Dragnet 1967 - The Big Explosion

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Friday and Gannon investigate a burglary involving the theft of 400 pounds of high velocity gelatin dynamite from a consumer storage magazine. Friday and Gannon soon find out that the dynamite is used for something more sinister and deadly.
Originally aired January 19, 1967
Copyright (c) 1967 by Mark VII Limited and Universal City Studios, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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@33moneyball 3 года назад

1967...a bartender and a supermarket cashier got married and could afford a house.

@rickyray2794 3 года назад

in LA lol

@jamesricker3997 Год назад

Reagan fixed that

@demcadman Год назад

@@jamesricker3997 u know nothing.

@thereluctantgearhead4544 Год назад

My dad bought his first house working at a gas station with 4 kids and a wife. How times have changed.

@thereluctantgearhead4544 Год назад

My dad also bought a brand new car working at a gas station along with his home purchase. He was 20yrs old at the time, back in the 1960s.

@tiger.6509 6 лет назад

25 minutes sure goes fast when you watch a classic like Dragnet !

@vernpascal1531 Год назад

They didn't waste time in those days. Making a show entertaining was no. 1. Not how clever or ironic we can be. That's why even the silliest Gilligan's Island,Gomer Pyle, Munsters are still pretty damn entertaining and a lot more enjoyable than stuff that's more intelligent and real, but who cares?

@veramae4098 Год назад

Looking back, there must have been only about a dozen black people in L.A. -- according to the show. The Department Chief at the time was William Parker, widely respected. The FBI sent it's agents to LAPD for extra training. The Parker Center is the police dept headquarters now.

@rufust.firefly4890 Год назад

@@veramae4098 OJ and Rafer Johnson appeared in one ep.

@danieltossounian1962 8 месяцев назад

Don’t get cute ! 😅

@pooryorick831 Год назад

The "This is the city" segments make me so nostalgic. I grew up in Southern California in the 1960s and 70s. Seeing LA as it looked in my childhood always brings back great memories of driving through on the 5. My grandparents lived north of Fresno and we would make the drive up at least once a year. The California I knew is gone. I like seeing it as it once was. Paradise. With Disneyland!

@bovnycccoperalover3579 4 месяца назад

I feel the same way about Brooklyn, NYC.

@johnritter4641 24 дня назад

lllp00

@firefightergoggie 6 лет назад

Something I noticed about this old show. The story really flows. Keeps you in your seat. Keeps people highly intrigued. I like it.

@allisonoconnor8055 Год назад

Writers and actors are not what they used to be! It's tragic!

@timirish2563 Год назад

Many of the later TV episodes were adapted from the radio show or the 50's TV program. Webb and his writers has the advantage of going over the narration and dialogue numerous times. Webb also used a stock company of character actors with whom he enjoyed working. Beyond this, he packed a lot of plot into a half hour police drama. Most thirty-minute dramas disappeared when the FCC gave the 7:30 PM slot back to the local affiliates.

@marydestefano9487 Год назад

Jack Webb was an absolutely minimalist and disciplined director.

@busterhikney6936 Год назад

Those shows were written by people that went to school to learn writing skills, as opposed to today's reality shows.

@anthonybanchero3072 Год назад

It would not work today, especially tge episodes that focused on behind the scenes police work.

@tcpUtube1 Год назад

Dragnet and Highway Patrol. Two classics I grew up on.

@markdavid4897 Год назад

This is actually a TV show and can also listened to like a Radio show. Close your eyes and just listen to it. Brilliant.

@Wailwulf Год назад

Never realized that despite watching Dragnet as a kid and listening to radio shows with my uncle who worked at KXRX in San Jose, CA

@meadster308 Год назад

It was a radio show before it became a TV show.

@ricardocantoral7672 Год назад

Yes, the series didn't start too far from it's Radio origins.

@Teebone211 9 месяцев назад

I do enjoy the radio versions on Sirius/XM as well

@gamerzero7735 10 лет назад

Keep your NCIS, CSI, and Law and Order. Give me Dragnet, any day.

@9751asd 7 лет назад

you forgot Miami Vice And NYPD Blue

@gamerzero7735 7 лет назад

Good point.

@kurtkauffman4326 7 лет назад

You can do that to me too!,get it?

@catholicseymour292 7 лет назад

Yeah, Nowadays they would send in the swat team and the whole of the militarized police.

@nicolenewsome4863 7 лет назад

Catholic Seymour ikr.

@yanuriroschev7270 3 года назад

Great show! Grew up watching Dragnet, loved the flashback, the drama, the old cars, and the way Jack Webb spoke, sharp, direct and straight to the point. This was awesome! Thanks for the post!

@m42037 Год назад

Love the cars too, unlike the bland car's today

@yanuriroschev7270 Год назад

@@m42037 100%. I loved the 70's era of muscle cars like the Cuda, Charger, Malibu, Chevelle, Duster, Gran Torino, Roadrunner, and GTO. Classics!

@m42037 Год назад

@@yanuriroschev7270 I love almost all cars from the 40s-60s, about 80% of the 70s, 20% of the 80s and just a few from the 90s like Jeep Grand Cherokee and early 90s Jaguar and of course RR and Bentley.

@rogerrendzak8055 Год назад

All the laws they broke, too!!

