Dragnet The Big Bed 1958. NBC Network. Badge 714, starring Jack Webb and Ben Alexander. 

How they used index cards to seemingly manage the entire world still amazes me!

Amazing how it’s possible to tell a fairly complicated story in 26 minutes.

wow! they had this episode on the radio series but never saw it on tv. Great surprise! 👍

Amazing, they actually showed blood. Not done back then.

This makes 3 I've never seen. I appreciate these. I pretty much lie in bed all the time, now. That makes me so much more appreciative of the internet. These are so crisp and clear, too. My eyes are not as good, as they used to be, and the videotaped ones make it difficult to see. Thank you so very much, and God bless you for putting these up. Really nice of you!

The days when televisions were sent out for repair. These old shows are great.

I think this is the first time they've ever shown bloody injuries on a victim on this show. Can't remember another episode of that actually.

The boys in the supremely daring knife fight were members in good standing of the Jets and the Sharks.

Jack Edwards was very good at playing those bitter characters with an axe to grind. I first saw him in "Highway Patrol", an episode called Motorcycle A where he plays the embittered owner of a café whose wife was seriously injured by motorcycle bums. This Highway Patrol episode also features a young actor by the name of Clint Eastwood.

14:29 - A decade after, William Boyett would play Sgt. MacDonald, a.k.a. Mac, in another fine Jack Webb production, "Adam-12".

To the account manager: I want to commend you for cleaning up the picture quality; you've done an excellent job!

The homoerotic subtext in this was pretty daring for the times!

Claudia Bryar ("Edith Tamber") was 46 years old here and appeared in almost every television series in the 50's - 80's era. She retired from acting when her husband of 45 years, Paul Bryar, died in 1985. Her late son Paul adopted the surname Barrere and was a member of the band "Little Feet." William Boyet ("Lt. Mort Geer") of course, was one of Webb's stable of actors who would appear in almost all of his productions. Hazel Franklyn ("Elva Higby") also played a role in the episode "The Big Beer" in the previous season of Dragnet. The opening announcer is none other than George Fenneman, who became a nationally-known figure as the on-screen announcer and side-kick for the entire 11-year run of the "You Bet Your Life" TV series with Groucho Marx. Fenneman was the opening announcer for Dragnet's entire first series, where this episode came from, as well as the 1967 series of Dragnet. Fenneman was the most sought-after voice talent in his day and was never out of work.

Wow. That ending. In the 60's. Wow.

William Boyett one of my favorites, he's everywhere, Highway Patrol, Adam 12,Dragnet 50's & 60's ,I wonder how many more shows that's he's been in that I don't know about, I loved how he (to me) played Sgt. MACDONALD but in every series an alternate version of his COP character, like stepping thru a multiverse, I just discovered the 50's Dragnet and was super pleased to see him in it. New Old Treasures. Thanks BILL,✌️to you from SPACE RANGER JYM 🚀

Thank you for a clear version of this episode and others.

Been a big dragnet fan for years and finally some episodes come along that never seen before. Thanks a bunch for these uploads!!!

What a Great Tv Show !

Friday had the coolest voice!!

An EXCELLENT show.

On radio, Dragnet was the first program to deal with sex crimes.

That was the first dead body ive seen on the show. Wild episode.

I have never seen this episode. I thought I had seen all the 60 something epidodes known to exist. This gives me hope for more episodes.

But no one ever solved the mystery of women's hats.

our miss brooks, dragnet, and gunsmoke were on tv and radio both at the same time. if you watch carefully you can see and hear the tv shows were almost word for word and action for action duplicates of the radio script. producers didn't have time or money to make changes.

He pulled the Impossible, he pulled “The Switch”.

Awesome! A B&W Dragnet I haven’t seen until now. Thanks so much for this one. I keep hoping that someday they will release the entire 1950’s Dragnet on DVD or streaming.

❤ love dragnet ❤

Thank you for the original Dragnet TV series on NBC Television from June 5, 1958 (Season 7). BTW, I recognize Claudia Bryar as the woman in the Perry Mason episode, The Case of the Nervous Accomplice, aired on October 4, 1957, on CBS-TV. I have seen the reruns. And yet this episode aired during that same season.

I used to watch this with my Dad in the 1950s, we used say This story is true only the story has been changed, to protect the guilty and think we were very funny!

This is a great, quality print. Well done! Thank you for this find!

Since she's older he would have addressed her as ma'am just the facts ma'am a little humor here every one have a bright sunny day filled with love and happiness 😊💞

Someone ought to compile all of the great opening panoramic vista shots of LA into a single time capsule video.

Moviecraft Inc., I really enjoyed this video, so I hit the like button!

