Frank and Joe suspect a hit-and-run victim was murdered. With Carolyn Jones. Director: Jack Webb Writer: Jack Webb Starring: Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Olan Soule, Vic Perrin
I liked those wide brimmed hats men wore. My grandpa really looked sharp in one when he went into town on Saturday night! I sure loved that old farmer. He passed away from cancer in '56 when I was seven years old but I still miss him.
My grandpa had fedoras, too, and looked quite dashing, he was a snappy dresser, always bought his in Chicago (I was mad that no one kept any of them, I didn’t get a chance to keep any, I would’ve even worn one of his until it fell apart). I still have a shirt and a leather jacket of his, and I wear that jacket when I really miss him. Funny, grandma’s clothes I haven’t worn, I should get one of her scarves, and a blouse, they both always dressed well, looked great. Not lots of clothes, not flashy, but just quality ones. He was also a farmer, and played sax in a jazz band in his younger days. He’d still take grandma dancing regularly, he still dated her, took her out for dinner, too, right up until he was hospitalized and died. I still miss him, too. Seems like it was an era with a lot more good, quality men. You don’t see a lot of that kind anymore.
I'm here because of Carolyn Jones...what a great actress she was!! so natural and beautiful, too bad she never got to star in a big movie the way she deserved
"There's the bakery wagon". I remember with great fondness the Helms Bakery truck coming around. My grandma would buy us a donut. It looked so good when they would slide the drawer out with all the choices. Sure wish we had that today.
Dunkin Donuts...only they can fit several more per sq inch, they taste like cardboard, it takes 3 to make on of the old time ones, and you have to drive through the drive through...
Liggett & Myers {Chesterfield} was the series' sponsor on radio and televsion in the 1950's. Smoking on camera was encouraged because of their sponsorship.
Died of a heart attack at 62. That's most likely either a lack of exercise, smoking, or drinking or a combination of all three. His funeral was honored by the Los Angeles Police Department and he was buried with the replica of the badge 714 and the rank of sergeant. The department retired the badge number when he died
If you watch the John Wayne movie Hatari, they’re lighting up one cigarette after another. The movie was partially financed by a tobacco company and the smoking was a requirement to get the ,only.
The guy who owned the bar was Jack Kruschen. He worked with Jack Webb in putting together the Dragnet series, supposedly at Webb's kitchen table. He was the pedophile in the episode, The Big Crime, which was the most controversial episode of the series. He had a long acting career and was nominated for an Academy Award for his role in the great comedy, The Apartment.
I love finding continuity errors in old films. They are numerous and often hilarious. In The Adventures of Robin Hood with Errol Flynn you can see the spearheads bending and bouncing because they’re rubber 😂
i have to wonder if it's a continuity error by accident or more on purpose because he didn't want to point to the side not facing the camera, but the scene looks better how they're positioned. i think they knew what they were doing and just hoped the audience wouldn't notice.
Webb had a backlog of radio scripts from the beginning of the series (1949) that he could easily adapt for TV, through the mid-1950's. And don't forget- he was producing TV *and* radio episodes thriugh 1955.
Fifteen years later, Harry Morgan played the same character as Ben Alexander, though they changed the name to Bill Gannon. Same expertise in all sorts of non-law enforcement subjects, same set of relatives who have all had the trouble that momentarily affects Joe.
I loved how Smith came in and they shoot the bull for 3 to 4 minutes about a tooth and then Smith off handily mentions they have a dead body to investigate.
I liked him better than Harry Morgan's Bill Gannon. Bill was an ok character but some of his diet that he was always talking about was simply not for me.
They were (sort of) trying to make this a serious conversation…I was LMAO…this could have been the next thing after “Who’s on first.” These were apparently the basis Dick Wolf used for “Law & Order”…based on real events…no graphic violence, just detective work.
July 3, 2021, South America Did anyone notice that this was pre-miranda rights? They just grabbed him and off they went! 🚓 🚔 😃 Great show. Love Dragnet. Thanks for posting.
@@MichaelKurse That’s a silly statement to make without providing your source information, and is easily disproven by the universal use of body cameras worn by police.
@@TheFishdoctor1952 Did you not know that you can ask questions on the internet or have them answered? The Miranda warning is something you could have looked up in Wikipedia, fgs!