@MikeBurks-w3i Месяц назад

My next car...Bentley roadster

@lisa-el3db 2 года назад

These 2 actors are just great together. Harry Morgan always keeps the story grounded, and allowed Jack Webb to steal the scenes, not realizing how truly great his acting just as he did was my fav. Always the secondary characters I love watching.

@Mark-uh7cr 2 года назад

Harry Morgan hated Jack Webb, he couldn't believe an actor would tell another actor how to act.

@lilajagears8317 Год назад

@@Mark-uh7cr He never said anything negative about Jack Webb.

@jessiejames7492 Год назад

yes. hes always good in anythng ! love his voice. morgan !

@randybarnett2308 Год назад

@@jessiejames7492 he's the biggest reason why I watched M*A*S*H 😀

@jessiejames7492 Год назад

@@randybarnett2308 yeah. Me too. And macLean stevenson before he left. !

@deadfreightwest5956 4 года назад

God, I loved how Jack Webb put his clipped manner of speech into everybody. No ums, ers, or sighs. Snap! Snap! Snap! Wonderful stuff.

@Blap552 4 года назад

Amen brother,"Psychos are a minority too!"😎

@TheLochs 4 года назад

Lol, when we were kids we tried to talk like him, it was difficult.

@straytarnish9443 2 года назад

And none of them fitted the description

@barrysteinholtz3809 2 года назад

@@TheLochs h

@metatron448 2 года назад

It's basically an old radio drama put on screen, which makes sense how Dragnet was originally a radio program.

@74Spirit1 6 лет назад

A very good episode. One of Bobby Troup's many guest appearances and a very young Kent McCord as an LAPD officer pre-Jim Reed.

@raymondhopwood9393 Год назад

I thought that was him! He and Martin Milner were an awesome team, too.

@bostonrailfan2427 Год назад

under his legal name…

@sludge8506 Год назад

Kent McWhirter played the officer. He later changed his name to Kent McCord.

@bostonrailfan2427 Год назад

@@sludge8506 he didn’t change his name, it’s called a stage name…it’s common and frequently required dye to union regulations

@gerrydooley951 Год назад

@@bostonrailfan2427 he may not have legally changed it but he's known as Kent McCord to all of his fans

@wishgodgirl1903 4 года назад

Always a great program, even after 50 years! More please...

@marytheresejacksonlutz2533 Год назад

One of my favorite cop shows, it never grows old for me

@evm6177 Год назад

The entire Neo Nazi plot seems like Chris Nolans big inspiration for Dark Knight. I was blown away with him asking the time so he can tell when and where shits gonna blow up. Chris you copy cat rip off filmmaker and that too even from a show like Dragnet! 😆 who would have ever thought.

@firecloud77 Год назад

It brings me great comfort to know that Joe Friday is on the job keeping the city safe.

@evm6177 Год назад

Well what do you know, The entire Neo Nazi plot seems like Chris Nolan's big inspiration for the joker's plan in the Dark Knight movie. I was blown away with him asking the time so he can tell when and where shits gonna blow up. Chris you copy cat rip off filmmaker and that too even from a show like Dragnet! 😆 who would have ever thought.

@Faygo2215 8 месяцев назад

@@evm6177 You gotta admit tho Heath is the best joker

@phyllisdicks9830 4 года назад

This series was the "Law and Order" of its day. Love it.

@SwordHMX 2 года назад

Used to be a Law & Order fan. Dragnet is much better.

@russellj.s.257 2 года назад

That along with Starsky and Hutch,Miami Vice and CSI. The Dragnet movie with Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks from 1987 was awesome,one of my favorite 80s movies.

@scarletmacaw 2 года назад

Mannix was better than all of them put together. My other favorite was Hawaii 5-0 and then finally, an obscure cop series from the 1960s that many have never even heard of called N.Y.P.D. which was very gritty for it’s day.

@phyllisdicks9830 2 года назад

@@scarletmacaw Yeah, my mom was a Mannix fan. I never did get into that one. I usually had my nose in a book when the rest of the family was watching TV.

@rufust.firefly4890 Год назад

You must b kidding.

@hansmueller3029 Год назад

This was the golden age if household entertainment. Television shows were great, and news was information.

@gustavefrankfurter6462 5 лет назад

Dragnet 67-70 was an awesome show! It dealt with the problems of that period in a straightforward, yet biased way which adds to its charm.

@benx6264 4 года назад

God, those empty streets and free-flowing traffic

@ScottyKirk1 Год назад

Great episode. Love me some Dragnet. Just don't make great TV shows like this anymore. Such a simple formula, but it was done so well.

@nathancoffman6050 9 лет назад

Im 26 years old and just found out about this show. Ill be watching this on dwn time. :-) Gotta love the classics.

@joannjohnson1798 6 лет назад

Nathan Coffman FIFTY YEARS AGO IN JOY THESE MOVIES. PLEASE KEEP PRAYING FOR FOR OUR PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP 😎📽🎬💻📀

@Joe-pb3bm 6 лет назад

Get tight with your elders. They lived it, firsthand. NOTHING like learning real firsthand authentic history.

@slotuck 5 лет назад

Welcome to our cult ;)

@daleburrell6273 5 лет назад

Jo Ann Johnson AMEN.