For some reason I have never seen this episode before. Moviecraft had an episode I also had never seen.

Hilarious how they create a story about gay violence but never say it’s about gay violence!

An adaptation of "The Big Almost No Show", episode #138 of the radio series.

14:10 four hours to drive - on the freeway - the ~110 miles from downtown LA to northern San Diego. ~30 mph average speed. That's before the 405 (1964) and before the 5 was completed, though the 101 was there. Now that's a 2.5 hour drive, staying at the speed limit. Unless you hit traffic, in which case 4 hours might be good.

"Met them once and don't know much about them"... a LOT of murder victims could say that exact thing about the person the met in some bar or from a dating app. Damn scary.

So let's see... - He was a Navy lad. - His friend was a Navy chap. - He kept a neat apartment. - He was inseparable from his friend. - His friend was inseparable from him! - He kept being denied access to him. Clearly! This was a case of theft gone wrong!!!

Harry Morgan (a very capable actor who played Colonel Potter on MASH) was on this show for years as Friday's partner. He called it his 'stick figure' period.

There will always be someone wanting favors forever for just one they did for you. Pathetic. Today, murdering his 'lover' brutally with theft, dude be given life, no parole, even death penalty. He prob got out in 7yrs and did it again. They are true stories afterall.

Good stuff.

Love those cars but, oh, the sister's hat!😂

Ben Alexander owned a Ford dealership here in Los Angeles for several years. I seem to recall that it was still open in the earl Sixties.

I wonder why Frank Smith wasn't a sergeant, like Friday was. Friday's original partner, Ben Romero, was also a sergeant.

William Boyett 14:23 Highway Patrol - Adam-12

Angels Flight the background of the knife fight.

I like just about all of your videos!

Great episode

I miss dragnet, that was a good good show

I hope you find more episodes of Dragnet soon.

The trauma they had to endure.

How did actor Jack Webb keep a straight face when he was talking to Edith Tambor? That goofy ribbon perched on her head was a funny distraction. Did the director have to do several takes while Webb laughed his ass off?

I was kind of hoping that this episode would have a really odd twist and it would turn out that his sister killed him.

Jack Webb was the MAN in "The D.I."

When did this one show up! Thought I’d seen every BW! Nice surprise!

Hey man, that dead guy would've been smelled bad.

An understated gay theme .

Yay

Ms. Edith Tamber is a fine figure of a woman. 🙂

But I like your videos

Never heard of little feet will look them up

Obviously, Andrew Howard confessed before Miranda warnings were required.

Ralph and Andy had a thing going on.

Jack and Bart and Ben ❤❤❤

I became Violent _ my Boyfriend's Dead 🤕

Everyone of them are dead. Time is the biggest murderer.

'Andy' was gay. That's what the sailor suit mess was all about. He and "Ralph' were lovers.

The Big Sur.

Another mini-weathor report!

Killer was a gay Robert Oppenheimer 😮

Pro tip trivia: The real name of this episode was The Big Homos but sensibilities of the times precluded that as the official name for broadcast purposes.

0:32 This was made in 1957 (MCMLVII) not 1958

They were tormented lovers.

Andy the killer was an Insane man who was killing women he met as lonely heart pen pals on an episode of Highway Patrol with Mathew Broderick. Even the TV criminals have priors for violent felonies and are still back on the streets... yeesh!

RALPHY RALPHY COULD'VE BEEN A CONTENDER 🥊 ©

Love how in these Dragnet episodes dead people are found days after their murder, with no odor or signs of decomp.

But, Edith's hat

With friends like Claire Peterson who needs enemies?

PRISON CRUEL INSIDE OUTSIDE PRISON

😅

Highway patrol...ha

You have a slight error in your title it's 1957 not 1958.

Its Moe did it

A show about Gay lovers in the early sixties was daring.

The murder and the victim were very obviously gay. They had to step carefully with that subject.

1:09 Gay Bicycle seat placement, unrideable

Isn’t the waitress “date”, Annette Funichello???

21:50 ... wow, gay much?

Gay

Excellent story, perfect video quality (for its age) , and BEST of all the audio level of ads is kept at least 10db BELOW the program level! Thank you "Moviecraft Inc."! You have just added another subscriber!!!!

Wow I have been watching Dragnet TV and Radio episodes for DECADES, but this Channel has recently posted several Black & White TV episodes that I have never seen! WHAT A TREAT!!!! THANK YOU! ❤‍🔥 🖤 🍿🤍🍿🖤🎬🖤🍿🤍🍿🖤

10 yrs. should be 45 yrs. imo

Yeh, ain’t it wonderful