I always enjoy looking at the Original Dragnet in Black & White (even though I enjoy the 60's versions with the late Harry Morgan later of M*A*S*H as Officer Bill Gannon) Voted By TV Guide as the Best Cop Shows of the '50's God Bless the Soul of Jack Webb-he'll ALWAYS be Joe Friday
I was about his age when I had my first tooth pulled. The pain can be unbearable if it doesn't come out. Carolyn Jones achieved a lot of fame as a supporting actress in the 1950s (probably known at first more by face than name) She achieved bigger fame in "King Creole" considered by some to be Elvis's best film.
I don't know there was much of a story. They spent 5 minutes just on Joe's wisdom tooth and if the people at the bar would have told the truth the story would have been over in a couple of minutes. Morticia (Caroline Jones) gets so drunk that she gets in a random car and is driven home by some guy at the bar. She has a bad headache and won't take an aspirin, instead the bar tender gives her a drink. Bar owner whose business i all locals is worried about the publicity of some guy dying in his bar. And a dentist will wait until after midnight to pull a wisdom tooth. Story? There wasn't a real story here.
@Sanuk Jang Lery Short of paying for spewtube, which I will never do, no, I don't know how to block ads that show up in the middle of a video. Sometimes I use TOR just to get some different ones. lol
Thanks for showing all the credits, great to see some familiar faces and remember their names…Caroline Jones, Herb Vigran, Sid Melton (another episode)…I know many others were in these early episodes.
I had them all done at once, and ultimately had 7 total wisdom teeth. The seventh one came in years later. I went to the dentist and told him I had another wisdom tooth coming in. They did a panoramic x-ray and told me there was absolutely no tooth there to come in. I told them I could feel it with my tongue and I could feel it coming through my gum, I could feel it tactiley and I could feel the extreme pressure. They insisted it did not show up on the x-ray, and as usual, they were dismissive and figured I was making it up. Typical medical mentaility when they are wrong, wrong, wrong. Nothing but attitude from them. If I had a dollar for every time that happened…They are the pros, and somehow people are stupid and don’t know their own bodies. It came in a couple of weeks later, wisdom tooth #7, and they couldn’t deny it anymore. Turns out I do know what the hell I’m talking about after all, not a drama queen making up outlandish stories about a 7th wisdom tooth. Surprise, surprise! If I had it to do over, I would’ve just kept them all. It seems like they just like to take them out, whether it’s really necessary or not, it certainly used to be that way. Might be different now. For dental pain: Cinnamon and Clove essential oils, mix a few drops each, diluted in a several drops of olive, coconut or other such oil, dabbed on tooth and gums with a Q-tip, can very carefully gently bite down to allow it to get into any cracks or cavities in the tooth, and you definitely don’t want it on your tongue or draining down your throat, because it will numb it and you’ll feel like you’re choking to death, but they will not only numb the pain, but they will also help kill the infection, and you might even have a chance at your tooth healing instead of having to have it take it out or have it filled. I have saved a couple of teeth by doing that and reapplying it as needed for a few days, until it didn’t need it. I never go anywhere without a little cinnamon and clove essential oil (Lavender, too, it heals all burns, even 3rd degree, down to the flesh and bone, and I don’t dilute it at all (But I DO make sure it is the highest quality, purest tested and proven tested oil, otherwise it’s just an ineffective, smelly chemical). Cinnamon and especially Clove are nature’s numbing agents, and germ-killers as well. I made some up for my visiting brother a few months ago, and saved him from having to go to the dentist. As long as you’re not allergic to cinnamon, or club, or Lavender, they are definitely ones to never be without, GCMS-tested for purity is a must. Worth every drop when the pain hits. I know, I sound like Joe’s partner, always with the fix, the remedy, but hey, putting straight lavender in a serious burn 3x/day, keeping it wrapped, and adding Neosporin over it on every application after about the 12-15th day to keep the scan soft and double-protect from infection not only saved me from having a skin graft, and in less than 30 days I didn’t even have a scab anymore, but the divet from missing flesh filled in, and the dark mark faded, so there’s no scar to even prove that I had been burned so badly that it looked like I was branded and had a deep trench of flesh missing. Less than 30 days, against medical advice, (“do not put undiluted essential oils directly in an open wound”), and I was healed with not a fleck of a scab. Quite frankly it is absolutely criminal if they do not do this in a burn unit for patients. Criminal. And they should add straight Helichrysum, too, just a few drops to the