@Me-lb8nd 5 лет назад

@@joannjohnson1798 I pray that God takes Trump and sends him immediately to hell.

@Absaalookemensch 6 лет назад

"Walnut sized brain." Oh that killed me.

@starguy2718 Год назад

Brandon: "C'mon, man!"

@ohioguy215 3 года назад

If I didn't know better I'd say this is a 2021 five o'clock newscast.

@Kevinegan1 7 лет назад

It's funny how Harry Morgan looked like an old guy even way back then.

@dehoedisc7247 6 лет назад

He was 52 "back then", how old did you expect him to look? (He lived to be 96.)

@Scarletspeedster68 6 лет назад

And add to the fact that he was five years older than Jack Webb (born John Randolph Webb on 4/2/1920, died 12/23/1982).

@alexcarter8807 6 лет назад

There's a black and white movie about Glenn Miller that has Henry Morgan in it and he even seems kind of old in it.

@brianhowarth2112 5 лет назад

@@alexcarter8807 The film is in color and stars Jimmy Stewart and June Allyson. Harry had a big role in it. The Glenn Miller Story.

@rickyray2794 5 лет назад

@@dehoedisc7247 He looks old in everything hes in

@robertlombardo8437 5 лет назад

Please God, just bring back a cop show like this! Grounded in reality with true crime files and explanation of real police procedure. We NEED a show like this today.

@squirrel_82 Год назад

Check out Joe Kinda Homicide Hunter

@kellykerr5225 Год назад

They are so serious it’s hilarious. The best way ro have a show like this today would be with satire. This show has always deep down made me laugh. Spoofing old great shows are the best if they do it right.

@kayzyr9442 Год назад

Where was their search warrant 🤔?

@r3tr0actiongamer24 Год назад

Robert Lombardo Found the maga idiot

@cheapme1850 Год назад

Sometimes exigent circumstances can preclude the need of a warrant, plus remember this was in 1967 - a lot of case law changes since then.

@Sgt_Glory Год назад

"We've got just one big question." **States two questions**

@discernment8963 4 года назад

To look at L.A. today compared is this heartbreaking.

@WDRowlett 12 лет назад

"Mister, you're a psycho and they're a minority, too!" Best line of the episode.

@billpugh58 Год назад

6:19 the guy who sees the camera truck and looks into the camera:)

@billpugh58 Год назад

Chapman would be a proud boy maga now.

@jamesmullikin3045 Год назад

@@billpugh58 This guy would have loved BLM

@TreeHead99 Год назад

I thought Friday's line of "Just one question, Where and When" was equally good. Could of come from "Police Squad"

@BigBri550 Год назад

First name Donald, surname Chapman ... sounds like a psycho to me, mister (in Jack Webb's voice)

@thEannoyingE 4 года назад

This being 1967 and WWII ending only 22 years earlier, WWII surplus was very common, and cheap, so it’s likely all the German stuff on that set was real.

@Texasjim2007 4 года назад

My old man had a Nazi flag he personally tore down from the German embassy in China after the Japanese surrender. He was one of the first Marines to see Nagasaki after the Bomb. He had a lot of WW2 souvenirs I used to play with in the back yard as a kid.

@almishti 4 года назад

@@Texasjim2007 my dad used to have a Japanese flag that Japanese soldiers used to take with them into battle, signed by their loved ones to remember them by. Think he found it in New Guinea, we never knew he had it until after he died. We wound up donating it to an organization that collects those flags and tries to send them back to the soldiers' families in Japan. We had quite a few family debates over what to do with it tbh. My dad was also stationed in Hiroshima as an MP shortly after VJ Day. He was Army.

@Page-Hendryx 3 года назад

@William Signs LAPD's SWAT team had two MP40's, in the early days.

@muffs55mercury61 3 года назад

Very Likely. Jack Webb was big on authenticity.

@scroy 3 года назад

If it was real I'd like to wipe my ass with it

@newstarcadefan 12 лет назад

Wow, the Timpani's and the snares made the music very tense. In fact that's something that's very much missing from these dramas. Thankfully Antenna TV shows this every day.

@emt5330 4 года назад

At that time, there was a musician's strike. That is why there is just the drums in this and the " The Interrogation" with Kent McCord

@sordidsentinel 4 года назад

@@emt5330 this show is long before my time, but do the episodes other than those 2 have the famous Dragnet horn stings during all those sections that're just drums with heavily emphasis on the timpani and snare in this?

@emt5330 4 года назад

@@sordidsentinel no, it was just those two with the tympani. All of the others have the regular music.

@raymondfrye5017 4 года назад

@@emt5330 The use of snares and tympani was to give a military march sound. In 1967, a lot of ex-vets and white guys were disturbed by the war and participating in protests and bombings.

@nealsausen4651 Год назад

@@emt5330 : Wait a minute are you saying drummers are not musicians! I resemble that remark being a drummer myself!

@martindriver6026 4 года назад

This is so awesome, I remember watching this episode as a kid and here I am at 54 watching it again. Only in RU-vid.

@davidwcooney Год назад

Great to see Kent McCord as a police officer in this episode. It looks like this was a year before the premier of Adam-12.

