stand trial. And sadly his young son is headed in the same direction. Apparently they can’t keep them from owning guns. Anyway it’s sad. My husband died from brain cancer when he was only 37 years old so he was dead long before any of this happened. I’m a 79 year old widow now.
"I'll bet that kid'll eat standing up for a few days..." :-) "Crackpot." So interesting how every generation has their own weirdness to laff about! This was my Gramma's time n my Mom remembers the one cop used to scare her, he was so strict. :-D