Lavender. People would be healing at least three times faster, scarring less-if at all, with less pain, too. it’s able to notice and not use it for people who have burns. From a sunburn to a full-on engulfing fire, Lavender heals it better and faster. Helichrysum is super expensive, but also regenerates cells and helps with pain. A little goes a very long way, diluting in a carrier oil (like coconut or olive oil) helps it spread where it’s needs to go, just like a dye concentrate dyes cloth better and more evenly when mixed with water. If this helped ONE person heal faster from a toothache or a burn, it would be worth writing this and irritating people with a long comment. Legal disclaimer, always test for allergies to new products of any kind, and if you aren’t sure, test a small area. Helps to test ahead of time, so you don’t feel you have to test when you’re ready to go all out. People that say you “cannot ingest any essential oil ever” don’t understand anything; cinnamon, clove, and lavender are all rated as food additives, so duh, they are used in candies and other flavored things. People will slug down all kinds of funky chemicals in their food and medicines, but then they will fear something that is rated FA which means food additive. GRAS is “ Generally regarded as safe, and they do expect people to know that somethings like cinnamon are super hot and would obviously need to be diluted a little bit, or it could irritate the skin. And of course, **don’t get it in your eye**. *****If you ever get essential oils in your eyes, or if they otherwise irritate the skin or mucous membranes, ******don’t go washing it out with water!,****** that will just make it worse! So many people complain that they washed and washed an essential oil out of their eyes with water, and it “didn’t work, it still burned or irritated their eyes”, when it was all their fault, all they were doing was making it worse, as stupid as pouring water on a grease fire. *****Dilute and wash off essential oils with OIL (don’t put out a grease fires with oil, though, haha, for those that need to be told), any oil you have lying around that is safe to eat is probably safe to put in your eye. Definitely safer than an irritation from undiluted cinnamon or clove or peppermint, for example, unless you had a bizarre allergy in which case it probably wouldn’t be in your kitchen anyway. Anything you would cook with you can usually rinse your eye out with it as well, unless of course, it’s a hot oil, or sesame oil, or something with garlic or some other herbs added to it...just plain oils...and if you get cinnamon and clove in your mouth and it’s too hot for any reason, don’t reach for water, reach for oil. Coconut oil would be the tastiest, imo... Obviously if you get other stuff in your eyes you’re fine to use water...oil as an eye wash is just an essential oil thing, or anything that is solvent in oil instead of water. It seems like common sense, but sometimes people just weren’t born with any, so one has to spell it all out for them.
I remember watching Dragnet re-runs in the early 60s....I thought it was a 'cutting-edge' Police drama series....now I realize how 'cheesy' it actually was and what poor actors these people were...but I still love it!!!!
@@howardfox5763 Used to drive my kids nuts, I called the fridge an Ice Box, and sofa's Davenport's up into the 80s because that's what Mom called them...
24:22 what a novel camera stunt. Never saw anything like that before. Credits to the team for that. We'll not see that used in modern widescreen cinematography.
imagine. joe friday slamming back some suds while on duty. ben alexander was also in the original version of all quiet on the western front. besides being young he was so thin he was almost unrecognizable. ironic in view of appearance later in life.
I don't watch you tube much anymore because of the censorship and increasing amounts of commercials. This channel is loaded with commercials, I hope this trend doesn't keep getting worse.
Anybody know the name of the actor who played the butcher? I think he's been a minor player in many tv shows of the 50's and 60's including Superman and Star Trek
They didn't hurt, but I could feel one of my wisdom teeth for almost a year after it was pulled. I think that part of it poked up into my sinuses and after it was pulled there was just a thin layer of skin their separating my sinuses in my mouth.
Some people are just born alcoholic due to genetics. I need two people like that. The problem was if they had a drink, then they continued drinking not only the rest of the day but immediately upon waking the next several days. On the other hand, the onset of alcoholism after age 40 can be due to declining testosterone levels. This creates a constant feeling of Doom that the alcohol helps to cover. So if you're a man over 40 and you start having trouble sleeping, develop night sweats, and get a kind of creeping feeling of Doom with no source go to the doctor and get your testosterone levels checked out. There are some very expensive drug forms of testosterone but there are also inexpensive injection and cream forms.