@truckerkevthepaidtourist 5 месяцев назад

Yes indeed And Bobby Troup as Al Avery

@diapertommy 6 лет назад

- I don't know why I like these old episodes of Dragnet, but I do. I like seeing the old cars and Jack Webb is so dry, deadpan, it's fun to watch.

@dillysgirl4ever 11 лет назад

This is one of my two favorite episodes of the 1960's version. The other is about the kid who stole crimson crusader related stuff that featured a younger Chet from Emergency!

@AndrewVelonis 4 года назад

I remember that episode.

@daylewoolf8734 Год назад

Tim Donnely was in at least 3 episodes. So much better than most of the crap on tv now.

@robertvitullo5526 Год назад

@@daylewoolf8734 yes was on the TV show Emergency

@jamesholmen9725 Год назад

Jack Webb: such a remarkably versatile actor, producer, director, writer, etc!

@billhuber2964 7 лет назад

watched this series when i was a kid .loved it then , love it now !!!!!!!

@jesseccaparrella8627 5 лет назад

Wish we had more Joe Fridays and Bill Gannons these days....love this show!

@inkyguy 5 лет назад

They would be too liberal for a large minority of voters.

@musicman201047 2 года назад

There WERE until China Joe and company forcefully fired them all over that unconstitutional vax mandate .

@maryhlad5277 4 года назад

I love it when Sgt. Friday gets sneaky. Sgt. Friday is both smart and sneaky-an unbeatable combination.

@cessnaace Год назад

When Jack Webb found an actor that he liked he used them in multiple productions. The year after this series aired, his series Adam-12 premiered (1968 to 1975). The rookie officer in that series was played by Kent McCord, billed in this episode as Kent McWhirter (his real name). The police station used in that series was the Rampart Police Station, built in 1967. If the name Rampart sounds familiar, that's because Webb's next series, Emergency! (1972-77, with an additional 6 made for TV movies) had all of the hospital scenes take place at the fictional Rampart General Hospital. One of the doctors on that series was played by Bobby Troup, who appeared in this episode (wearing dark glasses). The 1960s Dragnet, Adam-12, and Emergency! were all coproduced by Jack Webb's Production company Mark VII Limited, and Universal.

@MrBsbotto Год назад

VERY nice update, Cessna. Webb didn't understand hippies, at all, and there are some jaw-droppingly inane depictions of them in many of his series. Kent McCord as a far out biker must be seen to be believed!

@patbrennan6572 Год назад

I think it was Martin Milner that became Kent McCords partner in Adam 12.

@socraticgadfly Год назад

I remember the "Mark VII" hammer and emboss at the end of, I think it was, Adam 12.

@11UncleBooker22 Год назад

In my best Joe Friday voice: "O.K. wise guy, you got all the info and follow up but WHAT'S YOUR GAME!?!?!

@wymple09 Год назад

Webbs ex wife Juli London played the nurse in Emergency, and Bobby Troup was her real life husband. Webb joked, perhaps seriously, that he hired them to keep from paying alimony...!

@mjc11a 8 лет назад

Mr. Bell: The more I watch, the more I like and truly appreciate your all your efforts! Keep up the good work and may God Bless you and your family.

@SaleGuy 8 лет назад

You're welcome!

@special7217 4 года назад

Always loved watching Dragnet. Hoping for a DVD collection.

@myweightloss11928 4 года назад

go to critics choice video. They have collections of each season, sadly no boxed set though.

@silvereagle2061 12 лет назад

"Don't be cute" That's as far as Webb's sense of humor goes. lol

@maryhlad7501 3 года назад

Another Friday-ism: “UNLESS YOU’RE GROWIN’-SIT DOWN!”

@WalterDWormack214 2 года назад

That comes from watching "Three Stooges shorts. And jamming yourself in the stomach with a cattle prod, wherever you feel yourself wanting to laugh!

@WalterDWormack214 2 года назад

@17:40 Boy! That Kent McCord! He's got that look on his face that he had when he first met his LAPD training officer Pete Malloy! Fresh out of the Academy! And... Green! As! New-mown! Grass! He's fortunate to begin his career with a totally squared away LAPD Training officer! If 'cloning' humans were to become a thing, Pete Malloy, Jim Reed, John Nolan, Terry Webster, Mike Danko, Willie Gillis, would be among the "best templates", any police department could have to build a quality law enforcement unit.

@sludge8506 Год назад

@@WalterDWormack214 Kent McWhirter played the officer. He later changed his name to Kent McCord.

@bernhardwall6876 Год назад

You need to listen to a radio show Webb was in, called "Pat Novak for Hire."

@james5460 6 лет назад

"One Adam 12, One Adam 12, we have a Nazi with dynamite in the closet."

@jannabailey6800 5 лет назад

I liked Adam 12 and Dragnet

@ryann8680 5 лет назад

alert Rampart for possible incoming casualties

@bpdou 4 года назад

Jack Webb was one of the co-creators of Adam 12

@bpdou 4 года назад

Kent McCord makes an appearance in this episode

@ryann8680 4 года назад

@@bpdou and Emergency!

@jivepatrol6833 3 года назад

What a great old show! I was just a boy when watching with my dad and I cannot believe how corny parts of the show are. LOL! But it is a classic overall and I love it! Friday and Gannon are the BEST!

@FIVEOFEVER 11 лет назад

That's not a canteen. It is a special clock that night watchmen used to wear while making their rounds. At each stop on his rounds there is a station with a special key that he would wind the clock with. Each wind would record what time he was at that particular station.

@roberrplatt4214 4 года назад

We still have those keys around our building, by the dumbwaiters.

@andygranatelli8809 4 года назад

Yes, they were manufactured by Detex.

@nghtwtchmn129 4 года назад

@@andygranatelli8809 You can still buy used Detex Watchclocks on Ebay.

@princessunicorn669 4 года назад

As a former Southern California Security Guard, I use to hate lugging around those Detex Clocks...I called it my ball and chain, they were heavy probably at least 30 or more pounds and felt like a a lead weight.

@sludge8506 Год назад

@@princessunicorn669 The detex clock weighed no more than eight (8) pounds, grandma.

@lawrencehawkins7198 11 лет назад

The 21st Century doesn't have a single, solitary cop show to equal Dragnet.

@cphillips14 4 года назад

Lawrence Hawkins law and order svu

@lorifeltzer5989 4 года назад

Adam12 was good to

@charles-y2z6c 4 года назад

Lori Feltzer Adam 12 was a jack Webb production too. Kent McCord was a cop on Dragnet in one episode

@mbp7060 4 года назад

It's still early yet pal. We have 79 and a half years left.

@mbp7060 4 года назад

@@lorifeltzer5989 I don't recall them ever using the word "negro" on Adam 12 though. That's a deal breaker, I always did prefer being called negro.

@katthefantastic 4 года назад

So sad we slipped into Idiocracy. Love this show and this era.

@l337pwnage Год назад

The thing is, if you lived at that time, and saw this show, you'd think it was just as fake as the modern shows.

@l337pwnage Год назад

@Ithecastic At that time, or thereabouts, you could go to a university and listen to George Lincoln Rockwell. Although what is better is actual interviews of people back then. The weren't afraid to say the truth.

@evm6177 Год назад

Well what do you know, The entire Neo Nazi plot seems like Chris Nolans big inspiration for Dark Knight movie. I was blown away with him asking the time so he can tell when and where shits gonna blow up. Chris you copy cat rip off filmmaker and that too even from a show like Dragnet! 😆 who would have ever thought.

@l337pwnage Год назад

@@evm6177 I guess I don't remember Dark Knight very well, but I believe it. Dragnet is based on real events, but, in this case, I think is was just a lone guy that did this. However, there were *massive* protests also at the time, and there were protests like that into the '80's.

@conigjo62 5 лет назад

"We got just one big question" Then states two... Where and When LOL.. I love this show and this was a great episode .. thanks for posting...

@starguy2718 Год назад

Sgt Friday wasn't a Math major. 😄😄😄😄

@OverlandOne 5 лет назад

What an explosive episode. A classic.

@perryrush6563 Год назад

I thougut it was rather charged myself.

@allenjones3130 2 года назад

One of the series' most powerful and hard-hitting episodes. It benefits from a percussion-dominated musical score by Lyn Murray and fine performances by veteran Mark VII actors Don Dubbins, Bobby Troup, and Kent McCord, not to mention series stars Webb and Morgan.

@rufust.firefly4890 Год назад

McCord's acing ability ran the gamut from A to B.

@allenjones3130 Год назад

@@rufust.firefly4890 Mr. McCord was an actor who was at his best when he was more or less portraying himself.

@hankkingsley9300 Год назад

pull your f****** guns out when you're on the sidewalk

@sludge8506 Год назад

Kent McWhirter played the officer. He later changed his name to Kent McCord.

@IMeMineWho Год назад

@@rufust.firefly4890 As did most of the actors on this show with the exception of Harry Morgan. Just compare Dragnet with its antithesis The Fugitive!

@13thBear 6 лет назад

This was a great show that I used to watch when I was a kid. I didnt always understand everything about the law and why some folks went to prison, but still it was a cool program. Glad this was here on RU-vid!

@susanadiasjohnson457 Год назад

My dad never missed an episode, so I grew up watching this show with him. I think it is why I respect law enforcement so much. It was a show with gravitas. Love these characters.

@michaelpullen6812 Год назад

Same here! My Dad and I loved that show….and Adam 12 as well!

@JamesLeaveyConnections 2 года назад

Great tv detective series that still stands up after all these years. The two main leads don't waste time flapping their lips. And it all moves at a fast pace. Excellent. 😎

@RayKinard 5 лет назад

~16:10... Straight into the camera: "Get 'em outta here." With a vengeance! Friday is no one's chump. 😆 Good stuff.

@geomodelrailroader 4 года назад

I would do that also four boxes of detonators is something you don't want in the open. detonators respond to radio signals if a radio is on the wrong frequency they will explode. Friday did the right thing.

@vasp99 3 года назад

I forgot how magnificent this show was .

@morenofranco9235 3 года назад

YES! I remember this. I had just started high school. Now I am 69. Bingo! Thanks for the memories, Leslie. "Just the Facts, Ma'am!"

@matthintz9468 Год назад

I'm a fan of the original radio show that ran from the late 1940s through mid 1950s. The episodes that survive are in the public domain. Look them up sometime. They're a lot of fun! I download them as podcasts and listen to them on walks or trips.

@maxheadrom3088 6 лет назад

The percursion soundtrack is amazing! The scene where Friday slams the door open is perfect!

@georgehewitt5543 4 года назад

I've been watching this show for over 5o years dragnet since I was 7 in 1967

@kevan4978 4 года назад

Could you please explain the Nazi Flagg in America?

@avenger2807 8 лет назад

Jack Webb hugely respected the military and police. He also despised racism.

@kathyflorcruz552 7 лет назад

Avenger 280 Most of us do.

@blackdogslivesmatter1568 6 лет назад

The downfall of Webb was his true to life dedication to the police...he wanted all the details perfect..then when tv changed he refused to and was left on the side and could not get the show he wanted to produce on the air..according to his wife after he died..so sad...he couldnt change with the times was his problem...I dont think thats a problem...changing to fit the times is the sad truth we face. Now look at the shit on tv and the billions of crappy channels.

@ardoronro6677 6 лет назад

I always considered him to be the Rod Serling of cop dramas. "I carry a badge" have never sounded more familiar.

@fje6902 6 лет назад

Jack Webb was a real liberal.

@eastwestcoastkid 6 лет назад

Avenger 280 yes he did..one of the reasons I had so respect for him.

@robertanderson1986 Год назад

What fabulous show. I like how everything goes together.

@brendonflannigan6451 3 года назад

Dragnet is the best show ever to watch every day from brendon have a blessed day please keep me informed when dragnet on cable TV and RU-vid TV and regular TV shows

@davidekstrand8544 5 лет назад

This is the first “heavy” episode of Dragnet that I’ve seen.

@thespeez 12 лет назад

True! Troup's character on that show was Dr. Joe Early. Also, Kent McCord plays the officer here although here he's credited by his real surname 'McWhirter'. He was also featured in two other Dragnet episodes as well.

@LesterMoore Год назад

I've also seen the actor who portrays Sgt. Macdonald, William Boyett portraying a young policeman on Perry Mason and a CHP on the 1950s Highway Patrol TV series with Broderick Crawford.

@Tybold63 Год назад

Sometimes you gotta love RU-vid algorithm - was too young and not sure it was ever shown in my country either but this show was worth watching. Also nice to see some American cars from the glory days of design compared to modern cars that you can barely tell the brand from the other.

@ChollaBlossom 12 лет назад

5:55. "That's two questions, Chief."-Maxwell Smart.

@fjccommish 5 лет назад

"We've got just one big question: where and when?" That's two questions.

@OneWeirdDude 4 года назад

No, it's not two questions unless it's "Where?" and "When?"

@joshuakolling4869 4 года назад

Used to watch this on Nick at night. Forgot how good it was.

@snewsan6645 2 месяца назад

It's on MeTv now.

@delavalmilker 5 лет назад

For a 50+ year TV program, this is still gripping. A neo-Nazi plants a bomb at an integrated school. And the way Friday lies about the time, to fool the Nazi into saying where he planted the bomb. Brilliant!

@robb7398 7 лет назад

If you don't 'understand' Dragnet, just watch the series for a while and you'll probably get hooked. There's a reason it was a very popular series, on radio from 1949 to 1955, on TV from 1951 to 1959, then revived for four seasons in color in the 1960s.

@scottscoville1118 6 лет назад

Had a way of pulling you in despite the absence of much action and hoo-haw.

@edbrown4218 5 лет назад

It was sort of a precursor to CSI. Lots of police procedural information which interests a certain type of person who considers himself a detective.

@raymondhopwood9393 Год назад

In the late 90s, ABC aired a one-hour version with Ed O'Neill (Married...With Children) as Friday. Didn't last long. O'Neill is a good actor, but he was no Jack Webb!

@TheStevehuff Год назад

Well this is obviously from the series that originally aired in the 1960’s. Because I don’t think Harry Morgan played in the original radio series or the original black and white series in the 1950’s

@raymondhopwood9393 Год назад

@@TheStevehuff Friday's partner in the 50s series was Frank Smith, played by Ben Alexander. Harry Morgan played Pete Porter in the sitcom "December Bride" and it's spinoff "Pete and Gladys".

@highplainsdrafter595 2 года назад

"Mind if I smoke?" ... "Don't be cute!"

@WitchmanDumb 11 лет назад

What's sad about the Chapman character is that he's not outdated and never will be.

@daleburrell6273 Год назад

...UNTIL THE DEVIL IS CHAINED UP AND THROWN INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE- WE ARE GONNA HAVE EVIL IN THIS WORLD!!!

@kennithchapman9689 Год назад

Hey, we're not all bad. The weird part is, my dog is named Ziggy😳

@jamerv86 Год назад

Not really. It’s hyper inflated character. Especially mixing different German items that have nothing to do with each other. A Weimar Germany has nothing to do with Nazi Germany and same as West Germany (at the time) had nothing to do with either other than it’s history.

@barneylinet6602 Год назад

What's sad is that so many Americans accept the Hollywood narrative as gospel

@Name-ps9fx Год назад

As long as there are Jews, there WILL be Nazis. They're the only ones that will save Gentiles from being "repaired" by the Jewish god's "chosen people."

@justsumguy2u 6 лет назад

Notice how much edgier Dragnet was as time went on, a reflection of the changing times.

@superpan218 2 года назад

The first episode concerned an LSD addict, which just goes to show how realistic this show can be.

@l337pwnage Год назад

I think the word you mean is "kosher"

@detectivefiction3701 Год назад

The 1950s radio program was fairly edgy as well.

@spiralseal1 Год назад

I love the “ no warrant kicking in the door”

@Electricshadows Год назад

Finding the car gave probable cause… that along with bond/probation

@F40PH-2CAT Год назад

More than enough PC

@codename617 13 лет назад

great show. really good episode. It's good to know that he'll be in a place surrounded by the kind of people he hates.

@timepoet77 5 лет назад

I give the 1960s version of Dragnet a lot of credit for tackling very grim and dark topics, like hate crime and the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

@jeffdavadcreativeartistry 3 года назад

Nice appearance here by Bobby Troup. Of course Jack Webb used to be married to Julie London and she later went on to marry Bobby Troup after she and Webb divorced in 1954. Of course Webb cast them both in Emergency but it's nice to see Webb used Troup here in a pre-Emergency appearance. A few actors that were in Emergency appeared on Dragnet first.

@searsmpulead 3 года назад

Jack Webb was in a semi-documentary style crime drama, "He Walked By Night" (1948) w/ Richard Basehart. Webb became friendly w/ tech. adviser, a cop named Sgt. Marty Wynn. That friendship became instrumental in the development of Dragnet. The movie is an excellent noir thriller directed by Anthony Mann (uncredited). The story's narrated, similar to Dragnet. This movie was unquestionably the seminal jumping off point for Dragnet. The final scenes are very reminiscent of the 1949 classic, "The Third Man". Interesting to note, "He Walked By Night" was released prior to the better known "The Third Man'". Dragnet fans, "He Walked By Night", is a must see as the movie was Dragnet's inspiration - plus Webb gives a fine performance in it - as always!!

@mattosullivan9687 Год назад

I have seen He Walked by Night you are spot on

@Del-Canada 4 года назад

I remember watching these shows growing up. It's odd to hear the word "Negro" used now to describe a black person. Even when they said "Caucasian" it sounded a bit weird.

@brettwhitesides7595 Год назад

A blast from the past, watched it when it was new. Thank you very much

@winterlandboy 11 лет назад

You can't get cornier than Dragnet and Adam 12..but that was part of their charm and why i love them

@mavtilly 9 лет назад

Am an lifelong Dragnet fan..It's corny but I used to watch it with my Father as a kid in the 60's when this was on TV. Bobby Troup who played the bartender wrote the song" Route 66". He married Julie London who was Jack Webb's ex wife later he hired them both to play supporting roles in the action show "Emergency" which was popular at about the same time as "Adam-12". Just some trivia I thought I would share. I just watched this episode again. Did anyone notice what appears to be a hangmans noose over Joe Friday when he was interviewing the security guard at the place where the dynamite was stolen?

@eliolopez3107 6 лет назад

I didn't notice the noose, but I recognized the uniform officer from Adam 12.

@greenbeagle13 6 лет назад

mav tilly thank you...!! Now I hafta’ go look for that noose..

@evoddubb 6 лет назад

Officer reed adam 12

@craigdallas784 6 лет назад

@@eliolopez3107 I was raised in Los Angeles during the time these episodes were filled and had no idea that the LAPD used drafting tools to hang criminals. It is never mentioned in any of the shows.

@eliolopez3107 6 лет назад

Craig: If you look at the episode again you can see that behind the man there's a decoration in the shape of a noose. What I notice now, that I didn't then were the inside jokes Webb wrote into his scripts.

@jamesr1703 Год назад

I did a search on my house in Santa Monica. It sold for $7,500 in 1945. It's now worth quite a bit more than that! Add three zeros and divide by two.

@shredhappy101 9 лет назад

Wow, this show was actually pretty damn good.

@gertraba4484 5 лет назад

just the facts, Manm

@Psycho9263 8 лет назад

The actor who played the Nazi was a good friend of Jack Webb. He was Don Dubbins of Brooklyn, N.Y. 1928 - 1991 He played many roles on Dragnet. He also worked with Buddy Ebsen and Rod Serling in The Twilight Zone. Regretfully, Don Dubbins had lost his battle with cancer. He was 63 years old.

@jasonpp1973 7 лет назад

Psycho9263 Most of the meatier supporting roles on Dragnet were filled by friends of the late Jack Webb. Many of them appeared multiple times during the run of the show as different characters.

@Psycho9263 7 лет назад

jasonpp1973 That was common in the Dragnet series/franchise one episode an actor may be a doctor and then in the next episode he may be a crook or a victim of a crime. But it was Jack Webb's unique directing is what made the show so appealing. He played a fair, no-nonsense knowledgeable detective. The funny thing is that in all the years in Dragnet, Joe Friday didn't advance above the rank of sergeant, like maybe lieutenant or captain. I guess if he had done that, he would be behind a desk all day with little field duty.

@Adam-lj7et 6 лет назад

Don Dubbins played the lead role in another Jack Webb film, the D.I, My partner and I stopped Mr. Dubbins on Christmas Eve. We drove him home to his apartment in West Los Angeles. Had no idea who he was, just a chance to be a good guy on Christmas Eve.

@blackdogslivesmatter1568 6 лет назад

It was common on many shows back then....All in the Family had many characters play alot of different people..Barney was one character the guy played..and the Italian neighbor was the neighbor on both sides of Archie at one time...and Starsky and Hutch had David Souls wife on there all the time playing different characters...and his girlfriend Lynne Marta played several. Nowadays with all the shitty actors and actresses they have thousands to choose from...and thats why Im watching this.

@norellpolk1626 6 лет назад

14Adam27 he also played a cop on the rookies back in Dec 74

@donaldholderdoc2910 Год назад

Thanks for having the conclusion. The last couple of scenes cut before the results! Still one of my favorite shows ever.

@CalebEatsaBullet 9 лет назад

I also enjoy all the classic cars on here that were part of the normal LA traffic in 1967 like the sweet 58 or 59 blue and white Lincoln at 1:49 or the cherry India Ivory over Gypsy Red 55 Chevy Bel Air at 12:39

@paulpulce3182 6 лет назад

CaleatsaBullet

@GOFLuvr 6 лет назад

CalebEatsaBullet Agreed. Cars nowdays are all about aerodynamics, and even today's luxury cars look too much alike. That's also the same reason why vintage NASCAR is so much more interesting compared to today.

@allenschmitz9644 5 лет назад

sorry but thats a 56 Bel Air chevy.

@dougankrum3328 5 лет назад

1968....I drove a cab...in LA....66 Ford....it was Yellow....Swing shift, Hollywood....5 PM to 2 AM.….I was 21...….Just the Facts.....

@allenschmitz9644 5 лет назад

@@dougankrum3328 Book 'em Dan-o.....whoops, wrong cop comedy.

@lindathrall5133 5 лет назад

I LOVE HOW SERGEANT JOE FRIDAY USES HIS SUPER SHARP TONGUE I ALSO LOVE HOW THEY USE REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY ON SUSPECTS

@geraldscott4302 Год назад

While I always liked Dragnet, my favorite old cop show is Highway Patrol, with Broderick Crawford.

@morbius109 5 лет назад

“You mind if I smoke?” “Don’t be cute.” LOL

@orbonds3603 5 лет назад

And he kept smokin!

@barneygilewitz1064 4 года назад

Since when do they question a suspect with several military weapons all the while within easy reach of him? Or send in a bomb squad dressed in street clothes? Or go to a home with potential explosives without a SWAT team?

@dougmontgomery1868 4 года назад

I don't care if you burn!

@darrellmayberry7784 5 лет назад

Leslie thanks for posting.A great show and sadly 50 years later is still relevant . I love the walnut sized brain line as it describes the tiki torch marchers in Charlottesville.

@Page-Hendryx 3 года назад

Ah, yes - the Tiki torches. That really upset ya didn't it?

@sabinocorona2524 Год назад

And lying Trump on steroids. AMEN TO THAT

@WonkyWomanLife 4 месяца назад

Miss the old shows

@38ddkelly 7 лет назад

One of the 5 best episode, maybe Top Three. Don Dubbins played his role superbly.

@jimrosson5697 6 лет назад

Kelly02895

@jimrosson5697 6 лет назад

Kelly02895

@donnamylife1981 4 года назад

I could watch Dragnet all day

@stevevanvalkenburg5449 Год назад

Boy, how many episodes of Dragnet did I watch over 50 years ago??? Haven't seen one since, but I could recite the oening by Jack Webb by memory..... One of the greatest shows of all time.

@rsattahip 10 лет назад

That 66-67 Fairlane was a really nice car, well ahead of its time.

@classicsurvivor 6 лет назад

Robin Sattahip I believe it’s a 67 and it’s got 14x7 wheels.

@56cadd 5 лет назад

I hadda yellow one, 1982-86.

@winstoncoolidge1644 Год назад

I just LOVE the drums between action

@strfltcmnd.9925 5 лет назад

"Mind if i smoke?" "Don't burst into flames."

@RRaquello 9 лет назад

Chapman lived across the street from the Munsters! (7:36) If Spot would have let go with one of his fiery roars with that stuff in the house across the street, he would have blown up the whole neighborhood.

@dougmontgomery1868 8 лет назад

If he had an ounce of sense he would have forgotten about Nazis and tried to seduce Lily!

@hibob418 7 лет назад

That Universal backlot street is also used as Wysteria Lane for "Desperate Housewives."

@stevenweitenbeck6412 6 лет назад

@mwbright 6 лет назад

What a terrifying prospect. Finally someone on RU-vid talking sense. So refreshing.

@thespeez 6 лет назад

..But that wasn't Chapman's 'home'.

@brentsutherland6385 2 года назад

You would think a beer hall would be more Ziggy's style than the Jade Pagoda!

@uttermanbo 3 года назад

I really like the matter of fact way they talk. It's funny how they foreshadowed a lot of the same issues we are facing today. Protests, anger about racial profiling, disrespecting any authority just because. I know there are bad cops, but the majority of them are the only thing between us, and the side of life most of us are blind to. Trust me when I tell you our system is far from perfect. It's a heck of a lot better than anywhere else though. Thank your military, and first responders for that. The police do protect our rights.